Eisenhower to extend test ban for a few weeks
President Eisenhower seems certain to order a short extension of the U.S. nuclear weapons test ban, with possible follow ups. The plan aligns with a U.N. resolution opposing resumption during talks for a permanent ban, while Geneva negotiations approach a climactic phase in 1960.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U.S
United Nations
Geneva
United States
John A. McCone
Atomic Energy Commission
NBC Meet the Press
McCone
Soviet Union
Moscow
Britain
Detroit disc jockey admits payola in 6 thousand payout
Thomas Clay, a WJBK radio host, says he accepted payola to fund his family’s security and was fired. WJBK owner Storer investigations into payola span five TV and 12 radio stations. Clay says he netted about $6,000 in 18 months for plugging records on a six night a week program. His resignation followed by fellow host Dettce master of ceremonies of Bandstand, age 30.
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Raola
Thomas Clay
Ee Satin
WJBK
Clay
Aeave Mane Wee
Wjbk-Tv
Young
Dette
Detroit
Alan Freed Payola Probe Shakes 1960s Radio
In New York AP report Freed says he faced payola questions after WABC fired him for not answering. Storer stations nationwide under investigation for payola, including Detroit Cleveland Toledo Milwaukee Atlanta Los Angeles Philadelphia Miami and Wheeling. WNEW manager Bennett Korn says no prejudgment but firm stance on the probe.
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Alan Freed
Bill Michaels
Wjbk-Tv
Young
Storer Broadcasting Corp
Detroit
Cleveland
Toledo
Milwaukee
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Miami
Wheeling
W. Va
WABC
Freed
Here
Wnew-Tv
Bennett Korn
Payola
Federal Communicn
Castro Men Elected In Cuba
In Havana the Cuban Confederation Congress elected a 13 member group to new labor leadership. A congress resolution charged the IAROW under American imperialism control and criticized the organization while other resolutions attacked allied factions.
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Cuba
Havana
Conf
Labor High Command
Reds
Congress
Thei
Communist Inter - Ameri- Organization of Stackers
Gat
Gxocaine Confedera
IAROW
Atognies
Slides Block Cascades Roads Rail Lines Trapping Train Passengers
Heavy rains caused massive slides in the Cascade Mountains blocking Snoqualmie Stevens White and Blewett passes. The Milwaukee Road Olympian Hiawatha train stalled near Hyak with 90 passengers for 10 hours before buses ferried them to Spokane. A 64 year old woman, Hazel K. Caddell, died in Stevens Pass. Rail lines diverted traffic over a southern route via Pasco and Vancouver while highways faced long closures and one way traffic on US 10.
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Washa
Cascade Mountains
Washington
Milwaukee Road
Hyak
Ellensburg
Wash
Cascades
Spokane
Chicago
Slide
Milwaukee
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Mass woman offers four million for rehiring bank teller
Mrs. James Walsh says she will donate 4,000,022.75 to the Hadley Falls Trust Co. if it rehires teller Ann Halliwell who was fired after issuing a 4 million dollar check by a misprint. She kept the check to pressure the bank while her husband, an Air Force sergeant, is away. The bank president had no comment amid the dispute.
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Holyoke
Mass
James Walsh
Ann Halliwell
Mrs. Walsh
Bank
Sandlot game erupts into race fight near end
A Sunday street game between two teenage teams, one white and one Negro, exploded into a race melee. Six players from the all white C.Y.O. team plus their coach and the white referee were hospitalized briefly for X rays before release. Coach Roland Butschky described the brawl starting after his team tied the score.
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C.Y.0
Roland Butschky
Butschky
Armed Felons Escape in Stolen Car from Prison Camp
Five heavily armed inmates broke from a northwestern North Carolina prison camp truck, killed guard foreman Fields Absher, knocked guard William Handy unconscious, seized uniforms and money, then fled in a red and white 1959 Ford toward Laurel Springs. Authorities pursued via roadblocks as two suspects donned guards’ coats.
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William Handy
Judd Jones
Absher
Handy
Jones
Ashe County
Billy Brown
Jefferson
Ashe Memorial Hospital
State Prisons Department
George Brown
James Waller
Tommy Styles
John Allen Henry
Junior Burgess
Laurel Springs
State Highway Patrol
West Jefferson
Highway Patrol
Virginia
North Carolina
U.S. 58
Brown
Deaf Youth Describes Killing of Playmate in Kansas
Thirteen year old George Martens, a deaf boy, used sign language and his voice to recount how he killed eight year old Steven Moscoe. Coroner says Steven suffered 47 stab wounds and a fractured skull after being lured to an Olathe area location.
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George Martens
Olathe
Kan
Steven Moscoe
George
Stanley D. Roth
State School For the Deaf
Clathe
John Johnson
Steven
Knight Doubts Rocky's Entrance In Calif Race
SAN FRANCISCO AP Good win J Knight former California governor predicts Gov Nelson Rockefeller of New York will not enter this state's presidential primary next June. Knight a Republican says Vice President Richard Nixon will head the California delegation at the 1960 Republican National Convention with the delegation pledged to his nomination.
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San Francisco
Goodwin J. Knight
California
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Knight
Richard M. Nixon
Esso Ends Fair Trading in North Carolina
Esso Standard Oil withdrew as a fair trading firm in North Carolina and raised gas prices 5 cents per gallon to pre fair-trade levels. State Attorney General Malcolm Seawell said others may follow and hinted at supporting repeal of the 22 year old Fair Trade Law if all do.
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Esso Standard Oil Co
North Carolina
Esso
Herbert R. Dowd
Carolinas
Malcolm Seawell
Raleigh
Seawell
Gulf
Pure
American
Sinclair
Phillips
Richfield
Socony Vacuum
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