Extension Service Urged to Expand Farm Policy Role
Washington AP Kennedy administration urges the Extension Service to enter public policy debates to shape farm aid programs. Secretary Freeman argues for broader activity beyond improving productivity, aiming to educate a wider audience on farm problems and economic conditions. The proposal risks political controversy and varying state support.
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Washington
Agriculture
Cooperative Federal State Extension Service
Kennedy
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
The
Extension Service
Preeman
Agriculture Department
Chinese cook uses umbrella parachute in Sydney escape
In Sydney harbor a Chinese cook named Bing Chee Chu, trapped in a locked hotel, leaped from a window with his umbrella as a makeshift parachute. He landed 30 feet away, breaking both ankles, and was found by two policemen. He later ate another person’s cooking in hospital.
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Sydney
Cleveland CWA Local 5790 votes strike mandate
Communications Workers of America Local 5790 in Ohio and Indiana votes strike authorization. The 900 union members in greater Cleveland, part of a 1,200 member local, install Western Electric equipment for the Bell System and long lines. Contract expires January 29.
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Cleveland
Communications Workers of America
Ohio
Indiana
Greater
Western Electric ‘Co
Bell System
Days Don't Drift CHETICAMP Woman Keeps Busy at 104
Mrs Dan Arsenault of Cheticamp Nova Scotia may be 104 but she wakes after a nine hour sleep at 6 a m. and spends the day knitting, currently finishing a bedspread. The thrice married widow says she never takes medicine and has never worn eyeglasses. She lives with a son and his wife and enjoys a good appetite.
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Dan Arsenault
Arsenault
Grandma Drives Foreign Car Shocks Peoria on Visit
Mrs. Marie Stadel, 73, a resident of the Methodist Home for the Aged, surprised onlookers in Peoria by piloting a sleek red foreign-made sports car. She swapped from a 23 year old blue Ford she had driven since 1937, saying it was time for a change.
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Peka
Kan
Methodist Home For
Marie Stadel
Subpoenas Target Worker Paper Staff In Washington Case
The Worker, a Communist publication, said several staff members were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington under the 1950 McCarran Act. Targets include the paper and Erik Bert, James Lustig, Dorothy Robinson, with Lustig as business manager and Bert as managing editor.
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New York
The
Worker
Washington
McCarran
American Liberties
Erik Bert
Charles Hendley
James Lustig
Dorothy Robinson
Bert
Lustig
Hendley
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Folsom to Seek Third term as Alabama Governor
Montgomery Alabama AP James E Folsom has formally announced his bid for an unprecedented third term as governor He is 53 and previously served as governor from 1947 to 1951 and 1955 to 1959 The move follows broad expectations he would run again in the state race
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Folsom
First ski train arrives in Warner New Hampshire in 1929
The inaugural ski train from Boston reached Warner New Hampshire in 1929 marking a milestone in regional winter travel. Local riders and officials celebrated the arrival as a boost for tourism and outdoor recreation in the era.
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America
Warner, N.H
Boston
Hiroshima’s regrowth after the 1945 atomic bombing
The article notes Hiroshima’s recovery decades after the Aug 6 1945 blast. Trees slowly sprouted near the center where nothing grew, with flowers blooming a few hundred yards from the detonation site as a grim reminder of the city’s destruction.
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Hiroshima
Atomic Geographic Magazine
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Orville Freeman
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Tain
Ziegler Furnace CO
N. Broad GA
Middletown High School
Rieneys
Ludwig Purtscheller
Salzburg
Austria
Hyderabad
India
Cheticamp. N. S
Grandma
Folsom To
Middletown
Armco
Credit Union, Inc
General Office
Curtis Street
Raymond E. Sherman, Sr
HALE
Irie
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