From A to Izzard MA' wit Moscow Says It's Okay To Be Nice
A U S News & World Report anecdote shows a Washington businessman greeting the Soviet ambassador who then airily proclaims a new policy to like you. The piece contrasts neighborly gestures with official hostility and cites a Wall Street Journal lunch with Anatoli Dobrynin discussing coexistence and economic competition.
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Moscow
Wall Street Journal
Ray Cromley
Washington Reporter
Anatoli F. Dobrynin
Scrabble and doodles spark paper notes and questions
Reader letters reveal a four handed Scrabble game at the Ike Quickels ranch near Bovina with Walt White scoring 224 as he doodled, plus a legal curiosity on opening car doors on the traffic side and a calorie definition. The column includes a cartoon clipping about street baths and a remark about elderly men working.
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Ike Quickels
Bovina
Walt White
Mr. Quickel
Mr. White
Hot Springs
Rayburn vows harmony as 84th Congress opens
The 84th Congress starts with Democratic control and Speaker Rayburn pledging to work with President Eisenhower. He rebukes harsh GOP rhetoric from 1954 and promises not to indict opponents en masse while stressing bipartisan cooperation. Continued on Page 2.
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Rayburn
Rogers proposes seven bills as new Congress begins
Rep Walter Rogers introduced seven bills in the 84th Congress including a plan to raise individual income tax exemptions from 600 to 1000 dollars and dependents' exemptions from 600 to 750 dollars. The article notes that many bills fail to become law despite heavy filing.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Daily News
Washington
Washington, DC
Walter Rogers
Congress
Rogers
Texans Assume Top Positions
Rep. Sam Rayburn of Bonham became speaker of the House in a 226 to 198 vote and Lyndon Johnson took oath as Senate majority leader. Five new House members were sworn in, including Bruce Alger, J T Rutherford, James C Wright Jr, John Bell, and Joe Kilgore. Rayburn turns 73 Thursday.
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Ernest Coniie
Daily News
Washington
Washington, DC
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Congress
Rayburn
House
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Senate
Price Daniel
U. S
Texas
Bruce Alger
Dallas
J. T. Rutherford
Odessa
James C., Wright Jr
Weatherford
John Bell
Cuero
Joe Kilgore
McAllen
Land Board Eyes Future Veterans Sales Curbs
Texas land officials led by J Earl Rudder review proposed deals within the 100 million dollar veterans land program. With Bascom Giles stepping down New Year’s Day, Gov Allan Shivers and Attorney General John Ben Shepperd join the scrutiny as investigators probe multiple or block sales under the easy pay plan.
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Austin
J. Earl Rudder
Veterans’ Land Board
Allan Shivers
John Ben Shepperd
Eagle Eye
Bascom Giles
Giles
Rudder
U N Secretary Hammarskjold to Meet Chou Over Airmen Release
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrives in Peiping and is set for talks with Red China Premier Chou En Lai on the release of 11 American airmen jailed as spies. The mission follows a U N Assembly resolution urging release of all detained personnel from the Korean War. Hammarskjold plans to focus on prisoners with possible return to U N.
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Washington
En-lai
Hammarskjold
Peiping
U. N. Assembly
U. N
Red China
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Chou
United States
Assembly
Congress Faces These Problems
Washington AP outlines major issues for the 84th Congress including military manpower tax policy and reciprocal trade. Timetable shows State of the Union January 6 and a series of presidential requests on pay raises budget public housing highway construction and health programs.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Dixon-Yates Power
Geiger Men Are Ranchers
Fort Worth report on uranium prospectors crossing Texas ranch lands since 1919 law. Landowners may lease land for oil and gas with a state royalty, but uranium mineral rights belong to the state, allowing private hunts without trespass concerns. Prospectors use Geiger counters and scintillators to locate ore for atomic bomb production.
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Fort Worth
Geiger
West Texas
Oliver Fannin
Weather Summary for Amarillo and Surroundings 1955
The report notes Amarillo had four sunny days in five in 1955. Comparisons at 3 PM show Houston at 17 mph wind, 15 miles visibility and cloudy skies. Oklahoma City at 22 mph wind, 15 miles visibility and cloudy skies. Amarillo at 11 mph wind, 15 miles visibility and clear skies.
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Amarillo
Houston
Okla
City
Order on GI Benefits Is Under Attack
President Eisenhower’s order curtailing some future veterans benefits faced new bills in the House. Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers proposed a measure to overturn the order, while Rep. Teague chaired a bill to let current service members keep accruing education benefits at the present rate. Teague also floated a bill for free college education for about 100,000 children of deceased servicemen.
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B. B. Cantrell
W. 8. Dickey Clay Company House Organ
Amarillo
Texas
Dallas
Kokomo
New York
Washington
Eisenhower
House
Edith Nourse Rogers
Rmass
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Rep. Teague
D-Tex
Teague
Rogers
Panama Authorities Hold Two Americans In Remon Killing Probe
Panama authorities hold two Americans for questioning in the search for the Remon assassination suspects. Lipstein, 34, a former Los Angeles teacher, and Roy Bettis, 36, from Waukegan IL, a radio repair shop owner, are incommunicado and questioned after arriving from Caracas on the day of the attack that killed President Remon and injured others.
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Panama
Jose Antonio Remon
Martin Irving Lipstein
Los Angeles
Roy Bettis
Waukegan, Ill
Canal Zone
Lipstein
Caracas
Venezuela
Remon
Eisenhower Defends Defense Plan Aimed at Economy
President Eisenhower outlined a national defense program centered on industrial strength and technology to deter attack without overburdening the economy. He urged Congress to cut armed forces to about 3 million by June 30, with Air Force up and overall forces near 2.85 million for 1956, sparking debate over military reductions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Wilson
Congress
Stock Selloff Hits Markets After Margin Hike
A broad stock market decline followed a margin increase from 50 to 60 percent by the Federal Reserve Board. Major declines hit Kennecott Copper, Amerada Petroleum, General Motors, Du Pont, Westinghouse, Chrysler, and Bethlehem steel as trading volume surged to 4.64 million shares. The AP average fell to 152.40.
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Associated Press
Kennecott Copper
Amerada Petroleum
General Motors
du Pont
Westinghouse Electric
Chrysler
Cleveland Electric Illuminating
Bethlehem
U. S. Steel
Republic Steel
Reserve Board
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Izzard
U.S. News & World Report
Counselor Dobrynin
Cromley
Dobrynin
Jack Smith
An Izzard
House of Representatives
Bernard Braskamp
Jan
Weather Bureau
Cisercess
Esvscsens
Rep
Panhandle
Oklahoma
Lubbock
Dalhart
Tucumcari
Page
Childress
Hobart
la Junta
Garden City
Clayton
Clovis
Guyman
Albuquerque
Roswell
U.N
Francis W. Carpenter
United Nations
N.Y
Dag Hammarskjold
An. 5
Amarillo Daily News
OLPD
Martha Mason
Ike
Wolf Ladejinsky
Tokyo
Foreign Operations Administration
Harold Stassen
Viet Nam
FDA
Carlos Escudero
Munsee
Steven V. David
Federal Reserve Board
Wall Street
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