Survival city blast tests show masonry homes defy nuclear hit
In Surviva City Nevada a pair of one story flat-roofed masonry houses stood firm seven eighths of a mile from detonation while a brick and cinder home and a rambler were destroyed. A concrete bathroom shelter endured as the test shows survival depends on building type.
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Survival City
Nev
Doomsday Drive
Darling
Rambler
Harold L. Goodwin
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Goodwin
FCDA
Nationalists mine coast to deter invasion and block Red ports
Taipei reports the Nationalist defense ministry says it has mined the China coast to counter a Communist invasion risk. Defensive minefields near Matsu and Quemoy could close Amoy and Foochow to international shipping, while Communist artillery shells on Quemoy trigger aerial patrols. Separately, Chiang officials say they reject cease fire talks between the United States and Red China without Free China participation.
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Taipei
Nationalist Ministry of Defense
China
Matsu
Quemoy
Amoy
Foochow
Defense Ministry
INS
U. S
Free China
Red China
Leonard Simanek Killed in Highway Crash Near Cedar Rapids
Leonard Simanek 48 of 283 Twenty-fifth Ave SW died when his car rear collided with a steel slabs truck on highway 30 three miles east of Hunter airport. His wife Martha and son Robert 6 were injured. he was a brick foreman and WWII Seabee veteran.
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Cedar Rapids
Leonard Simanek
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Highway 30
Hunter Airport
Ashman
Simanek
Charles Fels
Linn
Robert Brosh
Bricklayers Union
Mother of Seven Dies in Smashup
In Albert Lea Minnesota a mother of seven and expectant of a eighth child was killed when a car she rode in left a highway and rolled over four times. Her husband and two children were injured in the crash.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Cruz Selazer
Rail Striker Slain Amid Wage Talks on Tennessee Highway
In Knoxville area a 22 year old Charles Wright was found shot dead beside a wrecked L and N truck near Mt Pleasant Tennessee as the Louisville and Nashville strike stalled with a shoot to kill order in the Southern Bell walkout. Four non striking workers were arrested for concealed weapons. R W Brindley of Nashville admitted firing Wright. The incident disrupted Washington mediation and intensified union and rail official acrimony.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Louisville and Nashville
Knoxville
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Charles E. Wright
Mt. Pleasant
Jack Lovett
R. W. Brindley
Wright
Washington
Aircraft Converts Between Helicopter And Plane In Flight
The Pentagon disclosed history’s first in flight conversion from helicopter to airplane and back. McDonnell’s XV1 convertiplane used an overhead rotor for vertical takeoff and, at height, shifted to a rear propeller for forward flight. Test pilot John R. Noll performed the transitions in flight and landing.
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Washington
Defense Department
Department
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
St. Louis
John R. Noll
Noll
Senate Unit Rejects the Highway Program
The Senate public works committee rejected President Eisenhower’s 10-year 101 billion highway plan by an 8-4 vote. Democrats push for direct federal appropriations while Republicans seek the administration’s bond scheme. A new funding formula shifts to 90 percent federal and 10 percent state contributions.
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Washington
INS
Senate Public Works Committee
Eisenhower
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Sen. Martin
R-Pa
April Jobs Set Record for Employed Peak
Washington reports April employment at 61.7 million, a record for the month and up 1.2 million from March. Unemployment fell by 200 thousand to 2.962 million as the commerce and labor departments note a second straight rise after six months of decline.
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Washington
Repciver
Commerce and Labor Departments
Reserve Funds For Guaranteed Pay Proposed By UAW
The United Auto Workers propose nearly 0.5 billion in reserve funds to finance a guaranteed annual wage at Ford and General Motors. Each fund would be built from 4 percent of base payroll over five years to reach about 20 percent of a year’s base payroll, with a cap of 8 percent liability for management. Walter Reuther announced the plan, marking its first cost estimate.
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Detroit
Ford
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
Bullington firm hired in Hillsboro prize bull crash suit
Name Fits Case Hillsboro Illinois The law firm Bullington and Bullington has been hired to handle a damages case for a prize bull injured in an automobile accident.
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Hillsboro, Ill
Bullington and Bullington
Nine Die In Skid Row Hotel Fire In Chicago
Fire swept the Comfort hotel at 919 West Madison Street killing nine men and injuring at least 12. About 77 slept in tiny cubicles. 55 escaped. Firefighters and patrolmen helped save dozens as flames trapped residents in corrugated iron cubicles.
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Chicago
Skid Row
Comfort Hotel
West
Madison Street
West Madison Street
Million-Dollar Job Stymied by Ducks on Nests
Chicago report describes two mallard hens nesting on an eastern dike of a Lake Michigan water filtration project. Foreman explains workers paused to avoid disturbing the birds. Phillip Connell, firm president, agrees and says plans will be adjusted to protect the nests.
