Ike and De Gaulle Seek Proof of Khrushchev Claims
Washington report details President Eisenhower and French leader De Gaulle planning to press Soviet Premier Khrushchev for proof of his Berlin demands. The leaders aim to soften tensions ahead of the Paris summit and pursue disarmament steps, with Macmillan to join the talks May 16. Differences linger over U.S. nuclear warheads on French soil and France pursuing its own atomic program.
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Eleven Year Old Linda Kesterson Dies In Kalamazoo Fire
A Kalamazoo two apartment fire last night claimed the life of Linda Kesterson, eleven, the eldest of five sisters. Mrs. Cleve Kesterson escaped with Debie and Patty, while two sisters, Gail and Debbie, suffered burns and the mother was injured. Fire officials said the fire was confined to the first floor and the cause was not immediately determined. The father was away at the time.
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Death Toll Seen Lower From Lar Gerash Quake
THHRAN Iran rescue teams dig through ruins in Lar and Gerash after two quakes. Officials say deaths may not exceed 500, with about 400 bodies recovered and 100 feared still buried. Tens of injured reported, some in serious condition, hospitals opened in Shiraz. Official estimates had ranged up to 2,000.
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Manitou Beach youth admits cottage break ins at Devils Lake
A 15 year old from Manitou Beach is in county detention after admitting four months of break ins at eight cottages on the south shore of Devils Lake. He said he acted alone, stole fishing gear valued at about 450 dollars, and traded most items. Blissfield state police assisted.
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Leggat Named Chairman of State Recreation Study Group
Governor Williams announces Al Leggat as chairman of a Michigan recreation study commission to inventory programs and facilities from children to seniors. Leggat also serves as industrial relations director for a Bridgeport plant in Warren Ohio and will meet monthly while continuing company duties. This is his second state appointment within a year, following chairmanship of the Oakwood hospital dispute committee.
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Oakwood Hospital
7800 Workers Idle At GM
Detroit reports 7800 General Motors workers idle at Fleetwood plant due to a United Auto Workers Local 18 strike. The action threatens 4500 more jobs and halts Cadillac production as company and union officials planned talks after 25 hours of bargaining. Leonard Woodcock cites production standards as the cause. Local 15 voted to strike March 4 with foreign sanction by the international union.
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Stearns Suit Against Firemen Opens Before Lenawee Jury
Stearns Manufacturing Co. sues 17 Lenawee county firemen in circuit court before Judge Rex Martin. Trial witnesses include Harold Near, comptroller, and Harold Stine who testified about the loss of forge patterns used as fuel in a fire fighting exhibition valued at 3528 dollars. Defendant Wesley Camp defended the lack of guards, saying the firemen entered via a public thoroughfare. Jury drawn to hear two day trial.
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Morenci
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Howard Alcock
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Gladys. Pearson
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Moretici
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Addison
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Arnie Nighswander
Deerfield
C. W. Follis
Clinton
Wendell Kaisel
Blissfield
Lila Mies
Tipton
Scientists urge fast seed of detection system for nuclear tests
Sixteen scientists urged Washington to fund a rapid development of an adequate monitoring system for underground nuclear blasts. They proposed a 100 million dollar program and a network of dense seismic stations in an earthquake prone region to detect and distinguish explosions from earthquakes, while backing a moratorium on low yield tests and seeking a ban on medium and high power tests.
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Well Known Woman of Jackson Dies
Mrs. Edward Dalton 83 a member of a prominent Jackson family died Sunday in a Lansing hospital after being hospitalized since a broken hip from a fall earlier this month. She was part of the Datton hotel family in Jackson for years and the mother of Mrs. Jane Vandenbelt, who served as office manager for Gov. Williams for 11 years.
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New Deputy Marshal Named in ULP Grand Rapids
Former Wakefield police officer Lea Wilson, 33, named deputy marshal for the Upper Peninsula. Announcement from Grand Rapids by Harry Jennings, chief marshal for the federal district of western Michigan. Wilson a native of Ann Arbor. Samuel H Pangborn, 84, former Michigan state senator, killed Sunday in a solo car crash near Montgomery, Alabama. Pangborn, a Republican, served in the state senate in the 1930s and was a prominent farmer and a horticulture raiser in Huron county.
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Lea Wilson
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Upper Peninsula
Harry Jennings
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Payola Hearings Enter New Round With Clark Spat
Washington investigators opened a new round of payola hearings and rebuffed Dick Clark’s bid to testify. Chairman Oren Harris said Clark would be heard later, likely Thursday or Friday, as the probe focuses on financial ties between disc jockeys networks and the music industry. The committee disclosed Clark once had interests in about 47 record and music firms.
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Oren Harris
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Tested Electras Found Arworthy to Fly
FAA administrator Elwood Quesada announced that all Electras in domestic service have been inspected and found safe. The CAB had recommended grounding the aircraft until inspections were completed following the Tell City crash that killed 63 people. Quesada ordered a lower speed limit but did not ground the Electras.
