Eisenhower News Conference Likely This Week
The White House said a news conference is probable on Wednesday with Eisenhower's second term plans not yet disclosed. Hagerty deflected questions on timing and stock market impact, citing no comment. Observers note the president left Georgia after heart concerns and plans to decide soon.
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Brazil Army Pushes Deeper Into Amazon Against Rebels
Brazilian troops and loyalist air force planes moved into the Amazon to crush a rebel faction. Gen Antonio Alves Cabal warned the group, cornered at Jacare Acanga airstrip, to surrender or be bombed. Leaflets urged surrender with towels and weapons laid on the strip.
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Two AF Jets Set Record From California to Langley
Two F84 jet fighters completed a nonstop cross country flight from Norton AFB in California to Langley AFB in Virginia in 3 hours 34 minutes covering about 2400 miles. Pilots Lt. Col. Robert R. Scott and 1st Lt. Richard Hill flew at altitudes between 31 500 and 41 500 feet averaging over 670 mph.
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Calif
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Richard Hill
Vast U S Radar Network Expands Globally Across Oceans
The United States is assembling a global radar warning system spanning air land sea to alert the nation of enemy craft. Fleet assets include W-2 four engine Lockheed planes and radar picket vessels with submarines and destroyers. Future plans feature atomic powered subs and offshore stations from Alaska to Greens land and beyond.
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Soviet Central Committee re elects Presidium members
Moscow report says the Central Committee re elected 11 Presidium members. Khrushchev remains first secretary. Georgi Zhukov becomes an alternate Presidium member. Six candidate members added including the first woman on the ruling body, with a party secretariat of eight elected. Zhukov’s status highlights military influence in post Stalin Moscow.
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Eleven Airmen Die In Superfort Crash South Of Dayton
A B50 Superfort bomber crashed on a farm south of Dayton Ohio killing all 11 aboard including two civilians. The explosion and fire burned the barn and farm home of Mrs C C Henderson destroying both structures. A Wright-Patterson helicopter arrived soon after as fragments scattered across the soft field following the noon-time impact. The aircraft was a test plane from Wright Air Development Center.
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Senate Leaders Seek Realistic Fund Law Reform
Senate leaders plan introduction this week of an elections bill to allow senatorial candidates and backers to spend from 100 600 up to 1 910 000 in campaigns. Lyndon B. Johnson says bipartisan support is likely and a realistic measure will invite broad public participation and review. The bill would raise personal expenditure limits from 10 000 to 30 cents per vote last election, with a 100 000 minimum.
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Burglars Loot Sheriff Range in Phoenix
In Phoenix, weekend burglars stole a pistol, ammunition, a telescopic sight and pistol grips from the sheriff's pistol range. Authorities are investigating the break in and reviewing security.
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Leaders Sought In Florida Riot
Daytona Beach police scanned photographs and questioned witnesses to identify ringleaders of a mob that prompted National Guard involvement. About 46 youths face affray charges to be heard Wednesday. guards restored order after a several hour disturbance tied to drag racing during a National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing event.
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Scientist Links Tobacco Tar to Cancer in Rabbits
Dr Evarts A Graham a chest surgeon and tobacco cancer pioneer says painting tobacco tar on rabbit ears produced very malignant cancers He notes this adds evidence that cigarette smoke contains a cancer factor and cites four mice strains with cancers He warned some cases may involve other factors and pollution He spoke while accepting a 1955 award from the Alumni Association of St Louis College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences.
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St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences
Dual blow by fate for couple in Grand Rapids
Wo Keo Van Lak and his wife faced double grief as both daughters, Eileen and Kathleen Van Lopik, died of leukemia. Kathleen, also ill last November, was expected to live at most four more months, leaving the couple with their two deceased children.
