Passage of Housing Bill Seen in Senate Action
An omnibus housing bill nears final Senate action after two Republican attempts to trim it. Senator John Sparkman says the measure will pass with no further changes, while a House vote supports full 300 million for GI direct loans and raises VA loan rates to attract lenders.
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Washington
Senate
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate Banking Committee
Eisenhower
House
Charles Halleck
R-Ind
GOP
Veterans’ Housing
Veterans Administration
Lower Hog Prices to Be Expected This Year
An Iowa newspaper man told the Minnesota Iowa Swine Institute that increased hog marketings in 1955 will push prices down in summer and fall though not to 1955- peak levels. Rex Conn Cedar Rapids Gazette farm editor says farrowings near 1955 peaks but more spread, improving marketing. He urges trimming market weight to 200 pounds to lift price, and notes lean pork will attract customers for the future.
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Iowa
Minnesota - Iowa Swine Institute
Rex Conn
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Conn
Corn Belt
State Farmers Beat Average Says Freeman
ST. PAUL AP The Freeman Study Commission on Agriculture reports Minnesota farmers' economic health is above the national average. The 280 page diagnosis, led by Dr. Willard W. Cochrane, aims to map Minnesota farm income versus non-farm income and identify problem areas.
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Freeman
Minnesota
Willard W. Cochrane
University of Minnesota
Arizona League Pushes 10 Percent Tax Cut If Legislature Acts
The Arizona League of Towns and Cities states a position on proposed state taxes. It remains neutral on the taxes but demands a 10 percent cut if the Legislature enacts new taxes.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona League of Towns and Cities
Below Zero Weather Heads Into Minnesota State
A fresh surge of below zero temperatures moves into Minnesota with tonight’s lows from 20 to 30 below in the north and 10 to 20 below in the south. The low pressure center that brought snow to the region shifts east toward the Great Lakes as a new cold front arrives from the northwest. Severe wind and blowing snow reduce visibility in North Dakota as conditions stay bitterly cold into Friday.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Great Lakes
North Dakota
Flexi-Van Second Test Shown at Hormel Co
Hormel officials report a second Flexi-Van test showing flexible loading of containers on freight cars. Shipments for Albany and Boston were loaded here and will move by rail then truck to customers, delivering directly to doors without unloading the container.
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Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Albany
Boston
Milwaukee Road
Chicago
New York Central
Hormel Company
Springfield
New York
Hormel
Macmillan Plans Trip to Russia
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will visit the Soviet Union starting February 21 for up to ten days accompanied by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The Moscow announcement coincides with Dulles departure from London after talks on Western policy, West Berlin, and German reunification.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Moscow
John Foster Dulles
Paris
West Berlin
Dulles
Lloyd
Washington
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Germany
Berlin
Khrushchev offers western access pledge to Berlin
Soviet premier Khrushchev proposes Western guarantees of access to West Berlin if his crisis settlement plan is accepted. He urges Dulles to end the cold war and suggests the West could be treated as victors, while entering UN responsibility for West Berlin.
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Nikita
Berlin
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
United Nations
Withholding Tax Proposals Raise Minnesota Rates and Implement Withholding
Gov Free mans plan would lift state income tax rates by one percent in each bracket and start a withholding system. For a $3000 earner, tax rises from zero to six dollars in 1959 and ten in 1960. $5000 from sixty one to one hundred six and one hundred five. $7000 from one hundred fifty to two hundred forty seven and two hundred thirty five. A Taxpayers Association supplement shows the combined effect. Khrushchev renews invitation to Eisenhower as he presses de facto West Berlin plan. The Soviet leader warns of means to strike and argues detente through peaceful economic competition. West Berlin remains under four power control with proposed UN oversee and free city status rejected by the West.
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Gov. Freeman
Charles P. Stone
Minnesota Taxpayers Assn
Taxpayers Association
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Berlin
West Berlin
U. N
East Germany
West
11 Airmen Missing and 6 Bodies Returned
The United States released evidence alleging two Soviet jets shot down a U.S. C130 transport on September 2 near the Turkey Armenia border. A graphic tape of radio conversations between Soviet pilots was included with an eight page State Department summary detailing efforts to obtain information from the Soviet side. Six to seventeen American airmen were killed in the incident.
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Washington
United States
Russia
U.S
State Department
Soviet Union
U. S
Turkey-Armenia
Armenia
Richard M. Nixon
John Foster Dulles
Anastas I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Toughen Up Rights Laws Eisenhower Appeals to Congress
President Eisenhower urged Congress to strengthen civil rights laws by making it a federal crime to use force or threats to obstruct court orders in school desegregation cases. The seven point package includes FBI powers, flight from state crimes, election record inspection, and temporary aid to agencies adjusting to integration. It also covers education for children of military families in areas with closed schools.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
FBI
Fisenhower
Communists Release U S Army Pilot and Four Others
In Herleshausen Germany Communist East Germany freed U S Army pilot Richard Mackin and four other American soldiers after Red Cross negotiations. The five crossed into West Germany just after noon as the U S State Department still refused to bargain with the East German regime. Mackin appeared pale in fatigues and a felt cap and said he felt fine.
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Herleshausen
Germany
East Germany
Richard Mackin
Red Cross
U.S
Deartment
West Germany
Mackin
Taxes Up to 92 Per Cent Says Group
Minnesota Taxpayers Assn. warns that taxpayers earning 3000 to 9000 dollars would face tax increases from 52 to 92 percent under Governor Free mans plan. Charles C. Stone said a married two child family now taxed zero on 3000 would pay six dollars in 1959 and twenty dollars in 1960. He also claimed a 7000 dollar income would see tax rise from 150 to 247 dollars.
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Stone
Minnesota
ST. Paul
Minnesota Taxpayers Assn
Guv. Freeman
Charles C. Stone
Wealthy Pasadena man wins ban on mother at wedding
Louis E. Purmort, 34, obtained a court injunction prohibiting his mother Tessie Purmort, 68, from attending his wedding to Barbara Stanley Thorndike in San Marino. Purmort said his mother vowed to kill him and has written slanderous letters angering friends. judge Ellsworth Meyer ordered her to avoid the ceremony, reception, and send-off as the couple heads to Hawaii.
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Los Angeles
Pasadena
San Marino
Louis E. Purmott
Tessie Purmort
Barbara Stanley Thorndike
Hawaii
Weather Report From Fire Station Roof At 8 30 Am
Readings show high in last 24 hours at 11 degrees and low at 9 degrees. General conditions cloudy with a trace of precipitation 0.08.
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U. S
Herald
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Cpl
Richard Masiero
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Robert Murphy
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Murphy
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