Ike's Japan Visit Contested Yet Proceeding Says White House
The White House affirmed that President Eisenhower’s planned June trip to Japan remains on despite Leftist protests and safety concerns. Secretary Herter supported the plan, while Sen. Fulbright voiced lingering misgivings. The First Lady's hospitalization prevents her accompanying him.
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Japan
White House
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Fulbright
Lisenhower
Nobusuke Kishi
Anne Wheaton
James C. Hagerty
Manila
Barbara
John Eisenhower
Korea
Philippines
Formosa
Pacific
Gas fumes used in death of Charleston man
Kanawha County Coroner Geff Lilly ruled Bascomb L. Herold death an act of self harm. The 4 year old Charleston man placed a plastic bag over his head with a hose connected to a gas heater, police were summoned by neighbors who smelled gas. He had been ill for years and was on vacation from the State Department of Em Security.
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Kanawha County
Geff Lilly
Bascomb L. Herold
State Department of Em- Security
Ily
Herold
Northfork Elects Mayor and Council in Bond Vote
Northfork voters chose Cecil B. Moore Jr. for mayor in a contest with Robert Anderson while approving a 150000 Welch bond issue to finance the Welch Loop project. The town council seats went to Moore supporters as the Independent Party defeated the People’s Party in key races.
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Northfork
Welch
McDowell County
Cecil B. Moore
Town Recorder
Independent Party
Name Price
Nethvoning
Robert Anderson
People’s Party
Fred J. Murphy
William C. Parnell
J. J. Gillia
Paul Miller
Booker Thomas
B. F. Howard
Welch Loop
Loop
Howard
Meyer Bell
Californias light primary tests Nixon and Brown
Californias light turnout in the Tuesday primary leaves Nixon poised to take all 70 Republican convention votes from California and adds 36 more from a South Dakota primary and a Connecticut GOP convention. Brown, denying presidential aims, is expected to win one Democratic convention delegate. New York and Hartford delegates loom as Insurgent Democrats challenge Tammany tied to DeSapio.
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Richard M. Nixon
Edmund G. Brown
South Dakota
Connecticut
Brown
New
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
Tammany
Idaho
Mississippi
Montana
Associated Press
West Virginia
Kennedy
Los Angeles
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Adlai E. Stevenson
Hartford
Edwin H. May Jr
Nixon
Chicago
California
Cuban Refineries Balk at Soviet Crude Order
Two U S petroleum firms Standard Oil New Jersey and Texaco told the Cuban Petroleum Institute they will not refine Soviet crude as ordered. A third refinery, British Shell, reportedly sent a similar letter. No comment was available from the companies or Cuba. The institute had said on May 27 that Standard Oil New Jersey Texaco and British Shell each were allotted 300 000 tons of Soviet crude to refine this year.
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U.S
Cuba
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Texaco
Cuban Petroleum Institute
British Shell
Standard of New Jersey
Spurrier Hearing Slated Thursday In Deputy Sheriff Shooting
James Ira Spurrier, 60, a railroad engineer and father of a Medal of Honor recipient, has a preliminary hearing set Thursday morning in Lebanon Virginia for the fatal shooting of a Russell County deputy sheriff.
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Lebanon
James Ira Spurrier
Russell County
Jet and Helicopter Crash At Patuxent Kills Four
At Patuxent Naval Air Station a Navy jet collided with an Air Force helicopter killing four people. The helicopter had just arrived from Langley AFB to assist in a prior crash. The jet, an F8U Crusader, failed on takeoff from a hydraulic catapult and struck the grounded helicopter. One jet pilot survived with injuries. The bomber crashed into a wooded area near Great Mills High School, sparking fires and scattering wreckage.
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Patuxent, Md
Air Force
Patuxent Naval Air Station
Navy
Langley Air Force Base
Operations Department
Next N
FSA
Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Louisville
Patuxent
Leslie Cox
Vienna
Florida Clue To Be Checked In Missing Engineer Case
Mrs. Frank F. Stringham traveled to Bastion Virginia to interview Frank Kidd the last person known to see her husband a week earlier Kidd described their conversation and a ride from East River Mountain to Bastion on June 1 Stringham had recent ties to Cape Canaveral and a missile installation Kidd warned Stringham may head for Cape Canaveral or Live Oak Florida Authorities have issued a 12 state alert and Florida police will be notified to watch for Stringham.
