State OKs $50 Million for Farm Road Program
Austin AP A Highway Commission approval authorizes 50 million dollars to build new farm roads and improve rural highways in Texas. The plan covers 1,199 miles in 1959 and 1,900 miles in 1960 at an estimated cost of 9.187 million, funded from the general revenue Colson-Briscoe Road Act and gasoline tax revenues. Maintenance funding of about 15.2 million annually is also allocated.
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Austin
Texas
Highway Commission
Jerbert Petry He
General Revenue Fund
Colson - Briscoe
Meavey
Highway Department
Perry
KWBA Radio Schedule Fragment and News Names
Fragmentary OCR of KWBA 1360 radio schedule and listed news anchors. Reads like a morning to evening lineup with Paul Harvey and Edward P. Morgan among others and mentions Bayshore Billboard and Weather On The Walt Hour. Names and times are incomplete.
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Ray
Paul Harvey
Don McNey
Bayshore
ABC News
Paul Taryey
Kay Bay
Suubrook
John Daly
Vanhorn
Edward P. Morgan
John Vandercook
Walt
Edsel Called Victim Of Small Car Swing
Detroit report traces the Edsel’s failure to postwar market swing to smaller cars and rising compact models. It notes Kaiser, Frazer, Tucker and others faded, while Rambler Hudson Nash compact lines revived interest in smaller cars as Edsel collapsed after two years on the market.
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Edsel
Detroit
Automobile Club of
Michi-gan
Charles
Frank Duryea
Chrysler
Kaiser, Frazer,Tucker, Crosley
Henry J
Allstate
Willys Acro
Ford
Hudson
Nash
Studebaker
Packard
King Alan Freed Faces Payola Subpoena in New York
Disc jockey Alan Freed is subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury investigating payola in radio and television. Freed says he will comply, denies taking payoffs or gifts for plugging records, and notes he would never volunteer. He previously refused to sign a statement denying payoffs and faced dismissal from the Big Beat show.
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New York
Alan Freed
Freed
Humeu Vy Ouetecuves
District Attorney's
Big Beat
Fred
WMCA
Barry Gray
Grand Jury
WABC
Wnew-Tv
Eisenhower seeks join UN World Court in session
President Eisenhower urges Congress to repeal the U S reservation on the International Court of Justice. He argues elimination of the automatic reservation would press for broader jurisdiction and better curb brutal force as Hungary and Tibet illustrated. The letter to Sen Hubert Humphrey dated November 17, Augusta Georgia, was disclosed yesterday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Hungary
Tibet
Congress
United States
International Court of Justice
World Court
Hubert T. Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Humphrey
Augusta
Flying Granddad Sets Light Plane Distance Record
LAS VEGAS AP Flying Grandpa Max Conrad 56 rests after a 56 hour 26 minute non stop flight from Caasa Blanca North Africa to El Paso 6911 miles in a light plane under 3900 pounds then flies to Las Vegas and SF He previously set a 7658 mile heavier aircraft record from North Africa to Los Angeles in the same plane after upgrading its engine Deer licenses rules noted for hunters in the county</s>
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Las Vegas
Nev
Max Conrad
North Africa
Texas
Conrad
EL Paso
Caasablanca
San Francisco
Los Angeles
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Lovee,al
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