Farmers Face Price Squeeze As Costs Rise
The Agriculture Department reports farm costs and prices in spring show costs up about five percent from a year earlier while prices received by farmers rise only about two percent. Fertilizer is the only major item not increasing. Increases span feeder livestock real estate motor vehicles and more. Wage rates have surged fivefold since 1940, and the cost–price gap is near wartime levels though improving as farmers cut costs and boost efficiency.
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Washington WW
Agriculture Department
Reordained Pastor Readmitted After Unfrocking
In Appleton Wisconsin the Rev Victor K Wrigley, once unfrocked by the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America for heresy, was reinstated and reordained at the synod's annual convention He read a self critical statement acknowledging past unChristian actions and misjudgments and urging patience and Christian love
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Appleton, Wis
Victor K. Wrigley
Northwest Synod
United Lutheran Church In America
Synod
Pastor Wrigley
Delay for Atomic Tests at Nevada Site Continues
For a seventh day high winds at the Atomic Test Site in Nevada postpone the initial atomic explosion, delaying the summer long test series and keeping operations in check as weather disrupts planned activity.
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Atomic Tests Atomic Test Site
Nev
Studies World War According To Paper
A 14 year old boy visited the Durham Morning Herald newsroom to study how newspapers covered World War II. He learned the Agriculture Department is donating about 56 million pounds of dairy products to the school lunch program and needy institutions, including 21.7 million pounds of butter 15 million pounds of cheese and 18.6 million pounds of dry milk under price support programs. He reviewed the files and questioned the portrayal, then left saying the acts may seem exaggerated.
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Durham
N.C
Washington
Agricultre
Durham Morning Herald Andture Department
Fiie
Big Thirst on the Farm as Trees Drain Water
Sayre Oklahoma jewel Burden learns from a soil conservationist that giant cottonwood trees remove 600 gallons of water daily from his drought stricken soil, highlighting water loss on his farm.
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Sayre
Okla
Jewel Burden
Arkansas River Still A Threat
Arkansas River remained a flood threat to Tulsa and northeastern Oklahoma as it stayed above flood stage after cresting at 21.58 feet yesterday. Civil defense called the flood critical while a large search continued for two or three boys spotted drifting in the river near the 21st Street Bridge in Tulsa around 7:30 p.m.
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Tulsa
21St Street
Cimarron River
Arkansas flood risk rises with Cimarron rivers
Tulsa County Sheriff Glenn Hy Brown warned that flood levels depend on Cimarron flood force and rainfall. New high brought flood waters into Garden City and Brookside on opposite Tulsa banks and into Bixby, threatening homes and roads.
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Arkansas
Keystone
Tulsa
Glenn Hy
Brown
Garden City
Brookside
Bixby
Lawrence Man Heads Spanish War Veterans
J E L Frick of Lawrence is elected commander of the Kansas Department of the United Spanish American War Veterans at the end of the Golden Anniversary convention in Pittsburg. Delegates averaging 80 years in age attended, and Mrs Dora Mitchell of Topeka was chosen president of the Auxiliary.
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Pittsburg
E. L. Frick
Lawrence
Kansas
United Spanish American War Veterans
Frick
Dora Mitchell
Topeka
Twining warns against defense cuts risking disaster
Gen Nathan Twining, Air Force chief, warns at a Lotos Club dinner that any cut in U.S. defenses could lead to disaster. He calls maintaining military power a great bargain, noting 10 percent of GNP supports security for the other 90 percent and American lives. He is newly named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and cites broad armed forces capability for total and limited war.
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New York
Nathan
Twining
Air Force
Offikalf
U. S
Eisenhower
Secint Chiefs of Staff
Lotos Club
Painful Proof That Gun Works in Newport
In Newport Kentucky a stranger asked James L Snow to buy a .22 pistol. When Snow asked if it worked the man handed the gun, which fired, wounding Snow in the leg and sending him to the hospital. In Hill City Kansas a $700000 high school bond issue was rejected by voters 293 to 141.
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Newport. Ky
James L. Snow
Snow
Hill City
Kas
Ifill City
US Faces Harsh Warnings on Nuclear Readiness
A historical speech fragment notes a call to maintain strength within resources and asserts the United States must be ready to use nuclear weapons in small wars or limited conflicts worldwide if national interests are threatened. The remark underscores a stance on deterrence and potential action beyond conventional warfare.
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United States
Gas Tax Boost Planned for Oklahoma Roads
Oklahoma motorists will pay one cent more per gallon starting June 1 under a new emergency tax law signed by Gov. Raymond Gary. The levy lasts seven months, with revenue estimated at 4 to 42 million dollars to fund flood damaged road and highway repairs, and Gov. Gary may suspend the tax earlier if sufficient funds are raised.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Raymond Gary
Senate
House
Gary
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