Little Missouri river flood control budget victory noted
Congressman Oren Harris announces the Eisenhower budget includes 492000 for Little Missouri river and Oran creek to complete the channeling and flood control project. The letter argues flood control is a capital investment and urges prioritizing domestic spending while reducing the national deficit.
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Congress
Lncal
Arkansas
Oren Harris
Missouri River
Oran Creek
Orln Harris
Nood-central
Agriculture Week Focused Program in Hope on Thursday
Southwest Arkansas farmers will gather at Hope City Hall for an all phases To Discuss All Phases of Agriculture program. County leaders from Hempstead will address broilers dairying beef cattle home gardening and tomato production under drought. Speakers include Harold Allen Charlie Key Ned Purtt e Mrs J E McWilliams A P Davis Cecil Bittle Robert Garrett W B Nelson and Jesse Burke with five minute talks followed by farmer questions.
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Southwest
Arkansas Agriculure
Hope
Hope City Hall
Hope Chamber of Commerce
Hempstead County
Harold Allen
Springhill
Charlie Key
Washington Highway
Ned Purtte
J. E. McWilliams
Patmos Road
A. P. Davis
Beard's Chapel
Arkansas
Cecil Bittle
House
University of the University of Arkansas
Robert Garrett
Shore Springs
W. B. Nelson
Washington
Jesse Burke
DeAnn
Masons Confer Degree Tonight at Whitfield Lodge
Whitfield Masonic Lodge No 230 will confer a Master’s Degree this evening at 7 30. All Master Masons are urged to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
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Whitfield
Arkansas Forecast Notes Extreme January Cold
An extended forecast for January 22 to 26 shows temperatures in Arkansas averaging eight degrees below normal. Normal minima range from 95 to 48 degrees, with normal maxima from 45 to 68. Warmer conditions expected Saturday, turning colder Sunday night through Tuesday with light wind and a risk of wintry mix.
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Arkansas
Big Four Foreign Chiefs Arrive for Conference
Berlin reports Dulles Geoges Bidayit and Anthony Eden arrive for a Big Four conference opening Monday. Molotov expected in East Berlin by train tomorrow. Western ministers plan a pre conference talk at French HQ to align strategy. Dulles says aim is uniting Germany with free elections, hoping for peace in Europe. Molotov silent on U.S. statements.
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Tom Reed
Berlin
U. 5S
Dulles
Georges Bidayit
Anthony Ede
Germany
V. M. Molotoy
East Berlin
Eisenhower
Columbine
Two-Headed Twins Spark Town Curiosity in Petersburg
Ay monies's twins Daniel Kaye and Donald Ray, two-headed and four-armed, are cared for in a crowded Petersburg apartment. Neighbors and visitors flock to see the five-week-old brothers, prompting the mother to ask for privacy as physicians and authorities label them as two persons. Their family, with three other children, hopes to raise them amid concern over disease exposure and drafting.
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Petersburg
Ind
Aymonies
Internal Revenue Department
Daniel Kaye
Donald Ray
Indiana University Medical Center
Indianapolis
Iowa
Hugh Dillon
Dillon
Joseph W. Elbert
Elvaet
Pakistan Rail Wreck Kills 60 near Karachi
A Pakistan Rail Express train collision seven miles north of Karachi left 60 dead and 50 injured. Funeral prayers were held at the Sind Desert scene with railway officials and relatives in attendance. The blaze began after the crash with a trail of tank cars and was controlled at midnight.
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Karachi
Pakistan Mail
Sind
Ronryl
Cost of Living Shows a Slight Decrease
The cost of living fell less than one tenth of one percent in December, the second consecutive monthly drop, signaling continued stability in the economy. The November–December decline totaled half a percent, bringing the 1947–49 based CPI to 214.9, 7 tenths higher than a year ago and 1.5 percent above February when price controls began. Foods rose modestly from November to December, while clothing and transportation costs declined.
