Highway tax fight stalls 12 year road plan vote
House opposition toppled a proposal to spend 484% billion dollars over 12 years funded by a 1 cent gas tax rise and higher diesel taxes. The plan faced 128 Democrats and 164 Republicans voting against leadership backed measures while Eisenhower supporters split on a separate bond approach.
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McCormack
Ee Aears
Eisenhower
Special Commission
Nnd
Senate
House
Dondero
R-Mich
Powell Conviction Set Aside by Appellate Court Ruling
An appellate court questioned if Powell could be subpoenaed as an errment witness as it reviewed whether his grand jury testimony over bribery and criminal conduct in a federal housing program could stand. The case centers on Powell’s leadership of rental housing projects and related profits and losses amid a Senate Banking Committee inquiry.
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Letts
Atty. Gen. Brownell
Powell
Senate Banking Committee
Bascom Giles Found Guilty In Theft
Former Texas Land Commissioner Bascom Giles was found guilty of being an accomplice to theft in the Veterans Land program scandal. The 124th District Court jury sentenced him to three years in prison while he remains free on bond awaiting a new-trial motion.
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Austin
Texas
Bascom Giles
98Th District Court
Giles
Veterans Land Program
Veterans Land
Kenneth Towery
Cuero
Tex
B. R. Sheffield
Brady
Veterans Land Board
Kinney County
Tom Regian
Temple
Regian
Paris Shows First Fall Fashions
Paris fashion week opens with broad shouldered silhouettes and hipless lines echoed by Jean Patou. He declares hips deleted and shoulders broadened while reintroducing padded shoulders and high waist cues. Colors stay smoky with brocade satins, Oriental embroidery, bouffant party skirts, and long strapless gowns amid refined necklines.
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Paris
Jean Patou
Patou
Sex surgery followed by marriage in Reno
Tamara Adel Rees, 31, a former para trooper and divorced father of two, wed J. E. Courtland Ill, 30, a Los Angeles businessman, after a seven month courtship in Reno Nevada. The couple, who met in Los Angeles and honeymooned in Sacramento, were married by Rev. Stephen Thomas of Reno First Methodist Church.
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New York
Tamara Adel Rees
Holland
California
New York Daily News
J. E. Courtland
Los Angeles
Reno
Nev
Sacramento
Calif
Stephen Thomas
First Methodist Church of
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Notas Bun Bay
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