Leadership urged for South by(API) graduates in Auburn address
Auburn AP Institute graduation addresses warned the South needs strong leadership for the next three to four generations. Dr. Robert C. Anderson urged against penny wise policies and noted economists foresee the region becoming the nation and world’s richest. Degrees awarded included five doctorates and an honorary doctor of science to Alexander Nunn of The Progressive Farmer.
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Auburn
South
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Robert C. Anderson
Anderson
Southern Regional Education Board
Francis F. Hester
Wendell
N.C
Johnny R. Johnson
Chatham
Bernard L. Owen
Lubbock
Tex
Mary A. Layfield
Inez R. Smith
Guntersville
Alexander Nunn
The
Progressive Farmer
Strauss Debate Opens on Strauss Nomination
Washington AP report says Senate Democratic leadership plans votes today on presidential nominations with a major clash over Lewis L. Strauss’s confirmation as commerce secretary. Senate aides indicate Mansfield expects action on the nomination agenda.
Poskonka denounces Red label as disguise in stockyards district
Poskonka claims the Red label was a disguise and accuses neighbors of ignorance while his wife Antoinette says the hatred runs deep. Some neighbors defend Poskonka as an unfriendly neighbor, others say the Communist guise is irrelevant. He now works $80 weekly in the county clerk's office and considers moving.
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Poskonka
Antoinette
Stockyards
Grumbling Soviet Graduates Face State Assignments
Moscow AP reports that 340000 Soviet graduates must accept government assignments after graduation with salaries paid during study. Pravda notes some graduates resist taking jobs in the provinces, preferring not to leave their alma mater area.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Tractor overturns kills 16 year old in Alabama
In Birmingham area, a 16 year old boy named Raymond Albert Tucker died when a tractor he was driving overturned at a housing development in Huffman near Trussville. He was the son of Hershel A. and wife.
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Birmingham
Raymond Albert Tucker
Hershel A. Tucker
Trussville
Ala
Huffman
Reid and Johnson Nomination Debates Previewed
A White House aide indicated the day’s schedule could begin debate on the nominations of Ogden R. Reid as ambassador to Israel and George M. Johnson for the Civil Rights Commission. He suggested discussions might start before quitting time or during Friday’s session.
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Ogden R. Reid
Israel
George M. Johnson
Civil Rights Commission
Strauss
Waterway Plan Result In Doubt
Maj. Gen. E. C. Itschner, head of Army Engineers, said he could not predict if the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway project would be approved. He spoke to the Mississippi Rivers and Harbors Association, noting the Board of Engineers must decide if the plan is economically justifiable. The link would connect the Tennessee River to the Gulf at Mobile via the Tombigbee through northeast Mississippi and western Alabama.
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Jackson, Miss
E. C. Itschner
Army Engineers
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway
Itschner
Mississippi
Army Cites Pinpoint of Explorer IV in Space
The Army Ballistic Missile Agency says its pinpoint accuracy for Explorer IV enabled Project Argus to gather more useful data on an atomic blast about 300 miles above Earth. ABMA launched Explorer IV as part of Argus and could time the satellite to within one minute. Data comparisons showed a 15 minute discrepancy in predictions for the third Argus shot with the Albermarle mispositioned by about 200 miles prompting relocation.
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Huntsville
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Project Argus
ABMA
Army
Albermarle
Race With Russia Speaker Emphasizes Urgency to Outpace Soviet
Brig. Gen. John A. Barclay of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal urged 60 University Military School graduates to realize the feverish race with Russia extends beyond the military. He said Soviet competition spans all fields and urged harder work to overcome the Iron Curtain.
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Russia
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Redstone Arsenal
Ala
John A. Barclay
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Sugar Camp
Dayton
Ohio
UCFCA
United
API
Anderson Business College
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