Johnson demands clear message on spending versus economy
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson accuses President Eisenhower of sending mixed signals on fiscal policy and calls for a clear TV radio address to state whether the administration seeks economy or increased spending. Eisenhower plans a national broadcast to defend a 71.8 billion dollar budget amid Democratic pressure for equal time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Hall
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Eisenhower
Johnson
Senate
Sherman Adams
Glimpse Fragments Prompt Sparse Historical Notes
Fragmentary OCR hints at scattered historical items with unclear context. The readable bits mention names and places loosely, lacking a cohesive event or clear dates to anchor a full summary.
Local Club Meetings and Scouting Notes In Decatur Area
Several community meetings are set for Tuesday and Wednesday including Mary Lou Dancy Chapter 320 Eastern Star at the Masonic Temple, Decatur High PTA installations, and council installation by H R Leeman. Girl Scout leaders orientation and St Ann PTA officers election are planned with demonstrations and programs. Morgan County arrests reported plus band mothers final meeting of year at Decatur High School Glee Club room.
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Mary Lou Dancy
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Walter Jackson
H. R. Leeman
Decatur High
Mobile
Girl Scout Littlehouse
St.Ann's
Assn
Tony Zurek
Cub Scouts
Ral Ae
Decatur High School
Glee Club
Plane disintegration kills flyer and wrecks Portland home
Willis Allen Wood, 21, of Salem, a Oregon State College senior, died when his light plywood plane disintegrated over southeast Portland. The wreckage crushed a living room, tore a roof hole, and chair, while Fred G. Thomson and his 9 year old daughter Connie watched. Officials will investigate cause.
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Portland
Ore
Fred G. Thomson
Willis Allen Wood
Salem
Wood
Oregon State College
Thomson
Connie
Weather and River Update for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River reading at Keller Memorial Bridge this morning was 21.61 feet, down 1 foot in 24 hours, with sea level reading 555.91. High yesterday 87, low 61, current 78 rising to 88. Forecast calls for partly cloudy, warm with scattered showers or thunderstorms this afternoon and evening, then continuing warm with on and off showers Tuesday. Winds light and variable. highs 88 today, 86 Tuesday, lows 64 tonight.
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Decatur
Tennessee River
Keller Memorial Bridge
State Accident Toll Runs High Over Weekend
The Associated Press reports at least 15 people died in Alabama over the weekend due to various accidents. Causes include five gassings in a mill, three drownings, three one car crashes, one traffic collision, a pedestrian fatality, and a man crushed when a car fell on him.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Delayed death raises Alabama collision toll to 16
Carlton Tyler age 33 of Youngstown Ohio died this morning from injuries after a two car crash just outside Jacksonville Alabama on State Highway 21 Saturday morning. His death raises the weekend toll to sixteen.
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Alabama
Carlton Tyler
Youngstown
Ohio
Jacksonville
Ala
Five Die In Mill Sump Pit Rescue Tragedy Near Opelika
Bryant H Jones Jr 28 of Opelika died from hydrogen sulphide fumes and oxygen depletion after his glasses fell into a sump pit at Pepperell Mills. Four would be rescuers followed and were killed. The victims include Donald D Ingram 26 Jessie J Thomas C B Cooper and Carter Ross all of Opelika. Coroner Dr Lee Roy Mims said no negligence was involved.
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Pepperell Mills Inc
Opelika
Bryant H. Jones Jr
Donald Dwight Ingram
Rt. 1
Jessie J. Thomas
C. B. Cooper
Carter Ross
Lee Roy Mims
Lee County
Hays Simpson
Alexander City
Coley Creek
Tallapoosa County
Highway Patrol
Probe Turns To Beck Demands
Senate probers turn to what they term Dave Beck’s demands for favors from two businessmen who channeled Teamsters Union funds. Witnesses Roy Fruehauf of Fruehauf Trailer Co. and A. M. Burke of Occidental Insurance Co. testified about loans and repayments linked to Beck’s finances amid a proxy fight and IRS tax concerns.
