Livestock Momentum In Raleigh Area Fueling Rural Growth
Editorial lauds Rural Development Council efforts as beef cattle, poultry, and dairy farming expand from Reckley to Beckley. It notes new Aberdeen Angus and New River Hereford associations, price concerns, and Price Stabilizer Woods planning action to cut retail meat prices amid market imbalances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Development Council
Raleigh
I. B. Thomas
RDC
Livestock Commission
Reckley
RDG
Beckley
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Mystery in Meat Prices Seen As Costly For Households
A rising concern over meat prices prompts a congressional study as housewives struggle to stretch food dollars. Farmers receive less for cattle while slaughter weights and hog prices show declines, yet shoppers still pay around 1.10 per pound for top round steak, indicating a widening gap between producer receipts and consumer costs.
Hoover Advocates Boys Clubs Across Cities
National Boys' Club Chairman Herbert Hoover argues for a club in every town to steer youth from delinquency. He notes 350 clubs already exist serving underprivileged youths with nonsectarian programs, athletic outlets, and hands-on activities, inviting communities to form new chapters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Boys’ Club
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Tod
United States
New York
Fourth Ave
Hydrogen Era Arrives With Ike National Survival Demands Unity
Washington reports the hydrogen era begins as Eisenhower moves to the White House after the hydrogen bomb test. The AEC to announce details and warnings about strategic targets, defense needs, and the need for a strong national effort to outpace the Soviet Union amid rising global tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Pacific
Soviet Union
Saturday Evening Post
Ralph Lapp
Hydrogeners
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Elect Eisenhower
Mustache Myth Sparks Social Mirror In New York
NEW YORK reports on a columnist mused over mustaches as social symbols. He surveys why men grow facial hair, from inferiority complexes to bets, noting a mustache can boost ego yet trigger insecurity. The piece contrasts romantic myths with real motives and ends with a comic self‑examination of failed mustache growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Castor
Prayer for faith and renewal in Harrisburg scene
A brief religious prayer asks for faith, hope, and courage amid confusion. It pleads for a renewed spirit within believers and guidance toward the way everlasting through Jesus Christ. The text attributes the prayer to John S Stamm, a bishop of the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus Christ
John S$. Stamm
Harrisburg
Evangelical United Brethren Church
Military Men in News At Home and Overseas
Military men and families from Beckley area appear in hom e and overseas postings. Charles Heller, fresh from Officer Candidate School at Ft Riley, now to attend Specialist school after a six month quartermaster course. Pvt. William Beckett begins Army basic at Ft Eustis. Three area men join Fifth Infantry Division at Indiantown Gap for basic training. Cpl Joseph Griffith stars on Seventh Army HQ football team in Germany as radio operator. Pfc Paul D Farmer attends Food Service School at Camp Lejeune while awaiting Marine recruit training completion. Clarence Johns returns from Korea aboard USS Princeton and heads to San Diego for boat assignment. Two locals, Stanley Zieminick and Lyle Tucker, complete Marine boot at Parris Island and earn Private First Class ranks. Zieminick earns sharpshooter.
