Ike Asks Lifting Of Iron Curtain
Geneva dispatch reports President Eisenhower pressing for removal of travel and information barriers between the United States and the Soviet Union. Aimed at smoother peaceful trade, the plan calls for a secret session and a push to lower obstacles to mutual understanding, with emphasis on people to meet and exchange goods.
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Geneva
States
Rus
Sion
T. M. Molotov
V. Polite
Legation
Mir
Eisenhower
Foggy Note From Weather Office Hints Coastal Fog
Two notes slipped under the door this morning from the weather service warn of variable cloudiness and scattered thunderstorms in the Sierras. The forecast promises fair conditions today and into Saturday near the coast, with fog inland and near the coast.
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Weathermen
Sierras
Teac
Opposition Rises to Alameda County Assessment Hike
Alameda County supervisors push back against the State Board of Equalization plan to raise local assessments about 25 percent of market value. Hearings before the board in Sacramento begin Monday with Assessor Horstmann and Deputy Brothers seeking to limit increases and protect county interests amid questions on how to value utilities and achieve fair school funding distribution.
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Board of Supervisors
Horstmann
Oo. Brothers
Board
Sacramento
Alameda County
Brothers
Equalization Board
Francis
Dunn
Caxwell L. Pierce
County Board of Supervisors
Pierce
Yeda
Gunn
Alamed County
Unanimous River Bill Approval for Trinity Project
A Senate Interior subcommittee endorsed a 295 million Trinity River project in California with no opposition. The panel plans to send the measure to the full committee next Tuesday as it advances toward House approval and Senate passage.
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Washington
Senate Interior
Trinity
Postinverne Eee River
California
Centon P. Anderson
D-N.m
Manor Boy Eight Dies in Louisiana Vehicle Crash
In Mittie Louisiana an eight year old Washington Manor boy Hubert Fonceca Jr known as Butchie died when a pickup driven by his mother Mrs Hubert Fonceca overturned after hitting a road hole. Mrs Fonceca was hospitalized and her daughter Penny age 4 suffered a broken shoulder others Joey Patsy and Dean were nothurt Father Hubert Fonceca flew to Louisiana to be with family after the tragedy.
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Washington Manor
Mittie
Hubert Fonceca
Butchie
Devonshire Avenue
Fonceca
Sou Gmail
California
Louisiana
Big Freeway Contract Awarded In Eastshore Project
Sacramento reports a multi million dollar airland to pay bridge contract for the Eastshore freeway unit linking Oakland to San Jose. The top deck will carry four eastbound lanes, the middle deck four parking and local traffic roads, completing the Oakland to San Jose connection from Hayward to Beard Road and on toward Warm Springs. Washington debate centers on a 1.6 billion federal Sanford construction bill with hopes to move it to floor debate. Border floods hit El Paso and Juarez with 11 thousand displaced and at least one death amid property losses. several missing residents reported.
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Sacramento
Eastshore
EL Paso
Ins
Juarez
Mexico
State Share Of Road Funds Breaks Down By State
A House Public Works committee member released a breakdown of federal and state funds for interstate highway construction under a $48.59 billion annual program. California’s allotment totals about $2.613 billion with $2.396 billion from federal sources and $217 million from the state.
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Washington
House Public Works Committee
Myron
George
Kans
California
Forest Fire Threatens Los Alamos Plant
Firefighters from over 30 units battled a forest blaze near the Los Alamos Atomic Energy Commission research center. Winds fanned the flames, expanding a 30 acre area overnight as lookouts spotted the blaze near Bandelier National Monument.
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Los Alamos
N.M
INS
Atomic Energy’ Commission Research Center
Bandelier
National Monument
Soviet Lure to Defectors Campaign Grows in West
Soviet attraction of defectors shows growing reach from a formal Come Home drive backed by East Bloc states. Refugee camps in West Germany host about 300,000 people as campaigns expand to Western Europe and North America. Negotiations promise pardons and reintegration in socialist projects, while refugees face dilemma between hostile home fronts and uncertain Western lives.
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Charles M. McCann
Soviet Russia
Russia
Berlin
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
West Germany
Europe
United States
Canada
New York
Washington
Red
Rosmanis
Red Government
Hunarian National Council
York City
Germany
Cone
Stalin
Iron Curtain
Kremlin
Abbotts face murder case in Stephine Bryan death
Alameda county district attorney announced a murder case charging Burton Abbot for the abduction and killing of 14 year old Stephanie Bryan. Police continued to seek the fatal weapon as investigators probed a shallow Trinity county grave near the Abbott cabin and notes demanding ransom are linked to the case. The Bryan family, shaken by the death, awaits grand jury action while public inquiries unfold.
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Berkeley
William Robertson
R. T. Sherry
Trinity County
Stephanie Bryan
Burrton W. Abbot
University of California
Abbett
Alameda
Abbott
Burton W
Bean
Charles’ Bry
Undersheritk
Frerk Coakley
Leonard Adams
Steph
Wilke
Nny
Stephanie
Trinity Country
Californi
Inia
Thels
Jeabin
Wildwood
Coakley
Pepe Cox
Ynott
Mark Abbott
Ott
Cox
Béron Bates
Charles S. Bryan
Bryans
George Loquyart
Cody
Redding
Loquae
Bryan
Trinity
13 Year Old Alameda Girl Still Missing
Alameda police seek 13 year old Karen Boyington who disappeared May 22 after swimming with friends at Washington Park Alameda. Her sister Virginia aided detectives in Berkeley where clothing was found, but not hers. Reports place Karen in Alameda sightings and a Hayward market in June.
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Karen Boyington
Alameda
Hayward
Karen
Robert C. Boyington
Seneca Drive
Hillview Crest
Washington Park
Virginia
Berkeley
Tank Farm Hill
50Th Avenue
East 14Th Street
Hayward Market
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D-Ga
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