FAA Moves Toward Safer Landings With Glide Path Aid
The FAA proposes early installation of the RAE visual glide path indicator to guide pilots along the correct landing path and announces new national runway lighting standards. Costs vary by facility from about 1,500 dollars at small airports to 30,000 dollars for unlit runways, with La Guardia testing a system next summer.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Aviation Agency
Clarence Sayen
Air Line Pilots Assn
Congress
Civil Aeronautics Board
FAA
U. S
New York
Idlewild
U S Sends Medicine Aid to Niger Meningitis Outbreak
The United States rushes 6000 vials of penicillin and 250 kilograms of sulfadazine to Niger by air, per a state department update. Niger reports about 2000 active meningitis cases and roughly 400 deaths as aid from Niger Germany and France arrives.
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Washington
U.S
African Republic of
Niger
State Department
Germany
France
Department
Plans to Drain Polish Bunkers From WWII Network
War saw elaborate plans to drain a vast underground bunker system built by Nazi slave labor in Poland. Trybuna Ludu notes two main shelters 1 200 feet long each, located in Spain and Konewka, with flooded tunnels likely linking them. Flooding succeeded in 1945. postwar drainage attempts failed for lack of pumps.
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Warsaw
Hermann Goering
Trybuna Ludu
Poland
Spain
Konewka
Brazil Extends Friendship to Africa Nations
Rio de Janeiro reports President Janio Quadros widening Brazil's ties with Africa. He plans embassy talks in Dakar and independence ceremonies in Senegal, plus a scholarship program for African students. This reflects deepening cultural links as Brazil cites its African heritage and converts to broader diplomatic outreach.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Janio Quadros
Africa
Brazil
Werej
Senegal
Dakar
Europe
Quadros
Frugal innkeeper leaves big estate in Montlignon
Suzanne Papaut ran a small inn and lived frugally on bread and milk until her death at 73. Villagers learned she owned estates and hoarded gold coins worth over 200000 dollars. Her will leaves an estate to a deserving village girl and a bequest to the old vicar, with the French state receiving the rest.
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Montlignon
France
Suzanne Papaut
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