Nucla chosen for 10 million Colorado-Ute power plant
Colorado-Ute directors selected Nucla as the site for a 10 million dollar steam generation plant to supply power to southwest Colorado communities. The 5-2 vote favored Nucla over Cortez, which failed to secure coal mining contractors for the project. Edna Coal Co. of Denver will mine and deliver coal to the Nucla site, subject to minor contract changes. The board will inform the Rural Electrification Administration of the decision.
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Delta
Colo
Colorado-Ute Assn
Nucla
Colorado
Cortez
Frank Meaker
Montrose
Meaker
Edna Coal Co
Denver
Rural Electrification Administration
Air Force jet crash near Tokyo kills boy, injures others
A U S Air Force B86 jet crashed in a field outside Tokyo skidding 2,500 feet into a Japanese home. A year-old boy was killed, his father injured, and the pilot hurt. Identity of the pilot was not released. Nearby, nine Red China fishermen sought asylum on the Matsu Islands after escape from the mainland. In London a WW II shelter fire sent 19 to hospital. in Amman a Jordan-Lebanon accord urged army cooperation against Israel.
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Tokyo
Dist
Air Force
Taipei
Formosa
London
Harriman In Hospital After Prostate Operation
New York Governor Averell Harriman was in very sad condition at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after a prostate gland operation performed yesterday by Dr George F Cahill. Harriman who calls himself an inactive candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination is expected to remain in hospital nine or ten days having entered the hospital Sunday.
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New York
Averell Harriman
Columbia Prasbyterian Medical Center
George F. Cahill
Harriman
Forty Percent Of Children Withdraw From Schoolmates
San Francisco reports show more than four in ten school children avoid group activities. Panelists including Herman G. Stark of the California Youth Authority say this withdrawal yields many potential juvenile offenders. Robert Lee Sutherland moderates as Evelyn Millis Duvall notes 25 to 45 percent rarely engage beyond work or home.
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San Francisco
Herman G. Stark
California Youth Authority
Congress of Parents and Teachers Assn
Stark
California
PTA
Robert Lee Sutherland
University of Texas Foundation For Mental Hygiene At
Austin
Evelyn Millis Duvall
Chicago
Sutherland
McGrath Named Head of New Columbia Institute
Dr. Earl J. McGrath, president of the University of Kansas City since 1953, will head a new Columbia University institute in New York. The institute receives a five year $375,000 Carnegie grant to study higher education, with McGrath remaining at KCU until July 13 to aid successor selection.
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Kansas City
Earl J. McGrath
University of Kansas City
Columbia University
New York
Carnegie Corp
McGrath
KCU
Indian girl from Tishomingo tops local driving test score
Beulah Benton, 20, of Oklahoma ties high mark after scoring 97 on her driver examination in Arkansas City. State patrolmen report it as the highest score ever recorded there. Benton is a senior at Chiloc Co Indian School near the Oklahoma line.
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Arkansas City
Tishomingo
Okla
Beulah Benton
Chilocco
Three From Area Are Elected
Three Kansas State College students from the Ottawa area have been elected by student organizations. Darlene Larkin of Ottawa becomes treasurer of the Associated Women Students, Marjorie Koeckers of Richmond is named secretary of the Home Economics Extension club, and Signa Alpha Epsilon pledges elected Fred Kaiser of Ottawa as recorder for the fall semester.
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Manhattan
Kansas State College
Ottawa
Darlene Larkin
Associated Women Students Organization
Marjorie Koeckers
Richmond
Signa Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Fred Kaiser
Fallout Cloud Reaches Open Ocean Near Bikini Atoll
Rear Admiral B Hall Hanlon, head of the nuclear weapon test force, said the fallout cloud from the H bomb detonation over Namu Island has moved into the open ocean north of the Marshall Islands with relatively little contamination in Bikini Atoll. Routine operations resumed at the atoll within hours.
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Mt, Mckinley
Bikini
Marshall Islands
B. Hall Hanlon
Saide
Bikini Atoll
Namu Island
Atoll
State Lake Planned Near Atchison with 66 Acres
Dr. Eugene Berney of Atchison announced a 66 acre state lake will be built about five percent miles northwest of Atchison. Berney, a State Fish and Game Commissioner, said a 250 acre park site has been surveyed and will be purchased. Bids for construction are to be opened June 20. Also noted, U. S. Savings Bonds are safe.
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Atchison
Eugene Berney
Berney
Fish and Game Commission
Slow Drivers Targeted By California Highway Patrol
Sacramento reports the California Highway Patrol will target slow drivers and those who block passing lanes after Commissioner B R Caldwell warned that accidents are caused by slow driving and illegal lane use. The piece also notes the Better Vision Institute estimates 638000 Americans sustain disabling injuries annually from do it yourself work.
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Sacramento
Calif
California Highway Patrol
B. R. Caldwell
The
Better Vision Institute
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