Jury Returns Guilty Verdict On Dave Beck
Seattle December report: Dave Beck, president of the Teamsters, is found guilty by a seven to five jury of embezzling 1900 from union Cadillac sales. Beck shows no comment as foreman says deliberations weighed the evidence.
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Dave Beck
Seattle
Giant
Teamsters Union
Beck
Charles Hickling
Bellevue
Wash
Charles S. Burdell
State Supreme Court
Adge
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
George H. Revelle
Dave Jr
Senate
Texas Students Fire Home Made Rocket 3 Miles
A group of University of Texas students launched a home made torpedo shaped rocket named Shorthorn 1A from a Beeville area pasture. It rose about three miles, stayed aloft for 54 seconds with a white smoke trail, then landed away to the southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beeville
Tex
University of Texas
Johnny Swoboda
Eisenhower Urges NATO Unity At Paris Summit
President Eisenhower arrived in Paris to urge NATO members to unite or risk surrender to red dictatorship. He spoke amid cool French reception, stressing a shared history and the defense of freedom as summit opens with Britain's Macmillan arriving earlier.
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Paris
Eisenhower
NATO
Peri Jones
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Macmillan
Britain
U.S
Tunisia
United States
Rene Coty
Felix Gaillard
Orly
Goodfellows fund passes $2000 as drive gains hearts
Half Way marker reached as donations top two thousand with hopes for four thousand to bring Christmas joy to every bare home. A Jaycees aide contribution of twenty five dollars and cooperative efforts with Jaycee Jaynes are noted. A petite woman near seventy handed in nineteen dollars after walking from DeSiard Street to the News-Star World offices. She returned downtown smiling to share her gift and make Christmas brighter for those in need. A separate gesture involves a 48 year old nightwatchman and a mysterious generous donor revealed in later notes.
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Goodfellows
Jaycees
Jaycee Jaynes
News-Star— World
Goodfellows Fund
DeSiard Street
Monroe
Mayor Denounces Group Charges Over Bond Funds
Mayor W. Howard denounces the Taxpayers League for false statements about surplus bond money. He cites Louisiana attorney general and says the funds in local banks may only pay principal and interest on old bonds. He notes a public hearing showed no new bond proposal and that the city council releases a letter from City Attorney Haynes Harkey Jr. rebutting the charge.
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Louisiana
Howard
Haynes Harkey Jr
City hires Foley Cox and Judell for bond election
The attorney general reviews a letter regarding the legality of bond issue proceedings for Tuesday's election. The city has engaged Foley Cox and Judell of New Orleans, renowned in municipal finance, to assist in calling the election and issuing bonds if approved.
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Foley, Cox and Judell
New Orleans
Louisiana
Top Rocket Experts Ask Space Agency
Dr Wernher von Braun urged creating a national space agency with a budget near 1.5 billion annually to dominate outer space. He warned of mortal danger if the U S lags Russia and urged a crash program to catch up in rockets alongside Maj Gen John Medaris who called for a 12 year effort toward manned space and a million pound thrust rocket by 1941.
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Washington
Wernher von Braun
Army
United States
Russia
von Braun
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
U.S
John B. Medaris
Missile Test Center
Medaris
Von
Braun
Space
Defense Department
National Academy of Sciences
Space Agency
Earth
Prominent Union Leader Stricken by Heart Attack
C M Shaw 37 president of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Shreveport suffered a coronary thrombosis in a local hotel while in Monroe for a two day labor education program. He was taken to a hospital and listed as serious but satisfactory by the attending physician. Shaw also serves as district vice president of the Louisiana council on labor education and heads the Shreveport trolley union.
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C. M. Shaw
Central Trades and Labor Council of
Shreveport
Shaw
Monroe
Louisiana Council On Labor Education
Trolley Union
McNeese Student Dies in Lake Charles Area Crash
Herman Theriot a 22 year old McNeese State College senior from Bell City died when his car left Route 14 near Bell City struck a tree after sideswiping a bridge. He would have graduated next month. He is the parish’s 36th traffic fatality of the year, the highest in Calcasieu to date.
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Lake Charles
Herman Theriot
McNeese State College
Bell City
Theriot
Calcasieu
Air Force chief foresees manned spaceship in works soon
Air Force chief Gen Thomas D White says a manned spaceship is in the works and space flights will become routine in a few years He describes the X-15 as a spacecraft jointly developed with Navy and NACA and envisions hypersonic flights circumnavigating the globe before reentry to enable sustained piloted space flight.
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Denver
Air Force
United States
Thomas D. White
Navy
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Air Force Academy
White
Warm Weather and Rain Ahead for Twin Cities and South
Twin Cities saw warmer weather with showers likely and a mild trend continuing today. Tomorrow's outlook is partly cloudy and mild. Yesterday's high reached 65 with a 55 low, while Friday saw a 65 high and 33 low. Arkansas forecasts cloudiness and light showers today with mild temperatures. Mississippi expects showers and warm temperatures as well with highs near 68 in the region.
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Twin Cities
Arkansas
Mississippi
Plan to Bolster Education Amid Cold War Science Drive
Louisiana educators outline steps to accelerate high school science teaching and join a national push on graduate scientific training. State leaders propose a government industry coordinating agency to boost science programs, with new supervision and guidance initiatives across parishes.
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James Mlean
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Leon Gary
State Board of Education
Washington
Gary
State Department of Education
Jackson
Howard P. McCollum
Marvin Bass
Shreveport
Louisiana School Boards Assn
Houma
College
Joseph Rieh
Southwestern
Woman Ends Life Over Son's Death Anniversary
Mrs. Mary Reardon Carter 36 died by suicide in her car amid grief over the upcoming anniversary of her 11 year old son John Jr death from a fatal strangling incident last December 18. Neighbors said she grew increasingly despondent as the anniversary neared and prosecutors ruled death by own action. Her husband an ad agency art director told the other children their mother was hurt.
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Fort Worth
Mary Reardon Carter
James Metcalfe
John, Jr
Frank Gooch
Gooch
Justice of the
Whit Boyd
Air Force rejects back pay for missile workers at Cape
Union official accuses Air Force of discrimination as it denies back pay under a new contract for 500 to 600 clerical workers at the Cape Canaveral missile center and a Mayaguez tracking station. Pan American Airways seeks reconsideration, possibly averting a strike. total back pay about $12,000 for roughly 25 per worker.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Pan American Airways
Walter T. Coleman
Air Transport
Afl-Clo Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
New York
Jesse Hamby
Pan American
Congress
Mayaguez
Puerto Rico
Coleman
Afl-Cio
Cape
Death toll in Iranian quakes tops 1,287 in western Iran
Tehran reports 1,287 dead in western Iran earthquakes including 1,100 residents of a single village near the epicenter. A scene official says the figure seems too high while relief work continues under Emmad Momtaz, governor general of Kermanshah.
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Tehran
Iran
Templor
Emmad Momtaz
Kermanshah
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Murphy Moss
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