Air Force explores space gun and anti missile plans
The Air Force says a 16 member scientific team at Kirtland AFB New Mexico is near a major breakthrough in using nuclear explosions in space to destroy rockets. The Pentagon declined comment as Defense Secretary McElroy unveils a new space weapons chief to coordinate future projects and missile bases overseas.
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Washington
Air Force
Kirtland Air Force Base
N.M
America
McPherson Morgan
Pentagon
A. R. Luedecke
Pacific
Carlo Tosti
Air Research and Development Command
Baltimore
Kirtland
Defense McElroy
McElroy
NATO
Paris
United States
Russia
Air Force Snark hits target in world first intercontinental test
The Air Force disclosed that the Snark intercontinental missile carried a simulated hydrogen warhead to a target 5,000 miles away. The Oct. 31 flight demonstrated true intercontinental capability with unprecedented accuracy and placed any world target in range of U.S. bases. The test flew from Cape Canaveral to an Atlantic target near Ascension Island at 45,000 feet and showed evasive tactics. Production is under way for the Strategic Air Command, with Hawthorne crews in training.
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McElroy
William M.holaday
Holaday
Space
Air Force
Defense Department
Chicago
Los Angeles
New York
Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Ascension Island
South Atlantic
Florida Missile Test Center
Strategic Air Command
Hawthorne
Calif
Ship Finds 19 Bodies After Romance of the Skies Loss
The aircraft carrier Philippine Sea heads to Long Beach with 19 corpses and debris from the Pan American Stratocruiser Romance of the Skies. A week-long search found no survivors among 44 aboard. debris offered no clues to the cause.
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Honolulu
Philippine Sea
Long Beach
Calif
Hawaii
T. A. Ahroon
Civil Aeronautics Board
U.S. Mainland
Todays Chuckle If ignorance is bliss
Humorous quip contrasts bliss with ignorance and asks why happiness is scarce if not knowing relaxes the mind. It frames a light, ironic reflection on perception.
Kasper Gets Six More Months In Clinton Contempt Case
U S District Judge Robert L Taylor sentenced segregationist John Kasper to six additional months in prison after denials of a new trial in Clinton contempt of court convictions. Co defendants Willard Till William Brakebill Lawrence Brantley Alonzo Bullock Clyde Cook received probation or prison terms up to two years.
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Knoxville, Tenn
U.S. Dist
Robert L. Taylor
John Kasper
Kasper
Clinton, Tenn
Clinton
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Taylor
Clinton High School
Lus
Mary Nell Currier
Willard H. Till
Oak Ridge
William J. Brakebill
Lawrence J Brantley
Alonzo Bullock
Clinton Carpenter
Clyde Cook
Drowns In Small Lake
Mansfield Ohio residents report the death of Mrs Mary Linn age 70 who drowned Friday after apparently falling into a small lake at her farm home about 54 miles north of the city authorities said.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Mary Linn
Here
Man held in slayings of sister and grandchildren in Georgia
In Moultrie Georgia 48 year old Otha Adams is jailed on murder charges in the killings of his sister Mrs Herman Hagin and her two grandchildren Harris Hagin Jr age 3 and Brenda Dianne Hagin 11 months. The bodies were found at the Hagin home ten miles north of Moultrie.
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Moultrie Ga
E. W. Gordon
Otha Adams
Lester Norman
Herman Hagin
Harris Hagin Jr
Brenda Dianne Hagin
Hagin
South Georgia
Kithen Sink
Harris Hagin Sr
Moultrie
Adams
Ohio hunters face deadly opening day of small game season
The season opened with four deaths and multiple injuries. Sherman Wright of Wheelersburg was killed by a misfired shotgun. Two men, Floyd Nace and John Teach, died of heart attacks while hunting. A two-car crash on Ohio 305 near Warren killed Floyd H. Frederick and injured others. Fred Baninger and Tom Smith had notable incidents with game and accidents.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Findlay
Baninger
Tom Smith
Columbus
Smith
Circleville
Washington Court House
Scioto County
Sherman Wright
Rt. 1
Wheelersburg
Pandora
Putnam County
Arnold Potts
Wright
Portsmouth
Floyd Nace
Dayton
John R. Teach
Rt. 4
Terre Haute
Champaign County
Nace
DeGraff
Logan County
Teach
Alfields
Hunt
Ing
Ohio 305
Warren
Floyd H. Frederick
Frederick
Earl Logue
David Boyce
Cleveland
Logan
Boyce
St. Joseph Hospital
Logue
Iton
Harry Tyrrell
J. B. Priestle
Tyrrell
John Berryman
Maxim
Berryman
Tunisian Arms Split Threatens NATO Summit Settlement
U S and Britain proceed with arms shipments to Tunisia despite French protests while France, Britain, and the United States seek a workable formula. Foreign ministers and leaders weigh conditions to keep Bourguiba from turning to Soviet weapons, ahead of a NATO conference in Paris.
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Tunisia
Washington
London
Paris
North Atlantic
Dulles
Christian Pineau
NATO
Felix Gaillard
Eisenhower
France
Certan
Britain
United States
U.S
Habib Bourguiba
Bourguiba
Gaillard
Algeria
One Killed, 38 Hurt In Rail Crash Near White Pigeon
The New York Central’s eastbound flyer The Chicagoan derailed near White Pigeon Michigan killing Henry Nichols 54 of Chicago and injuring at least 38 with 164 passengers aboard. One car overturned others jackknifed. 12 hospitalized while seven in Three Rivers and five in Sturgis.
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White Pigeon
Mich
New York Central
Michigan
Chicago
New York
Elkhart
Ind
Archbold
Ohio
Michigan Central
Toledo
Henry Nichols
Post Office Department
Three Rivers
Sturgis
Shooting Under Study In Dayton Police Chief Shooting Probe
Montgomery County sheriff's deputies opened an inquiry into the shooting of Dayton detective chief Lt. Richard C. Grumbish. He was wounded in the back by a .22 caliber rifle while hunting with two companions.
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Dayton
Ohio
Montgomery County Sheriff's Department
Richard C. Grumbish
France Faces Confidence Vote Over Tax Plan
France's new premier Felix Gaillard urges a dawn confidence vote to push a fiscal package through the National Assembly. The plan calls for 241 million dollars in new taxes and 238 million in cuts, backed by a push to cap 1958 spending and bar new government expenses.
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Paris
France
Felix Gaillard
National Assembly
Assembly
Gaillard
Peasant
Probers Say Adelstein Ready to Talk in New York Garb age Case
Senate racket investigators told reporters Bernie Adelstein a Teamsters official would answer charges tying him to threats and Mafia figures in New York garbage hauling. Robert Kennedy said wire taps would be used as freshers. Acropolis’s 1952 slaying remains unsolved.
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Washington
Senate
Bernie Adelstein
Teamsters
New York
Uupbuy
Robert F. Kennedy
Tola
Adelsstein
Kennedy
Adelstein
Garbage
John Acropolis
Acropolis
Mafia
Appalachia
N.Y
U.S
Paul W. Williams
Ed Boyle
Teamsters Local 45
Westchester County
Doyle
Tor J
Plane Crash Kills 13 Aboard on Solent Flight
A Solent four engine British Airways flying boat crash landed on a hillside near Newport Isle of Wight killing 43 of 58 aboard. The craft departed Southampton for Lisbon with 50 passengers and 8 crew. Survivors were taken to hospital.
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Newport
Isle of Wight
England
British Quila Airways
Southampton
Lisbon
Portugal
Aquila
Civil Aviation Ministry
English Channel
Solent
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