Release from Hungarian prison shapes AP reporter Marton
AP reporter Endre Marton recalls 18 months in a Budapest secret police prison on charges of treason during Rakosi era. He was freed a year ago and later joined The AP in Washington. He describes isolation and uncertainty before learning he was a free man.
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Endre Marton
Associated Press
Hungary
Budapest
Washington
Marton
Here
Washington P
Secret Police
Matyas Rakosi
Navy blimp crash crew rescued 16 in Pamlico Sound
A fishing boat rescued 16 Navy blimp crewmen after a night crash in Pamlico Sound north of Cape Hatteras. A search by Navy Coast Guard and Air Force units followed. Lt Cmdr Waldo Atkins was later picked up from a raft and is en route to Beaumont.
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Norfolk
North Carolina
Pamlico Sound
Wanchese Coast Guard Station
Manteo
N. C
Navy
Coast Guard
Air Force
Oceana Naval Air Station
Virginia Beach
Force
Western Sun
Waldo A. Atkins
Atlantic
Atkins
Stickell
Beaumont
Tex
Glynco
Wilmington
N.C
Cape Hatteras
Rains Boost Firefight Against Long Running Forest Fire
Rains lasting until early morning aided firefighters battling a forest fire that has ravaged Dare and Hyde counties since August 1. State foresters said the rain helped slow the blaze but four inches or more were still needed to fully douse the peaty soil. Military and civilian agencies including Marines from Camp Lejeune, National Guardsmen from Elizabeth City, and state crews aided efforts, with thousands of acres burned and several towns threatened.
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Mann’'S Harbor
N.C
Stumpy Point
Payne's Creek
Hubbard
Fred Claridge
National Guard
Claridge
Raleigh
Mann's Harbor
James B. Hubbard
Dare
Hyde
U.S Highway 264
Croatan Sound
Camp Lejeune
Elizabeth City
Fifth Naval District
Norfolk
Cherry Point Marine Air Base
Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth
State Wildlife Resources Commission
State Forest Service
Knowland Hopes Senate Restores Part of Foreign Aid Cut
Senator Knowland met with President Eisenhower at the White House for a last minute strategy session. They hope the Senate will restore a substantial portion of the 650000,000 cut by the House from foreign aid funds. Knowland said restoration may be partial and would require bipartisan talks among senators. The session followed House action on the mutual security appropriation bill and contrasted with Eisenhower’s earlier aims.
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Senate
House
White House
Congress
William Knowland
California
The Obsession of Being Right in Arguments
Some people argue with a drive to prove points using irrelevant evidence. They chase certainty, sometimes inventing details that seem logical but never existed. They value being right over truth, justice, or reality and should avoid jumping to conclusions.
Senate Debates 389 Million AEC Authorization Bill
In Washington the Senate discusses a 389 million dollar Atomic Energy Commission authorization bill. It covers military and peaceful reactor projects while House opposition limits power provisions. Amendments seek to remove 58 million dollars for experimental reactors and municipal plant projects.
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Washington
Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
Eisenhower
House
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Hickenlooper
Bricker
Ohio
Knowland
Calif
Rights Agreement Looms In House
Speaker Rayburn predicted civil rights legislation will pass before adjournment with House action likely next week. He noted possible compromise on a modified jury trial amendment and said the Rules Committee should clear the bill soon. Republicans and Democrats hinted at nearing agreement as leadership moved toward a late next week floor vote.
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Rayburn
Washington
House
D-Tex
Congress
Rules Committee
Eisenhower
Leo Allen
Illinois
Allen
Lacey recounts Teamster ouster over alleged Beck aid
Former New York Joint Teamsters Council leader Lacey testified to the Senate committee that Teamster President Dave Beck's office aided his ouster through fraud and deception. He said he wrote Beck about seven bogus locals and that O'Rourke, backed by Hoffa, replaced him in 1956. O'Rourke later bowed out after court blocks. The report notes Leonard Geiger is missing and has invoked the Fifth Amendment.
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Washington
Martin T.lacey
New York
Teamsters
Teamster
Dave Beck
Lacey
Senate
Beck
New York Joint Teamsters Council
John O'Rourke
Midwest Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
North Carolina nature girl arrives in New York
Dorothy Brown a 16 year old from Mooresville North Carolina arrives at Penn Station to a flurry of reporters and photographers ahead of tours and TV appearances including Ed Sullivan. She has six brothers and sisters and has drawn fan mail including a marriage proposal from a Louisiana man.
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New York
Dorothy Brown
North Carolina
Pennsylvania Station
Charlotte
N.C
Louisiana
Dorothy
Mooresville
Statesville
Tom McKnight
The
Mooresville Tribune
McKnight
Kays Gary
Charlotte Observer
Don Starky
Observer
CBS
Former Auditor Hodge Says He’s Been Punished Enough In Prison
In an interview from Menard Penitentiary, former Illinois state auditor Orville Hodge laments his year in prison as punishment and contends he still does not know what caused the infamous state check swindle. He works a $7.50 monthly post running the prison radio system and hosts a weekly inmate radio program.
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Hodge
Chester
Ill
Orville Hodge
Illinois
Menard Penitentiary
Leaf Market Opens With Prices Below Forecasts
Eastern Belt tobacco auctions opened with total sales of 5,959,952 pounds and an average of 49.46 per hundredweight, below predicted 53 to 54. South Carolina North Carolina Border Belt set a daily high with 7,960,844 pounds at 60.05. Carolina markets posted varied gains across leaf and priming grades amid a heavy Border Belt volume.
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Associated Press
Federal State Market News Service
South Carolina- North Carolina
South Carolina
North Carolina
The
Iron Corp
Border Belt
Levittown Guards Home of First Negro Resident
Gov. Leader ordered about a dozen state police to Levittown to guard the home of William Myers Jr the first Black resident in the planned town. Bucks County Sheriff Murray said mobs up to 500 gathered nightly for three days, with arrests and stone throwing earlier. Myers and his family were away in York and planned to return soon.
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Levittown
George M. Leader
Leader
Bucks County
C. Leroy Murray
Murray
William Myers Jr
Myers
Daisy
York
Shorty
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Dick Emmons
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