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NUMBER 152
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GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1955
65TH YEAR
Ike’s $ IOI Billion Roa
in
as Vegas Today
lators invited to witness tests
nied local press reports that
Chiang’s navy and air force had
Nanchishan when a Communist
re was no attack on
Reds.
this score:
to
TOWN ===== Senate Expected
By A. MORTON SMITH
land of
will pass the
on the politically touchy
er it nor
the bill
Ward 4 Councilman
Virgil
1951.
unexpired term of Leo
term.
is March 6.
task force was turned back’
about 10 miles off the island.
debate
bring a
he $3,000 income tax ex-
allowed all members of
. Both bills also carry
Atomic
Jolts Li
Houston Police Starting Over Again
Seeking Slayer of Minister's Widow
to his
1953.
- Two weeks ago the attorney
general filed a civil suit in Aus-
tin seeking recovery of slightly
less than $150,000 for land pur-
chased in Maverick county. The
suit named four so-called “pro-
moters” and 22 Bexar county war
veterans as defendants. The pro-
motors were identified as C. V.
Wynn, Eloise Wynn, H. S. Leh-
man and Minnie Lebman, all of
San Antonio.
Shepperd Says Hundreds
Vets Land Indictments Due
Nationalist Warplanes Attack More
Than 200 Armed Communist Junks
war vessels were heading toward
Nanchishan and Nationalist
planes and warships were/ rush-
ing to engage them.
chapsen
will probably not seek reelection.
Dead ine for filing for the
council iM March 6.
attack. There was no contact with
Nationalist planes.
Meanwhile, Nationalist Presi-
dent Chiang Kai-shek’s warplanes
kept the civil war alive with the
fifth straight day of attacks
against Red China’s buildup base
on the Taishan Islands, national
per cent. The high temperature
yesterday was 45.
Predawn temperatures in Tex-
as Tuesday ranged from 19 at
Amarillo, Dalhart and Lubbock
to 48 at Brownsville. In between,
Waco reported 31 degrees, Dallas
25, Fort Worth 29, Texarkana 26,
and Lufkin 29.
The military observers were in
trenches 4,000 yards from ground
zero. No maneuvers were sched-
uled, however.
Forty planes including 24 F84s
from the Tactical Air Command
were engaged in aerial sorties
during the test.
The AEC said 33 various ex-
periments, including civil effects
tests, were held in connection
with the explosion. The nature of
these was not immediately dis-
closed.
finance a planned 40.000-mile in-
terstate highway network with a
total interest cost of 11H billion
dollars.
will were among the main clues
police had.
Murray revealed that a docu-
ment'purported to be Mrs.
Quarles’ will carried no signature
but he would not disclose last
night what disposition it made of
the Quarles estate estimated at
$35,000. The will does carry one
signature, Murray said, that of
Mrs. C. T. Lucas, a neighbor, who
signed the document as a wit-
ness.
Mrs. Lucas says, however, that
she did not read the will.
The bit of reddish hair, the po-
lice captain said, was found on
the wooden facing of the bath-
room doorway at the Quarles
home. Detectives said they were
not sure whether it was imbedded
there during a scuffle or was
Wildlife and Soil
Conservation Talks
Set Here Thursday
A program on conservation of
soil, water and wildlife in Cooke
county will be presented here
Thursday night by County Agent
Gerald York and Game Warden
Lonnie Wooten.
The meeting will be at 7:30
o’clock in the county courtroom.
The educational type program
will feature lectures and demon-
strations by York and Wooten.
They will - use especially con-
structed models to illustrate
points in their talks. *
Similar type programs have
been presented by the pair at
local civic club meetings and
have been received with great in-
terest
Cooperators in county game
preserves are especially urged to
attend the program, and all per-
sons interested in protecting and
increasing wildlife in the area
are invited.
Tenders who live on tips. A col-
umn on annoying words brought
letters and cards from people
who had word-peeves which had
been rankling for years. i
"Columns that mention food
remind many readers of good
meals they have eaten. Them
there is a recipe collecting group
which will write to find out how
to make any food item men-
tioned.
quarters
might ha
ercise.
The De
announced his candida-
reelection to the office
ernmost outpost of Chiang’s is-
‘land chain off Red China since
The Nationalists said two Red
planes flew over Nanchishan for
the first time today, but did not
The air force said its planes
roared over the Taishans in four
predawn waves and racked up
Matusow Says He Was Paid to
Lie Against Demo Candidates
But the -
Nanchishan and no immediate
clash between Nationalist and
grees last night and the mercury
had risen to 39 at noon today.
committee which handles high-
way legislation.
