Sylvia Sage Letters Clarify Engagement and Rings
A local advice column in the Beiewish News Herald features readers seeking guidance on engagement timing during college, ring handling at a small wedding, and draft questions. Sylvia Sage advises delaying engagement, while explaining ring custody rules and noting the current six month active service plus reserve plan pending final details.
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Sylvia Sage
Beievisch News-Herald
Hutchinson
Miss Sage
Atendants
Leon
John
Starching Crocheted Doilies With Sugar Syrup
A reader asks how to stiffen crocheted doilies. The answer: use a sugar syrup of one part water to four parts sugar, boil to a medium syrup, cool slightly, dip the doilies, shape the ruffles as they dry, and use small glasses to hold up the top curve until drying begins.
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Sylvia
Lou
Japs May Close Milk Company Over Contaminated Powder
Tokyo Welfare Minister Hideji Kawasaki says the government may shut Morinaga Milk Co after a powdered milk linked to 44 child deaths and near 5,000 illnesses. Police question Tokushima plant executives as arsenic traces in stabilizer sodium phosphate are investigated.
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Hideji Kawasaki
Tokushima
Morinaga Milk Co
Morinaga
Carlson Favors Excess Wheat for Droughtfg Kansas Farmers
U S Senator Carlson R Kas urged the Agriculture Department to let drought struck Kansas farmers plant wheat beyond quotas to provide winter feed and prevent soil erosion. After visiting 30 to 40 Kansas counties, he said the wheat situation is critical and noted a mean drought problem. He spoke with Assistant Secretary Wesley daEwart in Salina last weekend.
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Washington
Carlson
Truman Cancels California Date
Los Angeles reports surprise as former President Harry Truman cancels a two million dinner plan and mid September California speeches. Party officials had already sold many tickets for the 100 a plate event at the Baltimore Bowl. Truman said he will work on memoirs and documents for the Truman Library.
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Los Angeles
California
Harry Truman
Truman
French Lick
Ind
Calf Pursuit Ends When Officer Grabs Tail
In St. Louis, Patrolman Gilbert Kennedy chased a runaway calf on the express highway for about an hour. He leaned from a moving patrol car and caught the calf by its tail, holding on until a group of bystanders and officers subdued the animal and tied it up.
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St.louis
Gilbert Kennedy
Kennedy
Peace Talks Start Today at UN for Disarmament
Delegates from the Big Four and Canada meet in New York to begin a new round of disarmament talks. The session at UN headquarters expands on Geneva proposals, including a U S and Soviet blueprint exchange of military facilities and aerial inspections. No quick agreement expected as groundwork is laid for a Geneva ministers meeting on October 27.
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United Nations
N.Y
Canada
Russia
Geneva
Bulganin
U.S
Proposal for a comprehensive disarmament inspection system
The author argues for a standing inspection framework to ensure broad adherence to any disarmament plan agreed upon, aiming to maximize compliance and verify implementation.
Fire at Standard Oil Indiana Refinery in Whiting
A massive blaze at the Standard Oil Indiana refinery in Whiting began Saturday and was waning by today. Fire losses exceed 10 million dollars with two dead and 45 injured. 950 families evacuated as guards monitor the site while officials aim to resume most operations within about two weeks.
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Whiting
Ind
Standard Oil
Indiana
Robert E. Wilson
Midwest
Wilson
Crash injures, one dead near Ellsworth
Robert C. Hodges, 37, of Lyons, died from injuries after a highway crash east of Ellsworth Friday. His daughter Patsy suffered minor injuries. In other news, Missouri and Kansas activity hints at 1955 auto registrations with state estimates from the Commerce Department.
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Ellsworth
Robert C. Hodges
Lyons
Washington
Patsy
Missouri
Commerce Department
Bureau of Public Roads
Kansas
Bureau
United States
Pleasant National Weather Report Describes Mild Conditions
The Associated Press reports generally pleasant weather across the nation. Readings ranged from the 40s in northern New England and parts of the northern Rockies to the 70s along a corridor from Green Bay to Washington, with 70s extending to the Gulf Coast and desert Southwest.
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New England
Rockies
Rio Grande Valley
Desert
Green Bay
Wis
Washington, D.C
Gulf
Plains Weather Shifts Uplift Across Regions
Showers move north from the Louisiana coast into eastern Oklahoma with scattered thundershowers stretching from eastern Wyoming through Nebraska and South Dakota to the northwest corner of Wisconsin.
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Louisiana
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Nebraska
South Dakota
Wisconsin
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