American tourist expelled for handing out Bibles in Moscow
The Soviet Union expelled James Schultz of Washington University St. Louis for distributing a free Bible. Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed the act caused indignation and noted he forgot decency rules. He was the third American expelled in as many days after Col Edwin M Kirton and Robert Christner.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
YMCA
James Schultz
Washington University
St. Louis
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Schultz
Edwin M. Kirton
U.S
Robert Christner
Sparks
Nev
We Are Hopeful Powers Family Flies To Moscow
The Powers family heads to Moscow to aid Francis Gary Powers on trial for espionage after Khrushchev promised help. Oliver Powers and wife Ida travel with friends. Barbara Powers sails to Brussels and then Moscow with her mother and two Virginia lawyers. A Columbia Law professor may join. Virginia officials expect access to a Soviet lawyer and a lenient sentence if convicted of flying the plane rather than espionage.
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London
Francis Gary Powers
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Oliver W. Powers
Pound
Barbara Moore Powers
New York City
Brussels
Manteen Brown
Milledgeville
Virginia Bar Assn
Alexander W. Parker
Richmond
Frank W. Rogers
Roanoke
Parker
John N. Hazard
Columbia University
Hazard
West Germany
Powers
State Department
Virginia
Atlas missile loses nose cone after Caribbean test
Cape Canaveral reports an Atlas missile streaked 5 000 miles down the Caribbean range but its nose cone with radiation experiments sank. Edwards AFB records the X 15 reaching 131 000 feet, the highest flight yet. La Porte residents faint in street outbreak. sheriff notes 30 to 40 affected.
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Caribbean
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
LA Porte, Tex
Sheriff's Department
Justice of the Peace Bnd
la Porte
Inside NORSS Deaths and Funerals Editorials
Inside NORSS features death notices and funeral summaries with brief editorials and notices. The page includes sections on the arts theater and local educational services with compact listings and community signals.
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Norss Fc Accenauceuwedeens
Selksieves
Boces Kivvcedecsis
Echo I satellite boosts US space communications debut
Cape Canaveral reports Echo I a high orbiter launched by a Thor Delta rocket. NASA confirms successful orbit within hours and plays President Eisenhower message from Holm Del New Jersey, reception clear from Goldstone California. Echo I lighted night sky, a bright marker for peaceful space exploration.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
Eisenhower
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington
Holmdel
N. J
Goldstone
Calif
Glennan
Weekend Forecast Shows Mild, Uncertain Rain Risk
The miami valley may see a low pressure bringing possible rain as the weekend looks fair today and tonight with little temperature change. Highs near 85 Saturday, 63 low tonight, 58 morning low yesterday in Middletown at 5 45 p.m. and 6 30 a.m. readings.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Tough Sheriff Stops Jail Breakout After Gunpoint Standoff
Floyd Foote the Clinton County sheriff talked Everett Crum 32 to surrender a pistol and abandon a jail escape after Crum burst into Foote’s jail cell and fought them Crum had a history including a February hostage incident and further violence across southern Ohio Crum faces charges of armed robbery jail breaking kidnapping and auto theft while Adams and Highland counties also report gun battles and car thefts.
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Wilmington
Ohio
Floyd Foote
Everett Crum
Clinton County
Foote
Crum
Ohio Highway Patrol
Adams County
Highway Patrol
Wilbur Trotter
Manchester
Trotter
William Shelton
Highland County
Indian Is Kept From Burial Plot
DETROIT AP The body of George W. Nash a Winnebago Indian was moved from his wife's grave in Troy to a veteran's plot in Pontiac as cemetery officials refused to bury him beside his wife because of his race. Nash a World War I veteran died Sunday at 66. His son John, 20, defended the family wish for burial beside his mother. Funeral director Claude R. Demand stated the grave was lowered in Troy at White Chapel Memorial Cemetery before officials ordered the burial halted and the body removed to the hearse.
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Detroit
George W. Nash
Pontiac
Mich
Troy
Nash
John
Claude R. Demand
White Chapel Memorial
Race based cemetery rules raise questions over Nash burial
John recounted his mother was buried in 1949 and officials questioned her burial before clearing her as white. FE Red Hunt of a cemetery association including White Chapel said the cemetery is restricted to Caucasians and the Nash family knew that. He warned an exception could trigger actions from about 40,000 lot owners. The Nash plot was not bought through the cemetery and no routine Caucasian certification was received.
