Governors urge congress to create intergovernmental tax study commission
Three governors Lane of Maryland Knolls of Colorado and Driscoll of New Jersey urged Congress to form a commission to study intergovernmental relations with focus on overlapping taxes and duties. Senator O Conor warned the federal tax system risks economy while states note revenue loss from federal overreach.
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Washington
Congress
Governors Lane
Maryland
Knolls
Colorado
Driscoll
New Jersey
House
Senate
Executive Expenditures Committee
O'Conor
D-Md
Kerrville Police Quit Under Fire
Kerrville City Council moved to recruit a new police force after all but one member resigned. Traffic Officer Henry E. Thompson was named chief. City Manager Burrow stated resignations followed incidents tied to Police Chief Hobbs and Officer Gibson along with another officer after a federal livestock inspector was arrested for parking in a prohibited zone.
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Kerrville
Henry E. Thompson
R. Stevens Forest
L. R. Burrow
Forest
W. M. Hobbs
Lawrence Gibson
G. E. Lehman
Hobbs
Gibson
Missing Girl Case Ties to Atomic Spy Probe
The House un American Activities Committee plans May 24 testimony on Juliet Stuart Poyntz disappearance linked to an earlier murder mystery. Paul Crouch, a Miami journalist, is subpoenaed to discuss Poyntz and an alleged atom secrets source X. Also to testify are Steve Nelson and three UC Berkeley scientists.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
New York City
Juliet Stuart Poyntz
Paul Crouch
Miami
Fla
Communist Party
Poyntz
Russia
Crouch
Miami Daily News
International Labor Defense
East River
Steve Nelson
Pittsburgh
Radiation Laboratory
Bids Set for $10 Million Texas Housing Projects
Army Engineers will open bids in late June for more than $10 million in Texas military housing. Major projects include 232 units at Camp Hood estimated $3.4 million, plus 120 units at Camp Hood and 56 at Randolph AFB. Additional units planned at Lackland AFB Bergstrom AFB and Carswell AFB. Construction to start early summer.
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San Antonio
Texas
Army
B. L. Robinson
Galveston
Charlies M. McDaniel
Camp Hood
Randolph Air Force Base
Lackland Air Force Base
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Carswell Air Force Base
Fort Worth
Strides In Deaf Fight Described At University of Texas
Warren Creel of Minneapolis spoke at the University of Texas Speech Clinic about a decade of progress in preventing and treating deafness. He cited growth in hearing aids and test meters, and noted a shortage of trained teachers for deaf education despite rising demand.
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Warren Creel
Minneapolis
Maico Hearing Aid Company
University of Texas Speech Clinic
Creel
Southwestern University
Concordia
San Marcos State Teachers College
Austin
R. H. Bayer
Maico Hearing Service
Nueces Street
Prince Louis II Dies at 78 in Monaco
Prince Louis II of Monaco died Monday at age 78 after handing duties to his grandson Prince Ranier who is 25. Monaco spans about six tenths of a square mile with the famed Monte Carlo casino as a key income source. Ranier, a former French Army lieutenant, succeeds him after Charlotte renounced her succession rights in 1944.
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Monaco
Prince Louis II of
Louis
Prince Ranier
Principality of
Prince Alberto
Mediterranean
Alpe Maritimes
France
Monte Carlo
Charlotte
Three Children Die As Fire Sweeps Home
In Muscatine Iowa on May 9 a fire destroyed a two room temporary dwelling of Neil and Mrs Haynes. Their mother, using a neighbor line, was burned and hospitalized after attempting to rescue the children. Deborah Diane 4 Neil Otis 2 and Dixie Kay 1 died in the blaze while Tony 5 escaped to raise the alarm.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Neil Haynes
Deborah Diane
Neil Otis
Dixie Kay
Tony
Jester and Officials to Attend Texas Soil Dinner
Governor Beauford Jester Agriculture Commissioner J E McDonald and all three Railroad Commissioners will attend the Save the Soil and Save Texas dinner in Houston on May 26. US Interior Secretary Krug will give his first Texas address at the event co sponsored by the Houston Press and the Houston Farm and Ranch Club which has about 1000 members.
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Houston
Save the Soil
Save
Texas
Beauford Jester
J. E. McDonald
State Railroad Commission
Jim Carroll
The
Houston Press
J. A. Krug
Houston Farm and Ranch Club
GE Pushes Expansion Despite Business Decline
GE plans a five year expansion and improvement program despite a current business decline. N M DuChenin, manager of the meter and instrument plant at West Lynn, told 200 GE specialists that the company anticipated a recession and has not changed its long range objectives.
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Boston
General Electric Company
N. M. DuChenin
West Lynn
Four Foreign Lines Order Lockheed Constellations
Four international airlines ordered 16 Lockheed Constellation airliners in a deal announced from New York. The latest Constellation type is valued around 1.1 million dollars each, with prices not disclosed.
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New York
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
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Fisk University
Nashville, Tenn
David Bohm
Princeton
Bergstrom Housing
Fortune
Prince of
Jester
Kentucky
LE Sage CO
Q Rauscher
Pierce & CO. Investment Securities
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Philip Morris
Fait
de Sade
Philip Morrris
Oniip
Morris
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