Fight over oil imports to frame reciprocal trade act
Senator Frank Carlson vowed a Senate fight to curb oil imports under the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act as the House debates extending the act. He supports limits on crude and oil products with possible mandatory controls if needed. The dispute centers on House amendments and administration opposition to a quota system.
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Washington
Frank Carlson
R-Kan
Senate
House
Carlson
Ways and Means Committee
Rep
Frank Ikard
D-Tex
Russell B. Brown
The
Independent Petroleum
French Deputy Sent to Algeria In Peace Move
Premier Pierre Pflimlin sent Jean-Louis Vigier to Algiers on a personal mission to reestablish contact with the insurgent junta. Vigier, a WWII Gaullist ally turned critic, travels to press for constitutional reforms while Algeria’s rebel group declares a de facto government. Pflimlin urged unity and warned against fracturing the nation as Algiers vows allegiance to De Gaulle.
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Paris
Pierre Pflimlin
Algeria
Jean-Louis Vigier
Charles de Gaulle
Gaullist
Algiers
Pflimlin
Vigier
Pierre Guillain de Benouville
Switzerland
Graf
Mediterranean
Grou
Committee of Public Safety
de Gaulle
Raoul Salan
Salan
Bear mauling injures 10 year old at Racine Zoo
A 300 pound female bear mauled the right arm of 10 year old Mary Heibner at Racine Zoo after she reached into the cage with 50 classmates from Waukegan. She underwent three hours of plastic surgery at St. Marys Hospital and remained in fair condition with further surgery possible. Mary is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Heibner.
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Racine
Wis
Racine Zoological Park
Waukegan
Mary Heibner
St. Mary's Hospital
Mary
Kenneth Heibner
City estimates boiler repair cost at 43000 after explosion
City Manager R. J. Hayes announced an estimated 43000 to replace the damaged boiler casing at the power plant following an explosion likely caused by natural gas buildup. Springfield Boiler Co. and insurers discussed coverage, with a three to four month repair timeline cited.
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R. J. Hayes
Springfield Boiler Co
Springfield
The
Boiler Company
W. A. Borland
Springfield Boiler
Hayes
Mild Cloudy Area Forecast for the Weekend
Partial clearing today with a cloudy night and Sunday, scattered thundershowers tonight, warmer this afternoon and cooler Sunday. Low tonight 55 to 45, high Sunday in the 70s. a mild cloudy weekend with possible scattered showers. Kansas forecast shows partial clearing east and west with widely scattered storms east and west today.
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Kansas
Traffic Crash Fatal Near Lawrence
A gasoline transport truck and a car collided near Lawrence killing 23 year old Robert D. Wood of Kansas City Kansas. Three others were seriously injured including a newlywed couple Airman Donald W Peacher and his wife Dixie Landis and Mary Allen all of Kansas City Kansas. The truck driver Frank Cook of Topeka escaped injury.
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Lawrence
Kan
Robert D. Wood
Kansas City
Donald W. Peacher
Mary Allen
Peacher
Forbes Air Force Base
Topeka
Dixie Landis
Webster
Miss Allen
Frank Cook
Radios Go Silent on Explorer I Satellite
The Army’s Explorer I has both transmitters silent as Naval Research Laboratory says tracking stations no longer receive signals from the second transmitter due to battery exhaustion. Explorer I, launched January 31, is expected to remain aloft for one to five years while Explorer III and Vanguard still orbit Earth.
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Washington
Army
U. S
Naval Research Laboratory
Navy
Vanguard
Farmers to Discuss Credit Union Meeting Set
A meeting for farmers to discuss forming a credit union is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Building. Aubrey Bostwick of 510 W. 5th reported the event with speaker Bob Eades from the Kansas Central Credit Union.
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Memorial Building
Aubrey Bostwick
W. 5Th
Bob Eades
Kansas Central Credit Union
Airman Surpasses Gravity Pull Revolutionary Test
Air Force Captain E L Beeding 29 endured a gravity pull of about 11 000 pounds at Holloman Air Force Missile Development Center Friday. The test reached 83 Gs, far surpassing the prior record of 40 Gs set by Lt Col John P Stapp in his rocket sled experiments.
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Alamogordo, N.M
Air Force
E.L. Beeding
Holloman Air Force Missile Development Center
John P. Stappin
Death Sentence For Starkweather In Murder Case
Lincoln Neb. Charles R Starkweather 19 was sentenced to death by electric chair after a jury found him guilty of murder in one of 11 killings. He offered to bet a psychiatrist a cigarette pack on an electrocution and his attorney plans a new trial as automatic Supreme Court review applies.
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Starkweather
Guy
Charles
Charlie
T. Clement Gaughan
Gaughan
State ‘Supreme Court
Robert Jensen
Bennet
Neb
Carl Ann Fugate
Youth Found Guilty Of Poisoning Nurse
Hubert M Fulkerson of Muskogee Oklahoma was found guilty by a circuit court jury of poisoning Nurse Louella Matthews at Park College health center in May 1957. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and released on a $10,000 bond awaiting a new trial motion by his lawyer A Camp Bonds after the change of venue from Platte County. The college is at Parkville Missouri near Kansas City.
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Savannah
Hubert M Fulkerson
Muskogee
Okla
Park College
Fulkerson
College Health Center
Louella Matthews
A. Camp Bonds
H. W. Fulkerson
Platte County
Parkville
Kansas City
Two Men Die in Oil Fire in Long Beach
Flames engulfed an oil facility in Signal Hill as an 80,000 gallon tank exploded on Thursday afternoon. Two men died and two were injured, while six firefighters suffered injuries and four with severe chemical burns as crews fought to control the blaze. Smoke stretched miles across Los Angeles County and eight of the refinery’s 21 tanks were saved.
