davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1954-05-21
D. {. National Guard Unit
Wins Eisenhower Trophy

A District National Guard unit
has been awarded an Eisenhower
Trophy for outstanding perfor-
nance during 1858.
The Army said today the
Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment unit. under COM
mand of 1st 1t. John H. McAleer.
has been given the award. The
trophy, established in 1948 in
honor of President Eisenhower,
is awarded annually to company
size units. Thirty-Seven such
units won the distinction last
year.
Evening star., 1954-05-21
Pan American Club Eiestu

The YMCA Pan American Club
will hold fiesta at 3 pm. Sun
day in the main gymnasium of
the Central YMCA, 1876 G street
NV. Proceeds will go toward
sending under-privileged boys of
the Washington Area to Camp
Let's for two weeks.
Evening star., 1954-05-21

Club PIons Rustic Dance
The Mems Club of Temple
Sinai will hold a "rustic dance
at $3.50 pm. tomorrow in the
Palisades Field House, Edmunds
and Sherrier places NV.
Evening star., 1954-05-21

Daughter-You love Jackie
more than you do me. You dress
him and make me dress myself.
Mother-Oh, all right. Come
here and I'll dress you.. Now
run outdoors and play.
Evening star., 1954-05-21
Points for Parents ., tdyth. rAens. wo'se.

Mother-When you were q
baby I dressed you and you had
to stay in the house until I could
take you out. Now you are 4,
you dress yourself and can 60
outdoors alone.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
The Truckers Associations
Continued from Page One)

poses the gap would be arger-that s-you John O.
Moort would be paying greater share than the
fair proportion carrying the privilege of
highways The Governors committee recommendations
would make Montana greater paradise for nexpen
commercial transportation, should the legislature ap-
prove them.
Montanas $4,000 automobile today paying
estimated 900 of the S1250O 900 total
being paid each The 5000 trucks railer
buses of all descriptions the balance of fuel
most S600000O Under the Governors committee proposals.
auto would in of million dollars
for of the highways The licenses paid by
automobile pretty much offset the vehicle weight
paid by truckers-or about each
Up to this point might believe that it's pretty fair
shake all with 1914 900 truck
operators splitting about the contributions group
makes to financing highway program. Such is the
Road tests conducted Maryland other prove
concuvey that and tear of highways upwards
50 cent the result of constant the roads heavy
highway destroying monsters; that little
of paved surfaces results from automobile
Investigations conducted by New York, Pennsylvania,
Oregon California illinois and other states concusvey
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

that it takes than three times much money build
mile of highway for heavy truck traffic does for
mobiles pckups and light trucks On that basis them
readily apparent that the current evenSeven contributions
to Monanas highway by the two of
results in Montana motorists paying disproporonae
share of our highway costs.
Other indicate costs the motors 81
cents taxes and fees to ton of his cars weight
100 miles of highway while the operator trucand-
weightmile accommodations Thus looking at the
nua taxfee bill of Montana motorists from another angle
they are paying almost three times much for the of
highways heavy commercial truck operators In view
of the abovepus wealth of other evidence available
how badly the motors stuck provide good
for commercial operatos might not be far fetched
assert that since Montana 900 paying
900 for highway the $4,000 truck
orators should be paying in upwards of $7000 900 their
share to maintain highway system
Thus contention that the Governors committee has of
fered nothing of highway financing which will provide
equitable division of this burden between
and commercial truckers And thus also another contention
that the truckers association couldn't have produced
more senterest set of highway financing proposals than
those arrived at at Mondays meeting the Governors interim
highway committee It's quite bill of goods and really de-
motorists will not be begued by the forthcoming
ganda barage signaed in by the Governors committee and
will show the good electng legislators this fall
that shown in 1862 when the initiative
decisivey defeated at the polls.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
The HeIIs Canyon Story
CONTINUED from Page Three)

