Coastal Skillet Club hosts barbecue and recipes week
The Portsmouth Herald notes fall barbecue ideas using bricks and chicken wire, outlines a spicy chicken sauce, spare rib mix, and a rice flappers recipe from Leo A. St. Pierre. The Skillet Club grows weekly as Uncle Frank Kohler leads sessions and readers share haddock and cod for coastal cookery.
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Skillet Club
Leo A. St. Pierre
Leo
Skilleteers
Portsmouth Herald
Frank Kohler
Kohler
Maine and South Carolina Declared Disaster Areas
The Agriculture Department designated Maine and South Carolina along with seven Arkansas counties as disaster areas due to drought. Two more Arkansas counties were redesignated drought areas after a tornado. Maine faces six weeks without rain, with damage to oats beans cucumbers blueberries corn and potatoes estimated in the millions and many home gardens hit.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
South Carolina
Maine
Arkansas
Department
New Hampshire
Perley J. Fitts
Maine Agricultural Department
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Sherburne
Byrd Faces Split as Southern Democrats Weigh Tickets
In Washington a Southern split emerges as Sen. Harry Byrd declines to endorse either presidential candidate. Louisianan Sen. Russell Long backs Stevenson Sparkman while Virginia's A Willis Robertson says he will vote the straight ticket. Eisenhower gains editorial backing in the South. Nixon frames Stevenson as Truman’s captive candidate. Eisenhower aide Hoffman touts independent support and spending cuts. Stevenson holds talks on leadership and possible DNC chair replacement.
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Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Adlai Stevenson
John J. Sparkman
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
Washington
Dwight DB. Eisenhower
A. Willis Robertson
Bill Byrd
Democratic
South
Associated Press
Southern
Eisenhower
Dixie
Stevenson
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Strom Thurmond
Morrell Clarke
Halifax County
Democratic Committee
Richard M. Nixon
Columbus
Sparkman
Jacob Kroll
Political Action Committee
Jacob Arvey
Illinois
Paul G. Hoffman
Denver
Springfield
Gay. Stevenson
Wilson Wyatt
Louisville
Wyatt
Frank McKinney
Acheson Leaves For Hawaii Meeting On Pacific Defense
Secretary of State Dean Acheson travels to Honolulu with advisers to meet Australia and New Zealand ministers. They plan to shape the machinery of a Pacific defense treaty signed in San Francisco last fall and review Pacific questions while laying a foundation for future cooperative work.
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Washington
Dean Acheson
Honolulu
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific Defense
Acheson
Constellation
Military Air Transport Service
San Francisco
Pacific
Citizens Ask Hearing on Air Base Plans
Thirty one residents signed a petition to the City Council urging a public hearing on Portsmouth Air Force Base plans. They seek review of four issues including the city’s airport lease to the federal government and potential loss of wells, tax impacts, and the social and financial desirability of the base due to noise and vibration. The petition calls for expert outside input at city expense and a formal public expression of opinion before decisions.
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Portsmouth Air Force Base
Greenland Road
Portasmouth
Portamouth
Concord
Portsmouth
J. T. Alexander
John W. Durgin
Infantry Recaptures Old Baldy Ridge After Eight-Hour Fight
Allied doughboys recaptured the Old Baldy outpost west of Chorwon after an eight hour assault amid heavy rain. The action marked the first intense ground fighting since the previous weekend with a Chinese response and subsequent digging in on the mud caked slopes.
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Seoul
Korea
Fifth Air Force
United Nations
North Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
Old Baldy Hil
Korea-Manchuria
Tokyo
P. Weyland
U. S. Far East
Chorwon
Search Called Off For Two Escapees From Vermont Jail
A Vermont State Police sweep paused after 40 officers and four bloodhounds chased two prison escapees, Donald Demag and Francis Clair, believed hiding between North Springfield Vermont and Charlestown New Hampshire. The lifer Demag, 29, from Burlington, and Clair, 31, Fitchburg Massachusetts, fled after crashing a truck through the gate. Blair, already jailed for grand larceny and breaking and entering, is not in this update.
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Windsor
Vermont
Harry E. Ward
Donald Demag
Burlington
Francis Clair
Fitchburg
Mass
North Springfield
Charlestown
N. H
Cheshire
Connecticut River
Blair
City Loses $6,000 In Dividend Taxes
State Treasurer Winfield J. Phillips disclosed that Portsmouth will receive 28,575 in state dividends and interest taxes this year, down from 34,916 in 1951. The drop stems from legislative increases in exemptions from 200 to 800, and statewide declines mark the first non-increase since 1946.
