Era Of Atomic Power On Its Way Fast Conference Shows
The atoms for peace conference ends with predictions from the United States Canada Britain and Russia on nuclear power timelines. U S projects a 15 to 20 year path to competitive atomic power and Britain foresees 40 percent of electric power from nuclear energy by 1975. Russia aims for several hundred thousand kilowatts by 1960 and a large plant within a year.
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Associated Press
Geneva
United States
Canada
Britain
Russia
Sailor Killed As Cliff Collapses Near Ocean Beach
In San Diego California 21 year old sailor Lester J Feltman of Manitowoc Wisconsin attached to the submarine USS Remora was killed when a cliff overhang collapsed trapping him under tons of rock Feltman was skin diving in a cave at Ocean Beach with shipmate William Preston of Tacoma Washington Preston said the avalanche missed him but covered Feltman and he dug him out too late.
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San Diego
Calif
Lester J. Feltman
Manitowoc
Wis
Feltman
Ocean Beach
William Preston
Tacoma
Wash
Preston
Illinois State Fair Attendance Falls to Postwar Low
Attendance at the 1955 Illinois State Fair ended Sunday with an estimated 930000 total, 75000 below last year and the lowest since 1951. Governor Stratton and his wife announced the purchase of Walter Krawiec’s painting Circus Pyramid for 600 dollars in the professional art exhibit.
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Springfield
Ill
Stratton
Walter Krawiec
Chicago
Port Austin to Get Third Small Craft Haven
The Michigan Waterfronts Commission says Port Austin will host the third of 15 small craft havens along the long shoreline. Construction begins next spring at the thumb of Michigan between Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron, with a project cost of 1.21 million dollars. Other refuge harbors exist at Port Sanilac and Grand Traverse Bay.
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Port Austin
Mich
Michigan
Michigan Waterways Commission
Saginaw Bay
Lake Huron
Port Sanilac
Grand Traverse Bay
Lake Michigan
Freighter Collisions and Boat Sinking Off Lake Superior
A freighter struck a row boat carrying three men near Round Island Michigan while two ore carriers collided in the St. Marys River near Pointe Aux Fresnes. One crewman suffered a dislocated shoulder and both ships took on water as salvage and repairs were planned.
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Coast Guard
Tamarack
Air Force
Cason J. Callaway
Pittsburgh Steamship Division
U.S. Steel Corp
B. F. Jones
Wilson Transit Co
Cleveland
Jones
Louis H. Bonefant
Calumet, Mich
Pointe Aux Fresnes
St. Mary's River
Soo
Benson Praises Soviet Farm Chiefs as Ambassadors of Peace
Secretary of Agriculture Benson saluted a visiting group of Soviet farm chiefs as good ambassadors after a six week tour of American farms. He praised free enterprise, noted harvest prospects, and urged mutual trust to foster world peace during a luncheon session in Washington.
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Washington
Benson
America
Agricultural Research Service
Soviet Union
Breaker Collapse Traps 26 Miners. Rescue Rapid
In Shenandoah Pennsylvania a mine breaker collapsed while the roof hung overhead. Twenty six miners escaped unharmed but a rain drenched area sparked a flood crisis and emergency crews rushed five injured to hospital. Rescue teams from local industries joined the effort as word of a mine collapse spread through town.
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R. L. Bartley & Co
Shenandoah
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Floods at a Glance Across Northeastern States
The Associated Press reports floods devastating Pennsylvania Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island New Jersey and New York. Death toll ranges high with hundreds missing and thousands homeless while mills and businesses shut down. Governors declare disaster and seek state and federal aid including a new Small Business Administration office setup.
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Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Woonsocket
New Jersey
Delaware River
Civil Defense
New York
Red Cross
Ior
Federal
Indicted for Falsely Accusing Clerk of Subversive Activity
Washington rooming house proprietor Leonard Wesley aged 40 was indicted on a federal libel charge for sending a letter on White House stationery accusing Thomas M. Jones aged 29 of visiting the Russian embassy with official White House documents. The letter aimed to defame Jones. Wesley admitted the allegations were false. Assistant U.S. Attorney John C. Conliff said there is no factual basis.
