Korea Wife Arrives as Injured GI Reunites in Hospital
In Hot Springs Arkansas Mrs Tae Moon Cherry arrived from Taegu Korea after a 9000 mile journey to visit her husband SP3c Havis W. Cherry who was injured in a May 15 automobile crash near Monticello. The Red Cross sponsored the trip. The couple’s one year old son Marvin accompanied the family.
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Tae Moon Cherry
Marvin
Cherry
Hot Springs
Ark. UA
C. Havis W. Cherry
Band
American Red Cross
Taegu
Korea
Monticello
Ark
Maj
Frances Gorowski
Taegts
Luther Cherry
Havis
Civil Rights Showdown Set to Roll in House
Washington reports the House opens a week of debate on President Eisenhower’s civil rights legislation to strengthen federal enforcement. Southern opposition uses delay and a jury trial amendment to stall progress while supporters rely on Eisenhower’s influence to keep Republicans in line. The bill is expected to pass the House but faces a tougher test in the Senate where filibusters loom.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Runaway Missile Crashes in Mojave Desert
A G Pi-A Navy Reguls II guided missile went out of control at Edwards Air Force Base and crashed in the Mojave Desert causing a tremendous explosion described by observers as a miniature atomic blast. The 35 foot supersonic missile, designed for submarines and warships, carried no warhead. No injuries or facility damage were reported. The launch origin was Edwards, with the wreckage landing about 10 miles away at the Naval Ordnance Test Station Shima Lake range.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Mojave Desert
Navy
Naval Ordnance Test
Shina Lake
Court blocks marriage of girl and much older groom
In Plymouth England a local court bars Wendy Ward eighteen from marrying Thomas Johnstone fifty two saying the age gap is too wide. Wendy's father voices concern that he has many years left and she would have to support him.
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Plymouth
England
Wendy Ward
Thomas Johnstone
Wendy
Johnstone
Libby defends small risk of nuclear testing
Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby told a Senate subcommittee that nuclear testing carries a small, controllable risk compared with the annihilation risk of surrendering weapons. He warned of potential cancers and genetic damage from fallout, citing the broader dangers of war and stressing testing as essential to freedom and survival.
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Washington
Pi— Atomic Energy
Willard F. Libby
Congress
Libby
Senate House Atomic Energy
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Promised Capitalists Scene Drawn in Russian Childhood
A morning edition cartoon shows Russian children gazing at a blank TV screen as their father asks what they await. They reply they wait for Eisenhower to appear and promise they will all become capitalists.
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Paris
Figure Today
Eisenhower
TV Reared American Youths Growing Flabby Expert Says
Asheville North Carolina report notes children raised on television cars and buses show poor fitness. Bonnie Prudden, appointed to the President’s Citizens Advisory Committee on youth fitness, warns of danger from excessive sedentary life and shrinking school gym programs. She urges more outdoor play, running games, and gym work to build endurance and health.
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Asheville
N.C
America
Bonnie Prudden
White Plains
N. C
Citizens Advisory Committee
Miss Prudden
General Federation of Women
Jess Ball
Drunk Driver in 4-Death Crash Begins Jail Term
James Earl Mulvaney a 22 year old Fontana man pleaded guilty to drunk driving and manslaughter in a fatal collision that killed Mrs Ellen Confas 45 of Redlands and three others in Portland Oregon Painesville Ohio and Redlands Injured four other people were to receive equitable payments and funeral costs while three counts were dismissed He started a six month jail term as part of a 10 year probation with start deferred due to injuries and ordered to pay funeral and related expenses as well as damages to the victims.
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San Diego
James Earl Mulvaney
Fontana
Ellen Con- Fas
Redlands
Mulvaney
Iso
Martin Congas
Irene Wilson
Portland
Ore
Martha Katigas
Painesville
Ohio
Robert Ray Clemons
Pomena
Clemons
John A. He
Global Meeting Eyes Atom Ship Future in Hamburg
An international conference in Hamburg opened to study nuclear power for ship propulsion. Over 400 physicists and experts from the US Britain France Holland Norway Sweden Japan and Germany attend the three day meeting. Seebohm notes it is too early to judge nuclear power for all transport uses but cites tests of the US Navy submarine Nautilus as evidence propulsion may be easier with atomic power than other transport forms.
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Hamburg
Germany
West Germany
Hans Jerbohnt
United States
Britain
France
Helland
Norway
Sweden
Japan
Seebohm
U.S. Navy
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