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Portsmouth
Winfield J. Phillips
Phillips
Weirs Concord Struck By Freak 14 Minute Gale
The Weirs and Concord faced a sudden 14 minute gale, halting activities briefly. Amid storm disruption, production quickly resumed as Crucible Steel prepared to restart operations and the CIO United Steelworkers reached a temporary pact affecting 14,000 workers. The accord mirrors a prior agreement with the Big Six, granting a 71 cent hourly raise and a union shop with conditions on new hires. Negotiations continue with U S Steel and others as rates, seniority, and management rights are finalized. Meanwhile Allegheny Ludlum and Wheeling remain on strike with about 25,000 workers idle. The auto giants GM Chrysler and Ford announced plans to lift output as steel supplies stabilize.
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Pittsburgh
Crucible Steel Company
Crucible
CIO
United Steelworkers
Steelworkers
Big Six
U. S. Steel
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp
Allegheny Ludlum
Wheeling
W.va
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Coast Guard photo shows four saucers in Vy formation
Coast Guard headquarters released a photo of four round unidentified aerial phenomena reportedly seen by Shell Alpert at Salem air station at 9 35 a m on July 16. The image shows two light shafts across each object and forward and rear projections amid widespread saucer inquiries.
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Washington W— Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Shell R. Alpert
Salem, Maas
Onee
The
Alpert
Young Sentry Wins Retrial for Sleeping on Guard
A new court martial is ordered for Pvt. Warren G. McConnell of Alloway New Jersey after the Army Court of Military Appeals found a substantial prejudice due to a law officer’s consultation with the military court while McConnell and his attorney were absent. The 1951 Korea front line conviction carried 10 to 20 years at hard labor, dishonorable discharge, and forfeiture of pay and allowances.
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Court of Military Appeals
Highest Tribunal of the Armed Services
Pvt
Warren G. McConnell
Alloway, N.J
Korea
McConnell
Police Doubt Identification Of Sadist Killer's Victim
Oklahoma City police questioned the identification of a headless body found near Yukon as Tillie Mae Pennington, 20, though her mother, Mabel Pennington, insisted the victim is her daughter. Crime experts await a pathologist's report on age and whether the victim bore a child, while officers search missing persons files and examine evidence such as a blood-stained brassiere and red belt.
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Oklahoma City
Yukon
Mabel Pennington
Tillie Mae Pennington
Here
Crime Bureau
O. K. Biving
Pennington
Bivins
Private Industry To Purchase Tin From Government
Washington reports the government ended its tin buying monopoly, returning tin purchases to private industry after tin supplies improved and prices fell. Henry H. Fowler, head of the National Production Administration, announced the move citing market stabilization since March 12, 1951.
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Washington i
Henry H. Fowler
National Production Administration
City Tops Bloodmobile Quota in Portsmouth Drive
The Red Cross bloodmobile exceeded its 120 pint quota in Portsmouth with 166.5 pints collected yesterday, aided by 38 pledges and 155 walk-ins. Donors hailed from local firms such as Taccetta's New Hampshire Electric, J J Newberry, Mutual Life, and WHEB, with many awaiting advance pledges to streamline the process.
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Red Cross Bloodmobile
Portsmouth
Peter E. O'Donnell
Taccetta’s
Hampshire Electric Company
Newberry Company
McFadden
Mutual Life Insurance
Portsmouth Postoffice
New Hampshire Provision Company
Brooks
Motor Company
WHEB
the Portymouth Herald
Red Cross
O'Donnell
New Hampshire
Jasper Clockdlle
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Fort Wayne
Detroit
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Byrd
Hawaii
Frank Loughan
Thomas Pendergast
Madeling Pendergest
Helens Delano
William Safford Jones
Mary KE. Dowd
Richard J. Colbath
M. Priscilla York
Henry B. Tiller
Marion F. Harwood
Doris K. Blaisdell
R. KR. Binksdell
Harriet
Paisley
Newington
State Public Works and
Frank D. Merrit Teld
Old Baldy Ridge
Old Baldy
James van Fleet
U. 5S
Eighth Army
Weirs
Air Force
John A. Samford
Air Force Intelligence
Pentagon
Air Technical Intelligence Center
Dayton
Ohio
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Stoddard
Lakes
Sunapee
Rochester
Richard Diehl
State Forestry Department
Diehl
Rockingham
Hillsborough
Lower Merrimack
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Portland Weather Bureau
Kores
Manchester
Louis Cate
Daniel St
Boston Hospital
Wayne Upton
Hampton
Boston Children’s Hospital
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