Rain in the Runoff: Salem's Watershed Project Highlighted
Editorial praises Clarence M. Rogers of Salem for winning a national soil conservation speaking contest. His Upper Tenmile watershed project shows how whole communities can cooperate to prevent floods and drought, reduce erosion, and protect topsoil. The piece urges broader watershed planning across West Virginia.
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Salem
Clarksburg
National Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors
San Diego
Clarence M. Rogers
Tenmile
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
West Virginia
West
Virginia
Hugh Bennett
SCS
Rogers
Weirton Supports Turnpike Plan in Steel Heartland
Weirton Steel backs a northern extension of the West Virginia Turnpike from Charleston toward the Pennsylvania toll road. The Employes Bulletin promotes a route near Parkersburg Wheeling Weirton and Chester with maps editorials and worker opinions. It argues the highway would boost state industry serve steel chemical and industrial centers and facilitate truck and bus traffic between the South and North.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weirton Steel
Panhandle
Charleston
Pennsylvania
Employes Bulletin
Parkersburg
Wheeling
Weirton
Chester
Ohio Valley Turnpike Extension Committee
West Virginia
Weirton Heights
Deep South
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Youngstown
Akron
Liverpool-Newell
Buffalo
Chicago
St. Lawrence Seaway
Great Lakes
W. Va
Graduates Find Broad Demand in 1955 Job Market
1955 graduates in science and related fields face strong hiring prospects with employers seeking physicists chemists electronics engineers geologists and trained sales and retail staff. Women in these areas find fewer employment barriers and nursing teaching and social work jobs remain in demand. Overall unemployment is down about a third from last year and factory payrolls are up eight percent.
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Say
James P. Mitchell
Calendar crusader touts World Calendar and global approvals
Biologist Dr. Martin Fleck of the University of New Mexico promotes the World Calendar as a universal reform approved by the United Nations and over 30 countries including Britain and Russia. He argues the current calendar is unstable, lists 63 past changes, and claims the 365th day would be an international holiday. The discussion touches on ancient Egyptian calendars and card symbolism linking to 364 days.
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Dr. Fleck
University of New Mexico
United Nations
Great Britain
Russia
B. C
Fleck
Sen. Mundt
R-Ds
Congress
United States
Gregory the XII
Joan Crawford
H’wood
Hildegarde
Wally Cox
Lee Kane
CBS
Orson Bean
Mitch Miller
Jill Corey
James Dean
Marilyn Morrison
Johnnie Ray
Texas
Fanny
South Pacific
Lana Turner
Esquire
Ava Norring
Henny Youngman
Norman Brokenshire
Chicago
Chez Paree
Nat “King
Cole
Benny Goodman
Steve Allen
Earl
Omar Burleson
J. O. Jewett
Fairfield
Calif
Jimmy Gardiner
H'’wood
Martha Scott
Beckley Newspapers Subscriptions and Rates Notice
Public notice from Beckley Newspapers Corporation outlining subscription rates by mail and by carrier, including daily and Sunday plans, payment terms, tax addition, and distributor responsibilities. Mentions Associated Press affiliation and advertising representatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
STORY
Brooks & Finley, Inc
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
Los Angeles
San Francisco
West Virginia
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Mama Ends 34 Year Feud With Old Barn
Mama sells the 10 room white house she has inhabited for 34 years ending a long running feud with the old barn. The family, once living there with Dolores Newton and Don Newton, moves to a newer home while Mama prepares to start anew, leaving memories and a stubborn attachment behind.
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Kansas City
Mama
White House
Dad
Dolores
Don Newton
Ireland
Prayer for Justice and Unity in National Banner
A religious invocation thanks God for the star spangled banner and asks restraint in power, generosity in sharing resources, and wisdom in using freedom. The prayer seeks to keep the flag unsullied through Christ, attributed to W Emory Hartman of Bexley Methodist Church in Columbus Ohio.
