Eisenhower Builds Support for Progressive Moderates in GOP
President Eisenhower hosts a White House stag dinner with key figures like Leonard Hall Herbert Brownell Jr. Arthur Sumnerfield Sherman Adams Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Richard Nixon as he signals plans to shape a party led by progressive moderates for 1956. The event fuels talk on a possible second term and GOP leadership realignment.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
United States
Eisenhower Associates
GOP
Hall
Herbert Brownell Jr
Arthur E. Summerfield
Sherman Adams
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.S
United Nations
Nixon
James C. Hagerty
Post Office Faces Historic Christmas Mail Rush
The Snyder post office endures a peak Christmas season with about 29 000 mail pieces processed in a day, nearing its record 32 000. Parcel post at 2112 Avenue S handles daily packages. staff include one full timer at the parcel station, with routes running after dark and extra National Guard help for hauling mail. The postmaster expects a new annual receipts record.
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Dawson Moreland
Avenue S
Moreland
Snyder
National Guard
U.S. Tidellands Bonanza Driven by Offshore Drilling
Washington reports U.S. News and World Report says offshore oil development will yield six billion dollars for the federal treasury, about one billion for Texas and Louisiana. Deep-water drilling attracts companies to lands held by the federal government, with drilling rights and royalties boosting public funds.
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Washington
U.S. News and World Report
Federal Treasury
Texas
Louisiana
Tidelands
Gulf Coast
McKay
Florida
Treasury
General Fund of the Treasury
Veterans Land Board weighs buyback offer from Texas developers
The State Veterans Land Board debated a proposal by Rio Val Development Winter Garden Development and Alamo Development to repurchase land sold to veterans. Everett Looney inched the plan while the board paused new land warrants and the Senate panel prepared to probe alleged irregularities. Two Cuero accountants face charges tied to a forged land instrument and a Cuero businessman awaits grand jury action on a forged instrument in a land deal.
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Austin
State Veterans Land Board
South Texas
Texas
Everett Looney
Rio Val Development Co
Winter Garden Development Co
Alamo Development Co
Senate
Dorsey Hardeman
San Angelo
Cuero
Travis County
Sheppard Murder Trial Jury Deliberates Into Fourth Day
In Cleveland the jury in the Dr. Samuel Sheppard murder case, charged with first degree murder in Marilyn Sheppard's death, ends its fourth day without a verdict. Jurors, who have logged 100 hours with 36 hours of deliberations, asked for more time last night and appeared hopeful for a verdict today.
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Relman Morin
Cleveland
Sheppard
Blythin
Samuel H. Sheppard
Marilyn
James Kilroy
William J. Corrigan
Ohio
Prophetess Aborts Chicago Doomsday Prediction
Dorothy Martin and 13 followers in Oak Park claimed Earth disaster would occur before midnight. She announced God halted the prophecied catastrophe, saying a divine intervention stopped the envisioned tidal floods from Seattle to Chile and Chicago. Dr. Charles Laughead had resigned from Michigan State College over the belief.
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Chicago
Dorothy Martin
Arctic Circle
Gulf of Mexico
Seattle
Chile
Dr. Laughead
Santa letter to Captain sparks Christmas wish list
In Frankfurt Germany an army radio Santa receives a child’s note asking for a train a jeep and a talking dog. The child offers to pay with money taken from his captain dad’s pocket and adds a humorous line about being rich.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Army
Santa Claus
Temperature swings in Snyder from 73 to 28 degrees
In Snyder last night the thermometer dropped to 28 degrees after a high of 73 degrees in the afternoon. By 7 30 this morning the temperature had risen to 31 degrees.
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Snyder
Seven Killed In Collision Near Tularosa New Mexico
Seven people died and another was critically injured in a head on crash on Highway 70 near Tularosa New Mexico. The Floydada Texas family of five was traveling to California for Christmas, their car filled with presents. The dead include Wilmer Jones 40 Mable Jones 40 Phyllis Ann Jones 6 James 8 and Miguel Dorame 40 Donald William Gray 20 and Sas James Watkins 29. Clifford Jones 14 survived in critical condition. Police say the Jones car crossed into the westbound lane and collided with the other vehicle three miles south of Tularosa about 15 miles from the scene.
