Federal education aid plan approves space age science emphasis
Congress passes a 900 million four year program to fund student loans up to 1000 per year with lifetime limits, plus 420 million in state matching grants for science teaching equipment counseling and vocational education. Loans start after graduation with 3 percent interest. The bill, a compromise aligning house and senate versions, awaits presidential signature and appropriation. Iowa Senators Hickenlooper and Martin voted with the majority.
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Senate
Iowa
Hickenlooper
Martin
House
Eisenhower
Congress
Alabama Death Penalty For $1.95 Theft Spars NAACP Critique
In New York AP report, Jimmy Wilson, 55, a Negro handyman, faces execution in Perry County Alabama for a $1.95 robbery of Estelle Barker, a white 80 year old. NAACP official Dr. John Morsell calls the sentence barbaric and notes the group cannot aid due to Alabama’s ban on its activities there. The case, set for Sept. 5, includes a rehearing request awaiting decision. law allows capital punishment for robbery, and Wilson has prior larceny terms.
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New York
Alabama
NAACP
John Morsell
National Association For the ‘Advancement of Colored People
Jimmy Wilson
Perry County
Estelle Barker
Wilson
State Supreme Court
There's Reason for That Increasing Limp
San Francisco police found a lump of money in Tom Pandy's shoe explaining his morning limp. The 67 year old displayed more limp as the day wore on and $50 in bills and coins was found in his socks after two officers asked him to bare his feet. He was charged with making book on horse races and pleaded that he only cooks for friends.
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San Francisco
Tom Pandy
Pandy
Czech Geologists Open Oasis Oil Prospect in Yemen
A team from Czechoslovakia departed Cairo on Friday to explore potential oil in Yemen. They aim to assess geological formations and determine feasibility for future drilling and production.
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Cairo
Czechoslovakia
Yemen
Eldora Escapees Captured in Cedar Rapids
Two teenage escapees from the Eldora state boys training school were nabbed in northeast Cedar Rapids after a tip led police to the 1600 block of Route Avenue NE. A pursuit ended with the 17-year-old Grinnell boy detained quickly and the 16-year-old Cedar Rapids boy after a chase. Both were being questioned Saturday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Eldora
Grinnell
Rave
Debt Ceiling Boost Voted to Raise National Limit
Congress approved an 8 billion dollar increase in the national debt limit. The House sent the measure to President Eisenhower after approving a Senate change raising permanent debt authority from 275 to 283 billion and adding a 5 billion temporary rise through June 30. The new ceiling reaches 288 billion temporarily, the highest peacetime limit since 1945.
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Congress
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Hillbilly guitarist slips from East Germany to West
Frank Wilcox, a 23 year old Denver student seven foot two, hitchhiked out of Communist East Germany on a tractor while singing Mountain Dew. He played for crowds at a border restaurant and at the border, joked of starting a smuggling business, then obtained permission from West German customs only after strumming for officials. He plans to head to Russia with his guitar after touring through 12 Mediterranean and West European countries.
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Colorado
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Frank Wilcox
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Wilcox
West Berlin
Mediterranean
Russia
Chuckle About a Year of Marriage and Quarrel Jokes
A humor item notes a couple marks a year of marriage with a quip about disagreements. The wife jokes that when she is right her husband yields, and the punch line admits that being right never happens for the husband.
Post Office Speeds Up New York Area Mail Delivery
Newark reports a news release from Washington announcing speedup of mail delivery in the New York metropolitan area. The release is dated for use at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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Louis A. Reilly
Post Office Department
Washington
New York
Dwarf Grows Taller After Growth Hormone Treatment
An 11 year old dwarf girl in Madison showed height gain of over 3 inches in six months under human pituitary growth hormone therapy. Dr. C. H. Li of UC reports the record growth rate, noting prior use in Boston New York and Canada. The girl was treated after hospitalization and medical evaluation for dwarfism due to a childhood infection.
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Madison
University of California
Boston
New York
C. H. Li
Iowa Democrats Report Debts Not Shown In Funds
Iowa Democratic state central committee shows 500 cash but 5 000 debts not listed on financial report. Former chairman Jake More said he turned 500 over to Donald Norberg. Norberg later said party finances appear bare after More was deposed.
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Iowa
Democratic State Central Committee
Jake More
Central Committee
James Bradley
Cedar Rapids
More
Donald A. Norberg
Albia
Norberg
New Central Committee
Iown Secretary of State
State Central Committee
Des Moines Man Reoffends After Brief Freedom
James R. Armstrong, 33, of Des Moines, released from Anamosa re formatory last Saturday, was arrested in Cedar Rapids Friday on a Jones county warrant for false uttering of a check. He had six days of freedom, including a wedding in Jordan's Grove and hotel stays, and admitted passing counterfeit or bad checks in Anamosa and Cedar Rapids totaling thousands of dollars. Police say the Cedar Rapids checks were no account, and Armstrong claimed his wife knew nothing of the bad checks. He remains under scrutiny as prior records show long prison time since 1954.
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Cedar Rapids News
Des Moines
Anamosa
James R. Armstrong
Cedar Rapids
Jones County
Armstrong
Jordan's Grove
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Iowana
Citizens Savings Bank of
Astron device eyed to tame hydrogen fusion future
Greek scientist Dr. Nicholas Christofilos described a magnetic confinement device named the astron being built at the University of California Livermore H bomb lab. The plan aims to concentrate fields and speed electrons to ignite fusion like stellar heat, but would not yet produce fusion heat.
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Vancouver
B. C
Nicholas Christofilos
University of California
Livermore
Christofilos
Radiation Eee
Berkeley
America
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Brookhaven
N.Y
General Adams Survives Helicopter Crash Off Beirut
A helicopter carrying Major General Paul Adams, commander of American land forces in Lebanon, crashed into the sea five miles north of Beirut after a power failure. Adams escaped with minor injuries after swimming 75 feet to shore with his pilot Major Otto Huebner, who was uninjured.
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Paul Adams
Lebanon
Otto Huebner
Chicago
Huebner
Adams
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Skate Flight Isn't The First for Danes
Copenhagen authorities have long shown caution toward new vessels as the Skate faces harbor entry barriers. In 1819 harbor officials forced the Caledonia’s skipper to extinguish boiler fires before docking, a safety rule later dropped in 1824 when boiler explosion risk was deemed negligible.
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Copenhagen
U.S
Name Stands. First Christian Church to change ministers
Greenville Alabama AP report notes the First Christian church will change ministers on Sunday with the Rev. Paul Walker from Arcadia Texas succeeding the Rev. Paul Walker born in Falkville.
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Ala
First Christian Church
Paul Walker
Arcadia
Texas
Falkville
Dulles Warns Against Red China Seizure of Quemoy Matsu
The United States warns Red China not to seize Quemoy and Matsu, saying such a move would threaten regional peace. Secretary of State Dulles cites intensified Chinese military pressure near the offshore islands and notes U S support for Chiang Kai shek's Nationalist government while planning a brief vacation.
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