Eisenhower urges new federal aviation agency to prevent midair collisions
President Eisenhower asked Congress to create a unified federal aviation agency absorbing the Civil Aeronautics Administration. He cited recent midair crashes, including a Maryland collision that killed a dozen, and urged swift enactment with an administrator and deputy appointed by the President.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Federal Aviation Agency
Senate
Sen
A. S
Mike) Monroney
D-Okla
White House
Civil Aeronautics Administration
United States
Maryland
Pace of Filings Slows in State
In St Paul AP reports filings slowed in the Secretary of State office with only two candidates in the first two hours on Friday the 13th. Walter E Day of Bagley sought re election to the House from the 65th District and Harold S Nelson of Owatonna sought re election to the Senate from the 16th District. Later filings included Gene A Taddei Jordan for the Mth District senate seat, State Sen Joseph Wadheim Ty ler for re election from the 12th District Harland D Rowberg Hanley Falls for the 13th District Senate, Leo T Fay Cloquet for the 54th District Senate, State Sen Norman Larson Ada for re election from the 64th District and William P Lines Milaca for the 55th District House seat.
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Walter E. Day
Bagley
Harold S. Nelson
Owatonna
Senate
Harland D. Rowberg
Hanley Falls
J. A. Josefson
Mineola
Leo T. Fay
Cloquet
Norman Hanson
Cromwell
Norman Larson
Ada
William P. Lines
Milaca
Senate OKs 10 Percent Pay Raise for Civil Service
The Senate approved a compromise bill granting a 10 percent pay raise to about 1,021,000 civil service and related employees. The measure, costing about 542 million annually and retroactive to January 1, also creates 599 new super-grade positions and covers Congress, federal courts, foreign service, Atomic Energy Commission, and Veterans Administration medical staff. Postal workers already received a 10 percent raise.
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Washington
Senate
House
Olin D. Johnston
D-Sc
Ralph Yarborough
D-Tex
Civil Service
Congress
Federal Courts
Foreign Service
Atomic Energy Commission
Veterans Administration Medical Service
Rural patron mail route carried by wife during husband’s recovery
LeRoy Minnesota reports Mrs. Roger Fister now runs her husband Roger Fister’s rural mail route while he recovers from heart surgery at University of Minnesota Hospitals. She covers about 65 miles daily to deliver to roughly 200 patrons, learning the route from him before taking the wheel.
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University of Minnesota Hospitals
Minneapolis
Fister
Roger
LeRoy
Harold F. Otto
St. Paul
Roger Fister
le Roy
Lowa
Bulganin's Serious Operation Reported by Khrushchev
Khrushchev said Bulganin underwent a serious operation but is expected to return to work in about a week. He denied reports of political downgrades for Malenkov Suslov or Bulganin and Malenkov’s status as alive. Malenkov named director of a power station in eastern Kazakhstan after Kremlin posting loss.
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Moscow
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Bulganin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Mikhail A. Suslov
Malenkov
Kazakhstan
Kremlin
Soviet State Bank
Rose Creek Burglars Hit Liquor Store In Break-In
Burglars smashed the Rose Creek Municipal Liquor store front window to gain entry and fled through a side door with an unknown liquor and cigarette haul. Sheriff Al Reinartz and Deputy C. H. Halsten son investigate, inventory pending. Deputies also probe eight hogs stolen from a farm six miles north of Grand Meadow and an attempted break-in at Schwartz's mercantile in Racine.
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Rose Creek
al Reinartz
Reinartz
C. H. Halstenson
Grand Meadow
Fred Everts
Schwartz's Mercantile
Racine
U S Mechanic Who Stole Bomber Is Killed in Crash
In Huntingdon England an American Air Force mechanic stole an obsolete Tornado light bomber from Alconbury and crashed to his death ten minutes after a separate collision between a US jet trainer and a RAF Canberra bomber killed two Americans and two Britons.
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U.S
Huntingdon
England
Britain
U. S. Air Force
U. S
Alconbury
Air Force
Royal Air Force
FHA Plans Experiment to Speed Up Minnesota Loans
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey says the Federal Housing Administration will test a new process in Minnesota to accelerate FHA home loans. Complaints about slow procedures came from contractors in Waterville and Rochester, Minnesota.
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FHA
Humphrey
Washington
Federal Housing Administration
Minnesota
Sen
Bert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Waterville
Rochester
Weather and FHA program plan noted in Minnesota report
The piece reports public readings at the Herald Weather Site with a 52 degree eight thirty reading and partly cloudy conditions. It also covers Senator Humphrey conveying FHA Commissioner Mason announcing a Certified Agency Program to test in Minnesota and nearby states with banks acting as certified agents for appraisals and inspections.
