Adrian First Traffic Fatality in 683 Days
Don Leroy DeMan, 21, Muskegon, died in a 3:21 p.m. Friday crash at Toledo and Locust. He was a junior at Adrian College and Sigma Alpha Epsilon member, riding with Roger Westen who faced a license charge. Westen claimed he slowed but did not stop. another driver also failed to stop. Police noted the intersection has seen recent crashes despite traffic controls.
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Don Leroy DeMan
Muskegon
Adrian
Mr. DeMan
Toledo Street
Westen
Mary Alyne Brooks
Carson Highway
DeMan
Bixby Hospital
David DeMan
Adrian College
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
County Prosecuting Attorney's Office
Toledo Streit
A. M. Andrews
Toledo
Locust Streets
Jaycee Paper Drive Sunday
The Adrian Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a paper drive Sunday. Members will gather paper between 9 am and 12 noon. Residents are asked to bundle donations and leave them near the street. Jaycees meet at Adrian Salvage at 8:30 a.m.
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Adrian Junior Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Rar
Adrian Salvage
Beast Battles Halted as Okinawa Tightens Rules
NAHA Okinawa government halted a planned animal fight featuring a lion against five dogs after protests from Japan and the United States. Social Affairs Director Shoshi Ota said no more applications for vicious animal fights of this nature would be approved. The trainer Choryo Yonaka had planned a lion versus bull event next month. Yonaka’s lion killed three dogs and maimed two others during last weekend’s event before spectators. The director did not address bans on other common Okinawan fights such as sockfights and battles between snakes and mongooses.
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Naha
Okinawa
Japan
United States
Shoshi Ota
Choryo Yonaka
Yonaka
lOkinawa
Train halted by Soviet check in East Germany over alleged swastika
In East Germany Soviet troops halted an American Army train headed to West Berlin claiming a swastika was drawn on a car. U S officials said no symbol was visible until after three hours in Soviet custody. The train was sent back to Helmstedt from Marienborn.
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Berlin
East Germany
U. S
West Berlin
Helmstedt
West Germany
Marienborn
Severe Spring Break-Up Threatens County Roads
County highway engineer William M. Burchfield warns frost and thaw could devastate roads this spring. Up to two feet of frost lies under county roads and nearly 18 inches under sod, risking closures if ground not thawed gradually. The Lenawee road commission rejected six fire insurance bids and will re-bid April 8 while reviewing a petition to take Marsh Road into Devils Lake Yacht Club as a public road.
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William M. Burchfield
Burchfield
Lenawee Road Commission
Marsh Road
Devils Lake Yacht Club
Bankron Gravel
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Nominate 12 For Chamber Board
Next week Chamber of Commerce members will receive ballots with 12 Adrian men nominated for new officers. Seven will be selected and the votes opened and counted April 11 in the Chamber office. After tabulation Walter Hickey Cecil Wray and Mahlon Gray will nominate the new officers. On April 19 the new officers will be elected.
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Chamber of Commerce
Adrian Men Eo
Chamber
Walter Hickey
Cecil Wray
Mahlon Gray
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Offic
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Maria Esther Dill
M. J. Migenti
Chael
John B. Rose
Robert Barattheananf 1Hnach
Wendall Ladd
James Sackssteder
Bilis Berndt
Richard Camburn
Roswell Burr
Thomas Flory
D. F. Sarapo
Merrill Amsler
Prim Francoeur
50 000 Brazilians Flee Flood Threat At Big Dam
In northeast Brazil the Oris earthen dam held under pressure as officials evacuated 50 000 residents from five towns. Transportation Minister Amara Peixoto rushed to coordinate emergency operations while officials denied early reports that the dam had burst. Twelve smaller dams collapsed in Ceará, none yet causing casualties.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Oris
Manji Amara Peixoto
Transportation
Ceara
Lavras
Missao Velha
Ores
Transportation Ministry
Consumers Offer Faces Opposition in Clare Vote
Clare Michigan Consumers Power Co faces a vote after striking 5600 workers in gas and electric services across four Lower Peninsula counties outside Detroit. The state VAW executive council urged rejection while the union trim down its demand to 25 cents an hour before negotiating. The company claims the two year package is worth 24 4 cents an hour and cites sabotage interruptions to service.
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VAW
Lower Peninsula
Detroit
X-ray Pioneer's Death at 85 in Chicago
Dr. Emil H Grubbe a Chicago physician died at Swedish Covenant Hospital at 85 after decades of radiation research and treatment. He pioneered X-ray therapy and endured severe burns from early experiments, losing hands and facial tissue yet continuing his work. The American Cancer Society awarded him a national citation for distinguished service last February.
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Chicago
Emil H.grubbe
Swedish Covenant Hospital
Grubbe
American Cancer Society
Drastic Bomarc missile cuts shift funds to missiles
The Air Force orders a drastic cutback of the Bomarc B program after seven unsuccessful firing tests at Cape Canaveral. Savings of about half a billion dollars will be redirected to intercontinental missiles, the space shield Sage system, a faster Midas satellite program, and speedier ballistic early warning efforts.
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Washington
Air Force
Midas
Airy Force
U.S
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Polaris From Underground Launch Marks Nuclear Submarine Progress
The first fully guided Polaris launch from an underground tube accelerates the program toward naval use. A 28 foot rocket fired from a 52 foot deep tube near Cape Canaveral reached over 900 miles down the Atlantic range, its stages igniting sequentially. This inertially guided flight follows prior land pad tests and precedes sea launches from submarines this summer aboard the George Washington and others as underwater launches near operational status.
