Water Issue Threatens Upper Colorado River Development
The Upper Basin states Colorado New Mexico Utah and Wyoming seek a fair share of power and water from the upper Colorado River. The Colorado River Storage Project approved 214 to 1 in the U S Senate faces opposition from California groups. Distinct entities include the Colorado River Association of California Dinosaur National Monument Council San Francisco and the National Council of Conservationists New York. The project costs 1.6 billion dollars with six dams and 15 participating projects. It promises water for 5 million people and 7.1 million acres of farmland plus recreation and reclamation benefits. Opponents argue it would damage a national park and raise costs. California would still receive its entitled flood waters while the four states gain productive growth potential.
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Colorado
New Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Colorado River
U S. Senate
Colorado River Association of
California
Dinosaur National Monument Council
San Francisco
Calif
National Council of Conservationists
New York
Bureau of Reclamation
Bureau
U.S. Treasury
Dinosaur National Monument
Secretary of the Interior
Federal Power Commission
RMC
Nation of participants shifts barbershop talk to outdoors
The piece notes barbershop conversations about fishing and politics show Americans turning from spectators to participants. With more leisure time and labor saving devices, outdoor activities like fishing and boating are booming and city life yields to nature as the pleasurable focus.
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America
Be Cheerful and Embrace a Cheerful Life
The text urges using our versatile nature to choose cheerfulness rather than accepting fate. It argues that a cheerful attitude improves friendships, opportunities, and daily burdens, creating a wholesome environment at home and work. Carlyle's quote highlights cheerfulness as strong and enduring.
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Carlyle
Financing Highway Program Faces Senate Resistance
Washington reports the Gore bill would fund a national highway system but lacks financing. The Senate rejected Eisenhower’s bond proposal, raising the debt ceiling debate while projecting 8 billion dollars for interstate work and 90 to 95 percent federal funding.
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Bascom N. Timmons
Daily News
Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Gore
House of Representatives
Remembering Omaha and Utah Beaches by Julien C Hyer
A wartime meditation recalling the D-Day landing on Omaha and Utah beaches with biblical reflections. The poem honors courage and sacrifice, noting landing craft, strafing planes, and the heavy toll borne by soldiers, urging remembrance of grim warfare lessons.
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Omaha
Utah
Visiting teacher Lydia Randle retires after 12 years in Portales
The Portales Daily Tribune notes Lydia Randle resigns as visiting teacher for Portales Public Schools after a 12 year tenure. She bridged school and church efforts to aid absent children, arranging meals and support, and urged education value to parents plus community volunteers.
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Daily News
Portales
N.M
Lydia Randie
Randle
Portales Daily Tribune
Roosevelt County
First Baptist Church
Red Diplomatic Offensive Takes Far Reaching Strides
Moscow presses a coordinated push to shape Europe and Asia via diplomacy. The West faces a crucial test as the Soviet Union and allies seek to define coexistence, with Germany Italy and Japan as pivotal theaters and Yugoslavia and Poland as pressure points.
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William L. Ryan
West
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Tito
Yugoslavia
Italy
Christian Democrats
Pietro Nenni
Nenni
Russia Demonstrates Planes Superior to U S
Washington correspondent Roscoe Drummond argues that the Eisenhower administration may downplay Soviet air power to curb defense spending. He cites Moscow overflight of long range bombers, intelligence warnings of Soviet prototypes, and Hoover Commission calls for faster R D in defense. He cautions against underestimating Soviet capability and urges quicker decision making.
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Roscoe Drummond Washington
Eisenhower
White House
U. S. Air Force
Moscow
U. S
Washington
Pentagon
Soviet Union
Defense Department
Russia
New York Herald Tribune Inc
Golden age songs chosen by 370 musicians span 1923 to 1933
Listing ten top songs from the 1923 33 period includes Tea for Two My Blue Heaven and Ol Man River among selections. Notes comment on secretary humor Voltaire quote and wage laws for married women with copyright credit to King Features Syndicate 1955.
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E. V. Durling
Woma
Georgia
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Time for fading and other Broadway notes
Martin Gabel and Arlene Francis toured London and eyed a bronze fade shoe color at John Lowh bootmaker while the salesman warned it would take thirty years. Phil Silvers recounts baseball devotion ending after realising stars never sent opening night wires. Adlai Stevenson met a lion in Africa shown by John Gunther with a Nairobi colonel warning visitors to stay in their autos. Nancy Berg explains dating many men to form a composite ideal. Jimmy Gardiner builds a new home with a raised stage for his Plain and Fancy venture backing auditions.
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Martin Gabel
Arlene Francis
London
John Lowh
Gabel
Phil Silvers
Broadway
Joe DiMaggio
Adlai Stevenson
Africa
John Gunther
Gunther
Nairobi
Jimmy Gardiner
MayMonth alert for Washington top officials and jokes
Cedric Adams notes an imminent Washington operation alert requiring all top government personnel to simulate city evacuation. He adds lighthearted quips about keeping secrets, Joan Crawford's small honeymoon luggage, and a May arthritis relief tip, plus local pie shop rivalry and uranium stock chatter.
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Washington, D.C
Joan Crawford
Allen
Gaylord
Minn
Silver Lake
Joan the Gaylord
Crawford
Public notices and local notes from Amarillo edition
C S Makeig returns to Amarillo as Southwestern Public Service manager after three years away in Roswell and New Iberia. Ellwood Park ice cream water affects grass as City Forester notes. Kathryn Farwell to return from Cottey College with straight A grades. Ingeborg Kilstoffe and Floyd Cooper attend National Conference for Social Welfare in Grand Rapids Michigan.
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C. S. Makeig
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo
Roswell
Public Service Company
New Iberia
Ellwood Park
City Forester
Temp
Kathryn Farwell
Jim Farwell
W. 16Th
Cottey College
Nevada
Kathryn
Ingeborg Kilstoffe
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Lucius D. Clay
Timmons
Julien C. Hyer
Peggy Robertson
Lydia Randle
Germany
Berlin
Poland
Moldavia
Bukhovina
Baltic States
Finland
Japan
Red China
U.S
Hoover Commission
Matster
DURLING + LYONS
Adams
Voltaire
Manhattan
Tfonard Lyons
Nancy Berg
Nancy
Cedric Adams
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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