Bible Bill Set Back in California Senate Fight
Controversial measure allowing Bible reading in classrooms stalled in the Senate Education Committee by a 5 to 5 deadlock, with one member absent. Senator Dilworth pledged another hearing while Assemblyman Morris planned a similar proposal for April 1. Church groups backed the bill. the California Teachers Association opposed it. Amid the debate, the Senate also voted a two year moratorium on adjusting property tax assessments under a 1949 law, with budget implications for the state. The story notes Mrs Taft and Mrs Eisenhower in the political frame as it moves to the Assembly.
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Sacramento
California
Senate Education Committee
Senate
Nelson S. Dilworth
R.hemet
Burt W. Busch
Lakeport
Harold T. Johnson
Roseville
Jack B., Tenney
Los Angeles
A. W. Way
Fortuna
Dilworth
Paul L. Byrne
R.-Chico
Jess R. Dorsey
Bakersfield
Donald L. Grunsky
R.-Watsonville
George Miller
Ben Hulse
el Centro
Tafts
Taft
Cigarets Yet Called Super-Villain in Lung Cancer Link
In San Francisco Dr. Evarts Graham a famed chest surgeon and past president of major surgical groups said excessive cigarette smoking causes 99 percent of lung cancer. He cited studies showing heavy smoking markedly raises risk, noting 25+ cigarettes daily for 45 years doubles or more the chance of cancer and that cigarets are more harmful than pipes or cigars. He spoke at the American Thoracic Surgery meeting.
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San Francisco
Evarts Graham
Graham
Washington University
St. Louis
American Surgical Association
American College of Sur
Cons
American Association For Thoracic Surgery
The
American Association For ‘Thoracic Surgery
Mamie Guest at Taft Fete. Eisenhower to Attend
Mrs. Robert A Taft hosts a large party in Washington in honor of Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower Somber political winds alter plans Taft andSen Taft expect to greet the President Mrs Eisenhower and other guests President Eisenhower planned to drop in briefly Cabinet members Senators and Representatives from Ohio and other officials invited to attend the event
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Taft
Senate
Eisenhower
Chamber Plans Arbitration Clash Amid Labor Row
United States Chamber of Commerce opposes compulsory arbitration for national emergency labor disputes. AFL leader Powell Groner urged it as a way to resolve big strikes. Al Hayes of the AFL urged AI to allow presidential emergency boards to hear issues and issue binding recommendations.
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Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
National
AFL
Powell C. Groner
Kansas City
Chamber
Senate Labor Committee
House Labor Committee
al J. Hayes
International Association of Machinists
Hayes
United States
Swiss Arrest Pair as Communist Spies
Swiss police arrest Rudolf Roessler and Dr Xavier Schreiper named by the attorney general as a German publisher in Lucerne and a Lucerne native former writer for Vorwaerts. They allegedly acted as a link between Czechoslovakia and a Western European espionage network for several years, receiving large payments.
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Bern
Switzeriana
We1
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Attorney General
Rudolf Roessler
Lucerne
Xavier Schreiper
Vorwaerts
Roessler
Schrieper
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Fower
Mamie
Chamber Against Arbitration
Ford - Chey
Saat
Inele Tines & Lebor
Chet
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Hwy
Tong
Long
Cheapun’ Poweder
Riviera
Ven
L’aimant Emeraude
L'Origan
Paris
Walker’s Street
Mi Walker
Shantung
Navy
Ting
Walker
Gacquelane
Shea Salon
Long Beach
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