Byrd Calls Tax Hike Essential to Avert Deficit
Senator Byrd warns Congress must raise taxes next year or face an added 10 billion deficit amid a projected 74 billion spending for the current year and likely weaker receipts. He predicts debt could reach 285 billion if expenditures rise and tax cuts expire.
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Associated Press
Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Congress
Eisenhower
Administration
Treasury
Humphrey
Lubbock Student Becomes Community Ambassador in Holland
Glenn Rainer reports from Zeist and Doorn on his nine day sea voyage and first impressions living with the van Hell family in The Netherlands as Lubbock’s community ambassador. He meets Hans and Tom van Hell and details the warm Dutch welcome and cross cultural exchange.
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Glenn Rainer
Tens Tech
Lubbock
Rom
Texas
Washington
New York
Doorn
Netherlands
United States
Groot Handelshuis
Great Commercial House
Rotterdam
Hans
Hans van Hell
Zeist
Holland
Tom
van Hell
Indonesia
Dutch St Indies
Java
Leyden University
Tropics
University of Utrecht
Dawson County TB mobile unit X-rays 1450 in three days
Approximately 1450 Dawson County residents were X-rayed during a three day visit by the state Tuberculosis Society's mobile unit in Lamesa. About 650 people were X-rayed on the final day, with 500 on Friday and 300 on Thursday.
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Dawson County
Lamesa
State Tuberculosis Society
First National Bank
Ray Renner
Dawson County Tuberculosis Society
Beta Sigma Phi
Water and Power Use in Lubbock Surges in May and June
City Manager Steve Matthews reports unprecedented rises in electric power and water consumption in Lubbock during May and June due to hot dry weather. May and June 1953 show large year over year gains, with May water up 26.7 percent and June water up 42.2 percent, and electric use rising 345 percent in May and 45.4 percent in June.
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Lubbock
Steve Matthews
Matthews
City Electric Department
Murrell Tripp
Man's manslaughter charge dropped in Tulsa collision case
Steven Gramling, 21, extradited from Amarillo Air Force Base, had a Tulsa manslaughter charge dismissed for lack of evidence in the February 22 death of Charles Sutton, 21. City officials note water shortages persist in Lubbock despite heavy usage.
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Tulsa
Steven Gramling
Amarillo Air Force Base
Gramling
Charles Sutton
Lubbock
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