Record Setting X2 Crashes. Pilot Dies at Edwards
Edwards Calif AP - The X2 rocket plane that held speed and altitude records crashed in desert terrain 20 miles east of Edwards AFB. Captain Milburn Apt 32 was killed. earlier flights had reached 126000 feet and 1900 mph. The craft failed during ascent after release from a B50 bomber. Captain Iven Kincheloe piloted one chase plane. Officials cited trouble between 45000 and 60000 feet.
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Wilburn G. Apt
Buffalo
Kan
Air Force
California
United States
Apt
U.S. Air Orce
Edwards, Calif
pHwer
Edwards Air Force Base
Milburn G. Apt
Bell Aircraft Co
Iven C. Kincheloe
Edwards Afb
Washington, D.C
Earth
It Over and the Dictionary’s Hidden Meaning
A discussion compares dictionaries to reference books that define words by use and relation to sentences. It argues clear communication prevents misinterpretation and conflict, noting that misunderstood words can describe people inaccurately and hinder understanding.
Bolivians Seize Plane In Flight To Seek Asylum in Argentina
In Salta Argentina 47 Bolivian political prisoners including Falange leaders seized a government airliner during en route to a camp near La Paz. The plane was flown to Salta where guards detained the fugitives at the 5th Division HQ. They called for asylum and blamed riots and shortages for the bid.
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Argentina
Bolivia
Buenos Aires
Socialist Falange Party
la Paz
Falange
5Th Ond
Some Sections Resume Standard Time Sunday
Some areas in the nation return to standard time this Sunday September 30. The rest keep daylight time until the last Sunday in October October 28. States listed include California Nevada Maryland northeastern Ohio and parts of Indiana Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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Associated Press
California
Nevada
Maryland
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New York
Vermont
St. Louis
Missouri
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Chicago
Second Yalta Parley Appears In Making
A second Yalta conference seems planned as Tito and Khrushchev arrive at the Black Sea resorts of Yalta and Sochi. Bulganin and Shepilov join, fueling Western hopes of top level Communist talks amid surprise travel by Tito and Bulganin from Belgrade.
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London
Yalta
Tito
Nikita Khrushchev
Black Sea
Bulganin
Dmitri Shepilov
Sochi
Belgrade
Russia
Shepilov
Alexander Rankovic
Djuro Pucar
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Alexei Kirichenko
Soviet Union
Ekaterina Furtseva
Brioni
Stalin
Kremlin
Yugoslavia
Washington Hearings Air Controversial Race Health Claims
House investigators heard testimony on alleged high illegitimacy and disease rates among Washington’s Negro population. Howard West of the DC Health Department cited 1954 statistics showing 442 white and 2 944 nonwhite illegitimate births out of 21 012 total. He suggested one in four Negro students is illegitimate and noted higher reported nonwhite disease rates. Mrs. Bessie Wood Cramer described social deprivation among Black children revealed by integration in 1954.
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Washington
House
Howard West
District of Columbia Health Department
Itate
House District of Columbia Committee
West
Rep. Williams
D-Miss
Bessie Wood Cramer
Carpenter on Divine Guidance Behind Joe Smith Nomination
Terry Carpenter recalls using the name Joe Smith as a divine signal during the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco. He says his bid began last April to oppose Eisenhower’s renomination and that Joseph W. Martin blocked his initial choice of Fred Seaton, leading to the Joe Smith moment in front of delegates.
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Martin
Joe Smith
Carpenter
Eisenhower
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Storm Flossy Lingers Over North Carolina After Path Shifts
Flossy, once a hurricane, drenched North Carolina with up to six inches of rain over three days and remains weak offshore northeast of Norfolk. Clouds and scattered showers persist statewide while the Weather Bureau predicts sunshine returning by nightfall in southern counties and end to rain statewide as cooler air prevails.
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Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Norfolk
Charlotte
Raleigh
Greensboro
Wilmington
Asheville
Grandfather Mountain
North Carolina couple nabbed in Oklahoma
A North Carolina ex convict and his wife were arrested in Tulsa after extradition waiver to face murder and forgery charges in the shooting death of Daniel Holloman at a Shelby area service station on Sept. 10. Their 18 month old baby was placed in a home. Detective Lt. Jack Purdie identified the suspects as George Cecil Cook Jr. and Joanne Elliott Cook.
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Tulsa
Okla
North Carolina
Daniel Z. Holloman
Shelby
N.C
Jack Purdie
George Cecil Cook Jr
Joanne Elliott Cook
Purdie
Cook
Holloman
Here
Allen
Gerber Under Fire Over Washington School Testimony
William E. Gerber the House subcommittee counsel on racially integrated Washington schools is accused of shaping testimony. He notes he interviewed about 500 personnel at random and respected witnesses who declined public testimony. More details continue on page eleven A.
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William E. Gerber
House
Washington
Gerber
Memphis
Crime increases in North Carolina in first half of 1956 report
FBI figures show North Carolina crime rose in murder, assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft over 1955 during the first six months. Robbery fell from 14 to 11.8 per 100 000. Charlotte led thefts under 50 dollars and aggravated assaults, with Durham Raleigh Wilmington Winston Salem and other cities showing varied changes. Nationally, crime up 14.4 percent.
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Washington
FBI
North Carolina
Charlotte
Durham
Raleigh
Wilmington
Winston‘Salem
Fayetteville
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
High Point
Asheville
Rocky Mount
Kannapolis
Hometown Tribute to Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Beaumont, Texas remembers Babe Didrikson Zaharias who died after a three year cancer battle. Her body lay in state at Bethlehem Lutheran Church and a funeral was conducted by Rev. C A Woytek. George Zaharias and relatives will escort the body to Houston for cremation before private graveside rites.
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Beaumont
Tex
Didrikson Zaharias
Texas
John Sealy
Galveston
Broussard Mortuary
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
C. A. Woytek
George Zaharias
Babe
Houston
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Textile leaders hail move to curb Japanese imports
Industry leaders from Cotton Army, Avondale Mills and the Association of Cotton Textile Merchants praised a new U.S. policy to set import ceilings on cotton goods. The stance, announced at a Northern Cotton Textile Association meeting in Portsmouth, aims to protect domestic mills from cheap overseas competition. Sherman Adams outlined federal action to shield U.S. industry, noting Japan's voluntary curbs and potential long term benefits. The Carolinas, key textile states, reacted with mixed views.
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U.S
F. E. Grier
Greenwood
D.C
Cotton Army
J. Craig Smith
Avondale Mills
Sylacauga
Ala
W. Ray Bell
Assn. of
Cotton Textile Merchants
New York
Northern Cotton Textile Assn
Portsmouth
State Department
United States
Adams
New Hampshire
Japan
Carolinas
Nearly Blind Boy To Enter Duke Hospital
Luther Mishoe a cheerful near sightless 6 year old from a South Carolina sharecropper family enters Duke Hospital for cataract treatment. Doctors say relief may come within weeks as his widowed mother Maggie Mishoe supports four other children on under 500 dollars yearly.
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Durham
Luther Mishoe
South Carolina
Duke Hospital
Pias
Luther
Maggie Mishoe
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