Seaway Seaway Blast Creates Lake Marks Major Waterway
A 30 ton dynamite blast at the St. Lawrence project released 290 billion gallons of water and completed the U S section of the $1 billion seaway and power plan. Gov. Harriman and Ontario Premier Frost witnessed the blast as a 500 foot dirt wall collapsed forming a 35 mile lake. The 360 mile waterway will open to deep draft ships next year with 2100000 horsepower from Barnhart Island and new locks and dams shared by New York and Ontario.
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Massena
N.Y
St. Lawrence Seaway
Averell Harriman
Leslie Frost
Ontario
New York
Vermont
North America
Barnhart Island
Canada
Grand Coulee
Washington
Barnhart
U.S
New York State
Fairfax State Savings Bank Report of Condition
Fairfax State Savings Bank of Fairfax Iowa reports assets cash balances and securities including United States Government obligations time deposits and reserves. Liabilities total 2 143 871 30 with capital accounts 338 392 14 and memos notes pledges.
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Fairfax State Savings Bank
Nogman
United States
Beneluca Pate
Cor
Post
Soeinas
Ates
Politi
Eisenhower Warns 600 Million Aid Cut Jeopardizes Policy
President Eisenhower told Republican congressional leaders that the 600 million dollar foreign aid cut approved by the House Appropriations Committee would endanger U.S. foreign policy. He urged restoration of a substantial portion of the cut at their weekly briefing.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House Appropriations Committee
U.S
House
Government Forces Hit Rebels Near Beirut Amid Clashes
Jet fighters and mortars pounded Druze-led rebels in hills near Beirut as government forces repelled an advance toward the city. Irregulars crowded into the hills while air power kept the airport briefly at risk. fighting continued through the night with several villages contested.
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Beirut
Beirut International
Ainab
Lebanon
Kamali Jumblatt
Jumblatt
Old cabin unearthed as wreckers clear Bong base site
In Kenosha county workers tearing down a house for the Richard Bong air force jet bomber base uncovered a hand hewn oak log cabin. The county board approved preserving the cabin as a monument to the pioneer past.
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Kenosha
Wis
Richard Bong
Kenorsha
Bowen Assembly Elects Navigator and Officers
Donald L. Ament was elected faithful navigator at a Bowen general assembly Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus meeting. Other new officers include Joseph Stephan faithful admiral Wesley Zeman faithful captain Victor M. Knight faithful pilot Lawrence L. Augustin faithful comptroller Herman Stecklein faithful purser Edward R. Kuba faithful scribe William Convey faithful inner sentinel and Louis C. Wieneke faithful outer sentinel.
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Donald L. Ament
Bowen General Assembly
Knights of Columbus
Joseph Stephan
Wesley Zeman
Victor M. Knight
Lawrence L. Augustin
Herman Stecklein
Edward R. Kuba
William Convey
Louis C. Wieneke
U A R Banning of Jews Is Reported
Paris AP The United Arab Republic forbids Jews who lived in Egypt or Syria to return according to Zachariah Shuster of the American Jewish Committee. He calls the decree the first wholesale anti Jewish act since Hitler and warns of a new nationality law empowering removal of citizenship for Zionists. He cites about 15 000 Jews in Egypt and 5 000 7 000 in Syria facing jeopardy amid 25 000 who left since 1956.
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Paris
United Arab Republic
American Jewish Committee
Zachariah Shuster
Hitler
Middle Eastern
Shuster
U.A.R
Cairo
Nasser
Egypt
Syria
Sinai
Israel
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