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Chicago
Phillip Connell
Lake Michigan
Connell
Veterans Head for Moscow After Elbe Reunion
Nine former GIs who met Russians at the Elbe river ten years ago last month left for Paris by plane on Thursday and will head to Moscow for a reunion. They had postponed travel due to funds but covered the shortfall on a television quiz show.
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New York
Elbe River
Paris
Moscow
Windsor Duke Escapes Plane Mishap In Paris Landing
The Duke of Windsor and 44 passengers aboard a British airliner escaped injury when the undercarriage collapsed on landing in Paris following a flight from London.
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Paris
Duke of Windsor
London
Yanks Held In China To Get Parcels
Geneva AP reports 43 Americans imprisoned in Communist China will receive Red Cross parcels every two weeks under a formal agreement. Parcels of food clothing and medical supplies begin May 15 and are shipped from Tokyo and Travis AFB to Hong Kong for handover at the Chinese border. Families may send personal parcels but limits apply to weight and frequency.
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Geneva
China
Red Cross
James T. Nicholson
American Red Cross
Tokyo
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Hong Kong
Zemlicka Identified As Man Killed By Train
Anton Zemlicka 62 of 831 Fifteenth Street SE identified as the man killed when struck by a Rock Island freight train at Fourth Street and Tenth Avenue SE. Zemlicka, a longtime tailor and union member, died after being hit as the train passed. witnesses described the fatal sequence. He was born June 3, 1892 in Javorny Czechoslovakia and came to Cedar Rapids 42 years ago. Survived by wife Anna Petranek, son George L., daughter Mrs. Donald G. Hanson, sister Mrs. Louis Makovsky, and brother Frank. Services Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Burial in Czech National cemetery.
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Leonard Simanek
Bey Construction Company
Seabees
Eagles
Brick Masons Union
Hanford Post
American Legion
CSA
Martha’ Sedlacek Simanek
Robert Joe
Arthur M. Seabrooke
Alma Burns
Milo
Janeba
Anton Zemlicka
Fifteenth Street SE
Rock Island
Fourth Street
Tenth Avenue SE
Richard Pichart
Zemlick
Mr. Zemlicka
Hoyland
Zemlicka
Hall Clothiers
Tailors Union
AFL
Javorny
Czechoslovakia
Anna Petranek
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
ZCBJ
George L
Donald G. Hanson
Louis Makovsky
Ely
Frank
Zdenek F. Pauk
Barta-Hesser
Czech National Cemetery
Standards Review Delays New Polio Vaccine Approvals
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Leonard Scheele told Congress the government has halted new approvals for recently manufactured Salk polio vaccine while safety standards are reviewed. He said production continues, and vaccines already approved should be used. An advisory group is evaluating safety procedures and may require government testing of all vaccines.
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Michael J. O'Neill
Washington
LLP
Leonard A. Scheele
U.S
Scheele
Per
National Fu
Lendscturees
House Banking Committee
Spence
D-Ky
Public Health Service
Ian
Fire devours Hammond warehouse district. five million loss
In Hammond Indiana firemen battled a six story Great Lakes Warehouse Company facility with aerial pumps as damage topped five million dollars. Three die in a Whitley Products plant blaze in Columbia City Indiana, including a youngest victim Paul Walker who reentered to save others. Warehouse president Emil Fauer estimates three to four million in losses and another million in a nearby plant fire.
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Indianapolis
Hammond
Ind
Whitley Products
Columbia
City
Great Lakes Warehouse Company
Great Lakes
Tal Wn
Emil Fauer
American Chemical Service Company
India Receives First Salk Polio Vaccine Formula
NEW DELHI AP India becomes first country to obtain the Salk polio vaccine formula from the United States Ambassador John Sherman Cooper presented the formula on Thursday India was chosen because rhesus monkeys from the country contributed to U S vaccine research
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New Delhi
India
U. S
John Sherman Cooper
Severe Weather Warning Issued for Iowa and Wisconsin
Des Moines weather bureau warns of an instability line forming over central Minnesota and north western Iowa to intensify by 3 p.m. and travel east at about 30 mph with potential tornadoes and heavy storms. The region 50 miles either side of a line from Mason City to north of Madison is at risk from 3 to 10 p.m. including Cerro Gordo to Allamakee counties in Iowa.
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DES Moines
Des Moines Weather Bureau
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Maison City
Madison
Wis
Cerro ‘Gordo County
Allamakee County
Atom Ship Plan Faces Republican Opposition
President Eisenhower’s atomic powered merchant ship proposal drew early opposition from Rep. Cole and other committee members. Cole called it a waste of money and said he would introduce an alternative plan on Monday. Additional committee members showed skepticism toward the plan.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Rep. Cole
R-N. Y
Cole
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
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