Viet Nam Chief Claims Victory In Civil Battle
Premier Ngo Dinh Diem declared victory in a bloody civil conflict and defied Chief of State Bao Dai to remove him as fighting raged between Saigon and Cho Lon. The U S backed government said Diem is indispensable despite heavy casualties and renewed attacks on Binh Xuyen strongholds.
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Viet Nam
Diem
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Binh Xuyen Society
Cho Lon
U. S
Binh Xuyen
Bao Dai
French Riviera
le van Ty
Nguyen van Vy
Paris
Edgar Faure
GOP Senators Back Ike on Formosa Talks Rise
Washington reports Sen Capehart said most Senate Republicans back President Eisenhower in handling Chinese Communist and Formosa issues. He contrasted with Sen Jenner’s resolution against officials taking part in talks seen as risking territory. Sen Humphrey predicted the administration will abandon Quemoy and Matsu.
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Capehart
R-Ind
Senate
Eisenhower
Formosa
Sen. Jenner
United States
China
Formosa Strait
Chou Fin- Jai
Dulles
Frank L. Howley
Berlin
New York University
Chou
Howley
Internal Security
Far East
Formosas
Chiang Kai-shek
Matsu
Quemoy
Knowland
California
Humphrey
D-Minn
Publisher Satisfactory After Heart Operation
PHILADELPHIA Miss F Harris president of the Ottawa Herald was reported in satisfactory condition at Hahnemann Hospital after an operation to correct four heart conditions. The operation was performed by Dr Charles P Bailey head of thoracic surgery at Hahnemann Medical College. New York closing: average 30 stocks 164.8 up 1.21.
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Philadelphia
F. Harris
Ottawa
Herald
Hahnemann Hospital
Charles P. Bailey
Hahnemann Medical College
Dallas to Educate Pokey Drivers on Speed Drive
Dallas police will use a loudspeaker to admonish slowpoke drivers on a busy ventral expressway urging speeds of at least 40 miles per hour. Deputy Chief Charles Batchelor announced the education speed-up drive and noted officers may catch speeders during the effort.
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Dallas
Charles Batchelor
U S May Build New Formosan Base For Possible Red Moves
Washington reports the United States weighs a Formosa base under treaty defense to deter a Communist takeover. Plans, tied to cease fire talks, involve Waller Robertson and Adm. Radford after talks with Chiang Kai-shek. A small American force would bolster Nationalist security and credibility in negotiations.
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Washington
United States
Formosa
State Department
Defense Department
White House
Waller Robertson
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
Train Watchers Rally as Season Opens in Lawrence
Spring weather brings the Lawrence Choo Choo Train Watchers Society back to action as families flock to Rock Island Union Pacific and Santa Fe tracks. Parents know schedules and signals, while children wait eagerly for the horn. The group observes trains from 7 to 8 p.m. as sound, sight, and family excitement build toward each passing locomotive.
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Dolph C. Simons JR
Lawrence
State Health Board Forms Panel to Control Salk Vaccine
The Kansas State Board of Health authorized a special committee to plan controls on commercial Salk polio vaccine supplies. Gov. Hall appointed Dr. Thomas R. Hood to liaise with the national advisory group and lead a panel including Kansas Medical Society members and state health officials. The panel will set distribution priorities, seek voluntary compliance, and the board may assume control if needed.
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Topeka
State Board of Health
Fred Hall
Thomas R. Hood
Oveta Culp Hobby
Hood
Board of Health
Byerley Released Under Bond
Byron Eugene Byerley an 18 year old University of Kansas freshman faced charges of publishing the Centerville State Bank robbery report of about 400 dollars. He was released from Wyandotte County jail on a $5,000 bond posted by his father Max Byerley of Centerville. He planned to return home to help with farm chores until his U.S. District Court appearance in Kansas City Kansas before Judge Arthur J. Mellett. bond had been reduced from 15000 by Edward R. Delich.
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Kansas City
Kas
Byron
Eugene Byerley
Centerville
State Bank
Wyandotte
University of Kansas
Max Byerley
Arthur J. Mellett
U.S. District Court
Young Byerley
Edward R. Delich
U.S
Blast Again Postponed Open Shot Test in Las Vegas
The Big Civil Defense test in Las Vegas is postponed for 24 hours for the fourth time today. The elaborate exercise involving a model city tanks and weapons to simulate nuclear fury cannot be held until Sunday at the earliest. Andy Hess Real Estate. Ph. 457. Adv.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Polio cases rise as California outbreak grows
Washington reports 12 California cases plus others totaling 17 children infected nationwide after postinoculation shots. Officials probe Cutter vaccine as an exhaustive inquiry searches for fault or preexisting infections while NIH stresses no proof yet linking vaccine to polio.
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Washington
California
U.S
Eeeiepoldi Scheele
U. S
Public Health Service
Idaho and Missouri report polio outbreaks
Idaho health officials report a third definite polio case in vaccinated children, with a fourth under federal review and one death. A 3-year-old Wash. girl hospitalized after vaccine exposure is noted, and a 7-year-old Orofino boy is paralyzed in the right arm. In St. Louis a 4-year-old boy receiving Cutter vaccine developed a probable polio case. six other local children received shots with no illness.
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Boise
Idaho
State Health Department
Stanley J. Leland
Clarkston, Wash
Lewston
Orofino
Pocatello
Cutter Laboratories
Leland
Health Department
ST. Louis W
St. Louis
Berkeley
Calif
Edward Schoo
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Corn Loan Extension Possible For 1953 Crop
The Agriculture Department says government loans on farm stored 1993 crop corn may extend another year beyond July. A second reseal will apply to 1953 crop corn, with a 15 cent per bushel storage payment at the start and another 15 cent payment at the end of the extended period. Eligibility follows the original reseal rules, and about 80 million bushels of 1953 corn are on farms under government loans, including in Kansas.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Commodity Credit Corp
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Ekliahoma
Nebraske
Nabrmake
Associated Pres
U.S
Bismarck
Chicago
Edmonton
Fort Worth
Havre
Mont
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Piper Erst
Funeral services held for Frances Meinhardt in Paxico
In Paxico Kansas funeral services were conducted today for Frances Meinhardt 51 who died Wednesday. The obituary notes she left 182 descendants. The service reflected a large family gathering and community notice of her passing.
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Paxico, Kas
Frances Meinhardt
Kiddie Stars Of Melodrama Get Out Fast
Patrolman Harry Brashier rushed toward a railroad trestle where four boys and a girl aged five to seven played. He warned them as a train approached and rescued the children, then reached the end to find the kids had vanished. He never learned their names.
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Mansas City
Harry Brashier
Brashier
Tran
Serious Drought Seen by Benson
Secretary of Agriculture Benson told President Eisenhower a serious drought exists in western states but not a dust bowl. He cited wind erosion and unsound farm programs before the administration and said 11 million acres are affected with 15 million more at risk if drought continues. A governors conference is planned for June 1 to chart long term wind erosion control.
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Washington
Benson
Eisenhower
White House
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Lawrence Commences Major Sewer Expansion Projects
Lawrence moves forward on its 1955 water sewer expansion program, with the largest project a $522,188 sewage treatment plant east of the city. Construction by Utilities Engineering and Construction Co. targets completion by June 1956, designed to serve about 40,000 people and handle industrial waste.
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East Eighth Street
Utilities Engineering and Construction Co
Oklahoma City
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