Chanute AFB Chief Gates Says Red Tape Slows Bases
Maj Gen BE Gates, commander of 15,000 airmen at Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul Illinois, clashes with Pentagon on procedures. He jokes he could tear down a building himself rather than wait for approvals. Local GIs honor him as he retires in a parade.
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Rantoul, Il
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Giles to face 10-year penalty in Texas bribery case
SAN ANTONIO UP The district attorney will seek the maximum ten years imprisonment for Bascom Giles at his upcoming trial. Giles, ex land commissioner, is charged with bribery in a Bexar County land deal case. Testimony subpoenas were issued for two National Bank of Commerce officials and for two bank cashier checks totaling 30,000 dollars. The investigation also subpoenaed 13 Bexar County veterans to probe middlemen in veterans land deals.
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Adlai Opens Arms to Southern Rebel Democrats
CHICAGO UP Adlai E Stevenson says he will welcome back rebel southern Democrats who supported Eisenhower if they come in good faith and are not Trojan horses. He opposes loyalty oaths and stresses that delegates must abide by majority decisions unless conscience forbids. He did not name names amid debate over admitting Allan Shivers, Robert Kennon, and James Byrnes to the 1956 Democratic convention.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Louisiana
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Mitchell
New Joint Firm Takes Over Plant Houston
Formation of Petro-Tex Chemical Corp to operate the Houston butadiene plant, acquired jointly by Tennessee Gas Transmission and Food Machinery and Chemical Corp, announced by G. Symonds and P. L. Davies. Symonds chairs the board, Davies is CEO, and the firm is among bidders for the Baytown synthetic rubber plant. The Baytown plant, second largest in the nation, sold for 24.197 million dollars to P.M. The plant can produce 90,000 short tons annually of butadiene for synthetic rubber.
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