Sodium Vapor Trails Aid Spacecraft Tracking
Los Angeles AP reports space scientists propose releasing sodium vapor to trace descending spaceships or satellites. The glowing trail would persist about 30 minutes, enabling observers to plot the craft angle of descent from Lockheed missiles and space division researchers Wallace Harper and Ralph Armstrong.
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Wallace Harper
Ralph Armstrong
Lockheed’s Missiles and Space Division
New Mental Health Fight Recalls Youngdahl's Drive
Governor elect Elmer Andersen seeks to create a separate mental health department with a dedicated commissioner akin to Youngdahl's 1949 program. The effort echoes past battles over funding, organizational structure, and party unity within Minnesota Republicans.
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Youngdahl
Associated Press
Elmer L. Andersen
Minnesota
C. Elmer Anderson
State Department of Public Welfare
Welfare
Minnesota House of Representatives
Senate
Can
Red Plane on Fire Returns Safely
An airport official said a Soviet airlift plane returned safely to Ha Noi Monday after catching fire an hour out of Vientiane. Earlier reports had claimed the plane crashed as five Soviet planes began airlifting gasoline and petroleum products to the neutralist Laotian government.
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Vientiane
Laos
Hanoi
Reds Aim to Isolate North America Says Pacific Fleet Chief
Adm. John H. Sides warned at a Los Angeles briefing that the Communist empire seeks to isolate North America by overrunning Southeast and Central Asia by any means short of full war. He claimed control of Southeast Asia resources, Indonesian raw materials, and Japan industry could threaten the United States and the free world.
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Los Angeles
U. S. Pacific
Red China
North America
Adm
John H. Sides
Southeast Asia
Central Asia
Indonesia
Japan
Sides
Engineer Nelson Smith Dies At 92 Designer Of LIRR
Engineer Nelson Smith, 92, a prominent figure in the industry and a designer of the Long Island Railroad, died Monday in Reading Pennsylvania.
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Reading
W. Nelson Smith
Long Island Railroad
Garden Hose Sinks Deeper In Ground Hole
In Kailua Hawaii Rickey Sheets and his mother tried to pull a hose from a gopher hole after flooding it. The hose disappeared deeper as water filled the sand, eventually 20 feet buried with only a three foot section visible. Physicist Iwao Miyake notes hydraulic excavation as a common phenomenon.
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Kailua
Hawaii
Rickey Sheets
Merle Sheets
Rickey
Sheets
Iwao Miyake
University of Hawaii
Soldiers Can Wed Jap Girls Again
The U S Army lifted a two week ban on soldiers marrying Japanese girls or adopting children. A spokesman cited President Eisenhowers order to reduce overseas dependents and said the pause allowed a true count of dependents before resuming marriages and adoptions.
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Tokyo
U. S
Eisenhower
Montevideo Votes Down New High School Plan
Montevideo Minnesota residents rejected a proposed new high school building funded by public bonds. The plan would have cost 1.5 million dollars. the vote count was 1,956 against and 368 in favor.
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Montevideo
New School
Montevideo, Minn
Daughter of Film Official Divorced
Judith Ross Kanter, 28, daughter of Paramount President Barney Balaban, divorced Jay Kanter, 33, in Santa Monica on charges of long hours away from home. She has been seen with actor Anthony Franciosa, who was recently divorced by Shelley Winters.
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Santa Monica, Calif
Jay Kanter
Anthony Franciosa
Judith Ross Kanter
Paramount
Barney Balaban
Kanter
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