Negroes Denied Ability to Amend Suit on Bus Segregation
In Birmingham a federal judge denied a motion to amend a 1956 bus segregation suit to challenge a new ordinance that assigns seating by drivers. The 22 plaintiffs, arrested during December 1956 protests, face a choice to continue the old challenge or file a new suit while city officials claim the new rule upholds segregation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
U.S. District Court
H. Hobart Grooms
Birmingham Transit Co
Shuttlesworth
One More to Go US Sets Off Biggest Blast Underground
The United States detonated Blanca the largest underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site, sending a 1000 foot plus dirt column into the air as the final shots near the Eisenhower deadline. Winds delayed a second balloon blast, talks with UK and USSR influence ban length, and the test marked the end of a rapid schedule amid somber reflections by AEC officials.
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Nev
United States
Eisenhower
Greenwich
Britain
Soviet Union
Japan
Atomic Energy Commission
Ernest Tinson
Defense Department
Four Die in Cleveland Factory Blast at Erico Products
A three story brick Erico Products plant on Cleveland's near East Side exploded injuring eight and killing four men. Fire Chief Elmer Cain said losses reach about 50000 with fumes from copper oxide and aluminum powder. Names of the dead include William Ramsey 66 Melvin Redjak 35 Roland E Turner and Nate Handle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Near East Side
Elmer Cain
Erico Products, Inc
Cain
William Ramsey
Melvin Redjak
Roland E. Turner
Nate Handle
UW scientists win 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
Stockholm AP reports three American researchersBeadle Tatum Lederberg awarded the Nobel Prize for discoveries on gene action and genetic recombination. Beadle and Tatum share half for the gene to enzyme link. Lederberg receives half for bacterial genetic recombination and organization of genetic material. Lederberg, 33, is a University of Wisconsin alum and son of a former Wisconsin faculty member.
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Stockholm
George Wells Beadle
California Institute of Technology
E. L. Tatum
New York
Rockefeller Institute
Joshua Lederberg
University of Wisconsin
Royal Caroline Institute of Medicine
Beadle and
Tatum
Lederberg
Prof
Torbjorn Casperson
Caroline Institute
Beadle and Tatum
Casperson
Beadle
Wisconsin
Coroner of Crawford County Dies in Wisconsin
Robert W. Armstrong 64, Crawford County coroner for two years, died Wednesday evening in a Prairie du Chien hospital after illness while hunting. Survived only by brother Roy Armstrong of Chicago. Masonic rites at Lake Brothers Funeral Home 1 p.m. Saturday. burial in Boscobel. Armstrong had been Republican candidate for re election and formerly a mail carrier before his county post.
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Prairie DU Chien
Wis
Robert W. Armstrong
Crawford County
Rev. L. K. Bodamer
Boscobel
Armstrong
Russians Reject Nuclear Test Ban
The Soviet Union rejected American British proposals for a one-year suspension of nuclear weapon tests as absolutely unacceptable in London.
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London
Soviet Union
Thomson Beats Proxmire to Plant Gates
Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson greeted workers at a Milwaukee plant gate on a cold morning. Senator William Proxmire arrived later and shared a brief exchange with Thomson before moving on.
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Thomson
Proxmire
Milwaukee
Vernon Thomson
Wisconsin
William Proxmire
Vern
Rescue Crew Member Recalls Finding 12 Alive in Cumberland Mine
Earl Wood, a 31-year veteran miner, recounts the moment his rescue team found 12 men alive after a collapse in the Cumberland coal shaft near Springhill Nova Scotia. Voices spoke from a warped air pipe at about 2 PM, easing fear as water and air tests confirmed life.
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Earl Wood
Cumberland
Wood
Blair Phillips
Playwright Zoe Akins Dies at 72 in Los Angeles
Pulitzer winner Zoe Akins, noted playwright and poet, died after a three week illness in Los Angeles. Her works include The Greeks Had a Word for It The Furies and Mrs January and Mr Ex.
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Los Angeles
Zoe Akins
Miners Endure Almost Week in Wrecked Nova Scotia Mine Rescue
Twelve Cumberland No. 2 miners trapped by a cave in near Springhill Nova Scotia waited in a 100 foot long pocket with no food or water for days. They prayed sang hymns and rationed batteries and urine mixed with bark to survive as rescue crews worked through debris to reach them. Gorley Kempt tapped a line and called for water before the 138 hour rescue began lifting them to the surface in a dramatic spring hill surface.
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Springhill
N. S
Cumberland No. 2
Hugh Guthro
Guthre
Caleb Rushton
Rushton
Gorley Kempt
Kempt
Percy Weatherbee
Holloway
Brine
Leadbetter
Hunter
Miller
Michniak
Maddison
Lowther
Guthro
McDonald
Gorley
Possible new group to pursue government efficiency review
Washington AP reports the end of the Citizens Committee for the Hoover Report suggests a new body may form to seek further government streamlining. 64 percent of the second Hoover Commission proposals have been enacted, with Eisenhower hinting at a broader review in the future.
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Washington
Citizens Committee
Hoover
Second Hoover Commission
Eisenhower
Hoover Commission
Truman
Father Of Victim Weeps At Trial In Starkweather Case
The father of slain 17 year old Robert Jensen tearfully identified a photo in the Caril Fugate murder trial. Caril 16, accused as an accomplice or hostage in Charles Starkweather's rampage, sits as the case unfolds with arguments over her role and responsibility.
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Lincoln
Neb
Caril
Charles Starkweather
Robert W. Jensen
Robert E. Jensen
Bennet
Young Jensen
Caril King
Nebraska
Wyoming
Starkweather
Charles McArthur
Elmer Scheele
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Suki Leadbetter
Larry
Eldred Lowther
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
F. L. Shuttlesworth
Ruth Schmidt
Oshkosh
Jack D. Steinhilber
Winnebago County
Unifax
Bs Ceduad
Deaseinate Thik
Eee
Los Alamos
N.M
By Earl Wood
N.S
Arnold Reese
George Hodges
Harold Brine
Joe MacDonald
Scott
Joe McDonald
Theodore Michniak
Bowman Maddison
Levi Miller
Wilfred Hunter
Hugo Guthro
New Hoover Report Group
Herbert Hoover
Executive Branch
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