Curves Count as Miss Universe Opens in 1957
The 1957 Miss Universe pageant opens in Long Beach with 79 entrants from 34 countries, including Miss Sonja Landsem of Portland as Oregon’s official representative. Promoter Oscar Meinhardt notes a record 40-inch bust may be shown and previews a cosmetic sponsor lineup replacing past movie studios. Carol Morris hosts the kickoff with Miss Universe to be crowned July 19, while contenders from Denmark to Sweden vie for marquee titles.
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Oscar Meinhardt
Sonja Landsem
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Landsem
Meinhardt
Marina Orschel
Miss Landsem
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Carol Morris
U.S
Inland
France
Sweden
South America
Asia
300000 Soviet Youths Drafted To Aid Harvest
300000 Soviet youths join trains to central Asia and Siberia to harvest grain under Khrushchev's virgin lands scheme. Drafted as volunteers through the Young Communist League, they work summers, receive transport, board, lodging, and extra pay in grain and cash, with home pay partially preserved during absence.
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Soviet Union
Central Asia
Siberia
Nikita Khruschev
Russia
Communist Party
Young Communist League
Cincinnati Mother Held In Tot's Death
Cincinnati police charged Minnie Owens a 27 year old West End woman with murder in the fatal beating of her three month old baby. The infant, twin born prematurely last March, died June 28 after sustaining a broken vertebrae and bruises to the face neck and eye. Owens admitted striking the child with her hand and bending its body over her knee while trying to stop its crying.
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Cincinnati
Minnie Owens
West End
National Debt Blues Weigh On New Treasury Chief
Washington reports that new Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson inherits a national debt near 275 billion dollars and a heavy load of short term IOUs. Analysts blame tight money and policy, noting 30 year Humphrey-Dumpies bonds at 3 percent, and warn about inflation risks from banks holding short term debt.
Government grapples with long term debt strategy
Government faces a dilemma as it mulls converting short term bills to long term bonds. High long term rates attract demand, exemplified by Metropolitan Edison selling 30 year bonds at 4.04 percent, the highest in 25 years. Treasury notes maturing in four billion dollars prompted offers of 1 year certificates at 3 percent or 57 month notes at 3 percent, a market test that fell short with bids of only 647000 dollars.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
White House
Uncle Sam
Humphrey
Treasury
Kerr
The
Metropolitan Edison Co
Pennsylvania
Eed
lIt
Senate Finance Committee
Trainmen's Bodies Found After Rail Crash at Albemarle Sound
Searchers recovered the bodies of conductor Shelly R. Bray of Raleigh and engineer W.M. Munden of Norfolk after a Norfolk Southern freight train crashed through a trestle into Albemarle Sound on Friday. Three other crewmen were rescued early Saturday. a sixth, a rear car signalman, was uninjured.
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Edenton
N. C
Norfolk Southern Railway
Albemarle Sound
Shelly R. Bray
Raleigh
W.m.munden
Norfolk
Treasury Seeks Short-Term Loans To Meet Maturing Notes
The 3 percent one year certificates attracted 2.351 billion dollars in subscriptions leaving over a billion dollars to be paid in cash. The Treasury lacked reserves to redeem maturing notes while keeping a working balance and had to borrow one billion and a half dollars via 119 day Treasury bills at 2.624 percent. The bills mature in September and will require refinancing, likely at higher rates. This underscores the financial headaches awaiting Anderson in his new role.
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Treasury
Anderson
Pests Count High in U S Crops
The United States hosts about 80 000 distinct pest species with roughly 17 000 considered injurious to crops, indicating a substantial threat to agricultural yields and the need for effective control and monitoring programs.
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U.S
Boy Friends Against Rules at Oklahoma A&M Fraternity
Members of Pi Kappa Alpha at Oklahoma A&M voted to remove a houseguest a deodorized skunk named Intoxication owned by Bailey Center who lived at the house with him The skunk had been tolerated until Intoxication began bringing home non deodorized boyfriends ending the residence arrangements
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Stillwater
Okla
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Oklahoma A&m
Bailey Center
Lawn Day's Journey Ends in Madison Sale
Two Monroe salesmen John Kleier and LaVerne Lehman delivered a single-seat power mower to a Madison buyer traveling 50 miles. They worked in relays and claimed the trip equaled 4 years of mowing, and the purchaser bought the mower after testing its power.
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Madison, Wis
Monroe
John Kleier
LaVerne Lehman i
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Long Beach
Calif
Poland
Meimnhardt
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California
Peggy Jacobson
Ohio
Kathy Gabriel
Miss Gabriel
Fairview Park
Cleveland
Thomas P. Whitney
Tot
By G. K. Hodenfield
Robert B. Anderson
George M. Humphrey
IOU
Sen. Kerr
D-Okla
Federal Reserve
Sam
Mand
Middletown
American
Bales
Central Ave
Camera & Foto Center
Foto Center
Verity Pkwy
Lehman
SALES
Melampy’s
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