Operation Alert simulates vast U S nuclear strike impact
Officials estimated that about 95 million people lived in areas struck by mock bombs during Operation Alert. The exercise tested Civil Defense and mobilization, with New York City reporting estimated 2,239,012 killed and 2,261,208 injured under a hypothetical attack. President Eisenhower toured a retreat site before returning to Gettysburg.
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United States
U. S
North Pole
Sev Real Emergencs
New York City
Civil Defense
Tulletin
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Washington
Three Oil Hearings Set by Colorado Commission
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission will hold three hearings over the next two months. Topics include prevention of waste and orders for drilling and production at the Alkali Gulch field in La Plata County on August 20, the Lewis Creek field in Lozan County on September 17, and waste measures in the Little Beaver field of Washington and Adams counties.
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Denver
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Ges
Ike
Ae Plata
Capitol Office PLC
General Petroleum Corp
Lewis Creek
Lozan County
Pilb
Brlib-American OU Producing Co
Messares
Little Beaver
Washington
Adams
Charles Kruger Dies Friday
Charles F. Kruger 86 of 1103 Thirteenth avenue died at Weld County Nursing home shortly after noon Friday. He served 30 years in the county treasurer's office retiring January 1935. Born November 2, 1870 in New York City he moved to Eaton in 1905 and worked in real estate and insurance. Surviving: wife Ante G., three children Holly Kruger Greeley city librarian Mina Glin Torrington, Charles W. Kruger Grand Junction, five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Private funeral Monday at St Peter's Catholic church with interment Linn Grove. Secord Funeral Home in charge.
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Charles F. Kruger
Thirteenth Avenue
Weld County
Nurslog
Kruger
New York City
Eaton
Fred Steele
Harold Seaman
Seaman
Charles Q. Bursiel
Ante G
Holly Kruger
Greeley
Birs. Glin
Mina
Biochemist Roger Williams to Speak at CSCE Event
Dr. Roger J. Williams, a leading biochemist and 1952 ACS president, will headline the CSCE at the Garirh Theater Monday night. He directs UT Biochemical Institute since 1940 and will discuss The Biochemical Basis of Individuality, highlighting awards, publications, and his work on metabolic factors and disease.
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Roger J. Williams
American Chemical Society
CSCE
Garirh
Biochemical Institute
University of Texas
Williams
Roger Williams
Clayton Foundation For Research
Willams
Mead Johnson
American Institute of Nutrition
Chandler
Columbia University
ACS
C&en
Wil- Lame
University of Oklahoma
Will Liama
University of Teznn
University of Texas Press
Chicago Storm Triggers Fire At Midway And Hospital Evacuations
Severe rain and floods lash Chicago with 5.49 inches at Midway in six hours and 2.0 feet of water in basements. A fire erupts in Midway Airport basement likely from a faulty generator, forcing evacuations from Lagalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey where boiler and kitchen service failed. At least five deaths reported as waters rise, roads flood, and hundreds are rescued by boat. Damaged communications and widespread outages complicate relief as Southwest suburbs contend with rising creeks and millions in damage.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Lagalls Memorial Hospital
Harvey
Midway
Frank Basaese
Airport
Basaese
Sayeh
Harvey Institution
Denver Woman Found Slain in a Trailer
A 25 year old Denver woman Edith N. Marck was found shot to death in a South Denver trailer. Detective Capt. Clifford Stanley said the cause was undetermined whether homicide suicide or accident. Bethel E. Brooke who owned the trailer was questioned. A 28 caliber revolver with one chamber empty was found.
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Denver
Edith N. Marck
Clifford Stanley
Bethel E. Brooke
Stanley
Nora Lois Coursey
Mee
Burnell Stafford
DuPont
Stafford Vaniched
Brooke
Mrs. March
Stacley
Woma
Federal Court Throws Out Virginia Pupil Placement Act
In Richmond, a federal appeals court ruled Virginia's pupil placement act unconstitutional. The 1956 law, creating a three member state board with assignment power, maintained segregated schools by auto reassigning pupils and directing transfers aside from race. Justice Hoffman in Norfolk and Newport News school desegregation cases upheld.
