House Maps Dixon Yates Battle Lines in Appropriations Fight
The House Appropriations Committee drew lines on a major Dixon Yates power project clash. It sent a $1.28 billion funding bill to the House floor and rejected $612 million for a Dixon Yates to TVA power line, instead earmarking funds to start a Fulton Tennessee Valley Authority plant. The action signals a possible Dixon Yates exit without a new outlet and sets up a heated floor battle with political implications for 1956.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Dixon-Yates
House
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley
Middle South Utilities Co
Edgar H. Dixon
Southern Co
Eugene Yates
Dixon - Yates Group
Atomic Energy Commission
TVA
Congress
Mississippi River
Dixon - Yates
Fulton
Dixon --Yates
Cannon
D-Mo
Eisenhower
AEC
Southeastern Power Administration
Southwestern Power Administration
Bonneville Power Administration
Reclamation Bureau
Army Engineers
Land Rental Proposal Opens Kenya Colonys Vast Lands
A Royal Commission recommends opening fertile highlands of Kenya to rental by Africans and Asians. The report says current 4000 white settlers hold exclusive access and calls end to primitive reservations. It notes East Africa commission findings and references regional officials and colonial administration.
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London
Kewa Colom
Kena
East Africa
Illinois filibusterers stall House with reads
Two downstate Democrats, Paul Zeigler and John Morris, used a read-in-full tactic to delay Illinois House business for a fourth day. Clerks read long bills as the members offered nothing but reads, tying up action over a convention hall funding bill contested by rural counties seeking fair funding. Speaker Warren L. Wood adjourned amid frayed tempers with sessions resuming.
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Springfield
Illinois
Paul Zeigler
John Morris
House
Zeigler
Morris
Chicago
Warren L. Wood
IMPORT GIVES LOCAL CATS ROUGH TIME
A 14-pound margay named Diabla from Nicaragua caused a day of upheaval in Long Beach as she unhooked a window screen and fled. Owner Beverly Caughey located her by the meowing of neighborhood cats. A margay, the Central American cousin of the ocelot, is not a tame pet. A neighbor finally coaxed her down from a garage roof with celery stalks.
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Long Beach
Calif
Diabla
Nicaranga
Beverly Caughey
Khrushchev Invites Western Newsmen to Moscow
Khrushchev urged journalists to visit Moscow after a Yugoslav talks banquet. The Soviet Embassy granted visas to Eric Bourne and four others Frank Kelley Jack Began Rene McColl and Seymour Freidin with more visas expected as day continued.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Khrushchev
Stalin
Eric Bourne
London Daily Express
The
Christian Science Monitor
Bourne
Frank Kelley
Rome
New York Herald-Tribune
Jack Began
NBC
Rene McColl
Seymour Freidin
New York Post
Graduation Moves To Sanitarium
Alice Westbrook, 16, unable to attend Clermont High graduation due to tuberculosis, was honored at her bedside as principal Lyle C. Martin and classmates drove 37 miles to deliver her diploma and trophy for outstanding athletic sportsmanship and scholarship at the sanitarium in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Alice Westbrook
Alice
Claremont High
Lyle C. Martin
Company retirement plan guarantees minimum $65 monthly
A company memo explains a pension scheme that tops employees' Social Security to a $65 monthly minimum starting Dec 15, 1953. If SS benefits are below $65, the firm pays the shortfall. if SS exceeds $65, no company payment is made. The reader earns credits through SS payroll taxes.
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P. F
Mir. P. F
Five Governors Candidates Pledge Segregation At Canton Rally
In Canton Mississippi five gubernatorial hopefuls addressed a Citizens Councils sponsored meeting pledging to keep Negroes out of white public schools if elected. About white attendees filled the high school auditorium cheering each 15 minute speech by Fielding Wright Mary Cain J P Coleman Ross Barnett and Paul Johnson. The Councils claim 253 chapters and about 55 000 members across Mississippi counties.
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Canton
Citizens Councils
U.S. Supreme Court
Fielding Wright
Mary Cain
Summit
J. P. Coleman
Ackerman
Ross Barnett
Carthage
Paul Johnson
Hattiesburg
Mississippi
Two Killed When Car Hits Bulldozer Near Jamestown
Two Rus sell men died when their car struck a parked bulldozer at a bridge construction site on a highway near Jamestown. Larry M. English 18 and William Lacarman 23 were killed. The deaths raised Chautauqua County traffic fatalities for the year to 14.
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Jamestown
Russell
Larry M. English
William Lacarman
Chautauqua County
Gas Tank Bank Holds $25.95 in Coins
A motorist at a Kings Mountain North Carolina service station asked workers to remove his gas tank after he admitted he saved spare change in it. The tank contained 25.95 in coins but only 21.45 remained after 4.50 was charged to remove and reattach the tank.
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Kings Mountain
N.C
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