demand will increase 40% by 1910.
The outlook is for sharp growth
in fertilizer demand. If the demand
is not met, American farms Will be
less productive, food output will d1-
minish. a poorer Nation will result.
Solution of the phosphate problem
lies in full development of beds in
southern Idaho, containing about gu
per cent of the Nations phosphate
reserves. Studies by government and
industry experts show electric fur
mace treatment of phosphate rock is
the best method for full development
of this natural resource.
Private power rates which now
prevail in the area near the phos-
plate beds are more than double the
price of Hells Canyon power, max
ing electric furnace fertilizer eXpan-
sion economically impossible. Power
from Hells Canyon dam would pro-
vide an ample supply at cost low
enough to permit fertilizer companies
to start development with plant in
vestments of $25 million.
The electric furnace method per-
mits greater concentration of the
phosphate plant-food material. Pro-
duction of high concentrate phos-
phate fertilizer would save farmers
from SIS to $34 per ton of plant
food through lower freight costs. On
the basis of 1850 consumption, farm
ers of the West and Midwest would
save $2O,OOO,OOO annually if the con-
.entrated fertilizer were available.
Saturday is the most dangerous
lay of the week in traffic.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

equally serviceable for heavier trucks
with licensed capacities up to twenty
tons cost about $4,000 per mile"
Truckers are causing a ratio of
deterioration on our highways of six
teen-to-one in comparison with pri-
vate drivers ~. S. SEN. JAMES
H. DUFF, when Governor of Pen
nsylvania.
"a New York state study estimated
that sufficient funds to improve &c.
600 miles of roads for passenger cars
would prepare only 1877 miles for
heavy trucks :"
"The number of understandable
trains has multiplied six or seven
times in some states in recent years.
Obviously the van which is towed
pays no fuel tax, yet it pulverizes the
roads as it passes. And tests in Ore
gon have showed that the gasoline
consumption of the towing truck is
not increased in any degree proper
tiOnate to the weight of the trailer
d. :"
g. Thousands of trucks have
changed to diesel power, which OPP
crates more miles per gallon of fuel
than a gasoline engine of identical
rating. So, although the diesel truck |
is just as capable of cracking concrete
and weakening viaducts, it contrib
1tes less money per mile through the
classic road-financing conduit of the
fuel tax :"
g. During 1949 the New York
State Legislative Committee report
ID that the large motor carriers earn
ID profits of three cents on each ton
nile of freight, contrasted with a re-
urn of less than half a cent for
very ton of cargo carried one mile
y the states railroads"
"One trucking firm operating in
a western state, paid only $94,211
for the use of highways which made
possible freight revenues of ST.
627, 258-or a fee of So per cent,
while railroads must regularly pillow
back 20 per cent of their income
into maintaining and constructing
tracks. :"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
CUT TAXES

Rank and file citizens, including
farmers, won't be helped much by
pairing down excise taxes a little
since they are not big buyers of furs
and jewelry. What would help-and
also give real shot in the arm to
storekeepers-is to increase the in
come tax exemption from today's
5000 to $500, and later to $1,000.
That's what the George Bill, S.2983,
would do. Why not write your Sena-
tors and Congressman? They need
encouragement 1.-THE MEAT OF
IT"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

State Senator Richard Neuberger, in
HARPER'S, October, 1852.
.. For many years the truckers
vehemently denied that they were
breaking up the highways. Then in
1851 the Maryland road tests were
held. Eleven eastern states approp-
rated S246,000 comparatively to de-
termine, once and for all, the impact
of heavy trucks on pavement On a
typical mile of U. S. 3O1, nine miles
south of LaPalta, Maryland, the
trucks wrote their record in broken
slabs and crumbled edges. Vans and
vehicles of various weights and sizes
rumbled back and forth over differ
ent sections of the test strip for six
months. Expert drivers were in the
cabs. Engineers of the Bureau of
Public Roads participated in re-
view of the results.
These showed that truck with an
axle load of 22,40O pounds cracked
a cement slab Sd times more than a
truck with an 18,0OO-pound load
When high titans with twin sets of
rear axles and wheels were used,
44,80O-pound loads did 1913 times as
much damage as 32,000-pound loads
on two axles. After repeated pass
es" by trucks with twin-axle loads |
of "A, 800 pounds, almost all the high
way slabs were cracked
"The Maryland venture underworld
many statements the truckers had
been challenging. 1t tended to sus-
tain the claim of R. H. Baldock, Ore
CONS chief highway engineer and
father of the weight-distance tax,
that "only two factors seriously de-
stroy roads-big trucks and weather."
1t made moderate the California leg
islative committee contention that
heavy vehicles should be held re-
sponsible for about So per cent of to-
tai road COSTS" And it provided pow
erful ammunition for the supporters
Of truck tax. Furthermore, it point
ed finger at the long-distance be-
hemoths which always have been the
real target of a highway tax based
on mileage and avoirdupois :"
he fees and taxes collected for
the use of Americas highways as
sess the owner of four-door Ford
sedan an average of thirty-four
cents to move one ton of his cars
weight one hundred miles over the
open road. The operator of a truck
and-trailer combination sixty feet t
long pays only twelve cents for p
the same ton-mile accommoda tions s
. :" The average motorist 60. a
is paying approximately three times a
as much for the use of the roads 81
as the proprietors of the biggest G
5
"a subcommittee of the U. S. SEN
5e on Interstate Commerce reported -
gently: Experience has shown e
lat an adequate pavement surface l.
carry passenger cars and trucks
} to licensed capacity Of one and
le-half tons may be built for $751; in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

