Rainy Texas Stages Widespread Soaking Weather
A slow general rain soaked most of Texas with scattered snow and sleet. Rain totals reached Austin 1.69 inches and Corsicana 4 inches as moisture eased runoff and fed soils. Temperatures varied from 26 to 64 across the state with continued clouds and forecasts of warmer, clearing conditions inland.
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Lubbock
Midland
Big Spring
Snyder
Odessa
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Wells
Amarillo
Galveston
Corpus, Christi
West Texas
Longview
Tyler
Beaumont
Lufkin
Houston
Victoria
Alice
Waco
del Rio
Cotulla
San Angelo
Alpine
Brownsville
Death toll mounts on Safe Driving Day across nation
The second annual Safe Driving Day saw early highway fatalities as the National Safety Council tallied five deaths by 8 a.m. est and reports from Michigan and New York joined a Chicago area fatality. President Eisenhower urged caution, stating traffic deaths rose and safety efforts must cut the toll.
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Chicago
United Press
Michigan
L. T. Bell
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Wayne County
Bruce Donald Mosher
Glen Falls
N. Y
Gerald Lagro
Eisenhower
Safety Council
Weather Forecast From U S Weather Bureau
Clouds persist with a warming trend through today and Friday. Highs reach 43 today, around 60 tomorrow, with a low near 35 tonight and 54 overnight. Sunrise Friday at 7 82 a m and sunset today at 3 44 p m. Trace precipitation in the last 24 hours.
Virginia Publisher Succumbs At 62
Lynchburg Virginia copublisher and general manager of the News and Daily Advance Carter Glass Jr. died at 4 15 this morning in a local hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage last night.
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Lynchburg, Va
H — Carter i Glass Jr
Lynchburg
Bribery Ring Alleged Among City Prison Guards
New York prosecutors reveal a fixed price bribery network among prison guards with favors priced from 50 cents for a corridor stroll to 35 for a quart of scotch. Arrests include Angelo Ferraro Lorenzo Register Robert Meade John McKnight Joseph Gavin Walter Smith and James Henderson based on undercover work and a taped sting.
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New York
Manhattan
Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Hogan
Uison
Angelo Ferraro
Lorenzo Regester
Robert T. Meade
Brooklyn
John McKnight
Joseph K. Gavin
Queens
Walter Smith
James B. Henderson
City
Brooklyn Dist
Edward S. Silver
Michael Lizzio
Norma Trentalange
West 72Nd Street
Virginia Moves To Alter State Educational Policies
Virginia lawmakers push a constitutional amendment to fund tuition grants for parents sending children to private schools to avoid integration. The Gray Study Commission backs the plan, while opponents warn against abandoning public schools. A seven hour hearing drew 50 speakers as votes hinge on a special session.
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Richmond
Virginia
Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court
Gray Study ‘Commission
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Mays
Oliver Hill
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Hill
Five Faure Aides Quit
Paris reports five Radical Socialist ministers resigned from Premier Edgar Faure's cabinet in opposition to dissolving the National Assembly and forcing elections. The walkout follows ongoing clashes as Faure faces moves to change electoral laws and a possible censure to oust him.
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Edgar Faure
National Assembly
France
Faure
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Union of Socialist Resistance
UDSR
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Interior
Andre Morice
Industry
Commerce
Sen
Jean Berthouin
Henri Laforest
Defense
Gilbert Jules
Finance
Turncoat Richard Tenneson Fails To Appear At Border
Hong Kong reports former U S private Richard R Tenneson of Abden Minnesota a declared turncoat who chose to stay with Chinese Communists failed to appear at the border Thursday The U S consul S M Backe traveled to meet the train from Red China for official contact and release announcements
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Hong Kong
Richard R. Tenneson
Abden, Minn
U.S
S. M. Backe
China
Eisenhower Opens Day With Budget Talks At Gettysburg
President Eisenhower begins a day devoted to national security and budget matters. He meets Budget Director Rowland Hughes and Education Secretary Marion Folsom to discuss 1956 57 financing for HEW before departing to Camp David for the NSC meeting in the Catocin Mountains. The White House says no crisis and he will not rush back to Washington.
