Brownell and McCarthy Clash Over Spy Risk
Fort Worth Texas. Attorney General Herbert Brownell says most suspected Reds have been purged from government while Senator Joseph McCarthy insists firings continue. Brownell notes 1,456 security risks dismissed since Eisenhower took office. both men debate pace and scope on television and radio programs.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Pi—Atty
Herbert Brownell
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Brownell
Texas
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Meet the Press
NBC
Eisenhower
Train crashes into car killing six near Royse City
A diesel streamliner struck a station wagon in Royse City Texas killing six occupants of the car including Victor Saufley 47 a Dallas real estate agent and former Southern Methodist University and New York Giants football player his wife Harriett 39 and their children plus a maid. Five passengers were hospitalized and about 30 others were bruised or shaken. The engineer said he blew the whistle and could not stop in time traveling about 60 miles an hour.
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Royse City
Tex
Burt Ting
Dallas
St. Louis
Victor Saufley
Southern Methodist University
New York Giants
Harriett
Bill
John
Jim
Irma Davis
Greenville
Robert W. Price
Fayette Grey
Henry Silver
New Braunfels
Mabel Parks
Tulsa
Oklo
Russell Lambert
Chester
Ind
Rebecca Rubenstein
Chelsea
Mass
J Sam Johnson Says He’s Boss
Hunt ingdon Tenn report notes J Sam Johnson county Republican chairman ousted after mass meeting fisticuffs over New Guard Old Guard split. Johnson says adjournment motion illegal and vows another mass meeting with potential state patrol aid to maintain order. He claims no local law enforcement will act and asks for help from governor or neighboring areas.
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Huntingdon
Tenn
Sam Johnson
Chaiman
GOF
Carroll County
Johnson
Jeader
Rufus McCollum
McCallum
New Guard
W.W. G. Leach
Snow Flurries Hit Tri Cities Shut Highways Across Tennessee
Snow flurries moved eastward across Tennessee reaching the Tri Cities with 2 to 5 inches reported in places and temperatures dipping below freezing. The Weather Bureau forecast more snowfall tonight while highway patrol warned slick roads and several routes around Nashville Cookeville and eastern counties became impassable.
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Tri-Cities
Tennessee
Weather Bureau
Washington
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Frank Williamson
THP
Rogersville
Elizabethton
Morristown
United States
West
Nashville
Cumberland Mountains
Chattanooga
Cookeville
Highway Patrol
U. S. Ton
Knoxville
Cookevile
Monterey
U. S. 41
U.S. 31
U. S. 31
Tornado Strikes Horida City Damaging Craig Field
A small tornado near Horida City, near Jacksonville, damaged three buildings and about 20 airplanes at Craig Field, destroyed a two story house, unroofed several homes, and damaged cars. Total damage estimated at 140000 with about 120000 from the airport and 20000 elsewhere. No injuries reported.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Here
Craig Field
Tom Heansy
Heaney
Turncoat GI Renders Dear Mom Letter From Communist Prison
Mrs Portia Howe flew 7000 miles to Tokyo to visit her son Pfe Richard R Tenneson in a North Korean prison camp where he declares he will not return to the United States He says he loves peace and family but will live as he wishes and fights for rights of man He mocks US authorities and hints at loyalty oaths and Gestapo-like scrutiny while detailing life in the camp including sports dancing and flooded rice fields
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Tokyo
Portia Howe
Rec
Ffe
Richard R. Tenneson
Tenneson
Pfe
Thimayya fears breakdown of interviews in Korea
In PANMUNJOM twenty two American prisoners refuse home interviews causing delays. Indian Lt. General Thimayya warns the talks may fail as prisoners demand control over interview length. Some prisoners, including Pfc Richard Tenneson, send letters to relatives showing propaganda influence.
Groceryman Fends Off Would-Be Robbers in Memphis
An irate Memphis grocer fought off two armed hold-up men last night. He struck one with a box of salt and a telephone directory, then chased them as they fled. A shotgun and shell were sought but not fired. one robber wore a white handkerchief mask, the other a full black Halloween mask.
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Memphis
Geggs
W. M. Miller
Miller
Miler
NATO Warned Against Laxity in NATO Session
Paris reports that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned NATO members that the Soviet Union is changing tactics but not policies to lull the alliance into slackness. He urged rapid European defense community ratification and stronger force postures. Bidault demanded U S and Britain guarantees for France to ratify while welcoming Eisenhower's atomic energy pool plan.