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John
Pontiac
Red Hunt
White Chapel
Nash
Supreme Court
Hunt
Capsule recovery boosts space spying effort over Pacific
From Alaska to Hawaii, the Discoverer XIE capsule returned to Earth after a polar orbit, delivering data for the spy satellite program. Recovery by helicopter and ship followed a sea splashdown amid clouds, aiding progress toward space flight and later systems like Samos and Midas.
Dag Hammarskjold Leads UN Forces Into Katanga
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and 220 Swedish troops entered Katanga to begin withdrawal of Belgian forces. At Elisabethville airport, a tense landing was briefly disputed as Tshombe initially resisted but ordered all UN planes to land. Hammarskjold and Katanga officials then met at Tshombe’s residence to start talks.
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Elisabethville, the Congo
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
Katanga
Hammarskjold
Moise, Tshombe
Tshombe
Security Council
The
Elisabethville
Tshombe i
U.N. Security Council
Leopoldville
New York
Congo
Luluabourg
Baby Found In Pond Near Akron
The body of one year old Joanne Starcher was found in a pond in southern Summit County Akron Ohio Authorities said she had been missing from her East Akron home since early Wednesday and was killed by a blow to the head
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Akron, Ohio
Joanne Starcher
Summit County
Akron
Islain
Arnold Starcher
St. Thomas Hospital
Weaver's Pond
Youth questioned in strangling case as autopsy tallies timing
A 19 year old neighborhood youth with a prior molestation record is questioned after detectives link evidence to a child’s slaying. Coroner Charles Madden said the autopsy showed the girl died between 24 and 48 hours before discovery, with the body found nude, face down in Weaver's Pond after being missing from her parents’ unlocked home.
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Charles Madden
Summit County
United States Achieves First Capsule Return From Space
The Discoverer satellite No. 13 successfully ejected its return capsule and brought it back for recovery. Pentagon officials led by Lt Gen Bernard Schriever hailed the milestone as a space first, marking a major step in the space age and Earth return capability.
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United States
Earth
Samos
Soviet Union
Pentagon
Bernard Schriever
Air Force
Air Research Development Command
Schriever
Air Force Sccientists
Discoverer recovery plan hints at life aloft and back
The General announced forthcoming Discoverer capsules will carry life aloft and return to Earth. In weeks a small eight to ten pound monkey will be sent in a recovery test. Schriever says he changed his approach by using an old bill clip after a new billfold failed, and there have been no failures since.
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Samos
Midas
Schriever
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Military
NASA
Earth
Capsule Recovered From Ocean After Space Capsule Plunge
Bosun's Mate 3.C. Robert W. Carroll, 22, leaped into the Pacific at PT Mugu and recovered the orange Discoverer XIII capsule twenty feet below the surface. The capsule’s descent marker showed its splashdown in the history books.
Navy frogman Carroll first to touch orbit recovered object
Carroll a Navy frogman from Keene New Hampshire wore trunks swimfins and a life jacket as he leaped from a helicopter. He attached a line to a 300 pound capsule and was winched aboard the Haiti Victory where the capsule was crated and sent to Honolulu.
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Carroll
Keene, N. H
Haiti Victory
Honolulu
Dramatic Capsule Recovery After Pacific Reentry
A U2 reconnaissance plane and other Air Force assets tracked the descending capsule as it separated from the orbiting rocket and dropped toward the sea 330 miles northwest of Hawaii. Navy ships, Air Force transports, and the Haiti Victory helicopter joined a late Thursday recovery effort to pluck the capsule from the sea.
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Air Force
MSTS
Haiti Victory
Hawaii
Hstory
Carroll
Haiti
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Sala Ne Nag
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Cape Canaveral. Fla
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T. Keith Glennan
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Trusty
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By. Elton C. Fay
Pacific Ocean
Xie
Alaska
Kenneth W. Jackland
British Interplanetary Society
U. S
Jackland
Dag
By Adrian Porter
Bernard A. Schriever
USAF
FE. A. Miller
Frogman
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