Dixon-Yates contract tied to Ike power policy Gore charges
Sen. Gore accuses the Eisenhower first team of shaping the Dixon-Yates power contract as a core policy for the 1956 campaign. Kefauver’s antitrust subcommittee probes Wenzell’s dual role, questions conflict of interest, and keeps cost reimbursements on hold if the deal is canceled. The project spans a 10 million dollar plant at West Memphis to supply TVA power via AEC.
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Washington
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Leisenhower
Eisenhower
Congress
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Rowland R
Zell
Dixon-Yates
Wenzell
First Boston Corp
Budget Bureau
Sen. Kefauver
First Boston
Subcommittee
Dixon- Yates
Edgar H. Dixon
Middle South Utilities
Kefauver
Securities and Exchange Commission
AEC
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
New Life For Daughter Of Polio Victims
A 19 month old girl, Margorie Linda Buttner, is cared for in an Air Force hospital while her parents recover from polio. The family, from Tucson, was moved to Sheppard AFB and then Wichita Falls for treatment. Her father remains in respiratory paralysis but is described as satisfactory. mother has a mild case.
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Wichita Falls
Air Force
Margorie Linda Buttner
Margorie Linda
Air Force S
Samuel F. Buttner
Tucson
Ariz
Buttner
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Sheppard Afb
Sheppard
Snyder Youth Sentenced to Texas Penitentiary
Joe Dell Mathews an 18 year old Snyder youth was taken to Huntsville today to begin a two year term for three forgery counts. He receives three concurrent two year sentences and was escorted by Deputy Howard Gibbons.
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Joe Dell Mathews
Snyder
Huntsville
State Penitentiary
Howard Gibbons
Big New Bills Start Robbery Investigation
Las Vegas police linked two men to a major bank robbery after they used large bills at casino tables. Frank Ellsworth and Ray Wilson were detained with 87 thousand dollars in cash as New York police compared photos and fingerprints to a Queens Chase Manhattan heist. Ellsworth bonded on habeas writ. Wilson jailed for robbery investigation.
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Las Vegas
New York
Chase Manhattan
Queens
N.Y
Frank Ellsworth
Ray Wilson
B. J. Handlen
Ellsworth
Wilson
Handlen
Memphis
Tenn
Tulsa
Okla
Wichita, Kan
Questions Raised About Soviet Aims at Geneva Summit
Secretary of State Dulles warned that the Soviet economy may be near collapse and questioned whether Moscow negotiates from strength or weakness at the Geneva talks. He urged continuing U S aid programs, saying abandoning foreign commitments would be a disaster and that the Kremlin is unsettled by U S capacity to meet heavy international obligations.
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Washington
Dulles
House Appropriations Committee
West
Eisenhower
Russia
Britain
France
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Khrushchev
State Department
Dulles and Eisenower
Kremlin
United States
Lubbock Man Seeks Italian Religious Recognition
Cline R. Paden of Lubbock Texas planned to ask Italy's top court for recognition as a minister. He helps organize the Church of Christ in Italy, part of an American group establishing churches after World War II. The interior ministry denied minister status, citing Article 19 on free religious professing.
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Rome
Cline R. Paden
Lubbock
Tex
Italy
Paden
Church of Christ In
Interior Ministry
House Seeks 20 Percent Cut In Foreign Aid Funds
The House Appropriations Committee proposed a 20 per cent reduction in foreign aid, about 627.9 million dollars, for the Eisenhower program as part of a 2.64 billion dollar bill. It cited a chaotic fiscal situation in military aid and criticized last minute obligations.
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House
William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Rep. Passman
D-La
Defense Department
Europe
Near East
Africa
Asia
India
United Nations
West Germany
Austria
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
U. N. Refugee Fund
Iron Curtain
U. N. Children's Fund
Palestine Refugee Program
President's Fund For Asian Economic Development
Convict Free: Old Mystery Revived Again
BELTON Texas Eugene Padgett who confessed a murder he now says he didn t commit has won his freedom. The 24 year old mystery remains who beat Will Sanderford to death with a tire tool during a 1931 burglary at Little River Texas. Padgett walked free after persuading authorities he had an ulterior motive didn t mean it when he confessed in 1940.
