Humphrey Sees Potential to Balance National Budget
Secretary Humphrey told reporters that the government should and can balance the budget this year though he cautioned it is too early to promise tax cuts. The Treasury revised outlook shows a $1.7 billion deficit for fiscal 1956 amid higher receipts and spending, with the balance dependent on continued economic growth.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Eisensages Ommarene
Rowland R. Hughes
Hum Y
U S Seeks Delay in Red Talks in Geneva
In Geneva the United States asked for a four day postponement of talks with Communist China on Americans detained by Peiping. Ambassador A Alexis Johnson led the talks with Wang Ping nan. The issue of civilians to be returned and other points were discussed amid reports of possible settlement and a move toward repatriation.
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Geneva
Switzerland
United States
China
Peiping
U.S
A. Alexis Johnson
Red Chinas
Wang Ping-nan
New Delhi
India
Nehrus
Washington
Johnson
Prague
Wang
Warsaw
Formosa
United Nations
Dulles
United Wing
Insurance Firms Cancel Coverage Of Beach Houses
A Wilmington conference with 85 southeastern North Carolina officials heard that insurers are cancelling policies for beach properties after the storm damage. Brig. Gen. Edward Griffin pledged to press the issue with Gov. Hodges and the State Insurance Commissioner while outlining civil defense plans and swift federal aid applications.
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Edward Griffin
Civil Defense
Hodges
State Insurance Commission
Laborers Strike at $20 Million GE Plant in Hickory
About 40 laborers at the General Electric plant under construction in Hickory walked out for higher pay and better conditions. A Related 300 construction workers at J. A. Jones Construction Co. backed the strike with a peaceful picket line. Laborers’ Union Local 1017 claims the workers are organized, though the company says they are not. Negotiations and cross-craft talks were planned, with current pay around 90 cents hourly and a target around 1.10. Work continues, with steel erection about 40 percent complete and ahead of schedule.
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Hickory
N.C
General Electric
J. A. Jones Construction Co
Charlotte
Hickory Daily Record
Clarence Moore
The
Laborers Union
AFL
Moore
Jones
Bonnet Spotter Detector Aids Low Flying Plane Watch
The Air Research and Development Command unveils a new electronic aircraft detector worn on a hard hat to aid volunteers in the Ground Observer Corps. The device includes an antenna, coil, volume control, ear piece, battery bag and pulse amplifier to detect radar surges from low flying planes.
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Buzz Bonnet
Air Research and Development Command
Rome
N. Y
Air Development Center
Baltimore
Ground Observer Corps
GOC
Girl Bids To Save Lives Of Parents
In Chatham Ontario a 14 year old girl staggered downstairs with bullet wounds to phone neighbors and relatives in a bid to save her parents. She said my father has just shot me and I think he's going to shoot mother and himself. Police and neighbours arrived to find the mother Louella Gonerman dead and the father Ralph wounded. Jeanette Gonerman was taken to hospital and not seriously hurt. The father’s condition was listed as critical.
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Chatham
Ont
Jeanette Gonerman
Louella Gonerman
Ralph
Iman
Vo Paul Gonerman
Wallacetolding
Cette
Ben Arafa Defies French With Refusal To Quit
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa says he will not leave the Rabat throne defying French efforts to replace him. The stance jeopardizes a proposed settlement with Moroccan Nationalists and complicates Edgar Faure’s plan to resolve the crisis.
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Aix Les Bains
France
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Si Abderrahman el Hajoui
Rabat
el Hajoui
Edgar Faure
Ben Arafa
Faure
Pierre Koenig
Cyprus Riots Feared Ahead of Three-Power Talks
Britain warned of possible disturbances in Cyprus as the Turkish minority feared massacre ahead of a three power conference. British troops and police conducted a training exercise islandwide while Athens debated Adnan Menderes statements.
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London
Turkey
Britain
Cyprus
Foreign Office
Mediterranean
Greece
Grece
Athens
Adnan Menderes
Vladyn
U.S
Ediths Eccentric Hurricane Edith Forecasters See Slow Growth
MIAMI Florida 3 Hurricane Edith with 80 mile winds remains over the Atlantic in a slow development phase for two days. Eye temperatures and humidity hinder intensification as aircraft report warmer eye readings than expected. Center at 25.5N 63.3W about 970 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras moving NW around 10–12 mph. Caution advised for shipping. slow intensity rise predicted.
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Miami
Fla
Edith
Atlantic
Air Force
Hurricane Hunter
Gordon Dunn
Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Miarai
CBS To Televise Truman Speech From Detroit
WJBK TV announces CBS will carry former President Harry S. Truman’s Labor Day address from Detroit. The speech is set for 1 p.m. with coverage planned across the network.
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CBS
Truman
Detroit
Wjbk-Tv
Columbia Broadcasting System
Harry S. Truman
Tobacco prices average 47.86 on Eastern Belt opening day
The Eastern North Carolina Belt opened with 14,297,168 pounds sold at an average of 47.86 per hundredweight, down from last year’s 53.33, while total pounds sold far exceeded opening day figures. Stabilization Corp. share and regional comparisons noted. sales expected to remain heavy.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Federal
Federal State Market News Service
Tobacco Stabilization Corp
Government N
Stabilization Corp
W. P. Hedrick
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
South Carolina
North Carolina Border Belt
Flood relief loans aid six states after devastating floods
President Eisenhower announced up to 900 million dollars in loans to reconstruct defense plants and public facilities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Lt. Gen. Sturgis cited appalling loss of life and utter destruction as engineers assess widespread damage.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army
Ers
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Samuel PD. Sturgis
Office of Defense Mobilization
Defense
Sturgis
After Floods Waterbury Still Pulls Bodies From Debris
In the Naugatuck Valley flooding, Waterbury and surrounding towns suffer vast damage with a crushed Brooklyn district. Health inspectors report bodies still buried in debris near a ruined railroad bridge as National Guardsmen seal the disaster zone and rescue crews sift wreckage piece by piece.
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Waterbury
N. P
Naugatuck
Connecticut
Torrington
Thomaston
Union City
Seymour
Ansonia
Derby
Brooklyn
George Russell
Health Department
Riverside Street
Nine-member commission named to study legislative representation
Raleigh announces a nine member commission from the Legislature to study legislative representation. The governor also allocates nearly one million dollars from highway surplus funds for Prison Department improvements and more emergency road projects after hurricanes Connie and Diane.
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Raleigh
Gov. Co
House
Larry Moore
Bane
Luther Barne
Carroll W. Weathers
Wake Forest College Law School
Weimar Jones
Franklin
The
Franklin Press
North Carolina Press Assn
John Y. Jordan Jr
North Carolina Young Democrats
Moore
R. E. Brantley
Polk
Joseph M. Hunt Jr
Guilford
Thomas J. White
Len
Caledonia Prison Farm
Camp Polk Prison Farm
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Little Green Men Theory Marks GOP Mockery of Democrats
The Senate GOP Policy Committee staff mocked Democrats as desperate for a 1956 candidate after a Kentucky sighting of “little green men.” The memo said Eisenhower’s popularity threatens Democratic hopes, naming Adlai Stevenson Harriman and Kefauver as favored or sidelined contenders amid a split, with southern conservatives wary of Stevenson’s left leanings.
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Washington
Senate
Kentucky
Senate Republican Memo
GOP
Eisenhower
Carmine de Sapio
New York
Adlai Stevenson
W. Averell Harriman
de la
Stevenson
Sen
Kefauver
Mason
Benny
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James H. Jackson
Portland
Maine
Liz
Enue
Commission
Little Green Men
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