End of Hydrogen Bomb Tests in Pacific Area
The United States announced the final hydrogen explosive test at the Mid Pacific proving ground was completed with success. Officials said the thermonuclear tests aided national security and the free world, with sea and air traffic resuming after the warning area is lifted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Mid-Pacific Proving Ground
Joint Atomic Energy Commission
Defense ‘Department
London
Atomic Energy Commission
Lewis Strauss
Wilson
Free World
Unicoi Man Killed In Auto Crash
Johnson City reports say 28 year old Fred Mc Laughlin of Unicol died early today when his automobile left the Erwin Highway and struck a utility pole. The body was thrown from the car and found about 2 feet away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson City
Fred McLaughlin
Unicol
Erwin
City Celebrates Armed Forces Day Parade Saturday
City marks Armed Forces Day with a parade if weather allows led by Grand Marshal Colonel William E. Ryan and aided by Charles K. Marsh. Units including Sullivan High School Band National Guard Naval Reserve Army Air Force Reserve and Civil Air Patrol will display equipment at the Civic Auditorium and downtown windows. A dance at Ridgefields Country Club ends the week’s events sponsored by the 9922nd Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Forces
Uhe Kingsport
Thas
David Walkey
Civic Auditorium
William E. Ryan
Hulston Ordnance Works
Ryan Wil
Charles K. Marsh
National Guard
Kingsport
Marsh
John Wimberly
East Center
Main Streets
Wexler Street
Wexler
Center Street
Clinchfield Street
Clinchfield
Sullivan High School
Naval Reserve
Army Reserve
Air Force Reserve
Gold Star Mothers
Hammond Post
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Charles DeWitt Byrd
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VEW
Burdine
The
Ameren Legion
Shrine Patrol
Cub Scouts
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Kingsport Police Cadets
Moose Lodge
Boy's Club
Civil Air Patrol
Johnson City
9922Nd Volunteer Air Reserve Training Squadron
Ridgefields Country
Sullivan GOP To Meet Tonight 32 precincts seek county offices
Sullivan County Republicans meet at Blountville courthouse tonight at 8 to nominate candidates for the August 5 county general election. Delegates from 32 voting precincts will choose for sheriff incumbent Alexander H. Hurd highway commissioner Otis Pendleton registrar of deeds Mrs Lucille Blankenbecler Barr circuit court clerk Paul Stone and trustee candidates Oscar Bailey and Worley Pain. Only the trustee post is contested. Fain previously held the job for 11 years and stepped down in 1848.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan County
Blountville
Register of Deeds
Alexander H. Hurd
Otis Pendleton
Lucille Blankenbecler Barr
Paul Stone
Oscar Bailey
Sullivan Gardens
Worley Pain
Bristol
Fain
Bandit Pair Robs Church Hill Fruit Stand on Highway 11W
Police hunt continues for two young men who beat 40 year old William Haupt at Churchwell’s Fruit Stand near Rotherwood Bridge around 3 pm Thursday. Haupt, assaulted with a blackjack, was later treated at Holston Valley Hospital for facial injuries and loss of $62. He told officers the attackers fled with cash and escaped on foot while he was weighing apples. T. G. Poe of Church Hill aided the victim by transporting him to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notrate
Churchwell
Rotherwood Bridge
Highway 11
William Haupt
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Haupt
T. G. Poe
Church Hill
Fugitive Peters Captured After Wild Napoleonic Chase
Arthur C. Peters aged 23, a federal painter and kidnapper linked to a spree across DuPage County and Chicago, surrendered to Napoleon police after wounding Marshal Barry Hartsing during a car chase. He had abducted deputies, robbed them, and terrorized a Chicago apartment before being spotted near Solan. Hartsing was shot in the shoulder and chest but survived with help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
INS
Arthur C. Peters
Barry Hartsing
McSlace
C. Peters
DuPage County
Chicago
John Klemanivic
Ohio
Peters
Solean
Henry County
Fred H. Bartles
Hartsing
McClure
I Hartsing
Roy Steiger
Steiger
J Napoleye
Mercy Airlift Begins For Wounded French at Dien Bien Phu
Helicopters and single engine planes start evacuating hundreds of wounded French Union troops from Dien Bien Phu to Hanoi and Luang Prabang. About 430 expected today in line with a 700 total, with 250 in serious condition. An entire hospital in Hanoi ready to receive casualties as Viet Minh cooperation enables the relief mission.
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MANOL
INS
MeKreoyners
Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi
Vientiane
Laam Prabang
Laos
Dien Bien Prn
Dien Bien Pin
Luang Prabang
Son
Dien Bien Puy
Red Cross
Vo Nguyen Giap
Air Forge
Cvar
Salling Reaches 108th Birthday In Seou County Home
SLANT Virginia. General Satin Salling, 108, Confederate veteran and last surviving member of his unit, will celebrate at his Clinch River home in Scott County. He is bedridden with a broken hip from a fall last October but expects visitors. he recalls logging with oxen and farming on his 31 acre farm along the river. He attended reunions, including the UCV gathering in Jackson, Mississippi, and recently rode in a Navy transport plane to join veterans in Virginia.
