White House West Wing Gets Full Face-Lifting
Denver report details a major West Wing redecorating with new green walls, buff carpeting, and a larger look. It notes removal of WPA pictures, a refinished coffin-shaped cabinet table, and staff briefings as President Eisenhower plans to return to Washington on Oct 15 amid on-site press tensions.
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White House
Denver
West
Washington
Roosevelt
Fish Room
James C. Hagerty
Greenbrier Hotel
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Murray Snyder
Snyder
New York Herald Tribune
David 0. Selznick
Eisenhower
Selznick
AFL Boilermakers Strike Closes Baytown Plants
In Houston area a four day strike by AFL boilermakers halts work on a $10 million Baytown unit at Consolidated Chemical Industries and stops jobs at Pan American Refining Carbide & Carbon Monsanto in Texas City. Picketing halts at Houston Lighting & Power deepwater plant. Over 300 Baytown workers refuse to cross lines as union seeks a 10 cent raise and welfare payments from 140 contractors in five states. Negotiations paused since September 25 with Beaumont meeting set but no union word.
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Houston
AFL
Baytown
Consolidated Chemical Industries
Pan American Refining Corp
Carbide & Carbon Co
Monsanto Chemicals Co
Texas City
Houston Lighting & Power Co
Deepwater
Freeport
Herkdale
Houston Local 74
South Central Employers Association
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Louisiana
Word Puzzle Rules From 1964 King Features Syndicate
Puzzle presents 16 letters to fill blank squares forming horizontal or vertical words with no plurals. Clues provide extra letters Merri scoring and point values for 5,4,3 letter words. Maximum possible score 50. Copyright 1964 John Manning distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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John Manning
King Features Syndicale
Court Moves On Major Oil Suit
The Texas Supreme Court opened the way for lower court trial or settlement in the five year old anti trust suit against ten major oil companies. It refused a writ of error preserving the ruling that the state can sue for allegedly fixing gasoline prices. Companies named include Arkansas Fuel Oil Co, Cities Service Oil Co, Continental Oil Co, Gulf Oil Corp, Humble Oil and Refining Co, Magnolia Petroleum Co, Standard Oil Co of Texas, The Texas Company, Sinclair Refining Co, and Phillips Petroleum Co.
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Austin
State Supreme Court
Texas
High
Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
Arkansas Fuel Oil Co
Cities Service Oil Co
Continental Oil Co
Gulf Oil Corp
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Boy of 12 in Colorado gun duel with police
Twelve year old Tavis Wissenburg fought police for ninety minutes last week firing at officers then hiding on a hill. Authorities say his brain injury in early childhood and a crime-filled youth left him without state care options. Judge Charles Simon noted no institution can treat him. donors discussed funds for psychiatric care and a special school in Topeka, Kansas.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Tavis Wissenburg
Travis
Manitou Springs
el Paso
Denver
Washington
Charles Simon
Simon
Topeka
Kan
Oil Storage Plant Destroyed By Fire in El Dorado Arkansas
Fire of undetermined origin hit the Lion Oil Co bulk storage plant in El Dorado shortly after noon. Flames rose about 700 feet as police estimated half a million gallons of petroleum products may have been destroyed. Firefighting crews battled the blaze to spare eight nearby houses from the heat.
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EL Dorado Ark
Lion Oil Co
el Dorado
Berserk Vet Beats Mother and Assaults Officer's Wife
San Antonio reports Lewis Suders a 21 year old Korean War veteran assaulted an officer's wife twice and coerced her to undress firing into a pattern of attacks in and around a Black neighborhood. Suders drove her to woods where she was raped by a Black man before further assaults. He returned to the block where he lived with the woman and the first accomplice until police arrested him.
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San Antonio
Tex
Joe Hester
Lewis Suders
Suders
Hester
Ceries
Héster
Randy McColla
McColla
Rainie
Tomatoes Fly At Rally In New York Campaign
At a New York campaign rally in Watertown on October 7 four overripe tomatoes were hurled. The missiles missed Senator Irving M. Ives but struck the railing above the speaker’s platform, splashing his wife and state Rep. Orin S. Wilcox. Ives condemned the Democratic opposition in a fiery tirade.
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Watertown
WN. Y
Irving M. Ives
New York
Ives
Orin S. Wilcox
Tatmany Hall
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