Rockefeller Unveils Little FHA Housing Plan
Gov Rockefeller unveils a two billion dollar expansion plan for middle income housing in New York calling for a state FHA style agency and a housing finance authority. The plan faces mixed reactions from real estate boards and potential legislative opposition as it aims to extend loans, insure mortgages, and upgrade codes to spur private builders.
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Bolton Landing
N. Y
Rockefeller
State Association of Real Estate Boards
Otto L Nelson Jr
Nelson
Federal Housing Administration
Little Fha
Bid to Blow Up Train Fails and Probe Launched
DES MOINES authorities launched a mass effort to trace a would be dynamite attack on a Chicago bound Rock Island train. Nineteen sticks of explosive in a suitcase were found on tracks near the city causing a near miss as the fuse was lit but failed to detonate. Sheriff Wilbur Hildreth led a panel of federal state and local officers aided by railroad detectives to pursue motives amid theories of insurance fraud or a crank. The other item reports a motorist killed when his car struck a utility pole in Oneida County Clarks Mills area.
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Des Moines
Rock Island
Polk County
Wilbur Hildreth
Hildreth
Taps at Omaha Beach Normandy 15 Years On
The ceremony on Omaha Beach marked 15 years since D-Day with taps, wreaths, and prayers at the American Cemetery at St Laurent where 9,386 graves are laid out. Veterans from the 29th and 1st Divisions joined French residents and relatives in tribute to fallen soldiers, including Lawrence Bekelski and Foster Nickerson.
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Harvey Hudson
Omaha Beach
France
D-Day
Normandy
St. Laurent
Landing Beach
Lawrence Bekelski
Pennsylvania
Foster Nickerson
Virginia
Bekelski
Nickerson
Ted Acker
Alabama
Leslie Baker
Minnesota
116Th Infantry Regiment
116Th Infantry Participat
German Sailors Learn Facts Of Life U S Style
Five young German sailors at the Charleston naval base received suspended sentences after they stripped on a public beach to change into swimwear. Judge Herbert Lauden, via an interpreter, told them that stripping on American beaches is not acceptable as bystanders watched them remove clothing, swim, then re-dress and wash in the surf.
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Charleston
Rocke feller to Seek Expanded State Police Force
Governor Rockefeller urges the 1959 Legislature to add 250 state troopers at a cost of 1.25 million dollars after a Greene County grand jury recommended expanding the force. Troopers were attacked while alone. the Legislature allowed only 25 more officers amid economy cuts.
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Albany
Rockefeller
Alex Wiltse, Jr
Greene County
Wiltse
Buffalo Woman Killed in Hamburg Auto Crash
Miss Dra Valentine, 34, of Buffalo, died today when the car she rode in swerved and overturned in a ditch near Hamburg, Erie County.
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Buffalo
Hamburg
Dra Valentine
Erie County
Moon Bounces Message to Diefenbaker as Canada Plans Satellite
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker receives a message from President Eisenhower sent via a moon bounce at Prince Albert. Canada announces a 1961 earth satellite with U S cooperation and a high altitude rocket designed as a research instrument to be used with U S rockets.
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Prince Albert
John Diefenbaker
Eisenhower
L. S
Milstone Laboratory
Boston
Diefenbaker
Canada
U S
United States
Millstone Laboratory
Adenauer Draws Blasts on His Power Switch
West German leader Konrad Adenauer retires to Rhine Valley home to weather criticism of his decision to stay as chancellor. Foreign papers join the attacks as Die Welt and Tokyo Shimbun call him a dictator like Khrushchev and Chou En-lai. Beaverbrook's Daily Express says he opposes Britain's Russia policy. General Nathan Twining returns home after May 12 lung cancer operation at Walter Reed with excellent recovery notes.
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BOM
Germany
Konral Adenauer
Rhine Valles
Leade
Die Welt
Hambure
Adenauer
Tokyo Shimbun
Nikita Khrushchev
China
Chou En-lai
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
Daly Express
Adenaue
Russia
Brita
Moscow
Free Worlds Press
Cheesecake Art Deplored By Women's Clubs
In Los Angeles 3000 attendees of the General Federation of Women's Clubs annual meeting condemned exploitation of female appeal. Mrs Walter Magee of Lakewood Ohio told of calendars as cheesecake not pastry. A delegate warned the resolution could deter young women from joining clubs. The resolution calls clubs to influence public opinion and inform media that abuse of female objectification is wrong.
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Los Angeles
General Federation On
Walter Magee
Lakewood
Ohio
Womens Club
Mickey Rooney Big News Reveals Secret Mexican Marriage
Hollywood report says Mickey Rooney and Barbara Thomason expect a baby in October after a quick Mexico divorce and secret remarriage. Rooney, 38, spoke from Las Vegas confirming the marriage on December 1 and disclosed past wives and children. Ava Gardner noted as his former wife is listed among his marriages.
