Massive Port Houston Fire Causes $3 Million Damage
A 1,080-foot drydock and 12,500-ton barge burned in Port Houston amid a three-hour blaze. No injuries, but three men nearly trapped by dense smoke were rescued. Firefighters from nine cities and the Coast Guard contained the blaze. cause under investigation. Ship traffic disrupted near Todd Shipyards, Houston channel.
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Todd Shipyards Corp
Houston
Tex
Port Houston
Phillip Lemler
Todd
Houston Channel
Coast Guard
Trydock
Ene
Alice Pratt
Lemier
Channel
Great Plains Relief Plans Outlined by Eisenhower
In a state of the union style message to Congress President Eisenhower urged action on a Great Plains relief program. He cited 17 million people in ten states affected by drought and wind erosion and called for strengthened crop insurance more research and expanded farm programs.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Union
Congress
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Wyoming
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Texas
Nixon
Great Plain
Benson
Independent Progressves
California Voter Registration Forecast Tops 6 Million
Asst. Secretary of State Charles J. Hagerty predicts California's voter registration will exceed 6 million for the June presidential primary and climb toward 6.4 million as the presidential year heats up. Preliminary county figures arrive Jan. 21, with final totals due May 1.
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Sacramento
California
Charles J. Hagerty
Hhe
Hagerty
Half Month Pay Lost by AF General
Retired Maj. Gen. Byron E. Gates, 60, was fined half a month's pay and given a written reprimand by Lt Gen. Charles T. Myers of the Air Training Command for alleged personal gain from insurers. The non judicial punishment was imposed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under UCMJ Article 15.
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ATC
Uniform Code of Military Justice
Acused
Missionary couple freed by Reds depart for U S
Dr and Mrs Homer V Bradshaw United States missionaries freed after five years in Red China begin flight home on a military transport plane. They left Manila and arrived at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco late Friday for their US arrival.
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U. S
Manila
Homer V. Bradshaw
Red
China
United States
Pittsburgh
Travis Air Forcs
San Francisco
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Edmund G. Brown
Adlai Stevenson
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Lela
Maby
Stowe
Carousel
Shale Colette Jace
Ausea
H. Bolero Rayon
Bneo
Butler
Lakewood Blvd
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