Polaris Submarines Ordered by Navy
The Navy awarded contracts for three Polaris missile firing submarines to be built by Electric Boat in Groton Connecticut and Mare Island California. The first boat is planned for completion in 1960 with deliveries starting then as missiles reach production. Estimated costs are 105 to 110 million for the first boat and 85 to 90 million for the next two, with a supplemental appropriation of 296 million dollars to start the program and a potential expansion to nine submarines.
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Vicious attack muddies path to East West talks
Washington reports strong Soviet anti American propaganda from Moscow about the Tunisian crisis. Officials say Pravda accuses the United States of backing the attack on Sakiet Sidi Yousef, harming hopes for a profitable summit. State Department calls the charges lies and outrageous. Menshikov says he has heard nothing of such accusations.
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Moscow
U.S
United States
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Seidom
State Department
Pravda
Sakiet-Sidi-Youseff
Mikhail A. Menshikov
Menshikov
Soviet Union
Government says nuclear dust spread unlikely in accidents
Washington says a potential accident could spread poisonous atomic dust to planes trains or trucks carrying nuclear weapons but the Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission call the risk negligible. They note weapons have traveled for years between manufacture and storage across various conveyances and maneuvers.
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Washington
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
U S senator urges NIC to seek UN meeting on Tunisia
Senator Knowles of California today urged the United States to demand an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting if France moves to take armed action in Tunisia.
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R-Calif
United States
France
United Nations Security Council
Tunisia
Knowland Proposes Three Ways to Ease Spending Standoff
Washington Up The House Appropriations Committee approved nearly intact Eisenhower budget funds amounting to 413 million. Knowland, speaking for himself, floated three options including U N observers on the Algerian Tunisian border and transferring Bizerte naval base to NATO, aiming to avert a broader crisis over French actions in Tunisia and Algeria.
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House
Eisenhower
Algeria
Frances
Evan Ey Tiement
U.N
France
Tunisia
Bizerte
Bond Issue Surplus Spurs 26 Odessa Classrooms Plan
Odessa school leaders push 26 new rooms using $494,000 surplus from last bond, targeting fall occupancy. The Ector County board approves eight rooms at Ector and additions at Carver Reagan Milam Cameron, with bids expected soon and architects told to rush plans. District cites crowding and future growth while budgeting 1.8 million in new construction funds.
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Ector County Independent School District Board
Dwight L. Kirk
Ector Junior Senior High
Ector
Reagan
Milami
Cameron
Louis Spain
Charlie Walker
Walker
Permian High School
Pease and Goliad
Blackshear
Burnet
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Zavala
Far Westerndessa
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Grandview
Pain
Carver-Douglas
Kirk
Spain
Carver
Douglas
Milam School
South Dixie
Jim Fowler
D. W. Leach
Pcan
J. R
Jim) Wright
J. D. Blackwell
Toung
Brooke Army Hospital
School Board Sets Election Dates and Filing Period
The Ector County School District board decided on April 5 for the election of three board members. Absentee ballots will use paper ballots. voting machines will be used at polling places. The 10 day filing period for candidates runs from February 25 to March 6.
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D. W. Leach
J. W
Hunt
D. M. Hawkins
Charles Walker
Mack Seeks Time To Prove Facts In Odessa Board Case
Richard A. Mack told congressional investigators he is confident the facts will show the Odessa College board acted without foundation. He described charges of taking money and pledging votes as unsubstantiated while noting election timing and filing details for board candidates. Absentee ballots must be delivered to the county clerk 20 days before the election.
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Richard A. Mack
Congressional Innec Eeevestigators
Odessa College
Ounty Kong
Nori Worder
Jaldsmith
Notrees
Penwell
Walker
Clert
Mack
Federal Communications Commission
Miami, Fla
Odessa Growth Fear Prompts Board Caution
D M Hawkins warned that the reduced allowable could slow growth in Odessa and urged peers on the board to avoid over-building.
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D. M. Hawkins
Odessa
Victim Of Burns Taken Off Bus In San Antonio
Police aid today a San Antonio man with second degree burns over 40 percent of his body was found riding on a city bus Thursday afternoon.
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5-10 Billion Tax Cut Talk Heard On Hill
Washington Democrats interview possible 5 to 10 billion dollar tax cut if recession worsens. Leaders say no conviction to act before early summer, plan review to find best use of cut, with May recovery signals decisive. Rayburn and tax chiefs weigh budget impact and public confidence.
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Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Rayburn
Texas
Eisenhower
Texas Highway Report Issued
The Texas Highway Department issued a mid morning report by district detailing road conditions. Amarillo reports light snow with slick pavement and predicted more snow and wind that could create snow drifts. Lubbock notes light snow in the north and northwest with travel satisfactory. Childress reports ice in isolated spots and blowing snow west of town, with the storm moving east and south and potential hazards developing.
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Highway Department
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Lubbock
Thei
Snowstorm Drifts Across Texas Panhandle And Plains
United Press reports snow and cold air moving south and east across the Panhandle and South Plains. Temperatures plunged to near freezing in Amarillo Dalhart and Lubbock as rain mixed with snow along the upper coast. Roads faced icy conditions with winds up to 25 mph. forecasts predicted continued light precipitation and hard freezes through Thursday affecting crops and crops in tomato cucumber watermelon and cantaloupe regions.
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Texas
Panhandle
U.S
Wichita Falls
Dalhart
Childress
Lubbock
Werfield
USN
Dallas
Amarillo
South Plains
Navy
Dal
Hart
Red River
Weather Bureau
Starr County
T. Morrow
Satterfield
South Central
North Central
Northwest Valley County
Waxahachie Bey
East Texas
Othec Texas
Upper Gulf Coast
Turesa
Pecos Valley
Midland
Amateur extortion note targets Detroit tenants
A Detroit apartment building faced two extortion notes taped to doors. One demanded $50 with a threat to inform a wife, the other asked for $20 on a bachelor tenant. Police said the tenants were a married woman versus an unmarried bachelor. investigators noted the suspect claimed to run a dry organization and planned a wall proclamation.
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Dallas
R. le 'Feave
Thornton
Ing
Walt
Mary
Texas
Incian
Confession Introduced At Army Espionage Trial
A confession by Sgt. Roy A. Rhodes was read at his court martial on charges of espionage conspiracy. He said he cooperated with Russians in Moscow from 1951 to 1953 and received about $2,000 in rubles. Rhodes pleads innocent. prosecutors cite Reino Hayhannen testimony linking him to a conspiracy.
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Washington
Roy A. Rhodes
Russons
United States
Rhodes
FBI
James P. Kehoe
U.S
Moscow
Kehoe
Army Pictorial Center
Long Island
New York
Reino Hayhanen
Hayhanen
Rudolph Abel
Snow Forecast Over Per man Basin Tonight
The sixth winter snow was due to settle over the Permian Basin late this afternoon and tonight. A low pressure system and cold front were expected to dump about one inch of snow on the Odessa Midland area with gusts to 33 mph. Temperatures would drop to around 25 tonight with a cold weekend ahead.
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Anight
Weather Bureau
Terminal
Odessa-Midland
Contracts Rise in Texas December and 1957 Totals
Dallas based firm reports December Texas construction contracts reached 155,813 dollars, up 38 percent from December 1956. For 1957 Texas contracts totaled 1,690,520,000 dollars, up 5 percent from 1956, reflecting overall growth in construction activity.
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