Ike’s New Horse Gift Echoes Amarillo Dynami te Tale
The piece recalls Dynamite the Amarillo gift to Postmaster General Jim Farley on May 17, 1939 during a dedication of a new post office. The big white quarter horse was renamed Dynamite and later shipped to New York for President Eisenhower, to be ridden by 10-year-old Jimmy Farley in Central Park.
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Ike
Texas
Eisenhower
Dynamite
Amarillo
Jim Farley
Farley
Troy Whatley
Mason King
Court House
MR. Farley
New York City
Jimmy Farley
Central Park
Parson Hotel Displays Citizen of the Week Photo
Dean Roberson visits Parsons Kansas and notes civic spirit in action at the Parsonian Hotel lobby. A large lighted photo honors a weekly Citizen of the Week chosen by local civic clubs, with 52 honorees annually and coverage in the paper.
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New Parsonian Hotel
Parsonian
Hiring an Expert Delights Do It Yourself Era
A humorous look at work culture notes many believe 250000 vice presidents exist in US industry with one bank housing 146. An employment service man recalls a job applicant claiming responsibility after every mishap and a Washington sign warns drivers of a 25 mph limit with a $3 per mile fine.
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Loren Young
Washington State
Bushland Sets Open Meeting On Negro Boy
Bushland School schedules an open meeting for Tuesday night to discuss enrolling a Negro boy. The district, which adopted integration at its August meeting, faced protests from a Bushland delegation led by Jim Line who urged a public vote and accused the board of not consulting residents.
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Daily News
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Consolidated Common School District No. 4
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Tax Man Wants Humphrey To Check Records
Former IRS official Edgar E. Hoppe, now a Dallas tax attorney, says he was fired for political reasons and challenges Treasury Secretary Humphrey to find no derogatory record from his 24 years in federal service. He seeks 26832 in back pay after losing his post as chief of the inspection department for exposing alleged derogatory information about a still unnamed high official.
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Internal Revenue Service
Treasury
George Humphrey
Washington
Humphrey
Edgar E. Hoppe
The
Revenue Service
Will Rogers Range Riders arena hosts roping rodeo ceremony
Action and ceremony opened the Will Rogers Range Riders arena with a two and a half hour rodeo featuring a wild horse race. Cowboys and animals clashed amid cheers as Jim Lee and Ike Chavee steadied mounts and rode the arena length. Prizes were awarded to Hockley County and Lamb County Sheriff's Posse teams.
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Daily News
Will Rogers Range Riders
Jim Lee
Plainview
Ike Chavee
Hockley County Sheriff's Posse
Lamb County Sheriff's Posse
Truman accuses admin of crippling national defense
Former President Harry S. Truman told the Executives' Club of Chicago that the Eisenhower administration is crippling national defense to reduce spending and balance the budget before the 1956 elections. He criticized cutbacks in Army ground forces as unjustified and dangerous.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
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Truman
Eisenhower
Phantom farmer frees 25 prisoners in Portales
A man identifying as Birk Graham released 25 prisoners from Albuquerque City Jail to work in broomcorn harvests. Roosevelt County records show no such person, while 17 of the freed inmates later praised as workers. Judge Sceresse plans to hold further releases only after review.
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Roosevelt County
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Grahame
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Sceresse
Radford Says No Defense Cuts Planned
Adm. Arthur W. Radford told President Eisenhower and reporters that U S military security is strong and no basic defense spending cuts are planned this fiscal year He rejected Truman claims of unjustified cuts and asserted the U S defense program remains sound and secure
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Arthur W. Radford
Eisenhower
U.S
Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
Chicago
Bold U S Plan to Reunite Germany and Secure Europe
The United States drafts a 14 nation security treaty to defend a potential reunited Germany and deter Soviet aggression. Britain and France discuss the plan with US draft. fate depends on Geneva talks and Russian cooperation. Western members include US Britain France Italy Canada Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg. Eastern side lists Russia Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Hungary.
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Germany
Europe
Soviet Bloc
State Department
France
Italy
Canada
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Hungary
Troops Aid in Battle Against Forest Fires
California forest fires spread over nearly 30 000 more acres as the federal official called the outbreak catastrophic. The Armed Services sent 1 800 more troops to assist, including 500 Marines to Los Padres and 1 500 on lines around the 68 000 acre Haystack fire with soldiers, Navy Seabees, and Zuni Indians. Fort Lewis troops were due at Yreka.
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California
Klamath National Forest
Armed Services
Los Padres National Forest
Santa Barbara
New Mexico
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Yreka
Haystack
Adenauer Presses Release of German Prisoners in Moscow
In Moscow Adenauer linked normalizing West Germany relations to freeing German prisoners held in Russia. He told Soviet leaders that peace requires release of detainees and an end to Germany’s division. Neues Deutschland claimed an Aug. 22 agreement to free most prisoners.
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Russia
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Kremlin
Germany
Berlin
Neues Deutschland
East Germany
Nikolai Bulganin
NATO
Faulkner Links Till Slaying to U S Cultural Threat
Nobel Prize writer William Faulkner, visiting Rome, argues the Emmett Till killing in Mississippi threatens American culture. He contends the slaying by two white men underscores a broader danger to moral order and national identity.
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William Faulkner
Mississippi
U. S
Emmett Till
Chiesse
Rome
America
Faulkner
White survival and justice in America, Faulkner argues
In a United Press dispatch from Rome, William Faulkner urges that America's survival depends on all Americans, white and black, uniting against racial violence. He warns that systemic cruelty toward a Black child in Mississippi reveals a national crisis, asking if the nation deserves to survive.
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Mississippi
America
Pearl Harbor
Boer South Africa
Bayonet Fatal to Husband in San Antonio
Mrs. Jessie Bradshaw, 60, held by police on murder charges after her husband Martin Bradshaw, 55, was stabbed to death with a bayonet at an ice house following a quarrel. Police quoted the wife saying he was "running around" with another woman. Bradshaw owned a cafe.
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Jessie Bradshaw
Martin
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