Vaccine Testing Flaws Exposed by Surgeon General
Surgeon General Leonard Scheele said polio vaccine makers hid bad batches and some live virus passed safety tests. He cited Cutter Labs and University of Utah findings, but announced new safeguards and more vaccine to come, promising reduced paralytic polio as production improves.
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Alton L. Blakeslee
Atlantic City
N. J
Leonard Scheele
Scheele
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Louis P. Gebhardt
University of Utah
Cutter
American Medical Assn
Public Health Service
Texas City Bill Sparks Senate Debate Over Relief
A 60 million dollar Texas City disaster relief bill faced opposition from a Justice Dept spokesman who called it a relief bill for insurance companies. He said insurers would receive about 41 million and urged direct payment to individual claimants up to 20 000 each. Victims and insurers had sued the government after the 1947 Texas City explosions that killed more than 500 people.
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Washington
Texas City
Tex
Justice Dept
Morton Liftin
Senate Judiciary
Payoffs at St. Louis brothel trigger police probe
Reports of payoffs at June's Massage Parlor spark an all out investigation of the St. Louis police amid rising crime concerns. Two inquiries run by a circuit court grand jury and the Police Department probe the payoff charges tied to a fatal April 12 shooting and $14 335 found at the parlor.
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ST. Louis
Board of Police Commissioners
O'Connell
Circuit Court Grand
Police Department
June Alma Lutz
Pauline Cloin
Circuit Atty
Edward L. Dowd
Eisenhower Says Big Four Meet Is Only a Beginning
President Eisenhower told West Point graduates that the impending Big Four conference is only a beginning in a possible generation long peace effort. He warned against expecting a miracle and urged caution, strength at home and with allies, and patient pursuit of peaceful solutions.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
John P. Doyle Jr
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
Doyle
Arlington
N. Y
Free World
U. S. Military Academy
Academy
Four Powers
United States
Public hearings set on game and fish laws for 1955 56 season
The Texas Game & Fish Commission will hold public hearings tonight in Dalhart and Matador with meetings tomorrow in Amarillo Dumas and Memphis at 8 p.m. in county courthouses, except Amarillo in Globe News conference room. Friday nights hearings occur in Canyon Wheeler and Hereford to cover 298 Panhandle counties.
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Dalhart
Matador
Amarillo
Dumas
Memphis
Globe News
Canyon
Wheeler
Hereford
Panhandle
Texas Game & Fish Commission
Game & Fish Department
Game & Fish Commission
Verdict Due On Shooting In Abilene
Judge H F Long withheld a verdict in the fatal shooting of Leroy Douglas 21 an airman at James Connally AFB after an autopsy found two bullet holes in his head. Douglas wounded Officer Bill Olson in Abilene prior to further exchanges with police. Olson was in serious condition.
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Abilene
Tex
H. F. Long
Leroy Douglas
Douglas
James Connally Air Force Base
Waco
Bill Olson
Long
Olson
Councilmen Okay Air Conditioners for Courtrooms
Potter County Commissioners Court approved plans for air conditioners to cool two district courtrooms and county and commissioners courtrooms. Bids open June 27. R M Stewart electrical engineer designed 749 ton units for two district courtrooms and 5 ton units for other chambers. Air cooled equipment used. no plumbing or cooling towers required. commissioners unit listed as an alternate.
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Potter County Commissioners Court
R. M. Stewart
Commissioners
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Petroz
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Texaco
Sony
OLD Surny Brook Company
Louisv Age
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