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G. Milton Kelly Washington
Senate
Dave Beck
Teamsters Union
Roy Fruehauf
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Detroit
A. M. Burke
Occidental Insurance Co
Los Angeles
Beck
Teamster
Fruehauf Foundation
Fruehauf
Hartselle Man Finds Sister After 25 Years Reunion
Hartselle minister W. W. Hargett reunited with his sister Lauvern after 25 years in Donaldson Tennessee at a welfare home. The search started six weeks ago with help from the Red Cross in Decatur and Nashville after Hargett began the effort two years earlier. Lauvern last saw their father and learned he had been dead ten years. Two other brothers have hadn’t seen her in 29 years.
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Hartselle
Jack Smith
Donaldson
Tenn
W. W. Hargett
Barber
Hargett
Lauvern
Red Cross
Decatur
Nashville
The
Tennessee Welfare Dept
Clarksville
Clover Bottom
Life Sentence Given to 24 Year Old Bessemer Rapist
Joseph Burkett Falls 24 pleads guilty to rape in Bessemer Alabama before Circuit Judge F R Mathews. He also pleads guilty to two counts of assault with intent to murder and receives 10 year terms on each. The victim, partly paralyzed from a bullet wound, did not appear. A 15 year old boy linked to the attack is examined by psychiatrists after a prior insanity confinement.
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Bessemer
Ala
Joseph Burkett Falls
F. R. Mathews
Falls
Here
Curtis King
Bryce Hospital
Four Burn To Death In Car Bus Crash
Four members of a Pennsylvania family were killed when a Greyhound bus rear ended their station wagon on the Ohio Turnpike four miles west of Youngstown. The car burst into flames. identities were released later.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Greyhound
State Highway Patrol
Murray Lockard Sr
Blairsville
Mary Jane
James Maurice
Elizabeth Jane
Burglars Hit Two Cullman Drive-ins
Cullman County deputies investigated weekend burglaries at the Globe Drive-In and Cullman Drive-In on Highway 31 North. Cigarette machines and amusement devices were entered and cash taken, amount undetermined.
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Cullman
Cullman County
Crant Waldrop
Globe Drive-In
Cullman Drive-In
Highway 31
Gliff Waldrop
Train Ride Becomes Mother's Day Gift for Disabled Woman
Mrs Eva Lambert 59, crippled by multiple sclerosis and heart trouble, was given a train trip from Jacksonville Florida to Keene New Hampshire as a Mother's Day gift. She planned to travel by wheelchair to Springfield Vermont to sell the family homestead. Guide James Woodhouse 28 bought her a ticket boxed her dogs and cat and pinned a corsage before escorting her north. She arrived at a friend's home in Keene last night after caring for 26 foster children during her life.
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Keene, N. H
Eva Lambert
Jacksonville
Fla
Keene
Honduras Says Truce Violated
Honduras charged that Nicaraguan troops violated the cease-fire by moving patrols into Vijao after Honduran forces withdrew. The Foreign Ministry said it would protest to the Organization of American States as about 6,000 Honduran soldiers remained in the area.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Honduran
Vijao
Organization of American States
Police Seize Young Thief After Car Entry Attempt
Five year old Michael Finneran was caught rifling a car and attempting to enter several others in Chicago. Police coaxed him to unlock doors and warned of breathing trouble with closed windows. Lt. James E. Gorman called him the youngest felony prisoner in 34 years. His father Edward, 30, was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Michael to be turned over to juvenile authorities.
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Chicago
James E. Gorman
Michael Finneran
Gorman
Michael
Edward
Eisenhower Warns Russia Ahead in Training Scientists
Dr Milton S Eisenhower told Brookhaven audiences that educators fear a teacher and student shortage in nuclear energy and warned Russia leads the United States in training scientists. He spoke at the Inter American atoms for peace symposium with 200 scientists from 21 nations. He cited manpower as the major obstacle and warned of Soviet gains.
