Mexico Seeks Economic Climb in 1958 Amid Prospects
Mexico starts 1958 confident but wary after 1957 shows mixed gains. Bank of Mexico puts 1957 GNP near 8 billion dollars, flat with 1956, while exports drop 7.8 percent and metal prices fall. Pemex reports oil imports down due to domestic refining rise, and food stocks hit one million tons. Inflation surges, with 21 percent rise in basic food items and rents climbing.
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Bank of Mexico
Treasury
Antonio Carrillo Flores
Mexico
Gilberto Loyo
Petroleos Mexicanos
Pemex
United States
Import Export Bank
U.S
Eisenhower
Congress
Confederation of Mexican Workers
Six Get Prison Terms for Stock Selling Scheme
In Detroit, six New York men received prison terms ranging from six to eighteen months for a $300,000 stock selling scheme involving Canadian oil and uranium shares. The men worked as salesmen for T. M. Parker Inc. and Laurentian Securities Inc. and sourced shares via telephone from Montreal offices.
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Detroit
New York
George E. Woods
U.S
T. M. Parker, Inc
Laurentian Securities Inc
Montreal
Michigan
Securities and Exchange Commission
Sidney Barkley
Oscar A. Gould
Morris Miller
New York City
Frank Graber
Brooklyn
N.Y
Charles A. Rhine
Irving Shayne
Samuel J. Berger
Four Tots Perish In Burning Home
Four children of Mr and Mrs Rosaire Legault aged one to six died when a wooden home near Vaudreuil Quebec burned Saturday. The parents and two other children escaped in near zero weather as fire swept the residence.
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Montreal
Rosaire Legault
Vaudreuil
Indonesians Accuse West Of Threats Over Dutch Campaign
Jakarta reports Foreign Minister Subandrio says the Netherlands and other European nations threaten Indonesia with economic sanctions and possible military action over anti Dutch policies. He cites Dutch ships near Singapore and North Sumatra and NATO talks as a direct threat while Indonesia prepares for regional diplomacy to secure West New Guinea.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Subandrio
Netherlands
Singapore
Sumatra
NATO
Timor
Celebes
H. D. Manoppo
United States
Dutch West New Guinea
Asia
Africa
West
Sukarno
India
Egypt
Burma
Thailand
Japan
West New Guinea
Nehru
Nasser
Stockings Damaged Home In SantaTown Fire
Children's stockings hung to dry sparked a Saturday fire at the Ted Vernimont residence 1277 Hazel Drive NE. Fire officials say the stockings ignited pine boughs on the mantle, causing damage to the family room attic and roof with heat and smoke extending through most of the single story house. No damage estimate was immediately available.
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Ted Vernimont
Hazel Drive
Vernimont
Augustus John bids 80th with claim of fitness
London AP reports painter Augustus John celebrated his eightieth birthday on Saturday saying he is quite fit. The bearded artist chatted with reporters about his health and ongoing work.
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London
Augustus John
Mindreading Act Planned Over Phone by Wealthy Industrialist
Los Angeles based industrialist Jack Swimmer, a chemical manufacturer famed for political and sports prognostications, plans a long distance mindreading act over the telephone with a Japanese subject during the All-American-African conference in Tokyo. He aims to prove minds can be understood beyond language, recording messages in the incoming language for a world peace showcase.
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Los Angeles
INS
Jack Swimmer
Swimmer
Tokyo
Yoshitaka Horiuchi
Institute of International Affairs
Japan
Navy Copter Crashes on Ceylon Relief Run
U S Navy helicopter bringing ton of food to Falmunai Ceylon flooded area crash lands after landing and crowd rushes in Pilot Lt(jg) J M Brandau and two crewmen Lt W L Lamb and Sonarman 3/e W T Roberts escape with minor injuries and bruising.
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Navy
Ceylon
U.S.S. Princeton
U.S. Navy
Falmunai
J. M. Brandau
Mason City
Iowa
Brandan
W. L. Lamb
North Little Rock
Ark
W. T. Roberts
Buffalo
Wyo
Predictions and the limits of the psychic stock predictor
Swimmer says his forecasting relies on natural laws, psychology, statistics, and prestidigitation rather than supernatural powers. He notes requests range from stock tips to famous telephone numbers, but affirms no claim to real powers.
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Jayne Mansfield
FCC reports 1957 growth in telephone and TV reach
The FCC's 1957 fiscal year summary shows the U S telephone industry at 20 billion dollars gross with 6.5 billion in revenue and 60 million phones used for 220 million daily calls. TV and radio facilities expanded with 485 commercial TV stations and 44.5 million TV sets in use.
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Washington
INS
Federal Communications Commission
U.S
Congress
Western Union
FCC
Nowinski Plans Escape To Freedom For Family
Mrs Jerzy L Nowinski wife of a Polish scientist granted asylum in the United States said she and seven year old Kristina planned their escape to prevent the child from growing up under communism The family expects to join the husband in America soon with the couple citing desire for free education and non regimental schooling Kristina attends a British school while awaiting relocation and the Nowinskis hope to reunite in the United States at Johns Hopkins University where the husband works on heat stress materials.
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London
INS
U.S
Jerzy L. Nowinski
Kristina
America
Mrs. Nowinski
Clay to Speak at Des Moines Red Cross Conference
Gen. Lucius D. Clay will address a statewide Red Cross volunteers conference in Des Moines as part of the 1958 fund campaign. The one day event includes workshops on disaster preparedness first aid water safety and related topics with Eastern Iowa planning committee members named.
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Des Moines
Lucius D. Clay
American Red Cross
Red Cross
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Memphis
Tenn
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Houdini
Coney Island
Senetre TP Nena Ee
Scotland
Channel 9
Wallace Hullett
Lucius Clay
First Ave
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Helena Rubin
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