Seine River Falls After Flood In Paris Areas Still Flooded
The swollen Seine began to fall after peaking near 24 feet, keeping thousands of lowland farms and factory suburbs under water. Paris centers remain safe though several bridges closed. Notre Dame basement flooded but church intact as Moselle and Garonne rivers rise in eastern and southwest France.
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Seine
France
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Garonne
Toulouse
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Congress Okay to Be Asked on Evacuating Tachens
Vice Admiral Pride said President Eisenhower would ask Congress to approve evacuation of the Tachens by the U S 7th Fleet now at the ready The fleet includes carriers Essex Yorktown Kearsarge Wasp and Princeton with cruisers Pride noted the action would be a grave policy change and fought by Communist opposition remains possible The Nationalist navy would assist and the fleet could move quickly if ordered from Keelung Taiwan Formosa.
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Yorktown
Kearsarge
Wasp
Yikiangshan
Tachens
Toumen Island
Adm
Helena
Keelung
7Th Fleet
Princeton
Eisenhower
Congress
Formosa
Washington
Red China
United States
Pescadores
Free World
Pacific
United Nations
U.N
Republic of China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dulles
Tachen Islands
U.S
Alfred M. Pride
Taipei
Kearsage
U N Talks on Formosa May Seek Cease Fire
New Zealand Prime Minister Sidney Holland and U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold meet in New York to discuss the Formosa Strait fighting. Indications rise that the Security Council may soon consider a cease fire request. Peiping's People's Daily rejects U N intervention, calling Taiwan and Penghu Penghu Islands China’s domestic affair.
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New Zealand
Sidney Holland
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Formosa Strait
U. N. Security Council
Chinese Communist Party
Peiping People’s Daily
U.N
Formosa
Peiping
Taiwan
Penghu Pescadores Islands
China
London
Sunday Pictorial
Anthony Eden
Chiang Kai-shek
Associated Press
Richard Kasischke
Moscow
United States
Red
New York
Washington
Leslie Knox Munro
Security Council
Munro
Sir Pierson Dixon
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Moxey Will Talk Oil Issues At Chamber Breakfast
Fred Moxey executive secretary of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association will discuss the present oil picture in southeastern New Mexico and related matters at the Chamber of Commerce breakfast Wednesday morning. About 50 reservations were made, with Tuesday noon as the deadline. R. G. Bird, newly elected Chamber president, will preside. The event runs 7:30 to 8:30 at Nickson Coffee Shop. reservations via Chamber at 3000. Attendance open to all interested.
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Fred Moxey
New Mexico Oil and Gas Association
New Mexico
Moxey
R. G. Bird
Chamber
Nickson
Eisenhower seeks U S authority to use armed forces over Formosa
President Eisenhower asked Congress for authority to deploy U S forces if needed to secure Formosa and the Pescadores amid Red China aggression. He warned redeployments depend on U S military aid and urged UN involvement to end hostilities. Senate committee scheduled to hear Dulles on a related resolution as 7th Fleet readiness is emphasized.
Local Man Killed in Auto Upset Near Lincoln
A Roswell man Willis Whitcamp 25 died from a broken neck and head injuries when his car left U S Highway 380 four miles west of Lincoln and overturned after hitting a boulder. Mack Meredith also from Roswell was in the car. driver unknown.
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Associated Press
Roswell
Lincoln
Willis I. Whitcamp
U.5
D. W. Smith
Claude William Harris
Hondo
U. S. 380
Bud Bivins
Clovis
Logan
Bivins
47 New Homes Approved in Alamogordo Development
FHA and VA approval has been granted for 47 new homes in Alamogordo. Local representatives of J. W. Sheid Co. Inc. builders announced the clearance.
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Alamogordo
FHA
J. W. Sheid Co., Inc. Builders
Local Weather Summary From United States Weather Bureau
Weather readings from 2 p.m. yesterday to 11 a.m. today show highest 46 and lowest 17 degrees. Precipitation none in past 24 hours. month-to-date and year-to-date totals 0.29. Sunrise 6 59, sunset 5 21, day length 10.4 hours. Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday with cold afternoon winds. High around 45, overnight low 16, little overall change.
Chou En Lai Accuses U S of Provoking Taiwan Crisis
Premier Chou En Lai charged the United States with escalating military actions after Red China seized Yikiangshan Island. He accused Washington of interfering in Taiwan's liberation and vowed China will decide its sovereignty without outside interference. The U S 7th Fleet and three aircraft carriers moved near Yikiangshan to aid evacuation of the Tachen Islands if ordered.
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Tokyo
Chou En-Lai
Red China Today
United States
Yikiangshan Island
Peiping Radio
U. S
Chou
Taiwan
United Nations
Rigs Active: Sixty-Six Drilling in Lea County Today
Hughes Tool Co reports sixty six oil rigs drilling in Lea County today, two fewer than a week earlier, reflecting a slight drop in activity while outlining the current field operations.