There were $4,000 more persons
injured in u. S. motor vehicle acct
dents last year than in 1862.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14
THESE IkDISPUTABLE HIGHWAY FACTS
CANNOT BE REPEATED TOO Often!

Excerpts from article by Oregon
State Senator Richard Neuberger, in
HARPER'S, October, 1862.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-05-14

"a subcommittee of the U. S. SEN
ate on Interstate Commerce reported
recently: Experience has shown
that an adequate pavement surface
to carry passenger cars and trucks
up to licensed capacity of one and
one-half tons may be built for $751;
600 per mile. Pavement surfaces
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
Thrill-Seeker 1 Trapped By Pretty Blonde

NEW YORK In A pretty. blonde
artist yesterday trapped a. alleged
thriIl-seeking Ronseo who used 2
teIevision prize hoax to get = ner
apartment and measure her l0r .
set of underwear.
The artist, tall. blue-eyed Miss
Dorothy Paris, e. said . man
telephoned her last November ana
identified himself as "Mr. Crow,
of WHMI-Tv, Chicago. "
He asked SIX easy quiz questions,
which she answered, then said she
had won an assortment Of fancy
lingerie and that someone would
call at her home and measure her
for the apparel.
Later, q mr.. Grow" appeared
at the woman's two-rConi Manhat.
tan apartment. Miss Paris was
entertaining friends. The man
measured her waist and len.
The man came to her apartment
again, saying be had forgotten the
measurement. Again friends were
present. Again he measured only
her waist and left.
Then came a third time. The
man telephoned. saying he again
lost the measurement. Miss Paris
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
Parents OF
|Ex-TmncOat
Are Stunned

CRACKERS NECK, Va. sB--The
Van Buren, Dickens0ns, parents oi
Cpl. Ed Dickinson, were stunned,
saddered and bitter about the
news that their son faces possible
court-martial.
The Dickenscns were reached
last night at their home, high on
3 hillside six miles from Big Stone
Gap. by Bristol Herald Courier re.
porter j. S. Riley.
Mrs. Dickinson, in her 40's, al,
most burst into tears.
She said she could not under.
stand why such an effort was made
to persuade Dickinson and other
reluctant POW's in Korea to come
home If they were going to court.
martial him. .
II don't understand what be
could have done to any of them
boys" she said, referring TO the
charge that her 23-year-old son
tried to win the Reds favor Al
the expense Of his fellow prisoners.
THE little fellow is sick" she
added. Hes been splitting up
blood. If they are going to punish
him, why didn't they do it over
there Gin Korea) This worry win
kill us all. !"
The young soldiers 78-year-old
father said:
II they win let me take his
punishment, they can call me and
III be glad TO do it for him
He's no more Communist than
am"
Told his son could face a pos.
sible death sentence, the deaf,
aged man added:
II don't care if I die. I've beer
here a long time
The elder Dickinson indicated he
thought his sons three-year i'm
lprisonnent by the Communists
should have been punishment
enough.
Anyone that will take q little
boy from the mountains and pun.
ish him for three years :. il i:
too much for anyone" he said.
Icy roads made it impossible &c
reach Cpl. Dickenson's bride Of
less than two months for her reac.
ton to the court-martial charges.
At home farther up the noun.
tainside she was spending the
night with her husbands half.
brother, Grover Dickinson, and
his wife.
Only last Thursday the young
woman accompanied her husband
to Bristol, Va, where the corporal
caught a bus to Washington for
treatment at Walter Reed Hosp.
tai. She hasn't seen him since.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
MAYORS PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS. the Vetercns OF Foreign Wcrs Of the
United Sutes puhonc organization comprising some
10000 individual Posts with million hundred thou
sund members win observe its 55sh anniversary during
1854 and
WHEREAS. this organisation wos congressionolly
chartered by and remains group Of Americas finest
fighting who have undergone unusuol hcndships in
every expedition in which the Notion hos portici-
puted since the Spunish-A American Wcu and
WHEREAS. the VIEWS more thon half century of
service to its disabled the widows and
ophuns Of deceased veterons and service men. and its
efforts to keep America strong from within and without
TO deter foreign aggression is indicative Of its love of
fellow nan and country. and na
WHEREAS. this overseas vetercn huternity 10 today
serving its country in peoce did in by SPONSOR
ing and successfully concluding thon 100000 diff
feTent community service projects unnuoY all oimed
at improving communities. stutes and Notion. and
WHEREAS. the WV has in recent yeors won four
consecutive Freedoms Foundation Awurds for its untir-
ing and digent Loyalty Day and similr Americonism
programs. seeking to rid this country Of oil Communists
and other un-Americon groups and PHILOSOPHERS. now
THEREFORE, !. C. B. Hmvey Mayor of the City Of
Key West in the State Of Florida do hereby proclum
and designute the entire week Of JANUARY 1890 1854
os NATIONAL WV. WEEK. and respectfully ask the
entire citzenrY Of this Community render special
tribute 10 the Veterans of Foreign Wus and wish il
godspeed In oil its future endecvors.
Done at the City Eull Of Key West Foridu this 23rd
day Of JunuuY. 1854
c, B. HARVEY.
Mayor.
VICTOR LOWE.
City Clerk
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
Oldham Bids
For Supporters
Of McCarty

