Record year for GM tops 1955 profits among blue chips
Walter Breede Jr. reports GM set a 1955 net earnings milestone at 1.189 billion dollars after taxes, leading a batch of results from Standard Oil New Jersey 717 million, United States Steel 370.197 million, Kennecott Copper 125.615 million, Union Carbide 140.756 million, with broader signs of rising profits in 1956 and industry-wide production shifts affecting auto workers and plants nationwide.
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Walter Breede JR
New York
General Motors Corp
U. S
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
United States Steel Corp
Kennecott Copper Corp
Union Carbide & Sun Corp
Buto
Chrysler
Detroit
DeSoto
Dodge
Packard
Ohio River rises slow as Wheeling girders loom
High waters from the Ohio River lapped Wheeling’s new parking garage framing last week with a crest forecast at 225 feet or less. Separate items note Eastern Air Lines executive Frost and Huntington awards, radio based music instruction for Monongalia pupils, a Spencer lumber plant purchase, a service station break in, and WSAZ testing color program prep for Feb 20.
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Wheeling
Monongalia’County
WAJR
Wsaz-Tv
Huntington
Poultry Market Reports Across Virginia Wisconsin and India
Market notices show live poultry markets in Harrisonburg Virginia and Charleston Wisconsin steady with adequate supplies. Farm prices for various chick types and turkeys listed, plus a South Branch Valley auction report and a note on India’s gold mining output and sales in Karnataka.
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Shenandoah Valley
Charleston
W.va
South Branch Valley
India
Kotar
Head
Bangalore
14 year old George Wright wins 100000 on The Big Surprise
New York 14 year old ukulele player George L Wright wins 100000 on The Big Surprise then attends a Chase Manhattan Bank conference with his lawyer and show producers to set up a trust fund. Taxes will reduce the prize to about 25000. He is pursued by media offers and will appear on the Perry Como Show next Saturday.
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George L. i Wright
St. Agnes High School
Chase Manhattan Bank
George
Satj Vijay
Me and
My Shadow
Ed Wynn reports burglars steal 60 neckties and two coats
Ed Wynn told police burglars took 60 neckties two coats and a violin from his Hollywood home Sunday night valued at 750 dollars. A zany raccoon coat worn on stage was among the items.
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Los Angeles
Ed Wynn
Family rescuer dubbed local life saver in Wakefield
Donald McAuliffe 24 earned a Massachusetts Humane Society medal for helping pull 13 year old Jay Curley from Lake Quonnapowitt after the boy fell through thin ice. His brother father and grandfather previously won similar medals for rescues.
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Wakefield
Mass
Donald McAuliffe
Jay Curley
Lake Quonnapowitt
Massachusetts Humane Society
Taxpayers face new quiet tax form changes for 1965
The article outlines the April 15 deadline and a shift to the wage earners short form for those with only salary and wages. It explains Form 100A conditions, Form 1040 structure, exemptions, deductions, and the redesigned instructions guiding readers on whether to use the card form or the long form.
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Sam
the Revenue Service
Revenue Service
Revenue
United States Faces Grave Shortage of Scientists and Engineers
March of Science report quotes Atomic Energy Commission head Lewis L. Strauss warning the U S faces a mounting shortfall in science and engineering talent. He says without more qualified personnel the nation could lose the race to harness fusion and develop peacetime nuclear power to rival Soviet Russia, which educates twice as many technicians.
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Cleveland i
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United States
Atomic Energy Commission
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Nuclear Science and Engineering Congress
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AEC
America
Soviet
Compromise Reached Over Refuge Home Plan In Tokyo
Prefectural authorities objected to a Japan Sympathy Society building permit for a $10,000 refuge home for fallen angels. Officials considered the wording insufficiently specific while society leaders insisted on a nonstandard label. A settlement was announced today. In Raleigh North Carolina Esther Graham, 32, was cited after officers found non tax paid whisky in her home and confiscated evidence in a glass. She faced charges of possession of non tax paid liquor for sale.
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Japan
Sympathy Society
Fallen Angels
Aleigh
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Esther Grasham
Raleigh
Mother Kills Children Self in New York State Tragedy
Alma Tattersall 28 and her three children Robert 3 Alma 3 Veronica 8 were found shot to death in their Gardiner home. Robert Tattersall 34 discovered the bodies after returning from work. Postmortem reports indicate the mother killed the children then herself with a .22 rifle. Authorities seek motive while noting family appeared happy.
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Town Street Department
New Assistant Named By Attorney General Bias Jr to Tax Dept
Henry C. Bias Jr of Charleston was announced Wednesday as an assistant attorney general. He has served as administrative assistant to the state insurance commissioner since last July and will be assigned to the Tax Department. Bias is 2 and studied at Morris Harvey College and West Virginia University College of Law. Construction of a $90,000,000 petroleum refinery plant is now underway at Mamonal Cartagena Bay Colombia.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
20Th Century-Fox Studios
Buddy Adler
Spyros P. Skouras
Zanuck
Hollywood
Joseph M. Schenck
Century-Fox
Mamonal
Cartagena Bay
Colombia
Funeral Services for 72YearOld Leman Beckley Resident
The obituary notes the death of Mr Salle Leman 72 of Beckley in a local hospital on Monday February 6. The body lies at Calfee Funeral Home until one hour before the funeral at Stephen Episcopal Church with Rev C Worth May officiating, followed by burial at Sunset Memorial.
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Beckley
Calfee
Ay Stephe Bpacope Tech Nthen’s Rch
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Bern Ie
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