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van Lopiks
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Kathleen
Nations Meet To Open Conference On Atom Peace Uses
Twelve nations begin talks to shape a charter for a world atoms for peace agency. The United States and Soviet Union push rival structures, one under UN Security Council with veto, the other as a specialized UN agency reporting annually. Australia Belgium South Africa France Britain Portugal India Brazil Czechoslovakia Canada participate.
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Strauss Says Atom Tests Will Emphasize Defense
Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission states spring tests will stress defensive nuclear weapons designed to blunt an attack. He mentions devices against incoming planes or missiles and hopes for various defensive purposes excluding hand grenades. The AEC plans tests at the Pacific proving ground this spring with no date announced.
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Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Pacific Proving Ground
Kilgore Stroke Condition Worsens to Serious
Sen. Kilgore of West Virginia suffered a minor stroke on Saturday. Doctors at Bethesda Naval Hospital report his condition as serious and under careful observation.
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Reverend David Crane and Virginia Revive New Parish
A fresh comic strip launches on page one of the Journal-World about Rev. David Crane just out of divinity school and his bride Virginia as they work to salvage a run-down church in a rough farm community.
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Radical plan eyed to ease downtown parking
Lawrence businessmen show cautious interest in converting Massachusetts Street into a single large parking lot with through traffic rerouted along Vermont and New Hampshire Streets. City officials measure feasibility while a poll collects merchant opinions and another parking expansion gains 65 spaces at a cost of about $60,000.
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Seven Men Parachute From Tanker Fire Then Land Safely
An Air Force KC97 tanker from Whiteman AFB suffered an engine fire and seven airmen parachuted at 5,000 feet between Grandview AFB and Cleveland MO. Two men reported in from Peculiar MO. five others were being searched for. The aircraft landed safely at Olathe NAS with six aboard. Captain Leo E. Barnes said fire was controlled and landing was incident free.
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Did He Ever Get Up Did He Ever Get Up
In Santa Monica California a neighbor shouted The house is on fire prompting Ruby Burkholder to call the fire department. Fire crews arrived and a captain knocked on the neighbor's door finding no blaze as the woman explained she mistook trying to wake her husband with a cry about a fire.
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Despondent patient found after long Lawrence chase
Lawrence police used a bloodhound to track a patient who fled Lawrence Memorial Hospital after sedation. The trail led across campus to Potter Lake then to Ninth Street before the patient appeared at a store seven miles away on WW Highway 40 in good condition.
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Navy Reveals Plans For Atomic Guided Submarine
Navy officials disclosed plans for the first atom powered guided missile submarine. The sub will be built at Mare Island California and was approved by Congress in 1956 as a conventionally powered boat designed to launch missiles.
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Winter Weather Seen With Cold Overnight Forecast
The weather bureau predicts a real winter cold with overnight lows in the 10 to 5 degree range in Northeast Kansas. Skies clear, but motorists faced mud and dust from recent precipitation as temperatures fell from 58 degrees to around 30.
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Lawrence
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Loygente
Religious Week Kicks Off on K U Campus
KU observes Religious Emphasis Week with seventeen religious leaders from diverse faiths. Seminars cover science and religion, interfaith cooperation, and spiritual values as sessions run through Friday noon in the Memorial Union and housing organized by student religious groups.
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Paul Zimmerman
Concordia Teachers College
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Oo State University
Charles E. Boddie
American Baptist Foreign Mission
Thomas Parham
Navy
Henry E. Allen
Minnesota University
DelWitt Baldwin
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Kansas Traffic Deaths Topeka Report 1956
Kansas traffic fatalities listed by the State Accident Records Section show 17 deaths in the last 48 hours and to date in 1956, compared with 80 for the same period in 1955. The figures reflect statewide fatalities reported by Topeka officials.
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Weather summary for Kansas with cold snap and mixed readings
Weather report notes clearing and colder air in Kansas with concerns about Tuesday turning partly cloudy and warmer. It lists low temperatures around 10 to 45 and highs near 30 eight to 40, plus scattered erroneous entries and illegible readings.
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