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...runs it cannot catch up with increasing consumer demand. Last week American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which set an industrial record for yearly spending with the $1.6 billion put into expansion in 1955, announced that it was still unable to close the gap. This year, said A. T. & T. President Cleo F. Craig, the world's biggest utility will spend a staggering $2.1 billion merely to keep from falling farther behind. With 47 million phones already in service, orders for another 3,000,000 are expected and every Bell subsidiary is snowed under by an 11% increase in long-distance...
Born. To Earl Warren Jr.. 26, second son of U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren anc assistant farm advisor of California's Alameda County, and Cleo Patricia Kent Warren, 26: their second child, first son; in Castro Valley, Calif. Name: Earl Warren III. Weight...
...growing who's who of Negro educators, the name of Cleo W. Blackburn, 45, ranks high. A former Tuskegee teacher, Sociologist Blackburn took over Planner House in Indianapolis 18 years ago, changed it from a struggling Negro social center to a flourishing institution dedicated to helping Southern rural Negroes adjust to Northern city life. He upped its budget from $17,000 to $250,000, its staff from 17 to 70, set up a nursery school, opened clinics for TB and dentistry, organized classes in sewing, cooking and upholstery. Planner House now provides everything from a full-fledged cannery...
...Texas businessmen got together to find a way to further Blackburn's work. Last week their Board for Fundamental Education announced its first project: for Flanner and Jarvis-and for similar centers it hopes to establish elsewhere-it intends to raise $14 million in the name of Cleo Blackburn...
...American Telephone & Telegraph, which installed 400,000 phones in the first quarter (140,000 less than a year ago), reported earnings of $110 million, up 8% from 1953. Furthermore, recent cuts in excise taxes, said President Cleo F. Craig, "will stimulate increased telephone usage and particularly more long distance calling...