Railroad Case Taken Under Advisement in Louisiana
The Public Service Commission took under advisement Missouri Pacific’s plan to remove two passenger trains through northeast Louisiana. Officials argued losses of $847,620 in 1954 56, while mayors from Bastrop and Monroe warned removal would hurt business and vital service. The panel also considered Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co case for extending service in Bossier parish amid a docket of 28 cases.
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Public Service Commission
Missouri Pacific
Louisiana
Northeast Louisiana
New Orleans
A. P
Fats) Carter
Bastrop
W. L
Jack) Howard
Monroe
Howard
Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co
Bossier Parish
Outer Space May Provide Valuable Weather Data
A Stanford scientist proposes a World War II era style study of whistling sounds and dawn chorus birdlike notes detected by radio up to 30 000 miles aloft. The International Geophysical Year opens Monday with 62 nations, including Russia, participating.
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Washington
Stanford University
Outer Space
Robert A. Helliwell
Helliwell
International Geophysical Year
US ‘National Committee
IGY
National Academy of Science
Russia
Earth
United States
O'Dwyer Charged With Not Reporting 11 000 Income
U S Tax Court ruled former New York Mayor William O Dwyer and ex wife Sloan Simpson failed to report 11 500 in taxable income for 1949 and 1951 directing recomputation of tax for 1949 1950 and 1951 The case cites 10 000 cash given to O Dwyer by John P Crane as a potential campaign contribution with no clear disposition shown and notes his failure to testify left taxability unresolved
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Washington
U. S
New York
William O’dwyer
Sloan Simpson
O'Dwyer
John P. Crane
Uniformed Firemen’s Assn
New York City
Crane
Conferees Preserve Soil Bank After Split Vote
Conferees from the Senate and House agreed to keep the soil bank program alive despite a House vote to end it after the current year. The closed door compromise favors administration aims and must win House approval after the July 4 recess. The deal aligns roughly with the Senate bill authorizing 500 million dollars in soil bank payments for 1958, while the House had ended payments after 1957.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Blonde Trapese Artist Defies Circus Jinx
Torrential rains from Typhoon Virginia battered northeast Asia. Floods and landslides across Formosa and Japan left at least 86 dead or missing, with 3,000 homeless and 500 homes destroyed in Nationalist China and Japan. Unofficial Tokyo reports cite widespread damage and 11 missing in Japan.
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Tokyo
Virginia
Asia
Formosa
Japan
China Sea
Taipei
Nationalist
China
Audrey Adds Footnote To Disaster Jinx
Hurricane Audrey compounds Texas disaster year with at least 60 deaths and 400 injuries. Drought, floods, tornadoes, hail, blizzards add up to 100 million dollars in damages across 254 counties. major tornadoes hit Dallas, West Texas towns Littlefield Level land Tyler and Silverton. 1.5 million acres of farmland damaged.
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Lloyd Larrabee
United Press
Austin
Tex
Audrey
Texas
Lone Star State
William L. McGill
Dallas
Littlefield
Levelland
Tyler
Silverton
Panhandle
Olton
McGill
Lampasas
Fort Worth
Abilene
Waco
Wichita Falls
Rail Tieups Prompt Defense Questions In New York
James Devlin reports that repeated rail tieups in New York raise concerns over wartime vulnerability of transit. Delays of up to two hours affected tens of thousands, with bottlenecks at Grand Central and Penn Station risking terminal shutdown if major damage occurred.
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New York
Grand Central Terminal
Pennsylvania Station
Grand Central
New York Central and
New Haven Railroad
Park Avenue
Central
10 Year Old Boy Claims He Killed Father in Fear
A 10 year old boy Leo Daisy said he killed his father Alex Daisy 41 during a family argument to protect his mother from harm. Copiah County coroner Mrs Gillis Cato said the coroner's jury ruled the death occurred at the hands of the son who feared his father and feared for his mother. No charges filed yet and the boy remains at home with his mother and brother.
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Crystal Springs
Miss
Gillis Cato
Copiah County
Alex Daisy
Daisy
Leo
Cato
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Louisville, KY
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By James Devlin
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Perry Daniel
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Louisville Ave
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Grand Ave
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2Nd St
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