Taylor incumbent city
._ "---**1 4 this
WEATHER FORECAST
Tonight, fair, a little warm-
er; Wednesday, increasing
cloudiness, warmer.
Full weather report on clas-
sified ad page.
Damage Heavy in
Traffic Accident
Two automobiles involved in a
collision at 8:45 p. m. Monday
at the intersection of Dixon and
Main streets were heavily dam-
aged.
Heaviest damage was to a car
driven by Thomas M. Faulkner,
28, of route 1, Gainesville. The
loss was estimated at $400.
, The other vehicle was driven
by Donald R. Mobley, 17, of Siv-
ells Bend. Damage to it was set
at $200.
Police report that Faulkner
was driving east on Main street,
and Mobley was traveling north
on Dixon street.
LAS VEGAS, N'ev., Feb. 22 (A)
—An atomic tower explosion — during the new series,
second shot of the 1955 nuclear
stuck there while the paint was
wet.
Bolin, who first indicated to re-
porters he would stay in Houston
until the murder investigation
was completed, predicted an ar-
rest in the case in the 48 hours.
Bolin also said he believed in-
formation on the slaying was be-
ing withheld “because people are
afraid of publicity.” He said he
believed people in the neighbor-
hood “have not told all they
know.”
The Dallas *evangelist had ad-
mitted receiving $14,000 in loans
from Mrs. Quarles, but said all
but a few thousand had been re-
paid. He was named a benefi-
ciary in a $5,000 insurance policy
and also was named executor of
the estate which Mrs. Quarles es-
timated at $35,000.
The air force said all its planes
returned.
Nanchishan has been the north
Tayler became a member of
the cou icil in a special election to
fill the 0______- -___
E. Swic k, when the latter moved
outside Ward 4. He was elected
Gaincsbille 18
AND MESSENGER
and Wirepheto Service
increase in the present
$15,000 congressional pay. Neith-
er it nor the senate version would
He also said:
1. Better highways would save
lives, reducing the annual toll of
36,000 killed and more than a
million injured. Eisenhower said
the economic loss from accidents
is estimated at $4,300,000,000 a
year.
2. Poor roads add to the cost
of operating vehicles over them—
as much as one-cent a mile per
vehicle for a total yearly cost of
5 billion dollars. He said the
higher road transportation costs
are reflected in the cost of goods
and are paid ultimately by the
individual consumer.
3. The country is growing
and, as population and national
output increase, highway devel-
opment and improvement must
be increased. Unless this is done,
Eisenhower said, "existing traf-
fic jams only faintly foreshadow
those of 10 years hence.”
The Eisenhower program, as
set out in the message, followed
the general lines of a report
drafted last month by an advis-
ory committee headed by Gen.
Lucius D. Clay.
However, the president passed
over lightly two of the most
highly controversial features of
the report.
In advance for the submission
The house last week voted a
$10,000
“A challenge sometimes brings
moil—such as a doubt that there
are many really happy people in
the world. For a time there was
a stream of letters starting. 'Put
me on your list of happy peo-
ple . . .’ and then each went on
to explain why he was happy.
“Other let ter-getting themes
include worry, faith, getting old-
er, money problems and prayer.”
or all federal judges.
Morse objected to voting
yesterday, leaders agreed to put
the bill over until tomorrow. A
mel, San Antonio motorcycle po-
liceman currently secretary of
the cattle company, also were
subpoenaed by the grand jury
yesterday. _______________.____
The attorney general said that: highway corporation that would
Harry Sheppard was “believed to - -
be somewhere in Florida.”
raid the Red maneuver
HOUSTON, Feb. 22 (A)— Po-
lice, who said they were “starting
over from the beginning,” studied
puzzling clues today as they
pushed a continued probe of the
murder of Mrs. Lucille Quarles.
The Rev. Jess Bolin, part-time
preacher and sometime used car
dealer, was back at his Dallas
home after his release following
three voluntary lie-detector tests
in connection with the killing.
Mrs. Quarles was found
Wednesday morning in her bath-
room, beaten to death. Police be-
lieve the 50-year-old widow of a
Baptist minister was pistol-
whipped to death. They found a
part of a pistol handle and a .38
caliber cartridge in the house.
Homicide Capt. Frank Murray
indicated last night that a wisp
of reddish hair and an unsigned
Tom Houston of Dallas, safety
supervisor for the Texas Power
and Light company, made mem-
bers of the Gainesville Lions club
stop and think about safe driving
habits Monday night.
