Galileo Nuclear Test Shocks Nevada Desert Sky
A large purple cloud formed as the Galileo atomic shot was set off at the Nevada test site. The half-sized blast produced a severe shock wave felt miles away while 82nd Airborne troops staged a human reaction drill nearby and animals were tested for blast effects.
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Nev
United States
Japan
Ground Zero
Desert
82Nd Airborne Division
Ground
Los Angeles
Knowland unlikely to resign Senate leadership
Senator Knowland of California says he has no plan to quit as Senate Republican leader even if he seeks the California governor nomination next year. He will stay in the national spotlight through his Senate term ending January 1959 and has announced he will not run again for the Senate. He begins a California tour to announce candidacy while Governor Knight already seeks renomination and warns of a hard primary if Knowland runs.
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Washington
Knowland
Calif
Senate
California
Redding
Goodwin J. Knight
Sacramento
Knight
Reds Train Afghans In Arms Deal
About 20 Soviet officers are reported training Afghan military units to use 25 million dollars worth of arms Russia is supplying this landlocked nation. The arms include five artillery types, 30 tanks, 15 to 20 MIG15 jet fighters, and small arms. Training is said to occur at an Afghan base near the Oxug River. Prince Mohammed Naim, Afghanistan’s deputy premier, said the purchases were for defensive purposes and aligned with neutrality. The U.S. under the Eisenhower Doctrine offers transport aid totaling about 80 million dollars, while overall aid from Communist nations to Afghanistan is estimated at 136 to 147 million dollars.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Russia
Middle East
Oxug
Soviet Union
Texas
Pakistan
Iran
Moammed Naim
Naim
United States
Prince Naim
U.S
Man told to leave Ethiopia for beating yard boy
Charles A. Van Fleet, a Woodside Calif. airline pilot for Ethiopian Airlines, left Ethiopia after a high court conviction for beating a yard boy, Abebe Besha. He was fined $50 and ordered to pay $50 damages, and he did not appeal before departing Saturday. Besha claimed back wages were owed and witnesses supported his account. Van Fleet denied the assault and said another Ethiopian attacked his wife.
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Addis Ababa
Charles A. van Fleet
Woodside
Calif
Ethiopia
van Fleet
Ethiopian Air Line
Abebe Besha
Besha
Abebe
Cholera Epidemic Claims 692 Lives in Hihar State
Press reports say a cholera outbreak in Hihar State killed 692 people over the last two weeks, with 391 deaths recorded in the prior fortnight. The surge highlights a severe health emergency and rising mortality in the region.
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New Delhi
Hihar
Old Age Defeats Confederate Vet Lundy at 109
William A. Lundy, a 109 year old Civil War veteran known as Uncle Bill, died in a Crestview hospital after a March gall bladder operation and illness. He resided with his son Charlie and leaves three daughters and five sons. He never fired a shot in the conflict and declined to fly the Confederate flag outside his home. He was seen as one of the last Confederate veterans, with two others aged 114 and 111 remaining. Funeral arrangements are incomplete as he had been honored for a park dedication and a general's uniform is being prepared for him.
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William A. Lundy
Crestview
Fla
Bill
Charlie
Ln 16
Home Guard
Elba
Ala
Lundy
Walter W. Williams
Houston
Tex
John Salling
Slant
Albert Woolson
Duluth
Minn
Chamber of Commerce
Iscore
Confederacy
Linda Just Wants Out at Fleishhacker Zoo
Ape keeper Bill Wills faces a dangerous scene as Linda B. a red haired orange utang hangs by her cage and unthreads wire mesh from the ceiling. He bribed her down with grapes and patched the hole, while the ape tears the patch away and unravels more mesh. A fence crew was hired to reinforce the enclosure.
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San Francisco
Fleishhacker Zoo
Bill Wills
Linda B
Wills
Linda
Wells
Train Derailed in Jamaica Killing 50 Feared
An excursion train derailed about 60 miles west of Kingston on a grade at Kendal. Unconfirmed reports say 50 dead and 400 injured as hospitals overwhelmed the injured. Chief medical officer Gussie Peat urged doctors and nurses to assist.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Gussie ‘Peat
Kendal
Man Kills Two Wounds Two Kidnaps Wife In Nebraska
Arthur McClusky 39 of Omaha burst into the Glenn Stoddard farm home in Decatur and fatally shot his mother in law Ida Stoddard 59 and friend Orville Brewer 60. He wounded Stoddard and kidnapped his wife Betty McClusky 29 beating her with a crowbar. McClusky fled in Brewer’s car, later recovered on a Missouri River island. Three children aged 11 6 and 2 were unharmed. McClusky and his wife had separated last May. Sheriff William Dean led a large manhunt.
