Daniel plans session despite poll results in Texas
Governor Price Daniel plans a special legislative session in October to push a lobbyist control bill and water conservation program, despite a poll showing four-fifths of representatives deeming a session unnecessary. He argues cooperation is possible and costs can be trimmed.
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Price Daniel
Waggoner Carr
Carr
Daniel
Robert Calvert
Henry B. Gonzales
San Antonio
Texas
Credit Bureau Swindle Ties Couple to Jailhouse Plan
Police traced a shrewd credit scheme to a 19 year old woman and her husband in Houston. The pair allegedly built up a strong credit rating while she worked at a bureau then quit, used it to buy about 1000 dollars of furniture, and defaulted. Police say the home delivery address was empty and the wife was being held for questioning.
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The
Eisenhower Acts To Curb New Flu Threats
President Eisenhower asked Congress for 500000 to ready the Public Health Service for Asiatic flu outbreaks and for authority to transfer about two million dollars in public health funds. Surgeon General Burney warned a large epidemic could spread from San Francisco to Boston in four weeks. As of August 2 the illness had struck 11000 and caused three deaths.
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Eisenhower
Leroy Burney
U. S. Public Health Service
United States
Congress
Public Health Service
San Francisco
Boston
Freight rate hikes authorized by ICC across regions
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved about a 7 percent rate rise in the East and West and 4 percent in the South, effective after 15 days' notice. The increases follow prior interim boosts and lift railroads' 1956 income by an estimated 897.8 million dollars, with regional totals and percentages outlined.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Preventing a Nation of Dental Cripples
An Austin health piece warns tooth decay is a rampant, growing public health threat. It urges parents to have children examined by a dentist before school entry, to treat early decay and teach good brushing and hygiene to avoid a future of widespread dental cripples.
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Austin
America
Ike’s Baseless Fears Ignore Basic Right
The Dallas News editorial rebukes President Eisenhower’s defense of civil rights vetoes, defending trial by jury as a fundamental American right and warning that removing jury trials would empower despotic judges and threaten justice nationwide. It cites historical safeguards from Runnymede and argues the jury system strengthens the judiciary rather than weakens it.
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Congress
John
Runnymede
Michigan
Potter
Senate
Important notice to readers on zone numbering
Readers in metro areas are urged to add zone numbers to address labels starting in October. The Post Office Department warns that papers will not be delivered if the zone number is omitted. Advise the paper with zone number and street address at your earliest convenience.
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Dallas 10
Texas
Post Office Department
Editor Rejects Grief Laden Daytime Soap Opera
A reader criticizes midday television soaps for their gloom and despair. He prefers westerns with action and humor and says he is glad when commercials interrupt the gloom.
Largest Oklahoma bass of 1956 trapped at Texoma
James Daugherty of Denison Texas caught a massive 11 pound river bass at Lake Texoma in Durant Oklahoma. The fish weighed in officially at 10 pounds 3 ounces after a few hours and released as the year’s biggest bass in the state.
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Durant
Okla
Lake Texoma
Oklahoma
James Daugherty
Denison
Texas
Subscription Rates in Grayson and Fannin Counties
Rates list for Grayson and Fannin Counties two dollars outside counties two pounds five? foreign subscriptions five dollars correction policy offered for any erroneous reflections upon character or standing brought to publisher’s attention
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Grayson
Fannin
Grayson and
Texas unions merge into 300000 member AFL-CIO
In Austin a 300000 member labor union from Texas formed by a joint AFL-CIO convention revealing internal disputes over political power. Delegates endorsed tax reforms, school construction aid, higher teacher pay, and stricter lobby controls while criticizing state politics and media. Jerry Holleman elected president.
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Austin
Texas
Afl-Cio
Capitol
Labor
Gulf Coast
Texas Tech Board of Directors
Republican Party
Savings Bond Sales Lead Grayson County in June
June United States saving bond sales in the Dallas area show Grayson County leading nearby counties. Grayson County Chairman A. Martin reports $127,723 in bonds sold in June and a 1957 total of $909,965. Fannin County sold $15,334 and Collin County $33,041 in June.
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Dallas
Grayson County
A. Martin
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