President Eisenhower Hosts Quail Cookout in Georgia
President Eisenhower hosted a small cookout at a Georgia plantation with five guests. He and companion Humphrey had shot 10 quail earlier in the week and prepared a lunch of quail over a charcoal fire under sunny skies. The party included William E. Robinson of New York and Barry Leithead, alongside Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder. The President planned to fly back to Washington Sunday to attend to appointments.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
George Companions
Washington
Humphrey Place
White House
James C. Hagerty
Humphrey
William E. Robinson
New York
Coca Cola
Barry Leithead
Cluett-Peabody Co
Howard M. Snyder
Hagerty
Naked real estate man shoots deputies at Florida home
In Largo Florida a naked real estate man opened fire on two deputies and Dr Fairman as they arrived for a professional call at his residence. Deputy Armand Lewis was killed and Deputy Hal Ward was wounded. Ava Lewis wife of the suspect was inside and unharmed. The suspect had been treated for mental illness.
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Ava
Fairmanner
Lewis
St. Peters
Youthful Vagrant Is Helped
Abe Ross, 16, was picked up by Charlotte police sleeping on a bench at a taxi station. Lacking proper clothes and schooling, he is homeless with a dead mother, a father in a state hospital, and a history of foster care. Lt. A. J. Gilleland spent 18 of his own dollars to assist him. He will stay at the Salvation Army shelter until Monday.
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Welfare Department
A. J. Gilleland
City Detectives Division
Abe
Gilleland
Salvation Army
Eye disease report cites trachoma in Formosa children
A Chinese Nationalist government report says 37 percent or about 590000 primary school children in Formosa suffer from trachoma a contagious eye ailment that may lead to blindness.
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Formosa
Testimony on China Nuclear Tests Seeks Wider Inspection
Humphrey reports 8 kiloton China explosion detected last year but not identified. Romney says only debris sampling proves a nuclear event and Geneva experts back this. Gore calls for including Communist China in any international inspection system for effective detection.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
United States
China
Romney
Conference of Experts
Geneva
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
Russia
Soviet Union
Philip Farley
Revenge slaying ambush in Anaheim claims club owner life
In Anaheim California a gunman blasted a shotgun at the front door killing night club owner Leslie Simpson and wounding his wife Fern and Leslie’s wife. The attacker fired five shots as the couple returned home with $400 in receipts. Police suspect revenge motive and a man implicated in a prior crime. Simpson’s club had prior police investigations. Two children, Jeffrey eight and Debbie Kay seven, were in another house nearby at the time.
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Anaheim
Calif
Leslie Simpson
Fern
Simpson
Los Angeles
Dielaiaies and Simeses
Jeffrey
Debbie Kay
Alamance County rejects ABC stores proposal
Alamance County voters rejected a proposal to establish ABC stores by a 1,190 vote margin. Final returns show 7,032 for liquor beer sales and 8,222 against. Rural areas and Mebane favored defeat while Burlington Graham and Eton College precincts supported the measure. Haw River also voted for the proposal by 148.
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Graham
N.C
Alamance County
ABC
Eee
Mebane
Burlington
Eton College
Haw River
Libby Plans Resignation From Atomic Energy Commission
Dr. Willard F. Libby announced he will resign from the five member Atomic Energy Commission by midsummer. He will have completed three years of his five year term by June 30 and may return to teaching, with no definite university planned yet. He has argued against halting atomic tests citing deterrence of war and reduced fallout concerns.
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Washington
Willard F. Libby
Atomic Energy Commission
Libby
Eisenhower
Commission
Henry de Wolf Smyth
AEC
University of Chicago
Institute For Nuclear Bow Oy
Univers
Second Our Gang Actor Don Law Dies at 38
Don Law, 38, known for playing Fats in about 20 Our Gang films, died in Meadville Pennsylvania after a brief illness. He left behind a wife and three children. Funeral services are Monday. The piece notes another Our Gang member, Alfalfa Switzer, was killed in January in California over a $50 dispute.
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Meadville
Our Gang
Don Law
Greyhound-Harmony Shortline Bus Companies
Castro Charges Interference in land reform push
Fidel Castro accused foreign owned sugar firms of trying to derail his plan to breakup large estates and parcel land to landless farmers. He warned labor unrest could invite enemy attack while urging workers to avoid strikes as Cuba races to finish the sugar harvest before the rains. A nationwide electric workers strike seeks higher wages and reinstatement of dismissed staff.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
U.S
Castro
Rew
Cuban Electric Co
Electric Company
W. J. Amoss
Rio Opens For Grand Carnival
Rio de Janeiro begins a three night and day carnival with samba bands and costumed dancers along Avenida Rio Branco. Police deploy about nine thousand with ten thousand more in reserve for the festivities amid crowds of three million and visitors.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Avenida Rio Branco
Rio
5Th Avenue
Soviets balk at control in nuclear test talks
The Soviet Foreign Ministry accused the United States and Britain of seeking a veiled veto in a proposed seven member control commission. It said decisions by majority vote would marginalize the USSR and hinder a universal test ban. Moscow warned it cannot accept a NATO bloc majority on security questions while Geneva negotiations stall.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Foreign Ministry
Russia
Britain
NATO
Geneva
U.S. State Department
Personel
Commission
Van Cliburn Dropped From Jaycee Outstanding Youth
CHAPEL HILL N C AP Van Cliburn Texas pianist was not given a Junior Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Young Man award because his case was described as different. Bob Cox national Jaycee president said Cliburn failed to cite extreme circumstances for absence. Cox denied claims that awards are never given in absentia noting Kissinger received one while abroad.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
van Cliburn
Chamber of Commerce
Beicause
Bob Cox
Jaycee
Cliburn
Cox
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Sleep Keeps Famed Comic On The Go
Jimmy Durante will be 66 on Tuesday and remains tireless on tour. The frail looking East Side native says sleep powers his pace and lets him keep going with stories and his famous big nose still making him a household word.
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Philadelphia
Jimmy Durante
New York City
East Side
James Francis Durante
Big Growth Shown By Baptists In North Carolina
In 1957 3,307 Baptist churches served 871,272 members up from 2,385 churches and 440,602 in 1933. Local gifts rose to 34,887,787 and mission gifts to 6,570,660. The report notes 3,298 Sunday Schools, 13 mission schools, 2,311 schools total with 757,149 members, and increases in Women’s Missionary Union and Brotherhood memberships. Total gifts to all causes reached 41,458,477.
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Raleigh
Baptist State Convention
L. L. Morgan
Women’s Missionary Union
Brotherhood
Influence Denied By Hagerty In Congressional Book
Congressional investigator Nard Schwartz accuses influence peddling reaching to the White House in cases handled by independent regulatory agencies. The House subcommittee led by Rep. Oren Harris heard cases without Schwartz, including one involving Richard A. Mack and President Eisenhower era actions. Hagerty denies political pressure and says he forwarded citizen letters to agencies. Schwartz did not contact him.
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Congressional
Nard Schwartz
House
Schwartz
White House
Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Rep
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Eisenhower
Richard A. Mack
Adams
Mack
Alfred A. Knopf Inc
N.Y
New York University Law
Subcommittee
Albany -Schenectady
Hagerty
Thomasville
FCC
George C. McConnaughey
New York
Albany
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