Anti-H Test Suit Filed in U S Court
A 14 member group of American British Canadian and Japanese citizens filed three suits alleging radioactive fallout from nuclear tests causes immediate and future genetic damage bone cancer leukemia and other harms. Attorneys A L Wirin and Francis Heisler represent them who hope to push prosecution in Russia as the US plans months of tests in the Pacific and Senator Humphrey cites atmospheric radioactivity from Soviet tests.
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A. L. Wirin
Los Angeles
Francis Heisler
Carmel
Calif
Russia
United States
Mid- Pacific
Siberian
Arctic
Humphrey Dminn
VA Drops Loan Down Payments
The White House announced actions to implement housing provisions boosting employment in residential construction and related industries. FHA lowers required down payments to 3 percent for loans up to 13,500, while mortgage fee controls are eliminated and VA sets a new 4.44 percent cap on guaranteed loans, with FNMA issuing new rules on purchasing FHA or VA loans up to 13,500 in value.
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White House
J. Fha
FHA
Veterans Administration
Eisenhower
Congress
FNMA
Realtors hail loan action big boost to housing boom
Clive Graham of the California Real Estate Assn hails removal of the VA down payment as a big boost to curb housing slowdown. He says the move will enable work on major phone developments in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, with builders ready to swing into construction as money and terms improve. Rent ads promote fast rentals.
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Clive Graham
Long Beach
California Real Estate Assn
Home Loans Rise in Los Angeles County
Federal housing data show a 30 percent jump in loan applications in Los Angeles County from March 1957 to March 1958. Director Norman M. Lyon of the FHA reports 3,265 total applications, with Southern California totals excluding San Diego and Imperial counties. He notes new housing law amendments signal 1958 may be a major home-building year for the region.
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Los Angeles
Norman M. Lyon
Thhe
Federal Housing Administration
California
San Diego
Imperial
Lyon Seid
Eisenhower Spends Easter Weekend at Gettysburg Farm
President Eisenhower and his wife Mamie arrived at the Gettysburg area farm for a quiet Easter holiday with four grandchildren David 10 Barbara Anne Susan 6 and Mary Jean 2 joining them. No formal schedule, but Easter services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church were possible.
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Eisenhower
Mamig
David
Barbara Anne
Susan
Mary Jean
John Eisenhower
Gettysburg Presbyterian Church
Bomb Call Halts Fraser School Half Day
In Middletown Pennsylvania a bomb threat called into Fraser Elementary School led Principal E R Bartel to dismiss classes at 1 pm. Police search found no bomb, and Superintendent George W Peaser said the half day would be made up at term end.
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Harrisburg
Fraser Elementary School
Middletown
E. R. Bartel
Bartel
George W. Peaser
Five Children Aware Mother Missing After Alledged Fight
Police report a violent argument at the Hendershot home Monday night ending with the wife being slugged. Lawrence, visiting from Bloomfield Street, claimed warnings were made before he struck Hendershot, then both men left. Mrs Hendershot's body later found near Sea Beach, investigators suspect body was disposed into Coyote Creek from Lincoln Boulevard Bridge. Authorities seek missing clothes and continue searches along Ocean front.
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Bloomfield St
Abs
Musick
Ocean Front
Seal Beach
Clarence Double
Orange County
U S Help Requested in Floods Across State
Floods and heavy rains hit California causing damage to roads bridges and crops. Gov Knight urged Eisenhower to declare a major disaster and mobilize federal funds while Red Cross opened shelters in Stockton San Jose Gilroy Oakland Barstow and Barstow to aid evacuees amid mudslides and high winds along the coast and inland valleys.
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Goodwin J. Knight
Eisenhower
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RED Cross
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Gilroy
Oakland
Barstow
San Diego
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