Draft policy clashes surface in Senate as reserve plan stalls
House shelved the reserve measure over a Powell segregation amendment while Defense officials push rapid action. Hershey warns manpower shortfalls and the need for a ready reserve. Case hints at a 19-year draft start and 31-year deferment end, though Russell backs no major changes and aims for quick committee action.
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House
Adam Clayton Powell
N. Y
Senate
Francis Case
S. D
Defense
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
U. S
Defense Department
Russell
Congressmen Attack Benson Wheat Price Level Policy
Democratic critics blasted Secretary Benson after the Agriculture Department set the 1956 wheat price support at 76 percent of parity, about $1.81 a bushel, the lowest since 1946, saying the action would undermine the farm program and push farmers off the land. They warned it could lower prices on all farm commodities and jeopardize rural livelihoods.
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Washington
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Board
Harold D. Cooley
DNC
House Agriculture Committee
Benson
Cooley
America
W. R. Poage
D-Tex
Methodist Conference Gives Trip Check To Bishop's Wife
In Fort Worth on June 11 the Central Texas Methodist Conference presented Mrs. William C. Martin a 1000 check so she may accompany Bishop Martin to a Geneva church meeting. Martin, Fort Worth Dallas area resident bishop, will attend World Council of Churches executive committee in Switzerland this summer. The check was given as friends help her join her husband on his trips. A separate item notes an order for eight Bristol Britannia planes will create work for 1500 men in Belfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Central Texas Methodist Conference
William C. Martin
Dallas
Martin
Geneva
Fort Worth-Dallas
World Council of Churches
Switzerland
D. A. Chisholm
Actress' Husband Found Dead On Pullman Car
Rochester N Y Actress Miana Barrymore's husband actor Robert Wilcox aged 44 was found dead in a Pullman berth by a porter at Rochester station. He was en route from New York to visit his mother. coroner's physician cited heart attack as the cause. His latest stage appearance was in Pajama Tops with Miss Barrymore. He had previously been married to Florence Rice, daughter of Grantland Rice.
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Rochester
N. Y
Robert Wilcox
Miana Barrymore
Wilcox
New York
Miss Barrymore
Florence Rice
Grantland Rice
State Rep Corr Addresses Group on Life Underwriters
South Plains Life Underwriters heard State Representative Corr explain how state surety laws serve as models for U.S. policy. The discussion framed regulatory approaches and potential federal alignment with local practices.
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Corr
Insurance leaders praised as model law by Texas official
State Rep. Waggoner Carr of Lubbock hailed Texas insurance laws as models for the nation after a South Plains Life Underwriters event. He warned reform bills required legislative attendance to pass, then installed officers Elton Plowman Everest Day Alvin Griffin and James W Anderson and announced new directors from several Life companies. Awards were given for 11 and 10 year qualifications to multiple underwriters including South Western and Southland Life reps, with a list of honorees from Amicable Fidelity Union and other firms.
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Texas
United States
Waggoner Carr
Lubbock
South Plains Life Underwriters
Eee
Te Association
J. Byron Saunders
Austin
Texas Insurance Commission
Saunders
Carr
Elton Plowman
American General Life
Esten Day
Southland Life
Alvin Griffin
Amicable Life
James W
Andy) Anderson
Southwestern Life
J. David Hobbs
California-Western States Life
Asociation
Elmer M.kinney
Fidelity Union Life
J. Lee Farmer
Rural Life
Earl Mizell
Prudential Life
National
Caprock
Neil H. Wright
Sam A. Henry Sr
Lonnie Langston
Southwestern
Anderson
Robert Ernest
South Plains Life Underwriters Assn
Rep. Waggoner
Preston
Eston Day
Private correspondence leads to fatal railroad crash in Louisiana
A Houston man and a Louisiana pair were involved in a fatal traffic accident after De Young stopped for a railroad crossing sign stating Louisiana Law Stop. Williams rear ended De Young, threw him on the pavement, and a third car crushed him beneath its wheels. The incident follows ignored railroad warnings by locals.
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Shreveport
Thomasiother
de Young
Houston
Louisiana
Stanley G. Williams
Ao Port
Grady Maxwell
Orange
Moderator Named at North American Baptist Conference
The North American Baptist General Conference yesterday elected Walter W. G oak Park Illinois as moderator president.
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Waco
North American Baptist General Conference
Walter W. Goak Park
Ill
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Armed Services Committee
By Gaylord P. Godwin
Hubert H. Humphrey
Methodist Conference
Belfast
Northern Ireland
TRREE
Imyers
Pullman
South Plains Life
U.S
Joe M. Hefner
James M. Wheat
Charles B. Whitacre
Malcolm M. Hargrave
Pan- American Life
Ralph S. Krebbs
Union Life
W. Thelbert Miller
Andrew F. Roberts Jr
Jefferson Standard
Verne W. Waldron
Connecticut Mutual
George J. Young
Great Southern Life
Johnston
Hemphill-Wells
Japan
Tokyo
Moe Yu
Anderson's
Rbadenas
Bras
Lembent
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