Farm Prices Return to Year Ago Level
Washington report notes farm product prices rose 8 percent over five months to match last year’s levels. A 3 percent mid-April to mid-May jump is the largest in years, boosting Democratic critique of farm policy while Republicans praise the gains. The mid May level remains 22 percent below February 1951 peaks. Secretary Benson says farmers may bank land this year under a $1.2 billion soil bank program to cut surplus crops.
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Anderson, 8 C, Pleads Guilty in Dynamite Incident
Anderson, 8 C, pleaded guilty to malicious mischief from the explosion of two sticks of dynamite at a political meeting. No one was hurt. He paid a $100 fine and said he did it to liven up the meeting and revealed he cannot vote due to a prior grand larceny conviction. He claimed he learned dynamite use while working with a road crew as a prisoner.
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Agriculture price rates set for 1956 crop by county
The Agriculture Department released 1956 price rates with corn at 90 cents per bushel, cotton 15 cents per pound, wheat 1.20 dollars per bushel, and rice 2.25 dollars per hundred pounds. Peanut and tobacco rates to be announced. Grower price support for the 1956 wheat crop averages two dollars per bushel nationwide and will range from 1.06 to 2.27 dollars by county.
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Republicans Consider Cutting National Convention to Three Days
The San Francisco Chronicle reports GOP leaders may shorten the national convention from four to three days at Cow Palace meeting August 20. The plan aims to streamline platform adoption routine business renominations and the personal appearance of Eisenhower and Nixon amid TV interest concerns.
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Fires at Wife Then Disappears in Wilmington
Charles E. Mills, 26, is sought after firing three shots at his wife Beverly in a car outside their home in Wilmington. Mills warned he would not be captured alive after a quarrel ended with Beverly fleeing unharmed.
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Accused Police Chief Stays On In Jackson California
City fathers in Jackson voted to keep on the job Guido Tof anelli the police chief accused by an Amador grand jury of permitting vice houses near Main Street. The council suspended Constable Gildo Donero and Night Patrolman James Freguila for 90 days.
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Eisenhower Supporters Push Race Issue in Campaign
National Citizens for Eisenhower official Richard Tobin urged using race relations as major ammunition to win Negro voters in the election. He said a substantial shift of Black voters from Democrats to Republicans could curb a Democratic hold, while Nixon faced Democratic charges over involving the Supreme Court in politics. Briefer remarks from Mansfield and Aiken framed U.S. prestige and Soviet moves, with Aiken citing softened Soviet belligerence as a result of American policy.
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Dulles Son to Be Ordained Priest at Fordham Chapel
Avery Dulles youngest son of Secretary Dulles will be ordained June 16 as a Jesuit priest. Cardinal Spellman will preside at Fordham University Chapel with 38 others, while Dulles who became Catholic in 1940 will celebrate his first Salmon Mass June 24 at Georgetown University.
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Welfare Head Denies Charge
In San Francisco Secretary Marion B. Folsom denied Democratic charges that the HEW department is stagnating in welfare work. He told the Commonwealth Club that the administration seeks a 24 percent rise in appropriations for the coming fiscal year, the largest dollar amount proposed for these activities in a single year. Adlai Stevenson had alleged a stand still in welfare efforts.
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