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Frank F. Stringham
Bastion
Frank Kidd
Stringham
Kidd
East River Mt
Bastian Abot
Cape Canaveral
Flamie
Live Oak
Fla
Sourcen
Blue
Virgina
North
South Carola
Florida
Disaster Averted In Subway Blaze At Grand Central
A subway fire under Grand Central Terminal disrupted Lexington Avenue trains Tuesday trapping thousands in smoke. Transit Authority officials reported a prior warning by an inspector about fire hazards at a contractor site. Large disaster response units converged at 42nd Street and Park Avenue as passengers evacuated and authorities investigated the incident.
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New York
Lexington Avenue
Grand Central Terminal
Transit Authority
Eisenhower Visits Wife at Walter Reed Hospital
President Eisenhower visited his wife at Walter Reed Army Hospital Tuesday afternoon. The First Lady has been undergoing asthma treatment there since early in the week. This marked the President's first hospital visit since Saturday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Radiation release reported after Bomarc launch fire in New Jersey
Air Force says radiation no danger to public after a Bomarc missile launching hull caught fire at an air base in New Jersey. Traffic was halted on nearby roads and state police warned of an atomic event as Defense Department experts assessed readings around 14 parts per million and the Ft. Dix training area was briefly cleared.
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Air Porce
Air Force
Here
Washington
Ai Tor & In
Reiger
Defense Department
Wolger
Senate defense bill boosts military funds in postwar mood
A Senate appropriations subcommittee added over 600 million dollars to the defense budget with further increases likely. The panel restored 298 million for a conventional carrier program, a victory for the Navy, while House action nudged the bill to about 90.3 million dollars above Eisenhower’s request.
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Defense
Washington
Senate
Howe
Senate Appropriations Group
Navy
Charleston Students Paint Huntington Sign Change
Charleston students unveiled a new Huntington city limit sign reading Welcome to Huntington West Virginia's Second Largest City The Charleston Daily Mail cites reliable authority that the change was made by the Charleston Mundeot Billboard Painting Commission during a Saturday night visit The revision follows early results showing Charleston nearing Huntington as the state's largest city with 82 054 to 12 s
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Charleston
Huntington City
Huntington
West Virginia
Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Mundeot
Ronald Reagan Quits Screen Actors Guild
Ronald Reagan resigns as president of the Screen Actors Guild on Tuesday. He will shift from acting to pursuing production work and joining the ranks of producers.
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Ronald Reagan
Screen Actors Guild
Hollywood
Producers
Walkout Over Atlas Missile Bases Strikes Spur Taft Hartley Push
In San Diego 425 Convair workers joined a two day strike raising pressure as the IAM seeks a 1 cent hourly wage rise and better benefits. A Cape Canaveral denial followed as Atlas launch sites at five Air Force bases faced disruption and a meeting between IAM and Convair was set for 3 pm.
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San Diego
Calif
Convair Division
General Dynamics
International Assa of Machinists
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
E. Marvin Sconyers
Convair
Washington
John Stennis
D-Miss
Senate
Atlas
Soviet Disarm Plan Presented At Geneva
The Soviet Union formalized a three stage disarmament proposal at the Geneva conference, calling for 12 to 38 months to complete certain measures and giving American forces 13 months to leave Europe. Valerian Zorin urged urgency and italics, while Western sources viewed the opening phase as unacceptable.
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Geneva
Europe
Valerian Zorin
Paris
Booth Brothers to Be Arraigned in Bank Holdup Case
Alexandria VA federal court set for arraignment of John H Booth Jr and William C Booth on charges tied to the May 31 Hamilton bank holdup. Judge Albert V Bryan appoints A Carter Whitehead as counsel.
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Tarewell
Hamilton
Albert V. Bryan
A. Carter Whitehead
John Hao
William C. Booth
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