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U. S
Herald
Humphrey
FHA
Norman Mason
Minnesota
Waterville
Rochester
Mason
North
South Dakota
Charred B47 Wreckage Found In Vermont Crash
ENOSBURG Vermont AP searchers found the charred wreckage of a B47 Stratojet. Its four crewmen were dead after the plane disappeared Wednesday night on a flight from Savannah Georgia to Plattsburgh New York.
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Enosburg, Vt
Savannah
Plattsburgh
N.Y
Montevideo Man Killed in Car Crash
A Montevideo man, Richard K. Goodmund, 34, died when his car overturned near Osage, nine miles west of Park Rapids, late Thursday night. The coroner said he died at the scene from a broken neck, pushing Minnesota’s traffic toll to 264 for the year.
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Montevideo
Park Rapids
Minn
Osage
Here
Richard K. Goodmund
Minnesota
Strike by 46 engineers delays liner United States
New York AP reports a strike by 46 engineers halted the liner United States for eight hours on Thursday, stopping crew and passengers and prompting delay management.
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New York
United States
Harriman Attacks Faubus as Quisling at Little Rock
Governor Averell Harriman condemned Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus calling him a quisling during ceremonies honoring the nine Negro students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock. He cited Faubus's failure to act in the public interest and compared him to Vidkun Quisling.
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New York
Averell Harriman
Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Quisling
Little Rock
Central
Faubus
Lynch
Harriman
White House says Eisenhower won’t fire Adams amid inquiry
President Eisenhower will not oust Sherman Adams despite House investigators focusing on Adams relations with Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine. The White House and press secretary Hagerty rejected questions about gifts and possible pressure, while Adams defended himself in a letter to the subcommittee and said the charges were unfounded.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
House
James C. Hagerty
Adams
Bernard Goldfine
Goldfine
Peter F. Mack Jr
D-Ill
Hagerty
Boston
Hower
Morgan Moulder
D-Mo
Plymouth
Mass
Mayflower
Boston Hotel
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Securities and Commission and
Federal Trade Commission
Harris
SEC
FTC
Mack
Senate Debates Over Labor Control Bill Tacks On Amendments
Senate debate on the labor control bill included 44 new amendments mostly from Republicans and Eisenhower proposals. McClellan warned against overloading the bill, while Kennedy defended the measure and predicted future rejection of restrictive amendments.
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Senate
Washington
John K. McClellan
D-Ark
Sen
H. Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Eisenhower
Burglar Steals from Bemidji State College Safe
A burglar entered Bemidji State College by a basement window and cracked the second floor business office safe with a crowbar, taking about 1000 dollars from cash in the safe. The thief left chalk white footprints and ignored checks, with prior thefts at the same safe noted as unresolved.
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Bemidji, Minn
Bemidji State College
Lovesick Airman Flees in Yellow Cessna 120
A lovesick airman Donald Keeton 19 of Dallas fled in a rented yellow Cessna 120 with black trim from Gulfport to northern Louisiana. Authorities pursued him with air and ground units as friends and family described his distress and intent to die in the air. No trace of the plane was found after searches in Bienville and Red River parishes.
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Alexandria
Louisiana
Texas
Donald Keeton
Dallas
Tex
Keesler Afb
Biloxi
Miss
Monroe
Gulfport
Annabelle Keeser
Keesler
Bienville
Red River Parishes
Shreveport
Train Derails Near Albany in Minnesota Freight Crash
A 100 car Great Northern freight train derailed near Albany Minnesota at 3 45 am. Twenty three cars jumped the tracks near the depot. Most cars carried grain bound for the Twin Cities from Winnipeg. No injuries reported and lines rerouted via Fargo and Willmar as officials estimate restoration takes hours.
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Albany
GNR
Winnipeg
Girl Elected Head of 4-H Federation
Joanne Thomas of Lakeville, 18, was elected president of the Minnesota 4-H Club Federation at a leadership conference held Thursday at University Farm in St. Paul. The new president will lead statewide 4-H activities and programs.
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ST. Paul
Joanne Thomas
Lakeville
Minnesota 4-H Club Federation
University Farm
Russia says United States must deal with East Germany
Bonn AP The Russians declared the United States must negotiate with Communist East Germany to recover nine American Army men and their helicopter that wandered into the Soviet satellite. They said the return is not within Soviet forces competence. The case follows Dulles remarks denying any recognition of East Germany. The helicopter disappeared in a Saturday thunderstorm.
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Bonn
Germany
United States
East Germany
U. S
Dulles
Bids Sought for Fort Snelling Mines Lab in Minnesota
The Interior Department announced bids will be opened July 9 in Minneapolis for a $1,719,000 Bureau of Mines research laboratory to be constructed at Fort Snelling.
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Washington
Interior Department
Minneapolis
Bureau of Mines Research Laboratory
Fort Snelling
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