End Of Confusion Over Aid Budget Not In Sight
President Eisenhower faces weeks of budget debate as his record peacetime budget of nearly 72 billion dollars, including 4.4 billion for foreign aid, remains under scrutiny. He plans two public broadcasts to pressure Congress to ease cuts, while aides discuss possible 500 million in reductions and reallocation of previously voted funds.
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James Marlow
Associated Press
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Senhower
Congressional
Humphrey
Budget Tug of War Signals Sharp Budget Debate
The article traces how President Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary Humphrey shaped the early budget debate. On January 16, as Eisenhower sent the budget to Congress, Humphrey framed the tight budget as the administration’s limit while suggesting further implications and potential cuts ahead.
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Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Eisenhower
ALWV moves to stand up for voting machines
The Alabama League of Women Voters at its Sheffield convention urged local chapters to oppose curtailment of voting machines in Alabama. A resolution called for actions against legislation limiting machines and allowing paper ballots in some counties with machines.
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ALWV
Sheffield
Alabama League of Women Voters
Martha Witt Smith
Huntsville
State Resource Study
Foster Mother of the Year Honored in Cook County
Mrs Ann LaVine of Oak Lawn receives Foster Mother of the Year recognition from county commissioners and Welfare Department for raising a deaf and mute foster boy who learned to talk and attend regular school. She has five of her own boys and two other foster sons, and serves as bus driver and scorekeeper for a neighborhood team.
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Doris Allen
Mon
Kansas City
Deane Perry
LaVines
LaVine
Oak Lawn
Rudolph
Cook County
County Department of Welfare
Paper Ballots in Small Districts Debated in Legislature
The Legislature passed a measure allowing Jefferson County to use paper ballots in districts with under 300 registered voters, while voting machines are used elsewhere in the county. An act from four years ago permits mixed ballot types, and twelve Alabama counties have adopted voting machines, including Montgomery, Birmingham, Mobile, Huntsville, Florence, and Sheffield.
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Jefferson County
Alabama
Montgomery
Birmingham
Mobile
Huntsville
Florence
Sheffield
Clements Denied Modifications To Zoning for Drugstore
Decatur businessman sought a zoning change to build a brick drugstore in west Decatur. Circuit Judge S A Lynne denied the request, finding the property's nonconforming use rights had been forfeited.
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Decatur
S. A. Lynne
E. R. Clements, Sr
West Decatur
Clements
Lynne
Decatur druggist denied building permit over zoning ruling
A Decatur druggist was denied a building permit for a corner property on Moulton Street and 7th Avenue due to zoning as a classified residence district from 1945. Clements said he may appeal to higher courts. The article also notes playful tax enforcement by South Seas islands and states the St. Lawrence River length at 1,800 miles.
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Decatur
Moulton St
7Th Avenue
Clements
South Seas
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