Missing Pan American liner with 44 aboard in Pacific search
Pan American Stratocruiser carrying 44 people vanished after last radio contact at 5 04 p m PST. An air sea search involving 26 planes, five coast guard vessels, two Navy submarines and four merchant ships covers a 100 mile wide zone between 650 and 1100 miles offshore as families and crews await word.
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Honolulu
Chicago
Pacific Ocean
Here
San Francisco
Midway Point
Robert B. Murray Jr
Pan American
Pacific
Coast Guard
Matsonia
Tragic Middletown Fire Kills Parents and Two Children
A early morning blaze at 4208 Vannest Ave in Middletown killed Clay Edward Staton 32 and his wife Morene Craft Staton 26 along with their two daughters Susan Kay 5 and Cynthia Ann 2. Firefighters said the family likely perished from suffocation after the fire started inside the one story home. The incident, one of the worst in local history, prompted two alarms as teams doused flames in the rear of the residence and retrieved the bodies on arrival at Middletown Hospital.
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Middletown
Vannest Ave
Clay Eward
Morene Craft Staton
Susan Kay
Cynthia Ann
Spencer Lane
Asst
James Mattson
Army Gets Go On U S Satellite Launch
The Defense Department ordered the Army to join the U S satellite effort using the Jupiter C test device, supplementing Project Vanguard and aiming for a mid to late month launch preps. Army and Navy plans may co exist as timing hints at a rapid, coordinated space effort.
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Army Ballistics
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Army
Washington
Defense McElroy
U.S
Russia
Defense Department
McElrroy
Navy
McElroy
Florida
Redstone
Huntsville
Ala
John B. Medaris
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Pentagon
Fresno Cotton Man Bets On Postpenalty Profit
Fresno man Jack A. Harris paid a government penalty of 965595.84 to market his 1957 cotton, saying he expected to profit despite allotment overruns. He noted he consulted the Agriculture Department before planting in Arizona and paid 182 cents per pound on excess cotton. Officials confirmed the penalty applied to about 10436 bales. Earlier he received 209000 for retiring 1660 acres under a soil bank subsidy. Harris criticizes controls yet asserts profit remains with current cotton prices around 36-37 cents per pound and production costs near 15 cents per pound, leaving some margin after penalties.
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Fresno
Calif
Jack A. Harris
Harris
Gila Bend
Ariz
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Soil Bank
Today's Chuckle on Parking Frenzy
A light joke notes the humor of calling someone a motorist until he beats you to a parking place, a comic take on parking lot etiquette and everyday frustration.
Unobtainium Dreamed By Wright Patterson General
Daytan Ohio Maj Gen William C Senter chief of procurement at Wright Patterson AFB outlines the Air Force need for a material that is practically weightless infinitely strong heat resistant machinable forg ing resistant and affordable He notes the material has not yet been found but they have named it unobtainium
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Dayton
Ohio
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Air Force
William C. Senter
Gen. Senter
Tornado Toll Stacks Up To Thirteen Dead Across States
A Gulf region tornado outbreak killed 13 people across Louisiana Texas and Mississippi and left hundreds homeless. In Louisiana the Alexandria area suffered the worst damage including three deaths in the city’s 10 block zone. Texas victims included residents of Groves and Orange while a construction worker died in North Carolina. The Small Business Administration designated Rapides Parish Jefferson and Orange counties as disaster areas.
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Alexandria
Gulf Area
Louisiana
Texas
Mississippi
Newton
N. C
Selma
Ala
Rhen ‘Ornady
Sam Giacinto
Dolores Harrison
Pearl Rideau
Boyce
Ovey Melancon
Carencro
Homer Richard
Lucius Colville
Higginbotham
Clay Zeringue
R. T. Smith
Groves
Annepell Peck
Orange
The
Small Business Administration
Rapides Parish
Jefferson
Orange Counties
Burma envoy urges U S reappraisal of China policy at UNESCO meet
U Thant of Burma told the San Francisco UNESCO conference that excluding Red China from the United Nations harms the UN and Asia. He urged the United States to abandon 19th century isolationism and pursue closer cooperation with Asian nations to maintain stability and prevent revolutions.
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Burma
U.S
China
James D. White
San Francisco
America
Asia
Unesco
Washington
U Thant
Peking
United Nations
U. N
United States
North Korea
North Vietnam
Killian Authority Sought to Speed Missile Program
Senators Chavez Kennedy and Bridges discuss President Eisenhower naming James R. Killian MIT president as a top science advisor with full authority to push a rapid missile program. They stress need for decisive funding and cabinet status to avoid past delays amid national defense urgency.
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Washington
Sen. Chavez
D-Nm
Congress
Eisenhower
James R. Killian
Killian
Eienshower
America
Eisen
Sen. Bridges
RNH
Sen. Flanders
R-Vi
Senate Armed Services Committee
Armed Services
Sen
Neuberger
Dore
Europeans Critical Of Eisenhower Talk
The Daily Telegraph accused President Eisenhower of avoiding problems and urged him to take charge of the U S missile program. West German papers harshly criticized his speech on scientific progress, while British French and West German officials showed mixed reactions. German papers questioned the speech’s ability to calm both Americans and Europeans.
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London
Daily Telegraph Today
Eisenhower
U. S
West Germany
Daily Telegraph
Germany
Frankfurter Rundschau
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Sputnik Receives Radio Sponsor From Curacao Gov
Kenneth Simons of Bryn Athyn reports hearing a Sputnik broadcast on 20,005 megacycles. The message stated Sputnik calling by courtesy of the Curacao government radio and telegraph administration and ran in English for ten minutes. Curacao is a Caribbean island in the Dutch West Indies.
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Philadelphia
Sputnik
Bryn Athyn
Kenneth Simons
Sputnik Calling
Curacao
Kennedy Excludes 1958 Tax Cuts At Democratic Meet
Sen John F Kennedy told the Young Democrats national convention there is no chance for a federal tax cut in 1958 and it is unlikely for years. He spoke amid debates on civil rights foreign policy and national officers as Kennedy cited declining revenues and Sputnik as reasons against tax relief.
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Congress
Chavez
Killian
Reno
Nev
Sen. Kennedy
D-Mass
Young Democrats
Defense Department
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Supreme Court
United Nations
Phillip Burton
San Francisco
Nelson Lacione
Columbus
Ohoi
Jack Noles
Tonkawa
Okia
Kennedy
Sputnik
Juror Presents Oil for Judge’s Squeaky Chair
In Fulton Civil Court in Atlanta yesterday a woman juror named Mrs. Ivan Allen Jr. gave Judge A L Hen son a bottle of oil for the judge’s squeaking chair. The judge said the chair’s squeak was driving the jury crazy.
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Atlanta
A. L. Henson
Fulton Civil Court
Ivan Allen Jr
Lake View High ends Nativity scene Christmas display
Principal J Trimble Boyd of Lake View High School announced no Christmas Nativity display this year joining a policy shift after protests from six Jewish groups and the Illinois ACLU. Only a Christmas tree and possible wreaths will be allowed as he consulted with district superiors.
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Chicago
J. Trimble Boyd
Lake View High School
Boyd
Mlllnois Division
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Supt. of Schools
Benjamin Willis
Illinois Aclu
Kenneth Douty
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Mrs. Clay Staton
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Moskow
Laika
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J. Allen Hynek
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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