House Hints of Vast U.S. Highway Irregularities Probe
Hints of far reaching irregularities surfaced as the House opened a probe into spending and planning for the interstate highway system. Rep Jim Wright said undisclosed facts could dwarf past payola cases, noting costs per mile have jumped from 500 thousand to over a million. The 1956 program is 90 percent federally funded and slated for completion in 13 years.
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Washington
House
House Public Works
Defense and
Public Roads
Jim Wright
Dtex
Wright
Northern California Storm Claims Three Lives
Severe storm slammed Northern California with winds rain and snow killing at least three people and displacing about a thousand residents. The system drenched highways toppled power lines felled trees and forced evacuations around the Eel River Canyon and lumber towns near Eureka with communities like Weott Pepperwood and Myers Flat seeking higher ground. A second storm was reported en route and Sierra Nevada preparations for Squaw Valley Winter Olympics were disrupted.
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San Francisco
California
Sierra Nevada
Squaie Valley
Here
Eel River Canyon
Eureka
Weather forecast for West Virginia and river gauges
Mostly cloudy and warmer today with highs 45 to 55. Rain likely tonight and Wednesday, with lows near 40 in southern areas and 30s elsewhere. Beckley and Oak Hill reports show recent extremes. Greenbrier River slightly above normal and muddy, Lake Greenbrier at normal and muddy with 4.6 ft gauge. 12 gates open.
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Beckley
Lunch Counter Protests Spread Across North Carolina
Negroes press desegregation at Greensboro Winston-Salem and Durham lunch counters as protests widen. In Durham forty from North Carolina College sit at Woolworth with four Duke students. store closed after bomb threat. Kress and Woolworth reopen with mixed service, Walgreens dining area closed. In Winston-Salem Carl Matthews conducts a one man sit in at a Kress store, served water only. Protests began in Greensboro last week with a two week cooling off period declared by demonstrators.
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Winston-Salem
Durham
North Carolina College
F. W. Woolworth Co
Duke University
S. H. Kressland Co
Kress
Woolworth
Thews
Matthews
Truman lampoons senators and world leaders in Utah remarks
Former senator and ex-President Harry S Truman criticized United States senators as prima donnas during a question period after addressing about 500 people at a Reorganized Latter-Day Saints Church meeting in Independence Missouri. He mocked Fidel Castro and warned about Red China and Russia, calling them fearsome and unpredictable.
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Independence
U. S
Harry S. Truman
Caribbean
China
Truman
Latter - Day Saints
Khrushchev demands new German peace treaty at reception
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev used an Italian diplomatic reception to press for a peace treaty with Germany and an end to the West Berlin occupation. Italian leaders, drawn into the exchange, reaffirmed that Soviet terms remain unacceptable as Khrushchev warned that unresolved German questions could provoke forceful change.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
West Berlin
Khrushchev
Klementi Voroshilov
Giovanni Gronchi
Permier
West Virginia severance tax vote back on menu
Roy L Harmon reports that West Virginia delegates may vote on a severance tax on natural resources at the next election. A resolution to allow a referendum was blocked on a technicality but is now back before the House, with sponsor Marshall West determined to push it to a vote. The issue could force delegates to go on record for or against severance amid a late budget session and upcoming budget talks.
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Roy Lee Harmon
Charleston
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Severance
Marshall West
House
Eisenhower urges new farm control plan for wheat surpluses
President Eisenhower asked Congress to enact a new program to end wheat surpluses, offering three guidelines to shape policy and signaling willingness to accept constructive alternatives. He urged relating price supports to production controls, avoiding excessive subsidies, and steering clear of broad direct crop subsidies. He emphasized readiness to approve any constructive plan, including market-price supports or parity-based schemes, if it eliminates or tightens production controls. He noted Congress could propose an alternative plan as long as constructive.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Richard M. Nixon
Fluoridation Issue Comes To Boil In Raleigh County
Raleigh County Court faced a heated fluoridation dispute as opponents demanded rescission of the treatment. Spokesman Clay S. Crouse claimed 400 residents oppose fluoridation and questioned authority of the Public Service Commission and Beckley Water Co. The court noted a public vote might be best to decide the issue and scheduled a hearing for 1:30 pm on Tuesday February 23.
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Raleigh
Clay S. Crouse
Beckley
Raleigh County
Crouse
Public Service Commission
Beckley Water Co
C. Harold Hanks
Circuit Court
Cc. C. Farmer
H. G. Farmer
Khrushchev Arrival Deepens India China Border Talk
New Delhi awaits Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with hopes he can mediate between India and Communist China over the Tibet border dispute. Indian leaders compare his visit to Eisenhower's last December, viewing Khrushchev as an honest broker who may ease rival claims while avoiding taking sides. The Hindustan Times calls the border tension a misunderstanding, reflecting cautious optimism.
