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Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un-Christian." Pastor Shirey and six others had signed a minority report charging that the assembly erred in asking its 3,776 local churches to accept Negroes...
Last week's skirmish in the battle over the Dixon-Yates power plant at West Memphis, Ark. was fought on Capitol Hill. In closed session, the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee cut out of the 1956 federal budget a $6,500,000 item for a Dixon-Yates transmission line. The line would pick up Dixon-Yates power at the middle of the Mississippi River and feed it into the TVA system at Memphis, for retransmission to the Atomic Energy Commission. Instead, the House Committee voted that the money should be spent to start a $90 million TVA steam-generating...
...crowd of 7,000 gathered near the banks of the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. last week, ground was broken for the controversial $107 million Dixon-Yates power plant. Edgar H. Dixon and Eugene A. Yates, whose power companies (Middle South Utilities and Southern Company) will build the plant and sell its power to the Government, wielded gold-plated shovels to turn the first spades of earth...
Died. Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr.. 67, part-owner of the 950,000-acre King Ranch of Texas, the country's largest cattle ranch; of a heart attack while vacationing in Hot Springs, Ark. Kleberg studied law, served seven terms in Congress, constantly pushed research on cattle and feeds, once said: "The fate of the world depends upon God and grass...
...that did not honestly jibe with its model, life. "Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and, I think, Japheth. The only thing Ham noted was that his father was a drunkard; he completely lost sight of the fact that Noah was a genius, that he built an ark and saved the world. Writing people ought not imitate...