Wisconsin Voters Decide McCarthy Senate Seat Race
Wisconsin voters go to the polls to choose a successor to the late Joseph McCarthy with Walter Kohler and William Proxmire leading a seven candidate field. Independent candidates include Georgia Cortini Douglas Wheaton and Howard Boyle, while Boyle positions as a McCarthy Republican and Wheaton runs on McCarthyism and Americana themes. Proxmire campaigns on Labor endorsements blaming Eisenhower for higher costs and farm policy issues.
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Milwaukee
Eisenhower
Walter Kohler
William Proxmire
U.S. Senate
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy
Washington
Kohler
Proxmire
Wheaton
Threatened Phone Strike Leaves 23,000 Workers on Duty
About 23,000 telephone equipment workers across 43 states and DC remained on the job as Western Electric and the Communications Workers of America labor dispute neared a strike. The one year contract expired last midnight and wage talks stalled with the union seeking a 16 cent hourly raise plus 6 cents in other benefits while rejecting a 4 to 5 cent offer.
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York
States
District of Columbia
Western Electric Co
Bell Telephone System
Communications Workers of America
CWA
Western Electric
Joseph E. Dunne
Airplane Plant Fire at Aero Design Sparks Half Million Loss
Oklahoma City engineers probed the buried Aero Design and Engineering Co plant after a fire destroyed the main assembly building and seven Aero-Commander twins. President R T Amis Jr estimated damage to the planes at over half a million dollars. total equipment losses also exceed half a million. The firm has built 15 planes for the government, including two for President Eisenhower, but currently has no contract.
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Oklahoma City
Aero Design and Engineering Co
R. T. Amis Jr
Eisenhower
Amis
Siberia Grain Harvest Urged to Speed Up
MOSCOW Pravda urged Siberian farmers to hasten the grain harvest as only 8 to 16 percent of crops were in by August 20 in some areas. The Communist party newspaper blamed late ripening and poor machinery use, noting total harvests Aug. 20 were 12,355,000 acres ahead of last year outside Siberia. Khrushchev is pushing greater agricultural production.
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Moscow
Pravda
Siberia
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Atom Fallout Peril Grows In Reports From Two Regions
Washington Senate House Atomic Energy Committee warns continued nuclear testing at current rates could threaten future generations. In Palo Alto experts say fallout danger may be reached by 1970, with estimates of tens of millions of tons entering the atmosphere yearly from American British and Russian tests.
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Richard Wesley Washington
Washington
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Palo Alto
Calif
American Institute of Biological Science
H. Bentley Glass
Johns Hopkins University
Curtice L. Newcombe
Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory
San Francisco
U.S
Newcombe
Congressional Committee
United States
US Spies Outpace Reds, Former Counterspy Morros Says
Boris Morros, a former counterspy for the United States, claims American intelligence work surpasses Russian methods. In a televised interview Morros disclosed years of dual service for the FRY while the Russians believed him loyal to them. He also asserted there are American government workers spying for the Soviets, described as overseas scientists, engineers, and relatives of prominent European elites.
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Washington
Boris Morros
United States
Morros
Tollywood
The
FRY
Morris
Europe
Babbitt Petter Insurance Qea…vied
Fragmentary OCR notes show insurance names Babbitt and Petter tied to a game event. Readable text indicates an insurance firm reference amid a sports score context with unclear details.
Stolen Car Found in Detroit Traced to Ohio Return
Eddie Dickerson, a Detroit resident, recovered his stolen car after police located it on Scotten Avenue near Toledo Street in Detroit. A few hours later he phoned from Toledo, Ohio, saying he was lost and could not find Scotten.
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Detroit
Eddie Dickerson
Dickerson
Scotten Avenue
Toledo Street
Toledo
Ohio
Scotlen
Wealth Ejected Cigar Owner Pleads for Dump Check
In Watertown New York part of Phil Devine profits lie in the dumps. Devine said he forgot a cash box containing 75 dollars had fallen into a wastebasket and asked officials to inspect the municipal dump for recovery.
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Watertown
Phil Devine
Devine
French Balloonist Killed In Flight Near Saint Florent le Vieil
Georges Cormier a 51 year old dean of French balloonists died after a gust tore his balloon during a routine descent. The craft bounced across fields and hedges before rescuers reached him. he died an hour later in Saint Florent le Vieil France.
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Saint Florent -le: Vieil
France
Georges Cormier
Cormier
Motorboat Slams into Cars in Rapid City Town Street
A motorboat on a broken trailer crashed into two cars in Rapid City downtown. The craft shed its towing rope and careened along Main Street before impact, causing a disruption in the area. No injuries reported in the available text.
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Rapid City
Man in Macon Nears Florida Jail in String of Wrecked Windows
A Macon man, 24 named aeenee Carvers, damaged a store window Saturday night in a bid to land in Georgia jail instead of returning to Florida. Officer Terry Etheridge said Carvers hoped the action would lead to arrest and relief from a life sentence for rape in Florida. Carvers sustained a badly cut foot and will be jailed in Macon after hospital care, until Florida authorities pursue him.
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Macon
Florida
Georgia
Terry Etheridge
Aeenee Carvers
A . Fitzgerald
Etheridge
Korean Dies After Bullet Ricochet Near Pipeline
In Seoul the U S Army said a Korean civilian died when a ricochet from a warning shot fired by guard Fic Martin Mills of Brooklyn New York struck him in the arm and abdomen. Mills fired three warnings as Koreans climbed the Inchon pipeline area. an Army investigation is opened.
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Seoul
U.S
Inchon
Fic
Martin Mills
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jon Byohg Kil
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