Wade Miller Honored By Industrial Council
The Middletown Industrial Council named Wade E. Miller Day at the Manchester Hotel. Earl E. Grant presented a pen and pencil set and a 400day clock to honor Miller for his service as Middletown schools superintendent and for pushing Industry-Education meetings. Miller praised community cooperation and urged support for his successor Earle Leidner.
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Middletown
Grant
Miller
Industry
Earle Leidner
R. L. Siegel
Hugh Wright
Industrial Council
Maginot Line Idea Dropped From Indochina War
The French announce withdrawal from Na San fortress west of Hanoi as part of a shift to discard the Maginot Line concept in Indochina. Gen Rene Cogny says Na San’s value was to threaten rebel battalions. now a real guerrilla threat is planned from Vietminh rear.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Na San
Rene Cogny
Polio Epidemic Spreads From Bristol to Smyth County
Health officials report the polio outbreak in the Bristol area is waning locally but expanding east into Smyth County Virginia. Smyth County adds three new cases for a total of 23. Bristol area adds four new cases bringing its summer toll to 95 with 44 in the last three weeks since gamma globulin inoculations began.
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Bristol
Tenn
Smyth County
Radford Briefs Ike On World Military Situation
President Eisenhower receives a briefing from Adm Arthur W. Radford the incoming Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. Radford flies to Denver to meet Ike at Lowry Air Force Base ahead of taking over duties Saturday and succeeding Gen Omar N. Bradley as head of the military high command. Bradley retires at week’s end.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Denver
Eisenhower
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
Washington
White House
Lowry Air Force Base
Omar N. Bradley
Military High Command
Bradley
Car Thief Nabbed After Theft Identified in Store
In Baltimore, Maurice Lyons reported his car missing from a garage. A man entered a grocery store for spaghetti and meatballs, Lyons seized him and identified the driver as Frank Bryan, 22, who admitted stealing the car.
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Baltimore
Maurice Lyons
Lyons
Frank Bryan
Army's Eniac gains bigger memory and smarter use
Aberdeen Maryland Army researchers patch a larger static magnetic memory into the Eniac electronic brain. The upgrade expands memory from 20 to 120 numbers while preserving work state across power loss. Col. Alden B. Taber leads ballistics tests solving shell trajectories for antiaircraft tasks.
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Aberdeen
Eniac
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Alden B. Taber
Enjac
Army
Burroughs Adding Machine Co
Eskimo Woman Bails Out In 105 Degree Jail Scene
Phoenix youth Ella Hopewell 19 posted a $500 bond in a morals case before the judge spoke. The county jail held 105 degrees as she awaited further proceedings. Hopewell is described as an Eskimo in the report.
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Ella Hopewell
Miss Hopewell
Dance Experts Demonstrate the Washington Glide in Boston
National experts at the convention showcase a new dance named the Washington Glide. Officials say the steps resemble President Eisenhower's golf game and reflect a public figure in a playful cultural moment.
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Boston
Washington
National Association of Dance and Affiliated Artists
Eisenhower
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