Refugees Arrive at CAMP KILMER For Thanksgiving
Sixty Hungarian refugees arrived near CAMP KILMER New Jersey marking a first wave in a planned emergency intake of 5 000 people. Families carried children in wheelchairs faced with leaving kin behind yet expressed hope for safety and work in America as the army aided their processing and temporary housing. More planeloads were en route and government officials indicated broader admission possible.
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Camp Kilmer
Tandanil
America
McGuire
Air Force Base
New York
United Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
New Brunswick
Secon
Intergovernmental Committee For European Migration
Milwaukee
White House
Imre Herdies
Mountain Town May Lose Road
Forty families on Stag Hill in Spring Lake Heights face losing their only access road to the outside world. The steep winding road rises 23 percent and starts in Hillburn New York. Hillburn officials say the route is dangerous and could damage the water main. The Hillburn Village Board moved to ban traffic, to take effect on second reading next Thursday.
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Mahwah
N.J.P
Stag Hill
Spring Lake Heights
Hillburn
N.Y
Charles Banker
Mahway School Board
Desert Wind Ferns Mountain Blaze Near San Bernardino
Desert Wind flares into a four day brush fire in the San Bernardino mountains. The 11 acre blaze grows beyond control lines despite backfires, threatening foothill communities three miles north. About 1,150 firefighters, under state and federal direction, battle a 42 mile by eight mile perimeter.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Thanksgiving Day Traditions Across Nation and World
Americans give thanks with church services feasts family gatherings and football. President Eisenhower attends national Presbyterian service then hosts turkey dinner at Ft Belvoir. Hungarian refugees begin first Thanksgiving in U S shelters provide meals. service personnel celebrate as diplomats join Pan American Mass in Washington.
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America
Turkey
Europe
Pra
Eisenhower
Ntional Presbyterian Church
Washington
Maj
John Fisenhower
Ft. Belvoir
Air Force Base
New Jersey
New York
Plymouth
Cole's Hill
First Church
Lawton Observes Thanksgiving Across Community
Thousands join traditional observance with church services and visits as perfect weather aids travel. Highway patrol reports safe holiday with no serious accidents and warns motorists not to speed amid heavier traffic. Lt Mussen of the Lawson patrol cautions drivers on holiday roads.
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Highway Patrol
Lawton
F. A. Mussen
Lawson Highway Patrol
Dis Wiel
Eisenhower Declares National Emergency Over Strike
President Eisenhower used the Taft-Hartley act to declare a national emergency amid a long Atlantic strike by Jones, threatening to imperil national health and safety. This marks the third time he invoked the emergency provision, with 10 previous uses under Truman. An executive order aimed at ending the shipping stoppage was signed at 9:30 a.m. CST.
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Washington
Fisenhower
Fong Atlantic Ami Golfenast Joneshorengen
Tisenhower
Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Mindszenty Aide Arrested By Reds
In Budapest Cardinal Mindszenty is said to have a secretary Father Egon Turcsanyi seized while attempting to flee Hungary with a message to Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York. Turcsanyi is jailed on Urioc Street. A Western correspondent was allowed to depart.
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Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Mindszenty
Francis Cardinal Spelman
New York
Egon Turcsanyi
Urioc Street
Flo
Vienna
Hungarians Call Total Strike Across Nation
In Budapest two day protest, labeled a total strike, halted public transport as workers resist Soviet efforts to disrupt a National Workers' Council meeting. Streetcar and bus crews walked off, radio offered pleas to resume work, and most factories remained idle amid icy weather.
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Budapest
National Workers’ Council
Hungary
Ted Army
U N asks for Hungary to allow observers on deportation claims
The General Assembly approved a Asian resolution urging Hungary and the Soviet regime to admit U N observers to investigate deportations in Hungary. Russia and Hungary denied the reports and rejected earlier requests. India, Indonesia and Ceylon sponsored the measure while Nehru sought a Moscow Budapest mission to assess the situation.
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United Nations
N.Y
Soviet Union
U. MN
General Assembly
Hungary
Red Budapest
Hale
Russia
U. N
Themas
Dmitri T. Shepilov
India
Indonesia
Ceylon
New Delhi
Nehru
K. P. S. Menin
Budapest
Elder Statesman Urges Lawton Water For Fort Sill Growth
Former U.S. Senator Elmer Thomas, a Lawton resident and longtime advocate, says Lawton must secure more water to sustain Fort Sill and future growth. He toured Medicine Park, Lake Lawtonka, and the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, noting runoff不足 to keep Lake Lawtonka full and praising local progress in schools, streets, and hotels while urging water solutions.
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Lawton
Fort Sill
Oklahoma
U.S
Elmer Thomas
Gayton
W. S
Bill) Thormas
Laytonian
Washington, D.C
Senate
Medicine Park
Lake Lawtonka
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge
Mount Scott Road
Lake Thomas
Sen. Thomas
Thomas
Killer Sorry Calls Victim A Fine Man
Butte Montana A rural shooting left Carl Graff 44 dead from a .22 rifle shot while near his country home. James A Daniel Boone 78 was arrested hours later after calling his son and offering to surrender. Coroner Emmet J Paulsen said the dispute over a county road and cattle gates likely sparked the fatal encounter. Boone claimed he did not know Graff identity and was with his son when he stopped at a gate.
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Butte
Mont
James A
Daniel) Boone
Carl Graff
Boone, & Neighbor
al Boehme
Boone
Danny
Emmet J. Paulsen
Silver Bow
Paulsen
Graff
Kentucky
U N General Assembly Notes Early Withdrawals From Suez
The United Nations General Assembly was informed that France Britain and Israel began withdrawing forces from occupied Egyptian areas. France has pulled about one third of its troops in the Suez Canal zone while Britain will withdraw a battalion as a token move and Israel has withdrawn along the Egyptian frontier. Full withdrawal to await UN peace force arrangements. France studying withdrawal plans but says contacts with Franco British command and international force needed.
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United Nations
U.N. General Assembly
Ain
France
Irae
Egypt
Dag Hamfold
Assembly
Suez Canal
Britain
U.N
Israel
Hammid
Jan
Mideast
Elder Statesman Elmer Thomas Visits Wichita Mountains Lake
Oklahoma figure Elmer Thomas, famed former senator and Tonian pioneer, recalls past as he visits the lake named for him. He urges local citizens to secure more water to safeguard Wichita Falls Fort Sill and the city’s future.
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Oklahoma
Elmer Thomas
Wichita Mountains
Fort Sill
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