Sound Waves Reveal Hidden Earthquakes and Infrasound
A team from the National Bureau of Standards reports a new method to detect earthquakes using infrasound. Microbarographs capture minute atmospheric pressure changes caused by distant quakes, such as the Yellowstone event of August 1959, linking ground motion to slow air pressure waves and confirming widespread infrasound in the atmosphere.
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San Francisco
API
Acoustical Society of America
Richard K. Cook
Yellowstone
Montana
Bureau of Standards
Washington
D.C
Inexperience Led Teo Fatal Accident
The Interstate Commerce Commission found driver inexperience and faulty equipment caused a fatal acid truck crash near Luke Maryland on August 2. The 2500 gallon load of muriatic acid and other chemicals pinned two pulpwood trucks, killing Thomas Lee Farmer and Glen M. Snyder. Long fatigue and brake failure were cited alongside a broken universal joint. Olen McDonald was injured. The acid truck served a Dow Chemical Co Cleveland division. The ICC will pursue action on Safety regulation violations.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Luke
Backbone Mountain
Thomas Lee Farmer
Belle
W. Va
Glen M. Snyder
Levels
Olen McDonald
Marysville
ICC
Commission
Cleveland
Ohio
Dow Chemical Co
Reds Refuse To Pay UN Congo Bill
United Nations debate erupts as Soviet bloc refuses to fund Congo operation claiming a dirty role. U.S. delegate calls the move deplorable while noting potential US cost share nears 150 to 200 million. Lumumba representation seats stir Asian African bloc row and Congo seat remains vacant awaiting steering committee guidance.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Congo
United States
United Nations
Miroslav Nacvalac
Dag Hammarskjold
Nacvalac
Hammarskjold
U.S
Ghana
Guinea
India
Morocco
United Arab Republic
General” Assembly
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Assembly
Officials Attending Youth Conference in Hancock
Five Frederick County officials join Western Maryland Conference on Youth in Hancock to review progress and plan future youth needs in recreation education and employment. Dr. Warren Evans will lead a session on producing practical results with youth through recreation. Other attendees include Gus Ryman, Sam C. Roderick, Ernest Tavener, Paul Fogle, Jean Harnish, and Mrs Wilaward.
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Frederick County
Maryland
Hancock
White House
Eisenhower
Warren R. Evans
Paul Fogle
Jean Harnish
Sam C. Roderick
Ernest Tavener
Frederick
Guard Given Suspended Sentence in Fatal Hospital Shooting
Towson Maryland guard Harry W. Lawson 43 of Woodstock received a three year prison term suspended and three years probation after pleading voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an orderly at Towson Hospital during a June 23 altercation. Charles Richardson 20, Negro, was involved. Judge John Grason Turnbull ordered probation.
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Towson, Md
Peiny
Towson Hospital
Lawson
Cholera Death Toll Rises in Pakistani Border Villages
About 200 people are believed dead from cholera in villages near Iran in West Pakistan over three days, officials said Friday. Separate note mentions the original manuscript of the Glory of Samuel Pepys housed at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Iran
Giory
Samuel Pepys
Magdalene College
Cambridge
England
Oppose Plan For Henryton Hospital
Westminster residents protested the State Board of Public Works plan to convert Henryton State Hospital into a detention school for juvenile delinquents. About 50 locals argued it would dump prisoners in Carroll County.
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Westminster, Md
State Board of Public Works
Henryton State Hospital
Carroll County
Alcatraz
Maryland County Agents Elect Foster President
Delbert T. Foster of Montgomery County was chosen as president of the Maryland County Agents Association at the annual extension conference held at the National H Club Center in Chevy Chase. Other officers include Robert L. Jones, vice president. Chester M. Cissell, treasurer. and Gilbert Bowling, assistant secretary treasurer, with Foster recognized earlier for the 1954 USDA Superior Service Award.
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College Park
Delbert T. Foster
Montgomery County
Maryland County Agents Association
Foster
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Stanley B. Sutton
Kent County
Robert L. Jones
Carroll County
Chester M. Cissell
Queen Annes County
Gilbert ©. Bowling
Calvert County
National +H Club
Chevy Chase
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Here
Tokyo
Japan
Foreign Ministry
Soviet Union
Reds
Carl Weakley
The
Community Chest
Gus Ryman
Safeway
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Sears Roebuck
United Appeal
Weakley, Ryman
Frank J. Keefer
Edward McGuiness
Richard Bowlus
Ox Fibre
B. B. Rosenstock
United Appeal Campaign
Frederick Lumber Company
Jefferson Street
William Schnauffer
Cash Smith
Red Cross
Henryton Hospital
Thomas J.S. Waxter
Sykesville
Henryton
John W. Cable III
Cable
Sykes
Tville
Tripoli
Maa Frederick
Ss Opticians
Arcade
Ro Kroehler
Cline
E. Patrick
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