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Christian A. Herter
Soviet Union
Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Afl-Cio
Confederation
Miami Beach
George Meany
Meany
Adam Clayton Powell
House Labor and Education Committee
Powell
Congress
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Sekou Toure
New
African Republic of Guinea
Khrushchev
Africa
New Delhi
India
Red China
Tibet
Eisenhower
Peiping
China
United States
Hindustan Times
Finch Admits Illicit Affairs With 2 Helpers
Los Angeles AP report says Dr. R. Bernard Finch admits multiple affairs with two clinic employees before his relationship with Carole Tregoff. He describes an armistice with his wife Barbara permitting dating others while she could also freely come and go. He testifies the headline affair with Carole began after these early liaisons, denying disclosure to his spouse.
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Los Angeles
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Barbara
Finch
Miss Tregoff
West Covina
Miss Tregoft
Carole
Walk of Fame Ground Broken in Hollywood
Ground has been broken for the Walk of Fame project in Hollywood. Fifteen thousand feet of terrazzo sidewalks will bear coral star insets with famous names along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. The work includes new area lighting and is expected to take ten months at a cost of 1 151 000 dollars.
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Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard
Vine Street
Severance tax vote revival faces strong lobby push
In Charleston a surge of lobbyists rallied as severance tax critics fought back. Proponents plan to push a vote on the tax at the next election, while older supporters and disabled residents brace for renewed campaigning.
Senate And House Budgets Differ On Dole
Senate and House budget versions differ on economic relief. Senate proposes 4,350,000 for relief while House bills 4,575,000. House budget totals 119,023,000 at amendment stage alongside 118,163,000 approved by Senate yesterday. House expected to substitute its bill, pass the amended version, and return it.
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House
Legislature Tonight Faces Budget Vote And Amendments
Both houses convene at 2 p.m. Senate has no major passage bills while the House plans amendment actions and likely passage on a 119,023,000 budget bill and amends a school aid law revision. Yesterday the Senate passed and sent to the governor a bill to repeal the soft drinks tax on home-mix products and approved a 118,163,000 budget bill for House action.
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Senate
House
Session Extended Underwood Proclaims Longer Legislative Term
Underwood issued today a routine proclamation extending the current legislative session to February 15 to allow time for the budget bill. The extension follows a constitutional rule requiring extra days if the budget bill has not cleared final passage three days before the scheduled session end.
Conference Aims to Reconcile Bills on State Relief and Jobs
Lawmakers push a joint conference to reconcile Senate and House versions of a $4.575 million economic relief package. Key disputes cover feeding and clothing needy jobless, public works in parks and forests, and retraining programs for unemployed workers with House favoring new construction and Senate emphasizing repairs. The deadline is adjournment by midnight Thursday.
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Herb Little Charleston
Senate
House
Soviet scientist ties Sodom and Gomorrah to space bomb
MOSCOW AP Soviet physicist M. Agrest argues in Literary Gazette that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a nuclear explosion set off by space invaders. He cites tektites as evidence and says fugitives should have fled the blast area.
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Moscow
Sodom
Gomorrah
Outer Space
M. Agrest
Literary Gazette
Agrest
Lot
Earth
Minister Shot Resisting Teen Gang Robbery
The Rev. Leo K. Bishop 48 vice president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews was shot in the groin and grazed in the back while resisting a robbery by a teenage gang in Chicago. His wife Pauline 47 aided and the couple were wounded during the South Shore incident as police pursued the seven youths.
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Chicago
Leo K. Bishop
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Diinois Central Hospital
South Side
Bishop
Pauline
South Shore
Worker Slays Family and Self in Albuquerque
A federal agriculture worker Theodore R. Baker, 38, reportedly killed his wife Ruth Baker, 35, and two daughters Kathy 10 months and Carol 3, then shot himself. Police found the slayings in a home near his bed and crib, with a pistol nearby. Investigators stated the family may have died in their sleep, likely early Sunday, all shot in the head. Baker worked as an assistant program specialist for the U.S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation office.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Frank Vigil
Theodore R. Baker
Ruth Baker
Carol
Kathy
Baker
Vigil
U. S. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office
Grave eviction bill killed by Georgia House panel
The Welfare Committee of the Georgia House defeated a bill that would allow eviction of the dead for unpaid cemetery lot charges. Rep. Richard Thornton led the move to table the measure, saying he has too much respect for the dead to let it pass.
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Atlanta
Georgia House
Richard Thornton
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