Health officials expand fallout network
The Public Health Service speeds fallout detection to assess health risks from Soviet atmospheric tests. Despite higher readings in some areas, experts say risk hinges on ingested or inhaled radioactive material. New steps include adding detectors in Bismarck North Carolina and Nashville Tennessee, daily milk sampling at six stations, and iodine-131 air sampling at ten stations in Seattle Berkeley Phoenix Salt Lake City Boise Helena Oklahoma City Madison Anchorage and Rockville.
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Public Health Service
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Bismarck
N.C
Nashville
Tenn
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Radiological Health Division
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Charlotte
Tampa
Fla
New Orleans
St. Louis
Sta
Ernest Anderson
Seattle
Wash
Berkeley
Calif
Phoenix
Ariz
Salt Lake City
Utah
Saxon Named Comptroller
President Kennedy named Chicago lawyer James J. Saxon to replace Ray M. Gidney as comptroller of the currency. The appointment takes effect November 15. Gidney, a Republican, had clashed with Atty Gen. Robert F. Kennedy over antitrust policy on bank mergers. The White House announced Saxon’s nomination as a Democrat.
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White House
Kennedy
Chicago
James J. Saxon
Ray M. Gidney
Gidney
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Saxon
Soviet report cites space platform and ultimate weapon
Kilsoo Haan, a former Korean resistance worker turned U.S. citizen, claims Khrushchev told Mao of a rocket able to orbit a 12 ton satellite and a space platform dubbed the ultimate atomic warfare weapon. Haan says the information came to President Kennedy on September 9 from inside Communist territory.
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San Jose
Calif
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Kilsoo Haan
Haan
Kennedy
Mao Tze-Tung
Duluth, Minn
Japanese scientist tests strontium elimination in self
Tokyo AP reports Dr. Toshio Aoki, 52, swallowed a tenth dangerous dose of strontium 85 with coffee on Aug 16 to study its effects. He says about 0.1 percent remains, likely until late next year, with readings locating the strontium in bones of the shoulder, hip, and spine.
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Tokyo
Toshio Aoki
Atomic Energy Research Institute
Uncle Sam Takes Town Doctor in National Guard Duty
Hinsdale Massachusetts, population 1451, will lose its only physician when Maj. Robert V. Locke 37, commander of the 664th Medical Detachment Massachusetts National Guard, reports for active duty on October 15.
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Hinsdale
Mass
Massachusetts
Massachusetts National Guard
Robert V. Locke
Berlin Wall a stark symbol of division and longing
The city bears a wall of concrete and barbed wire that divides neighborhoods and hearts. Berliners crowd nightly with mixed sorrow and defiance, waving to friends beyond the barrier, hoping for escapes that are increasingly perilous.
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Berlin
Moscow
Waldemarstrasse
Wall
Net Juveniles In Vice Roundup In Joplin
AP report from Joplin Missouri says a vice roundup netted two young adults and 30 juveniles on Wednesday. David Belk age 18 and John Stephens age 19 were charged with rape. Belk also faced a liquor to minors charge. Minors were questioned and returned to parents. Warrants were issued for seven men and a woman for furnishing liquor to minors. Most liquor purchased in Galena Kansas, state liquor agents said.
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Joplin
David Michael Belk
John Lee Stephens
Belk
Galena
Kan
Missouri
Athlete's foot germ how to kill it in 3 days
The ad promises fast relief from athlete's foot with strong instant drying T, offering a 48 cent back guarantee at Kaiser Drug Company and Raney Drug Store. It claims infected skin will slough off, healthy skin will replace it, and itching and burning will disappear.
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Kaiser Drug Company
Raney Drug Store
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