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God of Justice
Christ
W. Emory
Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Bexley Methodist Church
Insurance and Wage Guarantee Difference in Washington
The article explains two distinct safety nets unemployment insurance UI and guaranteed wage. It notes UI is state paid for a limited time after job loss while guaranteed wage is employer funded during layoff to approach regular pay. It discusses CIO United Auto Workers contracts with Ford and GM, state role in UI, and general UI features including tax rates, duration, and eligibility rules.
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Washington
CIO
United Auto
Ford
General Motors
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawaii
Factographs on Population, War Gas, and Ford Wage Plans
Asia outside the Soviet Union holds over half the world’s people and modern chemical warfare began in 1915 with chlorine gas. The text also explains two wage-guarantee schemes: Nunn Bush Hormel Procter and Gamble and Ford's program tying company and US payments to a jobless worker’s income for up to 26 weeks, with guarantees from 65 percent for four weeks and 60 percent thereafter, often falling short of regular earnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nunn-Bush, Hormel
Procter and Gamble
Ford
One Bite Method Said By Mimi Benzel At Heathrow
London airport scene with Mimi Benzel and Merle Oberon discussing travel diets after crossing the Atlantic. Benzel suggests the one bite method to curb hunger while touring the Hilton Istanbul hotel opening and Turkish delights. Oberon quotes Norma Shearer on avoiding gluttony as the journey continues.
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London
Conrad Hilton
Turkey
Mimi Benzel
Hilton Istanbul Hotel
Mimi
Gander
Merle Oberon
Norma Shearer
E W Talks Turkey About Dining Dieting in Turkey
A crowded column riffs on Hollywood figures, London to Istanbul travels, dieting jokes, and the fraught politics of celebrity lifestyle. Names like Diana Lynn Ed Pauley Jr Nickie Hilton Mona Freeman Sonja Henie Carol Chan ning Abel Green and others appear amid flippant reminiscences and gossip about meals, weight, and showbiz intrigue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diana Lynn
Ed Pauley Jr
Nickie Hilton
Mona Freeman
Sonja Henie
London Dawn
Turkey
Carol Channing
Variety
Abel Green
Leonid Kotkin
N. Y
Birthday tribute to Wes born June 14 1909 in Jasper County
A brief biographical note honors Wes born June 14 1909 in Jasper County Illinois. A noted ballad singer, he starred in a dramatic role in the Pulitzer Prize play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof after college. He toured 48 states with banjo and guitar, gaining fame on Broadway with Big Rock Candy Mountain and Blue Tail Fly.
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Rare
Wes —Hborn
Jasper County
Diem Speaks Mainly to God in Saigon Feud
In Saigon a bitter rift divides the French and Americans over Indochina. French officials, Americans, and Vietnamese leaders clash in policy and action as Ngo Dinh Diem faces a tense power struggle with the police and Binh Xuyen. The article notes cross-purposes, conflicting orders, and waning high-level unity, with Diem’s future amid a fragile balance of influence.
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Saigon
Indochina
Ngo Dinh Diem
Anh Diem
Viet Nam
America
France
Binh Xuyen Society
Paul Ely
J. Lawton Collings
Binh Xuyen
Surete
Ely
Diem
Collins
High Command
United States Information Service
Gen. Collins
United States
State Department
Snappy one liners and oddities from a bygone era
A collage of light humor and curiosities: notes on Orioles nesting, a Rhode Island graduation, Khrushchev and Mikoyan wrestling, frankfurters in Germany and Bologna baloney, an Indian chief watching westerns, campaign donations, Roman coins missing at Eton, a burglar alarm that barks like a dog.
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God
G. Macdonald
C. J
Needy Melhade
Martin Fleck
Equatorial Africa
Beckley
Hinton
Associated Press
AP News
Asia
Soviet Union
Goyr Waste
E. W
Midnight Earl
Mimi Benzell
Mary Ellen Terry
By Preston Grover
Orioles
Baltimore
Rhode Island
Khrushev
Mikoyan
Germany
Frankfurt
Hamburg
Bologna
Italy
Chile
Eton School
England
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