Democrats Battle Over Tax Cut Plan In Senate Clash
Senate Democrats unveil a substitute to the House tax cut proposal promising 20 dollars per taxpayer and 10 per dependent in relief but offset by repealing corporate breaks and high income tax provisions. Byrd and George oppose likely shifts. Johnson predicts a Senate majority but Republicans may limit defections.
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Washington
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Byrd
George
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Jury To Get Fuller Case In Phenix City Slaying
Defense finishes case in the Albert Fuller murder trial for the Phenix City official slaying of A L Patterson. Prosecutor Deason seeks the death penalty with jurors to begin deliberations late today or tomorrow. Patterson vowed to clean up vice and gambling in Phenix City after winning the attorney general nomination shortly before his June 18 death.
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Rex Thomas
Birmingham
Ala
Albert Fuller
A. L. Patterson
Phenix City
Cecil Deason
Deason
Albert Patterson
Alabama
Weather Outlook for Texas Regions Through Friday
North Central Texas will be partly cloudy and warmer through Friday. West Texas remains generally fair but cooler in Panhandle and South Plains and El Paso area late tonight and Friday. East and South Central Texas stay partly cloudy and warm with fresh to locally strong southerly winds along the coast.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
el Paso
Bell Strauss Subpoenaed in Cuero Land Program Probes
U S Rep John Bell of Cuero and State Sen Gus Strauss of Hallettsville were subpoenaed by the DeWitt County grand jury as 159 indictments in veterans land program deals were returned. Bell heads to Texas from Washington to testify before committees. Strauss has testified before such groups. Prominent Cuero men also subpoenaed. Both men say fees from land transactions were for legal services.
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Cuero
U.S
John Bell
Gus Strauss
DeWitt County
Bell
Texas
Washington
Strauss
Hallettsville
Legislature Pressed at Midpoint of Session Stages
At the halfway mark in Austin the Legislature lags on major issues while pressing budget bills. Gov. Shiv ers program sees progress with two hospital improvement bills sent to the governor. Tax and revenue measures surface as committees push big money bills for state operations.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
Senate
House
Stanton Stone
Freeport
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Stone
Dallas’ Union Terminal
Texas Independent Producers and Royal Owners’ Assn
Sen
Jarrard Secrest
Temple
Richard H. Cory
Nagy Troubled Ahead as Paper Sees Exit for Poland Albania Leaders
An Austrian paper speculates that Hungary's Imre Nagy may resign after a party session. It links similar fates for Poland's Josef Cyrankiewicz and Albania's Mehmet Shehu, citing central committee fallout and renewed accusations from Szabad Nep.
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Vienna
Austria
Arbeiter-Zeitung
Poland
Albania
Hungary
Imre Nagy
Josef Cyrankiewicz
Mehmet Shehu
Nagy
Communist Party
Cyrankiewicz
Shehu
Boleslaw Bierut
Enver Hoxha
Stalin
Matyas Rakosi
Rakosi
Georgi Malenkov
Szabad Nep
Budapest Radio
Puerto Rican Nationalists Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
A federal jury convicted 10 Puerto Rican Nationalist party members of seditious conspiracy after a 16 hour deliberation. One defendant was acquitted. The trial tied the group to the 1950 attempt on President Truman and the March 1, 1954 shooting of five U.S. congressmen, with Judge McGahey instructing the jury on deciding if the shootings were the work of the defendants or isolated acts.
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New York
Puerto Rico
United States
Nationalist Party
Truman
U.S
House of Representatives
John F. X. McGahey
Irving School District Election Looms as Conflict Deepens
County Judge W L Sterrett will decide March 26 whether to order a vote that could erase the Irving Independent School District and its board. Trustees report a near full staff with 102 teachers and 7 principals hired since March 7 as a strike backdrop to the dispute with a fired superintendent.
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Irving
W. L. Sterrett
Irving Independent
John L. Beard
Sterrett
Heat Wave Grips Snyderites as Temperatures Hit 88
The day brought 88 degrees in Snyder with records set in several Texas cities. Overnight low fell to 48 as weather observer David Strayhorn noted the 7:30 am reading.
