State Education in Alabama Sees Mixed Results
Alabama ranks mid in spending but low in adult education levels per NEA Research Division. Only 21 percent of Alabamians 25 or older have four years of high school, 47th among states, while 6th in public school enrollment. Teacher salaries rise. Alabama averages 3,745 for 1959-60, 42nd nationally. Per pupil expense is 200, with Arkansas ahead.
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Washington
National Education Assn
Alabama
Arkansas
Mamie Eisenhower Likely To Stay Another Week In Hospital
Mrs. G. Gordon Moore said Mamie Eisenhower probably will spend a full week more at Walter Reed Army Hospital. She has been treated for acute asthmatic bronchitis and will continue antibiotics and rest, delaying any trip with President Eisenhower to the Far East.
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Washington
Mamie Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Far East
Eisenhower
G. Gordon Moore
Mrs. Moore
Mrs. Eisenhower
Tibetans Fight Red Chinese in Tibetan Towns and Camps
Indigenous Tibetan guerillas strike back after the Lhasa upheaval. Panchen Lama figures are contested as followers revolt against Beijing authority. Reports say monks defect and a Panchen claimant escapes toward Bhutan. Heavy casualties and no external aid noted.
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Dalai Lama
Lhasa
Bhutan
India
Modern-Day Pioneers Lose Ground On Island Colony Dream
Seattle based Island Development Co led about 40 settlers toward a cooperative colony on San Cristobal but visa hurdles and port delays hinder progress. Harrsch's group sailed from Seattle aboard Alert, then Western Trader, facing Ecuadorian clearance issues and repairs while all 100 memberships at 2500 dollars each reportedly remain sold with few defections.
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Canada
San Cristobal
Harrsch
Seattle
Los Angeles
Ecuador
Alex Reuss
Reuss
Island Development Co
Ron Nelson
No Grounds But London Divorce Granted in Spoon Attack Case
Judge Samuel Edgedale told Mrs. Leonard Stevenson she had no grounds for divorce yet granted a divorce on the adultery charge. He found she attacked her husband with a wooden spoon broom a saucepan a knife and fork and blocked his eye while a longshoreman was named in the affair.
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Samuel Edgedale
Leonard Stevenson
Stevenson
Aging Conference Expected Big Turnout at Alabama
More than 400 people are expected at the Governor's State Conference on the Aging at the University of Alabama Wednesday and Thursday. Pensions and Security Commissioner Alvin T. Prestwood, conference chairman, said numbers may exceed that figure.
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Governor's State Conference On the
University of Alabama
Pensions and Security
Alvin T. Prestwood
President Visited Wife During Ileitis Hospital Stay
The President spent nearly an hour with his wife in her three room hospital suite before departing for a West Point reunion weekend. He previously occupied the same suite during his ileitis attack.
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Mamie
West Point
Nixon Edge Seen In Poll
Vice President Richard M. Nixon leads in a California poll over John F. Kennedy by 13.8 points and over Adlai Stevenson by 8.3 points on who would best represent the United States against Khrushchev. Herbert G. Klein cited 3,028 samples and said the trend appears in other states.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Herbert G. Klein
California
Los Angeles Times
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Adlai E. Stevenson
Klein
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Facts Consolidated
United States
Stevenson
Everest Height Reassessed After China S Claim
Beijing radio announced Mt. Everest stands at 29,133 feet, a new measurement surpassing the widely cited 29,002 feet. The Indian government and the U S National Geographic Society previously accepted figures around 29,028 feet with snow fluctuation.
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Tokyo
Mt. Everest
Peiping Radio
Everest
National Geographic Society
Deputy Captures Escape Suspect After Sleeping in Car
A 19 year old Rock Creek man, Ronald Johnson, was captured by Morgan deputies early Saturday when found asleep in a car. his leg was cuffed from the window. J W Light, 40, of Arab, was also arrested. They face theft charges for corn taken from Red Oden's Somerville 2 crib last week and Johnson faces escape, no license, and driving while intoxicated counts. Deputies said both admitted theft but denied the full amount.
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J. W. Light
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Wilbur Abercrombie
Woods
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Stanford
Red Oden
Somerville
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