Speaking to the Lions, during
their weekly meeting in the Curt-
wood cafe, Houston forcefully
stressed the fact that few auto-
mobile accidents are caused by
mechanical failures.
“The fault lies in the behavior
of human beings," Houston stat-
ed.
The Dallas TP&L official de-
clared that attitude influences
human behavior and, by the
same token, behavior of some in-
fluences the attitude of other
people.
.For example, Houston pointed
out that children usually learn to
drive by constantly watching
their parents in every-day use of
the automobile. The youngsters
pick up the bad as well as the
good habits of each parent, show-
ing that behavior most certainly
influences attitude in that case.
Houston sternly pointed out
the many faults that usually
cause accidents. He put concen-
trated stress on all of the faults,
but seemed to point out driving
too fast for conditions as one of
the worst violations of driving
safely.
"We don’t drive half as well as
we know how,” Houston re-
marked in conclusion.
The safety official was intro-
duced by program chairman for
the night. Alex Murrell, who also
presented guests, Fred Lynn and
Herman Tate, local Texas Power
and Light company officials.
Two Minor Fires
Reported in City
Two minor fires, neither of
them resulting in property dam-
age, were reported in the city
Monday.
The first was at 10:50 a m. at
Miller’s Cleaners, 329 North Com-
merce street. Lint which caught
fire in a vent pipe was quickly
extinguished.
At 1:25 p.m. trash in a city
garbage truck caught fire while
the truck was in the 300 block of
Lindsay street.
the Tachen evacuation. It is 120
! miles north of Formosa, 20 miles
off the mainland, and manned by
about 5.000 Nationalist regulars
and guerrillas.
There never has been any indi-
cation that the United States
Ward 4. He was elected
first full term in April.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (PP) —
Harvey Matusow, self proclaimed
ex-Communist who says he was a
paid liar against some Demo-
cratic candidates in last year’s
congressional elections, swore to-
day he also offered to provide
candidates with “material that
would’ expose the lies of Mc-
Carthyism.”
Testifying before the Senate
Internal Security subcommittee,
Matusow did not immediately
say whether any candidates ac
cepted his offer to furnish such
material "without compensation."
He said he had telephoned Jack
Anderson, a reporter for column-
ist Drew Pearson, in March, 1954
telling him of the offer because
he thought Anderson “might
know who might be attacked” in
the campaign by Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis). (
He said he had hoped Anderson
would pass on the information
to candidates. Presumably it
would have been of Interest
chiefly to Democrats. McCarthy
supported all GOP candidates last
year except Clifford Case who
ments were presented to Dist.
Judge M. D. (Buck) Jones in
open court. Judge Jones said
the court would not announce the
names until the men named were
in custody.
The attorney general said he
would appear before the Bexar
county grand jury again this
week and that within “the next
few weeks” either he or his as-
sistants will present criminal
violation evidence to grand juries
in other counties.
He named specifically Uvalde,
Zavala, Kleberg, Guadalupe, Kin-
ney and Maverick counties.
Wynn and Mrs. Arthur McKen-
zie, wife of Wynn’s partner in
the cattle business, refused to I
answer grand jury questions yes-
terday. Later when the questions
were repeated in open court,
Judge Jones upheld their refusal
on grounds their answers pos-
sibly could incriminate them.
Mrs. McKenzie was identified
as an employe of her husband’s
office.
McKenzie, nine Bexar county
war veterans and Glen O. Hum-
might consider it among the re-
lated positions and territories
deemed essential to the defense
of Formosa and the Pescadores.
The Reds may be trying to
learn U.S. intentions.
They did just that in the Tach-
en area.
They captured Yikiangshan
and it appeared they were going
to use it as a stepping stone to
the Tachens, eight miles away.
What happened then is recent
history. The Nationalists, who
said they would have preferred
to fight, pulled out under the
protection of the U.S. 7th Fleet.
The Reds moved in when the
Nationalists left, and boasted
they liberated the islands.
There is speculation here the
Communists feel a threatening
buildup might get them Nanchi-
shan too without a fight.
U.S. officials in Washington
are well aware of the threat to
Contact Club Has
Meeting Tuesday
One hundred per cent attend-
ance marked a meeting of the
Contact club of the Chamber of
Commerce Tuesday at 7 a.m. at
Curtwood restaurant.
