Columnist's Mail Reveals Odd Facts and Quotes
New York column cites diverse items from a European marriage ritual about cooking tests to Mark Twain quips, a Beethovian bargain LPs at 99 cents, and a $4,000 skin diving set. It notes a tiny hearing aid, porcupine-forest damage, Drake's treasure gift, and Goldwyn's name change. It also mentions Victor Borge pay, cosmetics before 1906, and Phi Beta Kappa origins in a Williamsburg tavern.
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New York
Mark Twain
Dad
Oregon
New Goals For Nazarene Church
The Church of the Nazarene’s general assembly in Kansas City outlined ambitious four year expansion goals. Delegates backed targets for 700 new churches, 150000 new members, 625000 current members, 40 000 in foreign missions and fourteen million dollars for world missions and evangelism. Dr Gideon B Williamson urged daily prayer and intercession to drive spiritual victory and soul winning.
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Kansas City
General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene
Municipal Auditorium
Gideon B. Williamson
General Assembly
U S Has Program For Super Missile
Lt Gen Donald L. Putt, Air Force research chief, testifies to a Senate subcommittee that the United States has a real firm program for development of an intercontinental ballistic missile. He oversees all Air Force development programs and spoke at a closed session on May 17. his remarks were released after security censorship.
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Washington
Air Force
Donald L. Putt
Putt
Senate Armed Services
U.S
Starved Infants Found in East Side Tenement
In New York City, the bodies of two malnourished infants, a 2-year-old girl named Josephina and an 8-month-old boy named Antonio, were found in a littered East Side apartment. Their mother, Anastasia Velez, 32, was arrested after allegedly kicking a tavern window when removed from a tavern and has since been kept under observation at Bellevue Hospital. The children reportedly died four to five days before discovery, with no known relatives listed. The family had lived on relief since August 1953 after moving from Puerto Rico eight years earlier. the husband Jose, 39, was believed to be with his parents in New Jersey.
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New York
East Side
Anastasia Velez
Bellevue Hospital
Marvin Lutenberg
Welfare Department
Josephina
Antonio
Damaged Crops Across Northeastern Colorado Hit Hard
Unofficial estimates place crop damage from a rain and hail storm at about half a million dollars. Great Western Sugar Co officials report nearly 28,000 acres of beets and small grain affected, with light beet damage and heavy losses in Keenesburg and Brighton. Three inches of rain flooded basements in Brush and five feet of water inundated basements on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder, damaging engineering equipment while drought relief arose from the same storm.
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Denver
Colorado
Great Western Sugar Co
Keenesburg
Brighton
Prospect Valley
Brush
Boulder
University of Colorado
World Wide News Briefs summary from AP dispatches
Soviet Premier Bulganin attended an Egyptian National Day reception with Molotov Mikoyan and Malenkov while Khrushchev did not appear. In Rome, L Unita hinted at Togliatti asserting independence from Moscow amid a revealing interview. In Buenos Aires Rear Adm. Isaac Rojas recovers from appendicitis operation. In Formosa a Nationalist agency reports tribesmen in South Yunnan killed 128 Chinese Reds in three days of fighting in March.
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Bulganin
Egypt
Communist Party
Nikita, Khrushchev
V. M. Molotov
A. I. Mikoyan
Georgie Malenkov
Rome
L’unita
Palmiro Togliatti
Tito
Togliatti
New Arguments
Buenos Aires
Isaac Rojas
Argentina
Rojas
Juan Peron
Naval Hospital
Taipei
Formosa
Pohai
Yunnan
China
Reese Proposes Loyalty Program for Federal Employees
Rep. Reese Kansas introduces a bill to create a loyalty determination system for all federal positions and keep the current security program for security suitability. The plan envisions a three member loyalty board, FBI and agency involvement, and separate treatment from existing security questions.
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Washington
Reese
R-Kan
Rees
U. S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
FBI
Wellshead Price Violation Hearing Set in Wichita
J F Austin and the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Assn sue over a 11 cent wellhead price for Hugoton field gas. Hearing is scheduled in Wichita on June 29. Magnolia Petroleum Co and Cities Service Gas Co are named as parties. Magnolia is a producer and Cities Service a purchaser in the field under the Dec 2 1953 order by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
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Wichita
J. F. Austin
Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Assn
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Dallas
Cities Service Gas Co
Oklahoma City
Kansas Corporation Commission
Hugoton
Magnolia
Cities Service
Derailment injures brakeman in Missouri Pacific wreck
Five cars of a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed near here yesterday injuring brakeman L. D. Fike of Council Grove. He was taken to Hoisington hospital. The piece notes the 1790 census cost 44,000 dollars and the 1950 census cost 90 million dollars.
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Claflin
Kas
Missouri Pacific
L. D. Fike
Council Grove
Hoisington Hospital
U. S
Lone Boy Wins Doll Carriage Parade at Battle of Bunker Hill Event
The Boston celebration included a doll carriage parade with 21 entrants. Curtis Weidel, age 3, was the sole boy and won the contest as part of yesterday’s anniversary events.
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Boston
Bunker Hill
Curtis Weidel
Watch a Fish and Potato Chowder With Milk
A note on preparing chowder warns against overcooking to prevent curdling. It suggests a dash of turmeric in a cream sauce for a golden color. It cites American automobile sales of 4,000 in 1900 and seven million in 1955.
Battle Fire In Estes Park
Estes Park Colorado reports a timber blaze in Rocky Mountain National Park, now in its fifth day. Rain and hail slowed flames as 125 firefighters and 25 park service staff along with 100 Crow Indians from Billings and Missoula work to encircle and fully contain the fire. Chief Ranger Harry During expects containment once the area is ringed.
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Estes Park
Colo
Rocky Mountain National Park
Harry During
Park Service
Billings
Missoula
Mont
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