Six Soldiers Hurt In Bus Convoy Mishap Near Las Vegas
A convoy collision 15 miles north of Las Vegas involved five Army buses carrying 200 soldiers en route to return to Fort Dix and other bases. Six soldiers were injured. five were from Fort Dix, with one driver lightly injured.
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Las Vegas
Here
Frenchman Flat
Nellis Air Force Base
Ft. Dix
N. J
Pfe. Daniels
31St Transportation Company
Camp Desert Rock
Daniels
Charles S. Edwards
Vivendi Pacpaco
Charles F. Jones
James J. Brown
Richard LaPierre
New Manpower Plan Being Devised by Ike
President Eisenhower plans to present Congress with a White House manpower blueprint. On a weekend trip he discussed the issue with his brother Milton Eisenhower and prepared for a May 18 White House conference with a panel including James D. Zellerbach and Grayson L. Kirk. The visit to State College drew a few hundred locals as the White House train arrived, the first passenger train here since 1948.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
State College
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Milton
Pennsylvania State College
Centre Hills Country Club
Philipsburg
South America
Murray Snyder
National Manpower Council
Columbia University
Snyder
James D. Zellerbach
San Francisco
Crown-Zellerbach
Grayson L. Kirk
Rowan Gaither
Ford Foundation
John S. Doud
Denver
Washington
Altoona
Michigan State College
Fire Chief Stops Car Seat Fire From Tetrachloride Bottle
Fire Chief James Lewis left a bottle of carbon tetrachloride on a front seat in Alton Illinois. Sunlight focused through the bottle and set the seat cushion to smoldering. He extinguished the flames with a carbon tetrachloride containing extinguisher.
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Ham
Alton, Ill
James Lewis
Lewis
Dead Man Returns to Claim Fairfax Farm Heirship
Joseph Foote 62 of Cleveland returns to Alexandria after 15 years to assert his claim to a 12 acre Fairfax County tract left by his father Frederick Foote. A court declared him dead in 1938, but relatives verify his identity and his brother Frank Foote and sister Margaret Foote Jackson confront the family dispute over taxes and the will.
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Alexandria
Joseph Foote
Cleveland
Foote
Washington
Fairfax County
Frederick Foote
Fairfax Farm
Lynn Investment Corp
Margaret Foote Jackson
Margaret
Frank C. Foote
Virginia Foote Jackson
Withdrawal Of Red Forces From Laos Seen As Trick
Saigon reports French and Indochinese officials see the Laos troop pullout as a possible drill for a Vietminh armistice proposal. They warn any offer would be doubtful and that real peace would require unconditional surrender of enemy forces or be used to slow French war effort.
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Laos
Saigon
Indochina
Nguyen van Tam
Viet Nam
Ho Chi Minh
Luang Prabang
Sisavang Vong
Plaine Des Jarres
Little
Mountain Kingdom
Hoang Minh Tao
Xiengkhouang
Pak Lane
Tthe Mekong
Thailand
Tam
Jean Letourneau
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Ike
Harllee
Harnee’s and Pacific Will
Cancer Society
Wonderful
Pacific
Life Magazine
TOR
Excello
Cannon’s Luxury Bath
White Sale
Wamsutta
Wanesutta
Letourneau
France
Salisbury
Greensboro Road
Jamestown
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