Midget Races and Thrill Shows Set for 3-Day Air Meet
Huge crowds will see top midget racing airplanes and a 2.5 hour aerial thrill show at the Winnebago County Airport Friday through Sunday. Noted pilot J. Steve Wittman will attempt a new record in his midget plane Bonzo, with Mike Murphy and Bill Sweet among officials and announcers guiding the event. The meet features 3,300 dollars in prizes, strict FAA-like rules, and qualifying trials starting Friday morning.
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Winnebago County
Winnebago County Highway Department
Charles Andresen
Elder Hedtke
Ss. J
Steve” Wittman
Mike Murphy
Findlay
Bill Sweet
Columbus
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
la Byst Place
Wittman
Professional
Professional Race Pilots Association
The
Experimental Aircraft Association
Navy Plans Flag Plant At South Pole And New Research Stations
The U S Navy announced plans for October landings to plant the U S flag at the South Pole and build a network of scientific stations as part of the 1957 58 Antarctic expedition. More than 3 000 sailors and 12 ships will depart from September to December to establish support bases air facilities and research stations for the International Geophysical Year.
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Washington
Navy
U.S
South Pole
Antarctic
Air Force
Alcoa And Union Sign 3 Year Pact
Alcoa and the Aluminum Workers Union signed a three year no strike pact ensuring 15 000 Alcoa workers stay on the job. The agreement comes as 28 000 United Steelworkers continued a two day strike that halted half the nation’s aluminum production and closed 21 plants. Reynolds Metals and Alcoa aim to resume USW talks in New York amid a tense bargaining environment.
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Pittsburgh
Alumnum Company of America
Aluminum Workers Union
Alcoa
United Steelworkers
Reynolds Metals Co
USW
New York
Moheon
AWU
Reynolds
Puller
Vienna
Taan Hane
Les Bucci
AFL
Pacl
Eisenhower signs social security bill liberalizing benefits
President Eisenhower signed a social security bill expanding benefits for about six million people including women and disabled workers. The measure lowers the retirement age for women to 62 and allows disabled workers to start benefits at 50, with payroll taxes rising to fund the increases. The package also broadens coverage to additional farm owners and self-employed professionals.
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Washington
LLP
Eisenhower
Congress
Puller Defends McKeon Action at Parris Island
Lt Gen. Lewis B. Puller defends Staff Sgt. Mathew C. McKeon saying only tough training will keep Americans alive in the next war. He criticizes Korean War performance as due to insufficient night training, proposing 5 percent of training time be devoted to night exercises.
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Puller
Korea
Amercan
McKeon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
New Britain
Peliliu
Fomer
Parris Island
Lewis B
Chasty) Puller
Mathew c. McKeon
Leatherneck
Man in Portugal Dreams Rescue Gone Wrong
In Gouveia Portugal Mario Coelho 46 leapt from bed to save his herd from wolves but found no sheep when he woke. He had 79 wolves surrounding the property and suffered a fractured jaw plus cuts and bruises from the misread dream.
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Gouveia
Portugal
Mario Coelho
State to End Distributing Salk Vaccine
Wisconsin will stop distributing the Salk polio vaccine as private industry takes over. Milwaukee will sell vaccine through drug firms, ending free doses. about 1.3 million residents under 19 in the state eligible may be affected. In Milwaukee, 19 410 youths under 19 vaccinated this year, about half of those eligible.
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Madison
Carl Neupert
Milwaukee
Sud
E.R. Krumbiegel
U. S
Neuport
Washington
Neupert
Wisconsin
Public Health Service
Egypt
le Monde
Suez
France
Two Brothers Drown in Abandoned Pit Near Burlington
Two Nelson brothers Daniel nine and Kenneth eleven drowned in a water filled gravel pit near Burlington Wisconsin. Daniel went under in six feet of water and Kenneth died trying to rescue him as neighbor youths alerted the Nelson home and the local rescue squad recovered the bodies.
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Burlington
Wis
Daniel Nelson
Kenneth
Ted Nelson
Daniel
Nelson
Cholera Claims 2000 Lives in Bihar During July
Unofficial reports from multiple districts indicate about two thousand deaths from cholera in Bihar during July. The tally, compiled in Patna from diverse sources, underscores the severity of the outbreak in the East Indian state.
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Patna
India
Bihar
Palza
King gets off Charleston jury duty show cause hearing
In Charleston US District Court a juror who failed to appear for jury duty also skipped a show cause hearing. Judge George Bell Timmerman Sr. ordered the clerk to review the juror questionnaire which cited self descriptions as king of the world and provost marshal of the USA. The hearing was dismissed.
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Charleston
S.C
George Bell Timmerman Sr
USA
Timmerman
Kohler Launches Statewide Save Life Campaign
Governor Walter Kohler initiates a statewide Save a Safe driving campaign in Milwaukee with a pledge sticker and safety billboards to be posted after Labor Day. James C. Bolton of the Wisconsin Council of Safety announces the program with co sponsors the Motor Vehicle Department and the Wisconsin Industries Information Committee.
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Milwaukee
Walter Kohler
Wisconsin
James C. Bolton
Wisconsin Council of Safety
State Fair Park
Bolton
Motor Vehicle Department
Wisconsin of Industries Information Committee
Britain and France warn evacuations amid Suez crisis flare
Britain urges 5700 Britons in Egypt to leave unless compelling reasons exist while 1500 Americans are told to keep in touch with the U S embassy. Big Three seek a date and place for an international Suez conference as fleets stay on alert and diplomacy intensifies.
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London
Britain
Egypt
State Department
U.S
France
Mediterranean
Jean Bart
Herter
Wise
Oder
United Press
Middle East
Suez Canal
Eden
Anthony den
House of Commons
Nasser Aide Shifts Toward Dulles Endorsement on Suez
The Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser shows signs of moving toward Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stance that force should be a last option. The article notes a turn to Suez policy and references a page 11 continuation.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Secre
Suez
Last Union Army veteran Woolson dies at 109 in Duluth
Albert Woolson the final Union veteran of the Civil War died in St Luke's Hospital Duluth at 109 after lung congestion. He survived by decades of public attention and letters from officials, once celebrated for his drum corps service with the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery.
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Duluth
Minn
Albert Woolson
Grand Army of the Republic
Woolson
St. Luke's Hospital
Charles Bagley
St. Luke's
Minnesota
Lincoln
South
White House
City Hall
Grant
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FHA
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Supremes
Julio Lozano
St. Francis Barracks
Juan P. Silva
Salvador
Eisenhow
Veterans Administration
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iAnd
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King Gets
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