Talbott resigns as Air Force chief amid ethics questions
Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott resigns, effective Aug. 13, after President Eisenhower accepts the move with praise for his service. The White House notes public inquiry into Talbott’s ties to a management engineering firm and defense contractors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Talbott
Washington
Air Force
Talbott
Eisenhower
White House
Shower
Senate
Talbots
Paul Mulligan
Talbou
Pentagon
Senate Investigations
Mulligan
Ohio
Leter
Harold
Wilson
Wisenhower
House
Small Business
Post Office Committee
Red China Frees 11 Yank Airmen as Parley Opens
Geneva August 1 Communist China announced the release of 11 American airmen held as spies for more than two years. The fliers will arrive in Hong Kong Thursday and the move opened private talks with the United States on easing Far East tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
China
United States
Peiping
Hong Kong
Red China
Far East
Peiping Radio
Wang Ping-nan
Poland
A. Alexis Johnson
Czechoslovakia
Chiang Kaishek
Formosa
Chiang
Red Court
North Korea
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Maj
H. J. Lewisburg
Eugene John Vandi
Clay
F. Llewellyn
Missoula
Montree
Wallace L. Brown
Banks
John W. Buck
Armathwaite
Enn
Howard W. Brown
St. Paul
Minn
Steven E. Kiba
A. 1
Akron
Ohio
Harry M. Benjamin Jr
Worthington
John W. Thompson
Washington
State Dulles
Wang
Johnson
Thayer Drive Officers Plan Meetings For Final Effort
Directors of the Area Development Corporation and the Industry Incorporated board will meet this morning to push the Thayer Campaign into its final phase. E. G. Otey, De President, said last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thayer Drive
The
Area Development Corporation
Board of Directors
Industry Incorporated
Thayer
E. G. Otey
Aid Laet Nieht
ADC
Otey
Walter M. Saunders
Evens Omar
J. A. Pruett
W. C. Witen
J. E. Mahood
Thelma McMullin
C. H. Mahood Sr
C. B. Woolwine
Cotton’s Drive In
Elmore and Morgan Electric Service
James L. Owen
Jean R. Brown
Bluestone Bedding Corp
James M.win Laboratory Inc
Judson Lambert
Bashler’s
Esso Servicenter
W. J. Jones
Elkhorn Valley Grocery
O. P. Proffitt, Jr
Zodie Graham
Dixon Testifies In Contract Probe And Angers Kefauver
Senator Kefauver targets Adolphe Wenzell as Dixon testifies that no First Boston or Wenzell officials sat in on Dixon Yates negotiations. Anderson seeks monthly agency reports on Dixon Yates cancellation and probes by Joint and Kefauver committees follow the Mississippi Valley Generating contract saga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edgar H. Dixon
Adolphe Wenzell
First Boston
Dixon-Yates
Middle South
Sen
Anderson
DNM
Dixon- Yates
White House
Atomic Energy Commission Justice Department and Budget Bureau
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Congress
Joint Committee
Kefauver Committee
Budget Bureau
Securities & Exchange Commission
Atomic Energy Commission
First Boston Corp
Senate Judiciary
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Mississippi Valley Generating Companies
Middle South Utilities, Inc
Southern Co
McCarthy Accuses Ike of Granting Goodwill to Russians
Senator McCarthy charges President Eisenhower offered friendship to tyrants and murderers at the Geneva Big Four meeting. He claims the administration adopted Democratic foreign policy planks and labels the move a scrap of the 1952 Republican platform while railing at Eisenhower’s ties to Marshal Zhukov.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Eisenhower
Geneva
D Eisenhower
Senate
Marshal Zhukov
Zhukov
Kremlin
Nation Endures Deluge of Heat Across States
Heat wave sweeps the nation with readings over 100 in Nebraska and South Dakota and 93 in Chicago. The Associated Press reports 44 deaths nationwide from the sizzling spell, with fatalities spread across Illinois Missouri and Nebraska. West Virginia faces its hottest stretch of the year as no relief is seen until midweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Associated Press
Plains
Mercury
Pierre
S. D
Burwell
Neb
Philip
Valentine
Illinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
Great Plains
Atlantic Ocean
U. S
Aerate i
Stinsburg
Huntington
Parkersburg
Charlacton
Morgantown
Wheeling
Elkins
Flat Top
Leroy Stone
Huntington Weather Bureau
Stone
North Carolina
South Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Georgia Board Forces Negro Teachers to Choose Resign NAACP or Licenses
The Georgia Board of Education offered Negro teachers until Sept. 15 to resign from the NAACP or lose teaching licenses as the state enforces segregation. A July move barred NAACP members or those who support mixed classes from holding licenses, with an oath option for those in allied groups. Critics call it suppression of free speech and thought control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesboro
Georgia Board of Education
