Truman Defends Fair Deal and Dams in Arkansas
President Truman lauded the New Deal and Fair Deal as boosting the South, dedicating Bull Shoals and Norfolk hydroelectric dams while attacking so called special interests led by private power firms and the medical association. He urged continued action for equal opportunity and resource use. His Arkansas stop echoed his 1948 campaign rhetoric.
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Bull Shoals Dam
Ark
Truman
South
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
American Medical Association
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
Arkansas
Missouri
Bull Shoals
Norfolk
Taft Supporters Gain Ground in Delegates Fight
Taft forces won Georgia 17 Republican convention votes and opened the door to all. The battle pits Taft against Eisenhower with 474 to 410 pledged or leaning delegates, as the fight for 604 needed to clinch the nomination begins. The Georgia decision may set patterns for five other states as the convention approaches.
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Taft
Chicago
Georgia
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Eisenhower
National Committee
Conrad Hilton
Boulevard
Texas
Louisiana
Associated Press
State plans three alcoholism centers in New Mexico
A special state tax on alcohol will fund three rehabilitation centers for alcoholics in Albuquerque and Southeastern and Southwestern New Mexico. Locations and land ownership must be resolved with the attorney general. The program emphasizes new hope, with limited drugs and no restraints. Patients may pay nominal fees, and discharges refer to local Alcoholics Anonymous chapters.
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Santa FE
Arthur Stine
State Commission On Alcoholism
Albuquerouve
Southeastern
New Mexico
Stine
State Supreme Court
Albuquerque Center
Alcoholics Anonymous
Commission
Local Weather Summary from United States Weather Bureau
Reading intervals from 2 p.m. yesterday to 11 a.m. today show high of 97 and low of 62 with normal highs 92 and lows 63 for the date. Precipitation totals to 11 a.m. today 0 for 24 hours and 0.13 for the month to date. year to date 5.62. Sunrise 4:52, sunset 7:12, day length 14.3 hours. Forecast fair with little temperature change. today and tonight and Thursday expect some afternoon variation. Highest today near 100, tonight around 64.
Four Sightseeing Americans Arrested At Berlin Border
Four sightseeing Americans including a chaplain and a woman were seized by the East Berlin border police after their car stopped at the border at Doeppel Zehlendorf. Soviet and East German officers forced the vehicle across the frontier amid tense confrontation, with witnesses noting the car bore American plates.
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Berlin
Doeppel
Zehlendorf
West Germany
Businesses To Close For July Fourth Holiday
County state and federal offices the public library and business houses and offices of the city will be closed Friday July 4 as usual. The date is one of the several approved for closing by local business organizations and has been the custom for many years. The Record will also join other businesses in closing its doors for the day as is also its custom.
Pair Charged in Eagle Nest Gambling Ring
Victor Barela of Penasco and W L Hooks of Lubbock Texas are charged with gambling at Eagle Nest. District Attorney John Wright says two state policemen played poker and dice in a bar back room and made arrests when proof was obtained. Bonds set at $1,000.
Truman Spars with Congress Over Price Controls
Washington reports bitter exchanges as President Truman warns Congress that easing price controls weakens efforts to stabilize the economy. Senators Elender Dirksen Bricker Maybank air sharp replies centering on inflation, spending, and tighter credit, while Truman weighs whether to reconvene Congress in the fall.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Capitol Hill
Ellender
D-La
Dirksen
R-Ill
Bricker
Ohio
Maybank
D-S.c
Banking Committee
Eliender
Children Line up For Polio Gamma Globulin Trial
In Houston a mass trial divides 17 500 children into gamma globulin and placebo groups to test if the antibody fraction can prevent polio paralysis. City polio cases reach 163 with six deaths this year, statewide 1 123 cases. researchers caution gamma globulin may not stop polio but could prevent paralysis. Results due later, likely in 1953.