C. E. Edwards, club chairman,
presided, and Frank Morris, Jr.,
congratulated the members on
the fine work they had done in
building up the membership of
the chamber.
Each club member took the
names of two prospects to call on
in the near future. Ten members
comprise the club roster.
Man Draws Fine
In Assault Case
Willie Babbitt, Negro, was
fined $25 and court costs of $24
in Cooke county court Monday
afternoon after pleading guilty to
a charge of aggravated assault.
Babbitt was arrested Sunday
after reportedly knocking his
wife down and kicking her.
expects the senate to pass a con-
gressional pay raise hill Wednes-
day.
Knowland made the prediction
after a discussion of the bill at
the weekly white house confer-
ence of President Eisenhower
and GOH congressional leaders.
Sen. Kefauver (D.Tenn. had
said earlier he believed a two-
day delay in a vote on the bill
would nit harm its chances of
Taylor Announces
For Reelection as
Nanchishan. Any overt move ____..._______.. ...... ......
against the island would present The barometer was falling at
a new hour of decision for the 30.21 and the humidity was 44
United States going to its de-
fense, aiding in its evacuation, as
in the Tachens, or standing back
and letting the Reds seize it.
Nationalist spokemen have re-
peatedly asserted, since the Ta-
chen pullout, that no more off-
shore islands will be given up
without a fight.
won election to the Senate from
New’ Jersey.
Matusow’, who testified yester-
day that he had “lied for money”
as a witness against hundreds of
persons, is being questioned by
the subcommittee in its efforts to
show where the truth is in many
conflicting stories Matusow has
told.
In this second day of his testi-
mony ' at the public hearing,
Matusow stuck to testimony he
gave yesterday to the effect that
Miss Elizabeth Bentley, a pro-
fessed former Communist, had'
told him she also lied as a gov-
ernment witness against accused
Reds.
He told of a dinner engagement
with Miss Bentley in New York
City Oct. 3, 1952, but never did
directly quote her as telling him
on that occasion that she had
lied.
He said Miss Bentley, weeping,
told him “she was broke” and
unable to find a job. He said she
told him “she was having to
find information to testify about”
as her only source of income.
Arizona Growth
PHOENIX, Ariz. (UP)—Mari-
copa county civic and business
leaders are planning for expan-
sion of existing facilities and de-
velopment of new communities
to handle a poulation of nearly
1,000,000 persons in the next 10
years. The county, which includes
Phoenix, currently has a popula-
tion of 450,000 and is growing
steadily. Plans call for improved
public transportation, highway
development and economic re-
search.
essiTOPICS Pass Congressional
Pay Hike Tomorrow
during the day. Nationalist
planes roa red over in four pre.
dawn waves and the air force halted an “apparent invasion of
claimed kt least two vessels
sunk and hits or possible hits on
other craft.
About noon today, official Na-
tionalist reports said Communist
Is were heading toward
test series— jolted Las Vegas just
before dawn today.
The "George Shot”—-this was
Washington’s birthday — rattled
windows and woke many persons
not already up in this city of 50,-
000, which lies-75 miles south-
east of the Atomic Energy com-
mission’s test site.
There were no reports of dam-
age.
Seventeen congressmen and 200
military observers watched the
detonation of the nuclear device,
set off from the top of a 300-foot
tower on Yucca Flat at 5:45 a. m.
The orange flash was visible in
Los Angeles, 275 airline miles to
the southwest.
Observers at the AEC control
point, about 10 miles from the
blast, felt two distinct shocks as
the sound wave rumbled around
the low mountains circling the
flat. Two shocks also were felt
in Las Vegas.
Doors and windows shook at
the police station and Southern
Nevada Memorial hospital, but
there was no breakage as in the
1951 and 1952 tests here. Today’s
shot was the third at Nevada test
site.
The atomic cloud rose over 20,-
000 feet and an ice cap formed
on top of the familiar mushroom.
Within a half hour winds began
shearing the cloud and it was
blown east and southeast in the
general direction of St. George,
Utah, and northern Arizona.
The Civil Aeronautics Author-
ity warned all pilots planning
flights within 300 miles of Grand
Canyon Airport to check first
with CAA. Southern Utah and a
By HERB ALTSCHULL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (/P) —
President Eisenhower, asking
congress to approve his 101-bil-
lion-dollar highway program, said
today the country must have a
road network permitting people
to move out of target areas quick-
ly in case of atomic attack.
In an 1,800-word special mes-
sage, the president cited the
danger of “deadly congestion"
during atomic warfare as one of
four reasons for “action, compre-
hensive and quick and forward-
looking” for highway improve-
ment.
