Byrd urges tax hike to avoid $10 billion deficit
Senator Byrd warns Congress must raise taxes next year to prevent an additional $10 billion deficit and an unbalanced budget. He cites expected 1954 receipts under $60 billion with July 1 1954 spending of $74 billion and warns of continued deficits through 1955 and beyond.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Eisenhower
Administration
Treasury
Humphrey
Lubbock Student Begins Netherlands Assignment as Community Ambassador
Glenn Rainer, a Texan Tech junior, writes from Zeist Doorn in The Netherlands as Lubbock’s community ambassador. He details meeting Dutch host Hans van Hell, Tom van Hell, and Mrs van Hell, plus experiences aboard the S S Groote Beer and impressions of Indonesian connections and Dutch life.
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Glenn Rainer
Texne Tech Junior
Lubbock
Holland
Lubbock Europe
GLE
Rainer
Texas
Washington
New York
Rainer Dent
Doorn
Netherlands
United States
Groot Handelshuis
Great Commercial House
Rotterdam
Hans
Hans van Hell
Zeist
Tom
van Hell
Indonesia
Dutchest Indies
Java
Leyden University
Tropics
University of Utrecht
1450 Dawson County Residents X-rayed by TB Mobile Unit
In Lamesa the state Tuberculosis Society mobile unit X rayed about 1450 Dawson County residents over three days, with 650 on the final day. Headquarters were in the old First National Bank Building on the square. The last visit was in 1951 when around 2000 were X rayed.
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Dawson County
State Tuberculosis Society
First National Bank
Ray Renner
Dawson County Tuberculosis Society
Lamesa
Beta Sigma Phi
Water and Power Use Surges in Lubbock This Summer
City Manager Steve Matthews reported unprecedented rises in electricity and water use in Lubbock during May and June due to hot dry weather. May and June show large year over year increases, with May water up 26.7 percent and June up 42.2 percent. peak daily water use reached 31 million gallons.
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Lubbock
Steve Matthews
Matthews
City Electric Department
Murrell Tripp
Charges Dismissed in Tulsa Manslaughter Case
A Tulsa charge of voluntary manslaughter against Steven Gramling 21 extradited from Amarillo Air Force Base was dismissed Friday for lack of evidence. The case involved the Feb 22 death of Charles Sutton 21 in Tulsa.
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Tulsa
Steven Gramling
Amarillo Air Force Base
Gramling
Charles Sutton
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Luppock
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock, Texas
TB Mobile Unit
Kenmore
Elgin
Oo Ost
Avenue J
Acu
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