Most Read Books Listed at Carnegie Free Library
The Carnegie Free Library's 1957 most asked for non fiction titles include Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders and Diana Barrymore Too Much Too Soon plus Kennedy Profiles in Courage and The FBI Story. Leading fiction reads were By Love Possessed and On the Beach with many readers reserving copies by calling 467.
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Vance Packard
Carnegie Free Library
Diana Barrymore
James Bishop
John Kennedy
Don Whitehad
FBI
Philip Wylie
Corbett Thigpen
James Cozzens
Love
Arthur Winner
Nevil Shute
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Meyer Levin
Parl Buck
Peking
Max Shulman
Daphne du Maurer
Dorothy Erskine
Kathryn Hulme
Fife Fight Halts Epiphany Fife Concert in Italy
In FORNOVA DI SAN GIOVANNI Italy a local Epiphany fife concert was canceled after a fight over soprano Maria Callas. Fife players clashed over her performance, breaking instruments as band members required first aid. The row followed discussion of Callas's Rome Opera opening.
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Fornova DI San Giovanni
Italy
Maria Meneghini Callas
Miss Callas
Rome Opera
Pro- Callas
anti-Callas
Princess Margaret Forlorn With Severe Cold In London
Princess Margaret was ill today with a heavy cold and canceled attending her cousin Princess Alexandra’s 21st birthday party. A palace spokesman said she is confined with a bad chill to her room at Sandringham in Norfolk. She is spending Christmas with Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip and the Queen Mother as the Queen travels to London with the royal party.
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London
Margaret
Princess Alexandra
Palace
Sandringham
Norfolk
Queen Elizabeth II
Prince Philip
Tin Cans Rally for Barstow Dog Hospital Bill
In Barstow California three stores collect funds to pay Boots the black and white collie’s hospital bill after a hit and run. Boots, a longtime stray, is recovering from two broken legs and has often found meals at back doors of local restaurants. Citizens previously bought his license and ensured rabies shots.
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Barstow
Calif
Boots
Doctors say he’ll be ready to resume his handhandling
Medical staff report the patient is recovering and should be able to resume handhandling activities in a few days, indicating improving condition and expected light duties upon return.
Two Westphalia Youths Drown In Farm Pond
In Westphalia Kansas a boy and girl, the children of Mr and Mrs Otto Blaufuss, drowned Saturday while skating on a small pond near their farm home. The victims were 16 year old The resa Blaufuss and 11 year old Paul Blau fuss. They were found about 30 minutes later. Burlington Kansas firemen attempted revival efforts.
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Westphalia
Kas
Otto Blaufuss
Theresa Blaufuss
Paul Blaufuss
Burlington
Hope Asks Ike To Replace Benson In Agriculture Post
Washington Rep Albert D Oklahoma Democratic whip says President Eisenhower should fire Secretary Benson and appoint Clifford Hope as secretary. He praises Hopes agriculture knowledge and hopes dairy price support legislation becomes first order of business. Benson plans to cut dairy price supports to 73 percent of parity April 1.
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Washington
Albert D-Okla
House
Eisenhower
Benson
Somone
Clifford Hope
House Agriculture Committee
Albert
House Agriculture Dairy
Congress
Thornton council sets $2 bounty on untagged stray dogs
The Thornton Town Council votes to impose a $2 fee for stray untagged dogs caught by the city dog catcher. The measure explains the fee as a salary supplement or incentive for enforcement efforts. The action aims to ensure stray dog control and city compliance with animal control duties.
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Thornton
Colo
Eureka Springs Newspaper Plant Burned in Weekend Fire
A weekend fire devastated the Eureka Springs Times-Fido Building and three other businesses, gutting the newspaper plant, an apartment above it, and damaging the Southwestern Gas & Electric Co and Arkansas Western Gun Co offices. Four residents of the Nu Ark Hotel escaped with possessions lost. The blaze started in an apartment behind the Times office and cause was undetermined.
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Eureka Springs
Ark
Nu-Ark
Times-ehe
Southwestern Gas & Electine Co
Arkansas Western Gun Co
Fire Department Joins Eureka Fire to Contain Blaze
Barryville firemen joined the Eureka Springa unit and Ottawa Herald crew on Monday January 6 1958 to bring the blaze under control in about three hours.
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Barryville
Ottawa Herald
Rogers
Eureka Springa
Marshal Is Clubbed With Own Handcuffs
Rich Uile reports an officer in Mom-City Mars was knocked unconscious by a suspect who smashed the police car and seized it after a 10 mile chase west of Rich Hill. The officer arrested him on drunken driving suspicions and handcuffed him, then was attacked with the cuffs and left unable to move. Bear walked 144 miles to a farmhouse for help.
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Rich Uile
Mom
Roy Bear
Hear
Rich Hill
Bear
Rayburn Celebrates Birthday Ahead of New Congress
Speaker Sam Rayburn marks his 78th birthday as he prepares for the opening of a new Congress session. The Texan Democrat has presided over openings since September 1940 except during four Republican-controlled years, a tenure unmatched by any prior speaker. Henry Clay trails as the closest in history by just under 12 years.
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Washington
Sam Rayburn
Congress
Henry Clay
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