A LIFE IS SAVED—Three policemen exert all their efforts as they struggle in icy waters
of East river in New York to rescue a 65-year-old man they said jumped or fell from a pier
near the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bric ge. Police identified the rescued man as Fortunato •
Spinello. The rescuers are Sgt. Irwin Kafka, Patrolman Joseph McGovern and Archie Cough-
lan (left to right). Spinello was taken to the hospital where his condition was reported good.
Kafka and Coughlan were treated for exposure and returned to duty. (AP Wirephoto)
Taylor, local drilling contrac-
tor, became the first person to
file for a place on the ballot for
the annual municipal election set
for April 5.
The other office to be filled in
the election is the post of coun-
cilman from Ward 3. It is pres-
ently held by Mason Winters,
who is completing his second
He has indicated that he
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 22 (/)-
The first of what Atty. Gen.
John Ben Shepperd says will be
“hundreds” of indictments were
returned in Bexar county yester-
day in connection with the state’s
100-million-dollar veterans land
program. -—
Two San Antonio men were in-
dicted on 29 counts in connection
with the program which has
been under investigation by sev-
eral state agencies for about
four months.
Shepperd said the two men in-
dicted were C. V. Wynn and Har-
ry* Shepperd Jr. and said their in-
dictments were “the first of sev.
eral hundred we hope to secure."
Wynn. Shepperd said, is the
president of the W.&M. cattle
Co. of San Antonio. The attorney
general named Harry Sheppard
Jr. as former secretary of the
same firm.
Shepperd said Wynn was in,
dieted nine times for forgery and
passing and 10 times for making
a forged instrument. The former
secretary, he said, was indicted
10 times for false acknowledg-
ment of papers sent to the state
veterans land board.
The attorney general, who
vowed last week at College Sta-
tion that there would be no
“white wash” of the veterans
land investigations, added that
there were a “number” of crimi-
nal indictments still to be re-
turned in connection with land
bought in Bexar county under
the veterans program.
The names of the two men in-
dicted yesterday were given by
Shepperd to a San Antonio Ex-
press reporter after the indict-
Lions Hear Talk
On Driving Safety
At Monday Meeting
of the message, senate Democrat-
ic leaders had declared their op-
position to a number of key fea-
tures of the Clay report.
These included:
1. A plan for a 30-year bond
issue to be financed by a federal
Later reports said the Red con J.. .... ......... ........
voy apparently had no immediate air force ‘headquarters’ said,
designs on Nanchishan. President
Chiang F ai-shek’s northernmost
offshore outpost. It appeared the
Red vesse is diverted their course
main and harbors. Official
says:
“People write letters when they
are anxious, angry or nostalgic
and, once in a while, when they
are approving.
“A column on tipping brought --o-, - — — ---------
in a heavy mail, mostly from councilr han from Ward
those who were in favor of abol- I morning
ishing it but some of it from de- cy for _ _________
fenders who live on tips. A col- which I e has held since late in
WHAT MAKES A PERSON sit
down and write a letter to
a newspaper?
That is a question asked by
WES GALLAGHER of Associa-
ted Press Feature service, and
he says that AP columnists, some
of whom get hundreds of letters
in a week could write a column
on that one. And that is exactly
what we are doing today, with
Mr. Gallagher’s assistance.
Our own experience has been
that the most letters come as a
result of columns of personal
reminiscence. Readers start re-
membering and want to tell
somebody who understands about
their own .experiences or their
versions of the recollections you
have made public.
HAL BOYLE, Associated Press
columnist, whose daily stint ap-
pears in The Register says that
the real letter magnet is a col-
umn that holds out some hope of
making money.
“Most I ever got,” he says,
“came as a result of one about a
boom in the wampum market.
Had to make up several hundred
mimeographed replies."
The most satisfying reader
mail, he thinks, is from readers
of a column that tells of some
little homely incident that re-
minds them of similar situations
in their own lives.
When you write a piece kidding
women, he adds, you always get
letters, including some from the
ladies, agreeing with you 100 per
cent, except that you haven’t
thrust the knife in deeply
enough. •
MARY MARGARET McBRIDE
limitation then should
final decision that day.
TAIPEI, Formosa, Feb. 22 (PP)!
—Chiang Kai-shek’s warplanes
today attacked more than 200
armed motorized junks about
12% miles north of Nanchishan
island and renewed their attacks
on the Red buildup base on the
Taishans, the Nationalist air
force reported.
