Jet Crash Kills Pilot and Five In Minneapolis Suburb
A Navy jet crashed in a residential area near the Minneapolis airport killing the pilot Maj. George E. Armstrong and five others. Flames leveled a house and damaged five more while eight children suffered critical burns. Coroner reports recovered bodies include two adult men one woman and three children. The pilot had just taken off and requested to land again. Kenneth Lichty of 5832 46th Ave S described escaping with his family.
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Minneapolis
Veterans Hospital
Donald Gaines
George E. Armstrong
Kenneth Lichty
46Th Ave. S
Milton Eisenhower resigns as Penn State president
Dr Milton Eisenhower 56 resigns as president of Pennsylvania State University for personal reasons. He flew to Washington to inform the President at Walter Reed Hospital. The university will try to persuade him to stay and no successor has been discussed. He plans a Dec 31 effective date and a July vacation before deciding his next steps.
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University Park
Milton Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State University
Eisenhower
Washington
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Kan
Helen
Leonard D. Heaton
Isidor Ravdin
Pennsylvania University Medical School
Maj. Cohen
Hagerty
Heaton
Rawdin
Senate Committee Recommends $138 Million for Reclamation
The Senate Appropriations Committee backs $138.961 million in new reclamation funds for fiscal year starting July 1, including $13 million for the upper Colorado River project. It also favors Helena Valley unit and Yellowtail Dam funding while rejecting a 230 KV line from Fort Randall to Grand Island. Carryover funds totaling about $20.34 million would be available plus new appropriations.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Colorado River
House
Helena Valley
Missouri Basin
Mont
Reclamation Bureau
Fort Randall Dam
South Dakota
Grand Island
Neb
Dickinson
Missouri
North Dakota
Harriman Declares Candidacy for Democratic Presidential Nomination
New York Governor Averell Harriman proclaimed his active challenge for the Democratic nomination for president. He made the announcement as the party eyes a wide field and strategists gauge the race ahead.
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New York
Averell Harriman
Dulles Warns Bargain Counter Security Inadequate
Secretary of State Dulles warned Ames Iowa that Russia is shifting efforts to strengthen its military and urged Americans not to rely on bargain counter security. He cited a need to spend about 40 billion dollars annually on armed forces and foreign aid while living standards rise.
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Ames
Iowa
Dulles
Russia
United States
Iowa State College
Congress
Moscow
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Mother of Two Slain Boys Remarries in Quiet Ceremony
Mrs. Eleanor Schuessler, 38, whose sons John 13 Anton 11 and Robert Peterson 14 were beaten and strangled, wed Valentine Kujawa 37, a widower with two children, in a hushed St. Tarcissus ceremony attended by seven relatives. The murders remain unsolved.
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Chicago
Eleanor Schuessler
Valentine Kujawa
Kujawa
Nancy
Gary
Benson's Decision Hailed on Soil Bank Drought Aid
Senate leaders from both parties praised Agriculture Secretary Benson for authorizing soil bank payments this year for distress reductions caused by drought and other natural events. Ellender countered that the move undermines the program's core purpose, insisting the policy shifts toward political considerations and away from paid production cuts.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Ellender
D-La
Senate Agriculture Committee
Sen. Carlson
Bkan
Kansas
Midwest
Congress
Soil Bank
Sens
Kerr
D-Okla
Case
R-Sd
Mundt
Young
R-Nd
Princi
Beaver Dam
Wis
Agriculture Department
U N Evacuates Truce Teams From South Korea
The United Nations Command evacuated 16 neutral truce inspection teams from three South Korean ports to the demilitarized zone. The teams from Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Poland were airlifted northward without incident and were expected to return soon. Evacuation was ordered a week earlier amid accusations by Allies that Communists abused the inspection system to bolster North Korea's armed strength.
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Seoul
Korea
U.N. Command
Demilitarized Zone
South Korea
North Korea
Sixty Japanese Freed From Soviet Camps Arrive in Japan
In Maizuru Japan sixty former prisoners of war and two children arrived today after nearly eleven years in Soviet prison camps.
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Maizuru
Japan
Midwest Democrats Convene in Des Moines for Farm Policy Talk
Delegates from 13 states met in Des Moines to craft a farm plank for the Democratic national convention. Emissaries for Adlai Stevenson Kefauver and Harriman gathered with state chairs to gauge sentiment and hear speeches by leaders including Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma.
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Des Moines
Midwest
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Averall Harriman
New York
Jake More
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Ike Undergoes Operation and Recovery Outlook
President Eisenhower underwent an exploratory operation for an intestinal ailment with doctors reporting the heart is unaffected. A rapid recovery could keep his 1960 renomination on track, while prolonged illness might trigger a tense GOP scramble and potential picks by others if he steps aside.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Denver
White House
Sen. Knowland
California
Senate
Morale High, Hagerty Reports Ike Recovery
President Eisenhower is reportedly recovering from emergency abdominal surgery and is expected to resume duties without interruption. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said morale remains high as doctors treat a non cancerous ileitis related intestinal obstruction.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James Hagerty
Hagerty
Maj
Arthur Cohen
Cohen
Walter Reed General Army Hospital
James C. Hagerty
Walter Reed Horstal
Floor Collapse Kills Seventeen at Madrid Wedding
In Madrid a dance floor collapsed during an after wedding celebration, killing seventeen guests and injuring about thirty including the bride and groom. The two story building housed roughly one hundred attendees with injuries occurring as guests panicked while escaping the collapsing floor.
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Madrid
Spain
Troop Cutback Urged by Bulganin Proposal Rejected
Soviet Premier Bulganin proposed a disarmament plan including troop reductions. U.S. officials forecast a negative reply and warned that Soviet forces would withdraw from East Germany into Poland while Western forces in West Germany would return to the United States, weakening Western Europe. Bulganin also addressed Adenauer Eden and Mollet in letters outlining his position.
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Washington
Russia
Germany
Bulganin
Bulgarin
East Germany
Poland
America
West Germany
Europe
Atlantic
United States
Western
Adenauer
Eden
Guy Mollet
U. N
London
Playmates Die in Refrigerator in Wyoming Town
In Afton Wyoming five year old Arnold Adams and Steven Jackson died after playing near a vacant apartment. Their bodies were found by Steven's mother Mrs. Wayne Jackson and Policeman Gordon D Miller. Steven's father is a government civilian worker in Japan.
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Afton
Wyo
Arnold Lafayette Adams
Steven Jackson
Wayne Jackson
Steven
Gordon D. Miller
French Add Fresh Troops to Algerian Rebel Drives
French forces threw new units into two major offensives against Algerian nationalists. In the east near the Moroccan frontier, two infantry divisions and a motorized division moved into the fourth day of a coastal mop up with marines landed under air cover. In the west, motorized and Alpine divisions with Foreign Legion and colonial troops struck and routed a rebel band.
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Algiers
France
Crontiers
Mediterranean
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Robert L. Schulz
Panama
Murray Snyder
Snyder
Howard M. Snyder
Walter Reed
U.S
By John M. Hightower
Nikolai Bulganin
Moscow Radio
Konrad Adenauer
Britain
Stuart Foster
University of Iowa
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