Ask the Man Who Owns a Tax Bill
Alameda county homeowners face next Friday deadline for property tax installments amid a housing boom. The piece argues growth in homes outweighs industrial expansion, raising taxes and urging more local industry to avoid becoming a bedroom community. It notes Hayward chamber efforts and Dutch Derr’s industrial program as efforts to counter the trend.
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Three Cent Air Mail Experiment Sparks Postal Backlash
The three cent air mail rate under a Post Office Department experiment shifts most mail to airlines while six cent stamps gather dust. Railroads protest, warning the policy strains infrastructure and could push first class mail prices higher, threatening delivery across modes.
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Red air strip risk in Tachens shapes Formosa policy
Pentagon sources say the Joint Chiefs favor extending U S protection to the Tachens to block Communist capture. A Tachens airstrip would enable MiG jets to threaten Formosa, with the Seventh Fleet ready to defend. Notes cite 3,600 U S personnel on Formosa and 24 nationalist divisions.
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Roosevelts and Churchills Plans Haunt West War Debates
A postwar debate notes how FDR and Churchill pressed for war crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and for unconditional surrender while strategists warned of risks to Allied plans. Churchill argued for early Balkan invasion and rearming Germany to block Russia, while Taft's cautions questioned legality of trials amid victory dynamics.
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National and State Legislators Posed Addresses
National and state lawmakers including Knowland Kuchel and George Mijer list office locations in the Senate Office Building and the State Building Sacramento. Officials appear in Washington and Sacramento with district and office details.
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Foreign Aid Tilt Under Eisenhower Plan 1956
Congressional Quarterly reports the Eisenhower Administration seeks a tighter foreign aid program for fiscal 1956 with lower total aid, a shift toward economic loans for Asia and Japan, and greater use of Colombo Plan style cooperation. Emphasis on long term loans, less outright grants, continued technical aid, and privatized funding through allied partnerships.
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Harold E. Stassen
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Stassen
Indo- China
Mike Mansfield
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South Asia
Humphrey
Joans
California considering convict labor camps for conservation work
Sacramento CNS reports a senate interim committee hearing led by Senator George Miller explores creating many mountain and recreation camps to utilize idle convict labor for conservation projects. Lt. Gov. Harold Powers supports the plan, aiming to fund check dams trails and watershed work without raising taxes, with Nelson citing potential use of 2340 convicts in 32 camps versus current 1080 in 14 forestry camps.
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Roseville
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Plants to grains from ancient deltas to modern crops
A historical note recounts how grasses include wheat rice corn and others, tracing agriculture from Nile Euphrates and Indus deltas to Greece and Egypt. It covers plant domestication, plow evolution, bread making with yeast, and early farming practices shaping civilizations.
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Einstein lectures in Japan and Canada humor note
In 1922 E. E. Edgar notes Albert Einstein delivering lectures in Japan with a four hour talk translated for locals. He shortened a subsequent talk to two and a half hours and faced puzzlement as listeners remained seated. Wilson Mizner sightings at Niagara Falls add a light aside with a quip about tears and water.
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