Business Tallies Year Under GOP Rule
New York businessmen weigh Eisenhower's year in office praising price and wage controls cuts in spending and tax reforms while criticizing debt and slow budget balance. They welcome liberalized depreciation and R D tax treatment and a stance to shrink government involvement in private enterprise. Some oppose public housing and persistent tax relief delays.
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New York
Eisenhower
Eisenhower State of the Union
Miners Hope For Miracle To Save Life In Mine
Ravensdale Washington January 8 Up teams of strong coal miners drill 500 feet underground hoping for another miracle to save entombed miner English age 39 trapped since Wednesday after a cave in that collapsed a chute and killed access. Roy Coutts 25 was rescued with minor injuries and shock as colleagues cling to slim hope for English with officials vowing to keep up the rescue effort.
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Ravensdale
Wash
English
Roy Coutts
Coutts
Aia Roy
Harold Lloyd Jr
Sam Nicholls
United Mine Workers, District 10
Lawyers To Delay Red Perjury Trial In El Paso
In El Paso on January 8 1950 lawyers for Clinton Jencks an MMSWU international rep delay his red perjury trial. They asked for a continuation of the preliminary hearing as the trial slated to open Monday nears. Government subpoenas seek MMSWU Local 890 Bayard New Mexico records and a San Cristobal Valley Ranch guest register at Taos New Mexico. Jencks rose to prominence when his union backed Salt of the Earth and he led a Zine Co strike near Silver City.
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EL Paso
John McTernan
Los Angeles
Nathan Witt
New York
Clinton Jecks
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
Ind
Jecks
Federal District Court
MMSWU
Bayard
N.M
Jencks
San Cristobal Valley
Taos
U. S
Herbert Brownell
Joseph Alderman
Harvey Williams
MMSWA
New Mexico
Hollywood
Silver City
Snowy Owls Travel South in Winter Hunger Flight
New York reports snowy owls slipping from the Arctic in search of food as Audubon notes a rare mid winter migration aligning with a rodent downturn. About 40 birds have been spotted across eastern and northern states extending to the Dakotas.
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New York
Arctic
United States
National Audubon Society
Dakotas
Public Dinner Set For Ag Committee In Enid
A public dinner will follow a House Agriculture Committee hearing in Enid Oklahoma. About 25 committee members and five staff will attend. Rep Page Belcher of Enid requests the visit. Chairman is Rep Clifford Hope. The delegation arrives Monday night and stays Tuesday for the hearing before leaving for Waco Texas.
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Enid
Okla
House Agriculture Committee
Waco
Tex
Page Belcher
Oklahoma
Rep
Clifford Hope
R-Kan
Movie Censorship Proposal Hits Oklahoma Lawmakers
Oklahoma Representative Glen C. Collins Konawa proposed a law to ban morally low lewd and obscene movies in the state He urged approval by the Motion Picture Association of America as a showing requirement but did not call for a state censorship board He cited industry efforts to regulate releases like The Outlaw The Moon is Blue and The French Line to protect spiritual and moral welfare.
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Oklahoma City
Glen C. Collins
Konawa
Collins
Jack A. Rhodes
State Legislative Council
Motion Picture Association of America
Oklahoma
POWsMother Tribute To His Wife At Fort Worth Arrival
Mrs O L Batchelor mother of Corp Claude J Batchelor who chose repatriation over communism at Fort Worth airport visited the city en route to Ker mit Tex after appearing on a Chicago TV show. She spoke of the couple Claude and Kyoko's marriage in Tokyo in 1950 and how Kyoko's letters influenced his return home.
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Fort Worth
O. L. Batchelor
Corp
Claude J. Batchelor
Claude
Kyoko
Tokyo
Young Batchelor
Korea
Texan Oklahoma's 10th Traffic Victim
Garvin Eugene Cheatwood, 24, from Amarillo Texas, died Thursday night in Cimarron County Hospital Boise City Oklahoma, raising Oklahoma’s highway toll to ten for the year.
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United Press
Amarillo
Texas
Oklahoma
Garvin Eugene Cheatwood
Cimarron County
Boise City
Driver suffers fatal injuries in U S 287 crash near Boise City
A motorist on U S 287 near Boise City suffered a broken neck and severed spine with other injuries after his car left the left shoulder, crossed the pavement to the right, overturned down a five foot embankment, and hurled him 35 feet from the wreckage.
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Boise City
Cheatwood
U.S. 287
Wintry Weather Confined To North
Arctic air chilled the northern half of the country with light snow flurries and subfreezing readings. Temperatures near zero in northern Michigan and Maine and 12 to 16 degrees below yesterday across the eastern Great Lakes and New England. Southern regions stayed clear and cold, while coastal areas saw light rain and drizzle.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Rockies
Michigan
Maine
Great Lakes
New England
Postal Receipts Rise as 1953 Gross Tops Fifty Thousand
Acting Postmaster Leo Johnson reported a 5 percent rise in postal receipts for 1953 reaching $50,564.89, the first year over the $50,000 mark. The increase reflects rising mail volumes and steady demand across the service.
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Tere Wa i Mlery
Leo Johnson
Retailers See Credit Buying Slowing in Oklahoma City
A merchants spokesman said credit buying has fallen off somewhat compared with last year, noting the slowdown during December. He commented that most stores reported stronger sales earlier in the year but a softer pattern recently.
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