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Cape Canaveral
Sub-Maries
Atlantic
George Washington
Orsi
Polaris
Merryman Wins Steeplechase in Grand Nations Race
Merryman Jr won the Grand Nations steeplechase today with Badan Och second and Clear Profit third in 4-1/2 miles over 30 obstacles. Don idrosa’s scratch reduced the field to 26 horses as Tea Fiend led early and Sabaria Edith and Green Devil finished among the backmarkers.
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Aln Rim
Lungsand
Mererryman Jr
Badan ‘Och
Clear Profit
Donidrosa
Tea Fiend
Sabaria
Tdith
Green Dyill
Man Survives Five-Story Freefall At St Elizabeth Hospital
In Danville James Bernardi, 37, a steamfiller, slid down a five-story shaft from a hospital construction site after a false step. He plunged onto a narrow air space about 18 inches wide and was freed by tea workers with only minor injuries.
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Danville
James Bera
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Bernardi
Democrats of 14 States Look Over Candidate Field
Delegates from 14 midwestern states gather in Detroit to hear Democratic presidential hopefuls on farm policy labor and world affairs. Senators Symington Kennedy Humphrey and others press for leadership and farm aid as strategy meetings and a TV campaign proposal are discussed ahead of the national convention.
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Detoit
Midwest
Michigan City
Detroit
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Symington
Khrushchev
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Kennedy
University of Wisconsin
Madison
iHe
Humphrey
Lancaster
Wis
Grant Electric Co-Operative
United Auto Workers
Sen
Johnson
D-Tex
John Brademas
D-Ind
Nixon
Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Police Call Off Pass Rule in South Africa
Johannesburg reports that South Africa’s police will no longer arrest Negroes for not carrying passbooks, a retreat by the nationalist government amid the Pan-Africanist Congress antipass campaign. The move follows days of clashes and crippling strikes by Negro workers across the country.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Pretoria
Pan-Africanist Congress
Cape
Cuban officer defects, seeks asylum after Castro shift
Mexico City Cuban naval attaché Capt. Jaime Varela Canosa joined other embassy officials in resigning and seeking asylum in the United States. He said Fidel Castro has turned the Cuban revolution toward a Communist dictatorship, accusing Castro, Che Guevara, and Raul Castro of steering Cuba into tyranny and denying liberties.
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Mexico City
Cuba
Inaval
Mexico
Fidel Castro
R v
Jaime
Varela Canosa
United States
U.S
Laredo
Tex
Weho
Varela Ca‘nosa
Island Republic
Castro
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
Cuban National Bank
Rau
Rocket Ship Goes 0500 Speed Flight Test
Edwards Air Force base in Sask Calif hosts the Gi Space agency test pilot Joe Walker who flew the X15 rocket ship for the first time. He overshot the dry lake landing by five miles due to a strong tailwind but landed safely. The craft reached about 50 000 feet and 1200 miles per hour during the mission. A Baz mother ship lifted the X15 for the release. The design targets 4000 miles per hour and 100 mile plus altitudes. This was the seventh powered X15 flight following earlier missions by Scott Crossfield and Wes.
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Calif
Gi — Space Agency
Joe Walker
Walker
Baz
Scott Crossfield
Est
North Ames Aviation
Wes
Montreals
Missing Child Found After Days Missing in Deal New Jersey
A five year old girl Carey Green was found safe in Washington D C after being left at her parents home in Deal New Jersey. Police announced the domestic couple Elmer Gene Pollard and Darcy Pollard were detained after a search spanned from Newark New Jersey to Charleston South Carolina and Washington D C.
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Deal
N J
Washington
Carey Green
Shore
Burton Green
Elmer Gene Pollard
Newark
N. J
Charleston
Isla
Fey
Deal Police
Pallard
Darcy
New Christian Democrat Cabinet Forms in Italy
In Rome Ferdinando Tambroni, 58, set up an all Christian Democrat government after Antonio Segni resigned. President Giovanni Gronchi named Tambroni premier as parliament faces approval next week amid a month long political crisis.
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Italy
Rome
Ferdinando Tambroni
Giovanni Gronchi
Antonio Segal
Cuba moves toward showdown over Guantanamo base
Cuba pressed Washington with formal notes demanding reinstatement of Federico Figuera Larrazabal, a base union leader fired for offensive remarks and poor work record. Havana also protested U.S. withdrawal of agricultural inspectors and a ban on helicopter sales, signaling worsening Cuban American ties amid street clashes and official caution from both sides.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Guantanamo Naval Base
Fidel Castro
Washington
U.S
Philip Bengal
Federico Figueras Larrazabal
Workers’ Union
Bonsal
Raul Roa
Rea
U.S. Navy
Guantanamo
Adenauer challenges Soviets on open skies plan at May summit
German Chancellor Adenauer told reporters that the Soviet Union must accept the United States open skies disarmament inspection proposal or face continued West led arms buildup. He said a second Soviet rejection would prove Moscow responds only to direct force.
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Tokyo
Adenauer
Soviet Union
United States
Eisenhower
Nobusuke Kishi
Russia
Youth Held After Bomb Attack On Synagogue Wounding 2
A fire bomb targeted the Beth Israel synagogue in GAUSDEN Alabama. Two congregants were wounded when they rushed outside to investigate. Police arrested Jerry Earl Hutt, a 16 year old Attalla high school student, on assault with intent to murder charges. He admitted throwing the bomb and firing shots to avenge a grudge from a chess dispute. He showed no remorse and claimed to have acted alone though police kept the case open for more suspects. A car matching his stepfather’s was found nearby with a .22 rifle inside. Another youth was questioned and released.
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Gausden
Ala
Circuit
Charles Wright
Jerry Earl Hutt
Attalla
Wright
Beth Israel
Hunt
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