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CED com urges tax cuts precede natl debt reduction; urges priority for individual taxes, stressing middle and high-income brackets; urges corp taxes be cut to at least 50% of earnings; Prof Andersen urges $3 billion cut to keep consumer-demand level high, Cong com
H C Beckman named Fed repr in talks among Ark, Okla, La and Tex on dividing waters
Sharett conf with Dulles; gloomy on peace prospects; holds peace up to Arabs; says Israel would make 'minor mutual adjustments' of borders; Dulles not optimistic; reiterates US seeks settlement, press conf; says State Dept has not outlined more specific steps than given in his Aug 26 s
Wagner, Jack rept Title I middle-income project planned, Whitehall, Water and South Sts and Coenties Slip; illus; sketch; map
N S Khrushchev charges Western Allies prepare W Ger for war against USSR, s, Rangoon
1955John Watkins, Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of New South Wales[†]
John Arthur Watkins is a former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, serving between 2005 until his resignation from Parliament in 2008. Watkins was the chief executive officer of Alzheimer's Australia (NSW) from 2008 – 2017 when it merged into Dementia Australia; the Chairman of Calvary healthcare from 2011 – 2019; and the eighth Chancellor of the University of New England, serving between 2013 and 2014.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]