Dixon Yates Fight Reopens In House Battle Today
Washington In renewed clash over the Dixon Yates power project the House debates an appropriations bill provision to reject 6.5 million for a transmission line linking TVA with a private Dixon Yates plant at West Memphis Arkansas The plan could pivot to funding a 90 million TVA steam plant at Fulton Tennessee as Republicans push to remove earmarking while keeping the TVA program intact
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
House
Dixon-Yates Power
Eisenhower Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
West Memphis
Ark
Mississippi River
Dixon-Yates Utility Group
Atomic Energy Commission
Dixon- Yates Power
TVA
House Appropriations Committee
Dixon- Yates
Fulton, Tenn
AEC
Army Engineers
Fulton
Halleck
Indiana
Continental Air Lines seeks permanent Texas New Mexico routes
Continental Air Lines petitions the Civil Aeronautics Board for a permanent certificate of operation over former Pioneer Air Lines routes in Texas and New Mexico. The plan covers Amarillo to Houston Dallas to Houston Dallas to Midland Odessa and Lubbock to Albuquerque with 16 midland communities including Snyder. CAB hearings are expected soon as the board reviews temporary certificates ahead of granting permanent authority.
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Continental Air Lines
Civil Aeronautics Board
Texas
New Mexico
Pioneer Air Lines
Jim Babcock
Continental
CAB
Pioneer
Amarillo
Houston
Dallas
Midland - Odessa
Lubbock
Albuquerque
Snyder
Midland-Odessa
Denver
Weather outlook for Texas shows scattered storms today
North Central Texas remains partly cloudy and warm with scattered thunderstorms mainly at night through Thursday. West Texas follows a similar pattern with localized afternoon and evening storms in the Panhandle, South Plains, and east Pecos Valley. East and South Central Texas stay partly cloudy and warm with showers and isolated storms mainly in the north, while coastal winds stay moderate and gusty near storms.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Valley
Impeachment Talk Roils Houston Mayor Case
Houston councilman Ira Kohler said an informal session may convene to discuss impeachment of Mayor Roy Hofheinz after most of the council met to consider the matter. Hofheinz dismissed the chatter as an effort to block a land office probe, noting firings and suspensions tied to the ongoing scandal. The Harris County grand jury heard witnesses, including public works director J. M. Nagle, as district attorney Dan Walton cautioned on indictments and the difficulty of proving wrongdoing.
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Houston
Ira Kohler
Roy Hofheinz
Kohler
Joe Resweber
Oo Resweber
Solas
On Council
Hofheinz
City
Harris County Grand Jury
J. M. Nagle
Nagle
Grand Jury
Dan Walton
Adenauer Not Moved By Soviets Wooing
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer departs for Boston as officials say Soviet blandishments have little effect on him He will not rush talks with Moscow before the Big Four Geneva meeting His repeated pledges of German steadfastness stress that neutrality is not acceptable and that NATO unity protects Germany’s independence He will receive an honorary degree from Harvard University tomorrow.
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Edmund LE Breton
Washington
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Boston
Sones
Moscow
Geneva
Germany
Eisenhower
Soviet Russia
Europe
NATO
Harvard University
India Effort Appears To Be Favorable
India’s diplomat V K Krishna Menon met with President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles as the administration showed a favorable tilt toward India’s mediation efforts with Red China over Formosa. While no formal endorsement was given, Menon received polite attention and may progress without clear mediation status. The talks also touched on the return of 11 American airmen and other detainees behind the Bamboo Curtain.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Eisenhower
India
United States
Red China
Formosa
Dulles
S V. K. Krishna Menon
China
White House
James C. Hagerty
Nixon
Menon
Galveston Not Wide Open Declared By Mayor Clough
Galveston Mayor George Roy Clough told the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce that Galveston remains a tourist city meant for a good time but not a wide open sin city. He noted no local industry and endorsed Post Office Street as best for the city while proposing prostitutes be moved from downtown hotels back to the historic district.
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Houston
Galveston
George Roy Clough
Butler Predicts Texans Will Support National Candidate
National Democratic Chairman Paul Butler predicted Texas delegates will attend the 1956 Democratic national convention and then back the nominee and platform. He said delegates would heed the will of the majority at the national level and defended his stance on loyalty, tidelands, and party unity amid conservative liberal splits in Texas.
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Paul Butler
Texas
Butler
Allan Shivers
Shivers
Austin
Houston
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Stevenson
Ralph Yarborough
Big Spring
Dallas
Tyler
Waco
Weslaco
McAllen
C Christi
John Nance Garner
Uvalde
Shiv
Ers
Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Advisory Council
Republican Party
Two Prelates Expelled From Argentina After Church Disorder
Buenos Aires reports say two Roman Catholic prelates, Manuel Tato and Roman Pablo Novoa, were expelled after riots. They were escorted to Ezeiza airport and flown to Rome as the Peron government cited an old colonial law to remove church authorities.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Manuel Tato
Roman Pablo Novoa
Ezeiza
Rome
Msgr
Tato
Santiago Luis Cardinal Capello
Peron
Juan D. Peroea
Nunez
Plaza de Mayo
Juan Peron
State Supreme Court voids six year oil antitrust suit
The Texas State Supreme Court dismissed the six year old antitrust case against ten major oil companies after ruling the state failed to prove a direct illegal agreement. The decision rejects proving an artificial price structure by circumstantial evidence and limits reliance on uniform prices as the sole issue. The ruling cites lack of specific acts and notes industrial standardization as separate, lawful practice amid a broader price war in West Texas.
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Austin
State Supreme Court
Heart of the
High Court
Wilson
Supreme Court
Texas
Arkkansas Fuel Oil Co
Cities Service Oil Co
Continental Oil Co
Gulf Oil Corp
Humble of and Refining Co
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Standard Oil Co. of Texas
the Texas Co
Sinclair Refining Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
West
President Hides Out During Sham Alert
In Operation Alert 1955 officials including President Eisenhower and 15,000 others fled to emergency sites in a 300 mile arc around Washington. Congress did not participate. The drill tested continuity of government with 3 hours 20 minutes notice and planned to reorganize a shattered nation and wage retaliation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Sitiospo
Defense Wilson
Defense
National Guard
Civil Defense
Val C. Peterson
Contract Awarded For State Highway And Farm To Market Work
Austin bids for a state highway and farm to market road program totaled 5 294 703 74 with 276 miles of state and federal highways and about 1 miles of farm to market roads involved. Low bids included Trotth and Thomson Inc Beaumont 126 689 Ellis and Hill Milford to Hill County line 150 611 Scurry area 151 843 and East West Contracting Co Fort Worth 151 843.
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Austin W
Orange
U.S. 90
Trotth and Thomson Inc
Beaumont
Ellis and Hill
Milford
Hill County
Ellis County
Mertens
John F. Buckner and Sons
Cleburne
Scurry
U.S
Snyder
East-West Contracting Co. Inc
Fort Worth
One Dies In Train Crash In Colorado
Fort Morgan Colorado Union Pacific Los Angeles Challenger plunged from flooded tracks. One trainman killed at least five others seriously injured. many more hurt. Firemen and volunteers evacuated passengers by boat. Wreck occurred six miles east of Fort Morgan near Wildcat Creek. Flood washed out about 200 feet of track in rolling farm and ranch country.
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Fort Morgan
Colo
Union Pacific
Los Angeles Challenger
Colorado
Denver
Wildcat Creek
Sease
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