Army Gives Its Space Lab To Civilians
The Army hands over major space research facilities to civilian control under a compromise ordered by President Eisenhower. NASA will run the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena while the Huntsville Ballistic Missile Agency remains under Army authority, with shared use for a time and mutual agreement for future arrangements.
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Washington
Army
Civilian
Space Agency
Eisenhower
Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Wernher von Braun
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Technology
National Aeronautics and Space
Space Administration
Army Space
UN Observer Called After Border Fire
The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the UN observer chief after a heavy artillery exchange with Syria. Israel charged Syria shelled nine frontier villages. Dr. Abraham Biran discussed preventative measures with UNTSO head Maj. Gen. Carl von Horn. The clash ended at nightfall after a cease-fire call.
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Jerusalem
Israeli Foreign Ministry
Syria
Abraham Biran
Foreign Ministry
Carl von Horn
UN Truce Supervision Organization
Biran
Israel
Mansfield Pilot Unhurt In Japan Jet Crash
2nd Lt. Fred Brantingham of Mansfield Ohio bailed out from an F 86D after a flameout during a routine mission off Honshu Japan. He was picked up unhurt in a rubber boat about 55 miles east of the Misawa air base and is a member of the 4th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.
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Misawa
Japan
Fred Brantingham
Mansfield
Ohio
Pacific
Brantingham
U.S
Honshu
4Th
Malibu Beach Fire Leaves Trail Of Ashes And Tears
Malibu California firefighters counted about 18 000 acres burned and 29 homes destroyed as the three day blaze neared containment. About 2000 firefighters fought the 37 mile perimeter and residents faced heavy losses while some vowed to rebuild with neighborly support.
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Malibu Beach
Calif
Finland Faces Political Crisis as Government Collapses
Prime Minister August Fagerholm resigned causing a caretaker impasse after five Agrarian cabinet members quit, eroding the coalition in Parliament. Soviet pressure cuts Finland off from Western markets, unemployment rises to 65,000, and the Communists hold 50 seats while agrarians tilt balance with 48 seats.
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Helsinki
Finland
August Fagerholm
Soviet Union
Fagerholm
Agrarian Party
Social Democratic Party
Conviction With Mercy in Wife Murder
Clarence R. Anshutz, 38, was convicted of first degree murder in the slaying of his common-law wife and given life in prison. Three common pleas judges, sitting without a jury, recommended mercy to spare him the electric chair. He faced the court calmly, his face scarred from a prior suicide attempt with a 12 gauge shotgun after the killing.
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ST. Clairsville
Ohio
Clarence R. Anshutz
Common Pleas
Man Dies After Car Crash After Five Years in Coma
Arden A Winn who was unconscious since a auto accident scene five years ago in June died Wednesday at age 32. Doctors said he remained in a coma throughout the period.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Arden A. Winn
Jewels From Peaches Browning Sold At Public Auction
The estate of Frances Peaches Heenan Browning Hynes Civelli Willson was settled with a public auction of her jewels and baubles in San Francisco. Advancements valued items at up to 250 thousand dollars, final auction proceeds around 50 thousand dollars. Browning, a Roaring 20s figure, died at 46 in New York. Her marriages included Daddy Browning, Bernard Hynes, Joseph Civelli, and Ralph Willson.
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San Francisco
Peaches Browning
Peaches
Frances
Peaches) Heenan Browning Hynes Civelli Willson
New York
Frances Heenan
Columbus, Ohio
Daddy Browning
Bernard J. Hynes
Denver
Joseph Civelli
Minden
Nev
Ralph N. Willson
Fire safety drive closes several New York schools
New York authorities shut five story public school, four story private school, and a private dormitory on fire hazard grounds. Violations cited include storage of flammable materials under stairs, inoperative sprinkler systems, and nonfunctional fire doors. The move follows a deadly Chicago parochial school fire that claimed 90 lives.
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New York
Chicago
Shanty Town Ordered Cleared After Fatal Fire
Barbert on officials ordered a shanty community of 234 near the Tuscarawas River and the old Ohio Canal cleared by April 1 after a fire that destroyed three shanties and killed three men. A prior January 1957 fire killed two others.
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Barberton
Tuscarawas River
Ohio Canal
Catherine Dobbs
Hottest December Day Since 1943 Across Region
Temperature in Los Angeles peaked at 89 degrees on Wednesday marking the warmest December 3 in 80 years. San Gabriel reported a high of 96 degrees as the warmest spot in the nation.
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Los Angeles
San Gabriel
Ohio and West Virginia Weather Forecast Update
Partly cloudy and turning colder tonight and Friday in Ohio with lows around 2 to 30 and highs near 38 to 42. In West Virginia expect occasional rain changing to snow flurries, turning windy and much colder with lows from 24 to 52 and cloudy conditions.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Cray
First Rites For Victims Of School Fire Today
Funeral rites begin for the victims of a parochial school fire in Chicago. Archbishop Meyer to lead a Requiem High Mass for three nuns who died while saving students at Our Lady of the Angels. A Mass for 28 of 87 children set for Friday. Cardinal Spellman to attend. Investigators cite a smoldering rubbish pile as the possible origin but cannot determine what started the blaze.
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Chicago
Albert Gregory Meyer
Our Lady of the Angels
Northwest Side
Meyer
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Drew Brown
Gambler Gus Greenbaum and wife slain in Phoenix home
Phoenix police investigated the killings of noted gambler Gus Greenbaum and his wife Bess found dead in their home. Both suffered nine inch knife wounds and police sought motives while ruling out immediate underworld assassination theories.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Gus Greenbaum
Bess
Greenbaum
Prosecutor becomes Morgan County Probate Court judge
Emmett Abel of McConnelsville, formerly Morgan County prosecutor, has been named the county’s new Probate Court judge.
