Nautilus Heads to England After Transpolar Feat
The U S atomic submarine Nautilus is en route to Portland England after completing a Northwest Passage under the Polar ice. Cmdr William Anderson and a 116 member crew will dock up to 21 August 2 17. The White House praised the mission while critics questioned Admiral Rickover's absence from the ceremony.
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Washington
U. S
England
Portland
Hawaii
William Anderson
Iceland
Eisenhower
London
White House
Pacific
Atlantic
Adm
H. G. Rickover
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Navy
Atomic Energy Commission
Leaf auctions set record average on first South Carolina North Carolina belt week
The Federal-State Market News Service reports the first four days of the 1958 leaf auction season yielded 25,207,582 pounds sold with an average of 59.52 per 100 pounds. SC markets sold 13,140,730 pounds at 59.70 and NC markets 12,066,852 pounds at 59.33. About 12 percent went to the Flue-Cured Stabilization Corp under price support, up from 4.8 percent last year.
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Associated Press
South Carolina
North Carolina
Pole Sitter Under Medical Checkup After Climb
Dr Emett Davis, a WWII troop carrier pilot, climbed 25 feet up a 65 foot pole to examine pole sitter Paul Hatfield. The 23 year old patient showed good signs after the one week atop the pole and Hatfield aims to break the world pole sitting record of 169 Park Washington.
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Baltimore
Emmett Davis
Paul Hatfield
Hatfield
Davis
Park, Wash
Grasshoppers Cost Farmers Big Losses in 1934 38
In the wheat and corn belt west of the Mississippi grasshoppers moved through from 1934 to 1938 causing agricultural damage totaling more than 315 million dollars owed by farmers across the region.
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Mississippi
Weather Outlook Winds Across Upper Lakes and Plains
Rain is forecast tomorrow for an area spanning the upper Lakes from the south Atlantic west to eastern Oklahoma and Texas. Clear skies and warmer temperatures return to the northeast U.S. Cooler conditions persist in the northern Plains while the lower Missouri Valley remains warm and the Great Basin turns warmer.
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Upper Lakes Region
South Atlantic
Oklahoma
Texas
Rockies
Great Basin
Sierras
California
U.S
Plains
Missouri Valley
Americans Enjoy First Liberty in Beirut Amid Cautions
About 2,000 U S service members arrived for their first liberty in Beirut with money and smiles, allowed limited mingling with locals. They faced a warning to refrain from admiring Arab women while beaches hosted bikini-clad European visitors as 14,000 total troops would soon gain liberty under guard while Basra area remained off limits.
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Tom Ochiltree
Beirut
Lebanon
Basra
R. C. Norman
Hickory
N.C
Norman
Six Die As Coal Truck Hits Car In Meadville
Six members of Theodore Malay family die in a collision between a coal truck and an automobile on Route 285 near Meadville Pennsylvania. The Malay matriarch Elizabeth Floyd Anna Hilbert and four generation members perished. Theodore Malay Jr and three young daughters survived. The truck driver Virgil Mowery escaped serious injury. The crash occurred during a summer outing with relatives nearby.
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Meadville
Pittsburgh
Theodore Malay
Malay
Grandmmother
Spencer Hospital
Elizabeth Malay
Theodore Jr
Kathleen
Anna Marie
Elizabeth Floyd
Anna Hilbert
Susan Patricia
Ted
Betty
Greenville
Painesville
Ohio
Herman Walker
Crawford County
Virgil Mowery
Mowery
Pymatuning
Conneaut Lakes
Pennsylvania-Ohio
Urging Rival Union to Teamsters Clash in Hearings
Ives, vice chairman of the Rackets Committee, urges a rival union to join the Teamsters in backing strong leadership as hearings resume on Hoffa and officials with long criminal records alleged to collude with gangsters. Kennedy labels the Teamsters gangster dominated and calls for new labor racket laws.
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Teamsters
Ives
Hoffa
Underworld
Robert F. Kennedy
George A. Smathers
D-Fia
Florida
Kennedy
Hawaii to be alerted on Johnston Island nuclear tests
Adm. Harry D. Felt, commander in chief of the U S Pacific Fleet, will notify Hawaii of any further Johnston Island nuclear tests at the request of Gov. William F. Quinn. The last blast was visible in Honolulu prompting police inquiries about a Pearl Harbor attack.
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Honolulu
Harry D. Felt
U.S. Pacific
Hawaii
Johnston Island
Here
William F. Quinn
Johnston
Pearl Harbor
Skelton's Wife Georgia Collapses in Las Vegas
Red Skelton's wife Georgia was hospitalized after collapsing in her hotel room in Las Vegas. A doctor at Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital said she suffered nervous exhaustion but her condition was not serious while Skelton performs in a Las Vegas hotel nightclub act.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Red Skelton
Georgia
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Skelton
Swedish Father Flies To Daughter Side
In Greensboro, Ernest Ahlberg flew to the bedside of his critically injured daughter Brigitta, an exchange student hurt when she walked into a plane propeller at a private airfield. Doctors amputated her arm and treated facial and chest wounds as her condition remained critical and notes of hope were heard from her father.
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Ernest Ahlberg
Greensboro
Brigitta
Goran Medberg
Stockholm
Sweden
Ahlberg
Cone Hospital
Greensboro High Point
Ahberg
New York
Transocean
Auto Strike Authorization Is Delayed by UAW Board
The United Auto Workers Executive Board postponed immediate strike authorization for Big Three plants in Detroit. President Walter P. Reuther said bargaining efforts should continue and a strike could be called quickly later, possibly this summer, not before September. About 400,000 members would be represented by the councils.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers Executive Board
Auto Makers
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
Boy Is Crushed By Large Piano
A three year-old boy Kenneth Okoniewski Jr. died when a discarded upright piano toppled onto him and two other children in Flint Michigan. Steven A Hopkins age 3 suffered severe head injuries and died later at Hurley Hospital. His sister Vicki age 2 had contusions. The piano had been placed outside the home about an hour before the accident.
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Flint, Mich
Kenneth Okoniewski Jr
Ken
Hurley Hospital
Steven A. Hopkins
Vicki
Hopkins
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Farid Oufi
Abdul Karim
Reuters
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Iraq Republic
Sovereignty Council
Abdul Karim Kassem
Russia
Britain
United States
Kassem
Ervin
James Armstrong
Medberg
Mr. Medberg
Thomas G. Clemson
Clemson College
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