Navy Keeps Aerobee Program After Second Test Failure
The Navy stated it will not abandon the Aerobee high altitude rocket after a second failure in as many weeks. A Hi variant launched Monday failed to reach space, crashing in the desert with its instrument nose destroyed, prompting calls to fix the apparent motor defect as part of the International Geophysical Year effort.
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International Geophysical Year Project
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Saar Return Talks End Decades of Dispute
In Luxembourg Premier Mollet and Chancellor Adenauer reached a final agreement to restore the Saar to Germany by January 1 1957 and merge its economy with Germany after a three year interim. Germany will fund the Moselle canal and France will halt the Rhine lateral canal project while both sides resolve technical details in a nine hour session. Tito Opens Talks With Soviet Leaders to Reconcile Yugoslav Indpendence with Kremlin Line Tito seeks continued independent action and equal status while pledging friendship with the Soviet Union as an equal partner in talks at the Kremlin.
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Belgrade
Woman Dies In Curve Crash Near Benton
Mrs. Anna Williams, 65, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was killed Monday when thrown from a car that went off a curve in Benton Arkansas. Police say no passengers survived the wreck. The incident occurred on a curved section of highway near the city.
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Milk truck permit ends western Oklahoma dairy feud
A Texas trucker, M. B. Luttrell of Wheeler, wins a Corporation Commission permit to haul milk from Beckham and Roger Mills counties to Amarillo, ending a two year dispute led by the Tri-State Milk Producers Association over Luttrell’s application and Borden’s plant link. Luttrell plans immediate starts once the order is filed.
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Roger Mills
Amarillo
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Wheeler
Oklahoma
Luttrell
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Tri-State Milk Producers Association
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Morgan
Ship Passengers Believed Dead After Cyclone Wreckage Found
An aerial search team located the missing Badora in the Bay of Bengal and believed most of its 202 people aboard perished. The mail steamer with 172 passengers and 39 crew members was struck by a weekend cyclone and is thought to have capsized in heavy seas near Karachi, Pakistan.
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Pakistan
Badora
Bay of Bengal
Abbott named program examiner for Texas Higher Education
Dr. John Paul Abbott dean of Texas A&M was appointed program examiner by the Texas Commission of Higher Education. He will assume duties in Austin around July 1 after 30 years on A&M's teaching and administrative staff.
Bearded Employee Sues Over Rights In Atlanta Transit Dispute
Gerald F. Barnes, a former Atlanta transit operator, filed a $25,000 suit alleging his civil rights were violated when he was fired April 23 for growing a beard. He claims the discharge stemmed from exercising his right to chin whiskers, while the transit firm cites conduct disturbing to discipline and a direct disobedience order.
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Barnes
Suspect In Mass Murder Found Dead In Alberta
John E. Clark 41 a provincial legislator farmer was found dead in a muddy ditch with a bullet in his head near his 1000 acre farm after a night search. A single shot rifle was found at his side and police say he killed his wife and five others before taking his own life. An inquest was planned. Neighbors said he had a nervous breakdown and behaved strangely after returning from an election campaign. The bodies of four children and their siblings were found in the yellow farmhouse.
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Alta
John E. Clark
Albert
Clark
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Margaret
George Anderson
William Olai
Royal Canadian Air Force
Social Credit
G. G. Parrott
Clah
Parrott
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Ross
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Linda
Rhonda Bell Martin Sentenced to Death in Arsenic Murders
In Montgomery Alabama circuit court a jury sentenced 49 year old Rhonda Bell Martin to death by electric chair for the 1951 murder of Claude C Martina, confessing to poisoning seven relatives for life insurance. If appeals fail she would be the second woman executed in Alabama.
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ULP
Rhonda Bell Martin
Claude C. Martina
Ronald Martin
Alabama
Joyride on Tug Leads to Detention of Two Men
In San Pedro California two men a sailor named John DeShazo and civilian William F Burns were detained by naval authorities after allegedly taking a Navy tugboat for a joy ride. The tug were piloted from Terminal Island and wandered off to Huntington Beach before crew awoke and recaptured it.
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San Pedro
Calif
John DeShazo
Terminal Island Naval Station
William F. Burns
Long Beach
Terminal Island
Huntington Beach
Here
Florida Primary Count Completed
Adlai Stevenson won the May 29 Florida Democratic Victory by a tight 13 736 vote margin. Complete returns show Stevenson 230 285 to Kefauver 216 549 with Stevenson earning 22 delegates to the Democratic National Convention and Kefauver six.
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Fla
Adlai Stevenson
Florida
Estes Kefauver
Secretary of State
Stevenson
Kefauver
Texas Farm Bureau Chief Fears Wage Law Expansion
J Walter Hamond, president of the Texas Farm Bureau, charged that expanding the wage and hour law to agriculture would make American farmers peasants. He said the legislation already has a foothold in Washington and would ruin free American agriculture.
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Gas fumes fatal in Houston apartment death
Mrs. Marie Meser, 70, died after being found unconscious in a gas-filled Houston apartment. Neighbors alarmed by escaping gas notified police, she died shortly after arrival at a hospital.
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Marie Meser
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