Massive New York blackout hit Manhattan across the island
A mid afternoon power failure left a 500 block area from the Hudson to the East River without lights or elevators for about 13 hours. Hospitals faced outages and polio patients in iron lungs relied on auxiliary power while subways and traffic stalled. Recovery began late night with restored power at 2 42 a.m. as city life slowly resumed.
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Mount Sinai Hospital
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Hudson River
Rockefeller Plans Get Going Over Rockefeller Plans Get Going Over
Mrs. Nelson A Rockefeller travels to Norway to oversee her son Steven’s wedding preparations at a Lutheran church and the reception hall, following a lobster dinner with the Rasmussen family in southern Norway. The trip centers on church and reception arrangements.
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Eastern Tobacco Markets Open With Prices 53 to 57 Per Hundred
The Associated Press reports first hour sales on several Eastern Belt markets ranged from 53 to 57 per 100 pounds with most sellers between 40 and 68 and 69 as a ceiling. Volume held fairly heavy and leaf quality lagged last year’s opening.
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Stabilization Corp
Phil W. Hedrick
Tobacco
General Denies Dog Travel Claim In Korea Mission
Maj. Gen. Hamilton H. Howze denied reports that his dog crossed the Pacific to Korea in a cabin on a troop transport. He said he paid $7.50 for a deck kennel and that no crew members he knew aided in the dog’s journey, noting routine travel arrangements were made for the animal aboard Gen. W. A. Mann.
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Rocket Repeat Is Scheduled For Pre-dawn Sky Show
Washington AP reports a repeat pre-dawn rocket experiment set for tonight to study upper atmospheric winds. A sodium flare was launched 150 miles above Wallops Island, Virginia, lighting the sky for about 1,400 miles as it climbed to peak altitude.
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Edith Storm Gains Speed In Caribbean Warning Issued
Tropical Storm Edith moves northwest at 17 mph, center about 350 miles east southeast of San Juan. Weather Bureau issues gale warnings across Lesser Antilles from the Virgin Islands to St. Lucia as Edith intensifies.
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Eisenhower to release facts on steel strike to aid talks
President Eisenhower and Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell will publish a factual report outlining basic reasons behind the steel strike. The document, prepared by Mitchell as Eisenhower’s fact finder, will include information from industrial and government sources but contain no recommendations for action.
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Eisenhower
Secretary of Labor
James P. Mitchell
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Rockefeller to Meet Eisenhower on Governors Conference Agenda
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller travels to Washington for White House talks with President Eisenhower and aides about the Governors Conference agenda and a national do it yourself shelter program. He also plans to discuss a potential 1960 GOP presidential bid with top Republicans including Sen Styles of New Hampshire and Vice President Nixon, contingent on a primary showdown in New Hampshire next March.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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New Hampshire
Heat Wave Grips Nation With High Temperatures
The nation endures a heat wave with temperatures in the 80s to over 100 in hot sun. Humidity keeps nightly heat intense while afternoon and evening showers offer brief relief. Thunderstorms lash the South and East, including Daggett California to Maine, with 90s readings along the Atlantic coast.
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Lights Out In Bars But Glow Lingers
New York AP reports a citywide blackout hit hundreds of bars and taverns on Monday. Bartenders bought candles and rigged makeshift lighting while patrons kept the mood alive, bottling drinks and keeping festivity going despite empty beer pumps and dark jukeboxes.
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