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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1954
Page
17
Agriculture Commissioner John C. White said six inches of topsoil separate the U S from starvation and blamed poor farming for vast topsoil loss. He warned Americans have ruined fertile land faster than any nation, noting 100 million acres worn out in 250 years.
Leroy Gore owner of the Joe Must Go movement races to gather 403,804 signatures by Saturday midnight to trigger a recall of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Gore says the drive has “a grim, fighting chance” and notes 375,000 signatures already collected. He argues the effort proves the recall concept is possible even if it fails.
Reported expansion of guerrilla bands opposing the Chinese Communists extends into Manchurian forests. Nationalists claim these forces have operated since the 1949 retreat of the Chinese Nationalist government to Formosa and anticipate a mass rise if General remains.
Adams will head the Oi Center Association of Life Underwriters Inc. as president this year. Other officers include Bob Goebert as vice president and Doyle Gurley as secretary-treasurer. Board members are Martin Thompson Charles Norman and Cecil Moore with Ralph Rushing as alternate. A joint meeting with Permian Basin Association will be June 9 at the Lincoln Hotel Cave Room with C. E. Gaines as principal speaker.
Mrs Aurelee Middleton parked her car, entered a grocery store with her two sons, and returned to find a neatly boxed human hand in the back seat. The hand, preserved in formaldehyde with red and yellow veins, likely came from a laboratory though its age and origin remain unknown per Detective C K Waycott.
EDDYVILLE Ky William T Reed spent nearly five years in the death house at Eddyville State Penitentiary before execution for the murder of his common law wife Louise Young. The 45 year old Louisville man was convicted December 1948 and brought to Eddyville January 29 1949.
Senator Estes Kefauver urged the U S administration to tell the American people the full truth about U S policy in Indo China He criticized the claim of concrete measures and warned that withholding facts could endanger democracy and prompt fear of greater involvement in the war ahead of elections.
A Phoenix report describes 10 month old Johnny Feller choking on an apple seed after a toy tree ornament sparked breathing trouble. Doctors used a tube with light to remove the seed from his lungs and he is now recovering.
Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy voiced deep concern over the Romanian regime’s actions. He cited reports that scores of Jewish citizens have received long prison terms in recent months to be used as hostages to pressure Romania’s 250,000 Jews. The State Department condemned the ongoing harassment.
Mrs. Muriel Haynes of Weston halted her car to let two pheasants pass on a highway in Boylston Mass. An auto driven by George A Crombie of Somerset struck her vehicle. Both drivers escaped unhurt as the birds wandered back into the woods.
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