Budget Cut Plans Are Mapped by Senate Democrats
Washington reports that Senate Democrats led by Lyndon B. Johnson map to shrink nonessential spending in response to Eisenhower budget concerns. The House approved a resolution 219 to 178 urging the president to identify substantial reductions, while GOP senators argue spending cuts fall to Congress. President Eisenhower expected to ignore the House action, which lacks legal force.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Senate
Eisenerrs Graeantedee
Beled Johnson
House
Eisenhower
GOP
Lee
Congress
Rep
Gubser
Califor
Modern Miracles in Everyday Life
The article reflects on miracles rooted in biblical times and today. It argues God still performs remarkable acts through people and through natural processes framed as chance or luck, urging praise for divine order and contemporary miracles. It notes a shift from attributing power to God to calling events mutations or coincidences.
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Jesus
God
Ben-Gurion Defends Freedom of Action Over Gaza Crisis
In a Knesset address Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion says Israel reserves its freedom of action if Egypt returns to Gaza. He asserts Gaza never belonged to Egypt and would be used only to threaten Israel. U.N. officials and Egypt appear to seek a joint approach, with Bunche and Nasser meeting to discuss the crisis.
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Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Gaza Strip
Ben-Gurion
Knesset
Israel
Cairo
U.N
Ci Oader
Strip
Ralph Bunche
Nasser
Gaza
Bunche
Saresllo
Abba Eban
Washington
Florida
U.S
Ig Nom
Egypt
Red Editor Refuses Answers To HUAC Hearing
John Gates editor of the Daily Worker refused to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities subcommittee citing the First and Fifth Amendments. He was barred from speaking at city venues and claimed his right to voice views was being deprived to students. A witness noted Communist Party membership had fallen to about 100,000. Rep. Morgan M. Moulder presided. details continued on page ten-a.
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New York
John Gates
Daily Worker Today
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Gates
Communist Party
North Carolina Constitution Rewrite Proposal and 18 Vote Bill
Rep Ed Gavin introduced a joint resolution to appoint a governor led commission to study amending the state constitution. The Senate placed on its calendar a voting age bill to 18 with a without prejudice report. Sen Perry Martin urged support while Eure cited youth interest and prior adoption in Georgia and Kentucky. A highway commission reorganization bill advanced substantially.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Ed Gavin
Randolph
Georgia
Kentucky
Gavin
State Highway Commission
Adams Faces Trial for Alleged Poisonings at Old Bailey
Dr John Bodkin Adams, a 58 year old physician, stands trial next Monday at London's Old Bailey for allegedly drugging wealthy elderly patients to profit from wills. He is also charged with causing the deaths of two other patients and was committed to trial in January by an Eastbourne court.
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London
John Bodkin Adams
Old, Bailey Court
Adams
Criminal Court
Edith Morrell
English Channel
Eastbourne
McAfee Case Heads for Jury in North Carolina Slashing
An alternale jury in Taylorsville, North Carolina, expected to hear the case of Ross McAfee alias J C Adams a Mississippi itinerant field hand charged with first degree burglary attempted rape and assault with intent to kill in the slashing of a young white housewife Mrs Glen Waugh. The victim testified detailing the attack in her two room cottage on January 31 describing multiple knife wounds and attempted rape before the intruder fled after she alerted neighbors and locked doors. State investigators cited McAfee later admitting the offenses in statements to authorities outlining additional violence in Georgia Arkansas and other locations.
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N.C
Ross McAfee
J. C. Adams
Meridian
Miss
Glen Waugh
Scendant
State Bureau of Investigation
Ray Garland
McAfee
Alexander County
T. E. Bebber
Willie Milan
Fairburn
Marianna
Ark
U.S. Presses Ethiopian Bases Amid Global Tensions
Vice President Nixon campaigns for an Air Force base and anchoring rights at Massawa in exchange for aid, as Addis Ababa backs the plan. Moscow and Cairo react, warning of possible war over U.S. atomic storage and naval access near Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Egypt's Nasser dispatches envoy to Addis Ababa amid talks.
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Haile Selassie
U.S
Egypt
Ethiopia
Nixon
Red Sea
Massawa
Moscow
Cairo
Russia
United States
Nasser
Suez
Gulf of Aqaba
Gulf
Aden
Hospital Site Is Purchased for New 150-Bed Facility
Greensboro Wes ley Long Hospital Inc buys 23.5 acres between Friendly Road and Benjamin Parkway near the city for a proposed 150 bed hospital and nursing home costing 2.75 to 3 million dollars. The board chaired by Mose Kiser announced the plan after a hospital meeting. Plans include private patient rooms and advanced lab equipment with a nurses’ home for 40 to 50 staff lineup. Final nursing training decision pending. The project stems from the Expansion Fund with over 568000 pledged. Formal Hill Burton Act finance application to NC Medical Care Commission planned. Duke Endowment showing interest.
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Greensboro
Wesley Long Hospital Inc
Friendly Road
Benjamin Parkway
Mose Kiser
Gesibannasat
Wesley Long
North Carolina Medical Care Commission
Kiser
Duke Endowment
Records Destroyed Amid Panel Hearings on Union Finances
Mikesell testified most financial records for Council No 37 from 1954 to 1956 were destroyed to create more office space. He charged missing records included the Portland district’s union finances. Open hearings revealed tapes and testimony alleging malfeasance and attempted double crossing by Langley and associates.
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Mikesell
Council No. 37
Sitemeter
Portland
Ore
Robert
Sentte
Portland Teamsters Union
Langley
Plans Slow Trip To Bermuda
President Eisenhower announced a slow naval cruise to Bermuda to clear a head cold and ear infection. He will meet Prime Minister Macmillan March 21 and may sail from Norfolk, aiming for long talks without a fixed agenda. His physician says his condition is improving but not fully recovered.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Bermuda
Florida
Macmillan
Great Britain
Norfolk
Flora
Bomb threat prompts 36 planes searched across 10 cities
In a coordinated scare, five bomb alerts led to searches of 36 planes from five major airlines in 10 cities across the East Midwest and South. No bombs found, but delays affected about 1,000 passengers. A caller claimed explosives aboard planes bound for Newark and Boston routes.
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Midwest
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Air
TWA
American Airlines
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Newark
Delta Airlines
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Tex
Charlotte
N. C
Philadelphia
Delta Flight 129
Constellation
Eisenhower says he will help but Congress must cut budget
President Eisenhower said he will be as helpful as possible but Congress must determine where to cut the budget. He noted the House passed a resolution asking for substantial spending cuts and said Congress authorizes projects and funding. He earlier visited Walter Reed for a new physical checkup.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Gress
Aesty Howe Ereiere
Norfolk
House
Congress
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Bills Tighten School Fire Regulations
Raleigh reports a Mount Airy fire killed one pupil and a teacher and injured over twenty prompting Rep. Joe Fowler to introduce three bills. Proposals require monthly principal inspections and fire drills, monthly electrical inspections by trained inspectors, and fire marshal oversight in counties lacking inspectors.
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Raleigh
Mount Airy
Joe Fowler
Surry
Fowler
Stassen Heads to London for Disarmament Talks
Harold E. Stassen leaves Washington for London to represent the United States at a United Nations Disarmament Commission subcommittee meeting. Reports say he may quit after the talks and he is also linked to a possible Pennsylvania gubernatorial run next year. He is 50, balancing disarmament duties with his political future.
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Harold E. Stassen
London
Eisenhower
United States
United Nations Disarmament Commission
Stassen
Pennsylvania
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