Record Debt Hits New High Across U S 770 Billion
Washington AP reports total U S debts of individuals businesses and governments rose about 34 billion to a record 770 billion dollars. Federal debt up eight billion to 232.7 billion mortgage and consumer borrowing drive most gains. Long term corporate debt up eight, state and local debt up four, and individual and unincorporated business obligations up about 15 billion to 239.74 billion.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Rescue trip from flash floods in Bethesda
A businessman Joseph Richards Sr. 48 and two Glen Echo boys were rescued in Montgomery County after flash floods from a violent storm. Richards was pulled from his firm’s service building as a wall collapsed. Randy Lebond 15 and Michael Vincent 16 climbed a tree in eight foot floodwaters and were pulled to safety after nearly drowning in Little Falls Creek near Westmoreland Recreation Center.
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Bethesda. Md
Glen Echo
Montgomery County
Joseph Richards Sr
Columbia Specialty Co., Inc
Bethesda
Little Falls Creek
Randy Lebond
Michael Vincent
Pole
Westmoreland Recreationenter
NAACP Leads Hospital Strikers in New York Protests
In New York on Sunday Rep. Adam Clayton Powell and the NAACP led demonstrators supporting a two week old strike by hospital housekeeping workers seeking union recognition. About 500 picketed Mount Sinai and other hospitals. workers are largely Black or Puerto Rican and earn as little as five dollars for a four hour week.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
Mount Sinai
Bronx
Brooklyn
Dulles Described As Fearless Air Traveler
Washington AP recalls John Foster Dulles as fearless traveler who logged 559,996 air miles in six years as secretary of state visiting 46 countries and flying around the world 22 times on crisis missions goodwill tours and strategy talks. He visited Asia and Europe but avoided the Iron Curtain and survived a single emergency landing on June 8 1957 when a NY to DC flight landed at Anacostia Naval Air Station after engine trouble.
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Washington
John ‘Foster Dulles
Europe
Middle East
Latin America
Asia
New York
Military Air Terminal
Anacostia’ Naval Air Station
Dulles
Farmer weighs seed wheat and farm crisis cited
A farmer considers turning his land to seed grain as the Agricultural Adjustment Act faces repeal calls. Senate action prompts Yankus to say the real fix requires removing the 1938 act. Fischer leads in Zurich chess with 342 points, while Keres and Tal chase. Eagles trade Hudson to the Redskins for a top 1960 draft pick amid proximity reasons.
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Yankus
Senate
Zurich
Switzerland
Bobby Fischer
U. S
Chhampion
Brooklyn
Josef Kupper
Fischer
Paul Keres
Mikhail Tal
Russia
Svetozar GH
Yugoslavia
Hudson
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Eagles
National Football League
Bob Hudson
Washington Redskins
Hudsos
Pittsburgh
Washington
Will Still Sail Honolulu Man Leaves for Australia
Michigan farmer Stanley Yankus, 46, says he will sail to Australia to start a new life despite the U.S. Senate vote to remove wheat growing restrictions that prompted his protest. He arrived in Honolulu aboard the Sydney-bound Orcades for a one-day stopover, having sold his 100-acre Dowagiac farm after a $5,070 fine.
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Honolulu
Michigan
Stanley Yarkus
Sutay
Australia
U. S
Senate
Rlr
Yankus
Hner
Orcades
Dowagiac
Mich
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Joseph R. Beck
Blue Ridge Summit
Thurmont High School
Gettysburg College
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Ralph W. Boyer
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Aero Oil Co
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Carl Schumann
Jaeger
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Modern Lighting Co
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Red Cross
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