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...midwestern parts of the country are almost entirely frozen. Below zero temperatures were reported yesterday from Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and North Dakota. Frost was reported in most of the southern states, and temperatures dipped to 35 on the southern tip of Florida...
...During 21 years of scrabbling for a living in the rough, picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota, Negro Rancher Roland Kercheval and his wife Beatrice have "never met" Jim Crow. Kercheval, in fact, is considered to be of pioneer stock-his grandmother was General George Custer's cook at Fort Dodge, Kans.; his father came to the Black Hills in the gold rush of '76. His three children have won innumerable ribbons in the Pilger Valley Gophers 4-H club, and the two oldest are noted locally for their musical talent. This year, nevertheless, his wife began urging...
...cries kept on, and many a Republican politician joined in. North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, a professional Benson foe, got new headlines by demanding the Secretary's resignation. One of the few members of Congress to come to Benson's defense was Vermont's George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Benson was the victim of a "vicious smear campaign...
Farmer Wulle's kind of analysis shook the Republican organization from New York to California. After the bad news on election day, some G.O.P. members of Congress, e.g., North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, shouted that Secretary Benson must go because "he has lost the confidence of the farmers." Others cried that the Wisconsin results meant that Congress would not and could not abandon rigid support of farm prices at 90% of parity. Democrats, and some Republicans, said that the Eisenhower Administration had already lost the farm vote...
...subcommittee (South Dakota Republican Francis Case, Pennsylvania Republican James H. Duff and Mississippi Democrat John C. Stennis) found that, as usual, there is some confusion and waste in the U.S. effort overseas, e.g., "about $5,000,000 was expended on a field in Egypt, the use of which is now denied the United States." But many past errors have been corrected and "by and large a good construction job is being done." Said the report: "The progress of restoring a balance in world power has been much greater than is generally recognized. One simply cannot see ... the bases that...