Ex-Rocket Boss Heads Toy Firm
Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, former head of the Army rocket and guided missile program, was named president of Lionel Corp., the toy train manufacturer, in New York. The appointment was announced by the company as it seeks leadership with veteran defense program experience.
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New York
John B. Medaris
Army Rocket and Guided Missile Program
Lionel Corp
Medar
Lionel
Medaris
Army
United States
Great Lakes
Marines
Tunisia
Sicily
1St
Normandy
Army Ordnance Missile Command
Huntsville
Ala
Wernher von Braun
Soviet Union
America
Scogin and Board Clash Over School Plans and Bids
The school board defeated a bid to delay opening until after Labor Day and moved to readvertise horn bids after a language error. They discussed milk, bread, lunch prices, and a maternity leave, while labor disputes threaten Lee Junior High’s fall opening. Medaris named Lionel Corp. director, outlining expansion into electronics and defense.
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Paul Hewitt Music Co
Dew Music Co
Supt
van Dodom
Breece
Scogin
Guthrie
National Labor Relations Board
Washington
Lee Junior High
Monroe 5Soulding Trades Council
Associated General Contractors
Clover Leaf
Borden
Wolff
Wabash Insurance Co
Neville
Claudette C. Burton
Lincoln School
Scogin and
Odom
Neville Stadium
Neville Auditorium
Congo Premier Reacts to U.N. Deployment News
The Congo premier says troops must be trained and will not be ready to fight U.N. forces. He claims no official word of the Ka tanga redeployment or Belgian troop withdrawal, but would welcome U.N. Undersecretary Bunche's visit to arrange entry.
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U.N
Katanga
Leopoldville
Hammarskjold
Tshombe
Ralph J. Bunche
Elisabethville
Bunche
FIELD DAY ENTRIES LISTED FOR EVENT CONTINUATION
The page lists numerous participants including Brooks, Jimmie Moore, W. T. Calloway, Rankin W. Earle, John Filho, M. L. Johnson, Oscar McDonald, John Adair, David Petrus, Elden Arnold, Cecil Hill, L. L. Price, High Wick, Thomas S. Jones, John Birdsong, Joe Pratt, Wayne McDonald, Virgil Crawford, Malcolm Johnson, Dewey Simmons, Fred Huenefeld Jr., R. Z. Johnson, W. B. Aycock Jr., J. J. Joyce Jr., Arnold Franklin, Jim Benton, Paul Ransom, Charles Venable, and Frank Noonan.
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Brooks
Jimmie Moore
W. T. Calloway
Rankin W. Earle
John Filho
M. L. Johnson
Oscar McDonald
John Adair
David Petrus
Elden Arnold
Cecil Hill
L. L. Price
High Wick
Thomas S. Jones
John Birdsong
Joe Pratt
Wayne McDonald
Virgil Crawford
Malcolm Johnson
Dewey Simmons
Fred Huenefeld Jr
R. Z. Johnson
W. B. Aycock Jr
J. J. Joyce Jr
Arnold Franklin
Jim Benton
Paul Ransom
Charles Venable
Frank Noonan
Weather notes and rainfall update for Monroe area
Nocturnal reading shows 72.3 degrees with a dip to 68 on the 18th after late afternoon thundershowers and north winds. Rainfall totals reach 5.32 inches versus 6.12 inches a year ago as August brings scattered showers and lingering heat relief fades.
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Monroe
Kennedy Nixon clash overs labor support and recession fears
A reporter quoted Richard Nixon alleging Kennedy paid the price for labor support. Walter Reuther voiced strong labor backing for Kennedy and Johnson, warned of a possible third Eisenhower-Nixon recession, and urged proactive government leadership. Reuther cited 5.2 percent unemployment in May and June and 2.9 million part time workers for economic reasons, while pledging to work to elect Kennedy and Johnson.
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Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Reuther
American Labor Movement
Johnson
Sen. Kennedy
America
Nixon
Michael V. di Sale
Ohio
AFL Cio
Aflcio
Sen
Betsy Benham Case Heavily Frayed By Loss of Hope
Police said Harold, the boy connected to Betsy Benham’s 1963 death, stood mute at first then confessed as he was moved from the grave. Patricia Widing, 7, screamed that the boy in the apple tree was involved. Captain Howlett told the Benhams the case was over as Betsy’s mother wept.
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Chicago
Harold
Patricia Widing
Betsy
George Howlett
Benham
Dallas Benham
Jury finds smoking proximate cause in Green cancer
The jury ruled Green's smoking was a proximate cause or one of the proximate causes of his left lung cancer but said the manufacturer cannot be held liable before the February 1 1956 cancer diagnosis for knowledge of any danger in smoking.
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Green
Formosa Typhoon Toll Rises to 32 Dead
Toll from Typhoon Shirley and floods climbs to 32 dead 103 missing and 304 injured with 50,000 homeless. Police say no marooned people remain though rail and highway links cut by washouts and landslides. U S command reports no American casualties and minor property damage.
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Taipei
Formosa
Shirley
U.S
Moody urges Dallas curfew stance at Oak Cliff meeting
In Dallas Moody blamed parents for rising juvenile delinquency and urged curfew enforcement. He suggested 11 p.m. as realistic for under 18, while a 9 p.m. proposal faced doubt. Sheryl Johnson, 17, read a speech noting enforcement challenges and law contempt.
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Oak Cliff Baptist Temple
Moody
Dallas
Gatesville State School
Houston, Fort Worth
San Anatnio
League
Joe Lawson
Sheryl Johnson
Young North Korean Pilot Defects With MIG15 to South Korea
Lt. Chung Nak hyun, 24, defected in a MIG15 to Taipori airstrip on South Korea's east coast, saying he longed for freedom. Police escorted him to the ROK air force after a miraculous 21 minute landing on a 4000 foot strip. It is the third NK aerial defection to the South.
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Seoul
South Korea
Chung Nakhyun
Taipori
Air Force
Chung
South Korean Air Force
Wonsan
St Bernard Tops Census Ten Growth For Parish
Washington AP reports St Bernard Parish Louisiana ranked tenth among U S counties for growth over the past decade. The parish rose from 11 087 residents in 1950 to 31 925, an 188 percent increase. Other faster growing counties included Brevard Florida Pulaski Missouri Broward Florida Grand Utah Orange California Daggett Utah Adams Colorado Charlotte Florida and San Juan New Mexico.
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Washington
Census Bureau
St. Bernard Parish
United States
St. Bernard
Brevard
Fla
Pulaski
Broward
Grand
Utah
Orange
Calif
Daggett, Utah
Adams, Colo
Charlotte, Fla., and
San Juan, N.M
Marine recruits tale of shark attack rumor shocks parents
The parents of an AWOL Marine recruit said he told them one of his buddy dies was devoured by a shark while attempting to swim from Parris Island to escape alleged cruelty.
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Concord
N. H
UPD
Parris Island
S. C
U S Pushes Berlin Standoff Policy After Khrushchev Threat
Washington weighs a hard line as Khrushchev pledges to trigger a Berlin crisis if West German parliament meets next month. The United States Britain and France vow to defend West Berlin at all costs while Moscow and East Berlin threaten to cancel Allied rights. State Department reiterates West Berlin rights rest on Nazi defeat, not Soviet acquiescence.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
J Khrushchev
Britain
France
West Berlin
Russia
Soviet Union
State Department
Nazi Germany
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