Action On Juveniles Demanded In New York Schools
Gov. Averell Harriman urged a crash program to curb juvenile crime in New York City schools and offered to work with Mayor Wagner and the Board of Education. The board suspended 644 pupils after a wave of rapes knifings and disorder near schools. State officials defended suspensions while calling for broader reforms including more training schools probation services and child guidance. Powell denounced the suspensions as naziism and called the actions illegal.
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New York
Averell Harriman
Robert F. Wagner
Board of Education
James E. Allen Jr
Walter J. Mahoney
Buffalo
Mahoney
Senate
Wagner
Adam Clayton Powell
D-Ny
Harriman
Powell
Harlem
Silver
Jansen
Charles H. Silver
William Jansen
Three Teens Arrested in Connecticut Bank Robbery
FBI reports three teenage suspects arrested in Miami Beach for the $20,301 Waterbury bank robbery. Officers found $16,000 and two revolvers in their motel room. John George Wallace 19, Merson F. Gale 18, and Michael A. Berardi 18 face charges. John J. Sullivan 14 aided the heist before cooperating to back out. The group fled with phony names, buying new clothes and renting a car before arrest.
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Miami, Fla
Connecticut
U.S
FBI
Miami Beach
John George Wallace
Merson F. Gale
Michael A. Berardi
Tunisia seeks UN action over French Sakiet Sidi Youssef raid
Tunisia urged the United Nations to intervene after French planes bombed and strafed the frontier village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef, killing 78 and wounding 84. Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim presented the protest to Dag Hammarskjold as Washington voiced concern and prepared to press France for information and tighter border controls.
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United Nations, N.Y
Tunisia
U.N
France
United States
Mongi Slim
Dag Hammarskjold
Sakiet Sidi Youssef
Security Council
Washington
State Department
U.S
Dulles
Herve Alphand
Habib Bourguiba
London
Bizerte
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Chaban-Delmas
Safe Is Opened The Hard Way At Tampa Firm
Burglars tore open a Tampa business safe during the weekend ignoring the door code and getting away with 225 dollars. Police say the break in was a swift, practiced job.
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Tampa, Fla
Tampa
Democrats Plan Look At Hopefuls
California Democrats arrange to preview a dozen idle presidential contenders ahead of 1960. National Committeeman Paul Ziffren says California’s primary results may decide the nomination and plans summer dinners for top party figures to speak. He notes Stevenson and Johnson may be invited though neither seeks the race.
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Washington
California
National
Paul Ziffren
Ziffren
Adlai
E. Stevenson
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Blizzard Paralyzes Upstate New York With Record Snow
A massive blizzard blankets upstate New York imprisoning farmers and blocking highways. At least 13 people die as wind driven snow halts travel from Albany to Buffalo. Syracuse and Utica declare emergencies as temperatures plummet and schools close.
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Albany
N.Y
Upstate
New York
Lowest winter temperatures recorded at Cleveland Hopkins
The thermometer dropped to 2 degrees above zero at 5 am at Cleveland Hopkins Airport, the coldest reading of the winter from the U S Weather Bureau. Columbus also reported 2 degrees at 4:30 am, tying its coldest winter mark, with the previous record at 5 degrees set Sunday.
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Cleveland
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cleveland Hopkins
Columbus
Weather Bureau
Winter Storm Traps Drivers In 15-Foot Snow Drifts
Beyond the roads, heavy snow formed 15 foot drifts hindering plows as motorists banded together for warmth. A rescued traveler near Frewsburg had been stranded 12 hours just 300 feet from a farmhouse. Syracuse youths were snowbound 15 miles southeast of the city in a camp. Leaders used a bulldozer to reach them and bring food. Oneida provided cots blankets and sandwiches at the state armory for dazed travelers.
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Frewsburg
Syracuse
Oneida
State
Cyprus Talks Set To Begin
ATHENS Greece British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd arrived for talks with Greek officials on Cyprus and was to be joined by Sir Hugh Foot the British governor. Lloyd carried from London proposals for settling the Cyprus dispute which has strained Britain Greece and Turkey all NATO allies.
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Athens
Greece
Selwyn Lloyd
Cyprus
Hugh Foot
Mediterranean
Lloyd
London
Britain
Turkey
NATO
Utica Identified as Nation's Vice Center in Probe
Utica in Mohawk Valley, population 101531, identified as a vice hub after last November's Apalachin convention probe. Officials testified of widespread gambling and houses of prostitution near City Hall, with resident rackets king Joseph Falcone taking the Fifth Amendment. prices for prostitutes rose from $2-$5 to about $20.
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Utica
N.Y
Apalachin
Mohawk Valley
Leo Miller
Joseph Falcone
Falcone
Dist
John M. Liddy
Miller
Joseph Corso
Irene Burke
Macmillan Signals Cautious Path to Summit Talks
London AP Mackmillan backs summit talks with the Soviet Union only if a reasonable prospect of concrete results exists. He urges careful preps, supports a foreign ministers conference or confidential diplomatic exchanges, and insists all parties may propose agenda items including veto limits in the UN Security Council and peaceful space use pact.
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London
Macmillan
Eisenhower
Bulgania
Moscow
U.S
Dulles
Pravda
Washington
Moscow Radio
U.S. State Department
U.N. Security Council
Weather Continues Cold in Miami Valley
The region endures a brutal cold wave as temperatures fell to 3 above. Forecasts call for fair and cold weather with highs near 20 and a low around 5. Tuesday remains cold with a projected high of 25 as the chill persists. Middletown reported 18 degrees at 3 30 p.m. and 3 above at 7 30 a.m.
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Miami Valley
Canada
Middletown
Mystery Rocket Resparks Naples Shell Mystery
Artillery experts in Naples Italy concluded that a loud explosion in a suburb came from an old German World War II shell found by chance. A four foot crater was recorded and rumors spread of a long range ballistic missile or space rocket fragment.
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Naples
Italy
Airman Begins Space Voyage at Randolph Base
Airman Donald G. Farrell, 23, from the Bronx, subjects himself to a seven day simulated space voyage in a 3 by 5 foot cabin at Randolph Air Force Base School of Space Medicine. Through controlled atmosphere, recycled water, regulated heat, and telemetric instructions, Farrell remains under constant monitoring as he tests physiological and psychological responses for a moon mission scenario.
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Donald G. Farrell
Randolph Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Outer Space
Bronx
School of Space Medicine
Farrell
Surgeons Perform Rare Blue Baby Heart Operation on Teen
In Chicago, a 19 year old South Dakota youth, James Dixon, recuperates after a three hour plus operation at the University of Illinois Hospital to correct a congenital heart defect. Five surgeons used a heart lung machine to stop the heart for 23 minutes and sew a hole the size of a hen’s egg. The procedure is usually done on children.
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Chicago
South Dakota
University of Illinois Hospital
James Dixon
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