Gavin Successor Says U. S. Can Catch Soviets
Lt. Gen. Arthur Trudeau, named Army chief of research and development, declared the United States can competently match Soviet weapons. He vowed a vigorous program to inject urgency into missile and arms work, and noted interservice cooperation and consolidation questions but stressed prior rocket employment and intimate familiarity with U.S. weapon programs. Trudeau returns to Korea Friday and will move to Washington next month to begin his duties.
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U. S. Army
Arthur Gibert
Trudeau
Korea
James Gavin
Army
Pentagon
Gavin
America
U. S. Chiefs of Staff
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U.S
Pacific Theater
Europe
Pacific
Washington
Churchill Daughter TV Role Draws British Praise
Miss Churchill drew praise from British press for her TV performance in Los Angeles after a drunken arrest. She spent five hours in county jail, later bailed out, and returned to rehearse five hours at NBC studio as critics lauded her “guts” and stage presence. The incident sparked mixed views of Los Angeles authorities and the press covered reactions in both nations.
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Theyyday
Sarah Tion
Churchill
Britain
Sir Winston Churchill
NBC
Sarah
London
Miss Churchill
Los Angeles
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Makropou
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General Telephone Co
Sheriff's Deputies
Jess Churchill
Cecil J .Smith
Towart
Urge Pay Increase for Highway Patrol in California
California Association of Highway Patrolmen directors urged new legislation for a minimum 2 pay increase matching top-scale city police wages in cities over 100000. They also sought hazard pay for motorcycle and patrol car duty.
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Fresno
California Association of Highway Patrolmen
Solons Urged to End Two Railroad Taxes
President of the New Haven Railroad urged Congress to remove two federal rail taxes a 3 percent excise on freight and a 10 percent wartime passenger tax. George Alpert said the ticket levy discourages rail travel and testified before a Senate commerce subcommittee examining U S rail conditions. Other executives from Atchison Topeka Santa Fe and Atlantic Coast Line backed action to aid declining rail economy.
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Washington
New Haven
Congress
George Alpert
Tex
Alpert
Senate Commerce
U.S
Ernest S. Marsh
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
W. Thomas Rice
Wilmington
IN. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Smathers
Paar
Vet from Abbeville Wins $32000 on TV Quiz Show
Veterinarian Alexander Sasjaworsky of Abbeville Louisiana won 32000 on CBS TV’s The $64,000 Question by identifying Henry Clay as the senator, Millard Fillmore as the presiding officer, and John C Calhoun as the chief southern opponent in a U S Senate debate question.
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New York
Alexander Sasjaworsky
Abbeville
Cbs-Tv
U. S. Senate
Sasjaworsky
Henry Clay
Millard Fillmore
Redstone Launched by Army
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla Nil The Army checked records of a night time Redstone missile launch from the Air Force missile test center. The Redstone 69 feet long lifted from its pad and arched southeast as technicians study data to aid an eventual orbital satellite. The launch exceeded its designed range with a Jupiter C vehicle flying 3500 miles over the Atlantic. Built by Chrysler Detroit with Rocketdyne engines from North American Aviation Los Angeles.
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Fla
Army
Air Force Missile Test Center
Atlantic
Nice
Defense Department
Redstone
E Redstone
Chrysler Corp
Detroit
Rocketdyne Division
North American Aviation
Los Angeles
Judge gives medallions to two boys in deterrent bid
In Lexington Ky Judge Bart Peak of Juvenile Court awarded two boys who admitted car searching Lord's Prayer medallions. He told them to remember the emblem and refrain from wrongdoing until they discard it. One boy was sent to a vocational school and the other placed on probation.
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Lexington
Bart Peak
Navy Gets Two New Torpedoes
The Navy announced two lightweight torpedoes, the Mark 22 and Mark 43, delivered to sea as part of a new antisubmarine weapons series. The Mark 43 weighs about one eighth of WWI aerial torpedoes, is eight feet long, ten inches in diameter, and can be launched from ships or aircraft. the Mark 32 launches from ships only. Rear Adm. F. S. Withington described the Mark 43 as a submersible guided missile capable of deep-sea searching for targets. A separate piece notes a $200,000 federal suit filed in San Francisco by Ruby Quong’s relatives over a Pan American flight crash, alleging negligence in the operator’s handling of the incident.
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Navy
Adm
F. S. Withington
Bureau of Ordnance
Ruby Quong
San Francisco
Pacific
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