Bayonet-Tipped Guards Shut Wilson Plant in Albert Lea
National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets dispersed hundreds at the Wilson Packing Co. plant to back Gov. Freeman after martial law was declared in Freeborn County. The plant closed to all but non union supervisors as workers attempted to report for duty amid two days of violence and mass picketing.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Wilson Packing Co
Orville Freeman
Wilson Gates
Wilson
Paul V. Meyer
Minnesota National Guard
Wilson & Co
Santa Nancy Fishbein reads lips at deaf school
Inside Today features 4yearold Nancy Fishbein a totally deaf pupil at a New Jersey school for the deaf who receives a message from Santa though she cannot hear. She reads lips and uses a hand near the larynx to interpret speech. End of an Era editorial notes Stevenson remarks. Prep football playoffs highlight Monrovia South Pasadena title chases.
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Santa Nancy Fishbein
New Jersey School For Deaf
Santa
Nancy
David Lawrence
Adlai Stevenson
Labor
Monrovia
South Pasadena
San Diego
Mater Dei
Santa Ana
Jury Seated in Finch Pappa Murder Trial
Seven women and five men were temporarily seated as jurors in the Los Angeles case of Carole Tregoff Pappa and Dr. R Bernard Finch over the murder of the surgeon's estranged wife. Judge Evans postponed a transfer request amid lengthy voir dire and defense objections.
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Los Angeles
Carole Tregoff Pappa
R. Bernard Finch
Cooper
Nellie Stewart
Rex Eagan
Pappa
Finch
Tregoff
Louis H. Moeller
San Gabriel
Walter R. Evans
U.S. Soviet Agree on Joint U.N Space Cooperation Body
The United States and the Soviet Union reached a plan to establish a 24 nation U.N body to study and coordinate peaceful outer space activities. Henry Cabot Lodge and Vasily Kuznetsov finalized the agreement after weeks of talks to be presented for quick action before the 1959 General Assembly ends.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Soviet Union
U.N
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
General Assembly
Bakersfield College Faces Del Mar in 14th Junior Rose Bowl
Bakersfield College carries a 9-0 record and Western defense title into the 14th annual Junior Rose Bowl against Del Mar College of Corpus Christi. The game starts at 1 30 pm with radio coverage from KNX at 1 15 pm.
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Bakersfield College
del Mar College
Corpus Christi
Texas
KNX
Chick Hearn
November Jobless Rolls Up 398 000
UPI reports that unemployment rose by 398000 in November to 3670000 as total employment fell 1191000 to 65640000. Farm jobs dropped 523000 to 5601000 amid auto plant layoffs and steel shortages following a 116 day strike.
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Washington
UPI
The
Labor Department
Wolfbein
NASA scraps Vega rocket to boost other projects
NASA cancels the Vega program freeing six Atlas boosters for the Centaur and Atlas Agena programs. Vega would have used a Convair Atlas first stage and a GE engine upper stage with a NASA JPL liquid fuel third stage. Centaur will be more powerful, with a hydrogen oxygen second stage, enabling 8000 pounds to a 300 mile orbit and lunar payloads.
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Federal Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
General Electric
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Mars
Venus
Centaur
Vega
Atlas
Moon
President Eisenhower Promotes Noble War Against Hunger in India
President Eisenhower urged a globally united effort against hunger during his New Delhi visit. He spoke at the World Agricultural Fair praising India as a peace influencer and pledged U S help to ease India’s food shortages while stressing people to people exchanges and world law as a peace base. He cited the Four Fs theme food family friendship freedom and highlighted cooperation with Prime Minister Nehru.
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New Delhi
Eisenhower
India
Fair Grounds
Rajendra Prasad
Nehru
United States
Nehru Says Ike Discussed Red China Incursions
New Delhi UPI prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said he and President Eisenhower discussed Chinese incursions into territory claimed by India but did not go into great detail. Nehru noted improved U S India relations and a possible shift in American stance while denying outstanding issues.
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New Delhi
UPI
Jawaharlal Nehru
Eisenhower
India
Eisenhower Attends New DelhI Reception and Dinner
Schedule for Saturday lists President Eisenhower in New Delhi with a 4 30 p m reception in Moghul Gardens hosted by President Prasad and an 8 30 p m dinner in honor of Prime Minister Nehru at the American ambassador's residence New Delhi time is ten and a half hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
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New Delhi
India
Eisenhower
Prasad
Moghul Gardens
Nehru
Oldest Civil War Veteran Clings to Life
Walter Williams known as Old Red, aged 117, the last Civil War veteran, remained in critical condition in Houston after a fourth pneumonia attack this year. Dr. Russell Wolfe reported his status shifted from serious to critical as he fights for life.
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Houston
Tex
UPI
Walter
Old Red) Williams
Russell Wolfe
Wolfe
North California savings and loan firms raise dividend rate
Four Northern California savings and loan associations including Home Mutual in San Francisco announce a one half percent boost in annual dividend to 4 2 percent effective January 1. Institutions Pioneer Investor Berkeley Savings Berkeley Savings and Home Federal also announce increases amid tight money markets and strong reserve positions.
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San Francisco
Sherman Miller
Home Mutual Savings and Loan Assn
Pioneer Investor
Pris
Agus
Savings and Loan Assn
Berkeley Savings and Loan Assn
Home Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Home Federal
California
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Both Finch and
Mrs. Pappa
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Bakersfield
Pasadena Junior Chamber
Hudson Ave
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Garfield
City Hall
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Renegades
Karachi
New Delhi University
Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Seymour L. Wolfbein
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