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Decatur, Neb
Burt County
William Dean
Arthur McClusky
Omaha
Glenn Stoddard
Ida Stoddard
Orville Brewer
Stoddard
Betty McClusky
Dean
McClusky
Decatur
Brewer
Glenn
Sherry
Pat
Chuckle Parting Thought on Money and Men
A humorous closing line compares money to men noting that when money tightens its grip it tends to speak louder in parable form. The quip plays on the idea that scarcity amplifies attention and desire.
Labor Day Traffic Toll Mounts Across Nation
Traffic deaths rose through Labor Day weekend as the Associated Press tally reached over 300 in the first 33 hours, with forecasts near or above the 420 predicted by the National Safety Council. Ohio and Illinois incidents highlighted the holiday risk, including a Lima crash where four teenagers died.
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Dearborn
Ohio
National Safety Council
Safety Council
Ohio Safety and Highway
Associated Press
Lima
Raab Recovers From Stroke in Linz Hospital
Vienna The elderly Chancellor Julius Raab, aged 65, is recovering in a Linz hospital after a slight stroke and circulatory disturbance in his right leg. An official bulletin confirmed he underwent the health crisis last Saturday and is receiving care.
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Vienna
Julius’ Raab
Linz
Upper Austria
Weather heats up as heat wave drags on in Miami Valley
The forecast warns a slow moving cool front will dampen the heat wave by late Tuesday. Until then warm moist air keeps temperatures high with a 98 degree high today and 70 degree low tonight. Tuesday stays warm and humid with scattered showers late afternoon. Middletown clocked 96 degrees Sunday at 4:15 p.m and 67 at 6 a.m.
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Miami
Middletown
Cop Shoots Bystanders In Chase
New York AP patrolmen discharged bullets toward a fleeing suspect, hitting two bystanders as Kenneth Brown a Washington DC student snatched a nurse Agnes Porter’s purse containing under $20. Brown was captured after a seven block pursuit aided by cab driver Marvin Foshko and Patrolman John Cikut.
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New York
5Th Avenue
Kenneth Brown
Neigro
Washington, D.C
Brown
Agnes Porter
William Miller
Babylon
N.Y
Stanley Baldinger
Brooklyn Yn
Miller
Baldinger
Miss Porter
Marvin Foshko
John Cikut
Louis Papa
35Th Street
Free World Leadership In Danger
PITTSBURGH WW-President David J. McDonald of the United Steelworkers warned that the United States risks losing leadership among free nations as it struggles with civil rights. He slammed the Supreme Court ban on segregation and accused opponents of defying democratic order, while Khrushchev era communists accused American progress of regression and urged immediate steps to fix human relations.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
United States
McDonald
U. S. Supreme Court
Free Nations
Kremlin
Nevada entrant Loni Gravelle in Miss America pageant
19 year old Reno native Loni Gravelle is Miss America contestant 641 silver dolaris tall with measurements 36 24 36. She studies at University of Colorado Boulder and hails from Nevada. AP Wirephoto
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Loni Gravelle
Nevada
Miss Gravelle
Reno
University of Colorado At Boulder
Miss America 1958 Contest Opens At Atlantic City
Fifty-one contestants from 45 states and territories arrive for the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. Scholarships total thirty thousand dollars as they register for a week of pageantry ahead of the Saturday crowning.
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Atlantic City
N. J
California
Lorna M. Anderson
Valerie Joy Strong
Canada
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Chicago
New York City
Washington, D.C
Flu Hits Yugoslavs in Skopje Outbreak
Belgrade reports 2 000 cases of Asian flu in Skopje the capital of Macedonia Province in southern Yugoslavia and local papers run the story today outlining the spread and concern.
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Belgrade
Skopjje
Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Arms Talks In London Near End
Washington reports Harold Stassen returns to London for the final round of five power disarmament talks before sending the issue to the United Nations General Assembly. Officials note Russia remains in negotiations while others see a propaganda battle and diminishing prospects for a London breakthrough. The U N Assembly opens September 17 in New York with five powers in a sub committee steering talks.
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Washington
Harold Stassen
London
U. N. I General Assembly
Stassen
Eisenhower
Dulles
Russia
White House
United States
U. N. General Assembly
New York
Britain
France
Canada
Assembly
Committee On Disarmament
General Assembly
Man Dies After Fall From Mount Rainier Crevasse
William Haupert of Bethlehem Pennsylvania, 20, died after a fall in a crevasse on Mount Rainier while part of a 12 member summit party led by Gary Rose. Haupert was buried in snow and died about nine hours later. his body was recovered by a ten man rescue party from the ice top.
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Haupert
Gary Rose
Summmit
Rose
J.H. Lehaman
Seattle
Jone
Dee Molenaar
Longmire
ICBM Defense Possible By Antimissile Missile
Gen Earle Partridge says intercepting an enemy inter continental ballistic missile with another missile is possible and must be built quickly. He notes the antimissile system is still in planning. Sen Jackson warns the real danger is speed of Soviet use and urges ramped production to secure early readiness.
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Earle
Partridge
U.S. News & World Report
Moscow O
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Russia
United States
A Senate
House Subcommittee On
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