Cold Wave Grips Nation With Record Intensities
The coldest weather of the season settled across northern states with temperatures dropping to twenty below in several towns and snow piling up in Oswego New York. Chicago reported seven below zero along with fatalities from exposure as the Seaway saw ships go aground and frozen.
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Mercury
Hibbing
Minn
International Falls
Bradford
Ill
Mason City
Iowa
Presque Isle
Maine
Dubuque
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Moline
Rockford
Madison
Wis
Fargo
N.C
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Fort Wayne
Ind
Omaha
Neb
Dayton
Ohio
Oswego
N.Y
New England
St. Lawrence Seaway
Ogdensburg
Paul Manion
Nurse Says Airman Took Death Hard in Court
A U S Air Force nurse testified that Airman Marymont sobbed and seemed to be taking his wife’s death hard after she died on June 9. Marymont, 43, faces a general court martial for premeditated murder of his wife and adultery with a woman identified as Mrs Cynthia Taylor. The prosecution says his overwhelming passion for Taylor drove the crime. The Marymonts have three children. The trial opened yesterday. Marymont pleaded innocent.
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Denham
England
Air Force
Mary Helen Marymont
Marymont
Hobbsville
N. C
Cynthia Taylor
Jury Indicts Goldfine For Contempt
A federal grand jury indicted Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine on 18 counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer 22 questions from the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight. The panel probed Goldfine's ties to Sherman Adams and gifts to Adams, with related inquiries into his finances.
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Washington
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Congress
Goldfine
House Subcommittee On Legislative Oversight
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Adams
House
Bombing Case Deliberations Continue In Temple Attack
In Atlanta the superior Court jury enters its third day of deliberations in the Jewish temple bombing case against George Bright, 35, with four other defendants facing bond actions and trial demands. Bond for Wallace Allen and Robert Bowling was set while Kenneth Griffin and Richard Bowling await defense decisions. The charge carries a possible death penalty, with mercy reducing it to life.
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Atlanta, Ga
George Bright
Ralph C Castleberry
Durwood Pye
Deliberat
Paul Webb
Wallace Allen
Robert Bowling
Webb
Kenneth Chester Grifffin
Richard Bowling
Ocean Drive Annexation Contested in Horry County
In Columbia the Ocean Drive annexation bid by a resort community was deemed unconstitutional and unnecessary by Abbott, who said the petition lacked a majority of freeholders and promised tax exemptions for undeveloped land. Dawes argued prior rulings supported majority signatures and votes in both areas. The disputed strip runs about seven miles by three miles, extending inland from the beach.
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Columbia
Horry County
Ocean Drive
Horry
Abbott
Watson Dawes
Missile Sub Near Reality Advances in Nuclear Sub Fleet
The Navy says nuclear submarines armed with Regulus II missiles are weeks from reality. The USS Halibut, first of its type, will launch next month at Mare Island. The USS King County tests Regulus II from a surface ship with telemetry guiding to Edwards AFB or Tonopah. Polaris later planned. nine subs could fire 100 million tons of explosive from near the North Pole.
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Calif
Globe
Navy
Mare Island Naval Shipyard
San Francisco
King
Edwards Air Force Base
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles
Air Force
Tonopah
Nev
Eurasia
North Pole
Russian Writer Flees To The West
Soviet Georgian novelist Alexander Tcheyshvili a 1951 Stalin Prize winner fled to the West crossing into West Berlin about eight days ago seeking political asylum. NTS says he left the city. American officials had no immediate comment.
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Berlin
Alexander Teheyshvili
NTS
West Berlin
Tcheyshvili
East Berlin
Soviet Union
Lelo
Humphrey Delivers Khrushchev Message on Nuclear Explosions
Senator Hubert Humphrey returned from Moscow with a confidential Khrushchev message on Soviet nuclear blasts and rocket developments. He briefed President Eisenhower in Washington for 80 minutes and said the two secrets were the missile information and the Berlin crisis suggestions. He withheld details, noting decisions on public disclosure rest with the administration.
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Hubert Humphrey
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Humphrey
Moscow
Khrushchev
Berlin
London
New York
Chances
Speaker Stolen From Salvation Army Booth in Dallas
Dallas police report a thief stole a Salvation Army loud speaker used to broadcast Christmas carols from a booth. The incident occurred during holiday fundraising, leaving volunteers unable to play seasonal tunes. No arrests reported as of press time.
