Democrats Introduce 13 Year Highway Bill Plan
House Democrats unveiled a 51 percent billion dollar highway program over 13 years aimed at modernizing a 40 000 mile interstate system with federal and state funding shares. Financing remains to be determined with new taxes under review and annual federal aid rising from 725 million in 1957 to 775 million in 1959 and beyond.
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Washington
House
Rep. Fallon
D-Md
House Public Works Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Eisenhower
Senate
Fallon
Congress
Salk Receives Congressional Gold Medal for Polio Vaccine
Dr Jonas E Salk is honored in Washington for developing the polio vaccine. Secretary Folsom presents the congressional gold medal and a letter from President Eisenhower expresses lasting gratitude. The ceremony follows a White House citation last year and a $2500 award.
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Washington
Jonas E. Salk
Congressional
University of Pittsburgh
Congress
Republican Dinners Raise 5 Million for GOP Campaigns
In San Francisco the nationwide salute to Eisenhower dinners last Friday netted about five million dollars for national state and local GOP committees. Party Chairman Leonard Hall said the $100 per plate events exceeded expectations and were a greater success than anticipated.
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San Francisco
Eisenhower
Republican Party
Leonard Hall
Hall
Lost Glasses Between E Granite and Quartz
Work fast. Lost pair brown horn rim glasses between E Granite and Quartz. Ph 0000. Reward offered for return. The ad suggests using want ads to solve problems and notes that food items should not be eaten.
Eisenhower urges stepped up attack on disease with private reinsurance plan
President Eisenhower called for stronger efforts against cancer heart disease and other illnesses and proposed private insurer risk pooling if federal reinsurance is delayed He outlined a five point health program including a 28 percent funding increase for basic medical research to 126 525 million and new grant programs.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Folsom
Health, Education and Welfare Dept
Congress
Senator seeks price tag on farm bill in debate
Senator William of Delaware said he cannot vote for the soil bank bill until cost estimates are provided. Chairman Ellender reported committee support for multimillion dollar expansions, including a two price plan for rice and a potential soil bank to pay farmers to retire land from production. Secretary Benson estimated the conservation reserve could cost 350 million dollars first year and one billion over three years.
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Washington
William
R-Del
Soil Bank
Williams
Senate Agriculture Committee
Ellender
D-La
Eisenhower
Benson
Cuba
Agriculture Committee
Hall Sees 4-Day GOP Convention in San Francisco
Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall said a four day convention in San Francisco with Eisenhower as the nominee is planned for Aug. 20. He noted no separate room or ticket sales will be allowed and a package system will handle reservations and convention access.
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San Francisco
Leonard W. Hall
Eisenhower
Hall
Gettysburg
California
Republican National Committee
Vaccine Bill Wins Speedy Approval
A House Commerce Subcommittee fast tracked a bill to extend federal aid for the Salk antipolio vaccination program from February 15 to July 1, 1957. The measure moves toward approval by the full House Commerce Committee and follows a Senate Labor Committee endorsement on Wednesday.
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Washington
House Commerce Subcommittee
House Commerce Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Two Boys Arrest Cleared About Fifty Thefts In Butte
Probation officer John T Sheehan said the arrests of two boys aged 9 and 12 cleared at least 50 burglaries and petty thefts in Butte. The younger boy admitted stealing from apartments stores and hospitals, while the older youth faces a juvenile hearing. both were linked to a YMCA break‑in and loitering in shops.
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John T. Sheehan
Butte
Asst
Robert Russell
Mr. Sheehan
Sheehan
John M. McClernan
Girls Central High School
YMCA
Russell
Eisenhower Skips News Conference Next Week
President Eisenhower will not hold a news conference next week White House press secretary James C Hagerty said the reason is the President will be meeting the first three days of the week with British Prime Minister Eden in Washington and London.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Eden
Mitchell Says Labor Bills Being Stalled
Secretary of Labor Mitchell accused House Labor Committee Chairman Barden of bottling up Eisenhower administration labor proposals. Mitchell said hearings are unlikely and criticized delays on bills for longshoremen and harbor workers, overtime for federal projects, and safety grants to states.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Secretary of
Mitchell
Barden
D-Nc
Eisenhower
Congress
Congressman Barden
House
Mollet to form first Socialist French cabinet in years
Socialist Guy Mollet agreed to form a cabinet in Paris after the January 2 National Assembly election. He plans a minority cabinet from the republican front with Mendes France and other groups and may travel to Algeria to discuss ending the guerrilla revolt. The cabinet would be France’s 22nd since liberation.