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Seou County
Satin Salling
Clinch River
Virginia
Ariciy
Norfolk
United Confederate Veterans
Salling
Confederate Veterans
Jackson
Iss
Scott County
National Guard Plane Crash Probe In Tennessee
A four member board of inquiry met in Nashville to determine the cause of a National Guard plane crash near Lewisburg that killed three men. Adj. Gen. Joe W. Henry announced the meeting as investigators release a preliminary report. Weather officials indicated foul weather contributed to the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tennessee National Guard
Lewisburg
Adj
Joe W. Henry
Safety Lanes Mark City Crosswalk Paint Plan
Kingsport Police Department Traffic Safety Division begins painting marked safety lanes in downtown crosswalks to prevent pedestrians stepping from curbs into streets. Assistant Chief John G. Martin says the aim is to guide pedestrians as traffic signals switch to green.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsport
Merit
Barbera
John G. Martin
THP Air Force Wins Convictions In Traffic Cases
In Kingsport area demonstrations a highway patrol plane helped catch two motorists crossing yellow lines to pass cars. A Route 1 Fordtown youth pled guilty and paid 5 fine and costs. a Route 5 Jonesboro man was found guilty and paid 5 fine and costs. Capt Boen testified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Williams
Tennessee State Highway Patrol
Sessions Court
Kingsport
Fordtown
Jonesboro
Eric Boen
Division Five
Cupt
Boen
Thorsday
Highway Patrol
Frank K. Williamson
Navarre plan on Indochina War written off by U S
Washington reports the Navarre plan for Indochina now deemed obsolete by U S and French authorities. Vietminh strength at Dien Bien Phu, Soviet and Chinese support shift battle lines, prompting debate over direct U S intervention to prevent Communist expansion in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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Navarre
Indochina
U. S
Washington (P
Dien Bien Phu
Henri Navarre
Will
Russia proposes new supervision at Geneva talks
Moscow suggests any settlement of the Indochina conflict be under a neural nations supervisory commission. Vyacheslav Molotov submits the idea as a supplement to Viet Minh terms, while Georges Bidault seeks international control. Western powers had no immediate reaction. Paris observers say Bidault’s position weakens with the new proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Russia
Idochina
Neural ‘Nations’ Supervisory Commission
Vyachislav M. Molotoy
Indochina
Georges Bidault
Molotoy
Vickminh
Hidault
Paris
Costello Found Guilty in Tax Evasion Case
New York reports gangster Frank Costello, 63, found guilty by jury of income tax evasion for 1947 to 1949 after eight hours deliberation. He was acquitted on the 1946 return count and faces sentences up to five years and a $10,000 fine per count. He still faces denaturalization proceedings as he may be deported to Italy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Frank Costello
Costello
Castello
Justice Department
Italy
Area Woman Injured in Two-Car Accident
Mrs. Martha Erwin, 25, of Kingsport, was admitted to Holston Valley Community Hospital after a Bloomingdale Road collision between two cars. She was listed in apparently good condition and under observation for possible internal injuries. Ralph Erwin, her husband, said the car struck another vehicle and overturned, throwing his wife from the car. The Tennessee Highway Patrol investigated the wreck, dated around 7:80 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Erwin
Troute 1
Kingsport
Holston Valley Community Hospital
Bloomingdale Road
Erwin
Ralph Erwin
Tennesee Highway Patrol
Dirksen Reveals Talk With Adams On January Subpoenas
Senate investigators hear Dirksen recall a January 22 meeting with Adams and Morgan in which they urged killing subpoenas for five members of the Army loyalty board. Mundt backs Dirksen on the loyalty board issue as Adams was ordered to refuse questions about a January 20 administration meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Everett M
Dirksen
Roy
Karl
Mundt
Army
Roy M. Colin
Joseph R. McGarethy
Defense
Robert B. Anderson
Adams
Anderson
McCarthy Army
John G. Adams
High Administration
Pvt
David Schine
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Dirkson
Cohn
Cohn- Schine
McCarthy Committee
Illinois
Lon
White House
Gerald Morgan
Morgan
McCarthy
Army Loyalty Board
Schine
Frank Carr
Cohn-Lehine
Kinder Is Restored To Duty By USAF
In Cleveland Tennessee Airman Thomas L Kinder was cleared of involvement in the slaying of a Korean villager. The Air Force reduced his life sentence to two years and restored him to active duty on probation effective January 15. Mrs Nell Kinder expressed relief, noting prayer answered.
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Cleveland
Tenn
Nell Kinder
Thomas L. Kinder
Air Force
Kinder
Secretary of the
Tol
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Clanton King
U.S. Air Force
William Feetron
278Th Infantiry Regiment
Guy G. Oxley
Surface Division
Donald BR. Rutledge
31St Special Infantry Company
UB. Marlne Corps Reserve
Frank Creasy
Pacific Area
Unicoi
Sullivan
Pai
Aliog
Ban
Vietnam
Rene Cogny
Ngh
Vietnam Peoples Army
Vietminh
Unat
Whdie
THP
Phin
Indochina Wat
Dien Alen Phu
Urey
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Faris
Santel
Area
USAF
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