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Hobbs
Lea County
Hughes Tool Co
VFW District Parley Receives State Officers Addresses
Harold O'Brien of Los Alamos and Lloyd Gladin of Grants spoke to about 80 VFW officers delegates and auxiliary members at the Seventh District meeting held at Ingalls Memorial Home. Myles Metcalfe Albuquerque and Lyle Goldson Hobbs reported as district leaders presided. A March district meeting is planned in Carlsbad and the Department Encampment will be in June at Santa Fe.
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District 7
VFW
Ingalls Memorial Home
Thomas B. Forbis
Mervin V. Campbell
Lloyd Gladin
Arnold C. O’brien
Lyle Garner
B. W. Young
Salem Curtis
Lyle Gholson
Milas A. Metcalf
Ralph W. Beard
Zane Leslie
Laura M. King
Lorna O’brien
Johnnye Alexander
Ethel Wood
Dorothy Hughes
Bessie Leslie
Capitan Auxiliary
Lela Cox
Hazel Wilson
Mary Vukocick
Ann Pemberton
Carlsbad Post Auxiliary
Lela W. Buster
Seeds For Democracy
Harold O’brien
Los Alamos
Grants
Seventh District
Ingalls Memorial
Myles Metcalfe
Albuquerque
Lyle Goldson
Hobbs
Carlsbad
Santa Fe
Men Appointed Jury Commissioners Named by District Court
Warren R. Cobean former mayor and James A. Price both of Roswell and E O Moore of Dexter were appointed by the District Court as jury commissioners. They will meet at 9 a m January 31 to select from 850 names those qualified as jurors take the oath and deliver the list to the district clerk. The appointment order was filed Friday.
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Warren R. Cobean
James A. Price
Roswell
E. O. Moore
Dexter
District Court
Fines Total 370 In Police Court
Fines totaling 370 were assessed today in Police Court across five cases. Three defendants were charged with intoxication, one with drunken driving, and one with leaving the scene of an accident and no driver license. Frances Gutierrez, 19, 1504 S Monroe Ave, was fined 175 for DWI LSA and NDL. Jessie L McCraw, 26, 807 W 10th St, was fined 150 for DWI.
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Frances Guitterez
S. Monroe Ave
Dwi
LSA
NDL
Jessie L. McCraw
10Th St
Arctic advantage for Soviets in cold war likely says Balchen
Col. Bernt Balchen states in a U S News interview that Russians’ experience with cold climates may give the Soviet Union an edge over the United States in arctic military operations.
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Washington
United States
Stock market lessons from a New York teacher's tale
A New York schoolteacher, Miss X, illustrates early stock market entry and risks. She earned 5000 from a California farm sale, invested with confidence, faced a 1100 loss, then rebuilt to about 20000 in holdings. The piece highlights many new investors, including those with incomes under 5000, risking and learning as millions enter the market.
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New York
America
Wall Street
Washington
Xliss X
P.S
Miss X
Lt Ted Harrison Completes Basic Infantry Officers Course
Fort Benning Ga Second Lt Ted Harrison son of Mr and Mrs Walter Harrison of Roswell New Mexico completed the Infantry school's basic infantry officers course at Fort Benning The course trains officers who have not served with troops and prepares them to command infantry units Harrison a 1954 Texas Tech College graduate and Phi Delta Theta member entered the Army in September 1954
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Ted Harrison
Walter Harrison
S. Kentucky
Roswell
Infantry School
Harrison
Texas Tech College
Lubbock
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Army
Couples Obtain Marriage Licenses
A marriage license was issued here today to James Donald Bailey 26 of San Antonio and Marguerite Barbieri 29 of Albuquerque. On Saturday licenses were granted C. M. Tyler Jr. 21 and Thelma Louise Cain 17 of Roswell, and Mackey Oldfield 18 and Arline Seal 18 of Tulia Texas.
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James Donald Bailey
San Antonio
Marguerite Barbieri
Albuquerque
C. M. Tyler Jr
Thelma Louise Cain
Roswell
Mackey Oldfield
Arline Seal
Tulia
Tex
NM Senate Leader Expects Primary for Delegates
Senate majority leader Sen. Murray Morgan says a bill substituting a presidential primary for the delegate convention system could pass both houses in New Mexico. He notes past federal aid proposals and recalls a vetoed 1953 measure while urging open primaries with limited delegate binding. A joint session will hear Los Alamos County and reapportionment bills.
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Senate
Sen
Murray Morgan
D-Otero
Congress
Edwin L. Mechem
Tee
Adair Gossett
Carlsbad
Municipal League
Morgan
New Mexico
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