Defense Costs Drive Eisenhower Budget Debate
The House Appropriations Committee works on President Eisenhower’s budget focusing on defense. A five month military subcommittee produced 9,000 pages in nine volumes totaling 333.5 billion. Rep Errett P. Scrivner notes plans include 3 million troops, 1 million civilians, 48 000 planes, 780 000 vehicles, and 2 700 ships with near 1 billion in fuel costs. He calls strong national defense not cheap.
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House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Defense Department
Errett P. Scrivner
Scrivner
The Chorus Grows in Ottawa Prompts Flood Control Talk
A prominent Ottawa citizen praised a Herald staffer’s flood control presentation for the Marais des Cygnes River at the Rotary Club. The piece notes growing community support and civic talks urging river control funds, aiming for relief from floods and regional benefit.
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Marais Des Cygnes
Rotary Club
the Herald
Ottawa
River
Remembering Meals Across Places and People
A narrator recalls numerous memorable meals from farmyard corn and fried chicken to shrimp feasts and formal Shanghai dinners. They note serving style, host hospitality, and the recurring comfort of home meals, ending with the sentiment that the best meals are at home.
Clips And Quips From Various Papers
A visitor reports hotel rooms in Texas harbor hot and cold running cockroaches. The note laments secret missiles lost by the army and teases about finding things not known. Golf caddies are said to fare well in a business where holding the bag pays. Worry is voiced over wheat amid frequent rains not reaching its heads.
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The
Augusta Gazette
Texas
Concordia Blade
Emporia Gazetta
Editors from three nations study news exchange at INI conference
Fifty editors and correspondents from Britain France and America gather at the International Press Institute to compare reporting across languages. The two day session emphasizes improving cross national news flow and understanding over differences in coverage sparked by events like the Suez crisis.
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International Press Institute
Ottawa area recalls events from 25 years ago
Auld Lang Syne notes recount Ottawa residents visiting Cook Gardens to view blooming peonies, a pianist byline, a St Joseph broadcasting plan, a horse bite incident involving Arlene Mooney, a minor alley accident near the Herald office, a window display of six grey wolves from Conard farm, finger injury at a soap factory, local fishing trip, a 12 year old’s hand injury, a hotel altercation with a cook striking a dishwasher, and related small incidents.
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Arlene
Ira Mooney
S. Oak
George Hough Jr
C. T. Wallace
Herald Office
Conard
Ottawa
Jones
E. M. Sheldon
Prayer Theme: In Christ A New Creature In Daily Living
A devotional prayer thanks God for Jesus Christ and asks that all people realize their need of Him. It asks believers to reflect Christ in daily life and closes in Jesus name Amen.
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Heavenly Father
Jesus Christ
Ottawa Herald Rates Listed For Subscribers
The Ottawa Herald details subscription rates in the trade area by mail: one month eighty five cents, three months two dollars, six months three dollars and seventy five cents, one year seven dollars. Outside trade area rates: one month one dollar, three months three dollars, six months five dollars and fifty cents, one year ten dollars.
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S. Main
Ottawa
Kas
Otis
Robert B. Wellingtons
Guy Snedaker
Television schedule fragment lists network blocks and shows
A dense, partial TV lineup lists Channel numbers NBC CBS ABC and programs such as News World Turns The Big Payoff Queen For Day Secret Storm Edge of Darkness and Theatre among others with time stamps around morning to evening and various show titles and hosts reflected in jumbled OCR text
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Daily Word
Liberace
Miss Brooks
Tenn
Ernie
Bob Crosby
Dr. N. Ventor
Salesmanship as Thoughtful Service in Davenport
Dr. Crane recounts a Davenport Iowa visit where a local sales club arranged flowers for his wife Mrs Crane, demonstrating empathy in selling. He argues salesmanship powers civilization, likening St Paul clergy to modern salesmen and urging readers to study the booklet The New Psychology of Advertising and Selling.
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Davenport
Iowa
National Sales Executives Association
Hopkins Syndicate
Paderewski
Fritz Kreisler
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Glenn Frank
Nazarene
Dr. Frank
Palestine
St. Paul
Jesus
St. Paul's
Crane
Melott
Ind
Radio Schedule Fragments From May Broadcasts
Radio listings show a dense lineup across KCMO and WDAF from Saturday May 25 into Sunday May 26. Programs run from early morning talk to music blocks including Jamboree, Morning Devotions, Serenade, and sports mentions with Bob Sanders and Morgan Beatty among on air names.
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WDAF
KCMO
Newepen
Newa
Bob Sanders
Morgan Beatty
Robt
Q. Lewis
Ktjo-Fm
Amos
Andy
Etjo-Fm
Rtjo-Fm
Wdaff—The Law
World Tonight
Rumors Fly Over Sea Treasure In Sulu Sea
An American diver Vincent Palmer reported photographing three coral crusted objects under the Sulu Sea that might contain treasure but dismissed tales of 50 million dollars in gold bullion as incorrect. Palmer and wife Lucie, studying marine life off Bongao Island, deny a prior Philippine News Service dispatch. Local deputy governor Doeing Tadas and associate Macias relate conflicting accounts about safes aboard a sunken Japanese hospital ship. Palmer plans to share photos with authorities and waives any claim to the treasure.