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Columbus
Emmett Abel
McConnelsville
Morgan County
Soviet arms ties widen as Iraq invites Red experts
Soviet technicians are due in Iraq to train Kassem's armed forces on Soviet tanks planes artillery and motorized gear following a weapons shipment. Iraq closes Kirkuk US British Turkish Iranian consulates amid Kurdish tensions while Barzani returns. State Department names John D Jernegan as new ambassador amid rising communist influence concerns.
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Washington
Iraq
Abdel Kerim Kassem
Kassem
Middle East
United States
Kirkuk
Britain
Turkey
Iran
Sheik Mustafa Barzani
Soviet Union
State Department
John D. Jernegan
Reds Slate Moon Shot
Huntsville report notes the Soviet Union nears a moon shot possibly this weekend. A 110 to 220 pound probe may enter lunar orbit to film and relay pictures by radio tele direction from Earth. Ronald C Wakeford cites a 1957 plan named cosmic boomerang now in hardware stage.
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Huntsville
Ala
Soviet Union
Space Journal
Ronald C. Wakeford
National Research and Development Corp
Atlanta
Wakeford
Earth
Baboon Comes Down And Gets The Needle
A 22 year old baboon at Frankfurt Zoo descended from St Nicolai steeple after 20 hours atop the church tower to receive an antituberculosis injection. Rescue teams waited in sub freezing weather as the animal finally came down late Wednesday night.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Frankfurt Zoo
St. Nicolai’s
Movie Magazine Sued by Natalie Wood for Libel
Actress Natalie Wood sues TV and Movie Screen magazine for 400000 dollars over a September 1 issue she says contained libelous false statements about her private life and an invasion of privacy.
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Los Angeles
Natalie Wood
A Magazine
TV and
Movie Screen Magazine
Marietta Awards Dorm Construction Contract
A $215 800 contract for a four story women’s residence at Marietta College was awarded to C. H. Jimison & Sons Co of Huntington.
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Marietta
Marietta College
C. H. Jimison & Sons Co
Huntington
Carruthers 70 Dies in Worcester Leaving 102 Descendants
Mrs Lottie M Carruthers 70 of Worcester Massachusetts died on Wednesday. She was a native of Calais Maine and left 6 sons 5 daughters 40 grandchildren and 51 great grandchildren.
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Worcester
Mass
Lottie M. Carruthers
Calais
Maine
Eisenhower to host mid-December GOP unity meeting
President Eisenhower plans a White House session with Republican congressional leaders in mid December to unify support for his legislative program. Vice President Nixon and GOP managers will hear and may propose changes before finalizing the State of the Union and budget messages. They aim to restrain federal spending to curb inflation while keeping foreign aid high.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Senate
House
White House
Nixon
Machinists Vote on Tentative TWA Contract Terms
About 3700 machinists vote in Kansas City on a tentative agreement with Trans-World Airlines to end a 13 day strike. The International Association of Machinists must ratify the pact. 19,000 TWA workers idle. Wage boosts seen at about 30 cents hourly. top old TWA scale is $2.61. In Miami talks between Eastern Air Lines and 5000 machinists show progress but flight engineers dispute remains stalled.
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Kansas City
Trans-World Airlines
TWA
International Association of Machinists
Leverett Edwards
National Mediation Board
Miami
Eastern Air Lines
EAL
One Dead In Copter Crash Over Potomac
A Navy HR2S helicopter with four civilians aboard and nine Navy or Marine personnel plunged into fog covered Potomac waters near Anacostia Naval Air Station after a routine flight from Patuxent. One man died, four civilians were aboard, nine rescued with injuries. No cause has been established.
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Washington
Navy
Potomac River
Marine
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Patuxent Naval Air Station
Teamsters Local 377 Meeting Ends With Walkout
In Youngstown a 5000 member Teamsters Local 377 fight for control boiled over at a Wednesday night meeting. Top officers led by Joseph Blumetti walked out after resisting news coverage. Fe rillo, presiding, yielded the chair to Angelo as the trio departed. Blumetti has been subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Rackets Committee on coin machine racketeering.
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Youngstown
Teamsters Local 377
Joseph Blumetti
Blumetti
Ferillo
Angelo
Cleveland
Senate
OSU Radio TV Man Named to Federal Education Panel
Richard B. Hull director of radio and TV broadcasting at Ohio State University was named to an advisory committee of the Department of Health Education and Welfare. The committee, named by the Office of Education, will help improve use of television radio and motion pictures in education.
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Charles Chapman
Canyon
Bob Carlson
Washington
Richard B. Hull
Ohio State Univeristy
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
The
Office of Education
Free 4 Kids Turn Loose In Downtown Toy Dept Contest
Four children 11 year old Dennis Gray 10 year old Gayle Longwitz 12 year old Leonard Belanger and nine year old Donald Gogins won a City contest to name elfin figures atop new Loop light poles. They grabbed toys in five minutes as shoppers cheered.
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Chicago
State Street Council
Loop
Dennis Gray
Gayle Longwitz
Leonard Belanger
Lenny
Donald Gogins
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Lakewood
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Malibu
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Red Cross
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Ohio U
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Athens
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Chauncey Ween
Logan Point Pl
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Gallipolis
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Space Observatory
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Lockheed Observatory
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Reds
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