Housing aid discussed for Portsmouth area projects
Portsmouth builders may receive FHA support for local developments as Albert Cole notes Portsmouth Air Base is permanent. Don Cole told Mayor Butler the Manchester FHA office will discuss normal insuring operations, while the City Council seeks immediate housing aid for Air Force needs. The Defense Housing and Communities Facilities Act note adds confusion about Wherry housing on base.
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Federal Housing Administration
Portsmouth
Albert M. Cole
The
Housing and Home Finance Agency
FHA
Portsmouth Air Base
Don
Cole
Theodore R. Butler
City Hall
Manchester
Air Force
HHFAY
Oor
Cols
Haifa
Robert C. Violette
Andreae
Baseiaison
Wentworth Acres
Col
Andreae Cannd
Air Base
Joe W. Kelly
Reported Pay Hike For School Heads Bookkeeping Item
Scrutinized by Raymond Beal the 5 percent salary hike for superintendents is described as a bookkeeping item in the 1955 56 budget requests. Dr Austin J McCaffery says the provision aims to offset possible increases voted by municipalities and does not imply overall departmental endorsement for New Hampshire’s 53 superintendents.
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Scrioul Supt
Raymond Beal
Beal
Austin J. McCaffery
Concord man killed beside farm truck on Route 4
William Walker, 80th highway fatality in Bay State this year, was killed about 11:30 today beside his farm truck parked on Route 4 in Barrington. Semi driver James E. Norton, 38, of Portland, Maine, attempted to pass and swerved left to avoid Walker, striking the truck’s rear with the trailer’s right front fender. Details remain under investigation two miles north of the Lee traffic cycle.
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Barrington
Concord
Mass
William Walker
James E. Norton
Portland
Maine
Walker
Norton
Lee
Plane wreckage lifted from Jamaica Bay after Idlewild crash
Salvage workers raised parts of the four engine plane from the mud of Jamaica Bay as Navy divers inspected wreckage. Aboard the Nome New York liner when it crashed near Idlewild, 26 people died and nine bodies were recovered with 17 believed trapped in the fuselage. Six survivors were located, all from the rear section. The Civil Aeronautics Board prepared to hear preliminary testimony today as divers searched the site and Rosalia d Ugo of Chicago remained among the missing two.
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Jamaica Bay
Idlewild
New York City
Italian Air Lines
NEW Yonik
Navy
Rosalia d’'Ugo
Natali d'Age
Chicago
Tosaia
Frank Messina
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Messina
Rosalia
Altaville
Sicily
St. Joseph's Hospital
Far Rockaway
Queens
Eliot Voters Approve 136694 School Project At Meeting
Eliot residents approved a 136694 school building program at a special town meeting amid cold rain and gusty winds. Voters backed a one room elementary addition with a gym linking to the high and cemetery schools and authorized a 55000 borrowing. Four rooms will be finished now, others later. no funds were approved for equipment. Federal aid totaling 71694 was accepted and 10000 gym reserve used. A four member building committee was elected with a 150 planning expense cap.
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ELIOT
Symnasium
Harold J
Duw
Board of Selectmen
Dow
Sas
J. Lyndon Leavill
Donald la Pointe
Advil Spinney
Fred Goul
Two Sailors Held For Fatal Attack On 16-Year-Old Girl
Middletown police arrested Frederick B. Zimmer and Seanon Clyde Brunfield after a high speed chase from Middletown to Newport. Zimmer admitted throttling Margaret Louie Blanchette, 16, during a pre Christmas dance ride from the naval base area. Brunfield was charged as an accessory before the fact of murder.
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Middletown
Margaret Louie Blanchette
Frederick B. Zimmer
Rochester
J.C
Seanon Clyde D. Brunfield
Andrew Casey
Zimmer
Portsmouth
R.L Birl
Casey
Big
Naval Base
Newport
Ve Os
Margaret
Brunfield
Mount Hope Bridge
Branfield
Francis Vierra
Lewis Perry
Eisenhower Plans Holiday Golfing Trip to Augusta
President Eisenhower will fly to Augusta with Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother for holiday work and leisure, returning to Washington around January 2 or 6. He plans golf at Augusta National, and to prepare three messages for Congress including the State of the Union to be delivered January 6. Grandchildren’s attendance not confirmed.
