Last Clay Pipe Poses Crisis For Sturdy Lady
In Chillicothe Ohio an 81 year old pipe connoisseur Amanda Rossale Spulernow laments she has only one clay pipe left. Her brother Ed and Bainbridge General Store operator Rodney Gragg cite difficulty in obtaining replacement clay pipes from old makers in Kentucky Virginia and Newark. She endures with kerosene lamps and a stove while hoping for a future supply.
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Chillicothe
Ohio
Amanda Rossale Spuler
Buckskin Hills
Rossie
Poplar Ridge
Rodney Gragg
Bainbridge General Store
Kentucky
Virginia
Newark
Gragg
Owl Run
Plug Run
Paint Valley
Senate Groups Hangs Out Go Slow Sign On Tax Cuts
A Senate House Economic subcommittee delayed tax-cut plans for 1956 noting a booming economy could spark inflation. The panel favored gradual cuts over a decade, backed by findings from 81 experts and calls to tax reform including closing loopholes and trimming oil and gas write offs. Members Mills Douglas Goldwater Curtis supported cautious policy and a balanced budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Senate House
Rep
Mills
D-Ark
Congress
Sen
Douglas
D-Ill
Senate House Economic Committee
Subcommittee
Mills and Douglas
Len Goldwater
Rariz
Curtis
R-Mo
House Probers Plan Hearings on News Secrecy
A House Government Operations subcommittee led by Chairman Moss will hold new hearings on government information policies. Four agencies the Interior Department, the Federal Reserve Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Health Education and Welfare Department allegedly misused the term confidential to restrict nondefense information. The panel says agencies show little interest in broad public access to information and will convene hearings after Congress reconvenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Moss
D-Calif
Interior Department
Federal Reserve Board
Securities and Exchange Commission
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Government Operations Committee
Congress
California burglar trapped in Dallas garage escape rant
A San Quentin graduate burglar, caught ransacking a Dallas home, fled to the garage. He complained that California garages have back doors and urged Texas to build them too, arguing people could be trapped in fires.
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Dallas
Tex
California
San Quentin
Texas
Traffic toll in 1955 tops 14-year high amid New Year push
The National Safety Council estimates 1955 traffic deaths will reach 38,500 the highest in 14 years as states tighten enforcement for the New Year weekend. Projections cite 34,690 killed in 11 months with later totals likely to raise the year’s toll. Christmas and Black Christmas events spur patrols and even National Guard involvement in several states.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Council
Associated Press
Safety Council
U. S
The
Arizona
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
National Guard
Texas
Yalta Papers Send New Light on Cold War
Paris report outlines Algeria footage of a French gendarme firing on rebels used in a newsreel. Georges Chassagne denies bribery and says he witnessed an operation at Aina Bid after a massacre. Government claims bribery charges against cameraman and gendarme.
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Paris
Algeria
Georges Chassagne
L'Express
Pierre Mendes-France
Interior Ministry
Edgar Faure
Faure
Mendes-France
France
Chassagne
Algiers
Fox Movietone News
Aina
Cooper draws closer ties as Soviet visit nudges India
In New Delhi the Soviet tour bolsters Ambassador John Sherman Cooper with Indian leaders including Prime Minister Nehru. Despite public receptions for Bulganin and Khrushchev, Cooper's dignity is praised as India moves closer to the Communist bloc while retaining democratic ideals. He will report to Washington from January conferences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
India
John Sherman Cooper
U.S
Nehru
Cooper
Bulganin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Washington
Eisenhower
Dulles
Barrel Scraped for Book Release
The State Department released a 1 032 page volume of Yalta papers with about 40 new items from 1944 45 drawn from the Roosevelt Library and government files. The collection costs 5 50 a copy and includes notes from Harry Hopkins Winston Churchill and Harry Dexter White among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
Cordell Hull
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No. 1
Sumner Welles
State Department
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Yalta
Poland
Soviet Union
Moscow
United States
Germany
Joseph Reap
Hyde Park
N.Y
Harry Dexter White
the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Hull
White
Atty
Brownell
Morgenthau
Henry L. Stimson
Eisenhower Works On State Of The Union Message In Key West
President Eisenhower continues work on his 1956 State of the Union draft with Kevin McCann flying from Washington to deliver it. He plans to stay in Key West until about January 8 while doctors monitor his heart recovery and he enjoys light activity including golf, painting, and a brief walk at the naval base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Kevin McCann
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Howard M. Snyder
Key West Naval Base
Snyder
Truman Beach
Edward L. Beach
Beach
H. H. Henderson
Record Count For The Birds In Cocoa Florida
Cocoa Audubon Society members counted 184 bird species in a 24 hour period, a national record. Allen Cruickshank led the Cocoa bird-watching team and noted the tally surpasses last year’s 175 by a San Diego group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cocoa. Fla
Cocoa Audubon Society
Allen Cruickshank
Cocoa
San Diego
Calif
Legless Veteran Fights for VA Pension in Capital Visit
Washington scene as James Kutcher, a legless World War II veteran, travels to press his case to keep his $329 monthly federal war pension. A VA hearing on loyalty charges and possible forfeiture is set, with open proceedings promised but witnesses unnamed.
