Ike Bravely Battles Ice in White Sulphur Golf Round
President Eisenhower persisted through icy rain at the Greenbrier during a golf round as he prepared for a hemispheric solidarity conference with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St Laurent. He shot 93 on the par 70 course, riding in a cart as doctors reported he felt fine after his heart attack.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Eisenhower
Mexico
Canada
Washington
Mr. Eisenhower
Snead
Snyder
White House
Denver
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Louis St. Laurent
Greenbrier
Allegheny Mountains
U.S
Court Backs Requirement of Testimony
Washington Supreme Court upholds a 1954 immunity law allowing Congress to compel testimony from Fifth Amendment witnesses. The 7-2 ruling preserves Ullman’s contempt conviction and supports immunity as constitutional for national security inquiries into Soviet espionage. Justices Douglas and Black dissented.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
Crtisis
Congressional
William Ludwig Ullman
Ullman
Douglas
Black
Frankfurter
Congress
Stalin Riot Triggers Firing at Tiflis University
In Moscow the Communist party sacks the Georgian state’s Tiflis university secretary and rebukes faculty for not containing pro Stalin student protests. Dzobernadze is discharged for neglect of party work and rector Kupraze criticized for lacking explanations. Reports claim 6,000 students attended the university with many skipping classes Sept to Dec.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Tiflis
Ine
Stalin
Dawn of the East
Dzobernadze
V. Kupraze
Tillis University
Ile
Associated Press
K. ‘Targamadze
S. Maxhardze
Tiflis University
16 Billion in School Jobs
The states plan 476000 classrooms at about 16 billion dollars over five years ending September 1959 per the U S Office of Education. Commissioner S M Brownell says a large classroom deficit exists and financing provisions may need changes. The report notes trends to larger school units, property assessment revision, bonding restrictions easing and state aid programs to local districts.
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Washington
U.S. Office of Education
M. Brownell
Jesus
Ifis
Retail Merchants oppose Monday closing meeting agenda
A special meeting has been called for Tuesday noon of all retail firms that refuse to close Mondays, to organize and elect a chair and possibly treasurer for the anti Monday closing group. The gathering, set for the Crystal Ballroom Montrose Hotel, follows a February vote and a later committee rejection. Laurence Van Dyke reports from Williamsburg.
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Ted
Rapida Newsa
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose Hotel
Retail Merchants Bureau
Temdin
Man Who Devised Traffic Light Dies
CLEARWATER Florida William Lewis Potts 71 died Sunday in a nursing home He moved to Dunedin from Michigan last year He retired from the Detroit police department in 1949 Potts devised a manually operated traffic light in 1920 and later installed an automatic light in downtown Detroit
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Clearwater
Fla
William Lewis Potts
Potts
Dunedin
Michigan
Detroit
Living Cost Is Unchanged by February CPI Report
Washington reports the cost of living remained steady in mid February with the CPI at 114.6 percent of 1947-49 averages. Food prices fell slightly for the fifth straight month while housing clothing transportation medical and personal care and recreation rose. Factory pay before taxes for a worker with three dependents was 57142, about two dollars higher than a year earlier.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Howell Action Postponed In Des Moines City Council
Des Moines city council will take no action on City Manager Leonard Howell for at least 90 days while Mayor Mills plans to resign for health reasons. The recall petitions for Conley and McGowan total over 16,000 signatures, and the debate focused on Howell's removal and the recall effort amid tensions within the council and labor unions.
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PES Moines
Des Moines
Leonard G. Howell
Ray Mills
Mills
Pim
Howell
Frank W. McGowan
McGowan
Robert Canley
Conley
Deht Quick
Kills
Iowa State Federation of Labor
AFL
CIO
Contey
Allan Denny
Charles Des
John Paul Jones
Raper
Darwin Lynner
Post Office To Modernize Pens With Ball Point Bids
Washington announces a six month modernization plan for the postal service. Competitive bids have been issued for 800 000 ball point pens and 500 000 refills as standard equipment for postal patrons per Postmaster General Summerfield.
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Washington
Summerfield
Sid Summerfield
Tax Extension Upheld by Senate Amid War Tax Measures
Washington reports the Senate approved a one year extension of corporate and excise tax rates, sustaining rates on corporate income, liquor, automobiles, gasoline, and cigarettes. The bill, already passed by the House, now goes to the White House for signature. The extension keeps wartime revenue at about three billion dollars annually and expires April 1.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Train Hits Boys Four And Seven
Two young brothers, David Lee Wullner seven, and Richard Allen four, were killed when a Burlington freight and passenger train struck them on a Rock Island trestle above Prairie Creek. Father Ernest Wullner discovered the aftermath, carrying the bodies to a ledge as ambulance crews arrived. Funeral plans pending. Nearby, Goias state officials reported a Communist-led attack on a peacekeeping group, killing at least one officer.
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C Street
David
Richard
Rock Island
Prairie Creek
Bridge
Robert Buresh
Jerry Navratil
George O'Brien
Lou Breuer
David Lee Wullner
Richard Allen
Burlington
Leonard Gardner
George Kibler
Kibler
Bers
Pather
Ernest
Penick and Ford
Willner
Wilson
Wullner
Iie
Wallner
Janeira
Reds
Goiana
Brazil
Goias
Local Chuckle Offer Sparks Home Vacation Gag
A humorous note suggests if you cannot escape on spring vacation you can imitate the feel at home by tipping every third person you meet, a lighthearted quip from a daily humor page.
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