Khrushchev Postpones Planned Visit to Scandinavia
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev defers his August tour of Sweden Denmark and Finland due to an anti Soviet campaign fueled by Swedish press and political leaders. Stockholm Oslo and Helsinki governments announce the postponement noting no Finland visit this trip.
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Youth Is Charged With Mad Dog Slaying In Missouri
Quaker Missouri authorities announce 19 year old John Crump will face a first degree murder warrant for the attack that killed 17 year old Bobbie Lou Shipp and wounded Ella Jo Barr and Yallie Barr after a plot to steal a car. His 14 year old accomplice John Edward Davis faces delinquency charges.
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Family Rescued After Desert Ordeal Near Moab Utah
Diane Scott nine and her family of seven were stranded for two days in southeastern Utah near Dead Horse Point after car trouble. They subsisted on minimal water and salmon eggs, burying themselves in sand to escape the sun, until two fliers found them and guided rescuers. Despite severe thirst, all survived with relief and prayers.
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Fires Plague West Coast Fires Plague West Coast
Fires scorched more than 30 000 acres across Oregon and 1 000 acres in central Oregon timberlands while others burned 2 500 acres on the Warm Springs Reservation. Lightning started many blazes, winds up to 15 mph threatened spread, with no homes lost or injuries reported. Fire crews battled in Oregon California and Colorado as rain aided efforts.
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Drowning Ruse Halts Sasanoa River Helicopter Search
A helicopter search of the Sasanoa river waters failed to find signs of missing skindiver Robert McDonald aged 34 of Farmingdale who disappeared Saturday night while attempting to recover a boat motor. He was with relatives at the time.
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Iraq clashes persist in oil region amid mutiny and casualties
Beirut reports say Kassem regime claims to have crushed a pro Red revolt and army mutiny in Iraq's northern oil fields, while Cairo and Damascus dispatches indicate heavy fighting with hundreds dead. Kirkuk saw clashes between local forces and Communist demonstrators. mutiny followed, bridges blown, officials dragged. Further violence reported in Baghdad, tracing to Kassems aides.
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Effort On To Conclude Steel Strike
Top mediator Joseph P. Finnegan and aides resumed private talks with basic steel industry negotiators in New York as a strike spreads. A Union session was set for the afternoon. Nationwide shutdown nears 90 percent capacity with $214 million in lost output and half a million workers losing pay. About 40,000 related workers have been furloughed as Eisenhower urges a swift settlement.
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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Western plan advances at Geneva for German unity talks
West proposes a continuing Geneva foreign ministers conference with East and West German advisers to negotiate a German peace settlement. Christian Herter delivers Western compromise after rejecting Andrei Gromyko’s all German committee idea. The proposal keeps big power responsibility for unification and a peace treaty and increases contacts between West and East Germany.
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Violence hunts in Lyons target Algerian cell
Police scour the dim alleys of Lyons to root out agents of an Algerian nationalist cell planning to blow up city nerve centers. The rebel headquarters was destroyed on Sunday.
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Clauson Studies School Bus Issue Amid August Session Talk
Gov. Clauson left for Caribou without a decision on a possible special legislative session to consider a permissive act for public bus service to parochial schoolchildren. The Maine Supreme Court earlier ruled no existing law authorizes such service. Mayors urge action as pressure grows from local leaders and communities already providing service.
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Veteran Actress Natalie Wood Turns Twenty One In Hollywood Bash
Hollywood AP reports Natalie Wood, a film star for 17 years, turned 21 with a star-studded birthday party at Romanoff’s. More than 100 notables including Spencer Tracy and Jack L. Warner attended Frank Sinatra’s late night bash, ending at 5 am. Wagner presented a diamond necklace. She resumes work on Cash Me Call with James Garner, part of a $2 million multi picture deal with Warner Bros.
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Dartmouth historian Wayne Stevens dies at 67
Hanover New Hampshire professor Wayne E Stevens of Dartmouth College died at his home after a long illness He was 67 years old The death was reported from Hanover NH and follows a lengthy tenure in the history department with a notable teaching record.
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Dartmouth College
Vocabulary of a Mean Yet Adequate Student Chuckle
A light quip credits a student’s limited yet sufficient vocabulary. The line, attributed to a Chuckle Professor of English, teases the student’s word choice as sharp but sparse. Copyright notice accompanies the joke.
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Banks Sponsor Swim Class At Royal Ambassador Pool
Three local banks will sponsor the Biddeford Red Cross swimming program at Ocean Park from August 3 to 14. Chairman David Bradford announced the plan to revive a course previously cancelled for lack of funds. Mrs Myra Van Fleet and Mrs Howard Shaffer will teach, with eligibility for Biddeford Lyman and Dayton residents and registration details to be released.
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