Stone Age Man Found As Irish Lake Is Drained
Archaeologists at Lough Gara near Boyle in central Ireland uncover the full skeleton of a Stone Age man along with two patterned brooches an iron axe a bone needle a canoe and a bronze spearhead as drought lowered lake waters exposing 140 crannogs and promising more relics before winter rains reflooded the site. The find is described as one of the richest ever for Stone and Bronze Ages and a yearlong effort is planned to study the remains.
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Boyle
Ireland
Lough Gara
Dublin
Tion
Akleton
Bettam
Taft Attacks Tideland Fees in Filibuster Clash
Ohio Senator Taft denounces offshore tideland fees as a filibuster tactic blocking the Senate's agenda. He rejects delaying the bill to curb rent ceilings, while urging immediate action on the submerged lands measure amid a Saturday session and looming votes.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate
GOP
100 Teeners Riot Crashing Party in L A
A gang of about 100 youths rioted near a Catholic parish hall at 120 East 25th Street in Los Angeles. Bricks shattered windows while the crowd brandished guns knives and bottles. One 13 year old, Carlos Sianez, was arrested as three police squads responded. Two bystanders were slightly injured. Police noted many attackers were aged 13 to 14 and linked the Clanton Street gang to the incident.
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Los Angeles
Carlos Sianez
Clanton
East 25Th St
Gromyko Named Deputy Minister in Soviet Foreign Affairs
Andrei Gromyko, long serving ambassador to Britain since last July, is appointed first deputy minister of foreign affairs. He will be replaced in London by Jacob Malik, who is currently a deputy foreign minister under V. M. Molotov, per the Moscow radio announcement.
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Andrei
Britain
Affai Moscow Radio
London
Jacob Malik
V. M. Molotov
Needles luxury Ike halts White House yacht use
President Eisenhower ordered the USS Williamsburg mothballed by June to cut a symbol of needless luxury. The ship will be turned to the Red Cross for daytime Potomac river excursions for wounded servicemen. Crew reassigned, saving only operating costs from a $600000 annual expense.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
White House
Williamsburg
Red Cross
Potomac
Washington
Truman
Bermuda
Key West
FHA Loan Controls Lifted for Vets Down Payment Restrictions
Thousands in Long Beach celebrate after the FHA and VA end deferment and defense act controls on housing. The agencies allow 25 to 30 year mortgages with abolished down payments of 4 to 5 percent, regulated by commercial standards. Congress boosted the FHA loan insurance authorization by 500 million dollars to 1.75 billion for home modernization.
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Long Beach
Federal Housing Administration
Veterans Administration
J. ¥. Davidson
Jorg Beach
FHA
Congress
Atom Blast Flash Seen 850 Miles
LAS VEGAS-EB One of the most powerful atomic explosions ever set off inside the United States today and it triggered the first Marine Corps helicopter maneuver. Forty Sikorsky helicopters leapfrogged 200 Marines beneath the blast as the Atomic Energy Commission detonated a 300 foot tower at 4:35 am. The fireball light was visible as far as Montana and Los Angeles, while a vast 800,000 square mile area was banned to aircraft for 12 hours due to radiation fears.
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Las Vegas
United States
Marine Corps
Sikorsky
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flats
Nso
Montana
Los Angeles
AEC
Lost Girl Found Alive After Desert Ordeal Near Mojave
San Bernardino sheriff reports 5 or 6 year old Anna Maria Woodruff vanished Friday near her Hawthorne family ranch. Ground party from George Air Force Base located her about 5 to 6 miles from the grandparents ranch near Phelan. Volunteers searched all night as temperatures dropped to 40s. she is in fair condition and was returned to the ranch. Parents Walter and wife are in Utah. highway patrol asked to locate them.
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San Bernardino
Mojave
George Air Force
Anna Maria Wondruff
Anna Maria
Here
Anna
Walter Woodruff
Hawthorne
Calif
Utah
Olympic Games Go to Melbourne for 1956
The International Olympic Committee confirmed Melbourne as the site for the 1956 Olympic Games after a closed session. W A Coles announced the Melbourne Organising Committee would press Australian officials to relax quarantine laws on imported horses to avoid blocking the equestrian events.
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Mexico City
International Olympic Committee
Melbourne
Otto, Mayer
Switzerland
W. A. Coles
Australia
United Nations backs quick Panmunjom talks for Korea armistice
In a rare unanimous vote the UN General Assembly urged speedy progress toward an armistice in Korea. The Brazil proposed measure delayed Korea discussions pending Panmunjom outcomes while Poland’s withdrawal of a Soviet peace plan eased tensions. The vote was lauded as an impressive development by US delegate Gross.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N. General Assembly
Panmunjom
Korea
Brazil
U. N
Andrei ¥. Vishinleley
U. S
Ernest A. Gross
Actual Swap of PWs to Be on Air Sunday
Radio KH will broadcast from Panmunjom's Freedom Village during the prisoner of war exchange at 4 mm Sunday. Officials said the broadcast would last about 15 minutes with Walt Simmons of Mutual Broadcasting System at the microphone. The station will read names during the exchange at 4:30 5:30 and 9:13 p.m.
