Eisenhower Administration Accelerates Federal Spending and Budget Debate
The piece outlines large 1950s budget plans under the 1949 housing act including 101 billion for highways over ten years and 60 billion for schools outside the budget. It notes total federal spending rising with defense and debt, plus criticism of Eisenhower for sparing his own officials. It also recounts Yalta era actions with Roosevelt and Churchill and Russia's postwar moves in Eastern Europe.
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Eisenhower
Yalta
Dulles
Russia
Poland
Berlin
Rumania
Bulgaria
Austria
Hungary
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Europe
Pasquinino Fainelli Struck Near Ellis Hospital
Pasquinino Fainelli, 78, of Schenectady New York was struck by a car near the Ellis Hospital emergency entrance. He was treated at the scene and rushed to medical care with injuries not described in detail.
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Schnectady
M. Y
Pasquinino Fainelli
Glidin
Ellis Hospital
Frank C. Donovan Memorial Golf Tournament Named
The Boston Boot and Shoe Clubs announce the 1955 Shoe and Leather Golf Tournament to be held at Wollaston Golf Club on Tuesday June 7. General chairman is Francis Shea with Charles W Sweeney noting Donovan’s eight years as Golf Committee chair. Donovan is honored for leadership advancing the club’s event.
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Boston
Boot and Shoe Clubs
Wollaston Golf Club
Charles W. Sweeney
Kelley & Sweeney Leather Co
Francis Shea
Sweeney
Frank C. Donovan
Donovan
Shea
Stamp Out Cancer Golf Event Prizes and Luncheon
A notice describes a golf gathering with a buffet luncheon for players and guests. It promises leather prizes and golf accessories for winners in shoe, leather, and allied trade divisions, plus a souvenir booklet with score cards for each participant. Help Stamp Out Cancer.
Summer Time Dangers for Children Warned by AAA
Massachusetts motorists and parents are urged to guard children as May through October bring a peak in pedestrian accidents. AAA summary shows 6 404 child accidents in warm months last year and 45 fatal cases in 1954, with May most tragic and August high in total incidents.
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Massachusetts
American Automobile Association
AAA
Richard W. Hoover
Registry of Motor Vehicles
Bay State
Triple-A
Coast Guardsmen Use Seal to Meet UNH Professor Request
On Boon Island New Hampshire Coast Guardsmen received a 90 pound seal and ammunition for Professor Clark Stevens of the University of New Hampshire. They reportedly turned in the seal once the order was filled and added a two by four plank and some chasing as the method.
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Boon Island
N.H
Clark Stevens
University of New Hampshire
Tax expert predicts Massachusetts tax rate rise to $70
Former Massachusetts tax commissioner Henry F. Long warned every community would see at least a $70 rate by 1960. He called for a general sales tax to ease real estate burdens, opposing partial exemptions and urging tax broadening to curb smuggling and fund roads and schools.
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David Pickman
United Press
Boston
Massachusetts
Henry F. Long
Long
North Brookfiell
Provincetown
Lancaster and
Maynard
Harvard
Fiscal Survey Commission
Herter
Career of Old Orchard Beach Clerk Ends After 63 Years
Fred Luce, longtime Old Orchard Beach town official, was defeated in re-election as town clerk. He has held various town offices for 63 years and will turn 92 on his next birthday.
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Old Orchard Beach
Fred Luce
Luce
Seventy American Corporations Report Billion Dollar Assets in 1954
Seventy U S corporations held assets of one billion dollars or more at year end 1954 a United Press survey shows Metropolitan Life tops with 13 09 billion assets The Bell System follows at 12 85 billion and 37 68 billion for Metropolitan Life. The group grew from 43 members in 1945 to 70 in 1954 with Shell Oil American Gas and Electric Lincoln National Life Insurance and Chrysler among new entrants while Commercial Credit dropped below one billion.
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Robert G. Shortal
United Press
New York
United States
America
Teady
Metropolitan Life
The
Bell Telephone System
Prudential Insurance Co
Shell Oil Co
American Gas & Electric Co
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co
Chrysler Corp
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank & Trust Co
National City Bank of New York
Bankers Trust Co
Bell
Bell System
Bank of America
Standard Oil, Co. New Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
General Motors Acceptance Corp
Sears, Roebuck
Country Girl at Red Barn Westboro in May
The Red Barn Theatre in Westboro presents The Country Girl for one week from Tuesday May 3 at 8 20 PM through Sunday May 8. Dorothy Lee Tompkins plays Grace Kelly and Tom Rosqui is Bing Crosby with John Woods in William Holden’s director role.
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Red Barn
Grace Kelly
Sid Sawyer
Red Barn Theatre
Westboro
Clifford Odets
Dorothy Lee Tompkins
Tom Rosqui
Bing Crosby
John Woods
William Holden
Equity
Joan Jaffrey
Wilson Lafferty
William Harp
Mr. Sawyer
James Dyas
William
Kentucky Building and Loan Sees Over Fifteen Million Asset Increase
The Kentucky state chartered founding and loan association assets grew by more than 15 million dollars in 1954, totaling 123 million 945 thousand 212.64, according to the state banking department.
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Frankfort
Uip
Founding and Loan Associationismn
Kentucky
State Banking Department
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Mily
Five Town Weekly
Pring
RED Barn Theater
Dan
Main St. -Marlboro
Nason St. - Maynard
Et Te Co-Operative Bank
Concord
Walden
Building and Loan
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