Reds Hold Out For A Test Ban
UN disarmament talks near final stage as Soviet bloc signals demand for immediate nuclear test ban. Western powers seek unity on a motion for new arms talks, with Canada Japan and Norway backing a registry plan. Russia and Czechslovakia criticize proposals as insufficient.
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Travel Voucher Cuts Probe From Governor Docking
Gov George Docking asks heads of state agencies to limit out of state travel and attendees, citing concerns over the large number of travel vouchers channeled through his office. The memorandum urges restraint to curb expenses and streamline travel authorizations.
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Truck Driver Blacked Out in Banana Heist Mystery
A truck with 23 000 pounds of bananas vanished then turned up in a farmyard near Carbondale. Driver R E Hodges of McComb Mississippi claims he blacked out after stopping for coffee near Topeka and waking to report the theft at the sheriff's office. Cuba's economy hinges on sugar with tobacco copper and manganese as other major exports.
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Ample Reason For Deafness
Louisville city school health chief Thomas Godfrey notes three boys visited doctors after ear hearing tests. A marble, a wad of paper, and a screw were found in their ears. He told the school board the boys’ hearing is back to normal.
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Bulgaria Cuts Back Five Year Plan and Quotas
World-Wide News Briefs report Bulgaria cutting back its five year plan due to money and material shortages. Agriculture failed to meet 1956 production quotas, Radio Sofia announced. In Colombo a coconut palm leaf pavilion wedding fire killed eighteen, bride among the injured. Belgrade praised Polish elections supporting Go mutka’s independent communism. East Germany to assign restive students to factories one day a week, affecting top grades.
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British Islands Farm Federation forms Caribbean grouping
Delegates from 11 islands gathered in Kingston Jamaica to set up a British Caribbean federation uniting Trinidad Jamaica Barbados and Windward Leeward Islands as a separate Commonwealth member. Britain retains defense foreign relations and some financial policy control. British Guiana and Honduras sent observers to the meeting.
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Flames Destroy Huge Elevator on Chicago's South Side
A massive fire destroyed Continental Grain Co. grain elevator at 94th Street and the Calumet River in Chicago. About 400 firefighters battled driving rain to bring the ten story structure down, with losses placed at several million dollars as thousands watched. The blaze left roughly three million bushels of grain in ruins and scorch marks indicating it would smolder for days. Fireboats and 100 pieces of apparatus aided the response, while a nearby new elevator survived to prevent further spread.
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Fire destroys elevator in blustery loop area
Robert J. Quinn, fire commissioner, estimated damage at five million dollars. Flames from the elevator, fanned by strong winds, were visible for miles and drew thousands of spectators despite the blustery weather.
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