Keeping It Down On The Farm and Soil Bank Plans
The Agriculture Department weighs seven soil bank plans to cut production and raise prices, from land purchases to direct farmer payments. Critics note past programs under the AAA and soil conservation acts set precedent, with debate over cost and administration.
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U. S
U. S. Department of Agriculture
National Agricultural Advisory Commission
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
True D. Morse
Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
American ‘Farm Bureau Foundation
National Farmers Union
E. Howard Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau
Eisenhower
Hill
Revisions Proposed for Veterans Survivors Payments in 1955
A House bill HR 7089 backed by President Eisenhower and veterans groups aims to simplify survivor compensation for veterans. It would raise minimum payments, cut maximums for new beneficiaries, vary relief by rank, replace life insurance with social security based annuities, and require servicemen to contribute up to seven dollars monthly. The plan shifts who receives more in peacetime deaths versus combat deaths, increasing near term Treasury costs but lowering long term costs. On Veterans Day 1955 about 502,000 widows 322,000 children and 332,000 dependent parents of roughly 810,000 deceased veterans would be affected.
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House
Eisenhower
Defense Department
The
American Legion
Senate
Treasury
Flag first to show 48 stars in 1912 after new states
In 1912 the United States flag was updated to 48 stars with the admission of New Mexico and Arizona. Elementary students spend about 25 hours weekly watching television in the United States.
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United States
New Mexico
Arizona
Public Forum: Readers invited to send brief signed letters
The Register invites readers to submit brief signed letters on important local, state, or national issues for publication in the Public Forum. Writers may request name removal, letters are subject to condensation, and the newspaper assumes no responsibility for statements.
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The
Register
Public Forum
Book excerpt shows Hollywood ties and a friend’s world tour tale
Bug Dust reviews a new memoir Woman Alone Around the World by Virginia Cox Smith about a Hollywood secretary turned talent director. The piece highlights her California move in 1937, later U S tour, TV appearance, Africa plans, and a goal to inspire women to seek broader horizons. It also notes the writer’s ties to Mrs Leah Trail of Beckley and a sympathetic open letter from local readers expressed through Mr and Mrs Watts.
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Leah Toney Trail
Beckley
Virginia Cox Smith
Escatawpa
California
William F. Watts
Gottfried von Cramm
NBC
CBS
Mary Martin
Cleo Moore
U-1
Charlie Simonelli
Howard Hughes
20Th Century- Fox
Ana Francis
Lee Tracy
Don Elliott
Cafe Society
Doris Wiss
Tony Martin
Polly Bergen
Morty Stevens
Palm Springs
Jack Benny
Joan
Las Vegas
Vivian Blaine
Maurice Evans
Mark Clark
Max Loew
New York
Earl
H. C. Diefenbach
Herb Shriner
John Laurenz
Hollywood
Beasley Newsstand Info Page Pattern
Page from Beckley Newspapers detailing masthead, editors, Associated Press rights, national ad reps, and subscription rates with delivery and tax notes. Includes contact lines and service notes for carriers and distributors.
We Run Into Kevin McCann On Robinson Crusoe Isle
Journalist Earl Wilson notes a whirlwind of celebrity chatter from Tobago and Los Angeles. He describes Dr. Kevin McCann, Ike’s former Defiance College president, resting under doctors orders, while Virginia Warren and Honey Bear headlines unfold from a thatched restaurant at Pigeon Point. The piece blends island sighting with showbiz gossip and ambient quotes about engagements, marriages, and upcoming projects.
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Port of Spain
Kevin McCann
Cocoanut Island
B.W
Denver
Pigeon Point
Virginia
Ann Miller
Los Angeles
Stuttering and Left-Handedness in a Case Study
A psychologist describes a case of 11 year old Tommy J with high IQ and emerging stuttering. The piece explains stuttering as a neurotic muscular pattern tied to humiliation, notes left-handed use is not a cause, and offers calm coaxing methods to reduce muscle tension. It discusses a “stutter triangle” and suggests vocal and posture tweaks as quick aids.
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Tommy J
Tommy
Crane
You're Telling Me! Champagne Dandelion Bacon Salad Obscurity
A playful note discusses a French Champagne dish of dandelion and bacon as a favorite and contrasts it with a Soviet scientist experimenting with artificial lightning amid weather worries.
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Champagne
Military Men in News At Home and Overseas
Peggy Kessinger reports on service members assigned domestically and abroad. Pvt John E King of Beckley transitions to Korea with Seventh Infantry Division's 13th Engineer Battalion after basic at Fort Knox. Earl W Sharp departs Bainbridge Naval Training Center for Patuxent River. Pvt James J Shields graduates parachute course at Fort Lee after training at Fort Campbell. Gene S Croy, airman recruit, assigned to Guantanamo Bay after Bain Center training.
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Korea
Seventh Infantry Division
Pvt
John E. King
Frank King
Route 1
Beckley
Army
Fort Knox Ky
Woodrow Wilson High School
Bainbridge
Naval Training Center
E. W. Sharp
Quartermaster School
Fort Lee
James J. Shields
F. N. Stewart
Guyandotte Ave
Mullens
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
Gene $. Croy
Philip S. Croy
Shady Spring
Prayer for Guidance and Neighborliness in Jesus Name
A devotional prayer invoking gratitude for prayer and friendship with God. It asks for the art of listening to hear God's voice, urging patience, courage, and service, signed by Mae E. Hunter in Nashville Tennessee as staff editor at the National Baptist Publishing Board.
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Jesus
Mae E. Hunter
Nashville
Tenn
National Baptist Publishing Board
New York City Excels in Viruses and Weather
A sweeping, humorous column extols New York City for its many viruses and uncivilized weather. It jokes that visitors catch illnesses and that the city hosts a melting pot of climates, mocked as a “world’s melting ground of weathers,” with playful asides about subway life and urban pride.
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New York City
New York
Manhattan
Hollywood
Vine
Broadway
Court Rules End to Segregation in Public Tax-Funded Areas
Washington James Marlow reports the Supreme Court ordered an end to segregation in Maryland parks public playgrounds in Georgia golf courses paid for with tax money. The ruling, while not as sweeping as the 1954 school decision, signals a broad application to any facility funded by public money and valued as a major step in the ongoing civil rights struggle led by the NAACP.
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America
Supreme Court
Maryland
Georgia
United States
High Court
Columbia
S. C
U. S. Court of Appeals
Richmond
South Carolina
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Interstate Commerce Commission
NAACP
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Minn
Milton R. Young
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
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U. S. Supreme Court
Hoosac Mills
U.S v. Butler
C. J. ‘Needy
McQuade
Bill
June
God
Maleigh
Beckley Newspapers Corporation
W. Va
Hinton
Cc. J. McQuade
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Cleveland
Atlanta
San Francisco
West Virginia
Corcine
By Earl Wilson
N.Y
Marlon Brando
Samuel Goldwyn
Jean Simmons
Mr. Brando
Barbara Hutton
U.S
Virginia Warren
Florida
Michigan
Texas
Jerry Geisler
Reno
Miami
By Peggy Kessinger
Patuxent River, Md
Earl W. Sharp
Bessie Sharp
Price Hill
Shields
Fort Campbell, Ky
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Haiti
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