Tax Day Looms as 60 Million Pay U.S. Taxes
Washington reports 60,000,000 Americans will pay about 70,000,000,000 in income and corporate taxes by tomorrow. The government notes filing deadlines may shift to April 15, with reforms proposed to ease spring filings. Late penalties run 6 percent annual interest plus extra assessments for unexcusable or fraudulent delays.
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Eisenhower
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Ways & Means Committee
1,000 Die in Indochina Battle Reds Storm French Fort
State police cornered 33 year old Marvin H Vaughn and accomplice Carl Franklin Martin near the Mexican border after they escaped Lordsburg Hidalgo County jail. The two are charged with first degree murder in the Feb 13 shooting of Amos Burgess and kidnapping the wife, with a stolen car found abandoned as a massive manhunt ensued across southern New Mexico.
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Amos Burgess
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Midland
Tex
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Phoenix
Ariz
Bill Lynn
Lynn
Martin
Rebels Shell Dien Bien Phu In Devastating Assault
Vietminh rebels launched repeated assaults on the Dien Bien Phu fortress in Indochina. French defenders repelled each attack, with over 1,000 killed or wounded reported on the battlefield. The fighting spanned overnight, as Asian peace talks loomed.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Plane crash near Galveston prompts tractor interference
A light plane crashed near Galveston on March 14. No serious injuries were reported. When Raymond Grant and Hollis Roundtree approached the wreckage, a farmer arrived on a tractor and asked them to move the plane so he could plow the field tomorrow.
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Galveston
Raymond Grant
Hollis Roundtree
President Eisenhower to Address Nation On TV And Radio
President Eisenhower will speak for 15 minutes tomorrow night to support the administration line on personal income tax cuts. The address airs 8 to 8:15 PM CST on NBC ABC and Dumont TV and ABC radio, with CBS TV carrying at 10 PM and CBS radio at 8:30 PM.
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Eisenhower
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Dumont
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CBS Radio
City News Roundup for a Changing Political Front
Jack King Jr withdrew from the 93rd State Representative race in favor of Amarillo businessman J Edgar Wilson. The Amarillo traffic department reports February had the best accident record in five years, with young professionals and businessmen most affected. Delegates from the North American Baptist Association begin arriving for a 3000-plus attendee national meeting. John DeBoer Cummings resigns as assistant rector of St Andrews Episcopal, to become rector in Redlands California.
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J. Edgar Wilson
Amarillo
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John DeBoer Cummings
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
Cummings
Episcopal Church
Redlands
Cal
Golda Unkefer Keeps Mill Grinding in Oklahoma Hills
Golda Unkefer, longtime miller near Tahlequah Oklahoma, recalls her rise to running a 100 year old water mill in Cookson Hills. She jokes about Groucho Marx on a May TV program and ties her culinary memories to corn bread and fish dinners from her California years.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho
Golda
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Tahlequah
Okla
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Youngers
Ned Christie
California
University of Oklahoma
Golden State
Weather snapshot shows mixed clear and partly cloudy states
Data lists cities including Houston Dallas Oklahoma City and Amarillo with sky conditions mainly partly cloudy to clear. Reported mph wind readings vary and temperatures range around mid teens.
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Dallas
Okla
City
Amarillo
Tornadoes Kill 8 Injure 70 in Georgia Storms
Severe tornadoes struck central and western Georgia late last night causing eight deaths and about 70 injuries with damage estimated at 23 million dollars. Macon and Columbus areas suffered most with multiple fatalities and hundreds injured. Lawson Air Force Base near Fort Benning also affected.
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Fort Benning
Atlanta
Georgia
Macon
Lawson Air Force
Ft. Benning
Alabama
Lawson
Linda Desmer
James T. Joyner
Bobby T. Robinson
Dublin
Gov Shivers and education leaders urge compromise pay plan
Gov Allan Shivers State Education Commissioner J W Edgar and Kate Bell head a joint call for the legislature to adopt the compromise teachers pay boost as a solution to Texas school funding. The special session aims to provide a $402 base pay raise, revise finance ratios, and consider anti Communist laws amid statewide needs.
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Allan Shivers
Texas
J. W. Edgar
Kate Bell
Texas State Teachers Assn
Shivers
Reuben Senterfitt
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Weather forecast indicates fair and warm conditions across Amarillo and vicinity for Monday and Tuesday. Highs around 63 degrees, lows predicted as 36 degrees Sunday night. West Texas remain fair and warm with Monday conditions, Tuesday turning partly cloudy and mild.
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West Texas
McCarthy Claims Secret Witness in Army Probe
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy announced a secret witness who can corroborate his charge that Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens offered dirt to halt his Army probe. He said no other committee will control his subcommittee’s hiring and firing and invited other committees to observe while defending Roy Cohn and G. David Schine.
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Robert T. Stevens
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Air Force
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Stevens
Appleton
Wis
Wisconsin
National
Roy M. Cohn
Senate
David Schine
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Senate Armed Services Committee
Cohn
Tropical fish and aquariums sale success
Mrs. E. C. Boynton of 704 North Pierce placed a classified ad for tropical fish and aquariums. Her ad ran late the first day and seven aquariums were sold before it ended, with much of the stock already promised. The ad listed Reason able at 704 North Pierce and 23414.
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E. C. Boynton
North Pierce
Tropical Fish & Aquariums
Reasonable
King withdraws from 93rd District race in Texas
Jack King Jr a Texas District 93 candidate from Potter County withdraws to back Amarillo businessman J Edgar Wilson Wilson announced for the office Saturday King who will be released from the Air Force next fall plans to enter the University of Texas School of Law He is the son of Mr and Mrs Wes King Sr of 1822 Washington Street Jackie H Fleming a UT student remains in the race joining Wilson.
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Potter County
Jack King
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Shreveport
US Air Force
J. Edgar Wilson
Amarillo
Wilson
Air Force
Senate GOP Pushes Fast Clash Over McCarthy Army Probe
Senate Republican Leader Knowland urged an intensive one day closed session to resolve the McCarthy Army probe dispute. He named Sen. McCarthy and Sec. of the Army Stevens for questioning as a nationwide debate over investigating methods and the handling of communism raged. The week saw Nixon and Stevenson weigh in while McCarthy pushed for clear answers on ex-Maj. Peress and Red probes.
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Eisenhower
Cohn accuses Army of using Schine as bargaining chip
Roy Cohn, chief counsel for the Senate investigations subcommittee, again charged top Army officials with using Pvt. G. David Schine as a bargaining point to halt probes into Communist infiltration. He denied Army claims that he sought special favors for Schine, saying only a few officials tried to stop the investigation.
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