Volunteer Hoffmans Slurps Scotch for Science
A Coast Guard helicopter from Salem aided the search for two missing Manchester men presumed drowned after a boat capsized in Great Bay. Volunteers from multiple towns and 30 Naval Retraining Command personnel joined shoreline and water patrols, as authorities widen the search while noting strong currents may delay recovery.
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Coast Guard
Salem
Manchester
Great Bay
Great and
Little Bays
Kenneth W. Main
Richard Wilson
Richard Weeks
John Brackett
Greenland
Wilkes Point
Newington
Newmarket
Wilson
Durham
Naval
New Castle
Eden Eisenhower Set To Tackle Middle East Tensions
President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Eden plan to press for improved Middle East cooperation when they meet on January 30. They will review Western-Russian relations and focus on Israel Arab conflict, with Eden offering mediation and referencing the 1947 UN partition as a talks starting point. Israel disputes borders, arguing Western powers previously sanctioned current frontiers.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Arg
Middle East
Eden
Teook Oar
State Dulles
Israel
U. N
Michigan man questioned in Chicago slayings case
Pontiac authorities questioned 23 year old Owen Robert Moser of Fenton on a traffic charge in the case of three Chicago boys vanished and slain. Police said no link and that previous Chicago reports of a signed confession were mistaken. Moser is jailed on an unlawful firearm charge after police found the gun in his car.
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Pontiac
Mich
Michigan
Ottoher
Chicago
James Parker
Helly
Owen Robert Moser
Fenton
Moser
Oakland County
Parker
Weeke
Britain Concedes Reds Control of Berlin Canals
Britain has conceded the East German government the right to control inland waterways feeding Berlin as American and French posts withheld comment. The British Foreign Office said it would hold the Soviets responsible if issues arise, while Bonn warned one third of West Berlin supplies could be at Communist whim. Emergency talks in Bonn were planned among Adenauer ministers to respond to the East German demand for joint traffic negotiations, amid four power dispute accusations from Neues Deutschland that Western powers broke Berlin accords.
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Berlin
Great Britain
Foreign Office
West Berlin
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Neues Deutschland
West Germany
Time Bomb Scare Closes Boston High School
Approximately 1,500 students at English High School were sent home after an anonymous tip claimed a time bomb would explode at noon. Police, fire crews, and investigators searched the building while students evacuated under fire drill procedures. Nearby schools were unaffected. a similar hoax occurred last week in Saugus.
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Boston
English High School
M. Henry McIinerney
State
Avenue Louis Pasteur
Roxbury- Back Bay Area
Public Latin School
Harvard Medical School
Emmanuel College
Saugus
Icebreaker Glacier Reaches New Zealand Port After Long Voyage
The Icebreaker Glacier, lead ship of the U S Antarctica expedition, lands in Christchurch marking the first port visit in over three weeks. The crew, including 372 men, faces a last landfall before the final leg to the southern seas amid heavy seas, towing challenges, and a near-deadly fire on the tanker.
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New Zealand
Christchurch
U.S. Antarctica
Pan-ama
Winda
Baltimore
Panama
Tri-State Truckers Seek Rate Increases for Rentals
A new group, the Tri-State Truckers and Construction Assh., seeks state action to set minimum dump truck rental rates. Irving Morse says out-of-state firms underbid locally, pressing for a Massachusetts style law to enforce rates and penalties. The plan calls for a $4 minimum rate for four cubic yards and a yardage based per-yard premium, with snowplow and removal services in scope. The group, numbering in the hundreds, aims to persuade the next Legislature and cites stagnant 1936 rates.
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Tri-State Truckers and Construction Assh
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
State Department of Public Works and Highways
Morse
Tristate
New Hampshire Traffic Up Statewide in October
The State Highway Department reported overall traffic rose compared with October 1954. Nashua Main Street fell 15 percent due to a Nashua bypass linked to the Central New Hampshire Turnpike, while Concord and Manchester main streets rose 11 and 4 percent. Other routes showed mixed changes such as U.S. Route 3 at Merrimack down 30 percent and Route 12 at Keene up 6 percent. The Seabrook to Portsmouth Turnpike gained 6 percent, Franconia up 18 percent, and Route 106 at Belmont up 15 percent.
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Concord
State Highway Dept
New Hampshire
Main St
Nashua
Manchester
U.S
Violette Testifies in Club Land Condemnation Case
In Concord a Portsmouth Country Club land condemnation suit moves slowly as City Manager Robert C. Violette testifies for about ninety minutes. He describes a lease for undeveloped potentials, city water rights waivers, and possible water provision from the city to the club at Greenland, with conditions on lines, shortages, and rate adjustments.
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Violette
Club Land
Concord
Portsmouth Country Club
U.S. District Court
Robert C. Violette
U.S
Aloysius J. Connor
Stanley M. Burns
Dover
Burns
William Maynard
Country Club
Portsmouth
James B. Smith
Wentworth Hotel
Maynard
Woo Ge
Stoddard
Greenland
Surprise Coast-to-Coast Drill Tests U S Defenses
A surprise coast to coast air defense drill named Operation Crackerjack ran from night through dawn with U S Air Force units Air National Guard Navy Marines and Canadian forces plus 400000 ground observers. The exercise ended at 7 06 am with no published results or targets.
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Washington
U.S
Air Force
Air National Guard
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
Strategic Air Command
U.S. Air Force
Air Reserve
Navy
Ground Observer Corps
Pentagon
National Guard
Solon Pushes Adams Testimony in Dixon-Yates Probe
Senator Langer urged public investigation into possible campaign fund links with the Dixon-Yates contract. He filed resolutions seeking subpoenas for Summerfield Adams Mitchell and others as hearings resume on alleged criminal conduct in the 1.2 billion deal involving AEC and a Dixon-Yates group that TVA and Memphis rejected.
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Solon
Adams
Dixon-Yates
Washington
Langer
HND
Eisenhower
Senate
Summerfield
Sherman Adams
White House
Stephen A. Mitchell
Kefauver
D-Tenn
AEC
Dixon-Yates Group
Memphis, Tenn
TVA
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AL Shanistan
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Warwarsing
N.Y
Little America
Tri-State
N.H
North Conway
Everett W. Lane
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Moomoo
Edgar H. Dixon
Eugene A. Yates
Atomic Energy Commission
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