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Belton
Tex
Eugene Padgett
Will Sanderford
Little River
Padgett
Texas State Penitentiary
Sanderford
State Parole Board
Austin
State Court of Criminal Appeals
Texas
Dist
Raymond Thorton
Thornton
Marr Rites Set Saturday
Funeral services for John Henderson Marr 80 at 2 p.m. in Bolger Chapel and 3:30 p.m. at Canyon Baptist Church with burial in Ira Cemetery. Marr of Odessa survived by wife Nancy Moody three sons Milton Olen and A C Marr a sister Effie Franklin and brother C C Marr plus fifteen grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Pallbearers listed.
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John Henderson
Jack) Marr
East Twenty - Fifth Street
Lester Raines
Bolger Chapel
Canyon Baptist Church
Cleck Smith
Ira
Bolger Funeral Home
Bolger Funeral Home. Mr. Marr
Tennessee
Texas
Dallas County
Scurry County
Nancy Martin
Snyder
Odessa
Mr. Marr
O. L. Moody
Milton, Olen
A. C. Marr
Effie Franklin
Big Spring
C. C. Marr
Jack
Leonard Moody
Lowell
Ray Martin
Richard Marr
Desegregation Plan Spurs Texas Western Action
Washington reports a broad new government research program to improve the Salk polio vaccine and testing methods. It also releases 300000 vaccine shots under new standards to support the vaccination drive via the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Wyeth Laboratories produced the vaccine.
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Washington
Leonard Scheele
Public Health Service
PHS
National Foundation For
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
Health Service
Safeway Chief Denies Antitrust Violations
Safeway Stores Inc president Lingan A. Warren and Dallas division manager Earl Cliff were indicted by a federal grand jury on antitrust charges in Texas and New Mexico. Warren said Safeway has not violated laws and accused competitors of pressuring the investigation.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Safeway Stores Inc
Safeway
Texas
New Mexico
Lingan A. Warren
Oakland
Calif
Earl Cliff
Dallas
Warren
Chief to Investigate Threatening Messages in La Marque
Police Chief Paul Hopkins ordered full force to probe a pattern of threatening telephone calls. Four families under protection after anonymous calls demanding money and threatening violence. Pranksters suspected but authorities take precautions.
Eden Advocates Western Arms Pool Including Soviets
Prime Minister Eden proposed that the Soviet bloc could join the Western European Union arms control pool as part of broader disarmament efforts. He outlined three pillars for NATO unity, US alliance, and Germany's unification, while signaling readiness to extend voluntary armament controls to the East if Moscow cooperates. He noted ongoing schemes to limit rearmament and pledged scrutiny of Soviet moves.
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London
Eden
European Union
Russia
Germany
Britain
NATO
United States
West European Union
Reich
France
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Europe
Prison revolt ends as inmates moved outdoors at Washington State Prison
At Washington State Prison 1700 inmates spent the night on an athletic field after a two day revolt. Guards and state patrolmen watched over the crowd as cell checks were suspended. Weapons, broken glass, and damaged fixtures were collected and a six figure damage bill was anticipated.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Washington State Prison
Coast Guard Seeks Blue Star Mystery Off New Jersey
Coast Guard vessels and planes searched a 4000 square mile Atlantic area off Barnegat New Jersey after a distress report claims a 40 foot boat named Blue Star struck a strange object and sank. No trace of the vessel or survivors was found as officials question the hoax possibility and note five boats with the same name were accounted for.
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New York
Coast Guard
Atlantic
New Jesey
Blue Star
Barnegat
N.J
Julius F. Jaycot
Third Coast
Jaycot
Weather Update for Texas Plains Through Saturday
North Central Texas remains clear to partly cloudy and warm through Saturday. West Texas sees partly cloudy skies and warm weather with widely scattered thunderstorms mostly at night.
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Texas
West Texas
Regents Plan Desegregation At UT Under Tight Limits
The University of Texas will desegregate at Texas Western College in El Paso this fall while keeping a one year pause on undergraduate admissions for the main campus in Austin. A selective admission system will be developed for 1956 57 to admit qualified students of all races to graduate and to all divisions of UT, with emphasis on merit and equal treatment across racial lines.
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Austin
University of Texas Today
Texas Western College At
el Paso
Board of Regents
Regent
Tom Sealy
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Claude Voyles
University of Texas
Texas Western College
Texas Western
Leroy Jeffers
Houston
Sealy
Logan Wilson
Charles K. Devall
Kilgore
Texas
Merton Minter
San Antonio
Minter
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