Senate Hopes for Vote On Farm Support Bill
The Senate enters its second week of farm bill debate with leaders optimistic a vote may come by week's end. Senator Potter doubts approval but says one or two switchable votes could push it through. Humphrey plans a lengthy speech to challenge claims of farmers' hardship and the logic of rigid price supports.
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Senate Today
Charles E. Potter
Rmich
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Senate
Humphrey
Homer F. Capehart
R-Ind
Thomas C. Henings
D-Mo
Hennings
Middle East
Herbert Hoover Jr
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Israel
Veterans Administration
The
Budget Bureau
Congress
Economy
Veterans of Foreign Wars
House Veterans Committee
VFW
George Deckard Dies at 67 in Linton
George Shoppie Deckard 67 a retired coal miner of Linton died at 2 35 am Sunday in Freeman Greene county hospital after a week of serious illness. He was born May 1 1888 in Monroe county son of Sweven and Josephine Clay Deckard. Survived by four daughters Belvin Scroggins Wilma Hobbs Marvella Moyer Lodema Anderson and four sons Willis Odis Atenze Benjamin all with spouses and sixteen grandchildren. Funeral services 1 30 pm Tuesday at Anderson Poin dexter Funeral home Rev Robert Wilkes officiating with burial in Switz City cemetery. He was member of Worthington Christian church and Local No 7489 United Mine Workers. Wife Alice Musser Deckard died July 1934. One sister four brothers and one sister predeceased him. Body to funeral home. viewing announced.
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George “Shoppie” Deckard
Linton
Freeman-Greene County
Mr. Deckard
Monroe County
Sweven
Josephine Clay Deckard
Christian Church
Worthington
United Mine
Ers
Deckard
Alice Musser Deckard
Belvin Scroggins
Wilma Hobbs
Tuscon, Ariz
Marvella Moyer
Chicago
Ill
Lodema Anderson
Boswell
Willis Deckard
Monon
Odis Deckard
Lafaytte
Atenze Deckard
Fowler
Benjamin Deckard
Pre School Roundup Set For Friday In Linton Areas
Children of Linton and Stockton townships who turn six by October 31 1956 report for the spring roundup Friday from 8 10 to 10 30 am Superintendent J Earl Bales said. North Ward students go to Northwest Ward building at White Rose and Ellis while others enroll at their schools with birth certificates.
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Linton
Stockton Township
J. Earl Bales
College Hill
Northwest Ward
White Rose
Ellis
Central
South Linton
Black Creek
Arms Sales to Israeli and Arab States Studied
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed for data on U.S. arms shipments to Israel and Middle East states. Undersecretary Herbert Hoover Jr. and Admiral Arthur Radford were set to testify behind closed doors. Debate over U S policy in the Middle East continued with critics urging clarity and support for Israel.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Administration
U.S
Israel
Herbert Hoover Jr
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Middle East
John Foster Dulles
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Foreign Relations Committee
Hotel Manager Killed by Flames at Lake Freeman Resort
Delphi Indiana Jack Roth 43 manager of the Roth Park Hotel a Lake Freeman resort center was killed today when a fire swept his home on the lake His body was found in the smoking debris by Monticello firefighters after the flames leveled the structure His father is former State Sen William Roth and he served as an Air Force pilot in World War II
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Delphi
Ind
Jack Roth
Roth Park
Lake Freeman
Roth
William Roth
Monticello
Lyons PTA Meeting Set For Tuesday Evening
The Parent-Teacher Association of the Washington township school will meet at the school house at 7 30 o clock Tuesday evening. Officers urged all members to attend and invited any adult interested to join.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Washington Township
Bowman Funeral Rites Held Today
Harry Bowman 64 prominent Sandborn area farmer died after an eleven day illness in Vincennes Good Samaritan hospital. Funeral services were at Ives Poindexter Funeral home Sandborn with Rev Hedden and Rev Hustler. burial in Sandborn cemetery. He was born Aug 11 1891 at Bedford and resided in Sandborn 35 years. Survived by widow LaVerne, two daughters Mrs Garrett Hunter and Mrs Andrew Fredley, two sons Stuart and Harry Bowman Jr., five grandchildren, one brother Thomas Bowman and Mrs Morton Anderson, with two sisters preceded him.
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Harry Bowman
Sandborn
Good Samaritan Hospital
Vincennes
Ives Poindexter
Edgar M. Hedden
Lloyd F. Hustler
Bowman
Bedford
Scott W
Almira Jane Mandel Bowman
Aheard
LaVerne Bedwell Bowman
Garrett Hunter
Lyons
Andrew Fredley
Stuart Bowman
Harry Bowman Jr
Thomas Bowman
Morton Anderson
Carrier Wins Expense-Paid Trip to Washington D C
Larry Poe of Indianapolis Daily Citizen and Indianpolis Times wins the final prize in a circulation contest. The Lin ton Stockton High School freshman, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Poe Jr, earns the trip to Washington D C with eleven carriers overall winning similar trips.
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Larry Poe
Daily Citizen
Indianapolis
Washington, D.C
Larry
Joe Poe Jr
Linton-Stockton High School
Washington
Kefauver Seeks Midwest Support in Iowa Campaign
Sen. Estes Kefauver resumed his bid for the Democratic nomination with a two day swing through Iowa. He planned a morning news conference a noon speech and a major farm policy address in Sigourney Iowa as part of the Midwest push.