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Paris
John Foster Dulles
Western Alliance
Dulles
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council of Ministers
European Defense Community
NATO
Georges Bidault
France
United States
Great Britain
Bidault
Palace de Chaillot
Fisenhower
Fifteen Street Names Change As Workmen Erect Signs
Kingsport announces a major street name overhaul effective Monday with new titles posted on signs. Old Bristol Highway becomes East Center Street and Memorial Boulevard extends from Bristol Highway. Johnson City Highway becomes Fort Henry Drive. Walnut Street becomes EH Sevier Avenue. Woodside Avenue and Horse Creek Road also renumbered. Town officials urge residents to update addresses and inform correspondents.
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Kingsport
D. W. Moulton
Inter-Mountain Telephone Company
Moulton
Bristol Highway
East Sullivan
Upper Circle
East Center Street
Johnson City Highway
Brooks Circle
Bristol ‘Boulevard
Brooks’ Circle
Memorial Boulevard
Bristol
Corporation
River Bridge
Fort Henry Drive
Walnut Street
Boone Street
Mill Street
Sevier Avenue
Hall
Woodside Avenue
Konnatock Road
Horse , Creek Road
Wilcox Drive
Bastman Road
Lincoln’ Street
Fuller Street
Eastman Road
Capital To Welcome Richard Nixon Home
President Eisenhower and top officials prepared a lavish welcome for Vice President Richard M. Nixon on his return from a 45,000 mile goodwill tour of Asia and the Middle East. Nixon and his wife Pat were to land at National Airport where cabinet members would greet them. Eisenhower would receive the Nixons at the White House, with Nixon scheduled to report to the National Security Council and discuss U. S. policy in the Far and Middle East on radio.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Asia
Middle East
Nixon
Pat
Birdie
Globe
National Airport
White House
National Security Council
U. S
United States
Air Force
Maude the elderly horse rescued from 20 foot cistern
In Talladega Alabama Maude an aging horse with many friends survived three weeks in a water filled cistern after sliding through rotten timbers. Rescuers lifted her out by crane then treated with penicillin and whiskey as the vet said she had a 50 50 chance. The horse shed 400 pounds but lived on water and community help thanks to Billy Ray Hurst and neighborhood children who found her during a Christmas tree search.
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Talladega
Ala
Maude
Billy Ray Hurst
Billy
Ray
Danny Entombed The Safe Becomes a Rescue Scene
A toddler trapped inside a large home vault was freed after about ninety minutes by safe company experts, police and firefighters. Danny Stanley, two, clung to his mother as the door opened, then smiled for relief but showed no joy for the rescuers. The incident ended unharmed with the boy back in his mother’s arms amid a tense room. Also, Sullivan County and Kingsport pupils will enjoy an extended Christmas break, with county students dismissed at noon December 18 and city schools at the usual afternoon times, both resuming January 4.
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Nashville
Danny
Joe Stanley
Kingsport
Sulivan
Ross N. Robinson
J. Craft
Akard
Sullivan County
Dean Very Sure Reds To Resume Peace Parley
American envoy Arthur H. Dean said the Communists would likely resume preliminary talks on a Korean peace conference and warned that Allied troops could be lined up south of the DMZ in January to free 22 000 anti Communist prisoners if they wish. He left for the United States Tuesday after delivering the message. Red China and North Korea demanded Dean return to Panmunjom to resume negotiations. Peiping Radio said the U.S. must decide to bear responsibility for delaying the talks or return to Panmunjom to resume them. Dean noted President Eisenhower had ordered him home but said he would return when the Communists showed serious interest. He warned the armistice terms will allow final disposition of unrepatriated prisoners by December 23 and an 80 day period thereafter, and he doubted renewed war by either side. He also described North Korean military preparations as extensive bunkers, gun emplacements, and airfields. He expressed personal belief that the war would not be renewed, despite the South Korean threat to take action if unity talks fail by June 1954.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Thimayya
India
Demilitarized Zone
U. N
Japan
Pfc
Richard Tenneson
Portia Howe
Aladen, Minn
Tenneson
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
Red China
North Korea
United States
Pan
Amianjom
Peiping Radio
Berar
Panmontom
United Nations
Eisenhower
Washington
Deas
U.N. Woops
South Korea
ROK
Lake stage report shows low levels along multiple lakes
Lake stage notes on Watauga Lake indicate a low level near 15.4 feet with modest tow activity. Port Henry shows low water and Cherokee Belea reports similarly reduced levels. Tolston appears around 40-8 in the record, signaling ongoing drought conditions affecting navigation and launch operations.
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Watauga Lake
Port Henrry
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