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Eisenhower
Camp David
Rowland Hughes
Cabiinet
Marion B. Folsom
Folsom
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Catoctin Mountains
National Security Council
White House
NSC
Washington
Attorney And Sheriff At Odds In Worden Case
Kleberg County attorney Royce Johnston and Sheriff Jim Scarborough clashed over a lie detector test in the Worden murder case. Johnston called the test inconclusive and noted Worden refused further testing while Scarborough claimed the test supported Mrs Worden s statements. Worden says she killed her husband and buried him on Padre Island after he coerced her and stole cash and valuables.
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Kingsville
Kleberg
Don Worden
Sunny Canales Worden
Royce Johnston
Jim Scarborough
Sam Jones
Mrs. Worden
Johnston
Worden
Praxides Canales of
Premont
Ramsey Denies Campaign Advertising Charge in Deposition
AUSTIN LT GOV Ben Ramsey denied in a deposition that he paid or authorized campaign advertising alleged to have been published without listing as a campaign expense. C T Johnson, who ran against Ramsey in 1954, sues Ramsey and Vernon Sanford claiming evasion of the election code with ad buys in 1954. Ramsey says he did not order, authorize, or pay for the ads in question.
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Austin
Johnson
Sanford
Ramsey
Texas Press Association
Ben Ramsey
Canada Pushes Plan to Admit 18 Nations to U N
Canada moves in the Special Political Committee to admit 18 applicants to the United Nations amid veto threats from both blocs. The plan faces the Security Council where China and Russia warn they will veto or oppose parts of the package, while the U S abstains on the five Communist applicants Outer Mongolia Albania Hungary Romania and Bulgaria.
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Canada
United Nations
Paul Martin
Security Council
China
Outer Mongolia
Russia
Jon
U.N
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Victor A. Belaunde
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Belaunde
V. V. Kuznetsov
United States
Albania
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Eisenhower
Chiang Kaishek
Taxi Driver Admits Fatal Assault of Eight-Year-Old
In Canton NL a 29-year-old Springfield cab driver Lloyd E. Miller Jr. confessed after eight hours of questioning to fatally harming eight-year-old Janice May. He tore her clothing, mistreated her, struck her, and hid the body under a railroad car before discarding bloodstained clothing in an abandoned house.
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Springfield
Janice May
Canton
Lloyd E. Miller Jr
Miller
Berlin Sees Red Claim Over City Capital Status
East German Communists proclaimed Berlin their capital and vowed to ban U S Army radio cars in the Soviet sector while signaling that Washington London and Paris must follow Communist orders in the city. Western powers prepared a hands off warning while West Berlin Mayor Otto Suhr urged renewed Allied pledge to defend four power status as Conant met in Duesseldorf.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
London
West Berlin
Otto Suhr
U.S
James B. Conant
Suhr
Conant
Duesseldorf
Bruno Baum
East Berlin
Communist Party
Baum
Neues Deutschland
Iron Curtain
Bonn
Moscow
Bonn Reaffirms West Alliance Stand On German Unity
Bonn reports Chancellor Adenauer's government backs Western allies on reunification and rejects any German Russian bilateral talks. Foreign Minister von Brentano declares no normal relations with the Soviet Union while two German states persist, urging free elections as the only genuine all German talks.
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Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Heinrich von Bretano
Geneva
Bundestag
Moscow
West Germany
Russia
Kremlin
Soviet Union
von Brentano
Free World
Hitler
von Ribbentrop
Mat Ior
Coast Guard Rescues Trawler 150 Miles South of Mississippi
The Coast Guard cutter Dione towed the disabled trawler Lois R from Brownsville after a rudder loss en route from Fort Myers Florida to Brownsville Texas. With a three man crew led by Captain Joseph Vonnob the Lois R drifted in heavy Gulf seas about 150 miles south of the Mississippi River. The Dione and Lois R were expected to reach the Mississippi coast late that night.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Dione
Louisiana
Brownsville
Fort Myers, Fla
Gulf
Mississippi River
Joseph Vonnob
Mississippi
Education Conference Sets Direction for Federal School Aid
White House Education Conference members favored increased federal aid for schools focusing on building construction. Two teams reported broad support for funding expansion, with a split over operating costs and distribution to the poorest districts through state agencies rather than directly to localities.
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