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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1953
Page
4
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The Middletown Journal reports Dr. Arthur Fleming is certain to succeed U S Senator Robert A Taft. Fleming on leave as president of Ohio Wesleyan University was recently named director of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The governor will appoint Taft’s successor. Fleming is nonpartisan but leans Republican.
Ed Bonn of the State Game Fish and Oyster Commission told Lake Lavon Sportsman's Club stock may start in October or November depending on backwater impoundment. A reader note adds a comment about improving an old car through price knowledge of a 53 model.
President Eisenhower proposed to Congress a plan to add about 10.5 million people to Social Security. Mandatory coverage would include self employed families farm and domestic workers and professionals such as doctors lawyers and accountants. Four million more could join voluntarily. The proposal targets the next Congress session beginning January 1954.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson expands distress wheat loans to Idaho Montana Oregon and North Dakota due to storage shortages. Temporary livestock loan committees are set up in the Southwest growth area. Loans cover 80 percent of the $2.21 support price for 90 days.
Assistant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil said Communist distrust delays U. S. savings from the Korean armistice. He warned cuts likely only after months with limited immediate trims, keeping 3.3 million troops and core weapons programs intact.
Fort Worth Texas leads the nation in annual natural disasters, said William L. McGill state coordinator of defense and disaster relief at the 75th annual convention of the Sheriff's Association of Texas. He cited tornadoes cyclones falling aircraft floods fire wrecks and explosions causing property loss and economic suffering across Texas large land area contributing to the count. About 130 sheriffs attended the first business session at Hotel Texas.
Jasper County sheriff Mixon's official car was taken out of service and put up for sale in a county economy drive. He declined to bid to buy it, and warned that department service would remain available via deputies by telephone. Daily mileage reports on a private car may be submitted if he secures one. County Judge Rawls cited expense cuts. Mixon said the move was not preapproved.
Washington the Census Bureau said Tuesday that total civilian employment reached 63 120 000 in July a record high for the month. Unemployment stood at 1 548 000 one of the lowest July totals on record and jobless were about 400 000 below a year earlier.
Hog prices slid further in Fort Worth and the marketing region on Wednesday. Top hogs sold at 21.50 to 22.00 dollars per hundredweight as prices dropped about 5.25 to 5.75 dollars in two weeks from a July 21 peak of 27.25. Sons faced an additional 1.00 decline to 19.00 per hundredweight.
A rooming house fire at the Avenue Hotel in Texarkana killed eight people and injured three as police searched for an arsonist. Most victims suffocated by smoke after a blaze started shortly after 3:30 a.m. on the city’s main street amid a rash of recent fires.
In Cincinnati the will of the late Senator Taft creates two trusts. 49 percent of assets fund income for Mrs. Martha Taft for life, with later disposal by her. The remaining 51 percent also goes to her for life, then divides equally among sons William Howard Taft III Robert A. Taft Jr Lloyd B. Taft and Horace D. Taft upon her death. Robert Taft Jr named executor and trustee. Will dated June 12 after Taft learned of serious condition.
Bell Telephone Laboratories announces a silicon alloy junction diode as the electronic equivalent of a tiny one way switch. The device acts as a rectifier and is claimed to operate thousands of times faster than mechanical switches, signaling potential revolution in telephone switching and computer tech.
Alabama Rep. Rains says an FDIC treasurer ousted amid a dispute with big New York banks over more than 1 million dollars owed to the government. He alleges a plan by powerful bankers to wreck the FDIC and notes the position was abolished this year after March 1951 tenure.
The article notes steady advances in medical research with many trained people in organized efforts. It says once a drug’s value is proven it is offered to doctors and patients may find relief from chronic conditions through new treatments. Regular physician visits are advised.
DETROIT, Mich. Factory sales of passenger cars from United States plants totaled 3,239,569 in the first half of 1953, the highest six month total on record. The prior first half best was 3,098,858 in 1951, with 1950’s second half peak at 3,571,661. 1952 year total was 2,199,591.
A six year old boy in Southeast Sherman is the 12th polio case in Grayson County this season and the first since July 9. Gamma globulin from the County Health Unit was issued for use in the case. Dr. Frank P. Miller said the attending physician reported the case as light. The unit keeps gamma globulin available for physicians treating polio cases. this is the third time this year a physician requested the drug.
Point Merion Pa plans to market 1953 Christmas cards made of glass. Each dish bears the sender’s name and a Yule tide greeting on the back and can be kept as an ashtray or coaster. The idea followed a trial use of small glass dishes as cards last year.
Dr Edward Spencer Coles, New York psychiatrist and founder of Park Avenue Hospital, told 250 delegates at Neurotics Anonymous first national convention in Pittsburgh that fear is the country’s top scourge, more deadly than cancer or polio, and urged local chapters.
An investigation has been launched into charges that a Houston attorney and a Dallas attorney engaged in unethical practices involving large fees. Heading the probes are Federal Judge Davidson of Dallas and Russel Bonner of Houston.
Bonner said the state case involves $4,150 allegedly stolen from a client after a prison sentence of 15 years was imposed. He also noted a Dallas case where an attorney did not appear in federal court to defend a client after taking $1,500 in fees.
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