Sharp Rise in Bomb Shelter Demand Reported
AP reports a surge in interest and sales in bomb shelters after Kennedy warning of a worsening world situation and renewed Berlin tensions. Builders like The Wonder Building Corp report orders for 25 community shelters and rising basement fallout shelters, with material sales around 13 million dollars last year.
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AP Business News
Sam Dawson
NEW York
Asia
Berlin
Kennedy
United States
Wonder Building Corp
Chileas
Ily
Former Professor To Head Air Force ROTC
Col. William C. Lindley, formerly an air science professor at Baylor University and East Texas State College, will take command of the National Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps program in Montgomery. He begins on September 10.
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Montgomery
Ala
William C. Lindley
Baylor University
East Texas State College
National Air Force Reserve ‘Officers’ Training Corps
Radio pigeons and space doughnuts reshape future Navy tech
Scientists for the Office of Naval Research describe tiny radio beacons carried by pigeons to track birds over long distances and hint at adding self-contained devices to unmanned platforms. The piece also notes plans to attach radios to marine animals and envisions inflatable space stations or doughnut shaped orbiting capsules.
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Office of Naval Research
Philadelphia
American Electronic Laboratories
Navy
Associated Press
Sci
Rolle
National Science Foundation
New York City
Hiroshima
Dallas Integration Moves Forward Across Eight Dallas Schools
Eight Dallas elementary schools entered a second day of integrated classes after peacefully removing segregation barriers. Eighteen Negro first-graders joined the previously all white schools with typical routines, while Houston and Galveston also expanded integration with several new enrollees. Dallas Superintendent Dr. W. T. White voiced optimism, calling it genuine integration, in contrast to outspoken protests from the White Citizens Council president Lloyd S. Riddle who condemned the change as unconstitutional.
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W. T. White
Dallas
Galveston
Houston
John W. McFarland
McFarland
Anthony Massey
Massey
White
Japan asks reconsideration of U S nuclear tests plan
Tokyo urged the United States to rethink resuming underground and laboratory nuclear tests after the Soviet Union announced a return to testing. Foreign Minister Kosaka conveyed Japan’s regret over Kennedy's decision, while stressing safeguards against radioactive fallout. Protests arose nationwide as Tokyo filed a formal protest and urged Washington to reconsider.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Gentaro Kosaka
U. S
Edwin D. Reischauer
Washington
Kosaka
Papan
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Oil and Gas Group Files Tax Statement in Houston
The Mid Continent Oil and Gas Association filed with the Internal Revenue Service to challenge tax treatment for ABC Company transactions. D L Connelly of Houston, association president, said the decision prompts the IRS to maintain its prior tax handling of these dealings. Weddings last for seven days.
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Houston
APS
Mid Continent Oil & Gas Association
Internal Revenue Commissioner
ABC Company
D. L. Connelly
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