Little Rock Opens Segregated Private High School
Public subscription funds back a segregated private school for white seniors in Little Rock as classrooms ready for 10th and 11th graders. Volunteers convert a 32 room facility previously used by a University program while federal orders keep public high schools closed.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
U.S. Supreme Court
Little Rock Private School Corp
University of Arkansas
Wekend
W. €. Brashears
Corporation
Brashears
Faubus
Prairie Tot Of 3 Drowns In Gravel Pit
Robert Atkins three dies after slipping into a gravel pit at Prairie Concrete Products Co in Prairie Du Chien Wisconsin. Fire department and Dr Herman Shapiro work to revive him but fail. Survived by Floyd and Mrs Atkins and brothers Michael seven Joseph ten and sister Judy fifteen. Body at Garrity and Ottoson Funeral Home awaiting services.
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Wis
Robert Atkins
Floyd Atkins
Prairie Concrete Products Co
Robert
Herman Shapiro
Shapiro
Michael
Joseph
Judy
Garrity and Ottoson Funeral Home
Soviet TU104 Crash Claims 65 Lives in Remote Kanash
Peiping radio reports 65 dead on a TU104 airliner crash near Kanash 400 miles east of Moscow. Among the dead are 16 Chinese officials and 49 foreign passengers including a Briton, four East Germans, and the Cambodian ambassador's son. Aeroflot says no details until investigation.
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London
Red China
Peiping Radio
Kanash
Moscow
Ore Briton
Peiping
Moscow Radio
Aeroflot
Dulles Rejects Early Meeting Bid on Nuclear Talks
Secretary of State Dulles rebuffed a Soviet proposal for an early foreign ministers meeting on nuclear tests while leaving open the possibility of attending a later East West conference if needed. The United States and Britain urged diplomatic talks to begin October 31 as agreed.
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Washington
Dulles
Moscow
U. S
Soviet Union
Russia
Geneva
United States
Eisenhower
Benson warns on planned farm regimentation in Arizona
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson told the Arizona Farm Bureau and Maricopa County Farm Board in Phoenix that certain self styled farm experts aim to curb farmers and ranchers freedoms. He warned such regimentation would be extremely damaging to the nation.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona Farm Bureau Federation
Maricopa
Convoy Policy Unchanged by U S Amid Formosa Tensions
U S State Department said the United States has not resumed convoying Chinese Nationalist supply ships to Quemoy and will not revive the escort system unless military necessity requires it. Secretary Dulles and President Eisenhower backed a cautious stance as fighting renewed near Formosa.
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State Department
United States
Quemoy
Lincoln White
Dulles
Alaska
China
Eielson Air Force Base
Formosa
Eisenhower
Rome
Taipei
Chiang Kaishek
U.S
White
U. S
Pacific
Chiang
Nationalist China
Reds
Giant 200 Ton Radio Telescope Aims for Space Tracking
In the Mojave Desert 140 miles from Los Angeles, a towering 110 foot high 200 ton radio telescope rises as cranes lift an 85 foot dish to enable tracking space vehicles up to four billion miles away. Army tests start with a lunar probe attempt soon, marking a major aerospace milestone.
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Outer Space
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles
Unifax
Eisenhower to Campaign Speech in Los Angeles
President Eisenhower arrives in California for a hard hitting campaign speech at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The two day visit aims to bolster Republican candidates amid party splits with a half hour national broadcast and two San Francisco stops before Chicago.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Los Angeles
California
Shrine Auditorium
San Francisco
Chicago
Washington
Iowa
Kansas
Colorado
Fire level Berlin leather factory causing $300000 loss
A pre-dawn blaze at the Berlin Glove Co and Midwestern Sportswear Co destroyed the two story brick factory in Berlin Wisconsin. Fire Chief Wilton Marks estimated $300000 in damage after a faulty truck ignition sparked the flames and the roof collapsed. Fire units from Berlin and Ripon prevented spread to nearby buildings.
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Berlin
Wis
Wilton Marks
Earl Schwabe
Brillion
Schwabe
Berlin Glove Co
Midwestern Sportswear Co
Ripon
Marks
Thomas Barbosa
Dulles Flying To Formosa
Secretary of State Dulles traveling to Formosa amid renewed shelling of Quemoy and Tatan by Chinese Communists. The Red barrage ended after 2 hours 45 minutes on Quemoy and 80 minutes on Tatan, with 11,520 rounds fired. U.S. officials deny warships violated territorial waters while Red China cites such actions as justification to resume shelling.
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Tatan
Amoy
Defense Ministry
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China
United States
Pingtan-and-Matsu
New China News Agency
Tokyo
Red China
Foreign Ministry
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Peiping Radio
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Dulles
North Polar
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa Strait
Peng Teh-huai
U.S. Taiwan
U.S. Navy
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Cardinals Prepare For Electing A New Pope
Vatican City AP report. Nine days of funeral rites for Pope Pius XII closed as cardinals gather in Rome for the secret conclave to elect a successor. Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski’s arrival brings the cardinals to 47 with 54 living members expected to attend. Josef Mindszenty and Alojzije Stepinac remain absent. Dignitaries attend the mass, including U.S. official guests and foreign ministers, as a symbolic catafalque and papal tiara are displayed.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Peter’s Basilica
U. S
State Dulles
Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Poland
Rome
Vatican
Josef Mindszenty
Hungary
Legation
Budapest
Alojzije Stepinac
Tito
Cardinal Wyszynski
Italy
Msgr
Amleto Tondini
Apostolic Chancellery
Cardinal Speilman
Joseph Frings
Cologne
Maurice Feltin
Paris
Giacomo Lercaro
Bolgna
Cardinal Tisserant
Six Killed In Head-On Crash Near Minot
A Sunday head-on collision near Minot North Dakota killed six people returning from a hayride. Victims from Minot were Donald Billing 18 Marlene Mickelson 18 Janice Dupaul 15 Ruth Ann Christianson 15. In the other car Wayne Scott 32 Velva N D and Peggy Michaelson 19 Voulatire N D. Michaelson sisters Donna 23 and Shirley 27 were seriously injured.
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Minot
N.D
Here
Donald Billing
Marlene Mickelson
Janice Dupaul
Ruth Ann Christianson
Wayne Scott
Velva
Peggy Michaelson
Voultaire
Miss Michaelson
Donna
Shirley
Soviet Army Deserter Flown Back To Russia
A Soviet tank driver who fled to the West was reportedly flown back to the USSR from Britain. Anatoli Ponomarenko, 22, is said by the Soviet Embassy to have returned voluntarily, though emigre sources claim he was kidnapped. He had 70 days of freedom after defecting to West Berlin on December 31 and had urged other soldiers to desert.
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London
West
Soviet Union
Britain
Foreign Office
Anatoli Ponomarenko
Red
Scotland Yard
Ponomarenko
East Germany
West Berlin
British Forces Begin Jordan Pullout After Protection
British forces started to pull out of Jordan with airborne paratroops having landed in Amman 96 days earlier. The first unit departed Aqaba aboard the tank landing ship Macleod bound for Cyprus, while the main body will leave for Cyprus next Saturday, a spokesman said.
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Jordan
Aqaba
Macleod
Cyprus
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