Biggest underground atomic blast at Nevada test site
The Blanca underground detonation at the Nevada test site produced a dirt plume over 1,000 feet high and 500 feet wide as part of a series of shots to meet a midafternoon deadline. Officials marked the end of an era as the Los Alamos weapons program reflected on the last tests.
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Nev
United States
Eisenhower
Greenwich
Britain
Soviet Union
Japan
Atomic Energy Commission
Col
Ernest Tinson
Defense
Los Alamos
N.M
AEC
Unsafe Vehicle Stop Lands Man in Custody in Springfield
Springfield police stopped a 1949 sedan during a routine safety check and arrested Samuel Kidd, 38, on a charge of operating a vehicle in unsafe condition. Officers cited two smooth tires, malfunctioning windshield wipers, one headlight out, and no horn. Kidd said he works at a junkyard.
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Springfield
Ohio
Samuel Kidd
Kidd
Miners Rescued After Week Underground Sing Hymns for Courage
Twelve Cumberland No. 2 coal mine workers were brought to the surface after nearly a week trapped by a cave in. They described praying and singing hymns to endure the long dark hours, with one man buried chest high but conscious until pulled out.
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Harold Brine
Springhill
N.S
Associated Press
Cumberland No. 2
Hugh Guthro
American Scientists Win Prize
Stockholm AP report: three American scientists Beadle Tatum Lederberg win 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for gene enzyme link and genetic recombination. Beadle and Tatum share half prize for directing chemical steps via enzymes. Lederberg receives other half. Basis: Neurospora crassa mold research showing genes regulate specific enzymes in sequential cellular steps.
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Stockholm
George Wells Beadle
California Institute of Technology
E. L. Tatum
New York
Rockefeller Institute
Joshua Lederberg
University of Wisconsin
Royal Caroline Istitute of Medicine
Beadles
Tatum
Leder
Lederberg
Torbjorn Caspergen
Caroline Institute
Beadle and Tatum
Casperson
Beadle
Factory Explosion Kills Four in Cleveland Plant
An east side factory blast at Erieco Products Inc killed four men and injured four others. The three story plant, maker of welding equipment, employed about 100. Dead identified as Mel Redjak Ronald Turner Nat Handle and William Ramsey. Copper oxide powder used in the manufacturing process caused toxic fumes. Firefighters overpowered by fumes with little remaining fire after the blast.
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East Side
Erico Products, Inc
Mel Redjak
Ronald Turner
Nat Handle
William Ramsey
Manus
Governor Grabs Gate First
Republican Governor Vernon Thomson stood outside a Milwaukee plant gate and shook hands with arriving workers and senator William Proxmire. Proxmire greeted Thomson, then moved on as crowds gathered, and Thomson waited in the morning gloom for the workers to arrive.
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Milwaukee
Vernon Thomson
Wisconsin
William Proxmire
Thomson
Proxmire
Vern
Segregation Ordinance Is Fought in Birmingham
In Birmingham Alabama a group of 22 African Americans filed suit in U S District Court seeking to strike down the city bus segregation ordinance. They were arrested in a December 1956 protest and the city repealed the measure replacing it with a rule that assigns seating. The plaintiffs seek to have the amendment reviewed and the case dismissed as the original ordinance no longer exists. Federal Judge H Hobart Grooms will hear arguments on whether to dismiss.
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Birmingham
Ala
US District Court
Birmingham Transit Co
H. Hobart Grooms
Grooms
Nixon Returns To Corn Belt Campaign Route
Vice President Richard Nixon resumed campaigning in the corn belt heading west for the final push for a Republican Congress. He overnighted in Chicago then traveled to Fort Dodge Iowa and Wichita Kansas with plans to Billings Montana and Everett Washington before Alaska.
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Nixon
Corn Belt
Alaska
Chicago
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Wichita
Kan
Billings
Mont
Everett
Wash
U.S
Two Get Five Years For Fraud
In Shelby North Carolina a bank cashier and a grocer received five year prison terms for embezzling from the Lawndale branch of Union Trust Co. Both will report to serve in Atlanta after bond pending until November 17. Yates Hubbard Williams pleaded guilty after earlier innocence claims. John Francis Carpenter also pleaded guilty. A state case cited 633 uncashed checks alleged to have been written during 1954 to 1957. The charges included 14 counts embezzlement 32 counts conspiracy and Carpenter 15 counts false entries. The cashier testified about his initial actions.
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Shelby
N.C
Lawndale
Union Trust Co
Asheville
Atlanta
Wilson Warlick
Yates Hubbard Williams
John Francis Carpenter
Williams’ Ac
Williams
Carpenter
Every Other Day War Makes Little Difference
In Quemoy residents and officials dismiss a new policy of shelling on alternating days as academic. A shopkeeper calls it meaningless as shells hit beaches on some days and not others. Col. Richard King notes shells continue to affect the people, despite the pledge. two Taipei planes landed unimpeded, though rough Formosa Strait weather hindered sea supply runs.
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Quemoy
China
Col
Richard King
Taipei
Formosa Strait
Public Health Expert Proposes Death by Own Action Control
Dr Edward Press of New York proposes a national system to prevent self harm deaths. He suggests 24 hour local control centers and a nationwide network of societies for prevention, with post treatment psychiatric care and 48 hour observation, followed by rehab visits by local health departments.
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Frank Carey
ST. Louis
Edward Press
New York
American Public Health Assn
Press
The
APHA
United States
Rescuer Recalls Mine Rescue That Found Dozen Alive
Earl Wood recounts how a Cumberland mine crew located twelve trapped miners after a long air check and a faint voice in a broken shaft. The team uncovered a six inch pipe stub and finally confirmed the men were alive asking for water, a moment described as unforgettable.
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Earl Wood
Cumberland
Wood
Springhill
N.S
Blair Phillips
Pasternak Rejects Nobel Prize Under Soviet Pressure
Three Western Nobel laureates agree Boris Pasternak refused the 1958 prize due to Soviet government pressure not personal belief. Pasternak cited the meaning of the award in his society while thanking well wishers and denying ill will. Fellow laureates Camus Russell and Eliot doubt a free choice, urging support for Pasternak amid Soviet censorship of Doctor Zhivago.
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Associated Press
Boris Pasternak
Kremlin
West
Soviet Union
Nobel Committee
Pasternak
Swedish
Royal Academy of Letters
France
Albert Camus
Earl Bertrand Russell
T. S. Eliot
Soviet Writers Union
Union
Moscow
Graham Greene
Aldous
Julian Huxley
E. M. Forster
Somerset Maugham
J. B. Priestley
Rebecca West
Pearl Buck
Pastors Oppose UNICEF Halloween Fund Drive
In Milwaukee area, two Roman Catholic pastors refuse to let parish children collect for UNICEF, condemning a Legion report labeling UNICEF as Communist affiliated. Revs Joseph Stier and Casimir Kuszewski cite the agency's denial and stand by their position despite the U.S. UNICEF official's rebuttal.
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Milwaukee
U.N
American Legion
U.S
Waukesha County
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California
Paul M. Butler
Butler
West Covina
Conn
GOP
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U.N. Fund
Unicef
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U.S. Committee For Unicef
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