UN Seat Fight Could Split Western Alliance
Washington July 10 The struggle to admit Red China to the United Nations could decide Western Asia's fate and the future of the Big Three alliance. U S officials and congressmen say the issue is how to keep Red China in check, with possible consequences including Formosa control, Asian unity, and the fate of allied defense against communism.
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Washington
United Nations
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New “Spring Board
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Optimistic 83 year old survives Griffith Park cliff plunge
In Los Angeles Clayton Johnson, 83, drove an old sedan off a 150 foot cliff in Griffith Park but survived. He quipped he would probably live to be 100 if he stops driving. He woke at the canyon bottom as rescuers arrived and later climbed back up to flag a motorist before help arrived. He said he had not a scratch.
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Los Angeles
Clayton Johnson
Johnson
Griffith Park
Brownfield Area Youths Begin Army Induction Examinations
A Brownfield area group of 15 youths left for Army physical examinations at the Amarillo Induction Center from Local Selective Service Board No. 116. Named participants include Willie George Haynes and Alvin Lyndel Hammonds among others, with several transfers listed to boards in Odessa Fort Worth Los Angeles Farmington El Centro Sheridan and more.
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Brownfield
Selective Service Board No
Amarillo
Bill Glick
Willie George Haynes
Harrell Dwain Chiles
Denver City
Bobby Ray Sanders
Levelland
James Marshall McMinn
John Crittenden Elliott
James C. McCormick
Trudy Duane Singleton
Roger
Probe Continues Into Burglary Involving Four Youngsters
Mrs. Pauline Bowers assistant city county probation officer Saturday oversaw an ongoing inquiry into four boys ages 10 9 8 and 7 who confessed to a burglary at Mrs W C Roberts residence 1302 Itasca Street The youths were arrested late Friday by city juvenile officers and a pocket watch and several trinkets stolen in the burglary were recovered authorities said
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W. C. Roberts
Itasca St
Bus Truck Crash Near Mexico City Kills Five
Five people died and about 20 were injured when a bus and a parked truck collided on the Laredo highway about 30 miles north of Mexico City. Survivors said the bus took a long curve at high speed before striking the truck.
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Mexico City
Laredo
Committee Demands Recall Of Mexican Guatemala Ambassador
Up-Latin America’s International Committee against Communist Infiltration calls for the Mexican ambassador to Guatemala to be recalled for sheltering Red refugees. The body spoke from Mexico during its first international meeting as Guatemalan officials review a request for safe conduct for exiled President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and family along with about 300 opponents in the Mexican Embassy.
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Mexico City
Latin America
International Committee
Guatemala
Mexico
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Carlos Castillo Armas
Air Force Restudies Texas Aero-Medical Center Plans
The Air Force says the 30 million aero-medical center proposed for San Antonio is not cancelled but delayed while Pentagon debates scope and cost. Army engineers in Galveston were told to cancel a contract with an Austin firm, though Paneias said cancellation was not intended and the project will continue on a minimal basis.
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Washington
Air Force
San Antonio
Pentagon
James A. Douglas
Army
Galveston
Austin
Paneias
Miami Herald blocks plan for Girls' Town USA scam
The Miami Herald exposed a $22 million Girls Town USA scheme to house 10,000 delinquent girls, led by Ralf Myers and Paul Maxwell Titus. Titus faced California securities charges and a lawyer-formed dissolution loomed as the paper prepared to publish background. The effort, unrelated to Florida St. Augustine or Texas Whiteface projects, collapsed before solicitation.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fla
The
Miami Herald
Town
USA
St. Augustine
Whiteface
Tex
the Herald
Ralf Myers
Paul Maxwell Titus
James Welsh
Titus
Myers
National Credit Bureau
California
Denver
Florida
Woman in Georgia Beating Case Sentenced
In Macon Georgia a 256 pound woman accused of beating her husband faced 50 days in jail or a $52 fine. Police found her tied to a bed with a rubber hose and a knife as she admitted the husband “needed a good beating.” She planned to cut him free after the whipping.
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Macon
Will Barr
Barr
Bart
Pilot error linked to Braniff crash death in Shreveport
The Civil Aeronautics Board ruled a pilot failure to obtain weather information as a contributing factor in the January 10 1953 Braniff International Airways crash near Shreveport Louisiana that killed airline president Thomas E Braniff and 11 others. The Grumman amphibian sank while ice laden and lacking de icing equipment.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Shreveport
Thomas E. Braniff
Braniff
Braniff International Airways
Union Producing Co
Mud Lake
Gasoline Price War Spreads to Fort Worth地区
Gasoline price war flared on East Belknap driving regular to 18.9 cents and ethyl to 20.9 cents per gallon. Independent dealers cut from 24.4 to 18.9 for ethyl and 22.4 to 17.9 for regular, prompting a sharp regional price drop near Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
East Belknap
Weather briefing omission cited in Grumman flight case
The report notes a lack of de-icers before the trip and states that all available evidence indicated Grumman pilots did not obtain a weather briefing from the weather bureau before the final flight by person radio or telephone.
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Grumman
Weather Bureau
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