Council Hints Support For West Side School
City council hints support for a West Side high school proposed east of Eagle Street at 3 500 000 aiding the school board plan. Councilman Widder calls the project the citys greatest cancer and urges an advisory resolution. A July new board could alter plans. a pool project is discussed but not binding.
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Eagle Street
Theodore C. Widder Jr
Robert E.stauffer
Robert E. Stauffer
West Side
Widder
Stauffer
Ike Signs Bill To Raise Military Pay Nationwide
President Eisenhower signed a bill boosting military pay to attract career service. The first year cost is about half a billion dollars and affects air force army navy and marine personnel with over two years of service. Draftees and initial duty tour officers receive no raise. raises range from 599 dollars monthly for top generals to 6.20 for some privates and apprentice seamen. Reservists on active duty gain as well. Retired personnel receive a flat 6 percent cost of living increase.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Air Force
Army
Navy
Marines
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Cardinal Stritch Makes Partial Recovery After Stroke
Rome report says Samuel Cardinal Stritch, 70, remains in critical condition after a cerebral stroke on Monday. He has some movement in his right leg but cannot speak, with doctors giving anticoagulants to break up the brain clot and noting no further deterioration.
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Rome
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Chicago
Sacred Congregation For the Propagation of the Faith
Vatican
Filippo Rocchi
Ralph Bergen
Arnoldo Pozzi
Sanatrix Clinic
Rocchi
Pozzi
Iraqi and Jordanian armies merge in Baghdad
In Baghdad today the Iraqi and Jordanian armed forces formally merged, uniting their commands and signaling closer military cooperation. The move creates a combined defense framework with joint leadership and shared operations.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Nixon trip blamed for provoking trouble in Latin America
Sen Wayne Morse said State Department testimony shows Vice President Nixon's Latin American swing was a trouble-causing journey that should not have happened. Morse spoke as testimony reviewed claims that Communist exploitation of Latin American grievances against U S policies fueled mob violence against Mr and Mrs Nixon. Deputy under secretary Robert Murphy testified that Nixon was warned of possible disturbances in Venezuela.
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Washington
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
State Department
Nixon
Morse
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Robert Murphy
Venezuela
Not Popular Graveyard Lingers Empty in England
Walter Hammond, a gravedigger at Walpole St. Andrew cemetery in England, complains that the one acre plot has gone unused for 20 years because no one wants to be first. He notes the eerie quiet and lack of burials since the cemetery opened.
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London
Walter Hammond
Walpole St. Andrea
England
Hammond
Planes Collide Over Potomac Valley Kills 12
A Capital Airlines Viscount passenger plane with 11 aboard and a Maryland Air National Guard T33 trainer collided in clear skies above the Potomac River Valley. All 11 aboard the Capital flight were killed. a second man in the military craft died later. Captain Julius R. McCoy parachuted to safety with severe facial and hand burns. Eyewitnesses described bodies scattered, a large field crash, and a parachute drifting from the smaller plane. The incident follows Capital’s prior fatal crash six weeks earlier at Midland, Texas.
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Capital Airlines
Potomac River Valley
Maryland, Air National Guard
Julius R. McCoy
Baltimore
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick
Harry Nicholson
Brunswick Volunteer Fire Department
National Guard
Maryland Guard
Martin Co
Capital
Midland
Midh
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Clifford Grant
Brownsville
Landers
Jakarta halts islands invasion plan amid raids
The Jakarta government cancels a massive invasion of Celebes and Halmaheras and shifts to hit and run raids on East Indonesian rebel strongholds. The army cites vast area distances and prohibitive costs as reasons against a large air sea assault.
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Indonesia
Celebes
Halmaheras
Senators' adjournment eyed for August 10
Senate Republican Leader Knowland and House GOP Leader Martin say a tentative July adjournment date of August 10 has been agreed. Knowland said he informed President Eisenhower of the plan.
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Washington
Senate
William F
Knowland
House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Congress
Eisenhower
Move to Abandon School Site Faces Vote in Oshkosh
Oshkosh council hears that abandoning the present high school site would go to a public referendum. A committee for two high schools urges modernization of the current North Side facility and an addition to South Park School for a new South Side high school, while noting local manufacturing has declined.
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Oshkosh
Labbor
Theodore C. Widder Jr
Tipler
North Side
South Park
South Side
Man Drowns In Lake Oconomowoc
Harold Lutgen, 40, of Milwaukee, disappeared Monday after high waves swamped the small boat he shared with a companion on Lake Oconomowoc while fishing. Gerald Vegter, Milwaukee, swam to shore. Authorities launched a search for Lutgen's body.
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Oconomowoc
Harold Lutgen
Milwaukee
Oconomowoc Lake
Gerald Vegter
Lutgen
Lava and Ash Batter Faial Island in Azores
Faial in the Azores endured ten days of quakes and eruptions that nearly buried the island under lava and ash. Caldeira volcano began belching on May 14, threatening a possible Cabezo do Fogo eruption as a new island offshore spouted lava hundreds of feet high. After quakes ceased, 25,000 residents work to rebuild homes, plow fields, and feed starving cattle amid ongoing volcanic activity.
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Faial Island
Azores
Faial
Caldeira
Lisbon
Cabezo Do Fogo
Pflimlin to Make Plea for Extension
Paris faces a showdown over Gen Charles de Gaulle securing exceptional powers to resolve the Algerian crisis. Pflimlin seeks an extension of emergency powers in Algeria within days, while De Gaulle insists on terms and warns he would not be answerable to a split National Assembly.
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Algeria
France
de Gaulle
Paris
National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Pierre Pflimlin
Pflimlin
Algiers
President to Speak Tonight On Recession
President Eisenhower left Harrisburg by plane for New York to deliver a major speech on the economic situation. He voted in Gettysburg then flew to Harrisburg for a 30 minute address broadcast nationwide at 9 30 p m EDT to close a two day economic mobilization conference by the American Management Association with about 2000 business leaders present.
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Eisenhower
New York
Gettysburg
White House
Washington
James C. Hagerty
Howard M. Snyder
Army
Robert Schulz
Navy
Capt
E. P. Aurand
Secret Service
James Rowley
William A. Howell
Dulles Promises US Will Act Despite Soviet Threats
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told reporters the United States will do what it deems right anywhere in the world despite Soviet warnings. He said Washington has broader authority under the Eisenhower Doctrine and referenced the Mansfield amendment while declining to specify if that grants power to defend a Middle East nation without further Congress action.
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John Foster Dulles
Russia
United States
Dulles
Lebanon
Administration
Middle East
Congress
Matloves
New Radar Base Planned in State
The Defense Department disclosed plans to build 13 new Air Force radar bases, including one at Brooks in Adams County Wisconsin. Floyd S. Bryant, assistant defense secretary, listed the bases in testimony before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee on a military construction authorization bill. Bryant gave no details of the proposed facilities.
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Defense Department
Brooks
Adams County
Wis
Floyd S. Bryant
Defense
Senate
Armed Services
Bryant
Catch nets $685 in old bank notes at Grundy Lake
Billy Thomas fished Grundy Lake near Tracy City Tennessee and recovered $685 in bank notes dated as old as 1902. The notes were drawn from banks across the country from Denver Colorado to Tracy City and were reported to the FBI.
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Tracy City
Tenn
Billy Thomas
Grundy Lake
Denver
Colo
FBI
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