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Richmond
Virginia
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Dist
Walter E. Hoffman
Norfolk
Newport News
Hoffman
Toll Toll Audrey Toll Pitt at 502 Lake Charles
Sheriff Henry Reid announced 322 bodies recovered after Hurricane Audrey. The toll included only bodies brought to Lake Charles for burial, with the count reflecting the hard hit Cameron parish area and losses from across the region.
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Lake Charles
Audrey
Henry Reid
Cameron Parish
Fisherman killed as freight cars derail into river near Chossett
A Rock Island freight train derailed after crossing a wooden trestle, sending five cars into the Saline River near Chossett. One fisherman, George Kelly of Sambourg, died. Three boys aged 12 to 19 were injured. other fishermen were rescued from under debris as responders worked at the Stillion area. Officials said bridge damage and derailment cause were not yet determined.
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Saline
Heres
B. A. Courson
George Kelly
Sambourg
Wiliam Cecil Kelly
George Don Kelly
Joseph Lee Kelly
CST
Stillion
Vy Ik
Rock Island
Kelly
Pope Pius XI Hails Lourdes Jubilee Centennial Call
Pope Pius XI issued an encyclical denouncing materialism and western secularism while praising Lourdes centennial celebrations to begin February 11 1958 and run for a year. He urged immense collective effort for Christian renewal amid the pilgrimage by millions of Roman Catholics to the Lourdes grotto where Bernadette Soubirous and the Virgin Mary appeared.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Bathast
Lourdes
Paris
Bernadette
Catholicium
Four Die in Colorado Traffic Friday Night
Four people die in Colorado traffic Friday night near Franktown as a car with two young boys crashes after a tire blowout. A Pueblo motorcyclist, Kenneth Edward Stowe, 21, also dies from injuries, raising the state road death toll for 1987.
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Colorado
Associated Press
Frankstown
Pueblo
Highway Patrol
Lewis Hughs
Charles McGowes
Parkjet
John Ross Orr
Franktown
Kenneth Edward Stowe
Judge To Speed Trial Of Hoffa Affair
Federal Judge Burnita Matthews ordered speeding the conspiracy bribery trial of Midwest Teamsters boss James Hoffa. The jurors are seated. four FBI agents testified that John Dye Cheasty acted as a witness for Hoffa while aiding the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. Agents said they overheard Cheasty on calls with Hoffa and Hyman Fischbach, though no recordings were used.
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Washington
Burnita
Matthews
Midwest Teamsters
Jamen H. Hofta
FBI
John Dye Cheasty
Sps
Hoffa
Senate
Cheasty
Moffa
Hyman L. Fisehbach
Miami
Pan American Stratocruiser Ditches After Engine Trouble
A Pan American Stratocruiser from San Francisco to Tokyo with 11 passengers diverted to Wake Island Friday night after engine trouble. The craft landed safely but one passenger died and others reported a harrowing four hours as passengers prepared for ditching with life jackets and open doors. Pilot and crew reportedly followed ditching protocols though the Tokyo office had no advance warning.
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Tokyo
Wake Island
San Francisco
Alexander N. Goutandris
Dale
Toto
Bo Informaggion
Ward Three voter rolls show nearly half registered for tax vote
City Clerk Mort Balch reports 4 542 registered voters in Ward Three ahead of the July 18 city cigarette tax election to fund a recreation program. Ward II has the most voters with 7 059 eligible. Ward I shows 1 040, Ward III 1 443 registered. Polling places shift in four precincts for the special election.
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Mort Balch
Sixteenth Street
Texiteterea
Balch
N. O. Andrews
Eleventh Street
Frasier Hall
Ninth Avenue
Steepner Hall
Eighth Avenue
Bolander
Twelfth Avenue Court
Wiggins
Twentyiifth
Pollng
Shaw Really Construction
Wildeman Drive
Brentwond Addition
Raleh
Girl, 2, Struck by Car Here Critical Condition
Caroline Forte, two, residing with parents at Pra Jackson boulevard, was struck by a car near there around 1:30 PM. She was taken to Weld County hospital in critical condition. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Burton C. Feste of Colorado Springs. Everett Boliger services Monday afternoon at Gorelock in Macys drawing room. Interment Sunset Memorial Gardens.
