Vaccine Policy Split as Polio Immunization Is Suspended
Washington experts weigh the future of the Salk polio vaccine and advise suspending mass inoculations until a government report is published. Surgeon General Scheele orders a halt to school child vaccinations. Salk and O Connor participate in a closed-door briefing.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Leonard A. Scheele
Scheele
Jonas Salk
Basil O’connor
National Foundation For
Salk
O'Connor
Foundation
O’connor
Rope barrier at tomb irks honor guards
The 16 tomb sentries at the Unknown Soldier vigil protested rope barriers installed around the tomb to shield visitors. They say guards can handle harassment themselves and object to wearing brown leather gear instead of the traditional black.
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Washington
Ft. Myer
Medic Official Lists Donts
Chicago AP A top AMA official Dr Dwight H Murray urged the public to avoid hysteria as polio vaccination with Salk vaccine is clarified. He said cases are not epidemic and urged against vaccinating sick children, against condemning the vaccine, against expecting instant production or 100 percent effectiveness, and warned rumors of black market vaccines are false.
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Chicago
American Medical Association
Dwight H. Murray
Napa
Calif
Trustees
AMA
United States
Readlyn Girl Sustains Broken Arm In Road Crash Near Fairfax
A 19 year old Readlyn girl named Jackie Matthias suffered a broken right arm and facial lacerations after the car she rode in went off a gravel road two miles southeast of Fairfax. Driver James Neelans aged 19 from Waterloo had cuts and bruises. Both were treated at St Luke's hospital. Highway Patrolman Charles Fels said Neelans failed to stop at a dead end intersection.
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Cedar Rapids
Readlyn
Fairfax
Jackie Matthias
James Neelans
Waterloo
St. Luke’s Hospital
Charles Fels
Neelans
Hayes survives scooter crash by grabbing axle
Plattsburgh New York Floyd Hayes 21 told police he grabbed the front axle as his motorcycle collided with a truck and rode it under the vehicle to stop. He was treated at a hospital for leg and hand injuries.
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Plattsburgh
N.Y
Floyd Hayes
Hayes
Priest in China Letters Claim Brainwashing by Communists
Glendale mother alleges brainwashing of her son Rev. John Houle S. J. after eight years on the mainland. The letter from a Shanghai prison cites violations of the people's government laws and predicts a swift political trial progress.
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Glendale
Calif
Ins
China
John Houle
John’ Houle
S. J
Red China
People
Father Houle
Christ the King Church
Shanghai
Pieping
In memory notices and fund totals from Camp Good Health
A fragmented list shows memorial donations and tribute phrases for multiple individuals including mothers and family members. Amounts such as 854.14 and 1236.14 appear alongside varied notes from associations and nurses, with Chicago North Western Women's club contributing a noted sum.
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Chicago North Western Women’s Club
Plans to revive farm group exchange with Soviet union
United States officials studied new plans to trade agricultural missions with Russia after Moscow proposed sending only official Red farm experts to visit Iowa farms. Fingerprinting rules for foreign visitors stalled prior student editor exchanges, prompting renewed talks on reciprocal American visits to the Soviet Union.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Iowa
WVI
Reds
Tulsa executive Otto Dittmer dies in 12th floor plunge
Otto Dittmer 63, sales manager of Lee C. Moore Corp., was killed Saturday in a fall from his Tulsa office building's 12th floor. Police found no notes or messages explaining the death.
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Tulsa
Okla
INS
Otto Dittmer
Lee C. Moore Corp
CED Sees Heavy Tax Cut in 1956
The Committee for Economic Development urged a broad tax cut next year with emphasis on a general income tax reduction for all. It favored larger cuts for high income brackets to spur growth, with smaller reductions in corporation taxes and excise duties on liquor, tobacco, and autos. The report notes strong ties to the Eisenhower administration and anticipates a political fight over targeting low income brackets.