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Paris
Guy Mollet
France
National Assembly
Mollet
Rene Cote
Republican Front
Pierre
Mendes-France
Algeria
Socialist Party
Three Air Force Lieutenants Die in B25 Crash
Three Vance Air Force Base officers were killed when a B25 bomber disintegrated in flight and crashed into a field southwest of Enid Oklahoma. The victims were 1st Lt Peter F Schermerhorn of Piedmont California and 2nd Lt James Fuller Glass of Durham North Carolina along with 2nd Lt Donald Russell Zynda of Detroit Michigan. The aircraft was on a routine training flight from Vance to Oklahoma City and back.
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Enid
Okla
U.P
Air Force
Vance Air Force Base
Here
Peter F. Schermerhorn
Piedmont
Calif
James Fuller Glass
Durham
N.C
Donald Russell Zynda
Detroit
Mich
Vance
Oklahoma City
Floods Evacuate 1500 From Their Homes in Southern California
A historic storm drenched Los Angeles County and Long Beach forcing about 1,500 evacuations as runoff threatened some 10,000 homes. Army engineers and Fort MacArthur soldiers reinforced the Long Beach flood channel, with more rain forecast but the crisis described as easing after 7.24 inches fell.
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California
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Army
Sam Vickers
Weather Bureau
Venice
Torrance
Lennox
Firetone
Norwalk
Artesia
Lawndale
Ft. MacArthur
Los Angeles River
Slayer Executed in Sing Sing
John Francis Roche, 28, convicted of at least four murders, was executed in Sing Sing Prison. He was strapped into the electric chair at 11:01 p.m. and died at 11:04 p.m., after receiving last rites from Rev. Thomas J. Donovan. The Yorkville killer had raped and slain two teens in spring 1954 and murdered a cab driver, with an older case involving Mrs. Rose Chronik.
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Ossining
N. Y
John Francis Roche
Sing Sing
Roche
Thomas J. Donovan
Yorkville
New York
Rose Chronik
Paul Pfeffer
Pfeffer
Montana Weather Summary for Friday and Saturday
Montana forecast divided into east and west sections. The east half remains cold with partial to heavy clouds and intermittent light snow, highs in the 20s. The west sees considerable cloudiness with light snowfall mainly in the south, little temperature change, highs in the teens to 20s.
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Montana
Mainland guns shell Matsu tiny island amid battle near Formosa
Central News Agency reports heavy bombardment of Kaoteng inside the Matsu island group with 133 shells as invasion forces mass near Loyuan Bay. Nationalists warn of further Red shelling while Russia reportedly approves action against offshore islands.
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Taipai
Formosa
China
Kaoteng
Matsu Group
Matsu Island
Interior Ministry
Taiao
Russia
Peiping
Matsui
Quemoy
Formosa Strait
Central
Foochow
Matsus
Loyuan Bay
Matsu
Central News
Huangchi
Kaoting
Dixiecrats Plan Loyalty Oath in Alabama Primaries
Alabama Democrats debate a loyalty pledge to bar Eisenhower era voters who supported Stevenson in 1952 from running in the May 1 primary and May 29 runoff. The State Democratic Executive Committee meets in Montgomery to set rules and consider extending the oath back four years, a move to exclude many who defected in 1952.
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Montgomery
Ala
Eisenhower
Alabama
Democratic Executive Committee
Roy Mayhall
Jasper
GOP
State Committee
Bulganin Proposes US Soviet Peace Treaty
Washington reports Nikolai Bulganin proposed a US Soviet peace treaty to Eisenhower to foster world peace. Officials say the letter was sent before Geneva summit, discussed at the National Security Council, and may be released later with a presidential reply.
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Washington
Nikolai Bulganin
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
White House
Moscow
Bulganin
National Security Council
Bulgaria
Geneva
State Dulles
Montana Legislators Approve $20 Daily Pay for 1957 Session
Montana lawmakers will receive $20 per day for the 60 day 1957 assembly, seven days a week. The pay equals $1,200 for the session, up from prior lower rates set in 1947 and increased in 1955.
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Helena
U.P
Montana
Senate
House of Representatives
More Below Zero Weather Seen for Mining City
Butte faces continued deep freeze with Thursday morning’s -20 the coldest in 1956. Whitehall recorded -3 below and Drummond -6 below Thursday night. -10 potential Friday morning in Butte. Thursday high reached 20 above with light snow and cloudiness forecast through Friday.
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Butte
Whitehall
Drummond
Wea
Six Die in West of Rawlins Head On Collision
Six persons perished in a late night head on crash on U S 30 near the Continental Divide about 26 miles west of Rawlins Wyoming. An infant and two children were among the dead and only two people survived. Mrs Lelia Cagle was in critical condition with a crushed skull at Carbon Memorial Hospital. George Pauli, driver of the other car, was in serious condition with multiple injuries. Readily identified ages or home towns were not provided. Deputies noted California and Colorado plates on the vehicles.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Continental Divide
U.S. 30
Here
Lelia Cagle
Carbon C Memorial Hospital
George Pauli
California
Colorado
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