Paralytic Polio Cases Rise Across Nation in 1955
Paralyzing polio cases rose last week with Texas and Missouri leading at 34 and 32 respectively. Connecticut and Massachusetts reported first paralytic cases since May. Deaths occurred in West Virginia Alabama and Oregon with six polio deaths in Kansas City. Vaccine doses shipped totaled 2.39 million with 381 thousand exported and 3.26 million unshipped.
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Missouri
Texas
Alabama
Tennessee
Iowa
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New England
West Virginia
Oregon
Kansas City
U.S
Tropical Storm Debra Near Texas Coasts
The storm was about 40 miles southeast of Matagorda with winds near 65 mph at the center and seas rising along the coast. The Weather Bureau issued advisory No 1 at 9 a.m. EST warning gale conditions from Port O’Connor to Matagorda and up to Freeport with small craft urged to stay in port. Tides of two to five feet were forecast from Port O’Connor to High Island as Debra’s center extended outward. Indications pointed to a west-northwest track.
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Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Debra
Port O'Connor
Tex
Freeport
Texas
High Island
Center
PAR forecasts state deficit and revenue options for 1960 61
PAR estimates $6.4 million of $78 million surpluses in state funds as of June 30. Recurring revenues fall short of recurring spending by $53.6 million to $67.4 million, risking a $64.7 million operating deficit for 1969 61. Proposals include a $30 million revenue increase, possible bonus income, extending the two cent gas severance tax and shifting financial responsibility to local governments. A separate weather note tracks a westward moving tropical system near Matagorda Bay with increasing seas.
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PAR
Louisiana
Scouts Head to Philmont Ranch for Three-Week Tour
Twenty six Monroe area scouts depart Camp Ki-Ro-Li for a three week trip to Philmont Ranch. The group will travel by bus and Varying activities are planned along the trek.
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Cimarron
N.M
Travis W. Chevallier
Joe White
Bastrop
Tommy Womack
Chatham
Russell Morrow
West Monroe
Clyde H. Jordan
Bryce Antley
Phillip James
Waterproof
W. Decker Moore
Emmett Stephenson
Russell Briggs
Oliver R. Renfro
Fabian Geisman
Jim Merrill
Woody Pankey
Winnsboro
Bill Halbert
Kidnap Tale Told By Chicago Socialite Miss Hart
Miss Hart described a kidnapping as she spoke with police and FBI, saying captors discussed ransom though amounts were not named. She recounted being seized at the airport, bound and gagged, driven for hours, and held in a house about an hour from the release point in Grant Park, New Mexico.
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Pierson
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Long Discusses Family, Finance, and Plans in Denver and Kansas City
Governor Long, after a tiring day at the races, spoke of his divorce from Blanche and joked about her piano lessons. He planned a special legislative session for Aug. 10 with an estimated cost of 148000, warned against hiring kin as secretaries, and floated starting newspapers in New Orleans and Alexandria to fund charity. He also noted a meeting in Kansas City with Harry S. Truman and described his hotel suite.
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Winnfield
Long
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Harry S. Truman
Truman
Muehlebach Hotel
Blanche
Denver
Earl
Louisiana
New Orleans Times Picayune
Alexandria
Sudan Maj Gen Ahmed Abdullah faces court martial
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdullah, the third ranking officer in Sudan's military hierarchy, is on trial for allegedly failing to report to President Ibrahim Abboud his knowledge of irregular mutinous troop movements last May 21 in Khartoum.
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Khartoum
Sudan
UPI
Ahmed Abdullah
Ibrahim Abboud
Nyasaland Police State Claim Provokes Debate
A Devlin commission declared Nyasaland temporarily a police state after a government roundup, noting unnecessary force in arrests. It found no detailed massacre plan by nationalists, while Armitage rejected labeling Nyasaland as a police state and warned against misused quotes globally.
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Nyasaland
Patrick Devlin
Britain
African Nationalist Congress
Armitage
Cairo General Sees Largest Middle East Sub Fleet
Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer of Egypt declared on Thursday that the Arab Republic possessed the region’s largest submarine force and warned that any aggression by Israel would trigger total war.
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Cairo
UPI
Abdel Hakim Amer
Arab Republic
Middle East
Israel
Nixon Khrushchev talk during Kremlin exhibition clash
Nixon and Khrushchev argued during a tour of dolls, swimsuits, and appliances, with a color TV studio recording. They pledged uncensored broadcast and English translation, then met for a Kremlin lunch amid security and tense exchanges over bases abroad and peace.
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Khrushchev
Exhibition Grounds
Kremlin
Klementi Voroshilov
Dep
Anastas Mikoyan
Frol Kozlov
U.S
Foreign Aid Bill Advances with Spending Cuts Shaping Funds
The House group trims foreign aid funds and advances an authorization bill. The new foreign aid authorization totals 3,556,200,000 plus permanent authorizations of 12,200,000 for the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, 8,395,000 for State Department foreign aid expenses, and 100,000 for the NATO parliamentary congress. President Eisenhower reportedly expressed disappointment at the White House.
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House
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
State Department
NATO
White House
Eisenhower
Rescue Breathing New Way to Save Lives
Illustrated August Reader's Digest explains rescue breathing with mouth to mouth air volume twelve times greater than older methods. It describes a simple new invention that eliminates oral contact and shows how to perform the technique.
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Reader’s Digest
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