Israel reports first successful meteorological rocket launch
Israel announced the first successful meteorological rocket launch from a Mediterranean site. Premier Ben-Gurion witnessed the event as officials said the Shavit I rocket reached 50 to 60 miles with no radio payload, aiming to study the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Israel becomes the seventh nation to launch such a rocket.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Mediterranean
David Ben-Gurion
United States
Soviet Union
France
Britain
Italy
Japan
Fireworks Loss High in Kansas City Area Fires
A barn and a farm home were destroyed by fires blamed on careless use of fireworks in the Greater Kansas City area. Johnson County grass fires along K-10, a Roe Avenue home north of K-150, and a Jackson County barn near the Missouri border were reported. Fire crews from Olathe naval air station and several local units fought the blazes. Ten fireworks-related injuries were treated at city hospitals.
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Kansas City
Johnson County
Kansas
Naval Air Station
Olathe
Roe Avenue
Jackson County
Missouri
Richards Gebaur Air Force Base
Holmeswood
Hickman Mills
Grandview
Louis Heckle
150Th Street
Holmes Road
Match Book May Be Clue In Murder Case
GREENFIELD Indiana AP A match book from a St. Francis Kansas service station figures in a murder case near Oakland Illinois. The dead man is Frederick G. Robbins 55 a Austin Nevada schoolteacher found in a ditch six miles north of Oakland Illinois on June 19. Sheriff Muller says Robbins spectacles case papers with his name and a suitcase with his clothes were recovered from a creek nearby. Robbins was hitchhiking to Maine to visit sisters and was believed to have hitched a ride with a military man. Investigators seek a 1957 model car.
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Muller
St. Francis
Robbins
Maine
Sisters
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Ma'am or Your Honor Who Leads Nortonville Court
Nortonville police judge Bertha Weishaar, reelected by a 4 to 1 margin, notes that most residents call her Ma’am. In a town of 600, she has handled about 40 cases, including a graduation night speeding fine, and also serves as justice of the peace. Her husband, a retired drugstore operator now in insurance, says he drives carefully.
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Nortonville, Kas
Nortonville
Bertha Weishaar
Weishaar
Bertha
Girl Held In Murder Case In Buffalo Abduction Probe
A 15 year old Buffalo girl Chyrel Lee Jolls is described as very sick by Police Commissioner Felicetta while psychiatric tests proceed in the kidnapping and murder case of 3 year old Andy Ashley. Investigators link multiple child enticement incidents to the same suspect. No charges yet. Jolls has not confessed.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Andy Ashley
Charel Lee Jolls
Frank N. Felicetta
Chyrel
Andy
Felicetta
Howard Jolls
Meyer Memorial Hospital
Rocket Rides Feature In Science World Topics
The Associated Press outlines Space Age findings from Alan Shepard and upcoming U S astronaut missions. It covers weight changes during rocket ascent and descent, minute dust particles found by a U2 over Arctic, methods to slow orbiting capsules, and speculative hurricane control ideas from New York University researchers and the U S Weather Bureau.
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New York University
National Hurricane Research Project
U.S. Weather Bureau
Burns Fatal To 5 Year Old
Five year old Cynthia Link of Chase Kansas died after her dress caught fire while playing with matches. She was in a car with her mother on a downtown Chase shopping trip when she apparently found a book of matches and tried to light them. She escaped the car door but succumbed to critical burns Monday night at St Elizabeth's Hospital in Hutchinson.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Cynthia Link
Chase
Cynthia
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
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Patrick M. Prosser
Leavenworth Times
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Globe
U.S
Alan B. Shepard
Dutlest
Earth
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Burns
Mrs. Melvin Link
Ottawa
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Arvid Berglund
D.D
Optometrist
Olin G. Wollen, O.D
A. G. Madison, D.D
S. Main
Medical Directory
J. F. Barr, M.D
Professo
Rodney McClay, O.D
Profesal
Chiropractors
Frank A. Trump, M.D
Don L. McKelvey
D.C
S. M. Brockway
J. C. South, D.C
R. C. Capron, D.C
Louis N. Speer
David G. Laury, M.D
General Medicine
Res
Bill Bitts
Sen
Bob Ferguson
Main-Bell Drug Store
N. Main
Briscoe
R. A. Gollier, M.D
Henning Bros
Sylva Lofgreen, M.D
Victor J. Lofgreen, M.D
Physicians and Surgeons
Roberts
Downer’s
North Main
Ottawa, Kansas
Anthony Clinical Laboratory
Gladys Anthony
Homer N. Flora, D.O
Zellner
Fredanne Beauty Shop
David L. Young, D.O
Vera Kunard
Vaunlla Reimer
Maye B. Snyder
Beautyland
Franklin County
Richardson’s
Physical Medicine
Flying Service
SKY Service
Mary Alice Hintz
Rose Marie Woods Baxter
Eloise Hughes
Wilema Babcock
Ella
Elmor Craven
First National Bank
Mildred Hull
Ella McArdie
General American Life Insurance Co
St. Louis
Jack
Bundy Insurance Agency
Cherey
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