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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1957
Page
5
Weather permitting, the 100 million dollar Mackinac Straits span will place the final steel sections to bridge two 240 foot gaps toward shore. When completed November 1, the five mile total length includes a 3800 foot center span second only to the Golden Gate.
Treviso Italy nine American airmen were killed and a tenth critically burned when a Navy Neptune patrol bomber crashed into Mt Pra near Sestriere during a search for a missing sister ship. The crash occurred noon after takeoff from Aviano base. Survivors included one gravely burned airman and another who died later. officials withheld names pending notification.
Canada's army has fallen to 46 684 volunteers the smallest force since 1951. With no draft the army relies on volunteers for all services. Pay raises may lift enlistments. Recruit pay is 104 dollars monthly and a six year private earns 171 dollars. In March 1952 during the Korean War buildup the army stood at 49 278.
The Senate enters a third week of civil rights bill debate with support to keep voting rights provisions and pressure to strip the Reconstruction era troop authority for enforcing court orders. Senators Knowland and Humphrey urge repeal of the army troop power. Anderson and Aiken seek to strike Part 3, limiting the bill to voting rights enforcement.
In Communist Poland the press and state radio shift toward capitalism with broad ads in Express and Zycie Warszawy. Ads promote a dance school, calypso tunes, and real estate sales. A marriage bureau seeks proposals from cultured American men aged 30 to 35. The radio plans to begin commercials by August 1 to attract Western brands and hard currency.
Frank Pezzuto, nine, testing an experiment, pounded a spike into a wall causing a live electrical wire to arc and explode. He suffered superficial burns to his left hand, and police headquarters lost power for three hours while twenty repairmen fixed the damaged cable.
In Hollywood the San Fernando Valley homes of pianist Liberace and his two brothers George and Rudy are under armed guard following an assault on Liberace’s mother Frances Liberace Casadonte last Thursday. The mother is hospitalized. Attorney John R. Jacobs Jr. said guards were posted because “we can't take a chance.”
An Associated Press survey tallies nineteen deaths in Ohio over the weekend across traffic crashes fires and drownings. Victims include 8 in auto crashes, 4 in fires, 3 drownings, plus several other fatal incidents such as a tractor wheel crushing and a hunter’s bullet misfire. Names ages and locations span Massillon Youngstown Ballimore Fairfield County Warren and Cleveland among others.
A redbud tree in Dallas sheds a misty spray from branches, resembling tears, as droplets form from the trunk after heavy spring rains. Werner notes the effect cools the yard and attributes the moisture to water absorbed during the rains.
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