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Wade
Eisenhower
Augusta
John S. Doud
Denver
Cole
Washington
Augusta National Club
Congress
White House
James C. Hagerty
Coast Guard resumes Atlantic search for missing freighter
Coast Guard in Washington and Eastern Area Command renew the hunt for the Southern Districts missing with 24 crew after pleas from relatives and officials. The last radio contact was December 4 during a voyage from Port Sulphur Louisiana to Bucksport Maine. The main search area 200 miles off the Carolinas and Virginia will be rechecked as the undetermined hunt continues indefinitely.
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New York
Coast Guard
Bere
Eastern Area Command
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Port Sulphur
Bucksport
Maine
Carolinas
Virginia
Mendes-France Wins Confidence Vote in French Assembly
The French National Assembly backed Premier Mendes France 310 to 172 on his Indochina policy, paving a four day debate on German rearmament. The session featured clashes with Bidault and Letourneau, and Mendes France warned the United States would aid South Vietnam’s buildup in 1946.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Pierre Mendes-France
Indochina
Mendes-France
Luo
Pauw-Henri Teitgen
Popular Republican Movement
Ife
MSP
Mon
Meaides
France
United States
Russians Threaten to Scrap Treaty with Great Britain
Moscow warned it could abrogate the British Soviet Mutual Assent if Paris rearmament of West Germany proceeds. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed a note to British Ambassador Sir William Hayter at the Foreign Ministry. Western diplomats noted prior similar French-Soviet treaty pressure and awaited public release of the notes.
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Moscow
Russia
Paris
West Germany
William Haytor
Andrei Gromyko
Foreign Ministry
France
Slayter
London
Kremlin
Britain
House of Commons
Pierre Mendés-France
Grim-Faced Jurors Give No Hint of Vote To Come on Dr
Jurors in the Sheppard murder trial remained deadlocked at the Cleveland court session ending before lunch. After more than 27 hours of deliberation and 74 hours of sequestration, Judge Blythin offered no verdict forecast while signaling possible further talks with counsel if no verdict emerges. Dr Samuel Sheppard appeared in court, his case central to a likely retrial in early spring if the jury cannot agree.
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Sam
Cleveland
Sheppard
Edward Blythin
Samuel Sheppard
Marilyn
Richard
Stephen
Stephen Sheppard
Thomas Parrino
Criminal Court
Parrino
Blythin
Cafe Operator Fends Off Two Would-Be Bandits
Robert Cushing 29 ran a Savoy Gale cafe on State Street and fought off two would-be robbers who stabbed him and destroyed the cafe in a late night assault. He saved a $300 money bag as the attackers fled, injuries include a neck wound and headaches from shrapnel-related trauma. Portsmouth Hospital treated him yesterday and police searched the area but found no suspects.
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Robert Cushing
Savoy Cafe
State Street
Portsmouth
Savoy
Cushing
Custeney
Maite
Dickness
Patrolen
Robert B. Burns
Richard B. Maddock
John P. McGee
Clinton Dahlberg
Charles ¥. Velter
Secretary Dulles Returns From Paris NATO Talks
Secretary of State Dulles arrived in Washington from the North Atlantic Treaty Council meeting in Paris. He said the talks yielded very important decisions unanimously and in good spirit. Dulles noted discussions with Eden and Mendes France, and planned a detailed briefing tomorrow. He was greeted by Undersecretary Hoover, aides, embassy officials, and reporters.
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Washington
Dulles
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Paris
Conatetta- Hom
Treasury
Humphrey
Foreign Aid
Harold Strassen
State Department
Oe 4
Anthony Eden
Mendes-France
NATO
Nore
Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover Jr
Roger Makin
Alberto Tatchiani
Gontran de Juniac
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Margaret L. Blanche
Atlantic
French Assembly
Mendesce
Georges Bidant
Jean Letourneau
Mendes- France
Helowineau
Menides
Germany
Great Britain
Diat
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Meadowbrook
Ouse Ofrig Xmas Ady
Penny Wise
Middle St
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