Polio Shots Start May 23 in Alameda County Plan
Alameda County launches a vaccination program for 20,000 first to fourth graders starting May 23. The plan uses Parke Davis Salk vaccine with four day sessions and a second shot three weeks later, aided by about 100 private physicians and county staff.
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Alameda County
Parke, Davis Company
Eastern Pharmaceutical ‘Firm
Parke, Davis
Constance Cavender
Miss Cavender
Alameda - Contra Costa Medical’ Association
Doom Town Nevada Bomb Test Shocks 300 Miles Away
A large atomic bomb blast at Doom Town Nevada produced a 35 000 ton explosive yield. The shock wave traveled 300 miles to Los Angeles as observers in News Nob trenches and civil defense units felt the tremor and saw a dust cloud rise over Yucca Flat. The fireball lit the sky in purple blue and red hues and the mushroom cloud split and drifted north. 3400 civil defense and military personnel, plus hundreds of observers, watched from trenches and vantage points near the test tower.
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Boom Town
Nev
INS
Doom Town
Nevada Desert
Los Angeles
Xucca
Jay
Alvin Graves
News Nob
Razor
Frances Gunn
Sixth Army
Bay Area Spelling Final Sponsors and Travel Prizes
Area spellers Wanda Hauser from Castro Valley and runner-up Wancy Thornburg from Centerville lead Alameda county finalists as they join Bay area champions to compete on KQED at 10 am. The San Francisco News sponsors the Bay Area Final with trips to Washington, D.C. for the winner. A full day of tours and a Chinatown banquet follow the televised program.
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Alameda County
Bay Free Counties
Wanda Hauser
Castro Valley
Wancy Thornburg
Centerville
Bay Area
Bay County
San Francisco News
California
Chinatown
Hayward Girl Struck By Car Causes Minor Injuries
Pamela Macy aged 3 of 23302 Victory drive Hayward suffered abrasions to left arm and right leg after dashed into street and collided with a car driven by Aller Leroy Gilling 25 of 23543 Thelma street Hayward. She was treated at Fairmont hospital and released to her parents. Gilling cited for speeding 33 mph in 23 mph zone.
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Pamela Macy
Victory Drive
Hayward
Pamela
Aller Leroy Gilling
Thelma Street
Fairmont Hospital
Robert T. Macy
Gilling
Variable cloudiness limits, cool days ahead
Weather bulletin notes variable high cloudiness today tonight and Friday with little change in temperature. Highs and overnight lows remain near yesterday's values as the outlook shifts to unsettled skies.
Reds Yield Two Points On Treaty In Vienna
In Vienna the Soviet Union dropped two contentious demands on the Austrian treaty, allowing more hopeful progress toward a final four power plan. The United States disclosed plans to withdraw occupation troops from Austria, outlining evacuation steps.
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Vienna
Soviet Union
U.S
Austria
Russia
U.S. Army
I, Ilyichev
Kremlin
Vyichev
Moscow
River Pollution Concerns Heard By State Board
The State Water Pollution Control Board heard a report from Contra Costa County on potential future contamination of the Sacramento River delta. Consultant Wo O Connell warned irrigation, sewage, ditch drainage, and industrial runoff could threaten the region and hinder Contra Costa's future industrial growth. The Southern Public Utility District of Contra Costa likewise expressed worry. Both reports were taken under advisement for an 80 day study.
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San Francisco
State Water Pollution Control Board
Contra Cosita
Sacramento River
Wo. O'Connell
East Bay
Contra Costa
O’connell
Southern Pub
Truck Strike In Western States Looms
In Los Angeles the prospect of a Western truckers strike grows bleaker as most company contracts expire and a 1 to 2 day idle period could begin after Sunday. AFL Teamsters report no negotiations and leaders hold strategy talks without promising timelines.
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Los Angeles
Irs
AFL Teamsters
Basf Angeles
Wade Sherrard
California Trucking Association
Teamsters
Central Conference of Teamsters
Midwest
Front Door Smoothies Prompt Police Warning
Hayward police warn residents to beware smooth talking door to door solicitors after a report by Mrs Dorothy Matthews of Subtlett drive who paid 25 dollars for photographs from a Los Angeles firm that never delivered. She described a persistent sales approach and a later nine portraits for 23 dollars paid by personal check. City records show the firm operated without a license and may face fraud and license violation charges.
