Radar Warning Line Dedication at Point Barrow Alaska
The Radar Warning Line, part of America's distant early warning system, was dedicated at Point Barrow. Western Electric handed over the 3000 mile first line of defense to Brig. Gen. Stanley T. Wray, marking a milestone in transpolar air attack alert readiness. The project began in 1952 at MIT with a hush hush group of top scientists.
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Point Barrow
Alaska
Ens
America
Western Electric Co
Stanley T. Wray
U.S. Air Force Air Materiel Command
Electronic Defense Systems Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Air Force
Dewne
$25,000 Deal Rakeoff To Ex Labor Boss Told
Senate investigators accuse Anthony Doria ex labor secretary treasurer of AIW of receiving 25 66 from real estate man Spiros Kallas who bought and sold a union building for 115000. Doria defends actions while detailing efforts to boost Dio dodom locals and shielding funds amid control struggles. He also claims to have saved AIW 250000 in audit fees via a hidden iron box.
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Washington
INL
Senate
Anthony Doria
Milwaukee
Robert F. Kennedy
Spiros
Spike) Kallas
Allied Industrial Workers of America
Doria
AIW
New York
Johnny Did
ATW
Cleveland
Murder Trial Hears Girl Testify in San Diego Case
A nine-year-old girl testified in Superior Court that her father, Elmer Vorce, beat her six-year-old sister to death over a dispute about washing an egg cup. The San Diego milkman, 32, faces possible death penalty as the judge conducts the nonjury trial.
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San Diego
Superior Court
Hayward
Elmer Vorce
Jaime Vorce
Superior Go
Joe Shell
Mallow Sue
Shell
House OKs Work On Lorenzo Creek Flood Control
The House approved the public works appropriation including one million dollars for flood control work on San Lorenzo Creek. The bill moves to President Eisenhower for approval.
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Lorenzo Creek
Washington
House
San Lorenzo Creek
Eisenhower
Machinists Vote On New Contract Amid Bay Area Strike
San Francisco AFL machinists vote on a proposal to end a two day strike affecting about 12 000 workers in metal products plants. The plan offers immediate wage gains of 13 to 20 cents an hour plus 11 cents next year, a cost of living escalator in year two, and expanded holiday and vacation benefits. About 8 000 machinists are involved with another 4 000 idled by the dispute.
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San Francisco
AFL
San Francisco Bay Area
Fire Board Battles Planners Veto Over Castro Valley Site
Castro Valley Fire Commissioners clash with county planning staff over a proposed fire station across from Castro Valley School. President Paul Rhodes says the planning recommendation ignores long term needs and seeks to show Alameda County Supervisors the staff “blunder after blunder.” He cites possible conflict of interest involving trustee Evalyn Thomas and her husband John Thomas, a planning department member. The hearing followed a county courthouse session in Oakland and questions about site size frontage and land use.
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Bob Jones
Castro Valley
County Planning Commission
San Miguel Ave
Fire Commission
Paul Rhodes
Guarty
PTA
Rhodes
Fire Department
Alameda County
Evalyn Thomas
Castrol Valley Elementary Dist
John Thomas
Planning Commission
Oakland
Hre
Castro Valley School
Orca Street
Castro Valley Fire Commission
Bran Thompson
Thompson
Castro Valley Blvd
Lake Chabot Rd
Lake Chabot Rd., and A Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific
US protests Soviet sea bloc over Vladivostok waters
The State Department said the United States protested Moscow's move to seal off waters around the Vladivostok naval base. The Soviet decision to treat Peter the Great Bay as internal waters would revoke international status of a large sea area, spanning about 115 miles and reaching toward the North Korean border.
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State Department
United States
Vladivostok
Moscow
Foreign Ministry
Russia
Moskow
Russian Council of Ministers
Peter the Great Bay
Soviet Union
Pacific
Povoratny
Tyumen- Ula
North Korea
Reds Renamed Subway Station Amid Vote Turmoil
In Downey California a crowded city hall vote by the board of supervisors ended with a six to four decision to rename a subway station as tensions rose over a proposed 10 cent per mile taxicab fare increase. A 13 year old boy died in an earth cave in during the day, an accident linked to the city’s construction project. Local officials confirmed the death and the vote will be revisited next week.
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San Francisco
San Fran
Downey
Calif
INS
Board of Supervisors
SF Delays Action On Cab Fare Hike And Other Notes
The report notes delays in approving a taxi fare increase in San Francisco while recounting a fatal subway incident in Moscow near the Kagano vich Kremlin area. A 14 year old boy, Robert E. Young, died when a friend could not dig him from debris after a collapse. A new sign on Okhotni Road marks the former market site. Also mentioned is Lazar Kaganovich among Kremlin reshuffle notes as Schweitzer’s humanitarian status is referenced in a European shakeup context.
