Marines Award Ontos Contract For Light Armed Vehicle
The Marine Corps ordered production of the Ontos, an armed light vehicle, after a joint announcement of a 13 million dollar contract with Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. for an undisclosed number. Production will begin in August 1956 at La Porte Indiana and finish about a year later. The Ontos carries six 106 mm recoilless rifles on a tracked chassis and relies on speed and maneuverability rather than armor. It uses a 40 caliber spotting rifle to trigger the main guns.
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Washington
Marines Corps
Army
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Milwaukee
Wis
Com
Pany
la Porte
Ind
Ontos
Gates
Crockett Farm For Sale Near Davy Crockett Birthplace
Greenebville Tenn promoters offer an acre of the Crockett farm for sale at 1 per square inch by New Frontiers Inc. Courthouse records show Joe Garrett Jr of Miami bought the acre for 600 dollars. If all square inches sold promoters would gross 2,352,240 dollars. Buyers are warned the deed restricts each inch for residential use only.
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Greeneville
Tenn
Davy Crockett
New Frontiers Inc
Florida
Joe Garrett Jr
Miami
British Tanks Run Wild Kill Four Soldiers at Training Camp
Two British tanks broke loose from hillside moorings at Tillhead England during early training drills. They ploughed through sleeping tents, killing four soldiers and wounding four more. The tanks were unnamed Charioteers and reportedly unmanned at the time.
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Tillhead
England
British Army South Command
Prison riot breaks at Great Meadow in New York
Guards and state police fought inmates with night sticks and guns for 26 minutes at Great Meadow Correctional Institute Comstock NY injuring eighteen people. An accidental gunshot wounded two troopers and a guard as 174 rebels were returned to cells. It was the first New York state prison revolt in 25 years. Commissioner McHugh urged a quick end after arriving from Canton. Supt Conboy cited rain threat for an early recreation end.
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Comstock
N.Y
Great Meadow Correctional Institute
New York State
Thomas J. McHugh
McHugh
Canton
Joseph Conboy
Mine Workers Fund Reaches $103.6 Million Balance
United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis reports the welfare and retirement fund rose over 10 percent in the last year, ending June 30, 1955 with a cash balance of $103,607,911, up from $93,565,044 a year earlier.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW Welfare and Retirement Fund
Jail mail and a canary mix up stories
In Maysville Kentucky Benson, held on a bad check charge, sent for his canary to Columbus Ohio. An express man found the jail before delivering and collected 3.70 in cash. In San Antonio Sheriff Kilday served a warrant on Donald Greiling, 18, of Milwaukee.
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Maysville
Jack
Benson
Columbus
Ohio
San Antonio
Tex
Owen Kilday
Donald Greiling
Milwaukee
Parole Agent Sends Warrant With Letter From San Antonio
Milwaukee probation and parole agent J A Liberto mailed a warrant for parole violation with a note claiming Greiling wrote a girlfriend from San Antonio on July 9. The letter bore a return address at 120 Cameron St Kilday noted the address as the county jail where Greiling had been held since Aug 2 on a car theft charge.
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Milwaukee
J. A. Liberto
Greiling
San Antonio
Liberto
Cameron St. Kilday
Manhattan Photographer Heads National Group
Laurence W. Blaker of Manhattan has been elected president of the Photographers Association of America at its 75th convention in Chicago. Blaker, a portrait photographer, succeeds James Pickhands II of New Haven, Connecticut.
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Chicago
Photographers? Assn. of America
Laurence W. Blaker
Manhattan
Blaker
James Pickhands II
New Haven
Conn
Senator Capehart urges World Bank to be liberal on loans
Senator Capehart of Indiana travels to Istanbul for World Bank IMF sessions, urging liberal lending to create jobs in borrowing nations. He appeals for sound loans and economic growth as the United States representative at the gathering beginning September 8.
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World Bank Washington
Sen
Capehart
R-Ind
World Bank
Turkey
Washington
Europe
United States
World Bank and
International Monetary Fund
Istanbul
Japanese area hit by worst flood in 67 years
SAPPORO Japan The heaviest rainfall in 67 years swept away seven houses flooded 1 818 others and left 4 people dead and 6 missing Police said 26 bridges had been washed away two minor landslides and railway beds were damaged Ten towns in all were hit in Hokkaido Japan s northernmost island.
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Sapporo
Japan
Hokkaido
Young Boy Fatally Injured by Pack of Dogs
A 86 year old boy was killed by 14 farm dogs in Bracebridge Ontario as he protected his pet dog. Police say Wayne Baker wandered from his family's summer home at Matthisville and was found an hour later in bushes on a neighboring farm.
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Bracebridge, Onlino
Wayne Baker
Matthiasville
Young Boy Arrested for Sunday Pencil Burglary
In Dallas Texas a 13 year old boy admitted stealing 1500 pencils from an advertising firm during a Sunday burglary. He told officers school starts soon.
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Dallas
Tex
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Marines
Crockett Farm
Lover's Lane
Blake
K-T
Roy Blake, Lesese
Ted & Foltesn
MFA Mutual Auto
Andy Clark
Magnolia
Huskies
Chubby
Meschkes
Heywood-Wakefield and
Drexell
Herman Miller
Garnand Furniture
Garden City
North Main
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