Senators Call for Expanded Public Housing Under New Law
Two Democratic senators Sparkman and Humphrey say Congress will authorize more low rent public housing than President Eisenhower recommends. They call the current 35 000 unit per two year ceiling too restrictive and urge flexible year by year decisions. Humphrey proposes at least 75 000 units annually and both seek to eliminate red tape hindering slum clearance and relocation requirements.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Humphrey
D-Minn
Albert M. Cole
Budget Bureau
Proposals Seek Targeted Military Pay Raises
Assistant Secretary of Defense Fred Seaton says pay hikes would be selective and aimed at retaining skilled technicians, not affecting ordinary privates. He urged Congress to approve targeted raises for Air Force personnel needing high training or special skills, while prioritizing overseas housing, medical aid for dependents, and a rotation system over broad raises.
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Washington
Fred Seaton
Seaton
Congress
Air Force
NBC
First Minister To Get Milk
An 18 year old Minnesota farm girl Eleanor Maley will fly to New York then Paris with 48 quarts of milk for Premier Mendes France. One quart from each state and a milk dispensing machine from the American Dairy Association honor Mendes France for promoting milk drinking.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Good Will
America
New York
Paris
Mendes-France
American Dairy Association
Eleanor Maley
Fowls Foul Christmas Fire in Easthampton Ovens
Fire records show three alarms on Christmas Day in Easthampton Massachusetts. Each alarm was for turkeys cooking in ovens.
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Easthampton
Mass
Christmas Weekend Highway Toll Tops Nationwide Deaths
The Associated Press reports a Christmas weekend toll near 370 traffic deaths as of early today, with 355 in traffic and 463 total including fires and other causes. Ohio and Iowa posted record highway fatalities, while California and Texas led traffic deaths. several states reported no highway deaths. A parkin Arkansas tragedy left 11 dead in a kerosene stove explosion amid a string of fatal fires.
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National Safety Council
Ohio
Iowa
California
Texas
Pennsylvania
Los Angeles County
Nebraska
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Rhode Island
Vermont
Wyoming
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Ark
Penn Yan
Year of Peace Seen: Tensions To Continue
Eisenhower cabinet members foresee 1955 as a year of peace with lingering tensions and a stable, prosperous economy. The National Planning Association cautions rising employment only if government and industry boost buying power and production through tax cuts and higher spending.
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Washington
Eisenhower
National Planning Association
Sleening Driver Rams Parked Car Deadly Wreck in Levelland
Levelland Texas morning crash left Preston Peek 20 Midland killed after his car stopped on the roadside. Lonzie Cole 26 O'Donnell said he fell asleep at the wheel and collided head on with Peek's car. Cole and five passengers were injured. Patrolman Henry Crump reported the scene.
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Levelland
Tex
Henry Crump
Army Pfe
Preston Peek
Midland
Lonzie Cole
O'Donnell
Peek
Cole
93 Year Old Casts Opinion on Tobacco And Women
93 year old Thomas N. Camfield, a retired Los Angeles real estate man living at the Jonathan Club, shares views on life, tobacco, alcohol, and romance. He starts with corn cob pipe, stacks cigars, port at breakfast, whisky at dinner, and says never marrying was best. He notes many women but prefers freedom.
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Los Angeles
Thomas N. Camfield
Camfield
Jonathan Club
Mother Held After Stabbing Tragedy In Decatur
Police report a 24 year old mother Dolores Mary DeGalleford Jr was hospitalized after slashing her neck and wrists while her 22 month old son Stephen Russell DeGalleford was found dead at home with 136 ice pick wounds. Authorities say she is under guard as the investigation continues.
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Decatur
Hoke Broom
Dolores Mary DeGalleford Jr
Stephen Russell DeGalleford
Safety Plan Aimed at Irresponsible Drivers on Ohio Highways
In Columbus the Ohio highway safety department announced a January start for an intensive plan targeting the “irresponsible driver.” Safety Director WU Feity said the campaign will use billboards posters and pay envelope inserts to warn of dangerous behavior including drivers likened to potential killers.