TAMPA III. Bradley Oldham
Of SANFORD, campaigning Cor GOV.
ernor, made i bid for supporters
Of the late Dan Afccarty last nisht
and took q verbal swing 1t Acting
Gov. Charley Johns.
Oldham, who was defeated by
McCarty Ii the 1852 primary. tnld
campaign workers from "A Florida
west coast counties In 4 radio
broadcast that iii is 4 continuing
fight for the basic principles that
Dan and | fought for In the las.
campaign"
He said McCarty did q good lob
In the few months he served as
governor before his death last
September.
Johns, he said, will be 4 real
contender for the job" but added
he did not Intend to question Johns
right to run for McCarty's unex-
pred term.
AT another point In his broadcast
Oldham said OF Johns:
That man In Tallahassee Is try.
Ing 10 act like 4 governor and not
doing q very good Job" adding tina
Johns has misused and abused
his power"
Describing action Of the State
Democratic Executive Committee
IN jacksonville recently when It
rejected q plan 10 have candidates
for governor travel In one caravan
and speak from the same platform,
Oldham said:
II talked for five minutes trying
TO convince them that we could
travel together and the lawyer
from Tallahassee Estate Sen. Le-
Roy Collins) made q l5-minute po-
liticaI speech. but Johns did better
than both Of us. He talked to them
the night before.
Oldham said be favors segrega.
ton Ia the educational system and
added that ii segregation is
abolished by law II would call in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23

said he should come over ii !
couple Of hours. She called police
This time. when the man 40,
peared, detective was hidden n
the apartment.
Apparently Miss Paris was
alone. The man suggested more
detailed measurements. Starting
to undress, the woman signaled
the detective. who arrested Roher,
Lane. 81, Of Queens. on a dis,
orderly conduct charge.
Lane is married. father Of one
child. and said he works for !
Manhattan optician.
Police quoted him as saying q
wasn't going TO harm her, / was
just looking for q thrill"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
Humorous Verse
|By Mrs. Rowser
rs In SaiEyePost