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Washington,ft
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS Comel
Ewan Clagne
Clague
Eight Killed in Crash of Navy Bomber
A Navy P2 Neptune patrol bomber with eight men aboard crashed on a cloud covered mountainside near Barbers Point five miles northwest of Pearl Harbor. Rescue teams reached the scene at midnight and found wreckage afire and inaccessible with no survivors. the plane was returning from patrol duty in the Western Pacific and had been cleared for landing when it struck the Waia Nae range head on.
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Honolulu
Navy
Waia- Nae Range
Pearl Harbor
Cloppity Clop Clock Replaced by City Sirens
HAL BOYLE recalls New York dawn sounds from a tenement waking to city life. The morning mix includes fire and police sirens, garbage truck rattle, and the elusive choppity clop of an age old hour horse. A couple’s early window routine shows a clock set by the morning horse instead of stars.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Manhattan
East River
Roger
Frances
Highway Travel Hazardous in Parts of State
Weather across Arkansas produced rain sleet and heavy snow with icy roads and sub freeZing temperatures. Temperatures dipped to seven degrees at Fayetteville and reached as high as twenty four at several towns. The heaviest snowfall was Newport at four and a quarter inches with other amounts ranging from one to three inches.
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Arkansas
U. S. Weather Bureau
Little Rock
Fayetteville
Fort Smith
Opark
Flipping
Gilbert
Newport
Arkana
Dardanelle
Morriston
Side Rock
Adriadelphia
Pine Bluff
Walm Ridge
Batesvie
Des Arc
Buffalo Gap
Augusta
Flippin
Melon Brings Hope to Dying Hot Springs Boy
Fouryearold leukemia patient Joey Grisham, given six weeks to live, will eat a melon delivered by state troopers. Rep Talbot Feild Jr located the fruit in Hope, a melon-raising center, while the boy’s father died a week earlier. The mother stays with friends as Joey remains hospitalized.
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Hot Springs
Joey Grisham
Hope
Hempstead
Talbot Feild, Jr
Joey
Jimmy Cook for Sheriff in Hempstead County
Jimmy Cook of Hope announced his candidacy for Sheriff and Collector of Hempstead County. He pledges strict law enforcement and impartial service, citing WWII and Korean War service, veteran affiliations, and his deputy sheriff experience. Cook, 46, is married to Grace Cook and is active in the Methodist Church and Century Bible Class, seeking voter support.
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Jimmy Cook
Hope
Hempstead County
Cook
Hempstead
Roxie Cook
Gordon Cook
Grace Cook
Myrtle Cook
C. Cook
South Pacific
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Methodist Church of Hope
Century Bible Class
Spring Hill School Break-in Probed
State and county officers investigate a break-in at Spring Hill School's lunchroom in Spring Hill. Detectives describe the incident as more vandalism than theft, with no injuries reported and no suspects named.
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Spring Hill
Spring Hnl
Youth Chooses Living Place for 13 Year Old Lawrence
In Chicago a judge allowed 13 year old James Houston Lawrence to decide his own living arrangement. He chose Little Rock Arkansas, where his two brothers and his mother’s relatives reside, overriding prior placement with a Chicago guardian. The Arkansas welfare department filed habeas corpus, and Judge Harry M. Fisher let James decide. James’s mother died in 1951 and his father in 1952.
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Chicago
James Houston Lawrence
Little Rock
Ark
James
Annete Ragland
Wiliam
Erwin
Hve
John Green
Lawrence
Prisoners Refused Home Released In Neutral Zone
Panmunjom reports say 21 Americans, 1 British, and 327 South Koreans who refused repatriation were released in a neutral zone at 12:01 am. The pro Communist POWs pledged to stay, while other anti Communist captives were moved by US, South Korean, and Chinese forces. More than 14,000 Chinese anti Communist POWs already sailed toward Formosa and over 7,500 anti Communist Koreans awaited reception in South Korea. An Indian officer said the pro Communist camp was quiet with little celebration.
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Britain
Closey
Neutra Zone
U. N
North
ROK
Tax Cut Ban Faces House Battle Over Rates
President Eisenhower urged Congress to resist major tax cuts while backing a broad rewrite of tax laws. The plan promises to trim revenue by two billion dollars yearly via deductions and allowances, not through rate reductions. Democrats plan a floor fight as Republicans broadly support the tax reform.
