Rights Commission Faces Test In South
The Civil Rights Commission may sue to access Macon County voter registration files amid racial tension in Tuskegee Alabama. Officials clash over privacy and access as Patterson allies resist court orders, citing state law protecting records.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Civil Rights Commission
South
Macon County
Eommission
Washington
Montgomery Advertiser
A. H. Rosenfeld
Commission
Office of Complaints, Information and Surveys
Rosenfeld
Alexandria
Burton J. Goodyear
J. Peterson
E. P. Livingston
Livingston
Patterson
Alabama
Record voter registration hits 76 million for November 4
Official and unofficial tallies place eligible voters at 76,145,600 for the November 4 elections, a mid term record. Estimated statewide votes total 48,131,226 in the 48 states, with Maine Senate result 284,226. California leads gains with 867,000 new registrants. nine states show declines from 1954.
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Washington
Senate
Maine
Census Bureau
Georgia
Kentucky
California
Iowa
North Carolina
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Missouri
New Mexico
Ohio
South Carolina
Tennessee
West Virginia
Massachusetts
New York
Texas
Dulles Chiang Talks Amid Fierce Quemoy Shelling
In Formosa, Secretary of State Dulles and Chiang Kai-shek held crisis talks as Communist shelling of Quemoy intensified. U.S. warned it may resume convoy escort duties, while Nationalists defended the offshore island and denied plans to use it as an invasion base.
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Taipei
Formosa
Dulles
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Red China
Quemoy
Reds
Quemoys
Chiang
U.S
Everett F. Drumright
U.S. Taiwan
Walter S. Robertson
Robertson
Eisenhower
Que
Life in a test tube moves closer to creating living matter
Smithsonian officials summarize Dr. Wendell M. Stanley's findings on breaking the barriers between nonliving molecules and living organisms. He describes progress toward synthesizing a nucleic acid that could form the basis of genes, with a ladder from nucleic acids to single and multicelled life.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Smithsonian Institution
Wendell M. Stanley
Virus Laboratory
University of California
Smithsonian
Stanley
Smithsonian Digest
Government Research
The
H. Fraenkel-Conrat
Blue Cross Seeks Court Stop on WPS Hospital Coverage Sale
Wisconsin Blue Cross asked the state attorney general to pursue court action to halt the Wisconsin Physicians Service from selling a hospital expense plan. A petition signed by AHS Blue Cross VP Ralph M. Hoyt argues the sale exceeds the medical society's corporate powers. The attorney general said a decision would come in about a week to ten days.
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Milwaukee
Blue Cross
Wisconsin
Stewart Honeck
Ralph M. Hoyt
Associated Hospital Service
Wisconsin Physicians Service
Medical Society
Honeck
Viscount On Way To Naples Collides Over Italy
A British airliner and an Italian military jet collided four miles above Anzio Italy killing all 30 aboard the passenger plane. Wreckage fell over a wide area near the World War II battlefield thirty miles south of Rome. The Italian pilot parachuted and survived in grave condition. A fishing boat rescued him and he was taken to a hospital.
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Anzio
Italy
British European Airways
Rome
Mediterranean
Jokas
Shiv
Palitana
Naples
Buckingham
BEA
London
Malta
Giovanni Savorelli
Ciampino
Eastern Airlines
Washington, D. C
United Airlines
U. S. Air Force
Nevada Desert
Air National Guard
Capital Airlines
Brunswick
Eisenhower Campaign Speech Sparks Coast to Coast Push
President Eisenhower declares America the strongest military power while urging voters to reject Democratic spendthrift policies in November. He speeches in Chicago and Los Angeles follow a six day coast to coast tour and feature a nationwide TV radio address financed by the National Citizens for Eisenhower 1958 Committee.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
America
Democratic Party
CBS
International Amphitheatre
San Francisco
California
William F. Knowland
Goodwin J. Knight
Knowland
Los Angeles
Airliner Missing Over East Cuba With 11 Aboard
An 11 passenger Cuban DC3 disappeared in eastern Cuba amid rebel territory and bad weather. Compania Cubana de Aviacion manager Vilaboy sought search planes from Guantanamo Bay while noting possible forced landing near Amoa.
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Havana
Cuba
Jose A. Vilaboy
Compania Cubana de Aviacion
Santiago
Preston
Amoa
Vilaboy
U.S. Navy
Guantanamo Bay
Benson to visit La Crosse area Friday and Saturday
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson will visit La Crosse and nearby farms on Friday and Saturday en route to River Falls for the 10th annual Conference of Agricultural Workers. He will arrive at 9 20 p m at La Crosse Municipal Airport, hold a press conference, then visit farms before continuing to River Falls and Minneapolis.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
la Crosse
Ariculture
River Falls
Agricultural Workers
Republican
Madison
Sec. Benson
Alma
Durand and
Ellsworth
Minneapolis
Medaris Opposes Army Surrender to Space Agency
Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris argues the Army should not yield its best scientists and laboratories to the civilian space agency. He warns momentum loss could ruin results while officials study transferring 2,100 Army researchers to the new agency. Ernst Stuhlinger cites radiation risks for space travel, noting Explorer data and high-altitude uncertainties.
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Medaris
Space Agency
Washington
Army
Civilian Space Administration
Pentagon
John B. Medaris
Ordnance Command
Huntsville
Ala
Army Assn
Space Administration
Keith Glennan
White House
Eisenhower
Association
Arthur Trudeau
Trudeau
Ernst Stuhlinger
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Almanac Forecasts Severe Winter For Pennsylvania Dutch
Lancaster region readers get Baers Almanac 1959 with weather lore and tips. It predicts a rough winter with snowstorms and cold waves and notes past big snows including last March while warning of a March Ides to come.
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John Baer
Baer
Almanac
Army Plans Night Launch of Plastic Balloon Satellite
The Army will attempt to put an inflated plastic satellite into orbit tonight from Cape Canaveral Florida. Maj. Gen. John B Medaris said the sphere will be hurled into the air late. If successful it will mark the fourth man made object placed in Earth orbit by the Army.
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Washington
Army
John B. Medaris
Ordnance Missile Command
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Medaris
Earth
Northeaster Hits Carolina Then Dims Off Cape Hatteras
A violent northeaster battered North Carolina and coastal towns for over a day with 75 mph winds and 25 foot seas. Heavy floods affected New Bern Morehead City Beaufort Manteo and nearby resorts while seven Wilmington traffic deaths were blamed on the storm. The system moved offshore and may dissipate off South Carolina as it remains stationary southeast of Myrtle Beach.
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Cape Hatteras
N. C
North Carolina
Myrtle Beach
S.C
South Carolina
New Bern
Morehead City
Beaufort
Manteo
Atlantic Fleet
Wilmington
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Deep South
Tuskegee Institute
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Li Li) Sargis
Worcester
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Li Li
Unifax
D. Harold Oliver
Representatives
Defense Ministry
David Lancashire
Lancashire
Colombo
Prayad Buranasiri
Thailand
Seattle
Viscount
By Domenico Giordano
Jane Buckingham
London Mode
Eva Bar
By Marvin L. Arrowsmits
Knight
Matsu
Cosimo Baggialemani
Nettuno
Uss
Frederika
Greece
Constantine
Sophia
Ile de France
U. S
East
Oriente
Raul Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Harrisburg
Air Force
Olmsted Air Force Base
Here
Youngstown
Old York Road
Tarrant Afb
Fort Worth
Tex
By C. Yates McDaniel
Explorer
State University of Iowa
Lancaster
Conestoga
Etennee Ween
Northeaster
Carolina
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