Isad0Fe Whitley BoWser, author
and poet. who i the wife Of Capt.
Frank z. B0wser, USN NC, U. S.
has another Of her charming, hum.
|orous verses IN this weeks issue
January ~ Of Saturday Evening
Post.
Mrs. BOwser says she hopes fol-
IIeniency from the local Chamber
of Commerce On the grounds tina:
the verse was written on the hot.
test day Of last summers hotties.
month.
The poem as II appears In Sat.
|urday Evening Post Is.
"unrseensfFuefed Yankee
Say Il Is heaIthful, say II II fun,
But say that I'm tired Of your
tropical sun,
"Of her0ns and gulls, and Il logi.
caiiy follows
IN take some frost and a barn
full Of swallows.
APalms and hibiscus are al that
you swOre,
''3ut somehow / find them a BIZ
Of a bore.
Tropical iungles are never for
me,
"Giye me a scraggly old syca.
more tree.
''You loll in waters Of heavenly
blue,
II leave their shells and their
sand all to you,
my mind is made up. my choice
has been chosen,
I'm take a pond and.
'I'll take II frozeni"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. IN : The
Rock Island Line Rocket left Little
Rock for Memphis without its con.
ductor yesterday.
A message TO Lonoke. Is miles
east Of here. halted the passenger
train for a quarter hour while the
conductor caught up by automo-
bile.
Somebody--not the CONDUCTOR
had pulled the signal cord which
told the engineer to 80 ahead. The
conductor. who was not identified,
was inside the station at the time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
COLD FILLS JAIL

DALLAS, Tex. B--The coolest
night OF the winter here SO far
saw 1872 prisoners--a 3O-year rec
ord--in the Dallas County Jail.
Sheriff Bill Decker, who said
many sought shelter in the jail
voluntarily Thursday night, said
his guest list other nights this
week ranged from 500 to Sos.
The thermometes fell 10 Is de.
grees above Zero Thursday night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23
No Legal ssFirew,iaier''

TOPPENISf, Wash. M = The
Takima Indian nations General
Council voted yesterday against
opening its reservation to legal
'firewater."
Congress last year legalized pur.
chase and consumption of LIQUOR
by Indians wherever 1t was legal
for other persons and authorized
local option on Indian lands.
The councils also. proposed that
the national 1eeisiation be re-
Iversed.
Charcoal will absorb far more
than its own volume of q gas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23

the best legal talent In the state
to see what could be done"
An appeal for campaign dona-
tons brought in more than 81 500.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23

Whalebone whales have enorm-
Gus tongues compared with those
|of toothed whales.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-23

There are two Colorado Rivers in
America. one In Argentina and one
In the United States.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02
ASheville, N. {.
Friends OF ISRAEL

perimenting with modern plays.
Hadassah Hospital has been re-
built and medicine and research
draw scholars from all over the
world.
This is the positive picture Of
which the outside world knows
little, yet perhaps better than
anything it tells the spirit and
hopes of a people. To interpret
it the American-Israel Society
has been established, a non-sec-
tartan, non-political group of
Americans headed by Gov. Theo-
dore r. McKeldin of Maryland
and. including Governor Dewey,
Mrs. Robert Taft, Senator Leh-
man, and a host of writer's, poets,
musicians, social scientists and
others. Support will be voluntary,
its headquarters at the Willard
Hotel in Washington. The worth
Of Al. S. was assayed by Presi-
cent Eisenhower: 'The fostering
of better understanding between
the peoples of the United States
and Israel is clearly in the inter-
est of international peace, and in
this pursuit / wish the society
every success"
We join the salute, and expect
a long and useful life for Al. S.
Tensions may come and go. Gull
tural institutions have a way of
building bridges that endure.
(NeW York Times)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02

In the six brief years OF it's
independence Israel is developing
a whole new literature in music,
the theatre, the dance, the sci
ences, winging up from the shore,
the plain and the desert just as
with the early settlers of Amer
lea. There seems to be break
with the nostalgia formalisms OF
the first immigrants to Palestine
fifty years ago. Literature and
poetry are serious in purpose; one
also finds that the great works of
all countries have been translated
from Shakespeare to Walt Whit
man-to m e ct the hunger for
knowledge and learning. The
youthful Chamber Theatre is ex-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-07-02

Mr.. Max ]. Ezra, national president
Of the Union Of Orthodox Jewish Con-
gregations Of America announced that
the National Convention of the Union
will take place November lila, 1854.
The Convention will be held in Allan
tic City, New Jersey.
Delegates Of 100 Union affiliated
congregations and religious and civic
leaders Of the American Jewish COM
munity will assemble at this historic
Convention under the theme: Three
Hundred Years of Orthodox Progress
in America.
AS the parent body of over 1000
traditional synagogues in this country
and Canada, the UOJCA serves all of
American orthodox Jewry. Through its
various departments, the Unions acti-
vities cover all phases Of Jewish life.
The appointment of Mr.. Reuben
Cross, prominent New York attorney
as National Convention chairman was
also announced by Mr.. Ezra.