Hurricane Gracie Prompts Coastal Evacuations in South Carolina
Residents of Long Beach Holden Beach and Ocean Isle Beach were evacuated as Hurricane Gracie lashed the South Carolina coast with heavy rain and 40 mph gusts. Red Cross shelters planned. tides ran 2 to 3 feet above normal. Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach reported wind and rain with no major damage yet.
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Wilmington
Brunswick County
Gracie
Highway Patrol
C. R. Williams
Long Beach
Holden Beach
Ocean Isle Beach
Se North Corona
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Carolina Beach
Paul Sanders
Sanders
Gracie Slams South Carolina Inland Threatens Flooding
Hurricane Gracie with winds up to 140 mph battered Charleston and moved inland toward Walterboro Orangeburg and Columbia. Weather Bureau warned of 10 to 15 inch rains and possible serious flooding along multiple rivers. A second storm Hannah carried up to 85 mph winds offshore as pages noted continued coverage.
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Charleston
S.C
Gracie
South Carolina
Weather Bureau
Here
Interior
Walterboro
Orangeburg
Columbia
Charlotte Weather Bureau
Yadkin
Pee Dee
Lynches, Black
Waccamaw
Edisto
Lumber
Little Pee Dee
Ashley Rivers
Savann Ga
Myrtle Beach
U.S. Weather Bureau
Charlotte
N.C
North Carolina
Hannah
Gordon Dunn
Haiti
Canada
Connie
Carolinas
Pennsylvania
New York
Diane
Wilmington
Virginia
Washington
Philadelphia
Precautions Suggested For Storm
Coastal residents receive a list of hurricane safety steps for Hurricane Gracie. Advice covers moving from beaches, securing shutters, tying awnings, bracing doors, lighting readiness, and avoiding fires. Myrtle Beach authorities keep standby generators ready to act.
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Charleston
S.C
Myrtle Beach
Summit Meet Likely NATO Report Says Berlin Talks
The United States briefed NATO ambassadors for 40 minutes on the Eisenhower Khrushchev discussions. One envoy said a summit or foreign ministers meeting on Berlin will likely follow. French Ambassador Alphand cited no change in Allied rights in West Berlin but noted the Soviet threat there was removed. He added hopeful remarks.
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Washington
United States
NATO
Berlin
Herve Alphand
Camp David
Nikita S. Khrushchev
West Berlin
Ein
Harold Case
State Department
North Atlantic Council
Paris
Quick action on steel strike may trigger Taft Hartley
President Presses for bargaining as top industry and union leaders meet to avert invoking emergency Taft Hartley provisions. If no progress, Eisenhower could deploy emergency strike powers, appoint a fact finding panel, and seek a 80 day cooling period via court injunction. Justice Department prepping for actions amid talks.
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White House
Eisenhower
Las Justice Department
Justice
William P. Rogers
George C. Doub
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Hurricane And Typhoon Same Why they differ in name
New York AP notes that a typhoon and a hurricane are the same kind of fierce cyclonic wind and rain. It explains typhoon usage in the Orient and hurricane term from the West Indies.
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New York
Orient
West Indies
Reds Plan To Colonize Moon
A Soviet astronomer predicts space pioneers will first colonize the Moon then conquer the cosmos. Moscow radio says cosmic rockets reach Mars and Venus and humans will live on the Moon with artificial atmospheres, rains, and seas.
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London
Mars
Venus
Moscow Radio
Feliks Segal
Moon
Segal
The
Radio
Moscow
Iise
Wartime Production Chief Dios Nelson Dies at 70
Donald M. Nelson, wartime head of the U S War Production Board, died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles at age 70 from a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been married to Lena Peters since February and lived at his Beverly Hills estate. Nelson, once Sears Roebuck executive, led the nation’s drive for armaments during World War II and later served as Roosevelt’s personal representative to foreign governments before returning to private life amid health issues.
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Los Angeles
Donald M. Nelson
Good Samaritan Hospital
Nelson
Lena Peters
Beverly Hills
U. S. War Production Board
Hannibal, Mo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Sears Roebuck Co
WPB
Roosevelt
Europe
Okay Khrushchev Prefers Okay as Word of Choice
Khrushchev embraced the word okay during his U.S. visit and called it a friendly American term he hopes to use in Russia. The piece traces okay's origins from the 1840 O.K. Club to its global adoption and varied spellings, noting its use in diplomacy and media.
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George W. Cornell
New York
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Moscow
Andrew Jackson
Amos Kendall
O.K
Amos
Martin van Buren
Old Kinderhook
N.Y
Lantly
British Privy Council
London Times
Okey
Nikita
Dallas Feud Erupts Over Finances
Giovanni Meneghini sues in Brescia for a legal separation from Maria Callas. He cites financial and moral aspects, noting her earnings exceed per performance fees while he claims she controls assets. Court hearing set for Oct 4. Italian law blocks divorce and remarriage.
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Brescia
Italy
Giovanni Battista Meneghini
Aristotle Onassis
Meneghini
Milan
Lake Garda
Miss Callas
Nagashima Texans: Typhoon Vera Death Toll Surges in Japan
Nagashima, a 7000 person farming town in central Japan, lies buried under floodwaters after Typhoon Vera. The disaster raises Japan’s confirmed dead to about 2002 with 2015 missing as rivers turned deadly and the town’s calm life collapsed.
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Nagashima
Japan
Pacific
Deadly Hurricanes Leave Toll Across Decade
A Charleston report lists the most destructive U S hurricanes since 1949. It notes Diane 169 deaths in 1955 and Audrey 353 deaths in 1957 as the deadliest in the United States, with Hazel causing major damage and numerous fatalities.
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Charleston
S.C
Cape Cod
Maine
Nova Scotia
United States
Brunswick
Hazel
Diane
Audrey
Haiti
Canada
Lake Charles
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Greenville
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Atlantic Ocean
S.C. Mainland
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U.S
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U.S. Steel Corp
R. Conrad Coppler
David J. McDonald
Steelworkers Union
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America
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Dallas
Japanese Islands
Beaufort
Gulf Coast
Helene
N. C
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