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Beckley
Ft. Riley
Kan
Charles Heller
J. B. Heller
Church St
Quartermaster Corps
Ohio State University
Macy’s Department
New York City
Army
Fifth Infantry Division
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation
Richard M. Janney
Stephen Janney
Crab Orchard
Paul E. Anderson
Benson Anderson
Beaver
Clayton N. Cox
Leonard Cox
Stab Fork
Parris Island
S.C
Stanley C. Zieminick
Mike Zieminick
Mt. Hope
Lyle Tucker
Inez Tucker
Dry Creek
Pfc
Zieminick
Mt. Hope High School
Marksman
Tucker
Mt. View Junior High School
Certiisms By Bennett Ceri St. Clair McXelway
Certi St. Clair McXelway describes critic Walcott Gibbs as highly nervous yet paradoxically unneurotic. He recalls Gibbs recounting a lunch martini mishap that blasted across a bystander. A policeman arrived to find Gibbs dazed and wedged behind a crushed car wheel after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Clair McXelway
Walcott Gibbs
Ike's Europe defense plan at risk in 1953 budget
Paris report notes mounting strain on Lisbon defense goals as Britain and France face shortfalls in 1953 military increments. The piece outlines NATO’s 98 divisions and 10,000 aircraft target, Ridgway’s push to maintain plans, and the clash between prudent budgets and postwar defense needs under President-elect Eisenhower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
White House
Eisenhower
West
Europe
NATO
Lisbon
Matthew B. Ridgway
Britain
France
Atlantic
Ridgway
North
Africa
French Chamber of Deputies
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gruenther
Western
Lord Ismay
Eisenhower Oi
Eisenhowe
Hollywood By Gene Handsaker
Hollywood gossip and reviews by Gene Handsaker highlight stars like Deborah Kerr Jane Wyman Shelley Winters Victor Mature Bing Crosby Ronald Reagan Nancy Davis Cary Grant Donna Reed and Marilyn Monroe. Notes on TV and stage projects The bid for Gisele MacKenzie and actors from High Noon The Four Poster and Dont Bother to Knock are discussed with brief opinions on performances and public reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deborah Err
Jane Wyman
Shelley Winters
Victor Mature
Bing Crosby
Ronald Reagan
Nancy Davis
Cary Grant
Barrymares
Martin & Lewis
Ralph Edwards
Farflung
Socko
Anne Baxter
Annie
O Henry
Charles Laughton
Marilyn Monroe
David Wayne
Red Chief
Fred Allen
Oscar Levant
Hollywood
Donna Reed
Gisele MacKenzie
Marilyn Monrow
Jean Peters
Crosby-Wyman
Bible Words to Live by Love God and Neighbor as Self in Faith
In a reflection attributed to Most Rev. Joseph C. Willging, the Bishop of Pueblo, the piece argues that the command to love God with all and to love one’s neighbor as oneself forms the core of Christian life. It cites Deuteronomy and Jesus, notes Apostolic preaching, and highlights Saint Therese of Lisieux’s “little way of love.”
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John the Divine
Therese of
Lisieux
God
Joseph C. Willging
D. D
Pueblo, Colo
Needs Good First Team in Cabinet Rank
The piece discusses Eisenhower’s likely cabinet picks and factors shaping the choice. It lists possible nominees including Dulles Lodge Carlson Stassen McCloy Hurley Langlie Adams Warren Sommerfield, and weighs geographic balance factional support and executive talent. It notes Taft’s contact and Byrd’s potential involvement while stressing the scale and reach of a cabinet post.
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Arthur Edson
James Marlow
Washington
Dwight D
Senhower
John Foster Dulles
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Harald Stassen
John J. McClo
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Lodge
Senate
Eisenhower
Youre Telling Me by William Ritt at Kansas show
A Kansas art show will feature a painting from President-elect misenhower. It’s praised but expected to be no match for his earlier masterpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ritt
Kansas
Misenhower
Massive two volume novel the largest ever published
Madison Cooper’s Sironia Texas fills two volumes with a sweeping, sprawling portrait of a Texas town at the dawn of the century. The reviewer calls the 1,731 page work a monumental, dense epic tracking countless families and social worlds across births, deaths, love, jealousy, and the edges of big city circles, noting the prose is dull yet relentlessly storyteller-driven.
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Sironia
Texas
Madison Cooper
Houghton Mifflin
Si- Tonia
Caronia
Ramona
Cooper
Pelion
Ossa
Tammas A. Lipscomb
Eliott
Storrow
Rogan
Thaxton
Henderson
Temple
Tinkins
Rasczik
Jackson
Howe
Robert Frost
Amherst
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Associates Press
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Brooks & Finley
Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
Cleveland
Aulanta
Los Angeles
West Virginia
Sa Ion
By Peggy Kessinger
Transportation Corps Replacement Center
Ft Eustis
Pvt
William E. Beckett
Moda Beckett
Seventh Army
Germany
Cpl
Joseph Griffith
Co. Griffith
Edwight
Stuttgart
97Th Signal Radio Company
Marsh Fork
Food Service
Camp Lejeune, N. c
Paul D. Farmer
Evangeline Farmer Garland
Smoot St
East Beckley
Marine Corps
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Calif
Stratton High School
The
Republic Steel Corp
Cleveland, C
Korea
Clarence Johns
W. J. Li Joone
Vanne Drive
Far East
Row Wilson Highclarence
Johns School
Jeffrey Manufacturing and Mine Supply Co
Bennett Ceri
By Joseph and
Stewart Alsop
Gene Handsaker
Department
State
Literary Guidepost
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Protectorate
Guadalcanal
Navy
Knox
League of Nations
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