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Charles R. Williams
Downey
Mem- Moscow Ni
Chang
Kagano
Williams Vich
Robert E. Young
Kremlin
Mosshelp
Okhotni Road
Conakry
French West Africa
Lazar Kaganovich
Albert Schweitzer
Viet Union
Europe
Heart victim loses wallet to LA thief
Los Angeles reports a heart attack victim, Jack W. Gilliland, 58, collapsed near his car in a parking lot. A well-dressed man removed $80 from Gilliland’s side pocket after a feigned plea for help, then fled. An ambulance later took him to General Hospital.
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Los Angeles
Jack W. Gilliland
Gilliland
General Hospital
Nationalist China and Jordan Sign Diplomatic Pact
Nationalist China and Jordan announced a diplomatic relations pact, the second Middle Eastern agreement within two weeks as Beijing strengthens ties with non Communist nations. A similar accord was recently reached with Saudi Arabia.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Filml and Libel Trial Stirred by Dynamite Affidavits
In a Hollywood Superior Court libel case, witnesses testified that Confidential and Whispers used explosive affidavits from New York and Hollywood call girls to back scandal stories about Maureen O Hara and other movie figures. Ronnie Quillan described taking prostitute roles to feed the magazines, detailing their focus on lurid sexual activity and alleged actress homosexuality.
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Hollywood
Miss O'Hara
Superior
Ronnie Quillan
Miss Quillan
Harrison
Robert Harrison
Mita Quillan
Confidential
Gas Price War Crisis Parley in San Francisco
Directors of the San Francisco Petroleum Retailers Association called an emergency meeting to decide if the state should intervene in the gas price war. If approved, they will ask Attorney General Edmund G Brown to probe possible violations of the Fair Practices act. Operators cut prices below cost to edge others out, injuring small stations and forcing layoffs. Price cutting spread reached Southern Alameda County and markets north of Market Street with one chain lowering regular gas to 24.9 cents a gallon.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Petroleum, Retailers Association
Edmund G. Brown
Alameda County
East Bay
Tips On How To Keep Sanity Review Feature
The Daily Review begins a twelve part series with expert Ayal offering guidance to preserve mental health. The first article Stop Coddling Neurotics appears on page 7 and urges readers to avoid overprotecting anxious habits.
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Daily’ Review
Ayal
Oldsters Need For Living Area Stressed In LA
An official of the Los Angeles City Housing Authority says there is a crying need of older people for a decent place to live. Barbara Rossen, assistant executive director of the league, told a state interim committee in Los Angeles yesterday that every effort must be made to resolve this problem with an eye to private enterprise doing the job.
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Los Angeles
Soviet Troop Entry Feared Amid Lodz Bus Strike
Warsaw dispatch says thousands of textile workers joined a solidarity strike in Tomaszow near Lodz as Polish army and police reinforce the city. Troops were sent to Lodz to quell disturbances with strict rules to avoid provocation. violence reported earlier but not today.
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London
INS
Red
Lodz
Warsaw
Tomaszow
Polish Communist Party
Wiladyslaw Gomulka
Bacianowice
Rhodes Drives Controversy Over Hospital Fund Drive
Paul Rhodes accuses Eden Hospital of coercing employees to contribute to a cancer treatment machine fund. Hospital administrator Harry Blythe says the drive is voluntary with a $10,000 goal for 800 workers, though he notes no firm commitment. An auxiliary plans a drive to raise $43,200, selling $1 tickets for a sports car.
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Paul Rhodes
Eden Hospital
Harry Blythe
Blythe
Rhodes
Arab Tribes Rout Rebels
Arab tribes from nine royal Bedouin clans moved to reclaim rebel-held territory in Oman. Sultanate forces advanced from east and west, retaking much of the rebel heartland while two forts at Tanuf and Jabrin remained loyal flags. Loyal units linked at Birkat Ell-Mauz to reopen the Muscat Fahud road used for oil exploration access.
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Bahrein
Persian Gulf
Muscat
Oman
Af Oman
Tanuf
Jabrin
Nizwa
Army Draft Call Drops for October
The Defense Department issued a 7000-man draft call for October, the smallest since April 1958. September saw 8000 draftees and August 11,000, with April through July at about 13,000. The reductions follow Secretary Charles E. Wilson ordering a 100,000-man military trim by January 1.
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Nashington
Defense Dept
Army
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Jail Education Told to Judge
Patrick Duddleston, 19, asked the judge to consider five days in county jail as education while awaiting hearings on drunken driving charges. He complained the beds were hard the food poor the prisoners language filthy and towels and soap were unavailable.
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Chicago
Patrick Duddleson
Irunken
Duddleston
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