Ike Urges Congress to Cut Budget and Preserve Middle East Unity
President Eisenhower in his 100th news conference urged Congress to cut the 72 billion dollar budget if possible and to avoid splitting the Middle East program into separate military and economic aid measures. He said the budget must be trimmed where feasible and backed Humphrey's call for restraint. He warned that division would undermine efforts to deter Soviet aggression and emphasized no imminent depression.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Middle East
Soviet Union
Mideast
Isenhower
Fatal gas torch blast at Waunakee plant kills worker
One man, Benedict Adler aged about 33, was killed instantly when a gas torch used at Waunakee Alloy Casting Corp. apparently exploded and started a fire. Dane County officer R C Schwoegler reported the accident. In Alabama, Asa Ace Carter, leader of the North Alabama White Citizens Councils, faces charges of assault with intent to murder after a shooting at a Ku Klux Klan rally last night.
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Waunakee
Wis
Birmingham
Ala
Asa
Ace) Carter
North Alabama
White Citizens Councils
Democrats Lose Bid to Open Lobbying Inquiry Committee
In Madison the Senate rejected a resolution to create a legislative committee to investigate lobbying methods and scope. The measure failed 20 to 13, blocking early Senate action this week.
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Madison
Senate
House
Senate to Form Eight-Man Panel on Labor Racketeering
Senate leaders agreed to establish an eight member committee to investigate labor racketeering. Sen Wayne Morse urged a joint or special committee for the inquiry, signaling a shift in oversight approach.
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Washington
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Senate Labor Committee
Sweater Clue Emerges In Grimes Sisters Case
Investigators found a yellow size 32 sweater like one worn by Patricia Grimes in a boarded concession booth at Santa Fe Park near the body site. Police pressed a large search, questioned a suspect, and considered ties to a 1955 crime as pathologists worked to determine the cause of death.
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Chicago
Grimes Sisters
Santa Fe Park
Barbara
Patricia
Walter Kranz
South Side
Loop
Loretta Grimes
Joseph
Joseph Lohman
German Church Road
Willow Springs
Lohman
Robert Peterson
John Schuessler
Anton
Robinson Woods
Pipe Line Break Sparks Fire Near East Berlin Pa
A 20 inch Little Big Inch pipeline spill near York Pennsylvania sent flaming gas 200 feet into the air four miles north of East Berlin. Texas Eastern crews shut off gas at Marietta to contain the blaze with damage limited to the pipeline and no injuries reported.
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York
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
East Berlin
Here
Marietta
Speculation On Surtax Increase At State Capitol
Capital speculation suggested a 50 percent surtax on income taxes to help a projected 1957 59 state budget of 317 to 420 million dollars. Other options discussed include a higher income tax and a state income withholding tax as Gov. Thomson prepares his executive budget message.
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Madison
Statehouse
Thomson
Washington
Eisenhower
Capitol
Executive Office
Iraq Premier Nuri Said Resigns Reported by Beirut
Beirut newspaper Beirut reports Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said has resigned and named a successor though no confirmation from officials was provided.
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Lebanon
Iraq
Beirut
Nuri Said
Grace Kelly Gives Birth To Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite
Princess Grace delivers a daughter weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces at 2 27 a.m. Paris gynecologist Emile Hervet and Monacan Charles Bernasconi assisted. Crowds in Monaco celebrate as cannon shots echo over the Riviera capital.
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Monte Carlo
Grace Kelly
Caroline Louise Marguerite
Prince Rainier III
Riviera Principality
Aristotle Onassis
Sir Bernard Docker
Paris
Emile Hervet
Monacan
Charles Bernasconi
John B. Kelly
Princess Grace
Philadelphia
Kelly
Margaret
Margaret Kelly
Grace
Flames Raze Lumber Yard in West Allis Fire
A West Allis lumber yard suffered a major fire Tuesday destroying lumber and damaging three storage sheds. Fire officials estimated damage at about 50 000 dollars and called in the state fire marshal for investigation.
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Milwaukee
West Allis
Florian Luckow
Russell Davidson
Tower-Hubbard Lumber Co
Luckow
Train Truck Crash Destroys Mill and Sheds in Cedar Grove
A Chicago & North Western freight train and a fuel oil truck collided near Highway 32 in Cedar Grove Sheboygan County. Fire destroyed a slaughter shed, an adjoining meat market, and a Co operative Exchange mill with losses exceeding $50,000. truck driver James Young 38 Milwaukee was hospitalized with internal pains.
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Cedar Grove
Chicago & North Western
James Young
Milwaukee
Port Washington
Young
The
Co-operative Exchange
Sheboygan County
Sheboygan-Ozaukee
Co-Operative
Official returns show Gomulka coalition wins 98.4 percent
Warsaw reports from Poland's general elections indicate Liberal Communist Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka's three party coalition captured 98.4 percent of all votes.
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Warsaw
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
No Change In Strike At AMC
The AMC strike moves into its second day with 5 000 idle in Kenosha and 1 500 at Milwaukee plant. Talks unlikely as mediation efforts fail. union and company dispute five core issues including layoff seniority and 24 hour notices.
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AMC
American Motors
Local 72
Milwaukee
William G. Murray
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Chicago
Kenosha
Murray
Edward L. Cushman
AMC Industrial Relations
Detroit
Harvey Kitzman
Eisenhower urges restraint as prosperity is forecast to continue
President Eisenhower told Congress that 1956 prosperity should persist into 1957 but warned about rising inflation. He endorsed 38 laws for the 85th Congress, urged wage restraint, and called for credit access, school construction aid, anti monopoly measures, and small firm support while stressing need for public interest in prices and productivity.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
State of the Union
Enforcement on Hy 41 Cited as Safer Route
Wisconsin officials report 1956 traffic deaths at 953, up from 932 in 1955, with rural and urban fatalities rising. On state trunk Highway 41 improvements cut combined fatal and injury crashes from 1135 to 117 year over year, as patrols and county deputies stepped up enforcement and training.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
State Motor Vehicle Department
Milwaukee County
Melvin Larson
Wisconsin State Patrol
Racine
Kenosha
Kenosha County
Racine County
Dane County
Larson
Camp McCoy
Cold snap grips Kenoshans with subzero Grantsburg low
The region faced a new deep freeze with Grantsburg reporting 28 below, wastewater plant at 9 above and downtown readings at noon around 18. Skies remain mostly cloudy with light snow tonight. Thursday stays partly cloudy and cold. Low tonight 5-8 above, high Thursday 15-20. Sunrise 7:12, sunset 4:55.
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Kenoshans
American Motors
Grantsburg
Morse Chairman Won't Run Again
Chicago report states Robert H. Morse chair of Fairbanks Morse and Co will not seek re election. L D Silberstein of the Penn Texas Co faction declares Morse is quitting under fire after a year of board fights and proxy battles for control.
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Chicago
Robert H. Morse
Fairbanks, Morse and Co
L. D. Silberstein
Penn- Texas Co
Morse
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