Senate weighs 3.4 billion foreign aid bill amid amendments
The Senate session opened two hours early to vote on Eisenhower's 3.408 billion authorization for foreign aid with potential total to 3.53 billion including military aid. Senators Ellender Long and Knowland urged large cuts or conditions while others fought to preserve funding. The bill faces House action and a clash over loans versus grants as debate runs two hours per topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
House
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Britain
Australia
New Zealand
Long
Sen. George
D-Ga
Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Knowland
California
John B. Hollister
Foreign Economic Directory
Foreign Operations Administration
FOA
State Department
George's
Baseball Pilot Freed of Beer Law Violation
Jim McNulty, manager of the Fairmont baseball team and operator of a local tavern, had charges of selling beer to a minor dismissed in justice court. A 17-year-old from Armstrong, Iowa stated he bought 3.2 beer May 18, while an 18-year-old Fairmont youth witnessed him leaving the tavern with the beer but did not testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
Minn
Jim McNulty
Justice of the Peace Court
Charles Zierke
McNulty
Zierke
Armstrong
Iowa
Fairmont Farm
Justice Court
Grasshopper Menace Reported in Minnesota
Agriculture Commissioner Byron G. Allen says grasshoppers hatched in southeast central and northwest Minnesota are growing and damaging crops. He advises farmers to spray fields as needed while state entomologists from T. L. Aamodt monitor heavily infested areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Byron G. Allen
Minnesota
T. L. Aamodt
Allen
Owl Purged After Attacking Des Moines Residents
Residents in the 400 block on East Gray Street breathed easier after Glenn Summers was injured while assisting a woman frightened by a pecking owl. Frank Smith shot and killed the owl with a 4 10 shot gun near Summers' yard. officials cited the bird protecting its young as the likely cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
East Gray Street
Glenn Summers
Frank Smith
Summers
Smith
State Conservation Commission
Post-Vaccination Polio Cases Reach 116 Mark
The Public Health Service reports 116 post vaccination polio cases, with 60 linked to vaccinated individuals. Oregon and Virginia reported new cases, vaccine makers Parke Davis and Eli Lilly noted. About six million children vaccinated amid concerns of indirect infection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Health Service Today
Oregon
Virginia
Parke, Davis & Co
Detroit
Eli Lilly Co
Indianapolis
British Team Conquers Peak In Himalaya Victory
Reports from Darjeeling say a British team reached Kanchenjunga May 25 though stopping a few feet short of the sacred summit. Led by Dr. Charles Evans, the nine climbers claim conquest while Dhaulagiri remains the highest unconquered peak in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Delhi
Kanchenjunga
Kanche J Nga
Himalayas
Nepal
Sikkim
Darjeeling
Charles Evans
Sir John Hunt
Mt. Everest
St Paul Man Found Hanged in Jail Cell
Harold O'Donnell a 51 year old St Paul man booked for drunkenness was found hanged in his jail cell three hours after intake. Captain William Steiner conducting a routine check discovered him and cut down the body. The death was attributed to suicide using a belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Harold O'Donnell
William Steiner
O'Donnell
Tito backs Red China's Formosa claim with Russia
Belgrade Yugoslavian President Tito joined Soviet leaders on Thursday night in backing Beijing's claim to Formosa. The alliance stance signals strong support for Red China amid regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tito
Russia
China
Formosa
Peace Bids Shaped in Rail Strike
London reports a five day rail walkout as the government weighs moves while TUC seeks a settlement with ASLEF. Prime Minister Eden drives cabinet talks as dock workers and Scottish coal miners add to labor tensions and utilities fear shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Eden
British Trades Union Congress
TUC
General Purposes
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Charles Geddes
Prisoner Bennie Meeks escapes after final words
Prison officials reported the last words of at large prisoner Bennie Meeks to fellow inmates before his escape from a road crew Monday. He allegedly said I think its time to be leaving. I ll be seeing you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
N.C
Bennie Meeks
Freed Airmen Say They Resisted Red Tactics
Four American fliers held in China after the Korean War say they resisted brainwashing and pleaded guilty to violating Chinese air space. Capt Harold Fischer Lt Col Edwin Heller and two others spoke at a press conference near Hong Kong after more than two years in prison, describing solitary confinement and delayed letters, and noting Dag Hammarskjold helped secure their release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln, Neb
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Family Learns TV Watching Can Get Too Enthusiastic
LANSING Iowa the P E Rothwisch family learned TV watching can be dangerous A lightning bolt tore a three foot hole in their roof Wednesday night and started a fire neighbors roused them from their TV reverie The blaze was put out with no extensive damage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Iowa
P.E. Rothwisch
Rethwisces
Lightning Damages Two Homes In Local Storm
Two lightning incidents were reported by the Fire Department on Wednesday afternoon. A box near a water meter at John Dalsey's home on Johnson Street burned, extinguished with CO2. Wires may have been knocked down in the area. A Dalager TV antenna was struck at 107 South Main, with the set burned out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dalsey
Johnson
John Tobar
Leon Dalager
S. Main
Dalager
Ford offers job security fund to UAW in wage fight
The Detroit News reports Ford Motor Co. proposed a 55 million dollar job security fund as part of a new offer to the United Automobile Workers. The plan aims to guarantee workers’ pay during idle times and includes stock options and severance terms, while unions push for guaranteed annual wages. Cadillac Stellato spoke to Rouge plant workers urging rejection of a five year deal while pursuing shorter hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ASLEF
British Transport Commission
National Union of Railwaymen
NUR
Commission
Trades Union Congress Committee
The
Transport Commission
Scotland Yard
London
Detroit
Detroit News
Ford Motor Co
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
Partnership In Prosperity
Reuther
UAW
Carl Stellato
Rouge
Stellato
Uranium rush to hit California canyon near Bakersfield
About 3,000 prospectors are expected to swarm Kern River Canyon 40 miles east of Bakersfield as land opens at 10 a.m. for staking 20 acre claims across 60 000 acres. Sheriff Galyen has 75 deputies enforcing firearm confiscation amid a disputed claim scene with two mines already located and ore stockpiles at Miracle Mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
Calif
California
Kern River Canyon
Here
Leroy Galyen
Kergen
Great Lakes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bill Bright
Pecking Owl
King’s Cross
Associated Press
Leonard A. Scheele
PHS
Belgrade
Yugoslavian
Hunt Fords
Sacred Heart Catholic
Pittsburgh
By Roy Elsoyan
Harold E. Fischer
Swea City
Fischer
Edwin Heller
Wynnewood, Pa
Red
Barbara Graham
Corona Women’s Prison
San Quentin
Mabel Monahan
Burbank
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Norman Walker
Walter Reuther
General Motors
Uranium Canyon
Southern California Edison Co
Atomic Energy Commission
Public
Bureau of Land Management
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!