$100 Million 2 Mile Long Monster To Help U S Learn Atom Secrets
A 100 million dollar two mile long electron linear accelerator planned at Stanford will be America's next major nuclear research instrument. President Eisenhower announced with approval from Congress to study atomic behavior at ultra short ranges and open to qualified scientists nationwide.
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U.S
San Francisco
America
New York
Eisenhower
Stanford University
Atomic Energy Commission
Stanford
W. K. H. Panofsky
Stanford Laboratory
Five Ohioans Held In Crackdown On Gamblers
Four Middletown men were arrested in a nationwide IRS sweep over gamblers lacking a $50 tax stamp. Across the country one in Toledo, sixteen in Los Angeles, six in New York, six in San Francisco, two in Lexington, and one in Niagara Falls were also detained. Chester Mull and John Mull were taken at Gem Smokery, while Benjamin Morn and Maurice Oswald were nabbed at Clinton News Stand. The Mulls posted $1,000 bonds and face May 27 hearings. Morn and Oswald await arraignments.
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Middletown
Ohio
Internal Revenue Service
Washington
Toledo
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco
Lexington
Niagara Falls
Carl R. Watson
Cincinnati
IRS
Gem Smokery
Clinton News
Chester Mull
John Mull
The
Gem
Benjamin Morn
Maurice Oswald
Clinton
U. S
Graham P. Hunt Jr
Morn
Oswald
West Jeff Bank Hoax Revealed In Columbus
FBI said the West Jefferson Central National Bank incident was a hoax. Teller Keith P. Harrison admitted fabricating the robbery and embezzlement scheme after investigators questioned him. $2,563 was found in his safety deposit box. He is held for a federal grand jury.
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Columbus, Ohio
FBI
Keith P. Harrison
U.S
Robert Newton
Central National Bank
West Jefferson
PBI
Harrison
Newton
Federal Grand Jury
Fidel Castro Jr Hurt In Cuban Car Crash
Fidel Castro Jr the nine year old son of Cuba's revolutionary prime minister is under observation after a car accident. Initial exams show he is not seriously injured.
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Havana
Fidel Castro Jr
Cuba
Grandma Gatewood Skips Buckeye Trail Meeting in Logan
Executive committee of the Buckeye Trail plans a Logan meeting Saturday to map a Cincinnati to Lake Erie route via Hocking County. Grandma Gatewood, Emma Gallipolis 71, trails ahead on a Independence Missouri to Oregon hike and will not attend.
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Logan
Grandma Gatewood
Gallipolis
Grandma
Emma
Independence
Oregon
Ohio
Gatewood
Junction City
Kan
Cincinnati
Lake Erie
Hocking County
Southeastern Ohio
Godfrey Survives Lung Cancer Operation Says He Will Do Damndest
Arthur Godfrey, 55, leaves Columbia Presbyterian after a lung cancer operation. He says the surgeon removed a tumor wrapped around the aorta and that he has “a break” to recover. He plans weeks in New York apartment then visits his Virginia farm.
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Godfrey
NEW York (Ap
Arthur Godfrey
New York
Virginia
Eisenhower, Steel Union Chief Hold Private Talk
President Eisenhower and United Steelworkers of America President David J. McDonald met for about 30 minutes in New York. White House aide James Hagerty said the session did not discuss the steel industry situation. Talks aimed to avert a June 30 strike by 500,000 workers continue with negotiators from the union and major steel firms.
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New York
Eisenhower
Steelworkers
White House
James C. Hagerty
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers of America
McDonald
House panel blasts Agriculture Department over law and funding
The House Appropriations Committee accuses the Agriculture Department of complete disregard for the law and trims its 1960 funding by 142 million dollars. It calls for a more aggressive surplus sales program abroad and highlights对 farmers, Treasury, and taxpayers in a critical report by Rep. Jamie L. Whitten.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Agriculture Department
Jamie L. Whitten
D-Miss
Commodity Credit Corp
Farmers Home Administration
Rural Electrification Administration
U.S
Treasury
Fight Persists Over Ohio Sales Tax Stamp Plan
In Columbus the fight to keep Ohio's 3 percent sales tax stamp system continues despite Gov. DiSalle’s opposition. The Senate Taxation Committee recommended passage of a bill to eliminate stamps, a move opposed by Cleveland Democrats Calabrese and Petrasch and urged by charitable groups. DiSalle seeks GOP support to pass the tax bill with stamp elimination, risking Democratic votes. House actions include shorter firefighter hours, enforcement of other states’ tax laws, fair trade revival, and licensing moves.
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Columbus
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
Senate
Senate Taxation Committee
J. Sherman Porter
Dgallia
Cleveland
Anthony O. Calabrese
Julius Petrasch
DiSalle
House
Danny D. Johnson
Dtuscarawas
Congress
Cool Snap Grips Eastern U S With 30s Readings
A mid May cool snap spread across the eastern half of the nation with 30s in the Dakotas to northern Indiana and Illinois. Temperatures fell 7 to 15 degrees from 24 hours earlier with frost noted from New England to the North Carolina mountains and 40s to 60s elsewhere.
