Growth of Nation’s 15 Largest Metros Tops Nine Million
AP analysis from Sam Dawson shows the 15 largest U.S. metropolitan areas gained about nine million residents during the 1950s. New York area remains first with over 14 million, Los Angeles–Long Beach saw the largest eight year gain, and Houston enters the top 15 replacing Cincinnati. Major growth brings traffic, debt, and cracking urban infrastructure as cities add schools streets sewers and hospitals.
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Sam Dawson
AP Business News
New York
Conference Board
Bureau of the Census
Boston
San Francisco-Oakland
Los Angeles-Long Beach
New Jersey
Chicago
Southern California
Philadelphia
Detroit
Houston
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Washington
D. C
Cleveland
Ohio
Ohio City
Baltimore
Billfold Found Ten Years Later in Birmingham Church
Workmen ripping out carpet at First Baptist church in Birmingham uncover a billfold reported stolen a decade ago. It belonged to Charles B. Dowdey, and contained his ID and two $50 U.S. savings bonds. Mrs. Dowdey expressed happiness at recovering the matured bonds.
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Birmingham
Ala
First Baptist Church
Charles B. Dowdey
U.S
Fat Lady Dotty Blackhall Dies in Suspected Suicide
In Gibsonton Florida circus fat lady Dotty Blackhall 52 reportedly weighed over 500 pounds and apparently took her own life. Deputy Luther Walent noted a death by own action note allegedly left by the performer cited years of ill health.
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Gibsonton, Fla
Dotty Bleckhall
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus
Luther Walent
Soviet Rockets Could Defy Thule's New Radar
Thule Greenland AP report details the EM EWS network with 3090 mile range set to operate within six months. Brig Gen Bestic notes future upgrades may be needed to counter longer range Soviet missiles and integrate with satellite systems like Midas. Thule, Clear Alaska, and Fylingdales England form a three station system costing nearly a billion dollars to provide about 15 minutes warning for retaliatory air defenses.
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John B. Bestic
U.S. Air Force
Arctic
Bostic
Pacific
Bestic
Soviet Union
Clear
Alaska
Fylingdales
England
Thule
Worldwide alert test ordered from Paris by Gates
Washington AP reports that a secret worldwide readiness exercise was ordered from Paris by Defense Secretary Thomas Gates as part of a tense atmosphere around summit talks. The move followed Khrushchev's denouncement of the U2 incident and interrupted preparations by pilots as the Pentagon said the order was general and left decisions to the Joint Chiefs. A separate legal notice announces divorce proceedings in Butler Ohio with May 1960 petition and June 1960 response deadlines.
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Washington
Paris
Thomas
Gates
Secretary of Defense
Pentagon
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Herschel Brown
Portney Brown
Clearfield
Kentucky
Marie Brown
Common Pleas Court
Butler
Ohio
Joseph T. Kiep
Charlotte PF. Hermann
Finkelman & Ross
Frisco Ruckus Cost City About $250,000
In San Francisco a clash between police and demonstrators at a House Un American Activities subcommittee hearing caused about 250000 in city costs. Twelve injured and 64 arrested. Judge Underwood set May 25 for 63 defendants with one seeking a jury trial.
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San Francisco
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
George Christopher
Christopher
Lenore Underwood
Elizabeth Robertson
Ipswich
Mass
Cold War Frigid Tone May Shape Fall Campaigns
Washington AP reports rising expectations that Democratic and Republican presidential nominees will campaign this fall amid a chillier cold war. The Paris summit collapse could force major party plan revisions as Khrushchev’s tactics threaten any era of détente. Democrats worry Eisenhower’s potential Moscow tour would boost GOP peace credentials, while aides debate the timing of spy plane flights and readiness for Khrushchev’s further provocations. Khrushchev’s stance fuels debates over who can better modernize and defend the United States.
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Washington
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Party of Peace
Nixon
Vice President Nix Seeks Summit Accord Hopes
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the probable nominee, plainly hoped for summit conference agreements to be reached, signaling a push for diplomatic progress.
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Richard M. Nixon
Sniper Sent To Hospital In Nashville Case
An 18 year old, Howard Criswell, admitted nine sniping attacks and was ordered to Central State Hospital for observation after being bound over to the grand jury on nine counts of assault with intent to murder. Mike Johns, 36, wounded May 4, underwent surgery for a stomach wound and leg blood clot. William Martin Potts, 45, was acquitted after a new trial for a pistol shooting at a railroad train.
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Nashville, Tenn
Homer Weimar
Howard Criswell
Central State Hospital
Mike Johns
Criswell
Bee
William Martin Potts
Readiness to Serve Behind Hospital Care Rise in Costs
When hospitalized you expect no complications and top care. Two staff per patient ensure readiness to serve, though only about one third of workers are visible to patients. Behind the scenes labs kitchens and ordering drugs support care, driving higher bills. Blue Cross, the non profit plan doctors and hospitals favor, is billed as the best health care buy today and tomorrow.
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Blue Cross
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Free World
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Colorado
Tass
Steve Freidberg
Stanford University Daily
Ane Ruggeri
U.C
Californian
Bill Boldenwick
Elizabeth J. Robertson
University of California Coed
By Jack Bell
Moscow
Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
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United States
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TYTUS
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