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Tell City
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Sea Limit Plan Down By 1 Vote
The world maritime conference failed by a single vote to adopt a six mile territorial limit and six mile exclusive fishing zone beyond it after 1970. The proposal, led by Canada and the United States, drew 54 to 28 in final tally, short of the two thirds needed, with opposition from Communist nations and many African Asian and Latin American blocs.
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Conductor Dies In Train Derailment At Seneca
A Southern railway passenger train derailed after cars jumped the tracks and tumbled into a ravine near Seneca. Conductor Keener Adams, 56, of Greenville was crushed in a forward baggage car. One other person injured as engineers described the runaway at 55 to 60 mph.
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Southern Railway
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Atlanta
Harry Reed
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Reed
Keener Adams
Greenville
Kalamazoo Recall Petitions Target Three City Officials
A Kalamazoo citizen committee filed three recall petitions seeking to oust Mayor Marvin Hayes and city commissioners Tom Surprise and Daniel Conray. James Clark, committee president, said the moves respond to continued support for City Manager Philip Beauvais amid criticism of planning policies.
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Western powers restate disarmament aims in Geneva
The Western powers presented new basic principles to the ten nation disarmament conference in Geneva, stressing a step by step path to total disarmament under strict controls. French delegate Jules Moch spoke for the five Western powers, echoing the Western plan, while Russia proposed principles identical to Khrushchev’s U.N. General Assembly plan from September 18 last year.
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Ice Pick in Brain Believed Cause of Death
Little Rock autopsy found a 4% inch ice pick embedded in Eddie Powell’s brain. Powell, 32, died yesterday after weeks of headaches and convulsions. Authorities identified the instrument as the likely cause. his family had believed an injury from a 1953 fight could be connected.
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Howard A. Vishough
Eddie Powell
Powell
Mom Lifts Car to Free Son in Tampa
In Tampa Florida a 16 year old boy named Charles Rogers was pinned under a 3600 pound station wagon when a jack slipped. His mother Maxwell C Rogers lifted the car several inches with intense effort, freeing him but injuring her back. She is reported in good condition at St Josephs hospital.
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St. Joseph's Hospital
Charles Rogers
Impulsive Robber Nabbed After Bank Cash Theft
Azusa California police arrested Paulay Truitt a 42 year old surveyor after he returned from a coffee break with a fake pistol used to rob a bank teller. Watchful bank manager and seven sheriff deputies trailed his truck to recover 538 dollars from his pocket. Truitt confessed noting the capture.
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Industrial peace talks on docket
President Eisenhower considers a high level labor management peace meeting with Mitchell and Meany at the White House. Plans reportedly involve inviting employer groups with AFL-CIO labor agreements and may be held secretly to encourage informal progress toward broader industrial peace and price stability.
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Weight restrictions eased on highways nationwide
The state highway department announces easing of truck weight limits effective at noon today. Normal loads allowed on full state trinkles from the southern border to MOSS from Tawas City to Manistee and along concrete trunk lines from M-53 to the Straits of Mackinac. Also reports a death: James R. Keck, 49, died at University Medical Center after burns from a pulp vat incident at Consolidated Paper Co.
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Consolidated Paper Co
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Ann Arbor
Rebellious Koreans Jubilant As Rhee Offers To Resign
Tens of thousands of jubilant students hailed the week of violence that toppled President Syngman Rhee as demonstrations surged in Seoul. Rhee offered to resign amid mounting pressure and the national assembly demanded his immediate departure. clashes left at least 15 dead and hundreds wounded, with police stations attacked and a vast American flag saved from a bonfire. U.S. officials faced questions over pressure tactics while pledging continued support for a stronger democratic, anti Communist Korea. The allied nations that fought in the Korean War called a crisis meeting to discuss the situation and potential substitutes.
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Lae Ki-poong
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Walla’ P. McConaughy
Carter B. Magruder
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Korean Army
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Nehru and Chou Enlai end deadlocked border talks
In a week of talks Nehru and Chou Enlai failed to reach a settlement on their border dispute. The leaders released a joint communiqué noting greater understanding but no resolution. Nehru rejected ceding 10 15,000 square miles in Ladakh while Chou offered India control of 36,000 square miles to the northeast.
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Farmer Uses Tractor in Dash for Liberty at West German Border
A East German farmer and his family fled to West Germany last weekend on a tractor, crashing through barbed wire as a border patrol watched. Authorities said he escaped after collectivization of his property and being made a tractor driver, with names withheld.
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Cuban Officials Capture Two Americans After Bahia Shootout
Cuban authorities seized Alvin Table Jr. and William Lees, accused killers who shot ship captain Angus Boatwright in the Bahamas and fled in the Muriel. The pair, with Tables 1 year old bride Barbara Fisher, were found on a Bahamian cay near Isabela de Sagua and remanded toward Havana. A coast guard plane ferried the castaways to Nassau, while a second plane shadowed the Muriel before retreating due to tense U S Cuba relations.
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