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Anchorage
Alaska
St. Louis
Louisville
Atlanta
Southland
North Central
Dakotas
Illindis
Indiana
New England
Gulf States
North Carolina Mountains
Pacific Northwest
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Pacific Coast
Graduation To Be Skimpy In Integration Troubled Lit tle Rock
In Little Rock, 225 seniors will graduate from two all white private schools and none from a third as integration battles affect public schools. A federal court challenge to a state law that closed high schools continues, while Raney High School plans 200 graduates from 767 pupils supported by a Faubus backed corporation.
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Little Rock
Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Raney High School
Mark Wylie Resigns as Gallia Coach
Mark Wylie, former Gibisonville star, resigns as head basketball and baseball coach at Gallipolis High School effective at year end. He gives no reason, hints at leaving education. Wylie led Blue Devils to 1958-59 SE Ohio League title. baseball team undefeated in league play.
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Mark Wylie
Gibisonville
Gallipolis High School
Wylie
Blue Devils
Union Furnace
Gallipolis
James Hartman Peter Yaw Win Scholastic Awards
Two Logan youths, James Hartman and Peter Yaw, are among 200 Ohio University students honored at the university convocation. Hartman, 1957 Logan High School graduate, received the Frank B Gullum Award and a Men's Union scholarship. Yaw, 1955 Logan High School graduate and Phi Beta Kappa elect, won the John Bayard Thomas premedic prize as a senior.
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Logan
Ohio University
James Hartman
Ernest Hartman
Thirdy St
Frank B. Gullum
Men’s Union
Logan High School
Peter Yaw
Owen F. Yaw
John Bayard Thomas
Young Yaw
Yaw
Ucker Bros Dairy Sells Milk Amid Revoked Grade A Permit
Ackers Bros Dairy faces a revocation of its Grade A milk permit by the Logan-Hocking health department after state lab tests show high bacterial counts in regular and homogenized milk. The health board had previously revoked and then briefly restored Grade A rights, with enforcement to be discussed with the prosecutor.
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Ucker Bros. Dairy
Logan-Hocking
H. M. Boocks
Logan
Ackers
Board of Health
Dr. Boocks
Phil Henderson
Columbus
Henderson
Health Board
Acker Bros
The
Daily News
Athens
Lappen
Reds Propose Peace Plan For Germany
In Geneva AP report Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko presented Moscow’s peace treaty for divided Germany at the Big Four talks. The draft would force West Germany to sever ties with the Western powers, aligning with Moscow while Western allies had rejected the approach. Khrushchev urged peace based on two German states, contrasting the Western plan for a unified Germany and gradual reunification.
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Geneva
Andrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
Germany
Moscow
West Germany
United States
Britain
France
Gromyko
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
East
West Berlin
Senate House conference approve 150 million for foreign aid loans
Washington AP reports Senate and House conferees agree on a 150 million dollar appropriation for the foreign aid development loan fund. The amount is 75 million less than Eisenhower requested, 50 million more than the House approved, and 50 million less than the Senate vote. Funds support loans to friendly nations to develop economies within an omnibus bill.
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Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Man Kills Wife Police Chief Then Dies After 5 Hour Gun Battle
In Limerick Maine a 51 year old businessman Gordon FE Hamlin shot and killed his wife Rose 46 and Westbrook Police Chief Pierre Harnois 34. State Troopers Stephen Regina 42 and Willard Parker were wounded as Hamlin held a cellar siege for about five hours ending with his suicide. Hamlin’s despondency followed the failure of his furniture plant in Sanford.
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Limerick
Maine
Gordon FE
Hamlin
Rose
Westbrook
Pierre Harnois
Stephen A. Regina
Saco
Willard Parker
Portland
Rose Hamlin
Jessie Mitchell
Parker
Harneis
FBI
Regina
Air Force clears radiation shielding hurdle for nuclear plane
Lt. Gen. Roscoe C. Wilson announced the Air Force has solved shielding for a nuclear powered subsonic plane to prototype future weapon systems. The design aims for B52 size and runway, with direct and indirect liquid metal reactor cycles. Von Braun notes rockets powering future commercial aviation merit study and missile defense rising on future battlefields. Delta Council reports 6,000 attendees in Cleveland Mississippi.
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Washington
Air Force
Roscoe C. Wilson
Aviation Writers Assn
Wilson
Cleveland
Miss
Wernher von Braun
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Delta Council
National Aeronaucs and Space Administration
Redstone Arsenal
Soviet Union
Delta
Mississippi
X15 Aims for 4000 Miles Per Hour Breakthrough
The government disclosed the X15 rocket plane’s expected speed of 4000 mph. Ira H. Abbott of NASA told the Aviation Writers Association the craft will leap from the atmosphere into space like a fish emerging from water. The X15 is undergoing captive flight tests under a B52 bomber wing.
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Washington
Ira H. Abbott
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Assny
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Reds
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