Col White named director of tactics and combined arms at school
Col Charles H. White Jr. is appointed to lead the Department of Tactics and Combined Arms at the Artillery and Guided Missile School. A West Point graduate of 1934, he served 30 months overseas in World War II with the 96th Infantry Division and earned the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. In Korea he served seven months with Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Division, earning Oak Leaf Clusters to both the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He is the son of Maj. Gen. Charles H. White (Ret.).
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Charles J. Blake, Jr
National War College
Washington, D.C
77Th Field Artillery
White
United States Military Academy
West Point
N.Y
96Th Infantry Division
Leyte
Kinawa
Korea
1St Cavalry Division
Edmondson Pushes Dam Bill Amid Senate Backing
Rep Ed Edmondson pledges an all out push in the House to approve the 40.6 million Cobb Foss dam project after Senate approval. The measure, held in a House interior subcommittee due to Rep John P Saylor opposition, faces calendar and session timing uncertainties. The Foss Reservoir would lie near Clinton and Anadarko and serve flood control irrigation and water supply to multiple towns along the Washita watershed.
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Ed Edmondson
D-Okla
House
Oklahoma
Senate
Pennsylvania
John P. Saylor
Edmondson
Foss
Clinton
Fort Cobb
Anadarko
Washita Water Shed
Elk City
Bessie
Cordell
Rocky
Hobart
Gotebo
Chickasha
Verden
Jamaicans In America Avoid Jail For Garden Dope
Jamaicans Norris McPherson and Gustavus Miller, longtime farm workers from Jamaica, learned that marijuana grown in their Salisbury garden led to a suspended two year sentence after their lawyers argued they did not know cultivating the drug was illegal. The judge warned them to avoid illegal usage and told them to use American wild roots if needed.
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Salisbury
P—Norris McPherson
Gustavus Miller
Jamaica
Rex A. Taylor
McPherson
Miller
Hamilton P. Fox
Taylor
OBC Class Leaves New One To Enter At Snow Hall
The Artillery and Guided Missile School holds two graduation and entrance ceremonies at Snow Hall Auditorium Friday. Brig. Gen. Thomas M. Watlington will welcome Officers Basic Course No. 2, the second OBC class to enter the school this fiscal year.
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Artillery and
Snow Hall
Thomas M. Watlington
Two Communist Soldiers Seized Near Little Quemoy Island
The Defense Ministry said two Communist soldiers were captured at noon yesterday while swimming toward Nationalist-held Little Quemoy Island off the Red China mainland. They were on a spying and sabotage mission.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy Island
Red China
Defense Ministry
Senate approves surplus commodity sale limit bill
The Senate approved a bill by voice vote setting the surplus farm commodities the government may sell abroad for foreign currencies at 1.5 billion dollars. The new cap more than doubles the prior 700 million limit.
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Senate
Washington
ULP
House
Nominee Marion B. Folsom for Health Secretary
Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Marion B. Folsom to head the Health, Education and Welfare Department succeeding Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby. Folsom is set to lead the agency amid ongoing federal health and education initiatives.
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Washington
ULP
Senate
Oveta Culp Hobby
Marion B. Folsom
Religion Doesn't Stay With Burglar
Carl Jackson aged 23 faced burglary charges after entering Judge Langston G King’s court with a large Bible. He proclaimed finding religion before a jury sentenced him to 12 years in the penitentiary and he was moved to the confinement room where witnesses said he tore the Bible to shreds.
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Houston
Carl Jackson
Langston G. King’s
Jackson
HarrimanPope Audience Marks Vatican City Meeting
New York Governor Averell Harriman was received in audience by Pope Pius XII in Vatican City on Thursday, signaling diplomatic cordiality between New York state leadership and the Vatican during Harriman’s visit.
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Vatican City
New York
Averell Harriman
Pope Pius XII
Fairchild Plans Light Jet Plane For Executives
HAGERSTOWN Md Fairchild Aircraft Division announced plans to build a four jet light plane for executive transport with a crew of two and seven passengers. The craft would cruise at 560 miles per hour.
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Hagerstown
Fairchild Aircraft Division
Cemetery program targets vandalism in Lancaster burial grounds
Mayor John Harvey deputized superintendents of three city cemeteries in Lancaster Ohio to curb vandalism drinking card playing and informal gatherings in the burial grounds. The move aims to restore order and protect the cemetery property and visitors.
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Lancaster
Ohio
John Harvey
Michigan to drop Water Wonderland slogan on plates
Secretary of State James M. Hare said Michigan will likely drop the Water Wonderland slogan from license plates in 1957 as the trend shifts away from plate advertising. A Kalamazoo County Circuit Court overruled a motorist’s conviction for covering the slogan, ruling he was not required to advertise the state.
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Lansing
Mich
James M. Hare
Michigan
Jet Trainer Crashes. Two Pilots Walk Away Unhurt
PLANO Texas UP A T-33 jet trainer from Perrin Air Force Base crashed on a farm about one mile south of Plane Wednesday. Both officers walked away uninjured. The pilots were 1st Lt. Richard Hayes 29 from Gettysburg Pennsylvania an eight year Air Force veteran and 1st Lt. Richard Barber 27 of Pecatonica Illinois.
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Plano
Tex
Perrin Air Force Base
Richard Hayes
Air Force
Gettysburg
Richard Barber
Pecatonica
Northrop to Build $1 Million Plant in El Paso
Hawthorne California UP reports Northrop Aircraft Co and Radio Plane Co plan a 1 million pilot plant in El Paso. The 640 acre facility, to be finished by early next year, will build and repair drone target planes and guided missiles.
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Northrop Aircraft
el Paso
Hawthorne
Calif
Northrop Aircraft Co
Radio Plane Co
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