Red Jets Move Toward Formosa Strait Report Says
An unconfirmed report says a Chinese Communist air division from Manchuria with up to 75 planes including MIG17s is being moved to the Formosa Strait to threaten offshore islands. Nationalists discount the claim but note pressure to defend Quemoy and Matsu if US forces stay.
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Spencer Moosa
Taipei
Formosa
Manchuria
Formosa Strait
China News
Defense Ministry
Red China
Free China
Foochow
State Dulles
United States
Wen Hua-ling
Associated Press
Wen
U.S
Eleven Jurors Seated In Jelke Vice Retrial
Eleven jurors including three women are seated for the Mickey Jelke vice retrial as court runs low on prospects and recesses until Monday One more juror and two alternates remain to be chosen The panel includes Kay Brunell and two married women with one being a mother Jelke a 25 year old oleomargarine heir faces two counts of compulsory prostitution in a retrial after a 1953 conviction The first trial heard from high priced call girls and the Appellate Division ordered a new trial after ruling the judge barred press and public from part of the proceedings
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New York
Mickey Jelke
Kay Brunell
George F. Servio
Allan H. B. Wah
General Sessions
Francis L. Valente
Jelke
Eisenhower Reaffirms U S Military Role in Europe
President Eisenhower told British French Belgian Italian Luxembourg Dutch and West German leaders that the United States will keep its fair share of forces in Europe as long as a threat remains. The message to seven European prime ministers clarifies policy as Western Europe unites under a new alliance including a rearmed West Germany.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
United States
Europe
West Germany
Britain
France
Belgium
Italy
Luxembourg
Netherlands
U.S
North Atlantic Alliance
McCloy
Germany
Free World
Lena
D-Ark
New York Exchange
Fulbright
Senate
Bond Posted In San Antonio Case
Former Land Commissioner Bascom Giles posted a 50 000 dollar bond on an indictment accusing him of taking a 30 000 dollar bribe in a veterans land program sale. He promised to speak about Gov. Shivers and Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd at trial. Giles, the governor and the attorney general formed the board that ran the program and approved low payment loans under the 100 million dollar veterans initiative.
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San Antonio
Bascom Giles
Veterans Land Program
Giles
Shivers
John Ben Shepperd
Veterans of
Korea
Shepperd
Travis County
Austin
DeWitt County
Cuero
Bexar County
C. V. Wynn
Arthur McKenzie
Wynn
McKenzie
Veterans Land Board
M. D. Jones
Grand Jury
Texas
Cincinnati Flood Reaches 61 Feet Drenching Ohio River Region
The Ohio River crest at Cincinnati reached 61 feet the day after causing multimillion dollar damage and displacing thousands. One death occurred when a warehouse elevator failed during the flood. Red Cross reports 3,182 families affected across Ohio West Virginia Kentucky and Indiana. Flood walls and levees helped limit damage while crests moved toward Pennsylvania and Ohio left Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana-Kentucky
Weather Bureau
Trenton Horton Jr
Red Cross
West Virginia
Kentucky
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Ohio Valley
Huntington, W.va
Ohio River Engineers
Powhatan Point
Maysville
George T. Derby
Coney Island
River Downs
Eccles Urges Tighter Credit In Stock Market And Housing
Former Fed chairman Marriner Eccles told the Senate Banking Committee that dangers lurk in stock market and housing booms and urged rapid tighter credit. He proposed raising margin requirements to 75 percent and possibly 100 percent if stock values rise, noting current 60 percent margins and past changes.
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Eccles
Washington
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Salt Lake City
Senate Banking Committee
John J. McCloy
Chase National Bank
McCloy
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Calif
Robert Lindell
Marine General Hospital
Palm
Johnson
Humphrey
Secretary of the Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Cooper
D-Tenn
Daniel A. Reed
R-Ny
By Dave Cheavens
Paul Butler
Democratic National Committee
Averell Harriman
Butler
Dave Garaway
Harriman
Waldrof Astoria Hotel
Red Jets
Strait
Russia
Quemoy
Matsu
Bond
Department of Commerce
New York Stock Exchange
Western
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