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Columbus
Ohio Highway Safety Department
WU. C. Feity
Gunfight on Christmas Ends in S
In Jasper Texas six men were charged with assault to murder after a Christmas Day gunfight between two ranchers and five hunters over a killed hunting dog. Roy Munech of Beaumont died from a rifle wound. ranchers Sterling Garlington and Dolphin Garlington were wounded, as were hunter Charley Ellis and others.
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Jasper
Tex
Tom Mixon
Roy Munech
Beaumont
Mixon
Sterling Garlington
Dolphin
Sterling
Garlingtons
Charley Ellis
Ss Garlington
Dalphin
Dalphin Garlington
Travis Ellis
Gerald Sanford
Richard Morris
Clarence Willingham
Shakeup Probable in House Un American Activities Committee
The House Un American Activities Committee faces major changes as Democrats take Congress. Walter (D Pa) will chair and promises different handling of probes and procedures. Staff shifts loom including Ben Van Fosson an $8200 investigator amid broader personnel upheaval.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
Capitol Hill
Congress
House
Walter
Un-American Activities Group
Ben van Fosson
van Fosson
Air Force
FBI
Perha
Robert L. Kunzig
Republicans
Raphael N. Nixon
Thomas W. Beale, Sr
New Prison Is Advocated
Columbus reports a proposed $10 million medium security prison to be built at Lebanon in Warren County as part of a broader correctional program. The plan envisions relocating the overcrowded Ohio Penitentiary within ten years if funded by the Legislature, with M C Kobientz presenting the proposal to Dr John D Porterfield of the mental hygiene department.
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Columbus
Lebanon
Warren County
State Division of Correction
Ohio
M. C. Kobientz
American Prison Association
John D. Porterfield
Ivy Plant Becomes Moving Hurdle for Evanston Couple
Mr and Mrs Walter Frankowskis face a quirky move as a seven year old rich ivy outgrows their 19 by 22 foot living room and climbs the walls encircling the space. The plant now spans the room ceiling to wall and tests their packing plans for their coming move to a new home.
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Evanston
Ill
Walter Frankowskis
Frankowskis
Tavern Owner Charged With Slaying Patron
Hamilton Ohio tavern owner Hayes, 57, arraigned for second degree murder of patron Vinson Lynch 2. Lynch reportedly forced his wife and mother-in-law to accompany him to Hayes home where he attacked with a butcher knife. Deputy Peters provided the statement.
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Hamilton
Ohio
P —Hobart Hayes
Vinson Lynch
Hayes
Lynch
Bernice Lynch
Holiday Endangered By Rearming Crisis
AUGUSTA Ga If the French Chamber of Deputies rejects the plan to rearm Germany as an equal partner in the Western alliance President Eisenhower may return at once to Washington to grapple with a new world situation If German rearmament is approved Eisenhower will probably stay here in his holiday retreat until Jan 3 working on his first messages to the new Congress and patent a little golf.
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Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Eisenhower
Washington
Congress
Prosecution Says Duty Done In Sheppard Case
Cleveland AP reports Assistant Prosecutor John J. Mahon defends the 1954 second degree murder conviction of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard. Mahon says public duty justified the case. Sheppard laments disregarded evidence of an unknown killer in Marilyn Sheppard’s death.
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Cleveland
Samuel H. Sheppard
Sheppard
John J. Mahon
Marilyn
Richard Sheppard
Mahon
Neighbor Tot Learn Signs In New Neighborhood
In Louisville Kentucky a deaf mute child Delores Schneider moved with her family to a new area. She learned to communicate with local youngsters by studying sign language. Her brothers Joe 15 Eddie 14 are deaf mutes while Lou 17 has normal hearing.
