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Blytheville, Arkansas
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10 10.00 10.00 10.0 CAGE TEN LA 41600 sous U.S. (Continued from Page 19 increase is essential. The national debt now is within less than 500 million dollars of the celling. Millikin also said in an inter. view he feels Congress should proceed very carefully before voting to lower the social security tax back to the level prevailing up to Jan.

1, as the administration has asked. The tax before Jan. 1 was per cent of a worker's salary up to $3,600 a year, paid both by the employe and employer. It went up to 2 per cent. Favors Tar Millikin said he personally favored the per cent rate.

But he said he wanted to see "all the figures" on Administration plans lo broaden social security coverage before he decides whether the 2 per cent tax is needed. George, on the hand, sald he favors freezing the tax at per cent for two more years. He said the present 1-billion-dollar trust fund Is ample to assure 50- clal security payments for at least the next 10 years. Flanders and Sen. Carlson (R- Kan), who also serves on the Finance Committee, said they favor the 119 per cent rate, and Carlson said he as confident there were sufficient votes in the Senate to put the tax back down to the 1953 level.

However, such a move would have to originate in the House. There, some key Republicans ineluding Chairman Daniel A. Reed (R-NY) of the Ways and Means Committee favor the 3 per cent rate. Rep. James C.

Davis (D.Ga) announced he would offer A to restore the per cent rate, wilh refunds retroactive. to Jan.1. Jordan Has TB Program AMMAN IP Jordan has launched A nalionwide campaign to in culate its subjects against tuberculosis. Two United Nations tions WHO and UNICEF -have provided medical specialists and transportation to facilitate inocuIntion campaigns 10 all parts of the country. early toriay issued 8 statement in which Mrs.

Rockefeller said, "Contrary to reports, a settlement has not been rejected." New York Cotton (12:30 quotations) Open High Low Cinse Mar. 3325 3333 3324 3326 May 3348 3356 3347 3348 July 3333 3342 3332 3332 Oct. 3279 3288 3279 3279 New Orleans Open Mar. 3328 May 3349 July 3335 Oct. 3278 Commodity And Stock Markets- Cotton High Low Close 3334 3325 3328 3357 3349 3350 3342 3333 3334 3286 3276 3278 Memphis Soybeans July 305 305 305 305 Chicago Soybeans Jan 3081 309 Mar May 3084 July 315 Chicago Corn.

Mch May Chicage Wheat Mch 209 May New York Stocks (32:45 quelations) Amer Tobacco 63 Anaconda Copper 32 Beth 5tcel 51 Chrysler 62 Cien -Cola 117 Gen Electric 89 Gen Motors 61 Montgomery Ward 57 NY Central 19 Int Harvester 28 Republic Steel 49 Radio 23 Socony Vacuum 35 Studebaker 22 Standard of 73 Texas Corp 58 Sears 61 U.S Steel 40 Sou Pac 38 Livestock Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, Ill. UR--(USDA)-Hogs active; weights 230 lb down 75 to mostly OSCEOLA Harry F. Cowan, 82, longtime Osceola resident and farmer, died last night at his home here on Hale Avenue. Born In Osceola on the old "Driver Home Place," he moved to east Tennessee as a child, later returning here to farm until his tirement several years ago. Survivors Include his wife, a son, Aubrey Cowan, Osceola: a daughter, Mrs.

Mary Belle Oliver, Arlington, and two grandsons. Services are scheduled to be conducted tomorrow at First Methodist Church by the Rev. Garland Taylor. National Funeral Home of Momphis is in charge. Cats Leaving Home Obituary Harry Cowan Dies in Home At Osceola WAYNESBORO, PA.