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Panmunjom
Freedom Village
Walt Simmons
Mutual Broadcasting System
Gas Workers End 16 Day Strike With Interim Pact
An interim agreement ends a 16 day CIO Utility Workers strike against Southern California Gas Co. Workers will return to jobs Monday in Lakewood, Compton, Bellflower and harbor areas. The one year contract retroactive to April 1 includes a 5 percent raise, enhanced medical contributions, faster wage hikes for promoted staff, extended swing shift differentials, new arbitration, and seniority credits. A non reprisal pledge is part of the settlement.
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CIO
Southern California Gas Co
Lakewood Plaza
Compton
Bellflower
Harbor
Long Beach
E. T. Shedlock
Weather Outlook Mostly Sunny Through Sunday
Mostly sunny conditions continue through the weekend with high clouds occasionally. Temperatures show little change, remaining steady into Sunday.
Nation convulsed by snow fires tornadoes and dust storms
Severe weather swept the nation with heavy snow and record low temps from Missouri to New York. Tornadoes struck northeast Arkansas killing one and injuring 20 as towns including New Port Weiner Waldenburg Olyphant Turrell Gillmore Engleside Blackville Morseshoe faced damage. Forest fires burned in New Mexico and Arizona with 7000 acres lost in the Lincoln National Forest. Dust storms reddened skies over southern Colorado eastern Arizona and portions of Oklahoma Texas. A 14 car pileup near Grants killed a woman and injured 10.
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Missouri
New York
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
New Port
Weiner
Waldenburg
Olyphant
Turrell
Gillmore
Engleside
Blackville
Morseshoe
Ann Lewis
New Mexico
Arizona
Lincoln National Forest
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas
Grants
Where to Find It Listings Fragment
A fragment listing sections and page references for a newspaper. It outlines where to locate various features including boys pages, churches, classifieds, comics, obituaries, radio and TV, seniors, theaters, tides and temperatures across pages A-4 A-5 B-3 to B-9 A-2 A-3 A-8 and 8-3.
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Senagls
Operon Spar
Americans annihilate 1000 Reds at Pork Chop Hill clash
American artillery and air power pounded Chinese troops massing for counterattacks near Pork Chop Hill. Aerial bombs and fighter planes targeted Red staging areas as brutal hand to hand fighting raged in trench lines, with US troops repelling charges and forcing remaining Chinese units to retreat. More than 1000 Chinese casualties were reported over two days in the Chorwon Valley defense.
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Seoul
Korea
Americai
Pork Chop
Notman's-Land
Pork Chop Hill
Seventh Infantry Division
Chorwon Valley
Red Company
Trade Begins Sunday Near Plan For Korea Prisoner Exchange
U N and Communist staff officers agreed on a tentative Monday schedule for the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners at Panmunjom with first shipments set for 9 a.m. Monday. Talks also planned to resume full armistice discussions after a Sunday meeting of command officers. The Reds proposed delivering prisoners in groups at several daily times and releasing 600 Allied captives, including 150 Americans, at 100 per day.
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Munsan
Korea
U.N
Haisen
Long Beach
U. N
Panmunjem
Douglas M. Cairns
Panmunjom
Alles
Dope Raids Net 20 In California and Arizona
Federal agents arrested 20 people in California and Arizona in a narcotics roundup. About 350 to 400 pounds of opium were seized in Phoenix. Ten suspects were nabbed in San Francisco Oakland and Phoenix. Names include Mildred L McDavis Erneste Rexner Belores Thompson and others. A small quantity of heroin was seized in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Federalagents
California
Arizona
Lev Naren
Goles Office
Federal Narcotics District
San Francisco
Oakland
Phoenix
Davis
Mildred L. McDavis
Elnere Rexner
Belores Thompson
Jesse Robinson
Sam Waits
James E. Brow
Thomas Winfrew
Leo Williams
Lessie Burton Henry
Claude Rees
la Angeles
Four Red POWs Killed in Yoncho Island Riot
Four Communist prisoners were killed and 45 wounded as Allied guards suppressed a riot at Yoncho Island off Koje Island in Korea. The incident began during a stockade inspection when prisoners refused entry, barricaded themselves, and seven compounds joined a planned protest with shouting and rock throwing.
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Pusan
Korea
Yoncho Island
U. N
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