Social Security Bill Heads for Quick Passage
A social security bill carrying new benefits for women and disabled workers moves toward probable passage in both chambers. President Eisenhower may oppose major provisions, with staff time needed to finalize before House consideration next Tuesday. The plan includes a 42 percent tax raise starting Jan 1 to fund the new disability program and an age 62 retirement option for women with adjusted benefit rates.
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Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Senate House
Rep
Cooper
D-Tenn
Sen
Kerr
D-Okla
Williams
R-Del
Senate Plan Narrows Grants Boost For Aged Blind Disabled
The program to raise federal grants to needy aged, blind and disabled was trimmed from a proposed 7.50 dollar monthly increase to 1 to 4 dollars per month. Conferees added a 2.4 dollar monthly boost per child under aid to dependent children. Annual cost of the compromise is 146 million dollars.
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Senate
Criminal docket to be called Monday at 10 a.m.
The 99th District Court will call a criminal docket at 10 a.m. Monday with at least 40 cases including four alleging murder with malice. Defendants include Francisco Esquirdo 39 Wesley Daniels 32 James Sneed 30 and A C Alexander 39. Other charges include burglary DWI second offense and theft over 50. A jury pool of 125 was summoned for Tuesday.
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James G. Denton
Francisco Esquirdo
N. Ave. H
James Edward Sneed
E. 29Th St
Wesley Daniels
Brenham
A. C. Alexander
Midland
Issquirdo
Thomas Sanchez
Lubbock
Sneed
Johnnie Lucille Brown
E. 24Th St
Daniels
Finney
Alexander
John Monroe
Ave. A
Four Guilty Pleas In County Court At Law Here
Four guilty pleas were heard Saturday before Judge Robert J. Allen in county court at law. Antonio Perez faced a five day jail term and $100 fine for driving while intoxicated. Ismal Solis received three days in jail and $100 fine for drunken driving. Kenneth Wayne Hardy and Allen Glyde Amburn each drew five day jail terms and $50 fines for theft under fifty dollars. Truman Wallace Shivers pleaded innocent to illegal transportation of intoxicants and posted a $500 bond. Earnest Rodriguez also posted $500 bond and pleaded innocent to drunken driving.
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Robert J. Allen
New Deal
Antonio Perez
Ismal Solis
Carlisle
Solis
Kenneth Wayne Hardy
Indiana Ave
Allen Glyde Amburn
Duke St
Truman Wallace Shivers
34Th St
Earnest Rodriguez
Lubbock
Two Disappointed Bandits Handcuff Clerk To Auto
In New York two armed bandits cuffed supermarket clerk Ray Gantz to his car steering wheel after finding only 25 dollars in his wallet. Gantz drove a short distance to a police station before officers freed him from the restraints.
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New York
Ray Gantz
Slice
Phoose
Gantz
News Bureau Staff Shift in Texas
The Associated Press named Robert BE Ford state editor of Texas and Marshall Comerer night editor of the Dallas Bureau. Chief Bill Barnard announced the moves noting their long experience and World War II service. Ford succeeds Garth Jones, who moved to the Austin Bureau, and Comerer replaces Ford as night editor.
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Dallas
Robert BE
Ford
Associated Press
Texas Today
Marshall Comerer
Bill Barnard
Comerer
Texas
Garth Jones
Austin
Cave rich in prehistoric art found in southwest France
A French professor announced the discovery of a cave in Dordogne, France, with wall paintings of mammoths, rhinoceroses, horses, and other figures. The site, found June 26, could rival Lascaux, dating to the Aurignacian or Magdalenian periods about 195,000 years ago.
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France
Poitiers
Lascdux
Louise Rene Nougier
University of Toulouse
Dordogne
Abbe Breuil
Funeral Services Pending For Famed Western Songwriter
Escondido California funeral services were pending for L Merrill Geiger a renowned western songwriter aged 56 author of The Last Roundup and The Old Spinning Wheel Geiger had lived in the community for 25 years and died Thursday at Palomar Memorial Hospital.
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Escondido
Calif
L. Merrill Geiger
Reds Return To Hungary After Escape Plot
In Munich, seven anti-Red escapees and two remaining passengers of a state airliner captured last Friday by the group returned by train to Hungary. Technicians check the plane before it is flown back. The nine registered at the U S escapee center near Nuernberg, all seeking entry to the United States amid growing job offers from America for the plotters.
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Germany
West
U.S
Nuernberg
United States
America
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