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Washington
Eisenhowser
Congress
House
Eisenhower
Rep
McCormack
Massachusetts
Washngton
Tabey
Rayburn
Texas
Engineer Quits Highway Dept in Conference With Firm
A State Highway Department engineer who joined in 1823 resigned yesterday to join a local engineering consulting firm with his son Neal B. Garver. The traffic engineer, Miss Golden Royal at a nearby store, announced the move effective January 23 with plan to head the new business.
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Mptle Rock
State Highway Department
Neal B. Garver
Indicted clerks bank shortage tale fuels grand jury case
Federal grand jury probes a bank shortage with mentions of umpire Mai and Thomas Westbre. Washington reports outline Eisenhower budget battles with Taft led Appropriations Committee, Rayburn warnings, and bipartisan concern over deficits and foreign aid. Fort Smith notes $185,000 discovery as investigation advances.
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Grand Ju
Mai
Fort “Smith
Grand Jury
Dover
Ingonist
Thomas Westbre
Soldier WHO killed girl deemed sane to stand trial
An American sergeant Maurice L. Schick twenty nine from Conninsburg Pennsylvania has been declared sane after psychiatric tests. He strangled nine year old Susan Roth in Japan last year and then shoved her face into water. He confessed saying he killed the child because she was there. He will be tried for murder next month at the stockade after transfer from a military hospital.
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Okyo
Japan
U. S. Army
Maurice L. Schick
Conninsburg
Ick
Susan
Rothschild New
Ten Convictions in Hempstead Circuit Court
The Hempstead Circuit Court adjourned after disposing of multiple cases. Charley Graham received six years for assault with intent to kill. Eddie Pree got one year for grand larceny. Mitchell Conway was fined 260 dollars and six months in jail suspended for possession of untaxed liquor. Roscoe Nathanial Polite drew seven years for robbery. J M Kennedy had a one year suspended sentence for disposing of mortgaged property. Elderly black burglary and grand larceny carried two years for burglary with one for grand larceny suspended for good behavior. Atris Perry sold liquor second offense with a 200 dollar fine. Theodis Lindsey faced three years in boys industrial schools for grand larceny. Frank Woods tied burglary and grand larceny to six years. Isaac Coleman Jr faced one year for selling liquor third offense. Judge Brown adjourned until February.
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Sheriff's Department
Hempstead
Charley Graham
Eddie Pree
Mitchell Conway
Roscoe Nathanial Polite
J. M. Kennedy
Atris Perry
Theodis Lindsey
Frank Woods
Issac Coleman Jr
Group Okays 18 Year Old Voting Age Amendment
Washington Senate Judiciary subcommittee approved a proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. The measure moves to the full Judiciary Committee where supporters expect opposition.
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Washington
A. Senate
Amet Gore
Senda
Judiciary Committee
Pravda Attacks Release of Korean War Prisoners
Pravda in Moscow denounces the release of antiwar prisoners in Korea as an armistice violation that would worsen the international situation and delay a final settlement. It says members of the Neutral Repatriation Commission at Panmunjom were pressured into releasing prisoners and urges holding them for at least 30 more days until the peace conference decides.
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London
Pravda
Communist Party
Moscow
Korea
Pravada
Moscow Radio
Monitorerd
Pravads
Panmunjom
All Around the Town at The Star
Hempstead Circuit Court reported ten convictions this week with Mitchell Conway fined 250 dollars and six months suspended jail after appealing a 100 dollar fine. Prosecution races include G W Lockadoo for Congress and Talbot Felld Jr drawing opposition in Texas and Kansas. Community drive for dimes continues with public donations to a local relief fund. Roy Anderson hosted a fire department ceremony gifting a TV set to Mr and Mrs Ray Allan. about 70 guests attended. Also noted is a dying Spa lad with Lukemis and a watermelon delivery to aid him. State Police report two more arrests at the Chamber of Commerce office event.
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Roy Anderson
Haskell Jones
Alva Reynerson
Roy “Anderson
Ray Allan
Lukemis
Chamber of Office
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