Microwave System Spanning Continent Opens Long Distance Phones
New York August 17 a $40 million microwave radio beam system spanning the continent began operation for long distance telephone service. Towers from New York to San Francisco relay beams horizon to horizon enabling coast to coast television and telephone links. The system, longest in the world, carries high frequency waves and will open to television on September 30. construction has run since 1947 and has served Omaha recently.
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AllJet Bendix Air Race Sets Off From Edwards Air Force Base
All-jet Bendix race opens tomorrow at Edwards Air Force Base with seven jets including three Bombers, three Thunderjets and two Sabres racing 1915 miles nonstop to National Air Races. Pilots include Capt Bernard Watts Lt Col George Thabault Maj L M Dykes and Maj Herbert Pederson. Sabres will be flown by Capt T S Gibson and Col K K Compton. Bendix record of 529 mph set by a Thunderjet in 1945.
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George W. Thabault
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L. M. Dykes
Eglin Afb
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Langley Afh
Herbert A. Pederson
Los Angeles
Nellis Afb
Las Vegas
Nev
E. 8. Davis
R. EB. Johnson
Widow of Admiral to Get 75 Monthly Aid
Washington reports that the government will provide 75 dollars a month to the widow of Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, former chief of naval operations. Assistant Secretary Anna Rosenberg cited the figure while testifying before the House armed services committee in support of a bill to raise survivors' annuities. She said the example was illustrative and that Mrs Sherman was not in need.
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Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Anna Rosenberg
China Reds Ship Silenced
Singapore police sealed the radio on the 4380 ton Hai Hsuan, a Chinese Communist ship suspected of broadcasting to jungle terrorists. The vessel, docked in Singapore Roads for 19 months after a mutiny, faced a bid for a sailing ban rejected by British authorities. The U S claimed the ship was a former Liberty vessel with $400,000 still owed to its Nationalist Chinese purchasers.
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