Eisenhower Intensifies Final Bid for GOP Congress
President Eisenhower makes a final bid tonight for a Republican Congress from Baltimore with radio and TV. He highlights administration achievements in foreign and domestic policy while Democratic leaders claim the credit for prior accomplishments. Vice President Nixon campaigns in Billings Everett and Alaska, urging full effort as the race closes with a large Wichita crowd and calls Democrats as tiring toward the finish line.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Congress
Baltimore
West Coast
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
House
Indianapolis
Johnson
Paul Butler
Butler
Nixon
Billings
Mont
Everett
Wash
Alaska
Pasternak Invited to Leave Soviet Union by Moscow Radio
Moscow Radio in ten languages urged Boris Pasternak to leave the Soviet Union saying no Soviet citizen wants to breathe his air. Pasternak had rejected the 1958 Nobel Prize amid Soviet pressure and is described as a traitor by the broadcasts. royalties from Doctor Zhivago were discussed as part of the fallout.
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Pasternak
Soviet Union
London
Moscow Radio
Boris Pasternak
Zhivago
Stockholm
Nicolai Voinov
Swedish Writers Assn
Royal Swedish Academy
Voinov
Soviet Writers’ Union
Doctor Zhivago
Bonniers Co
Gian Giacomo Feltrinellie
Milan
Feltrinelli
Europeo
Italy
End of U S Nuclear Tests Ends An Era At Nevada Site
The United States halted nuclear testing at midnight under Eisenhower's one year suspension. Officials reported Los Angeles radioactivity 20 percent above safe levels, but not hazardous, while AEC and health officials urged public calm. The Nevada site had 88 shots since 1951 and 19 tests in this fall series advanced small low yield weapons.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
AEC
Washington
W. F. Libby
Nevada
Libby
George M. Uhl
Clair Engle
D-Calif
Free World
Civic Center
Youths Try to Roll Drunk Face Detective with Gun
Three teenagers, ages 15 and 16, attempted to rob Detective Charles Litman while he acted as a drunk. Litman confronted them with a drawn gun and they later confessed to taking $80 from four men in a similar state.
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Milwaukee
Charles Litman
Litman
Health Problems Of Aged To Be Aired At Meeting
Plans for a national conference on health problems of the aged spring 1959. Sponsored by the Joint Council for the Health Care of the Aged. Mrs. Florence L. Baltz elected council chair. Dr Gunnar Gundersen of La Crosse named director and AMA president.
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Chicago, Ill
Joint Council For the Health Care of
Florence L. Baltz
Washington
Ill
The
American Nursing Home Assn
Council
Boltz
Gunnar Gundersen
la Crosse
AMA
Pasternak Plans Year of Silence After Nobel Rejection
The wife of Boris Pasternak says the poet will do nothing for a year living quietly writing nothing and giving no interviews. Attacks continued against the Nobel laureate as the Cinema Workers Union issues an open letter accusing him of treacherous action and being divorced from his people and country.
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Moscow
Boris Pasternak
Pasternak
Cinema Workers’ Union
Lanesboro Voters Approve $650000 High School Bond
Lanesboro Minnesota voters approve a 650000 bond for a new high school by a 353 to 160 margin. The project includes a two story academic section a band area a dining room and multiple specialty rooms with capacity for about 270 high school students.
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Lanesboro
Minn
Hear Testimony On Additional Air Service
Cities and states testify before the Civil Aeronautics Board on proposed extra air service linking Chicago Milwaukee and Minneapolis St Paul. Airlines argue for expanding routes and removing origin restrictions while Northwest defends current service and plans faster non stop flights.
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Capital Airlines
Chicago
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Milwaukee
Detroit
Northwest Airlines
Twin Cities
Atlanta
Tampa
St. Petersburg
Clearwater
Miami
Eastern Airlines
Eastern
Nashville
Roanoke
United Air Lines
Northwest
Capital
Atom cloud flight with nuclear sampling over Nevada
AP staffer describes a flight with Lt Bill Krull from the 4950th Test Group over Yucca Flat Nevada. The B57 jet carried filter papers to capture particles and instruments to record peak and average radioactivity during a safety-experiment cloud pass. Samples sent to Livermore Laboratory for analysis.
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Atomic Test Site
Nev
Bill Krull
Bill
George
Iowa
Kirkland Field
Albuquerque
Yucca Flat
Livermore Radiation Laboratory
California
East West split apparent in nuclear test talks
In Geneva the Soviet Union pressed for an immediate permanent suspension of nuclear tests under international control while the United States and Britain offered a one year halt conditional on Moscow joining. The West fears a total stop without a verifiable system to detect violations, as negotiations extend beyond privacy for at least a month.
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Geneva
Russia
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
United States
Britain
Tsarapkin
West
Soviet Union
James J. Wadsworth
David Ormsby- Gore
Free World
London
Washington
La Crosse Community Chest reaches 54 percent of goal
The La Crosse Community Chest reports $118 436 raised, 54 percent of the $219 298 goal. Firms Reliance Real Estate Co WLCX Lottie's Ready-to-Wear Shoppe Fuller's News and Gift Shop and Adam Kroner Co show 100 percent employee participation with an average gift of $10. AFL Labor Temple staff also had 100 percent participation. No further report meetings are planned in coming weeks as solicitors finish calls to close the drive.
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la Crosse Community Chest
R. S. Mitchell
Reliance Real Estate Co
WLCX
Lottie
Fuller’s News and Gift Shop
Adam Kroner Co
AFL Labor Temple
Mitchell
Courts Blamed By Virginia Governor Over School Closures
Richmond Virginia Gov J Lindsay Almond Jr blames federal courts for not reopening nine white schools closed for integration in three localities. He says the fault lies with the courts and places responsibility squarely on them.
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Richmond
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Virginia
Lucky 12 Recuperating After Coal Mine Rescue
Twelve miners rescued from the Springhill Cumberland No. 2 disaster recuperate in hospital as two vow never to return to mining. Rescue crews press on for 49 missing while Prince Philip plans to visit the survivors.
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Springhill
N.S
Levi Milley
Harold Brine
Cumberland No. 2
Frank Doxey
Prince Philip
Elizabeth I
London
Joseph McDonald
Chiang Kai-shek says force not main weapon against Reds
On his 72nd birthday Chiang Kai-shek reaffirms that political effort is the primary weapon to recover the mainland, with 30 percent military and 70 percent political. Chen Cheng reads the message at a Nationalist Youth Corps rally as clashes with Communist forces continue near Quemoy and Matsu.
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Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Chen
Quemoy
Matsu
Dulles
Formosa
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