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Des Moines
Estes Kefauver
Iowa
Sigourney
Russians Re-elect All 11 Members of Presidium
The Soviet Communist Party central committee re elected all 11 members of the outgoing Presidium led by Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Khrushchev. The Politbureau was renamed the Presidium in 1952 and will govern until 1960. Two alternates named are Nikolai Shvernik and Panteleimon Ponoma Renko.
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Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Politbureau
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin
L. M. Kaganovich
Nikita S. Khrushchev
A. M. L. Kirichenko
Georgi Malenkov
A. I. Mikoyan
Oreign
Vyacheslav M Molotov
M G. Pervukhin
M. Z. Saburov
M. A. Suslov
Klimenti Voroshilov
Soviet Congress Endorses Collective Leadership Doctrine
Twelve days of meetings led by Khrushchev and Bulganin established collective leadership and rejected the cult of the individual. The congress extended friendship to western, neutralist, and eastern nations, argued war between communism and capitalism is not inevitable, and approved a sixth five year plan for the Soviet Union’s economic growth.
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Khrushchev
Bulganin
East
Soviet Union
Illinois Mayor Defies Council Over Soviet Letter
Aurora mayor Paul Egan faced a 4 to 0 council demand to resign after his Washington conference gesture and letter to Anastas Mikoyan proposing a peace tour in Russia. Council members called his actions degrading and insulting and walked out when he refused to resign.
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Ill
Paul Egan
Soviet Russia
Egan
National Conference of Mayors
Washington, D.C
Eisenhower
Civil Defense
Washington
Peterson
Aanastas Mikoyan
Supreme Soviet
United States of America
Russia
Rotary keeps perfect attendance after hospital visit
In Ronceverte West Virginia the Rotary Club nearly lost its 40 week streak when Rev. Dave Harper hospitalised. Members then moved their weekly program to Harpers hospital room and maintained 100 percent attendance despite the illness.
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Ronceverte
W. Va
Rotary Club
Dave Harper
Harper’s Hospital
Dulles Seeks Long Range Foreign Aid Plan
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pushes a long term foreign aid program to counter Soviet economic moves. He proposes 100 million dollars annually for several years, possibly a 10 year span, with yearly funding instead of current year to year allotments. Senators Fulbright and Sparkman, critics on the Foreign Relations Committee, urge careful study and some form of aid.
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J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington — i
Dark
Russia
Fulbright
Sparkman
Philadelphia Bulletin Forum
United States
United Press
Dust storms, twisters sweep Midwest and Southwest
A new storm system drove dust storms across the Southwest and tornadic outbreaks hit Indiana and Illinois. Summerfield Illinois suffered major destruction with several deaths, while Ohio, Oklahoma, and other states faced wind damage and flooding risk.
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U.S
United Press
Ohio Valley
Texas
New Mexico
Midwest
Illinois
Summerfield
St. Clair County
Oklahoma
Ohio
New England
Canada
Pullman
Wash
West Coast Airlines
Seven Die In Indiana Weekend Traffic Crashes
Indiana saw seven deaths in weekend traffic incidents. Richmond residents plus two others perished in a head on collision just across the Ohio border southeast of Richmond. Names include Glenn Shepard Valparaiso Dayton Crisp Indianapolis Otha Meadows New Castle H Desmond Thornburg Parker Fred Downs Peoria Chester Moore Straughn Dale Ickes Mishawaka and others.
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Indiana
Richmond
Ohio
Glenn Shepard
Valparaiso
Ind
Kouts
Dayton Crisp
Indianapolis
Otha L. Meadows
New Castle
Dale L. Ickes
Mishawaka
U.S. 20
Lagrange
Two Youth Rescued After Raft Capsize on Flooded River
In Hammond Indiana on Sunday Alvin Washke age 12 and Malcolm Estes age 11 from Munster were saved when their improvised raft overturned in the swollen Little Calumet River. Mrs John Virus alerted police and her husband and she helped pull Washke from the current while Estes clung to a tree branch. Both boys were taken to a Hammond hospital for exposure and shock treatment.
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John Virus
Bomber Crashes Into Barn Killing 11 Near Dayton
A four engine Air Force bomber crashed into a barn near Dayton Ohio today killing 11 people officials at Wright Patterson Air Force Base said.
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Dayton
Ohio
Air Force
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Four Appointments Made to Linton City Park Board
Linton Mayor P. H. O'Hern announced four appointments to the city park board. Kenneth Ballard leads the golf course, Bob Moss oversees Humphreys Park, Austin O'Brien supervises Lee Sherrard Park, and Ed Slover is in charge of the Boy Scout camp.
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Linton City
Linton
P. H. O'Hern
Kenneth Ballard
Bob Moss
Austin O’brien
Ed Slover
Ballard
Linton Municipal
Moss
Humphreys Park
O’brien
Lee-Sherrard Park
Slover
Vincennes Woman Shot to Death in Apparent Burglary
Mrs. Yetta Karp, resident above a Vincennes clothing store, was shot in the head Sunday by a burglar. Her son found her wounded. she died shortly after. Police say the building was ransacked and robbery appeared to be the motive. entry method remains unknown.
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Vincennes
Ind
Yetta Karp
Leap Year Club Holds Quadrennial Greene County Meeting
One hundred sixty people attended the Leap Year club gathering in Humphreys park Sunday with six February 29 birthday holders receiving “places of honor.” Guests came from Indianapolis Terre Haute Robinson and other Indiana towns. President Mrs Stockrahm was re elected.
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Leap Year Club
Humphreys Park
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Robinson
Lit
Vincennes
Bloomington
Carlisle
Dugger
Linton
Jasonville
Bloomfield
Stockrahm
Indiana
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