Alabama Negroes Home Dynamited as Race Tensions Rise
Violence erupts in Alabama as two dynamite blasts strike Negroes homes in East Birmingham and Montgomery, injuring a family member and a pastor’s child, amid a wave of bus bombings and intensified civil rights debate. Police plan to hire 20 more officers in Montgomery, while national leaders push for civil rights legislation despite Southern opposition.
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Budget Seen At $72 Billion As Eisenhower Plans
Washington report says President Eisenhower plans a peacetime budget near 70 to 72 billion dollars for the next fiscal year. GOP leaders say defense and foreign aid costs push spending beyond prior highs and tax relief is unlikely. Officials note current year outlays are rising, with no tax cut planned.
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Smile of the Year Contest At Central Junior High
Annual Smile of the Year contest at Central junior high will run from 3 AM to 2 PM on Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. Rodney L Worthen, chair man, says the event aims to alert junior high students to dental care pitfalls and promote positive attitudes toward dental health. One boy and one girl will win the title after examination and typing by a dentist staff.
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Raids Seize Over Seven Hundred Bottles Of Liquor
County officials led by County Attorney Manville Redman and Deputy Sheriff Oval Ridgeway confiscated more than 700 bottles of liquor in two raids. At 2815 J, 409 bottles were taken from Ralph Hudson's site. behind an ice dock at 13th and Lee, Dean Sills' trailer yielded 356 bottles. The haul included beer, wine, vodka, gin and whisky. Possession charges expected next Wednesday after courthouse closure.
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Manville Redman
Oval
New Year Welcomes Peace Yet World Hopes For 1957
The world marked New Year's Day amid uneven peace and hope for easing tension. U S traffic deaths rose over the holiday, Times Square hosted about 450000 revelers, Eisenhower and Dulles prepared to outline Middle East policy, and Hungary faced curfew amid revolution fallout.
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Associated Press
United States
Japan
Hungary
Priest Hater Held After Church Fires
James Windridge 30 was held for questioning on a church arson spree that left St Josephs Cathedral a shell and St Patrick’s Church damaged. He allegedly said priests and nuns should die, and was arrested after trying Shiloh Baptist Church doors with a Bible in hand. Damage at St Josephs estimated five million. St Patrick’s about 250 thousand. He faced breach of peace, resisting arrest, and vagrancy charges on a 325 thousand bond. Police guard city churches after two fires in 31 hours. Windridge was nabbed by Patrolman Theodore Napper as he halted at the Baptist church and refused to comply. See FIRLS, Page 7, Col. 2
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Bomb threats and mock grenades mark New Year
New York police faced a spate of hoaxes as two telephone threats to a doctor’s office and the Hotel Statler proved unfounded. An apparent hand grenade shattered a Manhattan apartment window but was found to be a practice device. A second fake grenade lay in the street. Police traced the incidents to pranksters in a passing car while the manhunt for the “mad bomber” continued.
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Statler
Joseph Tittman
Upper Manhattan
8-Pound Boy Leads Field In Stork Race
Danny Ray Crow an 8 pound 4 ounce newborn tops the Lawton contest while other births arrive in Memorial hospital and Southwestern hospital. The event runs through Jan 10 with prizes from local merchants for timely certified birth notices.
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Mid East Plan By Top Salons Faces Fast Action Push
President presses for rapid moves on the Mid East plan while lobbying influential salons. Holiday tolls reach 1000 across combined New Year and Christmas periods with 413 fatalities counted by 3 am CST and safety officials warning of potential worse outcomes. The tally breaks down by state and cause, with traffic deaths dwarfing other categories as New Year trends lag behind Christmas. Distinct entities include the National Safety Council and Associated Press figures.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned Dearborn
Safety Council
Bulganin predicts 1957 peace despite western aggression
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, in an editors' Q A, said 1957 will bring new peace successes despite aggressive Western plans. He cited Anglo French Israeli actions in Egypt and the Hungarian counter revolution as proof of anti peace efforts, yet urged trust in peaceful coexistence and continued Soviet support for peace and security.
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Showers Possible Here Wednesday Forecast
Forecast indicates showers possible in southwestern Oklahoma with an early start to rain. A change in upper air patterns could bring scattered rain by Wednesday night followed by light showers Wednesday night or Thursday. Cooler temperatures expected, with a high near 55 and a low around 28.
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Eisenhower outlines Middle East plan with Congress briefing
President Eisenhower presents a new Middle East plan to block Soviet expansion at a White House briefing for House and Senate leaders. He aims to push a special message to Congress on opening day, with hearings possible early next week. The plan includes emergency authority to use armed forces if needed to shield Red threatened counties and a two year 400 million dollar economic aid fund for Middle East nations.
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Three Crewmen Killed In Baltimore & Ohio Train Collision
Martinsburg West Virginia: a head-on crash between two Baltimore & Ohio freight trains on a single track spur west of Cumbo killed three crewmen and injured others. Eastbound No 96 and westbound No 648 rams caused wreckage across hundreds of yards with 145 cars on one train and 160 empty hoppers on the other. Names of the deceased include B F Snipe 38 Lovettsville Virginia L Holler 31 Hagerstown Maryland Rnd a Beard 59 Brunswick Maryland. Engineers and crew from Cumberland Martinsburg Shepherdstown and Knoxville were aboard. Conditions and cause remain undetermined with reports of 35-40 cars derailed on the westbound train and 15-25 on the eastbound.
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