Ike Road Financing Plan Falters in House Panel
Washington AP The House Public Works Committee rejected President Eisenhower s bond financed road program proposing 30 year bonds and a new government corporation. It approved a 47 billion federal state road plan for 12 years with a 50 50 matching fund and debated tax increases to fund more than two billion annually in interstate highways.
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Eleven Die In Tanker Plane Crash Near Merced
Merced, Calif. Eleven airmen died when a tanker plane crashed about 15 miles northwest of Merced near Castle Air Force Base during a refueling test. The jet aircraft, 117 feet long with a 141 foot wingspan, was to intercept bombers.
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Turncoats Seasick In Heavy Storm Aboard The President Cleveland
Three ex GI turncoats seasick aboard the SS President Cleveland as it fights a typhoon 160 miles south of Okinawa. William A. Cowart Lewis W. Griggs and Otha Bell, all 22 to 24, are en route to San Francisco after 19 months in Red China. They deserted at Panmunjom and say they prefer an uncertain future over communism. They endure cramped bunks and lean to quiet aboard ship.
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Olympia
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China
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Britain Plans H Test at Sea Says Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reports Britain's hydrogen bomb is near completion and will be test exploded at sea. Science writer Wilson Broadbent says the time and place are kept as a closely guarded secret.
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Daily Mail
Wilson Broadbent
Newsmen mum on past ties to Communists
Washington (UP) Two New York newspaper men testified they are not Communists now but disclosed past connections. Charles S. Lewis of WCAX said he was a party member for several months in 1937, while workers at the Brooklyn Eagle. Melvin Barnett of the New York Times and David Gordon of the New York Daily News invoked privilege on current views, saying they worked on the Eagle during that period. Gordon allegedly filled out a Communist party join form which Lewis tore up. Barnett said he has not been a Communist since early 1942.
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Robe Delay Halts New York Felony Court Opening
Magistrate Neal P. Bottiglieri explained Tuesday the start of felony court was postponed by 30 minutes because he could not locate his judicial robe.
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Neal P. Bottiglieri
Mrs. Hobby Resigns As Welfare Secretary
Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby resigns as secretary of welfare effective Aug 1. President Eisenhower names Marion B Folsom to succeed her and hails Hobby in a packed White House press conference. Hobby cites personal reasons linked to her husband’s illness. Folsom, 61, a Georgia native, brings social security expertise to the cabinet post.
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Eisenhower
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Texas
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Merae
Eiserhower
Eastman Kodak Co
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Health, Education and Welfare
Frances Perkins
Labor
Franklin D. Roosevelt
McRae
Treasury
Polish Delegation Stoned in Saigon Riots at Armistice Office
Several hundred Indochinese students and refugees protested in Saigon before the international Armistice Commission building, smashing in and stoning the Red Poland delegation. They waved banners reading get out of free Vietnam and demanded liberation of 100 Vietnamese army officers held by the Viet Minh.
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Folesom Named Health Secretary Founder of Social Security
President Eisenhower selects Marion Baylard Folsom as secretary of health education and welfare. A founder of the social security system, he helped devise the 1928 private social security plan at Eastman Kodak and led the Rochester Plan of 1931.
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Rochester
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Milwaukee Council Plots Course on Kohler Ship Dispute
The Common Council committee weighs unloading ships carrying Kohler Co cargo amid a labor dispute. The Harbor Commission backs two positions to avoid city liability while ensuring dock access. Mayor Zeidler seeks federal action to avert a Milwaukee battleground.
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Eisenhower
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Harry C. Brockel
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Republicans Rally Against Foreign Aid Cut in Geneva Runup
Three Senate Republicans criticized a House cut of 628 million dollars to the foreign aid program ahead of the Geneva summit. They urged a Senate response and faulted Democratic leadership for undermining the president and secretary of state as talks near the meeting.
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Sen. Buller
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Freehold official cites blocked light causing red light action
W R Frank J Moreau of Freehold, a member of the Monmouth County Shade Tree Commission, said with embarrassment on Tuesday that he ran a red light and paid a $9 fine because the traffic signal was blocked by trees.
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Freehold
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Monmouth County Shade Tree Commission
Oshkosh Mayor backs gradual sewer separation plan
Mayor Ernest R. Siewert urged gradual completion of storm and sanitary sewer separation, rejecting a full program costing about 2.63 million dollars. He argued state mandates and bond issues should not force a rushed project, citing home rule authority and ongoing city finances. committee members to discuss with the sewerage superintendent and consider financing from water department loan repayments.
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Galow
Senate Group Approves Own Reserves Plan
Senate Armed Services Committee endorses a national ready reserve scheme diverging from White House and House versions. Youths 17 to 38 may volunteer for three to six months active duty with regular services, then eight years in the active reserve. An incentive bonus advances from about 180 dollars. No universal active duty for former service members. Aiming for 2.9 million in ready reserve by 1960.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Russell
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Last Survivor of Italy Fertilizer Blast Dies
The last survivor of the suburban fertilizer factory explosion died Tuesday night in Florence. Annibale Sordi, 29, succumbed to burns from the blast that ripped through the silo plant. Officials traced the blast to a naphtha heated caldron used for boiling animal bones, raising the death toll to nine.
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Annibale Sordi
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