Nasser balks at loan terms for Nile dam project
Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser protests conditions on a British American offer to fund the Aswan dam on the Nile. He rejects economic control strings tied to a World Bank loan, risking the planned 1.3 billion dollar hydroelectric and irrigation project. U S ambassador Byroade heads to Cairo for talks as Washington and London seek to secure financing while Moscow weighs involvement.
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Washington
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Upper Nile
Nasser
World Bank
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
U.S
Henry Byroade
Cairo
Britain
United States
Nile
Aswan
Stork Derby winner may crown Baldwin baby at Fort Sill
At Fort Sill and Memorial hospitals two New Year's babies arrived within minutes of each other. A 6 pound 9 ounce daughter of Sgt. William H. Baldwin and wife Joan of Lawton is in the running to be named Constitution Press Stork Derby winner, while a 7 pound 6.4 ounce son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Mattox was born 1:45 a.m. January 1. The matrilineal tie links Elsie Mattox, nurse on duty at Fort Sill, as grandmother to the Baldwin child.
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Brenda Lynn
Ste
William H. Baldwin
Fort Sill Hospital
Memorial Hospital
Harvey Dale
George W. Mattox
Summit
Bill Dixon
Lawton
Fort Sill
U.S. Army Hospital
Andrews
Comanche County
Mattox
Elsie Mattox
Jefferson
Baldwin
Constitution Press
US. Army Hospital Annex
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Joan
War Bride Arrives Finds Spouse Dead
A German bride and her 13 day old baby arrived in the United States to learn her husband Frank Holder Jr. had died two days earlier from burns suffered in a December industrial accident. Holder, of Iselin New Jersey, had struggled with injuries after the Cornell Dubilier plant incident. The couple married in June 1954 and faced immigration delays tied to a dormant tuberculosis condition later deemed a calcium pocket by doctors. Rep Harrison A Williams secured a temporary visa, and the family planned his funeral for Tuesday as their infant daughter Evelyn, born December 20, accompanied them.
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New York
United States
Christa Holder
Frank Holder Jr
Frank
Christa
Holder
Germany
Harrison A. Williams
Dn.j
Cornell - Dubilier Corp
South Plainfield
N. J
Iselin
Krista Holder
Thomas Holder
Idlewild
Kathleen Holder
Thomas
Evalyn
Frank, Jr
Krista
N.J
French Crowd to The Polls In New National Assembly Vote
French voters gathered at polling places nationwide for the third National Assembly election since World War II. A record 26,871,688 eligible voters and 5,300 candidates contested 544 continental seats while overseas areas named deputies. Algeria postponed voting amid nationalist violence and observers forecast a highly fragmented assembly.
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Paris
France
Jura
Edgar Faure
New Caledonia
Society Islands
Pacific
Algeria
Weather Outlook Skies Turn Partly Cloudy Tuesday
Southwest Oklahoma forecasters expect a fade of bright sunshine on Tuesday as the area shifts to partly cloudy skies. The mild Sunday peaked at 70, with today’s high near 65 and a night low around 30 after a Sunday low of 32.
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Oklahoma
Nation Sees Slow Traffic Toll Amid New Year Weekend
As New Year holiday ends, AP reports 259 traffic deaths with 16 hours left in the 78 hour period. Fire and other causes push violent deaths to 351. Safety council urges careful driving as states boost highway patrol and enforcement.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Council
State Holiday Toll Reaches Four In Oklahoma
Oklahoma ends the New Year weekend with four deaths after two Guthrie men, Everett Dixon and Robert Alvin Troutt, died in a crash north of Guthrie when Troutt lost control of their car. The 1955 fatality toll rose to 4 with two deaths on January 1.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Everett Dixon
Robert Alvin Troutt
Highway Patrol
Troutt
Fire Rates Russian Embassy In Ottawa Feud Sparks Fire
A six hour blaze at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa destroyed the three story brick building. Officials said entry delays and alleged obstruction by embassy staff hindered firefighting. Embassy official Vitali Loginov put damage at 250000 dollars with no injuries reported.
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Ottawa
Charlotte Whitton
John Foote
Foote
Loginov
Igor Gouzenko
Canada
Tax Fight Seen in Congress Between Two Senate Veterans
Washington reports a likely major showdown in Congress as Southern Democrats George and Byrd clash over cutting individuals income taxes. The 1956 session opens with routine business until the State of the Union address, with party lines expected on tax, farm policy, and education funding.
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Washington
Senate
George
Byrd
Congress
House
Eisenhower
Capitol
George Lee
Troopers Praise Area Motorists During Holiday Period
Lawton area troopers and local officers praised motorists for safe driving during the holidays with no deaths reported in Comanche county by 10:30 a.m. Monday. The holiday period ends at midnight and officials urge continued precautions as highways fill with returning drivers. One injury occurred in a Sunday wreck involving Billy J. West and Bertha Kirkland.
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Lawton
Comanche County
Billy J. West
Fort Sill
Bertha Kirkland
Blue Crutch Day Opens 1956 March of Dimes Drive
Lawton kicks off the 1956 March of Dimes with Blue Crutch Day led by Comanche county volunteers from the Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges. A kickoff breakfast at 8 a.m. at Lawton cafe marks district canvassing, after a proclamation by mayor pro tempore Hastings urging funds to cover polio hospital and medical bills for any county resident.
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Jennie L. McCutcheon
R. E. Tallent
Lawton
McCutcheon
Lawton Rebekah Lodge No. 87
Tallent
Comanche County
Odd Fellows and
Rebekah
Hastings
C. R. Ellsworth
Crutch
VA Rejects Hoover Plan
The Veterans Administration rejected Hoover commission recommendations aimed at saving 157 million dollars yearly by limiting free medical care for veterans. The VA said the proposals were impractical unwarranted or based on misapprehension of the facts as analyzed for House Veterans Committee Chairman Olin E. Teague. The commission had urged tighter controls on nonservice related free hospital care and suggested closing some VA hospitals and charging some veterans for care.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Hoover Commission
Commission
H. V. Higley
Olin E. Teague
D-Tex
House Veterans Committee
Thrill seekers kill mother of four in Whittier assault
In Whittier California Doris Moulton 29 mother of four died from injuries after a beating by two narcotics users Nazario Gonzales Jr 18 and Jerry Garcia 19 were booked on suspicion of murder. They had been free on bail pending a statutory rape case.
Frank Hague, Jersey City Political Boss, Dies
Frank Hague the Jersey City political boss known for shaping state and national politics in the 1930s died Sunday night at his Park Avenue apartment. He rose from a sixth grade education to a multi million dollar fortune and power, famous for the phrase I am the law. Funeral services are set for Thursday at St Aedan s Church.
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New York
Frank Hague
Park Avenue
Hague
Jersey City
I Am
the Law
St. Aedan’s Roman Catholic Church
Sailor Murders Reluctant Gir in New Year's Eve Tragedy
In Cleveland a young sailor William Miller aged 24 and a married father, admits assaulting a brunette woman after a tavern dance. The woman, unnamed, was found nude and beaten in an East Side baseball park after New Year revelry. Miller says she changed her mind and accompanied him.
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Cleveland
East Side
William Miller
Ball Park
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