Eisenhower outlines housing program to upgrade slums
The President proposed expanding FHA mortgage insurance to rehabilitate aging homes and assist slum clearance, with higher loan caps and longer-repayment terms. He urged reorganizing the National Mortgage Association toward private control, and streamlining housing agencies to remove inefficiencies. The plan includes experimental low-cost financing with no down payment, and continued public housing while testing new programs. Cole to brief Congress with further details, aiming to reduce slums and improve declining neighborhoods. He stressed the need for funds to support these efforts and emphasized equal opportunity for minority families.
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Citew
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Federal National Mortgage Association
Albert M. Cole
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Eisenhower
Cole
Congress
Eisenhhower
Sage
Veterans Administration
National Mortgage Assa
FNMA
Central Mortgage Bank
PNMA
French Exiled Moroccan Sultan Relocated From Corsica
The deposed Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef and entourage were moved from Corsica to a new exile home as anti French sentiment grows in Morocco. His sons, daughters, wives, and companions accompany him, with reports of a costly daily upkeep. Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa pressures Moroccan chiefs to obey or face removal, while a Tetuan assembly pledges loyalty to Ben Youssef.
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Paris
Tahiti
Madagascar
France
Morocco
Ben Youssef
Ben- Youssef
Corsica
Ben -Youssef
Sultan Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa
Tetuan
Spanish Morocco
Sidi ‘Mohammed Ben “Moulay ‘Arata
West Berlin Prayer for Big Four Conference Opens Silence
West Berlin marked the Big Four ministers conference on Germany unity with a three minute silence as a snowstorm paused city life. Security was intensified across East and West sectors with thousands of riot trained troops and police guarding ACA buildings and Molotov's route to the conference venue.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Germany
Freedom Hell
City Hall
Walter Schreiber
Ruwlan
Allied Control Authority
U.S
V. A. Molotov
Molotov
ACA
Potsdamer Strasse
East Berlin
Unter den Linden
Bran- Serre
Borer
Ernst Wollweber
East Germany
Wolleber
Secretary of State
Dulles
State Department
Coffee Sales Drop in New York City
New York merchants report coffee sales fall by half after price increases pushing price above one dollar a pound. The associations note the drop affects retailers across the city as demand weakens amid higher costs.
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New York
New York City
Judge Denies Motion in Tongay Aquator Death Case
Miami court denies defense request for acquittal in case of Russell Tongay charged with causing the death of his five year old daughter Kathy by forcing dangerous dives. Autopsy linked death to peritonitis from ruptured intestine after dives from a hotel pool tower.
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Miami
Fla
Ben
Willard
Russell Tongay
Kathy
Louis Jepeway
Tongay
Miami Beach
Victor Calderin
Gustav Peterson
New York
Peterson
Bubba
Philadelphia Yeggs Loot $22,009 From Girard Vaults
Safe crackers drilled into a steel walk in vault at Girard Federal Savings and Loan Assn and looted three safes of $22,000 early Sunday. A cleaning woman discovered the door open, two doors on each safe were forced with an acetylene torch, and burglars fled before entering a fourth safe containing $8,000.
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Philadelphia
Girard Federal Savings & Loan
Assny
Allies Clash Over Germany Policy At Big Four Talks
In West Berlin the Big Four opened talks with Bidault pushing for German unity under a defensive Western framework and free elections, while Molotov pressed for a Bonn East Berlin compromise. Eden urged elections to form an all German assembly ahead of any peace treaty, signaling a pivotal East West clash over Europe’s future.
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France
Georges Bidault
Britain
Anthony “Eden
Allied Control Authority
Paris
Germany
Moscow
Eden
Suave
Bidault
Bonn
East Berlin
Molotov
United Nations
Soviet Union
Dulles
Austria
Korea
China
Red
Council of Foreign Ministers
Aaid
Europe
Asia
West Berlin
Jin
Eisenhower
Lodge Favors Aiding Others to Help on 5
Fort Worth reports Henry Casbolt Lodge says aid to other nations should serve U S interests. He argues U S power and respect come from aid aligned with national benefits, not affection, as he speaks on the Texas Republican executive committee’s weekly Report to Texas radio program.
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Lodge
Fort Worth
Henry Casbot Lodge
U. S
United Nations
United States
Jon
Texas Republican Execuiive Committee
Texas
Rainfall totals and storm impact across Los Angeles area
A regional storm dropped up to 1.26 inches in Artesia while flooding closed schools there. Downey life paused as one lane on Firestone Blvd opened to traffic. Hollywood outages occurred from transformer trouble and mud slides on Sunset Strip. Snow and mud blocked Rim of the World Hwy and Hwy 395, with Crestview reporting three feet of snow. Traffic incidents and the region’s first highway fatality of the year were noted as gusts reached 38 mph at Municipal Airport.
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Artesia
Waramtoont Blvd
Downey Ava
California Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
California
Transformer J
Hollywood
Sunset Strip
Lou Coste
Sunset Blvd
Bishop
Crestview
Leevining
Weather Bureau
San Bernardino
Los Angeles
Bakersfield
Municipal Airport
Los Angeles Corgry
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