Interstate highway plan faces funding and formula trials
The article outlines two versions of a 19 year interstate program with most roads dual and some eight lane. Congress would fund 90 percent of costs and raise about 14.5 to 14.8 billion dollars via a mix of new taxes over 16 years. A penny per gallon gasoline tax and other levies are proposed to finance the plan.
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Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Senate
Gore
D-Ten
Congress
House
Sam Wuld
Public Roads Bureau
Woman Pleads Guilty to Murder Charge in North Little Rock
Mrs. Mary Ann May aged 34 pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the shooting of her half sister Miss Maxine Hendon 21 in the May home North Little Rock. She was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Prosecutor Frank Holtgreed declined to seek a suspended term despite defense requests.
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Little Rock
Mary Ann May
May
Maxine Hendon
North Little Rock
Frank
Afkildavits
Ira May
President Eisenhower Leads Memorial Day Prayer Walk
President Eisenhower accompanied by three aides left the White House for St. Episcopal Church to offer Memorial Day prayers for enduring peace. He was joined by Secretary Humphrey and Secretary Quarles in a brief, nonreligious service with a small crowd admiring the scene on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Defense Wilson
Treasury
Humphyrey
Air Force
Quarles
Pensylvania Avenue
Fayette Square
St Episcopal Church
Humphrey
Dry Weather Relives Floods and Speeds Indy 500
Dry warm weather eases floods in Indiana and Illinois after weekend downpours. Indianapolis hosts flood emergency as Mayor Bayt mobilizes Civil Defense and police on duty ahead of tomorrow’s 500 mile race amid drying weather and limited scattered showers.
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Associated Press
Indiana
Illinois
Speedway
Indianapolis
Phillip L.’ Bayt
Minois
Opinion: Arkansas AG weighs legality of give away policy
A Arkansas attorney general's office opinion discusses a plan to give away life insurance or switch grocery purchases under certain conditions. The advisory clarifies when such a policy might be legal and under what constraints it would be allowed.
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Little Rock
Attorney General's Office
Assis
Firestone Civil Suit Seeks Injunction Over Union Pact
A lawsuit filed by Caraine Smith Thomas Jenkins and Gen Brown seeks damages and a temporary injunction to force the Firestone company and union to follow the collective bargaining agreement. Company and union officials were not immediately available for comment.
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On and Company
Caraine Smith
Thomas Jenkins
Gen Brown
Attorney General’s View on Grocery Link Insurance Plan
Atty Gen James Sloan said the plan is lawful only if the insurance contract ties its issue to grocery purchases. Without that link the scheme would violate state rebate law. The Insurance Department requested the opinion. The proposal outlines a one year non-renewable policy equal to groceries bought, with the grocer paying 2 percent of the insured amount to the insurer.
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James Sloan
Sloan
State Insurnce Department
Safe Looted at Paragould
A thief broke into Earl Kirk Inc in Paragould last night or today, smashing a safe and cash register using tools found inside. About 60 to 70 dollars from the register and around 10 dollars from a nearby box in a garage and salvage yard were taken. Sheriff Chester Shirley and Chief Sam Hunt had no clues. police saw no link between the breakins.
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Paragould
Earl Kirk, Inc
Kirk
Cash Register
Chester Shirley
Sam Hunt
Saloage
Weather outlook with scattered thundershowers across regions
Partly cloudy and warm this afternoon with widely scattered thundershowers tonight and Thursday. Friday remains partly cloudy and warm with scattered afternoon and evening storms. Temperatures rise to upper 80s to low 90s in most areas with high winds near the Adriatic Sea sometimes blowing trains from tracks.
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Adriatic Sea
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