Eisenhower seeks broad tariff powers for liberal trade push
President Eisenhower plans to ask Congress for unprecedented authority to cut tariff duties up to 25 percent over three years to advance liberal trade policies and keep allies like Japan from drifting toward the Communist economic orbit. C Douglass Dillon noted the aim amid election year debate on tariff reform. Gov Knight rings Salvation Army bell in Sacramento collecting 4.05 dollars, including a personal dollar, with Mayor Aviedo contributing. In Reno, two VA hospital staffers awarded federal honors for stopping a shotgun killer, Newell Morse and James R Harrison to receive medals December 19.
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No Trophy for This
A 14 year-old boy sank a fishing boat with scars yesterday as a station wagon driven by Robert H. Holmes of Oakland plunged off a pier into 15 feet of water. The boy was uninjured. In Raleigh North Carolina Frank Wetzel, an escapee from Willard Mental Hospital, was returned and identified as the man who killed a state patrolman and was linked to another fatal shooting. A jewelry store in Rock Arkansas faced a prank when a customer ordered a wristwatch with all numerals sixes and claimed he would be ready after six for drinking. In San Francisco a major traffic jam followed a locomotive breakdown on the Southern Pacific line and a collision near Vasona Junction delaying northbound trains up to 49 minutes.
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Six Collegians Rescued From Yorkshire Cave Maze
RETFLEWELL England reports six college students including two girls rescued from a flooded underground cave system 400 feet beneath the Yorkshire moors. They were hauled through a maze of tunnels to the surface after a perilous ordeal on a ledge. Peter Clough, 14, first to be saved, with Joan Smith, 19, and Christine Woodward, 16, among the last to emerge.
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Car's Soup Gone At ATU AU Copeland Rites
A vandal stole a rachometer from the funeral services for Van J Copeland, a noted artist famed for Grand Blvd paintings. The vehicle was parked on Weaver Lane near the 1800 block of West Valley Road. Police were told the owner will be held today for questioning.
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Missiles Bungled Gardner and Air Force Talk
At an institute session Rand Corp official George K. Tanham claims Hagland leads the world by several years in atomic energy development. Nazth American Aviation president Dr Chauncey Sur counters that the US needs atomic power not for 23 years, while Starr notes the gap between scientific progress and public awareness and urges a decision on prestige abroad.
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Will discloses Scott left wife and others small bequests
In a 1956 codicil to a 1951 will, Scott left his wife $1 and named his girlfriend Mrs Mariane Beaman as a beneficiary. The document, presented during a murder trial, also allocated portions of the estate to Evelyn Throsby Scott’s brother, a St Louis broker associate, and to Roy Wharton with others receiving $1. The will references $600,000 estate divisions and the fate of Scott’s missing wife after May 16, 1955.
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University of California weighs English entrance revision
Berkeley Calif The University of California contemplates a major change in entrance requirements after a survey showing about half of prospective students fail English spelling and grammar tests. Prof William Fretter chair of the committee studying admissions says English exams might be required for admission rather than graduation as now.
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