IM Cats are leaving home in Waynesboro. A newspaper ad that stray cat had been found brought eight responses from persons who snid their pets bad strayed. 1.00 higher; heavier weights and sows 50-75 higher; bulk choice 180- 230 lb barrows gilts 25.50-25.00: latter paid fairly freely for 230 1b and for slightly heavier; few around 230 lb down to 25.25; 240-270 lb 24.00-25.40; mostly 24.25 up; lots 270-310 1b 23.25- 24.25; 1 150-170 1b 24.75-28.00; sows 1b down 22.25-23.25; benvier sows 21.00-22.00. I Cattle 4,500, calves few loads and lols good and cholce steers 21.00-23.50; fully steady to strong: heifers and mixed yearlings also opening steady; good and choice 18.50-22.00; cows active and unchanged; utility and commercial 10.50-13.00; canner and cutter cows largely 8.00-10.50: few light shells down to 7.00; bulls and vealers, buls steady: utility 13.00-15.00: and cutter combulls largely 10.00-12.50; good choice vealers 25.00-32.00; individual head prime to 35.00; commer1clal and goad 17.00-24.00. NEW YORK (P--President John L.

Lewis of the United Mine Workers 9'AB reported today to have promised a sirike fund of one million dollars to the Internationn! Longshoremen calls dock walkout in move to win bargaining recognition. The ILA, locked in struggle with the new ILA-AFL for control of waterfront labor, has hinted at strike If the National Labor Relations Board sets aside a representation election in which the ILA Is leading. Reports of the promise of funds were carried by the New York Herald Tribune and the Dally News. The Herald Tribune said Lewls guaranteed a million-dollar strike fund to the ILA "if it carries out its threat to strike for bargaining certification by the National Labor Board." 'The promise of funds was made at a recent Washington meeting of Lewis and a high ILA official, the story said. Lewls gave the ILA $50,000 for its campaign against the ILA-AFL for the dock representalion election Dec.

22 and 23. 'Bobo' Denies Demand for $10,000,000 000 Lewis Said Giving Strike Fund to ILA NEW YORK (P) Barbara (Boba Rockefeller) was quoted today as saying It is "real nonsense" to assert she wants a 10 million dollar settlement from her estranged oil millionaire husband. Edwin Dunaway, attorney for Winthrop Rockefeller, said in Little Rock, yesterday that Mrs. Rockefeller had requdiated a financial agreement signed last Oct. 1 and is now asking 10 lions.

Dunaway said the agreement of last yenr called for Rockefelier Lo provide for his wife their son, Winthrop Paul. 5, trusts tolaling millions, $70,000 annually or an alternative trust of $500,000. A spokesman for Mrs. Rockefeller R.D. HUGHES CO.

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Hughes Where the Man Who Knows Buys His Clothes Army Denies Throwing Away Good Christmas Food, Toys LITTLE ROCK (P) -Bitter and bewildered Salvation Army officials have denied stoutly that they threw away good food and toys at Christmas. Capt. Warren H. Fulton. head of the Army's City Command office, said, "We have not thrown away and do not throw away anything that can be used." Fulton said the local Salvation Army had received critical letters from "coat to coast" since nationwide distribution of a picture showing two small children filling 8 crate at the city dump with canned food and toys the day after Christmas.

The articles had been dumped in the trash heap by a Salvation army truck. Fulton said the food was home canned and approximately one year old, adding: "It was not considered Epiphany Service To Be Held at Episcopal Church A Feast of Lights service in observance of Epiphany will be held at 7 o'clock tonight at St. 'Stephen's Episcopal Church hore. This service, being conducted at St. Stephen's for the first time as far as can be ascertained from church records, will be carried out by the Young Churchmen, the church's youth group.

The Young Churchmen will serve as acolytes, ushers and altar guild! and will take up the offering. The St. Stephen's Choir will sing. Following the service, the congregation will hold its annual bustticss mecting at 8 p.m. $150 Bond Set In Knifing Here A.

B. Stone, Negro, of Leachville is being held in city jail on $150 bond efler his case, in which he was charged with assault with a weapon, was continued until Jan. 19. He was arrested Saturday after A. B.

Payne, Negro, of Morrillton, received a knife wound fit for human consumption and supposed to luave been destroyed at the dump. The man there had not gotten around to. it when the picture was ton, In the case of the broken toys, said Pulof "they the were items and were part given we by local merchants which they could not sell. They were donated with the what we could distribution understanding we would salvage among underprivileged children and that we would discard the remainder." Fulton said his organization had tossed out only one small truck load of unusable food and toys on Dec. 26.

