New York Post Returns With 96 Page First Edition
New York City greeted the first major daily in 87 days as the 96 page New York Post rolled off the presses at 8 am and was routed to newsstands citywide. Commuters rushed to buy copies while some resellers offered inflated prices. distribution aimed to reach Hudson Terminal Grand Central and other transit hubs.
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New York
UPI
New
Grand Central Station
Bertram Powers
Printers Union
Post
Robert Gray
Dorothy Schiff
Gray
Winter Mix Hits Iowa With Snow Rain Clashes
Snow and rain spread across Iowa on Monday making for a mixed winter and early spring feel. Northwest Iowa saw the heaviest snow while most areas had light flurries before the night ended. Sibley logged 4.14 inches, Spencer 3 inches, Sioux City 1 inch, and thunderstorms unsettled southern and eastern counties. The highway commission warned 80 to 100 percent snow packing northwest of a line through Onawa and Osage. U.S. 34 was closed east of Albia by high water. Cedar Creek near Bussey rose toward flood stage, river rises followed the melt, and the Middle River at Indianola stood at 14 feet. Minor rises occurred on the lower Des Moines, with Ottumwa up two feet and Des Moines up 1.6 feet. Osceola had 1.30 inches of rain and Albia 0.93.
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Iowa
Sibley
Spencer
Sioux City
Des Moines
Skunk
Cedar Rivers
Middle River
Indianola
Ottumwa
Missionary and Filipino Executed by Viet Cong Firing Squad
An American missionary Elwood Jacobsen of Foreston Minnesota and Gaspar Alfonso Paqueban Mikil of Salcedo Ilocos Sur were executed by a communist firing squad north of Saigon in view of their wives and children. Two of the Filipino's young sons were wounded but not seriously. Wives and other children survived. the two men were brought to Saigon for burial or custody.
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Saigon
Philippines
Here
Elwood Jacobsen
Foreston
Minn
Gaspar Alfonso Paqueban
Mikil
Salcedo
Ilocos Sur
Fines Totaling 132 000 Levied On Brass Firms
Eight brass companies were fined a total of 132 000 in U S district court for price fixing. Fines ranged from 6 000 to 25 000 with amounts based on business volume. Judge Blumenfeld noted the penalties would not be augmented by civil suits and questioned how to measure homeowner impact.
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Hartford, Conn
U.S. District Court
M. Joseph Blumenfeld
Phelps Dodge Copper Products
New York
Revere Copper and Brass, Inc
Cerro Corp
Eisenhower Returns to Palm Desert After Mexico Trip
Former President Eisenhower is back at his winter home in Palm Desert California after a two week hunting and fishing trip to Mexico.
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Palm Desert
Calif
Eisenhower
Mexico
Arkansas Geologist Calls Tremors Beneficial Then Warns of Shock
An Arkansas geologist says Sunday tremors across six states are desirable as relief for crust stresses. Norman Williams, Arkansas Geological and Conservation Commission, notes shocks prevent a major quake yet admits the shaking startled worshippers in Dexter and Sikeston Missouri with plaster cracking and items rattling from shelves. The tremors, centered on the New Madrid fault, were recorded in Missouri and across Arkansas, Kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois with some noting a freight train or jet plane sound.
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Likeston
Norman Williams
Arkansas Geological and Conservation Commission
Little Rock
Christian Church
Dexter
Sikeston
New Madrid
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
St. Louis University
University of Kansas
University of Arkansas
James Peoples
Memphis
Huntingdon
McKenzie
Life on Mars Would Be Marginal Says Life on Mars Would Be Marginal
Preston McGraw reports that life on Mars would be marginal with current science, outlining challenges for detection and suggesting conditions for potential habitability remain uncertain. The piece weighs barren landscapes against possible subsurface environments.
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Mars
China Press Attacks Khrushchev in Red Flag Essay
The Chinese daily Red Flag denounces those who fear the U.S. as a paper tiger and criticizes Khrushchev for Cuba crisis handling. The piece targets reformists and capitulationists while asserting revolutionary resolve. A separate Mars probe report notes water vapor and carbon dioxide detected but life feasibility remains uncertain.
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Tokyo
China
Mao Tze-tung
U.S
Khrushchev
Palestine
Texas
UPI
Mars
Red Planet
Pulaski
Tenn
Red Flag
Cuba
Gold Smuggling Ring Brought Goods Into Japan
Tokyo based finance ministry reports that last year smuggling operations moved roughly 400000 dollars worth of gold and narcotics into Japan. The findings pinpoint illicit trade networks and the scale of contraband entering the country.
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Tokyo
Japan
Finance Ministry
Navy Sailors Looted Treasury With Red Checks Scheme
Two sailors fled Japan for the United States and began a spending spree using blank U S treasury checks valued up to fifty million dollars. Seaman William Snell of Des Plaines Illinois and Seaman Milford Newsom of Denison Texas were arrested in Denison after attempting to swap a red sports car for a fancier model. Police say they carried two thousand blank checks and had two thousand more at a Sherman Texas rooming house. They face possible charges of AWOL and postal theft.
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Dallas
UPS
U.S. Treasury
Japan
U. S
Treasury
William Alfred Snell
Des Plaines
Ill
Appren
Milford Newsom
Denison
Texas
Snell
Navy
Washington
Paul Borum
Borum
Naval
Sherman
Newsom
Europe
Chicago
Johnny Anerfusser
Clyde Moore
Amish Fines Hit 10 Dads Over School Attendance
Special to The Gazette reports county authorities began charging 10 Amish fathers for each day their children attend no accredited school. Fines start at $20 daily with $20 per day liability to property if unpaid. Nine fathers already faced $20 fines plus costs. a tenth will join with age seven son.
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Independence
Buchanan
Hazleston
Sheriff’s Office
Hazleton
Supreme Court backs railroads on featherbedding ruling
The Supreme Court ruled railroads may eliminate featherbedding practices after routine steps, affecting five union brotherhoods who warned of a strike. The unsigned opinion upheld the 7th Circuit finding that the parties exhausted Railway Labor Act procedures and left negotiations to play out.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
High Court
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Gonhead
Railway Labor Act
Arthur Goldberg
Justice Department
White Motor Co
Cleveland
Nicholas Stirone
Allegheny County
Louis Wagner
Order of Railway
Kennedy
Searches Resume for Three Buried in Avalanche
In Ouray Colorado a snowslide buried a minister and his two daughters in a car on Read Mountain Pass. A second potential slide threatened rescuers as a 40 man team resumed efforts despite attempts to trigger further slides with howitzers. The car was swept into a gorge about 100 feet below and covered by at least 100 feet of snow.
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Ouray
Colo
UPI
Colorado Highway Department
Read Mountain Pass
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