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Committee For Economic Development
Sor Research and Policy Committee
Frazar B. Wilde
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co
Hartford
J. Cameron Thomson
Northwest Bancorporation
Minneapo
Congress
CED
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
East German Leader Foresaw Soviet Bloc Alliance
East German Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl warned that a Soviet bloc military alliance to counter NATO would be formed in Warsaw this week. He said East Germany would be heavily rearmed as part of the plan, noting an estimated 100000 barracks police. The announcement followed Moscow’s Warsaw conference signals and marked the tenth anniversary of Germany’s World War II surrender.
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Berlin
East Germany
Otto Grotewohl
NATO
Warsaw
Moscow
Grotewohl
East Berlin
Germany
Car Wreck Kills James Dicks Near Corning
James Dicks age 23 of Corning was killed when the car he rode in went over a 20 foot embankment after striking loose gravel near Corning. Ralph Olson age 27 of Carbon drove the vehicle and suffered cuts and bruises.
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Corning
James Dicks
Here
Ralph Olson
Carbon
Teacher Rescued With Broken Back From Kentucky Cave
Angela Fancher, 43, principal of Center High School, was trapped about 20 feet below a Kentucky cave opening for over eight hours after an earthslide. A student escaped to summon help as three Mammoth Cave workers and Crystal Caverns staff aided the rescue about four hours later.
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Glasgow
Angela Fanei
Floyd Collins
Fancher
Center
Tommy Jeffries
Land
Mammoth Cave National Park
Crystal Caverns
Jeffries
Soviet Union annuls wartime friendship treaties
Moscow reports the presidium nullified the Anglo-Soviet and Franco-Soviet wartime treaties of friendship after Paris agreements ratified. The move aims to prevent militarism resurgence as Germany seeks rearmament and West Germany joins NATO.
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Moscow
INS
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Union
Germany
West Germany
Rodney Brodie improves slightly after grave brain bleed
Rodney Dee Brodie, the first Siamese twin to survive head separation, is slightly improved but still in grave condition after a brain hemorrhage. Doctors report he remains in a coma and is intravenously fed as nurses monitor changes at the University of Illinois hospital where he has fought for two and a half years since surgery.
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Chicago
INS
Rodney Dee Brodie
University of Illinois Education and Research Hospital
Rodney
Final Atom Blast Set for Monday
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that the 14th and final test of the current series will take place Monday at 5 05 a m weather permitting A weather briefing is planned Sunday morning to decide if the shot atop the 500 foot tower will occur as scheduled.
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Las Vegas
Nev
INS
Atomic Energy Commission
City Dog Talk Surges as Cedar Rapids Weighs Ordinance
Citizens flood Cedar Rapids City Hall with letters cards and petitions backing and opposing a proposed dog control plan. The measure would require all dogs to be licensed and restrict dogs to homes April through September with impounding for loose animals.
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Cedar Rapids
U. S. Still Backs Diem In Viet Nam
An INS report cites John Foster Dulles declining to meet Bao Dai while the U S backs Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. MacMillan and Faure discussed Indo China without agreement and a new meeting was planned. The U S favors a republic in the Indo Chinese state if supported by the people. Diem asked France to withdraw expeditionary forces from Viet Nam.
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Paris
INS
U. S
John Foster Dulles
South Viet Nam
Bao Dai
Dulles
France
Viet Nam
Harold MacMillan
Edgar Faure
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
Faure
MacMillan
Diem
Postal Pay Raise Seems Assured with Uncertain Amount
About 500000 postal workers are promised a pay raise this year though the exact amount is unsettled. Chairman Tom Murray says if President Eisenhower vetoes the 8.8 percent bill, he will push a 7.6 percent alternative. The lower figure could be rushed through, with the President pledged to sign, as the House acts Monday on the compromise between chambers.
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Washington
Tom Murray
D-Tenn
House Post Office Committee
Eisenhower
White House
Murray
House
Senate
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