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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1955
Page
5
New York reports the steel industry eyeing price hikes as operating costs climb and demand stays strong. Mills post near record earnings with nine month profits up over 100 percent and call for higher prices to fund expansion and capital needs.
The National Labor Relations Board issued an order for decertification elections at three Perfect Circle Corp plants in Indiana by Nov. 27 to decide if workers at the Hagerstown and Richmond facilities want the UAW to continue as their bargaining agent. The New Castle foundry is not involved. Federal mediators had urged talks in Chicago prior to the ruling.
Bonn West Germany will be without Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for months due to bronchial pneumonia. An inner cabinet will handle duties. Adenauer, 79, expects a full but lengthy recovery. His Christian Democratic party postponed its November convention to early next year, amid talk of a possible third term in 1957.
Lucia Taft 31 a niece of late Chase Taft and granddaughter of former President William Howard Taft was found dead in her Cincinnati home. Coroner aides said death appeared self inflected by knife wound with recent mood issues and care by a New York physician. She attended University of Cincinnati and graduated from Vassar. Her father former U S senator and Cincinnati political figure Robert A Taft was a former president of the National Council of Churches and a candidate for Cincinnati City Council.
Mackinaw City Michigan reports that the rising Straits of Mackinac bridge is providing on the job training for selected engineering students from universities as far away as India. Students are paid for their work and studies at the four mile span linking Michigan's two peninsulas.
The Farmers Almanac, edited by Raymond A. Geiger, continues its cultural role as a nationwide publication while moving from Newark to Lewiston. The 48 page issue, produced with original wood cut artwork, keeps its forecast method and holiday data, with Hart handling astronomical information and Geiger noting forecasts are 75 to 80 percent accurate two years ahead.
Gloria Van derbilt Stokowski, 31, seeks divorce from conductor Leopold Stokowski, 68, in Juarez Mexico for incompatibility of characters. Judge Ignacio Mart nez Aguayo expects to sign decree today or Tuesday. They married in Calexico California on April 21 1945 and have two sons.
Arthur Godfrey has fired more staff amid claims of show improvement. He defends his right to hire and fire without public explanations, drawing mixed public reaction and shifting focus from broader television and radio news.
In Chardon Ohio a 63 year old man Arch R Kimmick and his married daughter May were killed in a head on collision south of town. Each was driving separate errands to places nearby. Arch was en route to a filling station for water after a farm well ran dry. May had left home to buy groceries.
Police seek a hit and run driver after a motorist named Martin Dickinson said the woman who struck his car stopped briefly to offer excuses. She claimed she had no money no insurance and that she was sick before fleeing the scene. The incident occurred in St Petersburg Florida.
The piece shares tables, anecdotes and a joke about a Kentucky man who closed his eyes when drinking. Geiger tests his jokes on family before unveiling one about a Kentuckian whose mouth waters at good liquor. The almanac forecasts a harsh winter ahead.
Rutgers University biologist Dr B P Sonnenblick urges ongoing research to define radiation effects on heredity to make the atomic age safer. He notes opinions vary, some alarmist, but real genetic risks exist. exposure levels that affect populations are known and require caution. Dr A D MacDougall cites Nautilus sub's safe construction with low radiation, noting safety program upgrades at Electric Boat to protect workers.
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