Kuibyshev hydroelectric plant faces delays push plan
Work on the Kuibyshev hydroelectric plant on the Volga is behind schedule with a 1955 start expected. Pravda notes drastic cuts in white collar staff and a drive to shift desk workers to field labor to meet targets. Feodor Loginev is named head of the new cabinet ministry for electric plant construction.
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Richard Kasischke
Moscow
Russia
Kuibyshev
Volga River
Asp
Pravda
Communist Party
Malenkov
Feodor G. Loginev
Oil Company Sold For 50 Million Dollars
Monterey Oil Co. purchased Ful lerton Oil and Gas Corp. for 50 million cash, gaining 5 700 barrels of crude daily production, 3 800 barrels of natural gasoline and LPG, plus large dry gas and plant residues. Fullerton, in operation since 1900, held assets across California New Mexico Oklahoma Texas and Wyoming as a major producer of casing head gas and LPG products.
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Los Angeles
Fullerton Oil and Gas Corp
Monterey Oil Co
Monterey
Howard C. Pyle
Rites
Fullerton
California
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Wyoming
Brothers collide in car crash. one brother killed
In Albion New York two brothers traveled home after a shopping trip. Their wives rode a second car. As they left the village the autos sideswiped. Thomas Shively age 27 of Barre Center was killed. Alfred Shively the brother was seriously injured. The two women escaped unhurt.
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Albion
N.Y
Thomas Shively
Barre Center
Alfred Shively
Leaders pledge cooperation on watershed development
At a National Watershed Congress dinner, Army Secretary Stevens Interior Secretary McKay and Agriculture Secretary Benson pledged inter agency cooperation on small watershed projects. They stressed avoiding duplication, ensuring state and local funding, and coordinating downstream and upstream protection efforts. The discussion followed a proposal for a federal program costing up to 100 million annually at full scale with 200 new projects yearly.
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Stevens
Corps of Army Engineers
Department
Army
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Army Engineers
McKay
Benson
Federal Treasury
Congress
Fedral
Katherine Jackson
New Hampshire
Spellman to Tour Overseas for Christmas Visit
Francis Cardinal Spellman announced a 28 day Christmas tour of U S servicemen abroad starting next week. He will spend the holidays in the Far East and Alaska, his fourth consecutive overseas Christmas.
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Spellman
New York
Francis Cardinal
U.S
Far East
Alaska
Extra Holiday Time Ordered by Eisenhower
President Eisenhower ordered extra holidays for government workers at Christmas and New Year s. Federal employees will be off all day on December 24 and a half day on December 31.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Pueblo steelworker kills daughter then kills himself
In Pueblo Colorado John Roybal 24 shot and killed his five year old daughter Elliza and then killed himself after his estranged wife Dixie refused reconciliation by long distance call. Sheriff Krutka noted the troubled couple separated four years ago, reunited last June, and separated again about two weeks ago.
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Pueblo
Colo
John Roybal
Olympia
Wash
John Krutka
Roybal
Dixie
Frank Maldonado
Krutka
Elliza
Royba
Ellita
Brazil Doctors End Three Day Strike Return
About 1,000 strikers and government employees reached a pact ending a three day walkout over pay. The government agreed to reinstate roughly 200 fired strikers while offering a reclassification plan aimed at boosting salaries by 20 to 25 percent. Army doctors aided hospitals during the disruption.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Montomery urges corporal punishment for unruly students
Viscount Montgomery calls for teachers to cane disruptors in class. U P checks show mixed views from Boy's Town, the Children’s Bureau, ex champions, a senator, a bandleader, a judge, the Texas Rangers chief, and university leaders, with most experts opposing corporal punishment.
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New York
Britain
Viscount Montomery
Ontgomery
U. P
Nicholas Wegner
Boy’s Town
Martha M. Eliot
U. S. Children’s Bureau
Montgomery
Samuel Leibowitz
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
The
Texas Rangers
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Iranian Shah and Queen Visit the United States
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Queen Soraya are in the United States on an informal visit lasting until February 9. They arrived by plane yesterday. The Shah may undergo a medical checkup and possible treatment.
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New York
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Iran
United States
Soraya
Water Major Problem Facing 1955 Legislature
Oklahoma City December 7 Water problems were called the most important work for the 1955 legislature by House Speaker-Designate B E Bill Harkey Democrat of Oklahoma City He endorsed no specific proposal but warned that unless water issues are solved three quarters of the state cannot advance economically further today
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
House
B. E
Bill
Harkey
Science shrinks piles without surgery new healing substance
Sufferers report piles ceased to be a problem as Bio-Dyne heals in injured tissue. The substance is now in a hemorrhoid ointment called Preparation H. Available at your druggist with a money back guarantee.
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