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...nearly two months, gas pipeline rate increases have been held up because of an appellate court decision in a case involving the city of Memphis and the United Gas Pipe Line Co. of Shreveport, La. (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week FPC decided to grant boosts despite the ruling that pipelines may not raise their rates unless their customers agree, a decision that cast doubts on the legality of $200 million in recent increases. FPC now authorized the El Paso Natural Gas Co. to put into effect a $16.5 million rate increase, provided that it posts a bond for that amount...
...case started in 1955, when the United Gas Pipeline Co. of Shreveport, La. asked the Federal Power Commission for permission to boost the rates for the 600-plus cities and industries it serves. Since FPC raised no objections during the usual six months' waiting period, United raised its rates. But then the city of Memphis, one of the cities that was hit by the raise, appealed to the federal court. The court held that United's increase was invalid because the company failed to get the consent of its customers. The court ordered United to return the millions...
...street crowds. In Mississippi the Jackson Daily News's fire-breathing editor, Major Fred Sullens, addressed a one-word editorial to the President: "Nuts." (New York's Daily News picked up the editorial and flung it back under the headline: MISSISSIPPI MUD.) In Louisiana the Shreveport Journal added its jeer: "Heil Eisenhower! Heil to der great Fuehrer!" A more flattering comparison was made, however, by Mississippi's famed Hodding Carter, who telephoned his Delta Democrat-Times from a Maine vacation spot to dictate his state's only editorial endorsing President Eisenhower's constitutional position...
...Defense. In Shreveport, La., after his bookstore was robbed, Owner Henry Meyer made an inventory, discovered that not only $59 had been stolen, but also two copies of Not Guilty, a book about 36 cases in which the law miscarried and the innocent were convicted...
Last week, in Second Air Force Headquarters at Barksdale AFB (Shreveport. La.), Captain French, career officer in the U.S. Air Force, went on trial before a general court martial. The charge against him: violation of Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by attempting to communicate national-defense information to a foreign power. French pleaded not guilty, listened while a military lawyer pleaded that he had been a good Air Force officer, had no Communist affiliations or beliefs. But at the end of the four-day trial. Captain George French's biggest gamble went against...