Five revisions in Texas Safe Drivers plan criticized
Vestal Lemmon of the National Association of Independent Insurers dismisses five revisions in the Texas Safe Drivers Insurance Plan as insignificant. He mocks a possum clause allowing lower rates for crashes with wildlife but warns against penalties for harming pets, urging lawmakers to amend the law or make the plan optional.
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Austin
Board of Insurance
Vestal Lemmon
National Association of Independent Insurers
Lemmon
Rover
NAAT
Health Department Urges Updated Medicine Cabinet
The State Health Department advises families keep a up to date medicine cabinet out of reach of children. Include basic first aid supplies such as sterile gauze, bandages, tape, antiseptic and ointments, plus a first aid manual. Lock the cabinet and remove unlabeled or old items.
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Austin
State Health Department
Senate Unit Urges Major Federal Aid Plan for Aged
A Senate Labor subcommittee calls for a sweeping federal aid program for the elderly. It urges higher social security benefits, added medical care under social security, elder housing support, anti discrimination protection, and optional cost of living indexed bonds. The plan faces little chance of passing this year but may shape campaign messaging.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
McNamara
D.mich
Eisenhower Urges Conciliatory Wheat Price Reform
President Eisenhower sent a farm message to Congress outlining three broad guidelines for overhauling the wheat price support program. He urged quick action and said he would sign any sensible bill, though Democrats and some Republicans greeted the plan with cool reception. He noted the current program costs the government over 1,000 dollars per minute and sought broad, flexible terms for lawmakers to draft an acceptable alternative.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Democratic Congress
Congress
Olin D. Johnston
Senate Agriculture Committee
President urges reform of farm surplus program
The President told Congress the program has cost about 3.5 billion dollars with daily increases of 1.5 million. He warned it could collapse under public indignation hurting farmers unless changed and offered three guiding principles: price level tied to production controls, no subsidies for surplus crops, and a support level for markets. He also backed a 3-year Soil Bank extension and expansion from 28 to 60 million acres to curb overproduction.
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Congress
Soil Bank
March draft quota sets 265 Texans for March
The Selective Service Office announced a March draft quota of 265 men from Texas. This compares with 246 in February and 310 in January, against a national March quota of 6,000 for the Army.
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Austin
Selective Service Office
Texas
Army
Two Hours Per Day Burden of Debt Cited by Dallas News
The Dallas News notes that if today was a working day, a person spends about two hours and sixteen minutes of an eight hour day on taxes to support Uncle Sam. It warns that without a balanced budget the government borrows more, increasing interest costs and extending the work time needed to pay them.
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Uncle Sam
Dallas News
Fritz the tippling boxer from Vermillion
In Vermillion, South Dakota, Chris Anderson reports his boxer Fritz sometimes inhales car exhaust fumes. The dog usually becomes mildly intoxicated and staggers for hours, but on occasion can pass out from sniffing the fumes.
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Vermillion, S. D
Chris Anderson
Fritz
Anderson
United States Loans Japan 110 Million for Cotton Purchase
In 1957 the United States loaned Japan 110 million dollars to buy cotton from U.S. suppliers. The loan supported Japan's textile industry and stronger postwar trade ties between Tokyo and Washington.
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United States
Japan
Humorous Quips and Short Tales Brighten Local Notes
A mix of light anecdotes and jokes alongside brief quotes from a Field and Stream review on Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ed Zern's writings. The items include a father scolding Patrick, an editor burial fundraiser, a politician’s quip on burying editors, and a border-house dispute over U S Canada lines.
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Lady Chatterly
Ed Zern
Midlands
J. R. Miller
Polite new beau helps Gertie with dropped items
Bertie asks about Gertie's new boyfriend and she praises his manners. She notes he retrieves fallen objects by giving them a kick toward her for easier picking up.
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Bertie
Gertie
Mutual pride drives a clean car joke
A neighbor compliments Young Jones on his spotless car. Jones grins and says the car keeps him clean too, a pun showing mutual pride in the shiny ride.
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Jones
In the City’s Quiet Corners of Dinner and Debt
A string of witty exchanges unfolds around hunger and wealth as an aging bachelor pleads for company
Old Texan on fence settles largest city debate
Two visiting drivers argued over Texas largest city. They stopped to ask a bystander, an old timer on a fence rail, who looked up and then looked away, leaving the question unresolved.
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Texas
Texas Wisecrack Redrawn as Waxahachie Expanse
In a telling Texas drawl a father jokes that ejecting oil men in Houston and others from Dallas and Fort Worth would make Waxahachie the result. The piece then shifts to marriage guidance with two tips for his son: keep one night a week free with the boys, and don’t waste it on them.
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Texas
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Waco
Mrs Butler and Mrs Wilkins Exchange Quiet Farewell
A brief exchange shows Mrs Butler asking about meeting her son at the station and Mrs Wilkins replying she has known him for years, implying a decades familiar rapport rather than a recent encounter.
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Mrs. Butler
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