U S challenges Reds on weapon curbs as Soviets boast
The United States challenged Khrushchev to pursue an international disarmament plan while the Soviet leader boasted of a dramatic new weapon. He claimed the USSR would cut 1.2 million troops and rely on nuclear arms and rockets, including a future “fantastic weapon.”
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Associated Press
Nikita Khrushchev
Reds
United States
Washington
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Central Committee
Communist Party
Russia
United States of America
Ralph Lapp
Anatoly Blagonravov
France
Eisenhower Orders Quick Study on Space Rocket Funding
President Eisenhower ordered an expedited review to determine if more funds are needed for the Saturn super booster program and authorized overtime to speed development. He also urged Congress to centralize the peaceful space effort under NASA and to shift rocket research to NASA from the Army von Braun team.
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Ashington
Nygent Eisenhower
Eisenhower
U.S
Es P
Memages
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Capitol Hill
Congress
NASA
Army
Wernher von Braun
T. Keith Glennan
Ships Warned Out Of Pacific Target Area
The Navy warned all U.S. naval and merchant ships to stay out of the Pacific target area for 30 days starting today. The alert was sent to Atlantic ships as well, warning that some might transfer oceans to reach the testing zone.
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Pacific
Washington
UPI
Navy
U.S
Russia
Atlantic
Dike Collapse Prompts Amsterdam Suburb Evacuation
A 120 foot dike near Tuindorp Oostzaan broke during a snowy night, flooding streets. Police used loudspeakers as residents evacuated in rowboats and canal ferries, all 5,000 residents saved with no injuries.
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Holland
Tuindorp Oostzaan
North Sea
Twisters Hit Winter On Wild Tear Across U S
A major winter storm system drove Ale driven snows across the nation as tornadoes struck from Oklahoma City to West Central Texas. Heavy snows and warnings stretched from Colorado to Minnesota, with severe storms forecast for parts of Arkansas Missouri Tennessee and Kentucky. Several deaths and property damage were reported as the storm unleashed floods and high winds.
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United Press International
Southland
San Francisco Bay
Dixie
Oklahoma City
Texas
Colorado
Kansas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
South Dakota
U.S. Weather Bureau
Arkansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
Ilineis
New York
Harrow
Ont
Denison
Tex
Lubbock Firemen Seek Pay Increases in Scale Review
A brochure from Lubbock Fire Fighters urges the City Commission to boost pay from probationary to chief levels, listing proposed monthly increases and comparing with Abilene Midland Odessa and Amarillo. The plan would add about 80 thousand dollars to the annual Fire department budget, raising总 to 696000.
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C. W. Ratliff
Avalanche-Journal
Ubbock
Clifton
Texas
Lubbock
Petition Drives in Frenship School District Meeting
About 150 residents attended a public forum at Frenship High School in Wolfforth to discuss a petition calling for an election on segregated schools in the Frenship district spanning Lubbock and Hockley counties. Forty signatories emerged after a two hour Q and A period as the first in a series of public meetings following the Lions Club session.
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Tanner Laine
Avalanche-Journal
Frenship
Lubbock
Hockley
Lions Club
Frenship High School
Wolfforth
Two Fliers Die In Bomber Crash at Eielson Alaska
A six‑jet B‑47 bomber crashed near Eielson Air Force Base killing two crewmen and injuring others. Capt. Daniel J. Hahn and Capt. Alfred S. Aespres escaped from the cockpit but two other crewmembers were believed trapped in the fuselage. Names were not yet released.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
UPID
Eielson Air Force Base
Air Force
Daniel J. Hahn
Alfred S. Aespres
Revision Of Insurance Plan Urged In State Hearing
Hundreds of spectators jammed the House Chamber as Texas legislators and insurers pressed the State Insurance Board to cancel or revise the auto insurance plan. Debates centered on the Texas safe driving insurance plan effective Jan 1, with critics warning of legislative backlash if not substantially altered.
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USTIN
State Insurance Board
House
Texas
Jarrard Secrest
Temple
Secrest
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Senate
C. C. Hames
Tulsa
Swisher County
Chatterbox: A Woman Who Finds It Hard To Be Silent
The column defines a chatterbox as a woman who speaks loudly or often when she has nothing substantial to say. It notes the social impression of talkativeness and rounds out with light humor about timely conversational habits.
Explosion Blamed for 34 Death Airliner Crash
Sen. Mike Monroney said a bomb caused the January 6 crash killing 34. He cited evidence of a deliberate detonation in a washroom and noted FBI involvement. Julian Frank, a heavily insured New York lawyer, was named in CAB testimony as insured with wife beneficiary. Frank’s finances are being probed as authorities search for motive.
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J. W. Davis Ashington
U. S
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
Monroney
Senate
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Julian Andrew Frank
New York
Civil Aeronautics Board
Frank
Franks
Westport
Conn
Sen. Monroney
Atlantic
Bolivia
N. C
Carlos Ramos Valdes
Havana
Oscar Bakke
Senate Commerce Aviation
Louisiana State Dean Is Arrested In Slaying Of Professor
LSU Dean Dr. George H. Mickey was arrested on a murder warrant for the bludgeoning death of biology professor Margaret Rosamond McMillan 38 near the LSU campus. Baton Rouge prosecutors allege the crime occurred just before midnight on a road by the Mississippi River.
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Quiggaton Rouge, la
UPD
George H. Mickey
Louisiana State University Graduate School
Margaret Rosamond McMillan
LSU
J. B. Klinge Jr
Baton Rouge Parish
J. St. Clair Farrot
Mickey
Dr. McMillan
Mississippi River
Louisiana State University
Atomic Energy Program
MecMillan
Rosie
Northwestern University
New Orleans
University
Bee
Thief Steals $96 From Woman's Purse In Lubbock
Mrs. Jerrell Giles, visiting Lubbock for a Girl Scout Council meeting, had $100 in her purse when a gust toppled her as a thief grabbed a billfold containing $20, $5 and $1 bills. The attacker fled as the winds of the intersection helped unfold the scene.
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Jerrell Giles
Littlefield
Lubbock
Weather Map Page 11 D Forecast for Lubbock Area
Fair and cool with a low of 25 this morning and a high of 46 this afternoon. Winds are light to variable at 10 to 20 mph. Southwest weather notes precipitation and high and low temperatures for the past 24 hours ending at midnight last night.
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Lubbock
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