Jordan premier resigns as new government formed
Cairo reports a government shakeup in Jordan after Premier Samir Rifai resigned and was replaced by Wazi Mejat. Diplomats fear civil strife, rising Communist influence, and potential Israeli reaction if the Reds gain power, warning Jordan's fragile position in the Middle East could worsen.
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Cairo
UPI
Jordan
Israel
Samir Rifai
Wazi Mejat
Middle East
Rifai
Wasnein
Iraq
Nine Named To Welfare Racket Quiz In Alameda County
Nine candidates were named to a proposed five dollar member citizens committee by the Alameda County Board at Su perglscois Francis Dunn of Hayward. The panel includes local officials and residents from Newark Livermore Oakland and Alameda. The committee will study state welfare legislation and address loopholes in the current program flagged by County Administrator Earl Strathman.
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Ala- Meda
Yesterdny
County
Superglscois
Francis Dunn
Hayward
Washington
Talision
Kent Pursel
Berkeley
Kester Stanley
City
Leonard Lucio
Tal Locust
George E. McDonald
Fairview Ave
Alameda
Leland Sweeney
Emanuel P. Razele
Roderick M. Iverson
Oakland
Alameda County Taxpayers’ Assn
Gus ‘Thaler
Hollis St
Emeryville
Atl
Euries Dell
State Assn
Boards of Supervisors
Pwogram
Earl Strathman
Oak Ridge voters approve incorporation of city
Oak Ridge, Tenn. residents celebrated the creation of a municipal government after a Tuesday referendum. The incorporation vote totaled a decisive margin, marking the birth of the city’s new government and its governance separate from surrounding areas.
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Oan Ridge
Tenn
UPD
Oak Ridge
Sunset High College Lease Action Set For Trustees
A lease to establish a temporary state college campus at Sunset High School is ready for consideration by Hayward Union High School District trustees tonight. Dr. Dale Wren prepared the lease based on a plan from Supt. L. R. Rarom and delivered it yesterday to Assistant Supt. Carl Ekood. The board is expected to act at 7:30 pm, with a 7:30 pm premeeting briefing. Trustees will also review a proposed teachers’ salary schedule and hear a report on yesterday’s Mt Eden High School groundbreaking ceremony. The new $314 million project at Calaroga and Panama is scheduled to open in September 1960 for 1800 students.
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Sunset High School
Hayward Union High School Dist
Dale Wren
Wren
HUHSD
L. R. Rarom
Carl Ekood
Mhoos
Elmhurst
Hayward
Mt Eden High School
Charles Deadvich
Hock LaFleche
Floyd Alaway
Mt. Eden Jlaigh
Tobert Sprague
Calaroga
Panama Sts
Eden Nurses Talks Stymied in First Round
Eden Hospital nurses failed to reach agreement in the first round of wage contract talks. United Employers attorney Jon Cantwell reported the board was willing to sign a contract matching Eden with Oakland and Berkeley nurses, while California State Nurses Assn reps argued district act allows no cross-boundary comparisons. The nurses demand a higher salary scale and fringe benefits, and new sessions are expected soon.
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Eden Hospital
Jon Cantwell
United Employers
Eden
Oakland
Berkeley
California Sale Nurses Assn
Eden Township
PTA Opens State Meet in Los Angeles
The 60th annual state Parent Teachers Association convention opened in Los Angeles with USC professor Myron Olson urging education tailored to individual needs. Delegates heard a keynote on avoiding a cold war mindset and were urged to oppose crime programs on television. The board favored bills before the Legislature to curb sales of obscure publications to minors.
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Los Angeles
UPS
Dre Myron
Olson
University of Southern California
Bth
Leonant Merrit
Association
Board of Managers
Drunken Pigeon Mystery Solved in Chicago
CHICAGO Chicago police and Animal Welfare League say drunken pigeons circling street fairs drank antifreeze from crates. Officials say the birds showed disoriented behavior and were given care at a city animal rescue center.
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Chicago
UPS
Animal Welfare Leagne
League
Cate
Eddie Liz Set Wedding Date in Vegas
Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor plan a private civil wedding in Las Vegas next Tuesday to allow Mike Todd Jr. to serve as best man. The couple, amid Hollywood intrigue, aim for a civil ceremony followed by a religious rite, with Rabbi Nussbaum involved in the later ceremony. Taylor has been living with Fisher near Las Vegas while managing custody and divorce matters.