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Houston
Texas
State Health Department
University of Pittsburgh
National Foundation of
Hammon
Provo
Utah
Backers Fight TV and Radio Ban at GOP Hearings
Chicago reports the Republican National Committee voted 60 to 40 to bar television radio newsreel and still cameras from its hearings. Dewey urged full coverage while Eisenhower backers labeled the move a Taft dominated misstep. Taft and Brown defended past rules. Lodge condemned the gag rule as anti openness. Dewey urged voters to see the evidence.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Rep
Clarence Brown
Brown
G. Mason Owlett
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Lodge
Committee
Sen
Dewey
Houston
Texas
Banks Told to File June 30 Financial Condition
The comptroller of the currency orders a call for a statement of condition from all national banks as of the close of business Monday June 30.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
Baseball scores summary from a late season slate
National League matches include Philadelphia over Brooklyn 4 to 3 with Roberts Lopata and Campanella contributing. New York defeated Boston 151 to 2 after big innings. Pittsburgh lost to Chicago 8 to 3 while St. Louis edged Cleveland in ten innings 2 to 3. Boston beat New York 5 to 4 with Hudson Benton and others prominent.
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Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Roberts
Lopata
van Cuyk
King
Black
Schmitz
Labine
Campanella
Taft Forces Trim Georgia Delegates at Convention
In Chicago Taft supporters shifted balance by ejecting 14 Georgia delegates from Eisenhower's bloc and seating 17 Taft loyalists at the nominating convention, altering the delegate lineup.
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Chicago
Georgia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Extradition fight deepens in New Mexico kidnap case
A custody dispute in New Mexico involving Yolanda Lopez Puckett and Manila promoter Ted Lewin drew in State Department action and a governor approved extradition bid that was later dropped. New Mexico AG Joe L Martinez said the matter is civil, not criminal, and claimed no direct correspondence with Lewin or Puckett.
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New Mexico
Yolanda Lopez Puckett
State Department
U.S
Ted Lewin
Manila
Joe L. Martinez
Edwin L. Mechem
Martinez
Everett M. Grantham
Albuquerque
Jack Tate
U.S. State Department
California
Mechem
Lewin
Department of State
United States
Tate
Puckett
Rosewell
Mr. Puckett
Charles Durant
Bautista
James R. Puckett
Roswell
Farmington
Bobby
Airman Arrested Over Urge To Wear Women's Clothes
Airman A 3c William F. McInerney, 24, Buffalo New York, admitted an overpowering urge to dress as a woman. He was arrested at North Main Union bus station after being spotted in a women’s restroom and dressed in full female attire. County doctors declared him a mental case, pending psychiatric care, and he faced a possible medical discharge for pre existing physical defects. He had earlier undergone a May medical exam at William Beaumont General Hospital El Paso revealing cerebral palsy. He was attached to Headquarters Squadron 509th Bomb Wing at Walker Air Force Base.
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William F. McInerney
Union
North Main
Jim Davis
McInerney
Buffalo
N. Y
William Beaumont General Hospital
el Paso
Army
Denotivv Sheriffs
Davis
Fifth and Main
Earl S. Latimer
509Th
Mechanical Man Assists in Vote Registration Drive
A robotic man from Albuquerque, speaking via tape recordings, will aid the mobile voter registration campaign run July 14 to 19. Chester Voloshik leads the project as mayor Warren S. Cobean plans a proclamation naming July 14 19 Freedom Opportunity Week.
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Albuquerque
Chester Voloshik
Warren S. Cobean
UN Raiding Column Wipes Out Red Company In Korea
Allied raiding column penetrated into Western Korea and nearly destroyed a Chinese company near Yonchon. About 257 of 320 defending Reds were killed or wounded during a five hour battle. The operation involved battalion strength and yielded high Communist casualties in June.
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Red Company
Seoul
Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
Yonchon
U. N
Tokyo
Eighth Army
Cave Where Man Held 13 Days May Be in Quicksilver Area
El Paso reports a laborer kept 13 nights in a cave guarded by men with machine guns near Terlingua in a Big Bend quicksilver mining region. Margarite Perez, 40, said he unloaded heavy cylinders like milk bottles used in explosives. He was released after June 15 and described four days of rain during captivity.
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EL Paso
Tex
el Paso Times
Wild Big Bend
Terlingua
Alpine
Margarite Perez
Rio Grande
Perez
Big Bend
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