Walteria Quarry Powers 300 Acre Diatomaceous Earth Plant
Walteria hosts a 300 acre diatomaceous earth quarry run by a Great Lakes Carbon division opened in 1930. The plant operates 24 hours and ships Dicaema branded material worldwide. Diatomaceous earth, a microscopic marine plant, has 200 uses from paints to fertilizers and battery components.
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Walteria
Jose Gomez
Redondo Beach
Wolteria
John Graham
Gale Ave
Gomez
Lompoc
Long Beech
Long Vein
Great Lakes Carbon Corp
Long Beach
Santa Barbara
United States
Walteria Hills
Dicaema
Waikeria
Tass Executive Named U.N. Post in Security Council Role
The Tass deputy and director Dya Semenovich Chernyshev 41 was named assistant secretary general of the United Nations in charge of Security Council affairs. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced the appointment from Geneva where he is attending U.N. meetings. Chernyshev, formerly Soviet ambassador to Sweden, and Hammarskjold have known each other for five years in Stockholm.
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United Nations
Tass
Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Dya Semenovich Chernyshev
Geneva
Hammarskjold
U. N
Chernyshev
Sweden
Stockholm
Bail Denied Suspect in Shorter Kidnapping Case
Los Angeles detective says 44 year old Sammett Perkins was ordered held without bail for trial on charges of kidnapping Baxter M. Shorter, the missing husband tied to the murder of Mrs. Mabel Monahan in Burbank. Municipal Judge Louis Kaufman set the June 9 trial date after identification by Mrs Shorter.
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Los Angeles
Sammett Perkins
Superior Court
Trail
Baxter M. Shorter
Burbank
Ma‘bel Monahan
Louis Kaufman
Perkins
Eisenhower appoints Collins to NATO post and security program
President Eisenhower announced a new federal employment security program and appointed General J Lawton Collins to serve in NATO. The program replaces the loyalty tests with a system assessing fitness, reliability, and conduct for about 2.5 million federal workers. Collins will become NATO chairman after completing his Army chief of staff term, with Omar Bradley retiring from the Joint Chiefs. Adm. Arthur Redford to succeed Bradley and take NATO duties from Collins.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Trut
En. J. Lawton Collins
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Collinge
Army
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bradley
NATO
Collines
Adm
Arthur W. Redford
Joint Chiefs
Collins
Separated Siamese Twin Faces Cameras as Celebrity
Rodney Dees Brodie, once on the critical list, moves into the celebrity role after surviving separation. At 20 months, he appears before photographers ahead of the June 4 public reveal on the March of Medicine program and the American Medical Association meeting. His brother Roger died January 20.
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Chicago
Rodney Dees Brodie
Rodney
Roger
Royt Brodie
March of Medicine
American Medical Associa
Byrd Plans New South Pole Tour
Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, now 84, announces another expedition to the South Pole. He cites an unexplored Antarctic area with potential coal, oil, uranium and other deposits and notes that new technology, possibly including a heavy lift or nuclear option, could be used to reach it.
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New York
Richard E. Byrd
South Pole
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U.N. Post
Shorter
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