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Hollywood
Ufd
Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor
Welless
Las Vegas
Ney
Miss Taylor
United Press International
Mike Todd Jr
Mike
Eddie
Nevada
Debbie Reynolds
Mikel
Todi
Nussbau
Taylor
Miss Reynolds
Prayer for Today Bless the homes of America and mothers
A devotional prayer seeking God to bless America and its households. It asks for peace and love in homes, blessings for mothers, relief for those bearing burdens, and guidance to the heavenly home beyond life’s pilgrimage. Amen.
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America
Boy 13 Stabs Two Girls. One Dies In New Orleans Patch
A 13 year old boy lured Kathy Fehler 12 and Judy Guillot 13 into a mulberry patch and stabbed Kathy to death while severely injuring Judy. Police report the suspect confessed. Autopsy planned and motive under investigation. Kathy's father worked at a Belleville racetrack. Judy's family faced shock and reporting delays.
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New Orleans
UPI
T Oday
Kathy Fehler
Judy Guillot
Judy
St. Francis Cabrinus
Kathy
Belleville
Toute
Aviver
Hack
Teller Defends Strauss Before Senate Panel
Dr Edward Teller praised Commerce Secretary Lewis L Strauss for strong support of science during testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. Teller highlighted Strauss’s respect for science and friendship with scientists, contrasting criticism from American Federation of Scientists leaders and President-elect Inglis. He expressed concern about fallout fears and reiterated confidence in finding peaceful H bomb applications through Livermore Laboratory leadership.
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Washington
APS
Edward Teller
Commerce
Lewis L. Strauss
Teller
Senate Commerce Committee
Strauss
Kominian Teller
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
American Federation of Scientists
David L. Hill
Federation
Hill
David R. Inglis
Telter
WRS
Livermore
Union payoffs tied to press deliveries probe
Neo Gravure Printing executives testified that over 160000 in payouts to union leaders and officials were made to secure deliveries for major East Coast newspapers. They claimed 45750 supported night deliveries for Times and Mirror, with reimbursement by those papers, and 160000 over eleven years for peace with the teamsters plus 28000 for avoiding jurisdictional disputes over copies of American Weekly.
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Washington
UPT
Setite
Teamsters
Ungshore
Neo Gravure Printing Co
Weehawken
N.J
Ihe Rooney
Florell Gross
Miami
Carmelius Noonan
International Longshoremen's
Neo Gravune
Gross
American Weekly
New York Journal American
Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union
Oakland Terminal Plans Get Okay
Final preliminary plans for a five million dollar passenger terminal at Oakland International Airport were approved by the Board of Port Commissioners. The plans will be sent to the Federal Aviation Agency for approval to qualify for a federal aid grant of one million five hundred fifty five thousand dollars.
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Oakland
Oakland International Airport
Soard of Port Commissioners
Federal’ Aviation Agency
Reds Kill Tibet Freedom Hopes
Tokyo United Press International reports Communist China declared Tibet’s bid for independence ended. Peiping’s People’s Daily editorial said the anti communist uprising spread to three mainland provinces near Inner Mongolia but was quashed in the main, predicting total communist rule after the rebellion’s end.
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Tokyo
UPI
China
Peiping
Inner Mongolia
Red Chinese
Peoples Daily
Truman clarifies barb aimed at earlier committee
Former President Truman told reporters at Columbia University that his criticism of the House Un-American Activities Committee referred not to the current panel led by Francis Walter but to two former chairs, Harold Velde and Martin Dies. He praised Walter's work.
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Washington
UPI
Truman
House Committee
Columbia University
Francis BE
Walter D-Pa
Walter
Velde
Dies
Marold H. Velde
R-Til
Rep
Martin Dies
D-Tex
Dies Committee
Space Rocket Awarded for Vega Contract
Washington and the civilian space agency awarded a 33.5 million dollar contract to develop the Vega three stage rocket. It may be fired in early 1961 to place a two ton space laboratory with several men into a 36 000 mile high orbit for a few weeks.
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Washington
UPI
Thel
Civilian Space Agency Today
Girl 16 Nabbed In Kidnapping Of Baby
Betty Smithey, 16, was arrested in Albuquerque after abducting 18 month old Mitchell Johnson from a state welfare home. She claimed the baby cried and she took him to run away, later abandoning him at a drugstore. The infant was recovered in good health and returned to his distressed mother, a psychologist, as authorities pursue rehabilitation options for the youth.
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Dallas
UPI
Betty Smithey
Albuquerque
Mitchell
Johnson
Bere Des
Alto
Arus
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