Defiant quartet held after attempt to sail to nuclear test zone
Four man crew of the Ketch Golden Rule faced criminal contempt charges in Honolulu after defying a court injunction and attempting to sail toward the Eniwetok proving grounds. Skipper Smith Bigelow of Cos Cob Conn led mates William Huntington George Willoughby and Orion Sherwood as Coast Guard towed the vessel back to port. All pleaded innocent at arraignment.
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Honolulu
mid-Pacific
Smith Bigelow
Cos Cob
Conn
Eniwetok Proving Grounds
Bigelow
William Huntington
St. James
N. Y
George Willoughby
Blackwood Terr
N.J
Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors
Orion Sherwood
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Sherwood
Jon Wiig
Coast Guard
Marine Leader Opposes Change To Defense Organization
Three members of the House Armed Services Committee supported Gen. Randolph M. Pate in opposing Eisenhower era goals to shift defense control. Pate warned a stronger secretary of defense could rush Marines or erode other services. lawmakers urged preserving congressional power over service roles.
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Marine Leader
House Armed Services Committee
Gen
Randolph M. Pate
Congress
Pate
Marine Corps
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Division of Defense
Eienhower
Secretary of
Defense McElroy
Rep. Rivers
D-Sc
Police Find Dope In Dramatic Chinatown Gift Shop
Police swept a Chinatown gift shop run by Yul Hung Ting and his wife Hee in New York after spotting a Chinese woman with a bulldog. Inside a jade beaded tea can, officers found heroin valued at ten million dollars on the illicit market. The couple, married in Hong Kong in 1957, were taken into custody.
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New York
Chinatown
Yul
Hung Ting
Hong Kong
Ting
Po- Hee
Hollywood
Romanian basketball team players vanish in France
Two Romanian basketball players vanished Thursday just before the team planned to fly home to Bucharest. French authorities concluded they chose to stay in the West while the remaining 11 squad members returned to Romania. The Romanians had played in a tournament near Paris last weekend.
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Paris
Bucharest
Aris
Army band to tour the Orient from Fort Meade
The 100 member U.S. Army field band, having logged over 800000 miles in ten years, will travel to the Orient for the first time to perform concerts in Hawaii Japan Korea and Okinawa en route from Fort Meade Maryland.
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FT. Meade, Md
U.S. Army Field Band
Orient
Hawaii
Japan
Korea
Oknawa
212 Word Sentence Stumps Experts
A CBS program The Last Word examined a 212 word sentence in the Internal Revenue Code that stumped experts trying to improve readability. The panel, at New Lock University, found five errors in the program’s draft and suggested inserting a few periods to clarify the phraseology, though amplification was deemed impossible.
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New York
CBS
New Lock University 2 Ce
Weinstein
Rights In the Tree House Spark San Francisco Debate
In Atherton California two gubernatorial candidates clash over a tree house dispute. Kenneth and John Templeton built a tree house in their front yard prompting council action. Brown ally J Francis Shirley plans to argue before the Supreme Court that the structure is a fort and falls under military law.
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Atherton
Calif
California
William F. Knowland
Edmund Brown
San Francisco
Kenneth Templeton
John
J. Francis Shirley
Brown
U. S. Supreme Court
Kenneth S. Templeton
Shirley
Capital Federal Official Discusses Housing Acts
Hugo Nelson of Capitol Federal Savings spoke to the Topeka Real Estate Board on the emergency Housing Bill now before Congress and related FHA and VA provisions. He argued the FHA regulation will not spark housing starts, that mortgage money conditions will affect sales, and noted the Bill could raise inflation and shift funds to FNMA mortgage purchases.
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Hugo Nelson
Capitol Federal Savings
Topeka Real Estate Board
Congress
Savings and Loan
FHA
Nelson
FNMA
Flying Hero Recalls Urge to Leave Crewman Behind
First Lt. James E. Obenauf, 24, of Grayslake, describes an urge to bail out while a B47 bomber over the Texas Panhandle. He stayed with Maj. Joseph B. Manwell and landed the plane, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for the rescue attempt and survival of crew, amid a 30,000 foot explosion and frostbite.
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Abilene
Tes
James E. Obenauf
Grayslake
Texas Panhandle
Obenauf
Air Force
Joseph B. Manwell
Portsmouth
Dakthar
Tex
James M. Graves
Fort Worth
John P. Cobb
Elko. Ney
Graves
Two Men Lose in Battle For Barber School Okay
Paul Hyatt and Hares Woosty lost a legal battle in Thilesdiey District Court. The court sustained a motion to quash their suit against the State Board of Barber Examiners to grant them a license to operate a barber college at 406 Kansas Avenue.
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Paul Hyatt
Hares Woosty
Thilesdiey District Court
Nan
State Board of Barter Baseminers
Boofar
Fin Wanesas Avenue
Dean McElhenny
Fred Rausch Jr
Barber College
Wooster
Kansas Avenue
Kansas Traffic Deaths Reported for 1958
State accident records show four hour totals and yearly figures. In last four hours five deaths. to date in 1958 one hundred thirty six. For the same period in 1957 one hundred seventy seven.
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Topeina P
Kansas
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William Rutherford
Lawerence
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