Becks Influence Focuses Senate Probe On Becks Deals
Washington and congressional hearings spotlight Dave Beck's alleged profiteering in a multi million dollar insurance scheme. Witnesses include Frank Brewster A M Burke and George Newell as the Senate Rackets Committee probes Occidental Insurance Montgomery Ward and Teamsters connections amid proxy fight remarks by Alfons Landa and remarks by Kennedy and Goldwater.
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Washington
INS
Dave Beck
Senate
Beck
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Montgomery Ward
Frank W. Brewster
Teamsters
A.M. Burke
Occidental Insurance Company
George Newell
Teamsters Union
Alfons B. Landa
Landa
Roy Freuhauf
Sewell Avery
Louis Wolfson
Junior College In Sarasota Or Nowhere Says Legislator
The Clyde Beatty Circus considers Sarasota as winter headquarters if local demand exists. Randolph Calhoun says bids come from Miami Jacksonville Silver Springs and DeLand where the show toured last winter. The circus emphasizes it is not dead and notes crowds in many cities. Attendance and sales rise in New York despite a motorized overhaul reducing daily costs. The show includes about 250 staff and 150 performers with plans to run through October or early November.
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Clyde Beatty
Sarasota
Randolph Calhoun
Florida
Calhoun
Port Washington
N. Y
Hempstead
Hicksville
Huntington
Canada
New York State
Michigan
Collings
Teamsters chiefs meet with Meany on Beck corruption issue
Five vice presidents and other officers of the Teamsters held a private talk with AFL CIO President George Meany to discuss cleaning up the union amid corruption probes. Meany indicated Beck must step aside to stay in the AFL CIO, and the group weighed how to proceed without his ouster.
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Washington
Dave Beck
Teamsters
Afigio
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Meany
Beck
Einar O. Mohn
James R. Hoffa
Detroit
Thomas L. Hickey
New York
William A. Lee
Chicago
Joseph Diving
San Francisco
Senate
Teamsters Union
Aflcio
Teamsters Organization
New Sarasota Directory Promises Fresh Listings and Features
Peninsular Telephone unveils a 75 page Sarasota directory with 21 374 listings and 37 changes since November 1956 due to the new exchange dial system. Delivery starts Monday and ends Thursday with local cities including Sarasota Venice Englewood Bradenton.
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Peninsular Telephone
AAA
William H. Zylstra
Sarasota
Taylor Scott
Peninsular
Venice
Englewood
Bradenton
Scott
Fruitville
Osprey
LeMay Legend and College Threats Highlighted
A feature recalls Gen Curtis Le May cigar smoking legend and impact on air command on page 18. A separate discussion warns that the junior college could be endangered in Sarasota and Manatee Counties on page 11.
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Strategic Air Command
Curtis LeMay
Sarasota
Manatee
Local Site Gets Key Support for College in Sarasota
Florida House aide backs Sarasota site in the college plan but hints the entire Sarasota Manatee area could be cut from the six new junior colleges bill. Rep Bartholomew cites the council recommendation and says the council’s judgment should be followed, despite political pressures.
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Tallahassee
House
Appropriations Committee
Henry S. Bartholomew
Florida Community College Council
Sarasota
Sarasota - Manatee
Bartholomew
Sarasota- Manatee
Manatee County
Sarasota-Manatee
House Appropriations Committee
John B. Orr Jr
Dade County
Ralph Turlington
Alachua County
John Shipp
Washington County
Rep
College Council
Eisenhower Defends Budget as Defense Cuts Face Probe
Washington D C President Eisenhower voiced confidence Americans will back his budget amid a budget battle and warned against cutting defense. He rejected claims of liberal shifts stressing restraint on federal spending and urged careful scrutiny of all programs. He dismissed rewarding supporters and warned against deep defense cuts despite GOP pressure.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Ins
Congress
United States
House
Budget cuts continue as Senate trims appropriations
The Senate fights House for savings as Eisenhower appeals for budget support. A money bill to fund State and Justice Departments and the federal judiciary for the next fiscal year would total 563,085,293 dollars, down from House totals and with a 15.9 million cut from the U S Information Agency.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
House
State
Justice
Senate Appropriations Committee
U. S. Information Agency
State Department
Minnie Mermaid Proposes Rain Revenue in Sarasota
Sarasota forecast notes partly cloudy skies with afternoon thundershowers and a high near 85. Minnie Mermaid jokes that if raindrops could be sold at nickels, the budget dispute would disappear, and she warns against leaving windows open at night.
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Sarasota
Congress
Minnie Mermaid
Florida Blue Laws Struck Down by Supreme Court
Florida 1955 Sunday blue laws ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous four judge opinion the court said exemptions from the ban created an illegal classification that must apply equally to all within the same class.
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Tallahassee
Florida
Supreme Court
Bradenton Man Re elected President Of Florida Fairs
Thomas P. Chaires Jr. of Bradenton was re elected president of the Florida Federation of Fairs and Livestock Shows at the annual fair management short course held at the University of Florida yesterday. George Wallace of Arcadia was elected district vice president. meeting attended by County Agent Kenneth A. Clark and County Commissioner Edwin F. McCann.
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Thomas P. Chaires Jr
Bradenton
Florida Federation of Fairs and Livestock Shows
Associated Press
University of Florida
George Wallace
Arcadia
Kenneth A. Clark
Edwin F. McCann
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Burke
Occidental
Western Conference
Newell
Brewster
Newell's
Sen
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Barry Goldwater
R-Arix
Mr. Beck
Nowhere
Circus
Beckon
Miami
Jacksonville
Silver Springs
DeLand
Jerry Collins
Teamster Union Chiefs
Mohn Heads Group
Off the
Johnny
Ringling Exchange
Fulton
Elgin
A. F. Tores
Peninsular Telephone Co
Tores
Inside the News
Amublemecns
Forrest Clark
Stantly
Minnie
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