Youth Drowns In Mountain Lake Near Troy Pa
A 16 year old former Elmira boy, Stuart I Towner of Snedekerville, drowned at Mountain Lake about 11 30 am after diving from a hotel west shore and cramping. He was a Troy High School freshman and with three companions attempted rescue with use of local emergency services, but he could not be revived. The coroner ruled accidental drowning and the body was taken to Barrett Funeral Home in Elmira.
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Towanda
Bradford
Gerald Vickery
Barrett Funeral
Athens Fire Department
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Brown
van Etten Central School
Alice Towner
Minnie Easton
Elmra
West East Swap Plans on Berlin Crisis
Western powers and the Soviet Union exchanged rival interim Berlin crisis proposals in Geneva. A Western plan called for troop reduction and curb on subversive activities in both Berlin sectors while negotiations may yield a single document for a summit decision. No immediate Soviet response was reported.
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Berlin
Russia
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Christian A. Herter
Gromyko
Albania
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Adriatic Sea
Eisenhower Sets Berlin Rights Threshold for Summit
President Eisenhower stated the Soviet must acknowledge Allied rights to stay in Berlin until Germany unites. He warned no summit will occur unless sufficient progress is shown at the foreign ministers level and criticized the Geneva talks as未 yielding decisive results. The remarks serve notice that the Soviets must abandon attempts to oust the West from Berlin.
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Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Germany
Geneva
Senate defers vote on Israel ambassador nomination
The Senate postponed the confirmation of Ogden R. Reid as ambassador to Israel, delaying action until the next day. Mrs. Reid, head of the publishing family, sat in the visitors’ gallery as Sen. Mike Mansfield said the nomination would be taken up again if other business cleared.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Ogden R. Reid
Israel
Ogden Reid
New York Herald-Tribune
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Confiscation of Goering's West Berlin Assets Finalized
West Berlin denazification court confiscated bank accounts stocks and other property of the late Hermann Goering valued at 756000 West marks about 180000. The ruling found he profited from Nazi ties and aided persecution of Jews establishment of camps and the secret police. Emmy Goering did not appear sending a protest statement.
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Emmy
Munich
Edda
Billie Holiday Fighting For Survival In Hospital
Blues singer Billie Holiday, 49, at Metropolitan Hospital in New York after entering Sunday with hepatitis and liver inflammation, complicated by heart failure. Her doctor reported she is gaining strength and the attending physician is encouraged for a recovery, per her attorney Earl Vaidins.
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New York
Billie Holiday
Earl Vaidins
Metropolitan Hospital
Vaidins
Four mice rocket into space but orbit likely fails
The air force reported Discoverer III did not achieve orbit after a Thor booster launched from Vandenberg. Officials said telemetry suggested the satellite re entered or failed to reach space, with scientists awaiting further data. The incident followed a day of Latin American unrest and martial law in Ecuador.
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Naked Eye
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Hawaiian Islands
Col. Curtin
Point Magu
Pacific Missile Range
Curtin
Ike and Meany Clash Over Labor Bill Provisions
Eisenhower and AFL-CIO President George Meany urged labor law reform but split on Senate bill of rights provisions. Meany argued the bill would cripple unions and invite criminal probes of routine practices, while Eisenhower defended the measure as not punitive and urged cooperation to build wealth. Also, Harold D. Clum, 88, longtime U. S. diplomat, died of an apparent heart attack in Kingston.
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George Meany
Meany
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John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Congress
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Rooney says he wed blonde starlet in Mexico in December
Hollywood continues to follow Mickey Rooney who revealed he married Barbara Thomason in Mexico after securing a Mexican divorce. He said Elaine Mahnken approved the California split and noted the bride is 22, 5 feet 2, while he is 38 and 5 feet 3. Rooney spoke from Las Vegas about the timing and his hope that this marriage lasts.
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Ava Gardner
Betty Jane Rose
Martha Vickers
Elaine Mahnken
Santa Monica
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Roo
Ney
Texas
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Phoenix
Ariz
Carolyn Mitchell
New Frontier Hotel
Governors Long Ill but Expected to Recover in Months
GALVESTON Texas AP Doctors say Louisiana Governor Earl K Long may be well within three months. The announcement follows his commitment to psychiatric care at John Sealy Hospital. Lt. Gov. Lether Frazer acts as governor and hopes for his quick return. A sanity hearing is planned in Baton Rouge.
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Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Associated Press
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Long
Hugh Gibson
Gov. Long
Harris
Sealy Hospital
Blanche
Arthur Long
Gover‘nor
Gibson
Guy
Four prisoners escape from Iowa penitentiary in 9 minute breakout
Four inmates at the Iowa Towa Penitentiary cut two steel bars and wriggled through an outside wall to flee at 12 25 am. They overpowered guards, eluded roadblocks across Iowa Illinois and Missouri, and vanished into wooded hills. Jailers estimate the four were serving up to life terms.
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Towa
Lawrence W. Smith
Smith
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Robert Jones
Cedar Rapids
Albert M. Boerger
Kansas City
Pickard
Lloyd Woodson
Quincy
Ill
Elun Girdler Jr
Peoria
John Bennett
Illinois
Missouri
Woodson
Norman Juhl
Keokuk
Boerger
Small-town police free suspects for lack of jail funds
In SAN PEDRO DE JUJUY Argentina police release detainees guilty only of misdemeanors due to insufficient funds to feed prisoners. The action reflects budget shortages affecting local law enforcement.
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San Pedro DE Jujuy
Argentina
House Backs Army Missile Funding in Defense Bill
The House approved 393 to 3 a Defense Department appropriation of 38.848 billion dollars for the next fiscal year. It boosted Army Nike Hercules missile funding while cutting Air Force Bomarc funds, rejected full Bomarc disallowance, kept 200 million for Bomarc, and declined Army strength increases to 900,000. No Navy carrier funding was restored.
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Appropriations Committee
Daniel J. ‘Flood
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Morton Sees Rock Nixon Clash in 1960 GOP race
Sen Thruston B Morton new Republican national chairman forecasts a Nixon Rockefeller primary fight ahead of the Chicago 1960 convention He says primaries will help the party and that Eisenhower will back a GOP victory and unify the party afterward. He notes both contestants are well known and will be champions.
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