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Washington
White House
Leonard Wesley
Thomas M. Jones
Wesley
Jones
U.S. Atty
John C. ‘Conliff
Conliff
Crippled Freighter iLimps Toward Port
A British freighter named Argobeam limped toward shelter in the North Atlantic under tow by the salvage tug Salveda. Captain George Wilson and chief officer Kenneth Seaman abandoned ship after 53 hours on a gale battered bridge as water flooded the engine room. Experts in admiralty law said the departures did not constitute abandonment, leaving salvage terms pending once the ship reaches port off the Scottish coast.
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London
Land Mate
Salveda
George ‘Wilson
Kenneth ‘Seaman
New York
Forecast Cool Spell Across Regions With Warmer Western Nebraska
The weather bureau forecast shows a cool trend in the lower Ohio Valley and Florida peninsula with cooler conditions in the northeast. Warmer weather is expected in western Nebraska, while minimal changes occur elsewhere. Minimums Monday night include New Orleans 76, Miami 75, Ft Worth 74, Atlanta 73, Milwaukee 66, New York 65, Los Angeles 65, San Francisco 50, Seattle 50.
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Ohio Valley
Florida Peninsula
Texas
Arizona
Nebraska
New Orleans
Miami
Ft. Worth
Atlanta
Milwaukee
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Unifax
Floods Reach Across Northeastern Areas Devastating Stroudsburg
Flood waters from Brodhead Creek rose 25 to 30 feet in minutes after dam collapses flooding Stroudsburg and parts of the Pocono region. Campers at Bantam Lake Conn. were rescued by motorboats and a helicopter retrieved children from East Stroudsburg. Utilities were being restored, rail service resumed portions of lines, and disaster areas were declared in several states with federal aid possible.
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Stroudsburg
Pocono
Bantam Lake
Conn
New York
East Stroudsburg
Calumet Union Accepts 8 Percent Wage Pact
CIO United Steelworkers members at Calumet and Hecla Inc voted 1120 to 189 to accept a new contract ending an 111 day strike that idled 2200 mine and smelter workers. The deal includes an 8 percent wage rise about 15 cents an hour plus enhanced insurance and benefits and a modified union shop. The firm, a major Upper Peninsula employer, had threatened liquidation if the offer failed.
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Calumet, Mich
CIO United Steelworkers
Calumet and Hecla, Inc
Upper Peninsula
Livestock Prices Lead Amid Mixed Slaughteryard Trade
Markets report cattle and hog trading in South St. Paul and Chicago with steady to weaker tones. Prices show range for slaughter steers 19.00-22.00, heifers 15.00-21.00, cows 10.00-12.00, hogs 16.00-17.60, and calves up to 24.00 per cwt depending on grade, with commerce slow in parts of the day and dealers largely steady.
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Isouth
ST. Paul
Minn
UBDA
Chicago
USDA
Ogs
Bandits Rob Resort at Lake Geneva
Two bandits robbed Schultz Brothers Dime Store Sunday morning at the Lake Geneva resort. They forced manager Royce Schutte at gunpoint to hand over 560 dollars, bound him with a belt, and gagged him with a canvas bag. Clerk Judy Hansen, 17, alerted police, but the robbers had fled by the time officers arrived.
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Lake Geneva
Royce Schutte
Schultz Brothers
Judy
Hansen
Boy Runs Bottle Hoard on Turnpike Says Tulsa Boy
A Tulsa youth, seven years old, collected empty pop bottles along the Oklahoma City Tulsa turnpike shoulder using a wagon. He earned some money for a few days until patrolmen stopped the operation, warned him it was illegal, and shut it down.
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Tulsa
Okla
Cheate Kirby
Oklahoma City-Tulsa
Kirby
Shame For Smokers On Henry Hudson Parkway
Careless smokers are blamed for fires that damaged fencing and grass plots along the Henry Hudson Parkway. White signs reading care less smokers caused this destruction have been posted at ravaged sections to deter future incidents.