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Hayward
Claude Marchand
Dorothy Matthews
Subtlett
Los Angeles
Mas
Matthews
LaBrea Avenue
Marchand
Compan
Better Business Bureau of
Metropolitan
Oakland
Bill Wansley
Los
Debris sighted in plane crash suspect held in murder
A Monterey man identified as Joe Bourbon, 30, is held for murder investigation at the Alameda County Sheriff's Washington sub station after being arrested in Decoto at 7 am. Police call him a logical suspect as Monterey deputies interview him in connection with a Monterey murder. Rescue planes report debris sighting and an oil slick but no signs of life from the KC-97 tanker crash near Ireland’s Atlantic coast while crews continue the search.
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Centerville
Monterey
Decoto
Washington
Alameda County
London
INS
Salina
Kas
310Th Air Refueling Squadron
Keflavik
Teeland
Smoky Hill Afb
West Germany Declares Freedom As Allies End Occupation
Bonn marks sovereign status ten years after Nazi surrender as Western Allies dissolve occupation. Paris Accords ratified by Britain France and the United States depositions seal the pact at Bonn. Brussels moves toward Western European union with a large force. Saar valley issue remains as constitutional court blocks socialist challenge.
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Bonn
West Germany
Reich
Germany
Allied
High Commission
Third Reich
Reims
France
Brussels
Constitutional Court
Hayward Man Held in Theft
A 36-year-old Hayward man, Stanley Tierney, is jailed on auto theft and psychiatric observation in Lake County. He allegedly hired Raymond Julian of Redwood City and cab driver J. Dooten to drive his car to the Bay Area, then forced them out and fled. Dooten returned to San Francisco unpaid. Julian rode a bus home after missing the $100 promised. Tierney was stopped at a roadblock and incarcerated.
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Lake County
Hayward
Stanley Tierney
Bay Area
Redwood City
San Francisco
Raymond Julian
Tierney
J. ‘Dooten
Middletown
Lower Lake
Dooten
Census Records Hayward Population Jump to 34 492
The Current Population report shows Hayward’s population rose 141.7 percent since April 1950, from 14,272 to 34,492 after a special census taken at the city’s request. Occupied dwelling units total 9,475 with an average 3.94 persons per unit, and the housing survey counted 34,219 dwelling units.
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Hayward
Hayward Union High School district loan for Castro Valley HS approved
Sacramento bulletin reports the State Allocations board approved a loan of 2,243,597.23 dollars to the Hayward Union High School district for Castro Valley High School construction, with the district adding 90,396.15 dollars from district funds.
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Sacramento
Hayward Union
Castro Valley
Huge Military Spending Plan Gets Approval
The House Appropriations Committee approved a military budget near 32.5 billion dollars for the next fiscal year with plans to cut Army and Navy strength, while allowing for rapid additional funding if world conditions worsen. The panel authorized about 41.5 billion for Armed Forces in 1956 from a 32.2 billion request, amid debate over manpower reductions and projected overall force adjustments through 1955.
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Washington
INS
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Fall during hike claims life at Alum Rock park
Victim identified as 16 year old Penny Earsh died in San Jose hospital from injuries after a fall while attempting to relimb an embankment in Alum Rock park. Attendants said she likely suffered a broken neck.
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San Jose
Penny Earsh
Alum Rock Park
Hayward Air Raid Alert Erupts In West False Alarm
Hayward missed a real four minute yellow alert as Civil Defense sirens statewide did not sound. State and Air Force officials described the event as a military emergency caused by lack of positive identification of several U.S. Air Force B 47 bombers inbound to the West coast on a training mission.
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Hayward
Stanley Pierson
Secramento
Air Force
Gton
West
Colorado Springs
Civil Defense Office
Civil Defense
4 Defense Command
Hammiltont Feld
Alameda County
Move to Oust Bao Dai Wins Council Vote
A nationwide Free Viet Nam convention voted to depose Bao Dai and back Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in a provisional government. Delegates supported the military junta’s republic plan despite warnings the country is not ready. The session, held in a theater on Gallieni Boulevard, cheered Gen. Nguyen Thanh Phuong who denounced the emperor.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Revolutionary Council
Bao Dai
Ngo Dinh Diem
Red
Ho Chi Minh
Gallieni
Nguyen Thanh Phuong
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