Eisenhower Arrives Seattle for Colombo Plan Meet
President Eisenhower lands at McChord Air Force Base Tacoma after a Lake Erie duck hunt and heads to Seattle for the Colombo Plan talks. He plans a round of golf with brother Edgar if weather allows as Dulles and officials arrive to review U.S. aid stance.
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Colombo Plan ministers hear dire Southeast Asia report
Seattle AP says 650 million people in South and Southeast Asia face their worst year since 1950 with bad crops and rising population. The Colombo Consultative Committee will hear President Eisenhower greet ministers in Colombo.
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Colombo Consultative Committee
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Dulles
Douglas Defends High Court in Speech on Lawmaking Role
New York AP: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas defended the court against claims it usurps Congress and states. He said a federal referee is needed to curb distortions and keep democracy, noting courts do some lawmaking in statutory construction but honor the final legislative word.
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Airmen Decorated For Rescue At Arctic Ice Runway
Six SAC crew members from Harmon AFB Newfoundland received Distinguished Flying Crosses and Medals for rescuing a 20 man IGY team from a 12 200 foot ice runway in Arctic darkness. Maj Gen Sweeney pinned the awards to Maj Basil Commons and Capt Joe Sullivan who led the mission aboard a Fairchild C123.
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Ottawa
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Weather forecast for regions across the United States
Snow mixed with rain is due for the upper Mississippi Valley and northern New England including Maine Vermont and New Hampshire. Scattered showers are expected in Florida. Light rain with showers in the mid-Atlantic states and parts of the mid Mississippi Valley. Colder weather is forecast for the plains states and the northwest.
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Woman Publisher Maude Mullen Dies in Lincolnton
Maude R. Mullen 71, longtime publisher of the Lincoln Times, died after a lengthy illness in a Lincolnton hospital. She led the paper through rapid growth after joining it in 1919, taught school earlier, and was active in the North Carolina Press Association. Services Monday at First Presbyterian Church, burial at Hollybrook Cemetery.
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Lexington Man Loses His Arms in Cornpicker Accident
Don ald Palmer, 23, of Lexington, on his father's farm, was severely mangled when a cornpicking machine grabbed his arms while unclogging it. He was taken to Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem for surgery, where doctors planned amputation. Palmer, married with one child, was alone when the accident happened. his mother alerted neighbors as they freed him after about an hour of disassembly.
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Celtic Roots of the Welsh People
The Welsh are a Celtic people who fled into Welsh mountains during the Anglo-Saxon invasion and merged with native kinsmen, preserving Celtic identity in Britain.
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Britain
Pioneer Arrival in Utah 1847 First Company Headcount
The first company of Mormon pioneers who reached Utah in 1847 numbered 148 people. Among them were 143 men, three women, and two children, reflecting the challenging pioneer trek and its demographic composition.
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Utah
Man Shot in High Point Recovering from Wound
Ronald Ray Whitaker a 23 year old High Point construction worker shot himself at his home about 8 p.m. during a drinking bout and after an argument with his girlfriend. The bullet entered above the heart and lodged in the back but no vital organs were damaged. He remained under observation at High Point Memorial Hospital as deputies investigated.
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Ronald Ray Whitaker
Landsdown Ave
Whitaker
Bobby Richards
Richard
Richards
High Point Memorial Hspital
Guilford County
Europe's Extreme Elevations Highlight Elbruz Peak
Europe features its highest point at Mount Elbruz in Russia rising 18 465 feet and its lowest point at the Caspian Sea below sea level at 86 feet.
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First Tea Party Protest in Baltimore 1772
In 1772 Baltimore citizens forced the Peggy Stuart captain to burn his boat and cargo of tea to protest the tea tax. The report notes weather data for Phoenix with humidity levels of 57 percent morning, 30 percent noon, and 28 percent evening.
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Ariz
Move to Abolish Filibuster Gains Steam in Postvote Push
A coalition of Northern Democrats and Republicans moves to modify Senate Rule 22 to end the filibuster obstacle. The plan aims for a two thirds vote of those voting rather than of all members, with Alaska’s added seats increasing the threshold to 66 of 98. Leaders anticipate intraparty pressure as the 86th Congress opens.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Clifford P. Case
R-Nj
Jacob K. Javits
RNY
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Merger announced for Beatty Cole Bros. Circus group
Circus officials in Sarasota announced the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Combined Shows as the world’s largest under the big top. The new six week April Palisades Park engagement in New Jersey will pit it against Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey opening at Madison Square Garden. The Beatty Cole Bros. revival consolidates a name-only Cole Bros. act.
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Clyde
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Cole Bros. Circus
Killed In Argentine Train Crash
Police reported 11 people killed in a collision of two passenger trains near Buenos Aires Retiro Terminal. Sa poriti cited 18 dead and 50 injured with other reports up to 300 injured. A faulty signal system is suspected.
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