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Caroline Forte
Whaive Parente
Pra Jackson Boulevard
Weld Countty Hospital
Burton C. Feste
Colorado Springs
Everett Boliger
Qorelock
Macys
Sunset Memorial Cardens
Scientist warns industrial society faces self destruction
A Caltech nuclear scientist told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that industrial civilization could perish in a nuclear holocaust within 5 to 10 years if present behavior continues. He said the next century may see agrarian living, but stressed the outcome is not inevitable and urged action to solve grave future problems.
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San Francisco
Harrison Brown
Calfornia Institute of Techoology
Pasadena
Calif
India
China
Colorado REA President dies suddenly in Denver hotel
George Wilson 54, president of the Colorado Rural Electrification Assn., died of a heart attack at the Shirley-Savoys Hotel in Denver while in town for a board meeting. A Democrat from Montrose, he was in his second year as REA president and had long worked in mining, water, and education legislation. He is survived by his wife Hestia, two sons, and four daughters. Funeral plans in Montrose pending.
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Denver
George] Wilson
Nucla
Colorado Rural Electrification Assn
Shirley-Savoys Hotel
Wilson
Hestia
Association Board of Directors
Wilson, & Democrat
Montrose
Colo
San Miguel Power Asin. Af
Colorado-Ute Electric
Asia
Colorado
Senate
Ouray
San Miguel
Doloerastler
Senator Seeks Study of Texas Underground Water Recharge
Colorado senator Floyd Diver DiGreeley will push for a legislative study on underground water recharge methods used in Texas. Oliver, a well driller, told the Colorado Underground Water Commission that Texas stores water by feeding it from man made lakes into wells. He argues underground preservation avoids evaporation and construction costs.
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Denver
Floyd Diver
DiGreeley
Texas
Iver
En Colorado
Sliver
Ross and
Unidentified submarine sighting reported near Dutch Harbor
A commercial vessel captain seen a submarine within three miles of naval ship movements near Dutch Harbor Alaska. Navy officials confirmed routine checks and noted no submarine operating in the area. The sighting occurred during World War II era Aleutian events along the Aleutian chain toward Soviet bases.
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Washington
Navy
Duteh Harbor
Tig
Russia
Unclear Weather Report From Greeley Friday
Heavy rain and scattered showers hit the area with varying amounts from light to more than an inch. High winds and thunderstorms formed in the afternoon from vantage points. Farmers face muddy fields and harvesting preparations shift to wheat and barley.
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Greeley
Mrs John Welling's Mother Dies In Erie
Mrs Lula M Snyder mother of Mrs John Welling of 1725 Fair acres drive died Saturday morning in Erie Pennsylvania after a long Erie residency. She was past president of Dental Service Company and chairwoman of the board. Survived by another daughter Mrs T Ross Fink of Norfolk and grandson John Snyder Welling of Greeley. Funeral Monday at Donald C Burton Funeral Home with interment in Erie Cemetery.
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Welling
CSC
Snyder
Donald C. Burton
West Tenth Streei
Ezie
Ene
Colorado Weekend Weather Report Summary
A rough forecast notes 86 degrees at 2 pm Saturday with scattered afternoon and evening showers and thunderstorms. Partly to mostly cloudy conditions persist Saturday night and Sunday across Boulder and Longmont with lower elevation cooling, and temperatures dipping to around 35 at night.
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Colorado
Boulder
Longnest
Weather outlook for Wyoming weekend turns unsettled
Regional forecast shows partly cloudy conditions Saturday through Sunday with scattered showers and thunderstorms mainly in the afternoons and evenings. Temperatures hold steady with mild nights and highs in the 80s to 90s.
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Wyoming
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