Missile Waste Cited in Defense Reorganization Debate
Secretary of Defense McElroy told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U S has produced excess missiles and wasted taxpayer money. He sought greater authority to reorganize defense programs while Senate Chairman Richard Russell pressed for assurances of free testimony from Pentagon officials.
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Washington
Defense McElroy
Pentagon
Senate Armed Services Committee
McElroy
Senate
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Seaway Water Is Unloosed In Massive Dredge Blast
A 500 foot dam break unleashed 200 billion gallons of water, ending the U S portion of the St Lawrence Seaway project. Gov Averell Harriman and Ontario Premier Leslie Frost attended as 30 tons of dynamite shattered the cofferdam, creating a 35 mile lake and advancing a 360 mile waterway set to open next year. The project, started in 1954, will link Duluth to the Atlantic and boost power across New York Ontario and Vermont with costs shared by New York and Ontario.
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Massena
N.Y
St. Lawrence Seaway
Averell Harriman
New York
Leslie Forst
Ontario
America
Duluth
Minn
Vermont
Bac
U. S
North America
Barnhart Island
Suez
Panama
Canada
Cess
United States
New York State
U S Declines Intervention In Kidnapings
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States will not pay political blackmail for the release of Americans held by Cuban rebels in East Germany and Cuban territory. He said intervention is a last resort, better left to the Lebanese via the U N, and he doubts sealing the Lebanon Syria border. More than 40 Americans have been kidnapped by rebels.
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Washington
Dulles
United States
East Germany
U. S
Lebanon
U. N
Syria
Rebels Threaten Beirut as Lebanese Conflict Rages
In Lebanon near Beirut rebels led by Druze chief Kamal Jumblatt push toward the capital but are checked by jet fighters and artillery. Government forces retake hill positions around Ainab as irregulars stream in by taxicabs and trucks amid night fighting. Saeb Salam directs rebels in Beirut’s Basra district while observers ponder a possible rebel government.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Beirut International
Ainab
Kamal
Jumblatt
Saeb' Salam
Basra
Million-Dollar Blaze Destroys Asheville Roundhouse
A large fire at Southern Railway's Asheville roundhouse destroyed about 5300 tons of Champion Paper stock including milk carton material. Loss pegged around 1 million dollars with insured contents. building damage cited at about the same. Cause under investigation as efforts continued to control the blaze.
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Asheville
Southern Railway
Champions and Fibre Co
Cann
Champion
H. A. Helder
Champion Paper & Fibre Co
Carolinas
Helder
J. C. Fitzgerald
L. D. Ingle
Roundhouse
Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya Leaves for Moscow
Soviet ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya was released after charges were dropped when a Soviet Embassy member paid for items in a Brussels shop. She was appearing with the Bolshoi Ballet at the World Fair and headed for Moscow.
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Brussels
Olga Lepeshinskaya
Moscow
Bolshoi Ballet
Lepeshinskaya
Stalin
Alaska Nears Statehood After Senate Action
Alaska stood on the edge of statehood as the Senate voted 64 to 20 on a bill to admit it as a state with presidential approval expected soon. The move would grant voting representation in Congress, electable state officials, and a tax base from 103 350 000 acres, though much land would remain federally owned.
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Boon Miata
Alaska
Senate
Riedens
Congress
United States
Arizona
New Mexico
Premier De Gaulle Returns To Algeria
Premier de Gaulle arrived in Algeria for a second visit in less than a month facing friction with French settlers over policy. He planned stops at Telergma and Oran and would visit the Foreign Legion before Algiers, as a nationalist grenade wounded about a dozen in downtown Algiers amid his wartime uniform welcome by Gen. Raoul Salan and Algerian posts near the Tunisian border.
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Algiers
de Gaulle
Algeria
de Gaulle J
Telergma
Constantine
Oran
French Foreign Legion
Raoul Salan
France
Alaska Celebrates Statehood Victory After Senate Approval
Alaskans erupt in wild celebration across Juneau Sitka and Fairbanks as Congress passes the statehood bill. Crowds cheer with whistles and fireworks while leaders warn of the tough tasks ahead to admit Alaska to the Union and set up new governance.
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Juneau
Alaska
Senate
Sitk
Eisenhower
Four More Americans Kidnapped By Rebels Near Guaro Cuba
An AP report says four more Americans were abducted by rebels from a United Fruit Co sugar plantation at Guaro Ori ente province. Earlier raids seized 12 engineers and 28 Navy personnel, with U S diplomats seeking release of all captives and consuls in contact with rebel groups amid ongoing negotiations.
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Havana
Cuba
U.S
United Fruit Co
Guaro
Preston
Oriente
A. F. Smith
New Hampshire
J. F. Stephens
Oklahoma
H. F. Sparks
Indiana
Ford
Moa
Fidel Castro
Park Wollam
Santiago
Castro
Raul
Wollam
Robert Wiecha
Guantanamo Bay
U.S. Navy
Wiecha
Navy
Safe at Air Base Branch Bank Ripped Open
Robbers burglarized a People's National Bank branch at Donaldson Air Force Base injuring no one. About 21,000 in twenty dollar bills and 15,000 in tens were among the new money. coins were scattered on the floor. FBI and Greenville County sheriff's office investigated.
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Greenville
S.C
Donaldson Air Force Base
FBI
Charlotte
People’s National Bank of
Greenville County
Ron Copsey
Donaldson Pio
Hal Welborn
Welborn
Luciano Linked With Crime Meet at Apalachin Probe
Senate rackets probes heard testimony that mobster Charles Lucky Luciano, operating from Italy, may have staged last November’s Apalachin crime convention. undercover agent Martin Pera testified before Sen McClellan’s committee that the meeting sought to carve up rackets after Anastasia’s murder. Pera linked Italian Mafia strife to a Neapolitan blood feud and possible American underworld repercussions.
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Washington
Senate
Charles
Lucky) Luciano
Italy
Apalachin
N. Y
Martin F. Pera
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Special Investigating Committee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Albert Anastasia
Pera
Anastasia
Potent Snake Bite Remedy Potent Snake Bite Remedy
Ronald Walsh of North Wilkesboro carried a 22 caliber pistol on a fishing trip in Doughton Park when a rattlesnake bit his toe. He shot his toe to halt venom, bound it with line, and walked to his car to seek care at Wilkes General Hospital.
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North Wilkesboro
N.C
Ronald Walsh
Walsh
Basin Creek
Doughton Park
Blue Ridge Parkway
Wilkes General Hospital
Moravian Falls
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Chena
George Kaufman
Luciano
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