Secrets Of Migration Still Puzzle Science
Washington Special outlines how baby seals at Coney Island migrate with their species, detailing long journeys of harp seals, fur seals, whales and caribou. It notes photoperiodism as a possible trigger, describes routes from Grand Banks ice to Greenland coasts, Pribilof Islands, Baja California lagoons, and vast continental migrations across North America.
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Washington
Coney Island Aquarium
Animal Kingdom
Coney Island
North Atlantic
Grand Banks
Greenland
Newfoundland
Pribilof
Bering Sea
Alaskan
California
Arctic Ocean
Baja California
Art Of France's Little Sparrow Reflects Life
Paris based feature on Edith Piaf portrays her voice as a whisper behind a powerful life story. Abandoned in childhood, she endured darkness, hardship, and multiple romances shaping a career that survives stage fright. Her triumphs include Olympia Paris and a planned New York tour, drawing audiences worldwide.
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Art of
France
Paris
NEA
Edith Piaf
Piaf
U.S
Raymond Asso
Jacques Pils
Olympia
New York
Fair At Fair Continues With Large Crowds And Awards
A large Friday night crowd at the fair heard Masters describe his rhythm band as among the sweetest in the nation. He credits Welsh roots for his flute, banjo and singing voice, then traces his rise from Chicago theater bands to New York stagings and Columbia recordings. Exhibits are being checked and checks for 4-H will be mailed, with other department payments processed Sunday afternoon. The carnival runs past midnight and another big weekend is expected for stock car racing and the grounds.
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Masters
Chicago
Roosevelt Hotel
New York
Betty Grable
Rochester
Columbia
Joseph W. Frisch
Milwaukee Boy and Dells Man Drown in Weekend Accidents
Jeffrey Anderson a 12 year old from Whitefish Bay drowned at Lake Michigan after a wave knocked him over and carried him offshore. Jack Dapp 22 of Wisconsin Dells drowned in the Wisconsin River when their boat overturned and he disappeared in 65 feet of water.
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Associated Press
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin
Jeffrey Anderson
Whitefish Bay
Lake Michigan
Allan
Jeffrey
Jack Dapp
Wisconsin Delis
Wisconsin River
Lapp
Coldwater Canyon
Medicated Bird Seed Stops Parrot Fever
Stockholm reports a breakthrough in psittacosis control where it starts with household birds. Medicated bird seed using chlortetracycline and millet shows rapid subsidence of infection after the first day of treatment. Trials at UC Berkeley Hooper Foundation San Francisco and University of Texas Galveston support the method. Psittacosis affects parrots and related birds and is transmissible to humans via dust from cages.
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Stockholm
Steele
Veterinary Public Health Division
Atlanta, Ga
International Congress For Microbiology
University of California
Hooper Foundation
San Francisco
University of Texas Medical
Galveston
Submarine Nautilus polar voyage boosts U S prestige
Two veteran Arctic explorers Sir Hubert Wilkins and Vilhjalmur Stefansson commented on the Nautilus voyage noting it could have been done with a conventional sub. Wilkins, an Army consultant, recalled his 1931 under ice trek in a Nautilus craft but concluded the feat was possible with standard submarines. Stefansson said the Navy was dragged into the polar mission but provided no details.
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U.S
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Wilkins
Natick, Mass
Stevansson
Dartmouth College
Hanover
N.H
Four Juveniles Admit Theft and Dredge Damage
Four boys aged 12 to 15 admitted theft of a case of 60 cigarette cartons and about $2000 in damage to Harland Domke’s dredge parked near Lang Drive. An 18-year-old, Robert Dar rel Howard Boardman, acted as an accessory and faces County Court. Most cigarettes recovered. youths referred to County Welfare.
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Milwaukee Road
Harland Domke
Robert Darrel Howard Boardman
Avon St
Willard Sill
Bernard Sauer
Domke
Lang Drive
County Welfare Dept
Glennan To Head New Space Agency
Dr. T. Keith Glennan named to head the new civilian space agency being formed after Sputnik I. He will appear at Senate hearings next week, begin his assignment about Sept. 1, and will leave his post at Case Institute of Technology. He notes Soviet progress stems from strong education incentives and student dedication.
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Cleveland
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
T. Keith Glennan
Glennan
Washington
Senate
Case Institute of Technology
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
One Year Extension Of IGY Program Voted
A special committee of the International Geophysical Year voted to extend the program for one year, until 1959, though funding from 60 governments is still needed. The closing session of 400 scientists heard U S experts regret delays in Soviet data exchange on rockets and satellites and the lack of automatic data flow.
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IGY
Moscow
International Geophysical Year
International Geophysical Cooperation
U.S
Homer E. Newell
Washington
John Simpson
University of Chicago
Flint arson and protection racket tied to Teamster probe
Flint authorities pursue a theory that a protection racket against dry cleaners spurred the arson death of Frank Kierdorf 56 a Teamster official. Investigators question Hoffa relatives and Hoffa Local 299 leaders while tracking Kierdorf and his uncle Herman Kierdorf who vanished after identifying him at a Pontiac hospital. The Cadillac tied to the case is being examined for clues as officers seek motives and accomplices.
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Senate
Congress
Maurice A. Hutcheson
The
Carpenters Union
Hutcheson
Frank Fitzsimmons
Hoffa
Detroit
Fitzsimmons
Kierdorf
Michigan
Cadillac
Flint, Mich
Paul Adams
Frank Kierdorf
Adams
Teamster
William Hoffa
James R. Hoffa
Joseph Baines
Pontiac
Herman Kierdorf
Frank
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
Herman
Bur
Wauwatosa Housewife Found Slain
Milwaukee AP reports 57 year old Mrs Edna Mauch was bludgeoned in her Wauwatosa home with a concrete brick in a sock. Her husband Aloysius woke to find her dead as investigators note possible rape and robbery. A purse had $240 missing and shoeprints and a glove were found at the scene. Police cite open door and prowler reports in the neighborhood.
