Navy Sets Depth Record in Pacific Dive
The bathyscaph Trieste reached 24 000 feet off Guam with Lt. Donald Walsh and Jacques Piccard aboard, beating the prior depth of 18 600 feet. The dive, part of a plan to reach 35 000 feet, lasted six hours and gathered data on light, currents, temperatures, and pressures.
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Pacific Ocean
Guam
Nasy Electronics Laboratory
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Navy
Donald Walsh
Jacques Piccard
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Piccard
Auguste
Strikers Face Charges in Salisbury Fracas
Four striking workers from Local 107 faced charges of destruction of property and disorderly conduct after a confrontation with two non-strikers at Dennis Storage and Moving Co in Salisbury. The incident followed a weeklong contract dispute plus one assault charge against Robert Williams. Authorities cited witnesses Stanley Evans and Robert Walters for the account of the disturbance, which involved damage to a car window and blocking a truck at the Pennsylvania Railroad station.
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Colar
Dennis Storage and Moving Co
Elmer Ad- 31
Thomas Ad- 20
Fruwand
Frank Kie Moore
Robert Williams
Salisbury
Williams
Highway Truck Drivers and Helpers Union
Stanley Evans
Princess Anne
Robert L. Walters
Evans
Walters
Pennsylvania Railroad
Saxi
Soviets Seek Moon Landing Auto Laboratory Plan
Vienna AP report from Moscow says the Soviet program aims to land a mobile laboratory on the moon carried in a rocket nose cone. The craft would carry radio gear and be guided from a Soviet remote station with a 18 mile surface range, enabling scientific observations and earth communication. Edgewood insect blood study weighs insect lure effectiveness for spraying.
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Austria
Pacific Ocean
Moscow
Rom Budapest
Soviet Union
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Edgewood
Army Cemical Warfare Laboratories
Pyramx J
Murphy
Grain Market Holds Tight Under Government Price Support
Chicago AP reports the 1959 grain futures market stayed on a narrow range under government price supports. Wheat spanned the broadest swing, corn production hit a record high, and overseas shipments declined as subsidies aided exporters while domestic demand rose with livestock feeding needs.
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Chicago
United States
Castro Prisoners Hunger Strike Reported in Havana
In Havana letters published Friday relatives of Castro era prisoners, including Mrs. Matos, allege harsh conditions and incommunicado confinement at Morro Castle Prison. Maj. Hubert Matos, once Camaguey commander, was sentenced to 20 years after a military trial. The letters note poor treatment but not specifics. The government has begun amnesty measures for common inmates to free space.
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Hubert Matos
Camaguey
Castro
Matos
Fidel Castra
Morro Castle
Miller Heads Horticultural Group in Maryland
Gilbert Miller of Spring Gap was elected president of the Maryland State Homemakers Horticultural group at the two day convention in Hagerstown. D Eldred Rinehart of Ringgold becomes past president. vice presidents named include Haymond K Gardenhour Smuthburg and John W Milburn Elkton. A F Vierheller College Park elected secretary treasurer. Delegates reported about four attended and a resolution called for an economic study of Maryland fruit industry.
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Gilbert Miller
Spring Gap
Maryland
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Ringgold
Ther
Haymond K. Gardenhour
Smuthburg
John W. Milburn
Elkton
A.F. Vierheller
College Park
Senator Symington pushes farm aid and food use program
Senator Symington of Missouri says he will introduce legislation to aid farmers and give agriculture a stronger voice in policy. He proposes a national food use program and conservation efforts to align farm output with national needs, plus price supports and a rural relief agency. He also seeks stockpiling and surplus measures in a civilian emergency plan. In Wallingford Connecticut, a 1937 fire truck is up for public auction as the town replaces it with newer equipment.
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Associated Press
Symington
Missouri Democrat
Agriculture Commiitee
Sainte Hopger
Agriculture Department
America
United States Seeks Soviet Lend Lease Debt Settlement
Washington reports the US aims to settle the long running Soviet lend lease debt with Russia. Talks with Mikhail Menshkov and US envoy Charles Bohlen outline proposals as cooperation between the two nations resumes. The US seeks about 800 million dollars while the Russians offer 300 million in the dispute over postwar obligations.
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United States
Soviet Union
America
U.S.S.R. United States
Senta
Isiams
Chip Bohlen
Moscow
Mikhail 4Enshkov
Dairy Support To Continue Through 1960 61 Marketing Year
Secretary Ezra Taft Benson announced continued support prices for dairy products through the 1960 61 marketing year. Manufacturing milk at 3.06 dollars per hundredweight and butterfat at 56.6 cents per pound remain in effect, the third consecutive year at these levels. Government purchases help processors meet prices, with parity at 77 percent. Projections show 1960 cash receipts to milk producers nearing 4.7 billion dollars, a record, as government purchases for butter and other dairy products proceed.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Midwest
Benson
Potter R
Smallest December Dary Purchases UnearthAid Trends
The department reports December purchase volumes the smallest in seven years. most dairy products under its support program are donated for school lunch and relief use, underscoring a relief-focused distribution pattern.
Reporters Quiz on Wishes for the 60s at Hood College
From Hood College in New Jersey and Massachusetts, students share hopes for the 1960s. Kathy Magowan wishes to graduate first. Peniny Masirian seeks world peace and prosperity for the underprivileged. Janet Draghetri hopes medical advances, especially mental health, and Sonia Gross desires peaceful international relations and cultural exchange.
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Hood College
Bordentown
New Jersey
Peniny Masirian
Ramsey
Janet Draghetri
Lakeville
Mass
Sonia Gross
Freemansburg
Morals Offender Confesses To Slaying
NORRISTOWN Pa AP Elmo L Smith a twice paroled morals offender confessed the rape slaying of 16 year old Maryann Mitchell Smith a 39 year old divorced father of one on the night of Dec 28 He was held with bail after the teen vanished while returning home from a movie Her bruised body lay in a muddy jelly in marsh Township
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Norristow
Elmo L. Smith
Maryrann Mitchell Smith
Maryann
Philadelphia
Itemarsh
Confession Details Girl’s Abduction and Homicide
Smith confessed to stabbing Maryann and dumping her in a ravine after stealing a car and abducting her on a street corner. The handyman, paroled last October for attempted rape and burglary, stated the attack occurred about 49 hours after she was last seen. He appeared before Justice of the Peace Louis Hofman in Ritmarsh Township.
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Maryann
Justice of the Peace
Louis Hofman
Ritemarsn Township
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