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Alamogordo
N.M
Tularosa
California
Wilmer Jones
Mable
Phyllis Ann
James
Miguel Dorame
Donald Willaim Gray
Sas James Watkins
Ottoman Afb
Champion Memorial Hospital
Clifford Jones
Floydada
Jones
Woman assaulted as intruder enters home near Temple
A 23 year old white woman told police a Black intruder forced entry into her house while her husband worked and her three children slept nearby. She described seeing the man peering into windows and raising the alarm unsuccessfully as the attack occurred 500 yards from the nearest neighbor.
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Temple
Walter vows strict probes against pilfering from security agencies
Rep elect Walter of Pennsylvania pledges that the House Un American Activities Committee will not tolerate surreptitious methods or pilfering of files from security agencies. He cites a case involving an FBI document and a former Air Force intelligence officer turned investigator, and says staff will be tightly controlled under new rules.
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Lewis Gulick
Washington
Rep
Walter
D-Pa
House Un-American Activities Committee
Congress
FBI
Air Force
Ben van Fosson
van Fosson
Paris Debates Over German Rearmament Treaties
The French National Assembly debated ratification of the Paris treaties on German rearma ment led by Gen. Pierre Aume ran. Premier Mendes France seeks action before Christmas to enroll 500000 West Germans as NATO forces, with ratification likely by Thursday. Treaties restore sovereignty to West Germany, admit it to the Western European Union, permit 500000 conscripted soldiers, admit rearmed Germany to NATO, and place Saar Valley under West European Union control.
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Harvey Hudson
Paris
French National Assembly
Pierre Aumeran
de Gaullist
West Germany
Pierre Mendes-France
Mendes-France
North Atlantic Alliance
Saar Valley
Union
Pentagon Studies Artificial Earth Satellites Underway
The Defense Department confirmed active studies on artificial earth satellites, ongoing for at least six years. The work, classified secret and limited in circulation, remains in laboratory and mathematical phases with no hardware built, aiming for scientific or potentially weapon use.
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Washington
Wilson
Pentagon
Defense
James Forrestal
Defense Department
Secretary of Defense
Moon
Department of
Three Die In Fiery Truck Crash Near Zavala
Three men died in a two truck crash five miles south of Zavala on Highway 69. One survivor, badly burned, said a cow caused one truck to swerve. Deceased are Merle Smith and Ralph Perkins of Nacogdoches and Aubrey Gaiser of Tyler. Jimmy McCrary of Tyler survived with severe burns.
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Lufkin
Zavala
Merle Smith
Ralph Perkins
Nacogdoches
Aubrey Gaiser
Tyler
Jimmy McCrary
Gaiser
Smith
J.E. Harrison
McCrary
Perkins
Allied Chain Fence Co
Gregg- Tyler Poultry Co
Beaumont
Defeated Solon Named Federal Housing Agency Counsel
Washington Rep. Alan Oakley Hunter a California Republican who lost his bid for a third term is named general counsel of the Housing and Home Finance Agency He will replace Berchmans T Fitzpatrick a Democrat who resigned after 20 years Sparkman Kefauver said Fitzpatrick resigned to make room for a Republican
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Washington
Alan Oakley Hunter
California
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Berchmans T. Fitzpatrick
Sparkman
Alabama
Kefauver
Tennessee
Hunter
Fitzpatrick
Britain Rejects Soviet Warning Over Paris German Aid Pact
London dismisses Andrei Gromyko note declaring the Anglo Soviet treaty would be denounced if Britain ratifies the Paris agreements. Foreign Office says no basis for the claim and affirms Western European unity as Parliament awaits Queen Elizabeth II’s signature and ratification instruments.
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London
Britain
Kremlin
Russia
Paris
Germany
Foreign Office
Andrei Gromyko
William Hayter
Moscow
France
Military To Start Pruning Strength
The Army Navy and Marine Corps will cut 107000 uniforms by next June and 130000 more by next July with the Air Force exempting from cuts. Defense Secretary Wilson announced a 403000 reduction to reach 2815000 total strength by June 1956.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
Defense Wilson
Wilson
Far East
Eisenhower
Air Force
Navy
Marine Corps
Congress
Pentagon
Indochina
Army
Korea
1St Marine Division
3Rd Marine Division
Japan
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U. S
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Corte Madera
Calif
San Francisco
Loren D. Clem
McKenna
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Federal Housing Post
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