Teetotal Mel Miller attracts chaos at LAX
Melvin Miller arrives in Los Angeles to a throng of about 300 fans at LAX and Laguna Beach officials present him with a key. A motorcade from Peoria greets him, bars and highways clog as he is mobbed for autographs. He later rests at an oceanfront motel while his Peoria wife Marie and friends watch his California welcome.
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Melvin
Los Angeles International
Laguna Beach
Jesse Riddell
Des Moines Insurance
Laguna
Miller
Los Angeles
Gestson
Peoria
Sally Miller
Ell’ Toro Marine Base
20Th Century-Fox Studios
California
Aiel Marine
Joe Gestson
Melvin Miller
Mel Miller
Ocean Front
Strike stalls Pennsylvania RR after 114 years
The 20 000 nonoperating workers walk out halting PRR services across major hubs. New York and Philadelphia commuters face disruption as trains, mail routes, and freight flows stall. planned service cuts hit the Boston Washington line and Florida connections. Managers deploy extra cars and buses to manage crowds while Jersey Central North Shore tracts slow.
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District of Columbia
Iladelphia
Michael Quill
TWA
New York
Washington
New Haven Railroad
Pennsylvania Station
New Yorks City
Seaboard Line
Florida
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
Bittrick
Robert Christenberry
Long Island
New Haven
Manhattan
Boston
New Jersey
Jersey Central Railroad
North Shore
Bay Head
Shore
Seekm
Jersey Central
Perth Amboy
Jersey Central North Shore
PRR
St.Louis
Francis O'Neill JR
National Railway Mediation Board
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Khrushchev Seeks Coexistence View in World War Debate
The article outlines a split among communist leaders over war versus coexistence with capitalism. Moscow favors coexistence. Peiping China sticks to inevitable war. A potential Khrushchev Mao summit is discussed, with Gheorghiu-Dej named Romania’s U.N. delegate seen as a possible first step.
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Far East
Moscow
Peiping
Khrushchev
China
Mao Tze- Jung
Gheorghe Gheorghiu
Dej
Romania
U.N. General Assembly
Deadlock on Sugar Delays Adjournment in Congress
Congressional deadlock over Cuba sugar quotas delayed adjournment as House and Senate wrestled on Eisenhower authority and dairy price supports. Debate touched foreign aid, Latin America, and Dominican Republic policy, with threats of a veto and a possible October session. House leaders accused the Senate and State Department of overreach while urging party leadership to press for action.
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House
Ories
Eisenhower
Cuba
Congress
Senate
White House
Latin America
Cooley
State Department
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Copley
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Whisky dealer seeks return of seized car in court
Montgomery Alabama AP report says car dealer Ralph Smith went to court to demand the return of a vehicle seized by state alcohol agents after the driver was accused of carrying 25 gallons of illegal whisky. Smith said the driver claimed he only wanted to test the car before deciding to buy it.
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Montgomery, Ala
Ralph Smith
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Smith
Rope Ready but Brother Drowns
In Monticello Arkansas a 12 year old boy drowned after his brother James Richard Gardner and friend Gerald Dickerson attempted a rescue with a rope kept for emergencies. Sheriff Jack Toler said Robert Gardner called to them to use the rope when they began to drown, but both youths were swept under by deep water.
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Monticello
Ark
Jack Toler
Robert Gardner
James Richard Gardner
Toler
Robert
James
Gerald Dickerson
Fai
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Gestion
Sandpiper
Pennsylvania RR
James R. Symes
Quill
Prrithe
Federation
Long Beach
Jay
Ielvin Miller
U.S
A.N. Parley
Brother
Long Beach Pine Avenue
Sunbeam
Texas
Roots
Walker's
Park
Sunbeam Factory
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