Farming Exports Reach Record High in 1961
The United States remained the top world exporter of farm products for fiscal 1961. ERS put farm exports at a record 946 million dollars, up 9 percent from the prior year and 5 percent above the 1956-57 peak, with exports financing and moving 41 million long tons of cargo. Agricultural exports accounted for about one-sixth of U.S. farm income.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
ERS
U.S
Farm Bureau Leaders Open Three Day Conference
Western farm leaders open a three day conference at the Hiway House in Phoenix. Charles B. Shuman president of the American Farm Bureau Federation leads top agriculturists to discuss the 1962 legislative and marketing program. State Farm Bureau executive secretaries from Arizona California New Mexico Nevada Utah and Colorado attend.
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Phoenix
UPI
Hiway House
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Credit Bureau Operator Faces Bribery Charge
FBI arrested Cleveland credit bureau operator Philip Leo Lubin in Baltimore on a federal bribery charge for offering a Social Security Administration employee a bribe to obtain confidential Social Security files. Lubin, arraigned on $7,500 bond, planned to bribe another SSA worker and used a Baltimore directory to target names while in Cleveland.
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Baltimore
UPI
FBI
Cleveland Credit Bureau
Philip Leo Lubin
Social Security Administration
Lubin
Chesterland
Ohio
U.S
H. Allen Mezger
Foward J. Powers
Opere Retail Service
Cley
Dundalk
Powers
Cleveland
Sabin Oral Sundays Vaccination Drive Details
An article outlines Sabin Type I polio vaccine public information sessions on January 14 and 21, with questions about eligibility and cost. It says doses cost 25 cents, with free vaccine for those unable to pay, administered as three drops in the mouth via an eyedropper. It notes tasteless delivery and no side effects, and explains the registration form and quick inoculation. A separate UPI item reports a six month old boy’s death from rat bites in St John’s Newfoundland, with an identical twin in critical condition.
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ST. Johns
Nfld
UPI
John O’brien
Durante Refuses To Disclose Mrs Calabash Identity
In a Los Angeles burglary trial comedian Jimmy Durante refused to reveal the identity of Mrs Calabash under oath. Defendants Charles L Pendergraph and Roscoe L Porter faced charges of receiving stolen items from Durante’s home as prosecutors showed recovered valuables including a silver dollar key and gold cufflinks.
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Jimmy Durante
Mrs. Calabash
Los Angeles
UPD
Charles L. Pendergraph
Roscoe L. Porter
Durante
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