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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1959
Page
10
Washington AP reports Explorer IV likely to die in late July as atmospheric drag ends its life. Sputnik III may remain in orbit into December or longer than first estimated, extending Soviet lead in space. Despite Explorer VI cancellation, three U S satellites remain operational in orbit.
Hollywood producer director Sammy Fuller, a onetime Hearst reporter, will be the first enlisted man to deliver the main address at the 1st Infantry Division reunion on August 22 in Rochester New York. Fuller, who insists WWII was won by the 1st Division and its replacements, has made about 20 films highlighting his division and its regiments.
London AP reports a bullet-riddled Soviet bomber wreckage has been discovered in the arctic tundra southeast of Murmansk. Radio in Moscow did not identify the bomber type or crash date, but it is believed to be a World War II casualty.
Springfield based Pitchikers win the Chicago convention title of the Society for the Prevention and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America. The quartet Hedgeneth Keith Young Keith Keltner and Joe Delzell travel about 100000 miles yearly for shows. Grundy, ex Lawrence Welk arranger, coaches them selecting material with cadence and story, rejecting modern rock for harmony.
Obituaries and funeral notices for Martha Brown Hoskins of Sprague infant Dean Edward Hart son of Charles and Betty Hart Hylton Hart. Harry Hartwell McBrayer of Fairlawn Avenue. Frances Elizabeth Ritch of Miami. Doshie Spangler Allen of MacArthur. Services, death dates, and burial plans listed with funeral homes and church details.
NEW YORK AP The New York Herald Tribune announced the appointment of Robert M White II as president and editor effective August 3 He brings a third generation newspaper background and wide experience from Mexico Missouri Ledger Chicago Sun Times and Marshall Field After Missouri Military Academy and Washington and Lee University he plays football hunts quail and ducks He is married with three daughters and stands six foot one inch tall
Charlotte AP report describes experiments at Charlotte Memorial Hospital where a dog's heart was surgically removed and kept beating outside the body for up to six and a half hours using its own blood vessels, with no external machinery or cooling. The method aimed to aid basic heart research and studies of heart disease and transplants.
President Eisenhower named John H. Williams to the Atomic Energy Commission subject to Senate confirmation. The Canadian born nuclear physicist, 51, has been the commission’s research director since last year and would replace Willard Libby who resigned. Williams taught physics at the University of Minnesota from 1946 to 1958 and served part time as a Los Alamos consultant from 1943 to 1958.
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