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Washington
James) Kutcher
Veterans Administration Central Committee
Kutcher
Newark
N.J
Socialist Workers Party
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
John Slilard
Union Agrees To Postpone Bus Strike In Dayton
In Dayton, city transit officials report a threatened bus strike by Local 1385 of the Amalgamated Assn. of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America is delayed. The union seeks a 35 cent hourly raise and a 40 hour week, while City Transit offers 3 cents plus 5 more with a fare hike approval. City officials want a merger with another Dayton bus company before any fare increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
City Transit Co
City Transit
Dayton Bus Company
Driver Killed in Akron Area Car Crash
William Good Sr. aged 41 died in a crash in Cuyahoga Falls when his car collided with a vehicle driven by Mary Deckner 27 of Kent. The accident occurred early today in the Akron area.
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Akron
Ohio
William Good Sr
Mary Deckner
Kent
Cuyahoga Falls
Good
Mother and Infant Die in Clinton Blaze
In Columbus Ohio a fatal fire swept a small Clinton home and two adjoining structures injuring no others. Delores Hodge 19 and her 19 month old daughter Shelia died in the kitchen. Herschel Hodge 21 was not home and was being questioned by deputies. The fire began in the residence and spread to a nearby house and a poultry plant destroying three buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Clinton
Delores Hodge
Shelia
Herschel Hodge
Hodge
Henry Wilson
Scant Hope For Strike Peace Seen
Federal mediator John R. Murray said talks between Westinghouse Electric Corp and the AFL CIO International Union of Electrical Workers have shown no progress on key issues. The 75 day strike by 44,000 IVE members at 30 Westinghouse plants continues as courts issue injunctions against mass picketing in Union City Indiana and reports of violence surface in Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
John R. Murray
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Afl-Cio International Union of Electrical Workers
Murray
Westinghouse
Union City
Ind
John W. Macy
Joseph Armstrong
Lima
Ohio
Columbus
IWE
United Electrical Workers
Ike's Granddaughter Returns Home From Hospital
President Eisenhower learns his new granddaughter, born in Washington last week, is home from Walter Reed Army Hospital. Mrs Eisenhower phoned him from the capital hospital with the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Washington
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Pilot Bails Out At Sea Amid Snowstorm
First Lt. Richard A. Edwards, out of fuel above Long Island, bailed from a Sabrejet and landed in icy water near Jones Beach. A fisherman helped him to a boat. he was treated for shock and kept asking if he was out of the water. No wreckage found. Coast Guard suspended search. Edwards flew from Wright Patterson to Mitchel and then tried LaGuardia Idlewild before turning seaward.
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Freeport
N. Y
Air Force
Long Island
Richard A. Edwards
Jones Beach
Richard Green
Edwards
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Stewart Air Force Base
Newburgh
Mitchel Air Force Base
Mitchel Air Force Base Hospital
Weather forecast calls for cold with possible snow flurries
The forecast today shows partly cloudy and cold weather with a few snow flurries. Tonight and Saturday remain fair and continued cold with a lingering chill. Yesterday’s unofficial high reached 46 degrees at 8 30 a.m. and the low this morning was 28 degrees at 7 a.m.
Businesswoman Charged With $100000 Larceny in Norfolk
Minnie G. Mangum, 52, long-time official at Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn, faced a 100000 grand larceny charge amid an embezzlement probe that may reach 800000 over five years. Auditors found irregularities after a quarrel with employee Esther Cannon sparked the case. federal agents joined the probe as the firm reported asset recoveries and Mangum admitted embezzlement.
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Norfolk
Minnie G. Mangum
Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn
Commonwealth
Atty
Linwood Tabb Jr
Miss Mangum
Portsmouth
Esther M. Cannon
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