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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1956
Page
2
Washington society buzzes over Eisenhower’s outreach to Soviet officials and potential invitations. Guests joke about who would visit, including Dulles and Barnes, while others discuss immigration quotas and hotel battles in the capital. A quirky sign ale roused chatter about missiles and vodka trends.
Charles M. McCann notes rising unrest in South Asia with Nehru’s army clashing with Naga tribes after a headhunt ban and a surge of nationalism in India. Rebels grip parts of Java Sumatra and Celebes while Burma’s government battles insurgents near Rangoon amid language-morality tensions.
Kathryn Carter testified to a Senate Civil Service subcommittee that Farmers Home Administration head Robert B. McLeaish and former Montana director Carl O. Hansen drank heavily at a June 1944 dinner in West Yellowstone after a meeting of state FHA directors. She said Hansen was highly intoxicated and claimed McLeaish and Homer Cogdell were drunk. Carter also stated Hansen worked on wool contracts for Draper and Co. while employed by the FHA, causing overtime and conflicts of interest.
United Press reports Washington State Department spokesman Lincoln White condemning the Nicosia bombing that killed a U S vice consul and wounded three Americans. In Moscow Tito says no change in Yugoslavia West relations. Jerry Lewis says the split with Dean Martin is final. Truman would do atomic bombs again. Shepilov calls Soviet friendship to Arabs unselfish faithful reliable.
Leonard Trapp of East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce will host Mile Marguerite Candolphi of Dreux France as a house guest this summer. The meeting happened in Dreux two years ago while Trapp served with the United States Armed Forces in Europe.
Newark health officials say drunks now billed 21.20 for an overnight stay at Martland Medical Center, ending free care at the city hospital. In other items free polio shots move toward all Danes under 40, and a Wisconsin conservation program trains 465 teachers in outdoor lab work.
Larry Don Foster of Harlingen, son of Mr and Mrs Eddie Foster, was honored with a DeMolay meritorious service medal. He is an honors graduate of Harlingen High School. The medal is awarded to only five individuals worldwide, with none in Texas before this year, for traits including leadership memory work and efficiency.
The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to back a proposal to reduce the national debt ceiling by 3 billion dollars. Treasury Secretary Humphrey will be questioned at a 10 am hearing about a possible budget surplus and the impact on tax policy.
The Democratic Digest says big business cannibalizes smaller firms in the U S, blaming Eisenhower policy of benevolent inaction for rising mergers and monopoly. It cites laws meant to curb mergers as ineffective while giants gain an easy peace with enforcers. Navy tractors in Antarctica weigh 3 tons but move lightly on snow. their treads are 54 inches wide.
Congress refused a long term increase and approved a one year temporary rise of six billion dollars. The prior year saw the temporary measure extended for another year.
USDA cattle sales show 6 060 head with slow trading. Slaughter steers near steady while cows weaken and bulls hold. Stockers and feeders around steady. beef cows 10.50 to 12.50. sows 10 to 12. stocker calves 12 to 18. load lot choice slaughter 16 to 18.50.
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