Advance In Air Safety Report Reaches Congress Before Crash
The CAB report titled The Advance in Air Safety cites 971 near misses in 1987 and notes growing jet-civilian airspace risks. President Eisenhower orders a five point program to separate military jets from civilian routes while Congress launches investigations into air safety.
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Congress
America
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Prince H. Preston
Dga
House Appropriations
Grimve
United States
Medal holders honor unknowns at Arlington in quiet ceremony
Medals of Honor recipients who carried caskets of Arlington Unknowns marked Memorial Day with a solemn ritual. M Sgt Donald Rudolph of Minneapolis led 19 pallbearers in placing a personal plaque between the new World War II and Korean War crypts. Maj Gen John Van Houten saluted as the plaque was unveiled, then moved to the cemetery trophy room for safekeeping.
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Washington
Arlington Cemetery Memorial Day
Donald Rudolph
Minneapolis
Minn
John van Houten
Washington Military District
Rudolph
Arlington Cemetery
Birthday quartet and auto theft spree in Texas Panhandle region
In Walla Walla a Mrs. Kiltner gave birth to a son on Memorial Day, the fourth family member born that date. Across Lubbock and nearby counties, vandals stole two 1953 Chevrolets and a 1955 Chevrolet pickup, damaged the cars, and fled in the pickup after a joy ride, with one abandoned vehicle found near Wolfforth and another near Ropesville as authorities pursued the suspects.
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Bartles
Bruce
Dale
Toad
US Bureau of Statistics
South Plains
Atole
Jack Ashcraft
Ave. B
James D. Isom
Wolfforth
James Pierce
Ropesville
Ashcraft
Lubbock
Isom
Ropenville
British Poison Murderer Granted Life Imprisonment
London UPI reports Mary Elizabeth Wilson known as the Merry Widow of Windy Nook escaped the gallows and received a reprieve from the Home Secretary. She was sentenced to death for poisoning two of her three husbands and had lost a prior appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeal.
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London
UPI
Windy Nook
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
Britain
Wilson
Court of Criminal Appeal
Jury Deadlock Follows Earlier Conviction in Portland Case
A 12 jurors in Portland Oregon fail to sustain an 11 week trial on mail fraud charges after initially declaring a unanimous verdict. Judge East sent one defendant's verdict back for a minor correction then the jury reconsidered and returned mixed or no verdicts on the defendants, leaving the case unresolved. The defendants include Herbert Haas Daniel W Campbell Bart Grant Harding Casey Sherwin Schoen William Fothergill and William Clarence Peddicord. Margaret Wilson is noted in a separate 1685 historical account.
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Portland, Ore
U. S. Dist
William East
Herbert Haas
Daniel W. Campbell
San Francisco
Bart Grant
Los Angeles
Harding Cacy
Santa Rosa
Calif
Sherwin Schoen
William Fothergill
William Clarence Peddicord
Portland
Schoen
Rotary International Meet Opens Today in Dallas
Thousands of Rotarians converge on Dallas for the opening Sunday of the annual convention. About 14 000 delegates are expected with 43 members traveling from Brazil Peru Panama Ecuador and Cuba. A barbecue at the State Fair of Texas drew about 5 000 attendees Saturday night.
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Dallas
Rotary International
Brazil
Peru
Panama
Ecuador
Cuba
Texas
UN ranks New York City as world’s largest city in 1957 data
The United Nations Demographic Yearbook counts New York City at 7,795,471 residents in 1957 and the metro area at 11,066,000, placing Tokyo second in both city proper and metropolitan totals. Shanghai Moscow London Paris also feature in top ranks, with uneven data for greater metropolitan areas. A Papua New Guinea organization of former residents forms in Australia, Melbourne reports.
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United Nations
N. Y
New York
Just
Tokyo
Shanghai
Moscow
London
Paris
Greater
Australia
Melbourne
Admitted English Killer May Go Free
London report on Brian Donald Hume who was acquitted of murder in 1950 but later confessed culpability. He aided after the fact in the dismemberment of Stanley Setty and was freed after a 12 year sentence, with English law forbidding double jeopardy under review amid new confession.
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London
APD
Brian Donald Hume
Stanley Setty
Essex
England
Tho
Madic
Greenie
Letty
Hume
Kellogg’s All Bran Ad Promises Regularity
An old Kellogg advertising copy urges adults in their 40s to use All-Bran with milk to prevent irregularity. It touts bulk from the cereal, claims safety in dieting, and promotes All-Brain as a ten day solution without habit forming laxatives.
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Kellogg's All-Brain
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Frankie) Randolph
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