It was not immediately clear
whether the Communist craft
were the same that earlier today
raised fears that the Reds were
about to launch their long-ex-
pected attack on Nanchishan.
The air force said its planes
had destroyed one gunboat of
about 700 tons and five armed
motorized junks. It also claimed
damage to two other warships of
an unspecified type and “a con-
siderable number" of junks.
A communique said two waves
of Nationalist planes hammered
the Taishan islands, destroying
installations. It was the second
series of raids on the Taishans
passage.
Kefauver, floor manager for
the meas ure, said in an interview
he thinks the $7,500 pay boost
a 50 per cent raise will pass the
senate by a good margin.
Sen. I lorse (D Ore) thwarted
hopes of senate leaders to push
the bill yesterday afternoon.
Two vessels of unspecified type
sunk and another possibly dam
re been a training ex aged, possible direct hit on one
Red craft, hits on four red
lense Ministry flatly de-l craft, including a big one, and
bomb strikes on Taishan military
installations.
Morse sa id the senate should give
the couriry time to make known
its views
issue.
large rectangular segment of
Arizona were closed to aircraft
from 15,000 to 26,000 feet much
of the morning.
The congressmen viewed the
test from News Nob, at least 8
miles from the tower. They were
the first of three groups of legis-
Another Norther
Due to Sweep Into
Texas Wednesday
By The Associated Press
Warmer weather was on the
way Tuesday for most of Texas |
but snow was in the offing tor,
the high Panhandle.
Another cold wave set to grip
Colorado was expected to send a
norther racing for the Texas Pan-
handle-Plains region by Wednes-
day night.
Weather observers thought it
too early to predict how far.
south the new onslaught of cold
would move.
Meanwhile, the state warmed
up Tuesday after another over-
night freeze for most of the area
north of Waco. There had been
no precipitation since midnight
Monday and none was expected
before the snow started falling
Wednesday night on the Panhan-
dle country.
Gainesville had a low of 23 de-
By JOE HALL
WASH NGTON, Feb. 22 (A)-
Senate R publican Leader Know-
land of California said today he
2. A plan to reimburse states
for money spent on building toll
roads that become part of the
interstate network.
On the bond issue, Eisenhower
said:
“I am inclined to the view that
it is sounder to finance this pro-
gram by special bond issues . . .
rather than by an increase in
general revenue obligations.”
He said he thought these bonds
should be paid off through “in-
creasing revenues from present
gas and diesel oil taxes, augment-
ed in limited instances with
tolls.”
That was the president’s only
reference to toll roads.
Eisenhower also said: “A
sound federal highway program,
I believe, can and should stand
on its own feet, with highway
users providing the total dollars
necessary for improvement and
new construction.”
Under the Eisenhower pro-
gram. the federal government
would pay about 31 % billion dol-
lars of the contemplated 101 bil-
lions of expenditures.
Eisenhower said he was for-
warding to congress the Clay re-
port and that he would send
along shortly a survey of high-
way needs now being completed
by the bureau of public roads.
These reports, he said, “provide
a solid foundation for a sound
program.”
Eisenhower noted that the
Clay committee had recom-
mended that the federal govern-
ment continue giving aid to pri-
mary and secondary road sys-
tems on a 50-50 matching basis
with the states at the level called
for in highway legislation enac-
ted by congress last year.
■ Sen. Gore (D.Tenn.), chairman
Today's Chuckle
A lawyer was attending a fu-
neral. A friend arrived late, and
taking a seat beside him, whis-
pered. "How far has the service
gone?”
The lawyer nodded towards
the clergyman in the pulpit and
whispered back, “He just opened
the defense.”
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The U.S. death rate in 1954 has
been estimated at 9.2 per 1,000
people.
congress
boosts anging from $7,500 to
$10,000
When
Program Put Before Congress
t r i . President Says Roads Are
Tower Explosion Noadied for Atom Escape
CAE* of the Senate Public Roads sub-
committee has introduced a rival
highway bill which would con-
tinue the current matching pro-
gram but would increase by 725
million dollars a year the federal
share in the program. Gore em-
phasized his bill called not only
for stepped up work on the inter-
state system but also on the pri-
mary and secondary roads.
Gore and other Democratic
leaders were called to the white
house yesterday for a preview of
the president's message.
- Sen. Chavez (D-NM) left the
meeting saying the administra-
tion program was “so full of holes
it might sink in congress.” Chav-
ez heads the Senate Public Works
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