Stored Sunlight in Air Released by ARDC
Baltimore report says ARDC scientists at Holloman Air Development Center New Mexico have released chemically stored sunlight from atomic oxygen using nitric oxide. A rocket test sent light aloft to illuminate a fourfold lunar-diameter glow spanning about three miles before fading.
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Baltimore
Air Re Search and Development Command
ARDC
Holloman Air Development Center
New Mexico
Murray Zelikoff
Holloman
First UP Railroad Opens Between Marquette and Ishpeming
The earliest railroad in Michigan's Upper Peninsula began operating in 1857 linking Marquette and Ishpeming. It marks a pivotal development in regional transportation and industrial growth.
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Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Marquette
Ishpeming
Firm To Try To Auction Ort Airplanes
OLATHE Kansas The Gross Auction Co after selling mules and hardware for six decades tried airplane auctions at the Olathe airport listing 10 and a 5 percent commission if sold Weather hindered turnout with six planes initially. bids soon followed with aircraft from the Olathe Air Scouts and a Denver to Olathe flight bringing 6500. Gross plans another auction next month hoping for better conditions.
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Olathe
Kan
Gross Auction Co
Gross
Bill Gross
Olathe Air Scouts
Kansas City
Denver
Most Children Will Get Shots Despite Salk Serum Lack
Secretary of Welfare Folsom said despite vaccine shortages most of the 47 million children under 15 will receive two shots before the summer polio season. He noted about 40 million already had one or two injections, but many will skip a third shot this year. He cited tabulations showing paralytic polio rate is about fourfold higher in unvaccinated children and called the trend very encouraging.
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Washington
Folsom
ABC
Blizzards Leave Furnace Brook Slopes Snowless
In Quincy Massachusetts a fierce blizzard produced 70 mile an hour gusts that swept Furnace Brook Club slopes bare of snow though surrounding areas were heavily snow covered. Local skiers found no skiing possible as winds and drifting snow devastated the course.
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Quincy
Mass
Furnace Brook Club
Jap Film Wins Honorary Oscar
A Japanese film will receive the honorary Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony. Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award was not voted this year, leaving the foreign language film SamuraI to be honored. Claudette Colbert will present the award in New York on Wednesday night.
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Hollywood
George Seaton
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy
Governors
Irving G. Thalberg
New York
Claudette Colbert
Seaton
Tragedy as Polish Fumes Kill Boy in Torrington
In Torrington Wyoming three children attempted to polish furniture while their mother visited a neighbor. The family doctor said fumes from the liquid polish apparently killed eight year old Michael Caneva. Brothers Randy six and Johnny four were found unconscious and revived at a hospital.
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Torrington, Wyo
Raymond Caneva
Michael Caneva
Randy
Johnny
Return trip for $2,500 Neff contribution to Nebraska GOP
Lincoln, Neb. The $2,500 given by oil attorney John H. Neff to the Nebraska Republican party last fall is being returned. The GOP Finance and Budget Committee voted unanimously to return the contribution to Neff, a central figure in the U.S. Senate investigation of lobbying related to a natural gas bill vetoed by President Eisenhower.
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Lincoln
Neb.p
John H. Neff
Nebraska
Republican Party
GOP
Neff
U. S. Senate
Eisenhower
Suspect Arrested After Cactus Massage Allegation
Los Angeles police booked Carlos Noriega age 29 on suspicion of wife beating after his wife Esther age 18 said he struck her and then massaged her face and body with a cactus plant.
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Los Angeles
Carlos Noriega
Esther
Four Year Old Boy Gets Library Card
Ben Klepner, age four, has a real library card after reading candy bar ingredient lists and books his siblings brought home. Librarian H B Lee relaxed a rule by granting the card, noting she has never seen anything like Ben.
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ST. Louis
Ben Klepner
Ben
Henry C. Kloepner
H. B. Lee
Murder spree ends with arrest in Brescia Italy
Police say Vitaliano Morandini a farmhand confessed to nine murders over three months in Brescia Italy including six women. Authorities reported the arrest Monday ending the spree and lifting a wave of fear in the region.
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Brescia
Italy
Vitaliano Morandini
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