Editorial on food shortages and waste urges land use reforms
The piece argues America must find methods like Dutch and French farming to feed growing populations. It cites conservationists, calls for better land use, waste reduction, and a new marketing system, warning of a grim bread and meat future without change. It also comments on West Virginia jail trusties and urges Sheriff Mills to tighten controls or risk political fallout.
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America
Hugh Bennett
West Virginia
Mills
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Brooks & Finley, Inc
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Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
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Beckley Newspapers Corporation
Bug Dust and Ragweed Pollen Linked to School Absences
A column discusses a study from 1948 noting 13.5 percent of high school students and 5.5 percent of grade schoolers suffered asthma or hay fever during ragweed season. It argues early school start worsens absences, suggests delaying opening, and cites allergists advocating specific hyposensitization.
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Leb. Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
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Nome
Juneal
Fairbanks
Alaska
Key West
Fla
Portland
Ore
Paul de Kruif
Chicago
Ramparts
Chronology of a Year-Long Police Action in Korea
A year after North Korean tanks drove south the war reshaped the U N alliance and U S policy. Private Joe and Dog Company fought through jungles and night assaults learning to hold ground and strike back. MacArthur’s rise and fall shaped strategy as China intervened and the UN forged a new police force to keep the peace.
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Washington
Korea
Sea
Japan
Asia
United Nations
Joe
Joe Jall
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G's
Jon
America
Reds
Dog
Dany
Seoul
Pyongyang
Manchuria
Dog Company
Taejon
Huignam
Joe Lana Dog Company
Joe and
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
MacArthur
Jichon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
Wake Island
Wake
Yalu River
Pentagon
State Department
Joint Chiefs
Tol
San Francisco
Congress
Louis Johnson
United States
U.S
U.N
How to Beat the Heat Hal Boyle Style
New York columnist Hal Boyle offers comic survival tips for hot weather. He wryly suggests cooling ideas from bars to Nova Scotia, whimsically advising tricks like panting at the office, imagining coolness, and even lining hats with leaves to stay amused and busy during heat waves.
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New York
Coolidge
New England
Nova Scotia
U S Industrial Output Hits 1961 Highs Amid Defense Push
US factories showed strong production last week with crude oil output at a 1961 peak of 6,107,950 barrels and carloadings reaching 826,239 tons year to date. Labor disputes disrupted shipping on East Gulf and Pacific coast while defense orders supported a high activity level across basic industries.
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Richard Isk
New York
Middle East
Tran
United States
Gulf
Pacific Coast
United Air Lines
American Airlines
Atomic Energy
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Eric Johnston
Risi Ilian
Philip Murray
Wall Street
Philes Corporation
Som
CIO
The Steps of the Quarry and a Time Capsule in L A
A mixed review highlights Robert Terratll’s The Steps of the Quarry set in 1945 Mordhausen and Weissau with Lt Cockerell, Scott, Kosek, and local figures, then shifts to a Los Angeles time capsule project beneath Pershing Square’s underground garage amid debates on anti semitism and memory.
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Robert Terratll
Crown
Mordhausen
Weissau
Cockerell
Scott
Jack Kosek
Fein
Europe
Neuditschka
Plump
Hamden
Los Angeles
Pershing Square
Pas
Inote
Beckley Man Receives Harvard Law Degree
George Everett Hall of Beckley earned a bachelor of laws degree at Harvard University during commencement exercises. He previously earned a bachelor of arts degree at West Virginia University in 1948.
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Beckley
Harvard Law
George Everett Hall
Harvard Universty
West Virginia University
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