Congress to Reconvene With Stormy Session Ahead
Congress returns for the second session of the 85th Congress amid expectations of heavy defense spending and new programs. Officials project 73 billion dollars in peacetime spending as defense growth accelerates and tax cuts face opposition. Sen. Sparkman urges housing aid scrutiny and a mortgage rate cut to stimulate the economy. President Eisenhower prepares State of the Union for January 9.
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Uganda Moves Toward Racial Integration in Schools
Kampala December 26 Uganda announces phased racial integration of its education system starting with secondary schools. The plan reflects a diverse society with Bantu Hamitic and Nilotic Africans, 60 000 Asians, and some 3 000 Britons. Only 1 000 Africans enter secondary school this year, rising to 2 000 by 1961 amid opposition over access and standards.
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Uganda
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Uganda Education Department
Christopher Cox
British Colonial Office
Rabid Dog At Florida Southern College Sorority
Thirty five members of Alpha Omicron Pi at Florida Southern College were told a dog left in their Lakeland house before Christmas was rabid. Four students were bitten. the dog died Monday and tested positive for rabies. The dog was smuggled in and hidden, and college officials notified distant sorority members to seek medical care.
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Florida Southern College
Chester N. Nayfield
Polk County
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Barbara Hopson
Frostproof
Miss Hopson
African Asian Conference Opens in Cairo Amid Cold War Rhetoric
The Cairo gathering of more than 400 delegates from 38 nations opened with anti United States rhetoric and calls for nuclear disarmament. Key figures from Egypt and Japan urged bans on atomic weapons while critics warned against military pacts and foreign bases.
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India
Anup Singh
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Israel
Administration drafts reply to Bulganin letter on summit talks
The Eisenhower administration begins drafting a reply to Soviet Premier Bulganin's letter. Officials say no immediate summit will be offered and the note may be sent within two weeks if Atlantic Pact members align. Dulles says the State Department is working on the reply after a year end meeting with the President.
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Yeager to Speak at Charleston Rotary Luncheon
Lt. Col. Charles E. Yeager a Lincoln County native and first American to break the sound barrier will address the Charleston Rotary Club during their annual fathers day luncheon tomorrow in Charleston.
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Charles E. Yeager
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Judge Underthe By Probers Fires Back
Chattanooga judge Raulston Schoolfield condemns a Nashville gathering as a wake for corpses and calls for a Hamilton County investigation. He cites a $10 000 shortage in city court clerk records and urges probes into expresseway land deals and county corruption.
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Raulston Schoolfield
Hamilton County
Frank Clement
Senate
Washington
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P. R. Olgiati
Harry Wise
Bee
Sydney Endures Severe Heat Wave and Fires
A heat wave bakes Sydney as temperatures reach 99.6 degrees with a 101.2 degree reading on Christmas Day. Widespread heat prostration is reported while wildfires destroy a guest house and five other homes at Terrigal, a northern holiday resort.
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Australia
Terrigal
Jap Painter Sends Nixon New Portrait
In Tokyo a watercolor portrait of Richard Nixon by 55 year old Kokan Yasuma will be sent to the vice president. Yasuma first met Nixon in 1931 at Whittier College. The 18 to 25 inch portrait is described as a perfect likeness by G Edward Reynolds, assistant to U S Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II.
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Richard Nixon
United States
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Whittier
Calif
G. Edward Reynolds
U. S
Douglas MacArthur II
Four-Room Home Prize in Russian Lottery
Tass reports a 10 million ruble prize pool for an April lottery in the Estonian Republic. A four-room private home is among the top prizes, valued by Russians at about 242 million dollars.
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Tass
Television viewed favorably by parents and teachers
Dr. Paul Witty of Northwestern University reports a shift in attitudes toward television among parents and teachers. A yearlong study in Chicago Evanston and Kenosha involving about 2000 students teachers and parents found fewer complaints about TV and notes that viewing can boost reading interest while highlighting concerns over excessive leisure time and neglect of other activities.
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Evanston
Ill
Kenosha
Wis
Georgia party cleans house over draft dodges
The Georgia Soviet party Central Committee fired officials educators and health ministry functionaries accused of issuing fake documents and forged statements to help youths dodge the labor draft. Dawn of the East reported the purge in the Georgia Republic. Graduates face two years of practical labor before college admission and university graduates are assigned to projects.
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Dawn of the East
Killer Scott Gets Life Term
Los Angeles report states P L Ewing Scott was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his socialite wife Evelyn T. Scott. The same jury that found him guilty of first degree murder chose the life term under California law allowing death penalties in certain cases. Evelyn disappeared from their Bel Air home May 16, 1955 and was never found. Scott contends she is alive while prosecutors say he killed her to gain control of her estate.
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Los Angeles
Ewing Scott
Evelyn T. Scott
California
Scott
Bel-Air
Holiday death toll climbs beyond prior Christmas records
National Safety Council data shows 278 deaths during the 30 hour Christmas period 225 in traffic 27 in fires 26 other. Traffic total 84 for the comparable postwar 30 hours. NSC calls for a new low during New Year’s period urging sober travel.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Ned H. Dearborn
NSC
Associ
State's Road Death Toll Up
Charleston reports West Virginia highway deaths rose to 473 for the year with six killed in the 30 hour Christmas holiday period. Police say the toll already surpasses 1956 for fatalities during this window and ranks among the worst on record since 1925.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Bureau
President Eisenhower Heads to Gettysburg Farm
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower will drive to their Gettysburg Pennsylvania farm for about a week to rest and finish messages for the new Congress. He is to attend the Civil Rights Commission organizational meeting January 3 and confer with budget director Percival Brundage and other aides. Congress convenes January 7.
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Eisenhower
Gettysburg
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Hagerty
Percival Brundage
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Moscow Claims New Russian Vertical Takeoff Jet
Moscow reports Soviet Aviation claims a new jet built for vertical takeoffs is a Russian invention. The plane, pictured with the article, resembles the Flying Bedstead tested in the United States and Britain. The claim credits three Russian engineers under Prof Matveyev.
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Soviet Aviation
United States
Britain
Matveyev
Pilot Lt Steeves Leaves Active Air Force for Reserve
Lt. Steeves, 23, who survived 54 days after parachuting from a jet over California’s High Sierra, is returned to civilian life at his request. He will remain in the Air Force Reserve as the service trims active ranks. He was stationed at Craig AFB and lived with his brother in Trumbull Connecticut.
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Steeves
Air Force
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High Sierra
Trumbull
Conn
Harold
Craig Air Force Base
Selma
Ala
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