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Eisenhower
Russia
United States
Brookhaven
N.Y
Milton S. Eisenhower
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Atomic Research Center
South
Central America
Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Union
Soviet Russia
Taylor bowed to order giving missile to AF
A report notes steps taken by Taylor under orders to transfer a missile to the Air Force. The action is described as compliant with directive and authority cited on the page 2 dispatch.
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Taylor
Army Chief Concedes Air Force Control of Long Range Missiles
Gen Maxwell Taylor, Army chief of staff, says he will not join the Army Air Force dispute over the 1500 mile missile project. He notes Army spokesmen defended the need last November before Secretary Wilson and that the matter is settled for him. Taylor credits Wilson as a competent superior and accepts the decision.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
Maxwell Taylor
Army
Wilson
Taylor
Secretary of Defense
Eisenhower
Anti-Red Kings to Meet in Iraq Amid Tensions
Diplomatic sources report that King Hussein of Jordan King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Faisal of Iraq may meet in Baghdad or Habbaniah this week for their first joint talks since Jordan ousted leftist forces. Saud arrived to ease tensions between Saudi Arabia and Egypt as Iraqi Premier Nuri Said seeks a stronger trilateral bond.
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Angelo Natale
Baghdad
Iraq
Hussein
Jordan
Saud
Saudi Arabia
Faisal
Habbaniyah
Amman
Egypt
Nuri
Ike and Monty rethink Gettysburg command
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery toured Gettysburg and criticized both sides leaders in the 1863 battle. The two WWII commanders, visiting the Eisenhower farm, said Lee and Meade would have fared differently under their orders. Montgomery planned to stay longer, while Eisenhower prepared to dine.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Gettysburg
Ike
Monty
Lee
Meade
Eisenhower
Viscount Montgomery
Robert E. Lee
George G. Meade
Montgomery
Ike Tees
Gronchi Resumes Talks to End Italian Government Crisis
President Gronchi resumes consultations to resolve Italy's week-old government crisis after a pause for the French state visit. He meets Monarchist leaders and plans talks with ex presidents Einaudi and de Nicola as Segni’s Christian Democrats seek a coalition despite lacking a majority.
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Rome
Giovanni Gronchi
Italy
Gronchi
Rene Coty
France
Monarchist
Luigi Einaudi
Enrico de Nicola
Christian Democrat
Antonio Segni
Giuseppe Saragat
Social Democratic
Segni
Christian Democrats
Coal Miner 38 Recalls 74 Hours Buried Alive
Richwood resident William C. Richmond described being buried under tons of rock for 74 hours after a roof fall at the Donegan mine. Four fellow miners escaped toward the main entry but Richmond could not move as slate and rock sealed a 90 foot area trapping him.
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Richmond
Donegan Coal and Coke Co
Donegan
Five Missing As Levee Caves In Near Lampasas
A central Texas flash flood wrecked Lampasas and damaged 150 homes while 25 people were reported missing by Red Cross figures and two deaths were confirmed. Rain extended across the state with new flood warnings and ongoing searches for bodies.
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Frank N. Manitzas
Lampasas
Tex
Texas
Fort Worth
Burleson Creek
Dallas
Waco Weather Bureau
Brazos
Bosque
Wichita Falls
Garland
Weatherford
Crawford
Greenville
Commerce
Big Spring
D. D. Nixon
Pretty Teenager Ends 21 Day Fast in Georgia
Evelyn Jenkins, 16, of Cartersville and Fort Oglethorpe, completed a 21 day fast “for the glory of God” after drinking only juice and water since April 22. She plans to reintroduce fruit juice every four hours and eat soft foods in a few days. She left high school to fast and spent daylight hours in the woods reading the Bible. Her stated weight was about 120 pounds, down from 130 at the start.
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Fort Oglethorpe
Evelyn Jenkins
Evelyn
A. C. Jenkins
Cartersville
H. M. Maddox
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