Eisenhower Attacks Foreign Aid Cuts To Balance Domestic Spending
President Eisenhower denounced Democratic efforts to cut foreign aid to offset rising domestic programs such as housing and airports. He warned such moves would harm America's interests and argued foreign aid yields the best return. The briefing also covered Dulles’s hospital stay, Russia, a possible third term, and GOP convention site choices.
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Russia
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Soviet Communist Congress
U.S
Republican National Committee
Dulles Seeks Surgery at Walter Reed Center
Secretary of State Dulles checked into Walter Reed Army Medical Center at 10 28 a m EST for a hernia operation and colon inflammation. He faces a two week recovery with a return to duties described as a few weeks. Under Secretary Dillon acts as secretary while Herter relieves him briefly.
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Walter Reed Medical Center
Leonard D. Heaton
Heaton
Eisenhower
West
Germany
James C. Hagerty
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Soviet Union
Berlin
Capitol Hill
State Department
C. Douglas Dillon
Christian Herter
Dillon
South Carolina
Ers
London
Patil
Bonn
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Second Coort
White House
School Plan Faces Bipartisan Criticism in Congress
President Hower's five year school aid plan draws mixed reactions as Sen. Cooper calls for a broader program. Critics deem the administration's proposal inadequate while others label it a legislative monstrosity aimed at bankers, with fears of deficit financing and long term borrowing.
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Hower
Eisenhower
Congress
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John Sherman Cooper
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Bar Committee
Eisen
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White House
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
James E. Murray
D-Mont
Flemming
Weather forecast from the US Weather Bureau
Clear and windy today and tonight with partly cloudy and warmer conditions on Wednesday. Low tonight around 36 and high tomorrow near 38. Yesterday’s high was 7.
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Mardi Gras Revelers Parade Through Canal Street
New Orleans prepares for Mardi Gras with more than a million revelers expected to fill Canal Street and the French Quarter. Zulu king Melvin Green leads a daylong flotilla and parade schedule includes Rex floats and a torchlit Comus procession as the celebration unfolds through the day.
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UPI
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Jobless figure is 4.7 million
Washington reports 4,724,000 unemployed last month, up 16,000, with employment falling 1,267,000 to 62,708,000 in January. Post-Christmas layoffs in retail and postal sectors plus outdoor work cutbacks drive the declines, though the report calls job losses "about normal for this time of year."
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Commerce and Labor Departments
Three New Schools Accept Negroes in Virginia
Alexandria and nearby communities absorbed their first integrated classrooms as nine Black children entered Ramsay and Theodore Ficklin Elementary and Hammond High without disturbance. The move follows court orders and marks the third Virginia community to admit Black students since mass resistance collapsed. Police guarded schools as students aged 1 to 11 entered campuses amid quiet scenes.
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Arlington County
Ramsay
Theodore Ficklin
Hammond High
Virgina
Tornado Roars Through St Louis Block Near Busch Stadium
Terrifying moments escape description as a tornado tears through brick apartment blocks near Busch Stadium in St Louis. Charles Tibbs recalls grabbing his children for basement shelter, but the basement was not reached. A cab driver, Bill Purcell, warned a trapped motorist as wires spurted sparks and the scene grew dark. Police and Lingmen later secured the area and the driver continued on.
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Charles Tibbs
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Deadly St. Louis Tornado Strikes City Area
A tornado hit St Louis at 2 12 am causing 22 deaths and about 265 injuries 55 serious. Suburbs Brentwood and Crestwood were hit and the storm damaged homes in a tenement district mainly inhabited by African Americans. Power lines and a TV tower collapsed. Civil defense activated as responders searched wrecked blocks and treated the injured.
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Bob Hetherington
Mats Apprand
William McAllister
Civil Defense
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Francis P Hardaway
Rety
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Wehto National
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Moving Swiss Mountain May Isolate 5000 Persons
In Brigen Switzerland a moving mountain threatens the Alpine village of Zermatt and isolates 5000 residents. An official reports the ice mass about 3800 feet above the village. Evacuation began as authorities fear a rapid slide could unleash rock and debris into the center of town if movement resumes.
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Dynamite Cap Sets Off In Classroom At Rusk Elementary
Five year old Michael Swiney paid deputies said he set off a dynamite cap with a one and a half volt dry cell battery in a science class at Rusk Elementary. Three sixth graders injured remained in good condition at Medical Center Hospital. Ronald and Donald Forrester, 11, twins, also suffered metal particles in faces and hands. Teacher Bert Mann reported the students worked alone in a corner while trying a homemade telegraph setup to explain magnetism. Swiney admitted attempting earlier at home with a transformer for an electric train set.
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Donald Wayne Forrester
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Donald
Bert Mann
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Howard Willams
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