Side Swipes Bert Ross Boat Featured in Popular Mechanics
A Bert Ross round boat gains national attention in Popular Mechanics with a photo and a comparison to the Civil War era USS Monitor. In Paterson New Jersey a man, 20, who just had an appendectomy walked away from St Joseph's Hospital still in a bathrobe while facing a 20day jail term for a disorderly conduct conviction.
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Popular Mechanics
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Charles Umpstead
Anderson Takes Over Treasury
President Eisenhower swore in Robert B. Anderson as secretary of the Treasury in the White House cabinet room with Judge Warren Burger administering the oath. Eisenhower praised Anderson while Humphrey joked about becoming an ex bureaucrat.
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Robert B. Anderson
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Warren Burger
US. Court of Appeals
Anderson Named Navy Chief and Treasury Successor
Mexico City reports Anderson, former deputy secretary of defense and longtime Texan, slated as Navy secretary in 1953 and Hu mphrey’s choice to lead the Treasury. Born in Burleson, Texas, he rose from a polio scar to run a $300 million Waggoner estate empire and later Ventures Ltd in Toronto. He left government in 1955 for private work and now seeks the No. 1 Treasury post as Humphrey’s preferred successor.
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Texas
Mexico City
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Eisenhower
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Play Program Nearing End
Ottawa Recreation Commission activities wind down this week with last baseball and tennis sessions and crafts, wood working, foods, bands, dance and swimming. The public can still use city park wading pool evenings and afternoons for a time. The storytelling group meets Tuesday. Recreation Carnival set for Aug 1 at 7:30 pm at Forest Park swimming pool. Picnics planned at Hawthorne Lincoln and Field Garfield play grounds Thursday and Friday.
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Anti-Peronists Win Election In Argentina
In Buenos Aires, moderate reform parties scored a dramatic victory for caretaker President Pedro Aramburu as over two million votes counted produced a two to one popular vote lead and a projected working majority in a 203 member constituent assembly. Peronists urged blank ballots. early estimates gave reformists about 73 seats to 35 for anti-reformists with a potential control threshold of 102 seats.
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Venezuela
Troops Of Sultan Move On Rebels In Oman
An Omani communique reported forces loyal to Sultan Said bin Taimur and royal tribesmen closing in on rebels led by Imam Ghaleb bin Ali in central Oman. The rebels originally started a revolt 11 days earlier to seek an independent sultanate, with Saudi Arabia accused of supplying modern weapons.
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Muscat
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Saudi Arabia
Traffic Toll Topeka Kansas 1957 report summary
State Accident Records Section reports traffic fatalities over the last 44 hours and year totals. To date in 1957 there are 284 deaths, with 157 in the same period of 1956. One death is noted as not previously reported.
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International Geophysical Year
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Lamont Geological Observatory
Columbia
Topeka
Kansas
Condition of George Critical in Atlanta
Former Senator Waller F. George, 79, special ambassador to NATO, is gravely ill at his Vienna home after another chest pain episode. A bulletin by Dr J Midday r St Willis Hurst reports increasing shortness of breath and a deteriorating condition since arrival in Atlanta.
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Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Emory Univer
Lily Hospital
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Vienna Hospital
Wopom
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Willis Hurst
George
Tam
Weather County Forecast Partly cloudy and cooler outlook
Partly cloudy and cooler this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday generally fair and warm with highs around 95. Lows tonight near 68.
Allies pledge not to impair German unity
In Berlin a declaration by the United States Britain and France states they will not sign any disarmament agreement prejudice to reunification of Germany. It calls for free elections in both German states before reunification and rejects imposed neutrality or demilitarization. The pledge notes a reunified Germany may choose its own military policy and, if joining the West, would offer the Soviet Union a European security pact.
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France
Henrich von Brentano
Germany
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West Germany
Soviet Union
Lrop
Jury Clause Defeat Seen By Knowland
Washington reports Senator Knowland asserts rising support for defeating a jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill amid Democratic and Republican opposition. He predicts a vote soon and says a Southern filibuster would be met. Senator Jackson backs a jury trial amendment, while no new White House position is expected.
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Idsho
General Motors Agrees to Open Books for GAO Review
Washington AP General Motors Corp will allow the General Accounting Office to inspect all its books and records tied to defense contracts. Rep Hebert says this obviates a planned hearing with GM president Harlow H Curtice unless the subcommittee requests his testimony. Government auditors said GM had priorly ignored GAO requests for defense contract records. Hebert notes public funds and transparency in defense spending.
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General Accounting Office
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GAO
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Senate fights delay work and Labor Day adjournment
Civil rights dispute keeps the Senate behind schedule as Congress may stay in session past Labor Day. Estimates place adjournment from August 17 to late September, with five appropriations bills including a defense package totaling 33.8 billion dollars awaiting action. House advances while Senate remains stalled with 175 bills on the calendar.
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Hottest Week Sees Record Readings Across Kansas
Ottawa topped the heat with 104 degrees yesterday as July marked four 100 plus days. Fort Scott hit 105, Salina 104, and Topeka 103 while a weak cool front eased temps today. Clouds cooled skies slightly and a warming trend is forecast for tomorrow.
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Arraign Trio In Jail Murder In Kangaroo Court
Three jailed youths were arraigned on murder charges in the fatal strangling of an older cellmate, Ho ert Young, a 38 year old transient from Belleville. The trio Dan Lee Howard Jose Delbert Weitenheimer and Vernon Clark Williams were named as judge prosecutor and executioner in the jailhouse murder at Belwoon City.
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San Francisco
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Rumors From Communists Spark Guatemala Tension
Guatemala defense minister warns communists spread rumors to unsettle after President Car as Castillo Armas assassination. In Allentown Pa workers at Universal Atlas Cement vote 13.6 cents an hour wage package amid near-end to a nationwide cement strike. National security and plant reopenings cited as authorities promise to repress subversive activity and maintain order.
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Caras Castillo Armas
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Francisco Oliva
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Mment
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National Atlas Cement Co
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West 15th Street road costs discussed by county
Two West 15th Street property owners met with county commissioners to review who pays for blacktop resurfacing. They debated front footage versus assessed valuation as the basis. Officials noted the difference is minor and the front footage method stands. Notices have been sent to affected owners with an Aug 12 payment deadline to avoid a 6 percent yearly penalty.
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County Commission
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Bruce Spears
Rain Threatens Patterson Jackson Championship Fight
New York reports a forecast of showers threatening the heavyweight title bout between Floyd Patterson and Tommy Jackson at the Polo Grounds. The bout is set for 9:00 PM EST with a late afternoon to evening rain risk. a postponement would push the fight to tomorrow or, if needed, Monday or Tuesday next week.
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Everning
Floyd Patterson
Tommy
Hurricane) Jackson
Weather Bureau
Patterson
Polo Grounds
Traffic Toll Shows Decline This Half Year
CHICAGO The nation's traffic deaths in the first six months were 17,620, down 2 percent from the first half of 1956, the National Safety Council said. Ned H. Dearborn cited higher mileage yet lower fatalities, attributing the drop to improved traffic behavior and stricter enforcement. The council foresees about 1,009 lives saved with continued all-out efforts.
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National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Dearborn
Schoeppel Returns to Capitol After Surgery
U S Senator Schoeppel of Kansas, who had a hernia operation at Bethesda Naval Hospital on July 16, returned to the Capitol today aboard a softice. He entered the Senate chamber and resumed duties and appearances as he recuperates from the procedure.
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Bethesda Naval Hospital
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