Leirfallom Resigns as Welfare Chief. Hursh to Lead
Jarle Leirfallom resigns after six years as executive secretary of a Madison welfare council and will aid new state welfare commissioner Stan Hursh. Hursh, former Minnesota and Wisconsin official, succeeds as the top welfare administrator overseeing mental hospitals, penal institutions, and welfare aid programs. Gov. Freeman plans budget timing and staff consolidations as he seeks new department heads and legislative priorities.
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Leirfallom
Wisconsin Welfare Council
Minnesota
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota Welfare Department
F. W. Nichols
Gov. Freeman
Freeman
Gov
Senate
House
Minnesota Proposes Federal Super Highways Plan
Minnesota announces a plan to create a nationwide system of new 300 foot wide highways linking cities from the Iowa border to Duluth and Moorhead. Highways 16 65 52 61 8 12 and 13 would form east west and north south corridors connecting Albert Lea La Crescent La Crosse Hudson St Paul and Twin Cities with Duluth and Moorhead. The project aims to enter Congress soon with an estimated 50 billion cost and may include Austin Belt Line segments.
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Minnesota Highway Department
St. Paul
Norman Larson
South Dakota
Laverne
la Crescent
la Crosse
Hudson
Wis
Minneapolis
Osseo
St. Cloud
Moorhead
Iowa
Albert Lea
Minnesota River
Forest Lake
Duluth
Noelle Fields vanish again from Budapest amid Cold War mystery
U S officials report Noel and Herta Fields have vanished from view in Hungary after being released five years earlier. The U S legation in Budapest no longer knows their whereabouts as Christian Ravndal presses the Hungarian Foreign Office for details. Hermann Fields also resurfaced briefly before vanishing again, while Erika Wallach remains in a Soviet prison camp.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
U.S
Noel
Herta Field
Hungary
Budapest
Legation
Christian M. Ravndal
Foreign Office
Ravndal
Field
Hermann
Poland
Switzerland
State Department
Erika Glaser Wallach
Noel Fields
Herta
United States
Ceil
New Yorker Grilled in Remon Slaying
A New Yorker, Martin Irving Lipstein, denies involvement in the Panama Remon assassination but remains in custody as Panama Secret Police cite unspecified indications. Lipstein, 34, was arrested at Panama City’s airport a day after the attack at Juan Franco race track and spoke with a U S Embassy official about his health and purpose.
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Panama
Jose Antonio Remon
Jorge Luis Alfaro
Martin Irving Lipstein
Lipstein
Remon
Juan Franco Race Track
U.S
Mexico
Harry Lipstein
Montreal merchants fined for Epiphany law violation
Five hundred summonses were issued to stores that remained open during the Epiphany holy day. The city law requiring closures is being appealed in the Supreme Court.
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Montreal
Que
Supreme Court
Hammarskjold Talks With Chou En Lai Reported In Tokyo
TOKYO Peiping radio said Dag Hammarskjold secretary general of the United Nations met for 3 hours 45 minutes with Red China Premier Chou En Lai. The talks center on freeing 11 American airmen and other U.N. personnel held by the Reds. No report of progress was issued.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Red China
Chou En-lai
Hammarskjold
U.N
China
Reds
Chou
Hormel Denies Buying or Using Marijuana in Trial
George Hormel II testified in Los Angeles that a confession was arranged by a narcotics detective and not true. He said he cooperated to avoid publicity after his father’s death and his mother’s illness, insisting he never used narcotics.
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Los Angeles
George Hormel! II
Hormel
Jay C. Hormel
John O'Grady
O'Grady
Stevens May Resign Army Post After Successor Found
The New York Times reports Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens will resign once Eisenhower names a successor. John G. Adams, tied to the Army-McCarthy dispute, is expected to leave simultaneously. Stevens may stay until Feb 4 but rumors suggest resignation within six weeks amid health concerns from the McCarthy era dispute.
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New York
New York Times
Robert T. Stevens
Eisenhower
John G. Adams
Army
Washington
The
Times
the Times
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
New York Stocks Rally In Early Trading
New York equities staged a brisk rally in early dealings with many shares gaining around a dollar. Observers and many small investors hoped for a broader recovery after a severe two day price drop. Tickers struggled to keep pace as heavy buy orders emerged and a rally formed near the close following two recent waves of selling.
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New York
WEAKER SEX Women Lead Hale Hardy Lives Says AMA Survey
A Chicago based AMA survey finds women outlive and outhealth men, with 564 436 women versus 642 156 men hospitalized by late 1953. Males exceed females in most age groups and in Veterans Administration hospitals, while women lead in nongovernmental hospitals.
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Chicago
Veterans Administration
AMA Journal
DEMS Seek Advantage as Farm Prices Loom in 1956 Fight
A Republican senator forecasts Democrats will press to restore high price supports in 1956 to gain votes, arguing 1955 may see House action while the Senate delays. The discussion follows President Eisenhower’s State of the Union, which supporters frame as progress toward prosperity in agriculture.
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House
Senate
Eisenhower
Capitol Hill
Rep
Cooley
D-Nc
House Agriculture Committee
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Senate Agriculture Committee
Benson
Congress
Blender
Sen. Young
R-Nd
Symington
D-Mo
Aiken
R-Vi
Sen. Anderson
D-Nm
Democrats wary as Eisenhower unveils New Deal style plan
President Eisenhower rolled out a 53 minute State of the Union urging unhesitating cooperation on 33 issues. Democrats praised abroad but clashed over farm supports welfare measures and Alaska statehood while signaling planned scrutiny of military manpower cuts and new health and old age programs.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Alaska
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sam Sheppard's Mother Found Shot to Death
Mrs Edy Sheppard 62 mother of Dr Samuel H Sheppard, already convicted in a wife murder, was found shot in the Rocky River home of Dr Stephen Sheppard. Betty Sheppard reported finding her in bed with a revolver by her side.
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Cleveland
Edythe Sheppard
Samuel H. Sheppard
Stephen Sheppard
Rocky River
Betty Sheppard
Steve
Series of earthquakes shakes New Hebrides Islands
Reports from Sydney indicate the New Hebrides Islands have experienced a sequence of shocks since Wednesday, causing collapsed houses and uprooted trees though no casualties have been reported.
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Sydney
Australia
New Hebrides Islands
Peaceful Texas family endures a year of mishaps
The St. Clair family near Waco endures a string of misfortunes after moving to the country. A house fire from a butane tank, rabid animal encounters, a possum invasion, a snake in the well, a visit from Oklahoma, illness on Christmas Day, a fall from a ladder, multiple dislocations, theft of a doll, a cow with fence phobia, and the mother rounds up cattle on crutches.
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Waco
Clifton St. Clair
Texas
St. Clair
Oklahoma
Senator Rutherford's Furnishings Lost in Transit
Rep. Rutherford reports his family's household goods vanished in transit from Odessa Texas to Washington. The moving van left December 22 and has not yet arrived 1800 miles later. He said the company issued tracer calls but cannot locate the vehicle. His wife and children remain in Texas with relatives awaiting word.
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Here
Rep. Rutherford
D-Tex
Odessa
Tex
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