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Milwaukee
Edna Mauch
Wauwatosa
Alvin Basting
Aloysius
Sgt. Basting
Mauch
Maud
Maudh
Outline of Hammarskjold Plan for Middle East Aid and Cooperation
The draft U.N. plan urged Arab states led by the U A R to uphold nonaggression and noninterference, allow the world community to help shape destinies, create new development funds with U N aid, foster oil country cooperation, and pursue joint water resource use. It called for U N truce supervision in Jordan, possible U N representation in Lebanon after observers depart, U S troop withdrawal once Lebanon’s independence is guaranteed, and continued U N Emergency Force in the region.
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Lodge
U.S
Hammarskjold
Sobolev
Andrei Gromyko
New York
Moscow
United Arab Republic of Egypt
Syria
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Libya
Sudan
Middle East
U.N
Nasser
U.A.R
U.N. Truce Supervision Organization
Israel
United States
Deaths Paul Kracklauer 70 Fort Bragg Calif
Paul Kracklauer 70 of Fort Bragg California died in a Fort Bragg hospital Friday evening. Funeral services and burial will be in La Crosse. Arrangements are incomplete.
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Paul Kracklauer
Fort Bragg
Calif
la Crosse
Flagpole Sitter OK After Week
Dr Emmett Davis a WWII troop carrier pilot climbed a 65 foot pole to check pole sitter Paul Hatfield. The 38 year old doctor paused amid ascent and reported his patient sound in body and mind after a week atop the pole. Hatfield seeks to break the world pole sitting record of 169 days set in 1955 by a Takoma Park Washington woman.
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Baltimore
Emmett Davis
Paul Hatfield
Hatfield
Davis
Takoma Park
Wash
Excavation resumes at Russell Cave in Alabama
National Geographic Society restarts digs at Russell Cave near Bridgeport Alabama where pre Columbian people lived about 9000 years ago. Previous summers in 1956 and 1957 yielded 32 feet of excavation and 2.5 tons of artifacts but did not reach bedrock. Under Smithsonian archaeologist Carl F Miller the 1959 effort aims to depths unseen and could reveal a new cave.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Russell Cave
Bridgeport
Alabama
Miller
Nautilus Under The North Pole A Historic Arctic Voyage
The nuclear submarine Nautilus completed a voyage under the Arctic ice from Pearl Harbor to the North Pole and toward Portland England. Cmdr William Anderson led the mission, was decorated by Eisenhower, and the crew, including Lt. Cmdr Frank Adams, faced a modern navigation challenge with inertial systems and deep ice passage. Russell Cave findings, dating over 9,000 years, were highlighted as part of the expedition context and future exploration plans were noted with Grosvenor and the National Geographic Society.
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Bering Sea
Greenland Sea
North Pole
Anderson
Eisenhower
Andereson
Iceland
Atlantic
England
Cmdr
Frank Adams
Tunica, Miss
Arctic Basin
Arctic
London
Portland
Pearl Harbor
U.S. Navy
Icelandic
Waters
William R. Anderson
Washington
U.S
John Hay Whitney
English Channel
Navy
Britain
William A. Hansen
Alma Hansen
Green Bay
Wis
Friday
National Park System
Interior
Fred A. Seaton
Dr. Grosvenor
Russell Cave
Mississippi River
The
Society
Smithsonian Institution
Eisenhower relaxes at Gettysburg after Nautilus sub honor
President Eisenhower rested at his farm home in Gettysburg after congratulating the crew of the American atomic submarine Nautilus for a historic voyage beneath the Arctic ice. He remained in touch with UN General Assembly developments on the Middle East and had just awarded the Legion of Merit to the submarine’s skipper and a unit citation to the crew.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
United Nations General Assembly
Middle East
Washington
Arctic
Weather Record Lacrosse and Vicinity Report
Weather record for Lacrosse area and Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa. Warmer tonight and Sunday with highs near 92 degrees in places. Minnesota notes scattered showers northwest and hot humid south. Iowa remains fair and warm through night and Sunday.
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Lacrosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Mississippi River Forecast From Hastings to Guttenberg
Flood stage readings and station data shown for river gauges including Winona, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien, and Dam Nos. 6 through 9. The forecast indicates all points steady for the next 94 hours with river times and sunrise sunset listed for tomorrow.
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Mone Pree
Winona
C.P
T.W. Oy
Ie Dakota
T. W
Lacrosse
Lansing
Prairie du Chien
Trempealeau
Dodge
Black
Genetie
la Crosse
Salem
Root
Seaiane
Mississippi
Hastings
Minn
Guttenberg
Iowa
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North America
Arctic Circle
Arkansas River
Bermuda
Rosette Hargrove
Normandy
Louis Leplee
Sparrow
Maurice Chevalier
Jeer
Dells
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Supreme Court
Egypt
Suez Canal
Fourth Republic
Algeria
de Gaulle
Mo Epats
Charles de Gaulle
James H. Steele
U.S. Public Health Service
New Space Agency
Underwater Sound Research Laboratory
Hugh L. Dryden
NACA
National Bureau of Standards
Alaska
By Alton L. Blakeslee
Famous Cave
Smithsonian
Carl F. Miller
Sians
Bering Strait
Denmark
David
Kingdom of Israel
Tennessee
Melville Bell Grosvenor
By Marvin L. Arrowsmith
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