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New York
Henry Hudson Parkway
Chicago to Host Giant Prefab Building
The largest pre fabricated structure ever to be erected will rise in Chicago. The clear span venue, resembling an oversized Quon set hut, will house sporting events and conventions and cost 17 million dollars. It will seat 25 000 spectators.
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Chicago
Deaths Continued From Page One
Deaths continue to be reported from accidents across Wisconsin. Jerry Patrie, 27, of Milwaukee, died when his sports car crashed into a tree near Greenbush in Door County. Grace Cinquemani, 25, of Milwaukee, died in a collision in Cudahy. Esther Moglowsky, 83, of Milwaukee, was killed in a head on crash on Highway 141 near the Milwaukee Ozaukee county line, with five others injured. Beverly Van Dale, 19 months, of Chicago, drowned after falling from a pier at Lake Elizabeth, Twin Lakes.
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Jerry Patrie
Milwaukee
Greenbush
Grace Cinquemani
Cudahy
Port Washington
Esther Moglowsky
Milwaukee-Ozaukee
Twin Lakes
Lake Elizabeth
Beverly van Dale
Morris van Dale
Chicago
Three Die In Minnesota Weekend Crash
A Sunday crash near Minneapolis in Coon Rapids killed three people and critically injured four others. The accident contributed to Minnesota's 1955 traffic toll reaching 350, with six additional injuries reported over the weekend. Elmer Carlson of Minneapolis and Harry Sheffer of St. Paul drove the cars. Carlson’s wife Bessie and Hilma Schale of Minneapolis and Vera Sheffer of St. Paul died.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Coon Rapids
U.S. Department OF Commerce
Elmer Carlson
Harry Sheffer
St. Paul
National Travel Assn
Disputed Viroqua Sewer Stream Damages Plaintiffs Suit
A $15 000 damage suit filed against the City of Viroqua by Blaine Brye and wife seeks redress for land damage from sewage effluent and storm water from the disposal plant. The plaintiffs allege unlawful sewage flows across their lands and cite prior protests and settlements.
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Jiroqua
Wis
Viroqua
Blaine Brye
Viroquay
Brye
Everett Chapman
Brue
Carl Briggson
Leonard Roraff la
Camp Davis survivor recalls night as flood swirls
Stroudsburg, N J resident Nancy describes clinging to a tree after attic shelter at Winter House as floodwaters rose. She floated downstream about a mile with head under water nine hours before rescue by two men in a motorboat and recalls singing and praying with fellow campers. Her two brothers were lost and her mother is hospitalized.
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N.J
Monroe County General Hospital
Nancy
Jon
Resume Negotiations At Fairbanks Morse
Officials of Fairbanks Morse and Co and the CIO United Steel Workers agreed to resume negotiations at 9 a m Tuesday. The meeting was announced Sunday. More than 3 000 members of Local 1533 USW CIO struck a week ago after wage bargaining broke off August 13.
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Fairbanks, Morse and Co
CIO
United Steel Workers
Usw-Cio
Weather report for Midwest states and Mississippi River forecast
For Wisconsin fair tonight and Tuesday with slight warming Tuesday. Minnesota forecast fair tonight partly cloudy Tuesday and somewhat warmer with showers possible in extreme southwest Tuesday. Iowa mostly fair tonight and Tuesday cooler in extreme southeast tonight warmer Tuesday. River forecast shows slow Mississippi River fall Tuesday with abrupt drops Genoa to below Prairie du Chien. Sunrise Tuesday 6 18 am sunset 6 59 pm.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Guttenberg
Mississippi
Genoa
Prairie du Chien
Petrie Traps Coin Raiders At Mich Hardware Store
Alton Petrie proprietor of a Pierson hardware store put identifying marks on coins after daily cash vanished from a pouch. He enlisted other merchants to watch for the marked coins and three boys were caught, admitting raids totaling about $25.
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