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Georgia
NAACP
WAACP
Atlanta
Eugene Cook
Mercer County Constable Bivens Ordered to Weston Hospital
Doctors appointed by the Mercer County Criminal Court urged that 41 year old Constable Tom Bivens be sent to Weston state hospital for treatment of his physical ills and psychiatric observation. Judge Walter V. Ross will issue the order and Bivens will be moved from jail to Weston for several weeks of observation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer County Criminal Court
Tom Bivens
Walter V. Ross
Bivens
Mercer County
Weston
Mercer
Huntington
Coal Company
Flat Top National Bank
American Coal Company
McComas
Ross
Weston Hospital
L. J Pace
Daniel Hale
Nine Year Old Tommy Bivens Flown for Heart Operation
Little nine year old Tommy Bivens was flown to Nashville Tennessee for a major heart operation set for Wednesday morning. He is the son of Constable and Mrs. Tom Bivens and was accompanied by his mother. The operation was recommended by local physicians and funded by a community support fund. An unrelated arrest involving the father connected to a separate payroll theft case is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy Bivens
Nashville
Tenn
Tom Bivens
Fiat
Constable Bivens
Mercer
Yanks Celebrate Freedom as 11 Airmen Return Home
Families across the nation react with joy as 11 American airmen captured since January 12, 1953, during the Korean War are released. Letters and phone calls convey relief and prayers answered, with parents and spouses expressing happiness as the airmen near home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Neww York
Minnesota
Alabama
Harry Benjamin
St. Paul
Harry Benjamin Jr
Valentine
Benjamin
Charlene
Worthington
Minn
Orange
John W. Thompson II
Wallace L. Brown
Bobbie
Montgomery
Ala
Col
John Knox Arnold
May
Maj
William H. Baumer
Hurley L. Baumer
Lewisburg
John Buck
Davy Crockett lore explored by lawmaker and historians
Washington report traces Ren Clyde Doyle’s Congressional Record summary of Davy Crockett’s early actions and a 19th century view of his fame. It cites Crockett’s 1828 armory site study and 1830 West Point abolition proposal, with contemporary notes on his hero image and bears hunting anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Davy Crocker
Ren
Clyde Doyle
South Gait
Calif
House
Davy
Doyle
Library of Congress Legislaive Reference Bureau
Crockett
Big Shoal Creek
Big Buffalo
Lawrence County
Tenn
Andrew Derryberry
West Point
Korea Demands Communist withdrawal from key zones
Seoul reports a midnight government statement that the Republic of Korea will restore authority south of the 38th parallel and asks Communist forces to withdraw within a set time. It also calls for removal of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission and cites Kaesong Ongjin Peninsula and the Lower Han River area as regions to retake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
38Th Parallel
Syngman Rhee
Republic of Korea
Red
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
United Nations
ROKS
Kaesong
Ongjin Peninsula
Han Rise
Reads
Rhee
Mathieson Income Rises To 88 Cents Per Share
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp reports second quarter 1955 net income of $10,998,502 or 88 cents per share, up from $9,938,631 or 82 cents in the prior year quarter, marking a rise in earnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mathieson
New York
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Adjournment Efforts Of Congress Fail
Congress stalled on adjournment with House and Senate near midnight and resuming tomorrow. Key battles over housing and congressional expense funds continued, while some progress occurred on other items including farm price lending and defense production provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Sen
Fulbright
D-Ark
Youth recounts family tragedy after parents deaths
In Salisbury Maryland a 10 year old boy Bryan Samuel Fisher called police to report his father shot his mother Ellen Fisher and then killed himself. Officers found the mother dead from a shotgun wound and the father dead from a pistol shot. The child described the argument and the sequence leading to the deaths. The coroner ruled murder and suicide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
William J. Chatam
Bryan Samuel Fisher
Chesapeake Heights
Bryan
Chatham
Ellen Fisher
Walter
Early Roger
Carr
Maurider
Also Mentioned on This Page
Communist
Yank Airmen
Unit States
Dixon
Kefauver Target
Ihe
Jean Salis
Louis Bleriot
White Cliffs
Dover
England
English Channel
Salis
Calais
France
London
Md's
Burton
Griffith
Piedmont
Mercer County Bar
Walter Burton
Owen R. Griffith
Roscoe Pendleton
A. J. Latchliner
Ross Nnted T
Burton and Griffith
Davy Crockett
William Fitzgerald
Norman D. Burch
Fire Service
Burch
Mississippi
Bureh
Korea
U. N
Dad
State House
House Buckles
Mom
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!