Benson to push market expansion in Eisenhower farm plan
Ezra Benson, named to head the Agriculture Department, advocates expanding markets at home and abroad to reduce reliance on federal subsidies. He supports some price supports but emphasizes cooperative marketing, farmer self help, and greater use of state extension services to make farmers more efficient producers and marketers.
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Ezra T. Benson
Salt Lake City
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Truman
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New York
National Council
Help Truth Fight Communism Crusade for Freedom Appeal
Public service notice urging support for Radio Free Europe and the Crusade for Freedom. Encourages contributions via local postmasters to aid Cold War information efforts behind the Iron Curtain. Published with The Advertising Council.
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Radio Free Europe
Crusade For Freedom
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Advertising Council, Inc
Adams Draws Tough Job As Ike's Top Assistant
Governor Sherman Adams of New Hampshire is named by President-elect Eisenhower to be assistant to the president, a powerful liaison role with $20,000 a year. The post evolved from wartime roles and Truman’s Steelman predecessor, making Adams the eyes and ears of the White House.
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New Hampshire
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
John R. Steelman
Truman
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White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman Iired
Steelman
Taft Releases Ike Cabinet Backing Without Names
Senator Robert Taft in Columbus and at the Ohio Farm Bureau speech says he recommended three cabinet posts to Eisenhower but did not disclose names. He backed Ezra Taft Benson as agriculture secretary and indicated Len Byrd as treasury candidate, while not claiming George M. Humphrey as his pick for labor, nullifying any fixed slate.
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Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Republican Senate Policy Committee
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Ohio Farm Bureau Convention
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Lenn Byrd
D-Va
Eisenhower
George M. Humphrey
Cleveland
Ezra Taft Benson
Salt Lake City
Utah
Secretary of Agriculture
Professor 90 Celebrates Birthday On Bicycle Ride
ATHENS Ga P David D Earnest a retired but active former education professor reaches his 90th birthday by riding a bicycle through Athens hills. Students at the University of Georgia watch with interest as he adds gentle daily exercises touching the floor with his palms twice each day.
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Athens
David D. Earnest
University of Georgia
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Bowler Held In Maiming Incident
Hamilton police arrested 48 year old Russel Chafen after he followed Elmer Schliesman from Linden Bowling Alleys and struck him in the face breaking his glasses and costing him an eye. Surgeons at Mercy Hospital removed the man’s damaged right eye. The attack followed a joking session at the alleys.
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Hamilton
Russell Chafen
Chafen
Elmer Schiliesman
Linden
Schliesman
Mercy Hospital
Law school entry rules raised to six years total
The Ohio Supreme Court increased the education required to enter law schools to six years, stipulating three years of college before law school. The rule, effective January 1, 1954, replaces the prior standard of two years pre-law study, with most larger schools already demanding four years voluntarily.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Injured Railman Davis Wins $209000 Verdict
A Columbus Common Pleas jury awarded Donald J. Davis 27 a $209,000 judgment against Norfolk and Western Railroad. Davis, a brakeman, said he ruptured a brain artery after moving a stove from the tracks.
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Donald J. Davis
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Davis
Agnes Ferguson Dies After Bed Fire From Smoking
Mrs Agnes Ferguson aged 58 died in a Cleveland hospital from burns suffered when she fell on a Wednesday while smoking and set her bed on fire. She died Monday night.
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Cleveland
Agnes Ferguson
Reader Insight from Punch Editor on Laughing at Comics
Kenneth Bird editor of Punch explains humor stems from personality and empathy. He notes laughter reflects a person’s view of neighbors and society, and cites the impact of radio and talkies on humor making it quicker and more streamlined.
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Adelaide Kerr
New York
Kenneth Bird
Bird
Britain
Punch
Ily
Fougasse
Papa
James Thurber
Woman Herder Brings Sheep To Big Show
A 21 year old Texas woman, Ammie E. Wilson of Plano, arrives in Chicago with 15 Hampshire sheep to compete at the International Live Stock exposition at the International Amphitheater. She rode up with her shepherd Bill Raiden and the sheep, saying she hopes for a championship and that age means little when feeling well. Wilson began sheep raising in 1941 after her son’s death.
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Chicago
Ammie E. Wilson
Plano
Tex
Stock Yards
Ax Slayer To Face New Trial December 5
Vincent Nash, 38, accused of the 1944 ax slayings of his wife and four children, will stand trial before a three judge court December 5. Nash pleaded innocent and declined a jury trial after a judge ruled he was sane. He had been confined at Lima State Hospital since the killings.
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O.P
Vincent Nash
Nash
U. S. McGonagle
Lima State Hospital
Ivy the polar bear waits for cub at London Zoo
Ivy the polar bear is nine days overdue for birth at London Zoo while keepers and visitors pace. Ivy previously produced Brumas, a cub claimed to be the first zoo born polar bear to survive in a century.
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