Stay Put stay in Ouachita youth urged by Reader's Digest
Editorial urges Ouachita parish graduates to reconsider leaving for big cities. Arthur Gordon’s Reader's Digest piece recalls returning home after seeking success and discovering deeper rewards in staying to build local life. Stay where you have roots for true security and happiness.
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Ouachita Parish
Louisiana
Reader’s Digest
Arthur Gordon
Gordon
New York
Taft Eisenhower debate spills into Texas GOP hearing
Washington report outlines looming GOP National Committee hearing set for July 1 on Texas taft and eisenhower delegations. It surveys legal arguments, possible court action, and the fluid Democratic race with Kefauver Russell Stevenson Harriman and Rayburn as key figures shaping the Chicago convention stakes.
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Robert A. Taft
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National Committee
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Tennessee
Chicago
Russell
Georgia
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Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Averell Harriman
Barkley
Rayburn
Capitol Hill
Stevenson
Texas State Supreme Court
Republican County Executive Committee
Bexar County
Eugene Nolte Jr
GOP
Nolte
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Truck loads damage highways faster than expected study
An AP dispatch reports road engineers proved that heavier axle loads cause dramatically more road damage. Tests on a Maryland highway found a 22 400 pound axle crack cement 6.4 times more than 18 000 pounds and 44 800 pounds with two rear sets cracked 12.3 times more than 32 000 pounds. Across 476 000 trips in six months, 11 states funded the work, warning motorists that tax money may be used to repair deteriorating highways.
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Maryland
Highway Departments
How to keep housebound children busy and learning
The article argues children need structured quiet activities at home during bad weather or illness. It lists supplies such as art materials and games, recommends ready storage, and urges letting children work independently to build initiative and skill.
Answers and Questions on History and Fear
A compact reader asks about Franklin signatories and cat whiskers with brief facts on Detroit as capital, Maugham novel inspiration, and a pediatric leaflet on conquering children’s fears. P.–a Bell Syndicate item offers a small paid copy in New York.
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Bell Syndicate, Inc
Oysters See Life Aboard Royal Tower's Peconic Bay Craft
In a vivid look at oyster culture Royal Tower explains his underwater farms on Long Island and the work behind breeding, transplanting, and marketing oysters. The piece notes taxes support local services, and reveals playful, curious details about oyster biology and gender.
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Royal Tower
National Fisheries Institute
Oyster Institute of North America
Greenport
Long Island
Royal
Peconic Bay
Ernie Pyle’s Albuquerque cottage becomes a living memorial
Hal Boyle recalls the small white house in Albuquerque that Ernie Pyle built as a refuge from wandering. Today it houses a city library with ten thousand books and a child reading room. Visitors, many veterans and families, linger over the hat Pyle wore on his travels, the doghouse, and souvenirs from a life spent on the road.
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Indiana
Ernie
Jerry
Albuquerque
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Tunisia
Marian Lynn
Pyle
Ernest Taylor Pyle
Artful life crosses oceans and decades in Washington
Mrs. S. D. Ruth, 76, a former Beatrice Nebraska art teacher and LCG store clerk, moved from Elbing Germany at 12 in 1888. She raised three children, pursued painting and china work, assisted her son in Lincoln photography, and despite aging keeps busy with drawing, wood carving, and baking.
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St. Louis
United States
Elbing
Germany
Newton
Kas
Samuel D. Ruth
Beatrice
Neb
Clinton Howard Ruth
George Drew
Arlington
Mass
John Levern
Oakland
Calif
Ruth
Lincoln
Pat
U S Congress decide fate of price and wage controls
Washington reports the deadline looms as Congress must vote to extend or end price and wage controls by June 30. Options include letting them die, a stopgap, or a enacted bill approved by Truman, with House Senate wrangles shaping the outcome.
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Congress
Truman
White House
Senate
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