Warm spell fuels Southland fires and high temperatures
A heat wave kept hot conditions across the Southland with temperatures reaching 91 in Long Beach and 106 in Palm Springs while Riverside hit 100. A high pressure ridge suppressed coastal breezes and humidity dropped, sparking several fires that burned hundreds of acres in rolling hills and Brea Canyon as 150 firefighters fought to control them.
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Palm Springs
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Nevada
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Brea Canyon
Orange County
U S Sends Nike Missiles to Fortify Formosa Defense
The Defense Department announced the United States will deploy Nike Hercules anti aircraft missiles to the Pacific to bolster Formosa’s air defense amid reports of fires and destruction on the island. The State Department said evacuation plans are only a routine precaution and no orders have been given.
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UPI
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United States
Pacific
Formosa
Department
Elsinore-Perris
Plane crash report prompts coast guard search off Newport
Coast Guard cutter and Harbor Department boats searched waters off Newport Beach Monday night after unconfirmed reports of a plane crash and explosion. Sgt. D W Brown cited several witnesses hearing an explosion and seeing a huge flash 15 to 20 miles seaward. Air bases reported no missing planes, and the Navy was to contact area exercises.
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Newsport Harbor Department
Newport Beach
D. W. Brown
Harbor Dept
Brown
Navy
Long Beach Unified School District Reports First Day Enrollment
A record enrollment was recorded Monday by the Long Beach Unified School District. The piece notes the start of the Page Act and mentions the U S Supreme Court taking jumps back in 1789 on the Page B-6 section.
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Long Beach Unified School
U.S. Supreme Court
No Shooting War Averted Says Brucker Amid Tense East Asia
Washington reports that amid a Far East tour and Eisenhower remarks the United States prevented a shooting war with China. Brucker credited Ike no Munich speech with cooling tensions while warning of a potential crisis in Formosa. The note hinted at possible summit talks including Red China. Secretary McElroy said the U.S. plans no ground forces buildup in the Formosa area and will deter only. The UN General Assembly race centers on Malik of Lebanon and Mahgoub of Sudan with Western and Afro-Asian bloc support. Actress Marie McDonald, nicknamed The Body, is engaged to Blake Garner with a December or January wedding planned.
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Orient
Pakistan
Korea
Formosa
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UPI
United Nations General Assembly
Charles Malik
Lebanon
Ami Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub
Sudan
Malix
Nirhowbig
Arab League
Leslie Munro
New Zealand
Norfgle
Neil H. McElroy
United States
America
Hollywood
Marie
McDonald
Ex NY Baseball Star ID'd Among Missing in Derailment
Elizabeth New Jersey AP reporter notes former New York Yankees second baseman George Stirnweiss among the missing after a Jersey Central train plowed through danger signals and a drawbridge, plunging 50 feet into Newark Bay. 40 dead, 33 injured, seven bodies recovered by nightfall. Elton Clark also listed as aboard. rescue operations continue as officials seek explanations for the accident.
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George
Snuffy) Stirnweiss
New York Yankees
Jerseys Central
Red Bank
New York City
Elton Clark
Allied Chemical and Dye Ga
Jersey Central Railroad
Plane Catches Fire Over Pacific Lands Safely at Johnston
A DC4 transport plane chartered to the Military Air Transport Service caught fire while over the Pacific Monday night. After a half hour battle the crew extinguished the blaze and made an emergency landing at Johnston Island. Five crew members were aboard en route to Wake Island. cargo details were not immediately known.
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UPI
Pacific
Johnston Island
Coast Guard
California and
Hawaiian Airlines
Military Air Transport Service
Wake Island
UAW and Big Three Propose New Contract Terms
DETROIT UAW leaders and the Big Three automakers Ford Chrysler and GM submitted counter offers after Ford sent a package proposal days before a threatened Wednesday nationwide strike. UAW President Walter P. Reuther accused the parties of collusion as Ford VP John F. Bugas denied industry-wide bargaining. Reuther indicated a counter proposal exists but offered few details.
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Detroit
UPT
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
John 5. Bugas
Bigas
Reuther
Bugas
C46 Dash Frees 24 From Blockaded Quemoy Islands
A Chinese Nationalist transport plane braved heavy artillery to evacuate 21 wounded and three newsmen from the besieged Quemoy islands. The aircraft took off at Shaoto Beach at 7 40 am flying low to avoid anti air fire as journalists Lawrence Chang Lionel Tsai and C Chang prepared for departure amid continued shelling and a 23 day siege.
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Formosa
UPI
Quemoy Islands
Isles
Shaoto Beach
NBC
Lawrence Chang
Lionel Tsai
Reuters
C.’ T. Chang
Telenews
Heaver Top Heights
Tsai
Ibig Quenny
U.S
Quemoys
South Uses Last Resort on Schools to Fight Integration
The South employed a last resort tactic to block public school integration in Little Rock and Charlottesville amid the 1950s desegregation push. Florida saw new progress as a Black student enrolled at Gainesville without incident while federal court actions in Baltimore and state authority actions delayed openings. Snow blanketed Colorado passes as Denver reports winter conditions.
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Arilané Front Royal
Florida
Gainesville
Supreme Court
Deep South
Warren County High School
Front Road
Charlottesvile
Federal Circuit Court
Baltimore
Simon E. Sobeloff
Little Rocke
Orval Faubus
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