Space Balloon Goes Up Then Fails to Orbit
Cape Canaveral reports a Juno I test day with four rocket firings including two successes and one explosion. A Polaris and a Titan launch proceeded as part of heavy space activity before a stray balloon reportedly burned up after lift off. No injuries were reported.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPS
United States
Missile Test Center
Titan
Thor
Air Force
National Space Agency
Washington
Police Check Triggers Riot in St Paul After Identification Stop
Police halted Robert Price, 26, a Black man, during a routine ID check. The incident sparked a melee with about 300 people, largely Black, and 40 officers. Fire personnel used pressure hoses to disperse the crowd. eight arrests reported. no hospitalizations.
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St. Paul
UPC
Frank Yost
Robert Morehead
Robert Price
Price
Typhoon Toll Reaches 126 in Japan
Taiwan reported 126 dead as Typhoon Georgia cut through central Japan on Friday. Police said 119 missing and 712 injured with about 10,000 homeless. Sixty fishing vessels sank and 1,185 bridges washed away.
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Tokyo
Georgia
Japan
South Korea Celebrates Dual Founding and Liberation Anniversary
Seoul marked the 11th founding of the republic and the 14th anniversary of liberation from Japanese rule with a government rally at Seoul Stadium Park attended by about 50 000 students and citizens.
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Seoul
South Korea
Republic
Seoul Stadium
Castro Blasts Herter in Invasion Telethon Clash
Fidel Castro, fresh from repelling an airborne invasion in central Cuba, ridiculed U S Secretary of State Christian Herter and charged the Santiago Chile talks with Dominican plots. A captive claimed the Dominican Republic planned to send 5 000 men to invade Cuba.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Dominican Republic
Cuba
Foreign Legion
Lucky Circus to Award 100000th Visitor at Circus World
The 100000th visitor at Circus World Museum Baraboo will receive gifts worth over $100 as they pass the gate during the week of Aug 16. The museum concession group prepared the package with extra donations from local businessmen and resort owners.
Ike and Macmillan to Meet at Chequers
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will hold talks at Chequers, the Tudor mansion in the Chiltern Hills about 40 miles from London. Chequers has served as a weekend retreat for British leaders for nearly four decades.
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London
England
Chiltern Hills
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Search wide Pacific for Discoverer V capsule
A 10 000 square mile ocean area 700 miles southwest of Hawaii was scoured by ships and nine C 130 planes for the 300 pound Discoverer V capsule. Pentagon officials said there is little hope of recovery after a telemeter signal indicated ejection but no capsule signal was heard. The attempt aimed to show a recoverable system for the first Mercury flight planned for 1961.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
UPI
Hawaii
Pentagon
6593Rd
Hickam Air Force Base
Defense Department
30 Capture Haitian Town in Southwestern Haiti
Haiti's government rushed 150 troops to a southwestern town to repel an invasion by about 30 men in Cuban revolu tionary style uniforms who distributed cigars and spoke mainly Spanish. Authorities blamed former presidential candidate Louis Dejoie and called the act planned aggression, filing a complaint at the Lima Chile conference.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
UPI
Cuba
Foreign Ministers’ Conference
Santiago
Chile
Louis Dejoie
Dejoie
Francois Duvalier
Weather Midday Readings and Weekend Forecast Summary
Midday temperatures reached 70 at Southport 75 Downtown and 78 at American Motors. The day’s high 87 Friday and yesterday’s low 70 with 64 since midnight. Humidity index 63 pollen 42. Sunrise 5 58 sunset 7 52. Tonight cloudy cooler with possible thundershowers late Sunday. low 57 to 64 high 80s Sunday.
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Southport
American Motors
Caribbean Talks Aim to Quiet Turbulent Hemisphere
Foreign ministers from 22 Western Hemisphere nations meet in Santiago to shape recommendations intended to calm Caribbean politics. Fidel Castro attacks a U.S. plan for a temporary Caribbean investigation committee, while tensions with Rafael Trujillo deepen. Prospects include a Santiago declaration and a regional watchdog committee for future inter American work.
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Santiago
Chile
Caribbean
Fidel Castro
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Havana
Quito
Ecuador
Twin Lakes Girl Crowned Queen of County Fair
Jodine Glasby of Twin Lakes an 18 year old high school graduate was crowned queen of the 1959 Kenosha County Fair. She was chosen from a royal court of five from 18 contestants and crowned by 1958 queen Whatny Rugg. Mayor Eugene Hammond presented roses and she won a $200 scholarship, a life membership in the Fair Association, a Chicago hotel stay, a lake view suite, two tickets to Music Man, and Twin Lakes Country Club membership. She plans to work in Twin Lakes this summer and become a Chicago receptionist this fall. Her hobbies are skiing swimming and horses.
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Jodine Glasby
Twin Lakes
Wilmot High
Kenosha County Fair
Jodine
Cere
Mony
Whatny Rugg
Kenosha
Eugene Hammond
The
Fair Association
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co
Boulevarde Room
Chicago
Conrad Hilton
Lakeview
Patenjim Co
International Spebsqsa
Twin Lakes Country Club
J. M. Glasby
Jadine
Twilla Cottage
Evening News
Paris
Happy Workers
Jack Schaefer
Nancy Bovee
Basset
Kenosha County
Victor Kerkman
Rt. 5
Burlington
Salem Central
FFA
Humphrey Plans Still Uncertain for Wisconsin Primary
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey said he would enter the Wisconsin presidential primary when and if he announces his candidacy after Congress adjourns. He is resting at his summer home in Waverly Minnesota and will not announce his plans until he completes Senate duties.
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Waverly
Minn
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wisconsin
Congress
Humphrey
Senate
Whites Hope For Private Institution Front Royal Desegregation Test
In Front Royal Virginia a desegregation test unfolds as eleven Negroes and sixty five whites sign up for Warren County High School 1959 60 session. The registrar calm but observers expect higher turnout when parents are not working. Two other developments involve Charles Leadman Textile Workers Union as petitions seek to declare the public high school surplus and arrange a referendum to sell the property for a segregated private school. Integration may occur in four Virginia systems Norfolk Arlington Alexandria Charlottesville with most already having some integrated classes last year.
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Front Royal
Virginia
Warren County
Q. D. Gasque
Gasque
Warren County High
Warren County Education Foundation
Charles J. Leadman
Textile Workers Union
Leadman
Norfolk
Arlington
Alexandria
Charlottesville
Indonesian Communist Party to hold congress Aug 22 31
The Indonesian Communist party announces it will proceed with its National Congress from August 22 to 31 despite a ban issued by army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Indonesian Communist Party
Abdul Haris Nasution
Bottle Thrower Sentenced To Reformatory In Wisconsin
A 15 year old Racine boy who hurled a beer bottle from a quarry cliff, fatally wounding Michael Mascari, 18, was sent to the Green Bay state reformatory until age 21 after a Friday court appearance. The youth, paroled from the state school for boys at Waukesha, appeared before Judge Howard Du Rocher.
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Racine
Wis
UPI
Green Bay
Howard du Rocher
State School For Boys
Waukesha
Michael Mascari
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Ptate
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