Senate debate on expanded reserve service and youth volunteers
Senator Rus MGave outlined a plan backed by the president and the Pentagon to expand military reserve participation including a voluntary system for teenagers and a six to twelve month active reserve option. The bill aims to boost combat readiness toward 2,900,000 by 1960 while addressing discharge and assignment rules and an optional bonus. Separate local notes cover the Center Home Demonstration Club meeting with nine members and Betsy Jane McMahen’s birthday celebration.
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Igton W
Rus Mgave
Wer
Pentagon
I Snes
Russell
Senate Armed Serve
House
Senate
Center Home Demonstration Club
Sardis Greer
A. P. Jones
Nevada
Prescott birthday picnic marks fifth with family gathering
Prescott News reports a fifth birthday supper hosted by Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McMahon. The lawn party featured pastel birthday cake, balloons, and games. Several local families and guests from Tulsa, Little Rock, El Dorado, Magnolia, Malvern, Helena, and Greenville attended or were mentioned in weekend visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. V. McMahon
Mary
Sammy Cruse
Sarah Janet Bryson
Merilyn White
Doug
Alec Gordon
Kenny Formby
Jerry Haynes
Mrs. McMahon
L. J. Bryson
Ernest Cox
J. M. Futrell
Magnolia
L. R. Woods
Malvern
John Barrow, Jr
Helena
Harley Cox
Karen Marie
Greenville
Johnson Keeps Tabs on Senate From Bed at Bethesda
Sen Lyndon B Johnson remains in bed at Naval Medical Center Bethesda after a heart attack described as moderately severe. He follows Senate developments via aides and family, reads papers, and watches news with a TV in his room supervised by Lady Bird Johnson. Several visitors and staff travelers are noted in the surrounding weekend visit report.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Johnson
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Cone
Texas
Lady Bird
Arkansas champion Cowboy Bob Clay to wrestle in Nashville card
Cowboy Bob Clay, the Arkansas champ, is set to face Jack Steel in a 2 of 3 falls prelim in Nashville Tennessee on Thursday. The main event features Wild Red Berry versus Mike Liberace Gallaher with tickets at the Diamond Cafe.
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Bob Clay
Arkansas
Jack Steel
Nashville
Tenn
Wild Red Berry
Mike ‘Liberace
Gallaher
Diamond Cafe
Lyndon Johnson Seeks Rest During Hospital Stay
In a 16th floor Johnson suite, aides rotate between hospital and Capitol duties. They manage calls, letters, telegrams, and flowers while Lyndon Johnson follows doctors orders with hourly checks to avoid overtaxing his strength. His brother Sam Houston Johnson says he may see visitors if feeling well.
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Johnson
Capitol
Sam Houston Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Three ex GI turncoats seasick aboard ship near Okinawa
Aboard the president Cleveland 160 miles south of Okinawa three former GIs who deserted after the Panmunjon exchange suffer seasickness as the ship veers through a typhoon. William A. Cowart Lewis W. Griggs and Otho G. Bell, aged 22 to 24, head to San Francisco after 19 months in Red China. They say they prefer home to communism and describe quiet days at sea with occasional drinks and time in bunks. Cowart denies reports of a Hong Kong party and cites passive resistance spreading among Chinese under Communist rule.
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William Cowart
Otho Bell
Lewis Griggs
Hong Kong
Via
Free World
NEA Telephoto
Cleveland
Okinawa
William A. Cowart
Monticello
Ark
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
Otho G
Red China
Panmunjon
Griggs
Coward
China
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Medwin B. Harkinson
Betsy Jane McMahen
Prescott News
Robert Conway
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Conway
J. C. Stegar
Excelsior Springs, Mo
J. C. Stegar, Jr
Jackie McMahen
Rock
Christine McMahen
Jack Hardy
Tyler
Mrs
Josephine Carrington
Miss Kay King
Little Rock
Karl King, Jr
Dudley Gordon
Anina
Ellen
Mrs. S. B. Scott
el Dorado
S. B. Scott
Duncan Mitchell
Kansas City
Rug
Carl Cardwell
Southwestern Bell
Tailor
Dry Cleaners
Sen. Johnson
Bed
Mrs. Dallis Atkins
Mrs. Mitchell
Marcia Ann
Duncan Riley
J. W. Bridges
Susan of
Frank Haltom, Jr
S. D. Dickinson of
Sam Dickinson
Kenneth Ledbetter
Benton
Alfred E. Smith III
Baton Rouge
Randolph Hamby
R. P. Hamby
Eastman Kodaks
Ward & Son Druggist
Buick
Sid Rogers
Buick CO
Hope, Arkansas
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