The Salvation Army officer added that family of children shown in the picture Kadhi been given an Army food check for Christmas and both youngsters had received several good toys from the organi- zacion. MONEY (Continued from Page 1) Chief U. E. Baughman of the Secret Service said be didn't think it all had been spent--though the Landises lived high between New Year's Eve and the time of the arrest five days later, buying among other things a 1953 Oldsmobile. "It is possible," Baughman told reporters, "that a fourth person took part in the theft and recelved a good share of the remaining money." Police and Secret Service men hunted two pew suspects last night in nearby Maryland after getting a tip that two men bad been seen flashing $20 bills there Monday night.

The gorilla is the largest of all known apes. in the neck from a fight the two men were bad at a service station on Highway 18 Dear the city limits according to police reports. Payne was taken to the Blytheville Ilospital for treatments and! was released Sunday morning, after which he returned to his home at Morrilton. Shooting Solved: Four Men Held In Reuther Case Criminal Charges Filed in Attempted Assassination DETROIT bringing criminal charges against four men, announced a "solution" early today to the attempted assassintion of Walter Reuther, CIO United Auto Workers president, in 1948. "This is the solution, but it may go farther," Wayne County (Detrolt) Prosecutor Gerald O'Brien said.

Two of the accused men were in custody. One was sought and another is reported an inmate of a federal penitentiary. 0 Brien Police Commissioner Donald S. Leonard together made the announcement of the arrests and charges. Two of the accused men were identified as Carl Renda and his father-in-law, Santo (Sam) Perrone, both witnesses before the Kefauver Senate crime Investigating committee here.

Renda was in custody at police headquarters. Perrone was sought. Also named in the charges were Peter Lombardo, described 88 an Inmate of the penitentlary at Terre Haute, and Clarence Jacobs, identified as a Tecumseh, television. shop owner, Jacobs was in custody in sor, Ont. Prosecutor O'Brien did not give out full details.

However, he said: have evidence as to what actually happened. This is the tion but It may go farther. There may be other involvements." Warrants against the four men contained two criminal counts. One charged assault with intent to murder, another conspiracy to assault with intent to murder. Oldest Flag The flag of Austria, adopted in 1232, was the oldest in use in the world until its Incorporation with Germany in 1938, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

CONGRESS (Continued from Page 1 part of ouristing term surpluses national defense stockpile. This can be espected to sager some Democratic and Republican supporters of rigid high-level nipports, which Congress has favored the last Ave years. Controversy de almost certain, too, over message on Taft-Mart. ley labor relations not changes, scheduled the same day, Sees Disagreement Without revealing the nature of the program, Chairman H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ) of the Senate Labor Committee said in an interview he expects the President's tentions by business organizations proposals to be "greeted with conthat he is trying to give everything to labor and by complaints from union leaders that the amendments still would leave 'a slave labor The President was said to have sought at yesterday's White Mouse conference to get Democratic leaders.

as well as the Republicans, bebind the general objectives of his "new look' military programaimed at increasing combat strikIng power through new weapons while reducing manpower. Lawmakers who attended the White conferences the President has held this week said the administration is proceeding in its defense buildup on a theory that 3 major war is not imminent, but that the United States must be pared to bear a heavy military burden for years to come. The hope of GOP leaders to eliminate a prospective fight over a proposed constitutional amend. (ment by Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) to limit treaty-making powers was dimmed by their failure to reach any comrpomiso agreement with Bricker at a lengtby White House session yesterday.

Officials' Ceiling Zero BUTLER, Pa. (R The fickle elements played a dirty trick on operators of the Allegheny Airliens. Some 20 city officials of Butler and officers of the airlines attendled a breakfast at Che Butler. Graham Airport here and then lined up to watch the airline make its first scheduled stop at the airport. 'The celling closed in and the plune was unable to land..

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