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Dallas
Tex
Salvation Army
Law Cited To Stop School Bomb Scares
North Carolina Attorney General officials say a statute can prosecute those behind false school bombing reports. The law carries a fine up to 50 dollars or up to 30 days in jail for disturbing schools. Recent days saw 24 false tips across the Carolinas with evacuations at Northwest High School Forsyth County Columbia Heights Junior High Winston-Salem and Asheboro High School.
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Raleigh
Attorney General's Office
North Carolina
Asst
Atty
Wade Bruton
Carolinas
Northwest High School
Forsyth County
Columbia Heights Junior High
Winston-Salem
Asheboro High School
Top Soviet Policeman Relieved From Post
Gen. Ivan A. Serov, longtime head of the Soviet security service, was relieved of his duties in Izvestia and transferred to unspecified duties. Serov, 53, allied with Khrushchev, led security for his trips and previously oversaw Baltic anti Communist suppression in 1940. his successor was not named.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Ivan A. Serov
Newsaper Izvestia
Serov
Committee For State Security
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Izvestia
Kremlin
Khrushchev
Baltic Countries
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Williams Blames Migration for Washington Pregnancies
Rep. John Bell Williams cites District of Columbia data showing 185 girls 12 to 15 dropped out due to illegitimate pregnancies in 1954-55 with 169 being Negroes. He argues integration fuels white junior high delinquency and urges action, while district officials resist being pressured.
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Port Gibson
Miss
John Bell Williams
Williams
District of Columbia
Washington
John R. Pate
Southwest Health Center
Pate
Adams to Receive About 100000 for Eisenhower Book
Sherman Adams former Eisenhower aide is reported by the Boston Globe to sign a contract with Harper Brothers and Life magazine for about 100000 for a book on the Eisenhower administration. Adams has worked on the manuscript since leaving the White House amid charges over aiding Bernard Goldfine.
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Boston
Mass
Boston Globe
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
the Globe
Adams
Harper ‘Brothers
Life Magazine
New York
Snowstorm Ravages Oswego Despite Rescue Efforts
Oswego New York endures the worst snowstorm in history as two inches fall and total accumulation reaches four feet. Snowplows and a maternity transport assist move through drifts while police and state crews restore routes and supply. Mayor Corsall notes rapid recovery with help from nearby areas.
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Oswego
N.Y
New York
Upstate
Lake Ontario
Elmer Loveridge
Vincent Corsall
Life In Jail Ambition Fails For Miami Woman
Estelle Mason, 63, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Miami Circuit Court and received a five year suspended sentence. She had sought life in prison, after a prior murder trial for her brother Irving DuBarry’s Sept 11 1957 slaying and a stay in a mental hospital.
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Miami
Fla
Estelle Mason
Mason
Chattane
Irving DuBarry
Air Force Academy relaxes cadet admission standards
Colorado Springs AP report: The Air Force Academy will raise height limits from 6 feet 4 to 6 feet 6 and weight from 226 to 239 pounds. Vision requirements loosened to 20 50 far and near, corrected to 20 20 with mild refractive error. color vision defects minor. Depth perception failure will no longer disqualify applicants.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Air Force Academy
Academy
Local art fills supermarket walls in odd exhibit
In a novelty display at a city supermarket 113 original paintings and sculptures hang around the meat counter. A housewife notes the art helps shoppers decide between cuts like chuck at 79 cents a pound and round steak at 99 cents, easing the purchasing pressure.
Hell Freezes Over as 6 Inches Snow Falls in Michigan Town
Hell, a small Michigan community 18 miles northwest of Ann Arbor, reports six inches of snow. Mayor Erdly Van Sickle notes the unusual freeze as temperatures drop to 10 above zero.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Hell
Michigan
Erdly van Sickle
Truman Seeks Senate Return by Appointment Not Election
At a news conference in Washington Harry S. Truman said he would not run for the remainder of Senator Stuart Symington's term but would be interested in being appointed to fill out the Senate term if Symington pursued the 1960 presidential nomination.
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Eisenhower
United Nations
Humphrey
Soviet Union
Berlin
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Senate
Truman
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Symington
Segregationists Clash At Hearing In Alabama Inquiry
At the U S Civil Rights Commission hearing in Montgomery two segregationists clashed. John Patterson, Alabama governor elect, and John S Battle, former Virginia governor, demanded cooperation and compliance with subpoenas as the panel pressed for voter registration records from six counties. Battle urged adherence to due process to avoid strengthening calls for stricter civil rights laws.
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Montgomery
Ala
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Alabama
John Patterson
John S. Battle
Virginia
Bat‘tle
South
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