Freight Tax Slashed as House Passes Compromise Bill
The House approved a compromise tax bill repealing half a billion dollars a year in freight transportation surcharges. The measure, 365 to 3, preserves corporate tax rates and excises on autos liquor and cigarettes to avert a 2.115 billion revenue drop due July 1. The Senate quickly backed the plan and sent it to President Eisenhower amid complaints Congress did not cut other taxes.
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Robeson Receives Passport After Ruling on Beliefs
Paul Robeson and Professor Curtiss Lamont, longtime left leaning figures, finally obtained passports after years of denial tied to questions about Communist Party membership. The Supreme Court last week held beliefs or associations cannot justify withholding a passport. Robeson plans to travel to London in about two weeks for acting and media work. Lamont seeks a world trip next year.
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Car Union Agreement Hopes Dim
Detroit reports the Big Three auto makers and the United Auto Workers Union appear farther apart than three months ago in wage talks. The 1955 contracts expired Memorial Day weekend and most locals have worked without contracts at General Motors Ford and Chrysler. 65 of 231 locals approved strike action while Reuther enforces a no strike policy amid stalled offers.
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Square manhole covers testbegins in New York City
New York City starts a yearlong trial of a square noiseless manhole cover, announced by Manhattan Borough President Hulan E. Jackson. The redesign aims to reduce street noise and improve urban infrastructure as part of a broader city modernization effort.
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Victory for Benson as Farm Bill Extender Fails
Washington reports a Republican bloc blocked a Democratic omnibus farm bill. The 214 to 171 vote killed the measure, which would extend school milk, surplus disposal, and price support programs. Benson hailed the defeat as a vote of confidence in American agriculture while Republicans pressed for separate extensions on cotton corn rice and wool.
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Death Row Man Gets Life Term
SACRAMENTO San Quentin convict Clifford Jefferson of Kern County will serve life in prison instead of execution. Gov Knight commuted the 31 year old Jeffersons sentence to life without parole. Jefferson, under a state death penalty law for assault with a deadly weapon, would have been first Californias history to die for a non fatal assault if carried out.
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New Tulsa convention crowns Odessa leader as head of civic group
Duffey McKeel of Odessa Texas is elected president of the American Business Clubs at a four day Tulsa convention. The national civic organization wrapped up its meeting Thursday in Tulsa.
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Break in Alaska statehood stalemate eyed in Senate talks
Senate leaders and Eastland signal possible vote on two of three constitutional challenges to the House passed Alaska statehood bill. Thurmond blocks unanimous consent as filibuster debate stretches, Mansfield hopes to begin voting, Kennedy and Carlson endorse the bill briefly.
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