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Mickey Rooney
Barbara Thomason
Las Vegas
Nev
Mexico
Hollywood
Rooney
Elaine Mahnken
Santa Monica
Calif
California
Mickey Jr
Timothy
Betty Jane Rose
Teddy
Martha Vickers
Ava Gardner
Muggy Air Grips East as Storms Roll Through
The AP reports muggy conditions across the eastern half of the U S with patches of rain and slight cooling in some areas. A Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico wake from a rain wind storm Friday night and Canada air cools the Great Lakes. Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast saw about three inches of rain in an hour. Brownwood, Willis Creek floodwater forced evacuations. Wickett saw hail and wind damage. Pacific Northwest had showers with Pendleton and Walla Walla among the heaviest. Southwest faces clearer skies. California and Arizona hit hot readings near 100 plus.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Texas Panhandle
New Mexico
Upper
Great Lakes
Corpus Christ
Texas Gulf
Wickett
Tex
Pacific Northwest
Pendleton
Gre
Walla Walla
Wash
Southwest
Needless
California
Arizona
Mercury
St Lawrence University sets faculty salary boost for 1960 61
The St Lawrence University board of trustees announced a salary increase for faculty effective with the 1960 61 college year. President Eugene G Bewks said the raise brings annual pay to 312000, marking the 15th consecutive year of increases.
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Canton
St. Lawrence University
Eugene G Bewks
Desert holds mystery of ghost plane in Sahara
A World War II B 24 bomber with nine crewmen is discovered buried in Libyan desert, 380 miles south of Benghazi. The aircraft, last seen in 1943 on a Naples bombing raid, remains largely intact with working radio. no crew remains found. Pentagon confirms serial numbers and lists all nine names and kin. Relatives were notified in 1946 and 1947 that their loved ones were missing in action and then killed. The plane rested undisturbed for 16 years until geologists located it.
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Washington
Sahara Desert
Annals of the Seas
Libya
Bengazi
Naples
Italy
St.j
Pentagon
Buford L. Moore
Portsmouth
War Department
Mediterranean
Khrushchev Says Soviet Missiles May Base in Albania
Soviet Premier Khrushchev announced that rocket bases would be set up in Albania and Bulgaria unless a Balkan zone free of rockets is created. He warned against attacks on Albania, saying the Warsaw Pact would respond with all means available.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Albania
Bulgaria
Balkans
Moscow
Albany
Hungary
Italy
Greece
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Warsaw Pact
Lenin Stadium
Missing $113,200 Vanishes From Armored Car Route
FBI and police probe $113,200 missing from a Bank of America armored truck on Thursday. Deliverymen Louis Weiss and Bob Kitchen were checked by lie detector tests after the cash disappeared at the Slauson avenue branch. Investigators review 17 stops for unguarded minutes, with no robbery evidence. insured by FDIC.
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Bank of America
Louis Weiss
Bob Kitchen
Slauson Avenue
FBT
Trusteeship Over Grain Union Continues In Buffalo
A state Supreme Court justice ruled Friday that the American Federation of Grain Meters AFL-CIO will keep its trusteeship of Local 36. Justice Regis O Brien denied the local’s bid to restrain the international from continuing the trusteeship imposed last month, amid a fight led by Walter C. Wojcik for an independent unit.
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Buffalo
American Federation of Grain Millers
Afl-Cio
Supreme Court
Regis O Brien
The
International
Walter C. Wojcik
Memory of Little Girl Softens Grief of Parents
A Philadelphia mother finds solace in memories after Becky Holt, 7? or 8? is choked to death by teen Edward J. Cooney Jr. who later admits the crime. Cooney faces a psychiatric evaluation at Youth Study Center while his father pledges support, and the judge laments disbelief at the act. The girl's father, Anatol Holt, a Penn math professor, vows to persevere.
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Philadelphia
Edward J. Cooney Jr
Becky Holt
Tatiana Holt
Becky
Anatol
University of Pennsy
Vania
Deranged Inmate Kills Two In Louisiana Ward
A patient in the violent ward of a state mental institution in Pineville La under restraint with leather cuffs around his wrists hooked to his belt apparently kicked and beat two others to death in the same ward. Victims were aged 61 and 53. the assailant was 40. Names were withheld pending kin notification.
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Pineville
Berlin talks stall as Gro myko resists Western demand
Geneva sources say Andrei Gromyko and Western ministers Loyd Herter and Couve de Murville debated Berlin for two hours with no progress. Western officials plan further sessions while awaiting higher Kremlin directives. U.S. hopes for an eventual nuclear test ban accord remain cautiously optimistic as separate talks continue.
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John M. Hightower
Geneva
Andrei Gro‘myko
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
Selwyn, Lloyd
Gromyko
West Berlin
Lloyd
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Andrei Gromyko
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Khrushchev
Christian A Herter
Killer's Dad Fights June Death Date in Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska UP, An attempt to save 20 year old Charles Starkweather from execution by electric chair is mounted by his father Guy Starkweather. He won a stay on June 4 via a federal appeal. arguments for a habeas corpus writ to the 8th Circuit failed and Nebraska Supreme Court fixed June 12 as the new death date for Starkweather amid a spree that left 11 dead.
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Lincoln
Neb
Upt
Charles
Guy Starkweather
8Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Nebraska State Supreme Court
Starkweather
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