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Louisville
Delores
Joe
Eddie
M Lou
Jign Schneider
Welcome Greek Children Reunite With Father in Salt Lake City
Mike Kateanevas, 66, gathered his six Greek children in Salt Lake City after seven years apart. The father, a janitor at Clearfield Naval Supply Depot, welcomed the holiday reunion and his kids, who arrived by coworkers’ Christmas gift, as they sought practical coats and clothing for a fresh start in America.
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Salt Lake City
Mike Kateanevas
America
Greece
Mike
Clearfield Naval Supply Depot
Crete
Communist Artillery Pounds Nationalists
Taipei Formosa report says Chinese Communist artillery shelled Amoy vicinity and Tatan island near Amoy. National Defense Ministry announced no casualties and no damage from the firing.
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Formosa
Amoy
National Defense Ministry
Tatan
Out Again In Again Waco Drunkenness Roundup
City Judge Q Z Valentine released 25 men on Christmas Eve after drunkenness arrests. By yesterday 10 had returned to jail on the same charge, underscoring ongoing liquor law enforcement in Waco.
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Waco
Tix
Q. Z. Valentine
Senator urges inquiry into Ladejinsky firing in Tokyo
Senator Humphrey calls for a congressional probe into the dismissal of Wolf Ladejinsky, United States agricultural attaché in Tokyo, arguing the action may signal a broader U.S. policy shift in land reform. He questions whether interests behind the firing reflect more than personnel action and notes past U.S. support for Far East land reforms.
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Washington
Humphrey
D-Minn
Congress
Japan
United States
Wolf Ladejinsky
U.S
Tokyo
Ladejinsky
Russia
Douglas MacArthur
Retary of Agriculture
Benson
Agriculture Department
Far East
Ohey
Dulles
Asia
America
State Department
China warns on Formosa and Taiwan liberation
Chou Enlai warned in Peiping that the Chinese will not halt moves to capture Formosa and urged the United States to withdraw all armed forces from Taiwan. Peiping radio quoted the remarks after a consultative conference in Peiping last Tuesday.
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Tokyo
China
Chou Enlai
Jee Ea Chow
Formosa
Peiping
Peiping Radio
Chou
Taiwan
United States
Inland Corp Plans New 51 Mile Pipeline Between Lima and Fostoria
The Inland Oil Co will install a new 51 mile oil pipeline paralleling an existing eight inch line from Lima to Fostoria. It will handle 4000 cars daily and cost 1200 dollars. Jointly owned by Standard Oil Co of Ohio and Shell Oil Co, the project is part of broader expansion including a 37 mile 15 inch line from Fostoria to Toledo started in November and due February completion.
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Cleveland
Inland Corp
Lima
Fostoria
Spahr Mid. Inland
Standard Is. Co. of
Ohio
Shelli Ol Co
Toledo
Christmas Day Crash At Prestwick Studied
Investigators in Prestwick Scotland focus on three tire marks from a transatlantic plane crash that killed several people on Christmas Day as they seek the cause.
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Prestwick
Scotland
Paris Waits for Decision On Germans
The French National Assembly convened to decide Mendes France on West Germany joining NATO and amending ratification for German rearmament. A defeat would topple his government, risking France’s coalition and the Western alliance amid tense protests outside the Bourdon Palace.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Asner Bby
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
London Park
Daughters Succumb To Gas Fumes
A Cincinnati mother prepared services for her two daughters, Bowie Buchwald, 10, and Sarah, 11, who died from carbon monoxide fumes in a newly rented apartment due to an unvented gas heater.
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Cincinnati
Bowie Buchwald
Sarah
Radioactive cockroaches reveal sewer invasion routes
Berkeley researchers report that radioactive cockroaches used in Phoenix sewers traveled up to 200 feet when overcrowded or backed by sewage. In the experiment, 1500 roaches were moved between manholes to study migration, with results varying by temperature and flow.
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Berkeley
Calif
U. S
Phoenix
Ariz
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