Missile testing echoed in money bill debate and tests
Senate aides push for decisive tests of Nike guided missiles to verify Army claims of potency. House passed a $33.655 billion defense budget with Air Force funding and proposals for a larger bomber program. Sen Chavez vows closed hearings with Air Force and Army leaders to compare Nike and Talos missiles.
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Washington
Sen. Chavez
D-Nm
U. S
Chavez
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Rep
Flood
D-Pa
McMahon
D-Tex
Air Force
Ing
Scrivner
R-Kan
Army
Navy
Leves
Sen. Stennis
Bricker
Nike
GM Orders One Day Shutdown
GM ordered a one day shutdown of automotive assembly to align production with demand. About 350,000 hourly workers across 119 plants in 64 U S cities may be affected, with plants to close today or Monday. Chrysler also began a two day shutdown affecting thousands of workers.
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Detroit
General Motors
Automotive Assembly
Chrysler Corp
Auto Assembly
Chrysler
Sler
United States
We Can Grow Toward the Sun and God Above
The author uses forest trees as a metaphor for personal growth. He argues trees reach for sunlight to fuel leaves and energy, and humans should rise toward spiritual energy from God to overcome problems and temptations and become more perfect.
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Robert L. Dieffenbacher
Convicted Murderers Die By Firing Squad At Utah Prison
Point of the Mountain Utah two men Verne Braasch 30 of Reinbeck Iowa and Melvin Sullivan 25 of Kansas City were executed at dawn for a murder committed more than six years ago. The two killers faced four rifleman squads with masked heads and blanks as part of the executions at Utah State Prison. A physician administered morphine and both men declined to speak. Relatives attended including Sullivan's mother and two priests as Catholic rites were given and Braasch body was turned over to Catholic Charities while Sullivan's body was claimed by his mother.
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vVerne Alfred Braasch
Reinbeck
Iowa
Melvin Leroy Sullivan
Kansas City
Utah State
Point of the Mountain
Utah
Verne Alfred Brassch
Braasch
Sullivan
Utah State Prison
Salt Lake City
Charles Wells
Wells
Neg
Grace
Nicosia
Cyprus
Britain
Dighenis
Eoka
National Organization of Cypriot Fighters
Union of Cyprus
Greece
Cpls
Gordon Hill
Ronnie Shilton
Hill
Shilton
Michael Karaolis
Andreas Demetriou
Karaolis
Demetriou
Famagusta
Senators Pass Flood Insurance
The Senate approved a bill to create government flood insurance with a 40 percent subsidy and state cost sharing after June 30, 1959. The measure, passed 61-7, moves to the House where similar bills are under review amid New England flood pressures. President Eisenhower supported the state-payment provision despite objections.
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Washington
Senate
House
Banking Committee
New England
Eisenhower
Sen
Lehman
D-Ny
House panel backs over one billion boost for Agriculture
The House Appropriations Committee recommended increasing the Agriculture Department budget by about 1.98 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year starting July 1. The move centers on covering losses in price support programs and includes adjustments to regular programs and corporate expenses.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Agriculture Department
House
Eisenhower
Aes
Fike
Commodity Credit Notowet
Aiken Objects To Bill Over Farm Measure
Senators Young Ellender defend revised farm bill with soil bank despite possible veto. Aiken objects to mandatory price supports for oats barley rye grain sorghums and corn grown outside the main belt warning it would hurt more farmers than help. Parity and price support rules are outlined for this year and next with acreage reductions required for some crops to qualify.
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Washington
Young
Ellender
Dla
Eisenhower
Sen
Aiken
R-Vi
Senate Agriculture Committee
Congress
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Midwest
Door to door car sales hit Flint streets in bold promo
Flint auto dealer George Spaulding launches a door to door sales push to boost midwar car demand. Two platoons of 13 men roam streets from 4 pm to dark calling on households and offering on the spot appraisals and potential trade ins.
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Flint
Mich
George Gulding
Spaulding
King
Plea Seeks End to Montgomery Bus Segregation Laws
Four Negroes ask a three judge federal panel to strike down Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws. They seek an injunction and a declaratory judgment. A decision could go to the Supreme Court, amid ongoing mass boycott affecting Montgomery’s 50 000 Negro residents.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
U. S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Columbia
D. C
National City Lines of Chicago
Montgomery Concern
32 Train Cars Are Derailed in Florida Incident
Norfolk report states thirty two cars of a Seaboard Airline freight train derailed at Maddox Florida seventy one miles west of Jacksonville. No injuries were reported and main north south traffic on the Jacksonville Tallahassee line was not affected.
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Norfolk
Seaboard
Maddox
Fla
Jack the Railroad
Jacksonville-Tallahassee
Fatally Hurt Rebels. French Forces Bombard Algerian Farms
In Algeria clashes widen as French Foreign Legionnaires attack rebel units burning farms near Oran and in Kabylie. At least 22 rebels are reported killed with higher rebel casualties feared. French forces reinforce Oran while civilians face rising danger amidst Ramadan.
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Algiers
Algeria
French Foreign Legionnaires
Digeau
Legeonaires
Oran
Constantine
Geportee
Kabylie
Rivet
United Nations wary of outside peace imposition in Middle East
Dag Hammarskjold warned the Security Council against imposing a peace settlement on Israel and Arab neighbors. He urged Middle East initiative, noted ceasefire accords could spark peace, but final settlement may be distant and no outside steps should be taken. He returned to New York after securing reaffirmation of 1949 armistice terms from Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
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United Nations
N.Y
USN
Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
Israel
Middle East
Hammarskjold
New York
Egypt
Syria
Lebanon
Jordan
L-Nation
U.N
Ture
Secure Council
Soviet Press Presses Outcry Over Crabb Disappearance
Soviet papers Pravda Izvestia heavy on criticism of the April 19 disappearance of British diver Cmdr. Lionel Crabb near the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbor. They label the underwater operation as shameful spying and question British motives while Eden agrees to a Commons debate on the case.
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London
Portsmouth
Lionel (Buster) Crabb
Ordzhonikidze
Portsmouth Harbor
Bulganin
Nikits Khrushchev
Admiralty
Crabb
Eden
House of Commons
Moscow
Frogman
Pravda
Izvestia
Cmdr. Crabb
Commons
Lionel “Buster” Crabb
England
Moscow Post Today
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