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Long Beach
Calif
Signal
Hill
Los Angeles
Eisenhower proposes joint expert panel on nuclear test policing
President Eisenhower suggested to Premier Khrushchev that the United States and Soviet Union name scientific experts to Meet at Geneva within three weeks to discuss policing a nuclear test suspension. Western scientists from Britain France and possibly other nations would join. Russia could include Poland and Czechoslovakia if desired.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Russia
Geneva
Britain
France
Poland
Czechos
Lovakia
White House
State Department
U.S
Soviet Union
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California Radiation Laboratory
Jury Awards $490000 for Wifes Affection in Chicago Case
Chicago physician Dr Lester Odell won a $490,000 alienation of affections verdict from a seven woman five man jury. Dr Emerson McVey, Odell’s friend and former best man, did not defend. Odell testified McVey often accompanied his wife Elaine to venues. a blood test showed Odell not father to their child born April 5. Odell’s wife seeks divorce on cruelty and desertion. Odell counters adultery, naming McVey.
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Chicago
Lester Odell
Odell
Emerson McVey
Illinois
McVey
Sol Friedman
Dr. McVey
Reno
Nev
Elaine
Friedman
McCune Wins Putnam Scholarship at Kansas State College
Jerry McCune son of Mrs Nellie M McCune 903 S Lincoln earned a Putnam scholarship to Kansas State College. He was nominated by Howard Jester after strong school records and aptitude tests. The award pays 300 annually for four years and supports his engineering major while he participates in school activities including journalism yearbook band orchestra student council and golf.
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Jerry McCune
Nellie M. McCune
S. Lincoln
Putnam
Kansas State College
Howard Jester
McCune
Wounded bandit dies after bank hold up in Webb City
Howard M. Mote aged 49 of Joplin died a week after a bank hold up attempt in Webb City. He was shot in the stomach by Patrolman Howard McClain while using the bank president as a shield and carrying about seven thousand six hundred dollars. Mote had wartime heroism as an Air Force gunner and was a former prisoner of war. He had psychiatric treatment after the war and recently quit his job at the Joplin Globe.
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Webb City
Howard M. Mote
Joplin
Merchants and Miners Bank of
Mote
Howard McClain
The
Joplin Globe
Graham on TV sermon telecast faces funding delay
Billy Graham's nationally telecast sermon will go on as scheduled tonight despite funds lagging. Earlier reports indicated the broadcast had been canceled, but organizers say the program will proceed.
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San Francisco
Billy Graham
Landon voices doubts on severance tax plan
Former Gov Alf Landon said a state severance tax on oil and gas with refunds would be unworkable under the Constitution. He criticized Clyde Reed Jr.'s proposed amendment, noting lack of uniform tax rates, potential for unequal refunds, and the need for legislative classification instead of a constitutional fix.
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Topeka
Alf Landon
Reed
Lee Wasser
Landon
Legisla
Ture
Three Hurt In Accident Near Kimball County
Three persons hurt in a collision between a car and a pickup at a county road intersection about a mile east of Kimball at 6 15 p m yesterday. Victims identified as Earl J Vandervort Erie R 3 Mrs Owen Duling Walnut R 2 and Mrs Duling s son Jimmy about two years old. Vandervort suffered a fractured pelvis and internal injuries the baby a fractured skull and Mrs Duling multiple cuts and bruises all listed in good condition at Mercy Hospital Parsons. Mrs Daling and the baby were in the pickup traveling south Vandervort was alone in his car traveling east.
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Erie
Kimball
Jack Reynolds
Earl J. Vandervort
Erie R
Owen Duling
Walnut R
Sparks Receives KU Scholarship Hall Award
Mike Sparks son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Sparks of 508 S High lands has earned a University of Kansas Men's Scholarship Hall award. The selection cites high school academics and school community activities. He will join about 250 scholars and be assigned to a hall in a cooperative living program while majoring in journalism.
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Mike Sparks
Ralph Sparks
S. Highland
University of Kansas
Sparks
Manslaughter Charge In Whisky Death
Unemployed tannery worker Felmer James 42 is jailed in Buford Ga on involuntary manslaughter charges after his 10 year old son Ray died from whisky intoxication. A state crime lab report found 0.31 percent ethyl alcohol in the boy’s blood and authorities say the pair were found missing 28 hours after they were last seen. James denied giving his son whisky.
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Buford
G. R. Leak
Felmer James
Crime Laboratory
Ray James
James
Leah
Dan Cole
Widow's Money Drawer Near Empty
In Kansas City an elderly widow, Mrs. Mary Alice Nellist, may have about $11,000 missing from a money drawer kept unlocked. Five youths are accused of stealing. one, Delbert Vanderpool, 19, was arrested after police questioned his income. The guardian, Perrin McElroy, will decide whether to prosecute. The drawer was found to hold four cents yesterday.
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Kansas City
Perrin D. McElroy
Mary Alice Nellist
Delbert Max Vanderpool
UAW Ready to Ease Demands Amid Contract Talks
United Auto Workers leader Walter Reuther told 450000 workers at Ford GM and Chrysler that striking now would be insane due to a weak economy and 750000 unsold cars. The union offered day to day extension of current three year contracts ending May 29 for GM and June 1 for Ford and Chrysler. If extensions fail, workers may strike without a contract for the first time in the UAW’s history.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
UAW
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