Benson rails at Soviet corn hog plan in critique
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson dismissed Moscow’s proposed corn hog program as impractical, saying the USSR lacks soil, climate, and know how for large scale livestock farming. He depicted a peasant farm under state control as unlikely and warned against feeding dialectical materialism to hogs.
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Gaylord P. Godwin
Washington
Ezra’ T. Benson
Soviet Union
America
Midwest
Russia
Iowa
Illinois
Nebraska
Indiana
Minnesota
Missouri
South Dakota
Ohio
Benson
Philadelphia
Ussr
Frice
Daniel Boone Named Hero in Tavern Vandalism Case
Daniel Gibson, 22, Chicago UK, smashed a tavern window with his fist and told the judge his pioneer spirit and Daniel Boone inspired his name change. The judge gave him frontiersman style justice, ordering 100 fine plus costs, with time served at the city jail.
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Chicago
Daniel Gibson
Daniel Boone
Baytown Librarian Presides At Texas Library Meet
Miss Martha Marshall librarian at the Baytown Refinery will serve as president of the Texas chapter of the Special Libraries Association during the four day convention in Corpus Christi. The program includes pre and post conference sessions at the Plaza and Driscoll hotels with speakers from the Texas State Library Houston Public Schools and publishing houses. The theme is The Frontier Exchange with guest speakers including William Peace Elenora Alexander and Fred Gipson among others.
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Martha Marshall
Baytown
Texas
Special Libraries Association
Texas Library Association
Corpus Christi
Driscoll Hotel
Special Libraries Division
Plaza Hotel
Airs
Elizabeth Crim
le Tourneau Technical Institutebrary
Longview
Archives and College
Special Libraries
County and
Public Libraries
la Retama Public Library
Fronters Exchange
Amateur Detectives Arrested For Fraud
In Peoria Michigan a father and son were arrested on mail fraud charges after attempting to collect $1.00 for information about the 1947 shooting of railroad president George P. McNear Jr. The suspects William Anthony Gibson and William John Gibson were taken into custody at the city library by city detectives and postal inspectors after writing to Mrs. McNear. McNear was president of the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad.
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Peoria
AP— A_ father and son
George P. McNear Jr
William Anthony Gibson
William ‘John Gibson
Gibsons
McNear
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Owas
Wanted Man Arrest Made in Amarillo Trek for California Murder
Earl Compton Green Jr. 27, his wife Joyce 18, and Floyd Leader 28 were arrested in Amarillo on a Ventura California murder fugitive case. Green waived extradition and faced federal charges including interstate transportation of a stolen car and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder. Bond set at $25,000 as authorities prepared to escort Green to California.
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Amarillo
Tex
California
Earl Compton Green Jr
Ventura
Calif
Green
Joyce Green
Floyd Lb. Leader
Florida
Ocala
Fla
Lawmakers Vote To Compensate Innocent Men
A proposed constitutional change to allow the Texas legislature to pay two men who served prison time for crimes they did not commit cleared the House on a 125 to 9 vote and moves to the Senate. Rep. Joe N. Chapman of Sulphur Springs sponsored the measure. Milford Bickford, 23, of El Paso, and Kenneth Massey, 22, both received full pardons after determined innocence. Karsten confessed to the El Paso drug store robbery for which Bickford was convicted.
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Austin
House
Senate
Joe N. Chapman
Sulphur Springs
Milford Bickford
Allan Shivers
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Bickford
el Paso
Iowa
William G. Karsten
Rites Held For Dock Williams In Livingston
Baytown residents attended funeral services for Leander Dolphus Dock Williams 88 who died Saturday in a Livingston hospital Survivors include five sons two of Baytown and others in Diboll Houston and Livingston six daughters 26 grandchildren 62 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren Ministers from Assembly of God officiated Burial followed at Peebles cemetery under Pace funeral home supervision
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Baytown
Livingston
Leander Dolphus
Dock) Williams
Henry
A. J. Williams
Ellis Williams
Diboll
Roy Williams
Alton Williams
Houston
Bessie Winger
Silsbee
Effie Zimmerman
Corrigan
Florence Davis
Linton
Flora Wyche
Linnie. McDonald
Lora Duff
Bob DeShure
Robert Walters
Assembly of God Church
Peebles Cemetery
Pace Funeral Home
FPC Urges Gas Producers Excluded From Regulation
Washington UPI The Federal Power Commission asked Congress to exempt natural gas producers from FPC jurisdiction claiming this would lower gas prices. Chairman Jerome Kuykendall said the Supreme Court erred in extending FPC control and noted coal and oil prices are not federally regulated. He urged legislation to overturn that ruling.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Congress
FPC
Jerome K. Kuykendall
House Commerce Committee
Supreme Court
FEC
Kuykendall
Unions clash over unloading of freighter Pacificus
In Long Beach California a major labor dispute over which union will unload cargo from the Coastwise Lines freighter Try Sun persists. Representatives from Harry Bridges International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's union and Harry Lundeberg's AFL Sailors Union met with management but made no progress. The confrontation centers on control of unloading newsprint from the ships cargo batch.
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Long Beach
Caltt
T’p
Pacificus
Harry Bridge
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Harry Lundeberg
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
Coastwise Lines
Times Goes Backward In Michigan
Strong winds in Flint Michigan reversed the hands of an outdoor clock at a crate of several revelations. The event caused a small spectacle as residents watched the clock face turn counterclockwise under the gusts on Tuesday.
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Michigan
Flint
Mich
Cap
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Try Sun
Mike Franssen
State Reserve Life
Penney
Poplin
Miracle Fabric
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