Texans Report Cars Go Dead and See Veritable Fireball
Levelland Texas residents report a large fiery object in the sky that caused car engines to stall and then restart as it rose. Sheriff Weir Clem and Police Patrolman A J Fowler describe witnesses seeing a 200 foot long egg shaped craft with bright lights and aerial flashes despite no landing marks found.
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Levelland
Tex
Weir Clem
Fowler
Long
Clam
Reese Air Force Base
Lubbock
Xeb
Two Fliers Die as Plane Dives Into Donner Lake
Two men from Truckee were killed when their private plane plunged into Donner Lake in the High Sierras. The victims, Dick Buck and Dick Roberts, both 27, were practicing stalls over the lake when the plane spun into the water near the east shore. Witnesses described a loud crash and a bright light seen earlier near the scene. Local sheriff and Reese Air Force Base officials offered no explanation, while observers reported additional sightings and calls for Pentagon clarification.
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Trucker
Donner Lake
Dick Buck
U.S
Dick Roberts
Truckee
Russia pushes dog into space the world watches
Russia has stived the watch of the world animal lovers for sending a dog into space. I wish Hope could see me now Crosby said after donating 700000 to his alma mater library.
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Russia
Hope
Bing Crosby
Quake Rocks Israel Shakes Northern Cities
A slight earthquake struck northern Israel at noon Sunday causing house damage but no reported casualties. Authorities urged calm as residents assessed minor structural issues and sought safety measures. Local officials said there were no injuries and monitoring continues.
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Jerusalem
Israel
County manager clash over hiring from outside
Los Angeles editors demand a non county employee as next manager after Arthur Will. They cite possible bias among top department heads and argue bringing in outsiders could break downtown control. Will promotes many civil service eligible men as potential successors. Continued on Pegs A-5.
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Los Angeles
Arthur Will
Will
Shetland Island Cut Off by Heavy Storms
Gales and heavy seas have isolated the remote Shetland Island of Foulda from the mainland for 23 days. Foulda Postmaster Harry Gear reports continuing rough seas and an inability for mail to cross by radio telephone. residents say they have run out of tea tobacco and cigarettes.
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Shetland Island
Glasgow
Scotland
Shetland
Foulda
Harry Gear
Gear
Soviet Satellite Circles Earth With Curly the Dog Aboard
Sputnik II and its canine passenger Curly circled the globe for the 12th time, reaching over 1,000 miles above Earth. Moscow Radio reported Curly, a Laika, behaved calmly and was in good condition as scientists monitored signals from instruments. The mission, launched by a powerful missile, aims to test life-support in space and assess whether humans can live in space craft. Curly’s heartbeat and breathing were normal, with data to guide future spaceflight research.
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Moscow
Sputnik OU
Soviet Union
Morehhan
iCurly
Moscow Radio
Earth
Curly — Kudryavka
Curly
Barking Dog Recorded on Radio Tape in Sputnik Signal
Pocatello Idaho radio executive Tom Thompson of KBLI in Blackfoot reports a tape from Sputnik on a Sunday morning shows a barking dog sound. He says the tape records a single bark, a pause, then four barks in a row, noting the unusual clear tone and linking it to Sputnik’s frequency around 9:05 a.m. EST.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Sputnik Ti
Tom Thompson
KBLI
Blackfoot
Thompson
The
Pocatello Amateur Radio Ctudy
Sputnik
Gromyko Leaves for Moscow After Armament Row
Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko flies to Moscow after condemning Western powers for frustrating an arms control agreement. He refused to answer questions from newsmen on arrival and left New York by plane Sunday.
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New York
Andrei Gromyko
Moscow
Gromyko
Éng
Body of Lost Girl Found by Searchers
A seven year old girl Jill Hatch was found dead after a long search in Lag Padres National Forest near Reyes Creek, north of Ventura. She wandered from her parents fishing camp Saturday in freezing snow and cold, with 400 searchers, planes, and dogs aiding the effort. The coroner attributed exposure in the rugged terrain as the cause of death.
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Ventura
Jentia
Jill
Hatch
Sputnik IIs Orbit to Cross U S Soon
Cambridge Massachusetts The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory director Dr Fred L Whipple said Sputnik IIs orbit will become visible as an evening object in United States latitudes soon and also pass over the country in the morning within days He noted its orbit is more elliptical than Sputnik Is and roughly 104 miles distant at times The Moscow timetable underpins the forecast and he called Sputnik IIs scientific achievement an improvement over Sputnik I but not as great as first thought
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Russia
United States
Fred L. Whipple
Moscow
Whipple
Reds Plane Carries 220 Passengers in USSR
Moscow reports the TU114, the largest passenger aircraft with four prop-jet engines, can carry up to 220 people on short flights of 800 to 900 miles and 170 on medium routes. It features two elevators a restaurant and a telephone system. Flights Moscow to New York are projected at 10 to 12 hours with costs claimed comparable to rail.
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Moscow
Russia
New York
RCA Reports Sputnik Beep Detected Over Honolulu
RCA Communications reported a loud steady drone at 11:15 am EST Sunday and noted a second signal at 1:02 p.m. CEST. A spokesman said the transmission sounded like it passed overhead and that monitoring occurred at 20 megacycles with no additional beeps observed.
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Honolulu
RCA Communications
Satellite Dog Feeds Itself in Sputnik II Training
The Communist party newspaper L Unita reports Sputnik II’s dog has been trained to feed itself when an automatic bell rings. Moscow correspondent Giuseppe Boffa says the animal is part of an intensive space travel training program. The method follows Pavlovian conditioned reflex theory.
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Rome
Pavlov
Communist Party
L' Unita
Moscow
Giuseppe Boffa
Boffa
Ivan P. Pavlov
Crew of Seiner Ends Search Off Vancouver Island
The Coast Guard ended its extensive air and sea search for survivors from an unidentified purse seiner that burned and sank before dawn Saturday, 49 miles off Vancouver Island in the North Pacific.
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Seatile Ups
Coast Guard
North Pacific
Vancouver Island
Four Killed in Long Beach Weekend Auto Crashes
Four persons died and nineteen were injured in traffic accidents in the Long Beach area over the weekend. Names include Alfred Chason, 24, of Torrance, a Kennedy woman, Paul Bustamante, 29, Richard Ponce Vega, 23, and Dorothy Barr and Kennedy, 28, of Hawe thorne and San Pedro. Bodies found by San Pedro police on Sunday afternoon near Terminal Island.
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Long Beach
Alfred Chason
S. Main St
Torrance
Dorothy Barr and
Kennedy
St. Hawethorne
Paul Bustamente
Idih St. San Pedro
Richard Ponce Vega
Monrovia St. Garden Grove
Chason
San Pedro
Terminal Island
Ferry St
Chasen
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