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Sulu
Vincent Palmer
St. Louis
Lucie
Palmer
Bongao Island
Washington Macias
Macias
Doeing Tadas
Bongao
Flood Control Project Saves Wichita from Major Damages
The Wichita Valley Center Flood Control Project prevented about 1.5 million dollars in flood damage last week. If not for the floodway, the May 17 flood on the Little Arkansas River would approach the fourth largest on record. Engineers noted losses would near 1.7 million, but floodway savings kept them to about 200 thousand, with the pilot channel diverting part of the water to a slough.
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Tulsa
Wichita Valley Center
District Corps of Army Engineers
Little Arkansas River
Wichita
Big Ark
Big Slough
Little Arkansas
Valley Center
Chisholm Creek
Soviet Leader Claims U S Food Gap Will Close by 1960
In a 6,000 word speech in Leningrad, Khrushchev boasted the Soviet Union could overtake the United States in per capita meat, milk, and butter production by 1960. He called it a victory “mightier than the hydrogen bomb,” stating the goal is feasible if current plans succeed.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Soviet Union
United States
Khrushchev
U. S
Russia
Colorado Strikes Hit Record Numbers in 1952-54
Denver report from the U S Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 15,100 workers across 83 strikes in Colorado last year. Time lost totaled 297000 eight hour days, the highest since 1952 when 26700 strikers logged 547000 days.
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Denver
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Colorado
Stae
Bible School to Open at Princeton Area Church
News from the Princeton area notes the Bible School at the Christian Church starts June 3 at 1 p.m. for children age three and older. Local visits include Mrs. Winifred McAlloen staying with the Gil lilands, and many calls and gatherings across Ottawa Richmond and Colony with family and friends. The Princeton GAR plans a cemetery decoration at 4 a.m. on May 29.
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Bible School
The
Christian Church
Winifred McAlloen
Colony
Earl Gilliland
Hugh Tarbet
Lee Faulkner
Humboldt
Frank Weis
Shirley
Melvern
Bud Demoret
Homewood
Princeton Gar
Richmond area social notices honor Golden Dobbin anniversary
Rev and Mrs Cecil M Orr hosted a Wednesday noon dinner honoring Rev and Mrs B M Dobbin for their 50th wedding anniversary. A decorated cake and corsage accompanied a purse gift of 66.00 from friends the Dobbin circle. Several locals attended including Mrs Fred Johnson Mrs Ruth Atchison and Mr and Mrs Orie Higdon. Others traveled for the event and local clubs gathered for quilting and card games with reports of travels and hospital visits among the community.
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B. M. Dobbin
Dobbin
Dobbins
Fred Johnson
Ruth Atchison
Marvin Orr
Chicago
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Margaret Edwards
Mmes
Clive Bastin
Hayes Johnson
Orie Higdon
Charley Smith
Carrie Cunningham
Charley Dunbar
Oma
Ernest van Wie
C. J. Anderson
Emma Wiesner
George Hart
Lee Metze
Loretta Rockers
Marjorie Kay Bennett
Anderson County Hospital
Lester Griffith
Arkansas City
Loren Snider
Merritt McDonald
Virgil Smith
WSCS
Elda Bary
Friendly Circle
Mines
Harold Maley
Allen DeGarmo
Melvin Stockard
Alfred Sigler
Howard Smith
Herb McClure
R. S. Gault
W. P. Duffey
George Dietrich
C. H. Kent
Garnett
Vickie Sue ‘McDonald
Walter Wright
Denver
Colo
Edith McClure
Ivan McLees
Steel Man Is Highest Paid Boss in U S
81 year old Eugene C. Grace chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp led 1955 pay among top executives with 809 011 dollars in gross compensation. General Motors president Harlow H Curtice earned 695 100 dollars, with several others earning over half a million including Arthur B Homer Crawford H Greenewalt Frederick G Donner Louis C Goad and Robert E McMath.
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Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Harlow H. Curtice
General Motors Corp
Business Week
Curtice
Arthur B. Homer
Bethlehem Steel
Crawford H. Greenewalt
du Pont
Frederick G. Donner
General Motors
Louis C. Goad
Robert E. McMath
Bethelem Steel
Long commute by river shuttle for Kentucky worker
Augusta Ky. Robert Workman spends eight hours daily on his job but the long river crossing and car pool ride define his day. He travels 55 miles from home to the office, starting with a rowing crossing of the Ohio River to reach the Ohio side where a car pool awaits. Two hours later he is at his desk.
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Augusta
Robert Workman
Ohio River
Ohio
Workman
Installment Buying Slows Says Fed Board
The Federal Reserve Board reports U S installment buying is slowing with total consumer installment credit at 31 273 billion as of March 31, up 40 million from last year and 197 million from March 1956. It sees no need for extra curbs now, warning controls would create compliance problems and that general monetary measures are preferable. The findings were sent to Congress and the president's economic advisers.
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Washington U
U.S
Federal Reserve Board
Banking and Economic
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Louisburg Democrat Named Parole Agent
TOPEKA Willard V Miller Louisburg Democrat has been appointed parole agent for 31 western Kansas counties with headquarters at Garden City. Miller 48 succeeds Donald Jones Garden City Republican who was fired recently by the two Democrats on the State Board of Penal Institutions. Robert Turney Republican member protested the decision. Dan Cain penal board chairman said he has accepted the designation of parole agent William E Klamm Baselior Republican Klamm resigned rather than accept a transfer.
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Topeka
Willard V. Miller
Louisburg
Kansas
Garden City
Miller
Donald Jones
State Board of Penal Institutions
Robert Turney
Jones
Dan Cain
Penal Board
William E. Klamm
Baselior Republican
Klamm
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