Legislature Ends Without Water Decision In California
The 1957 California Legislature closed after partisan clashes with a few wins and no solution on the vital water issue. North versus South and GOP versus Democrat left major items unresolved including a constitutional amendment on water rights and joint federal partnership for the San Luis Project. The Feather River Project funding stalled after an initial 25 million earmark, amid a heated late session over the project’s 1.5 billion potential scope.
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James C. Anderson
United Press
Sacramento
Senate
Assembly
California
Gordon Winton Jr
Merced
San Luis
Feather River
Ed C. Johnson
Marysville
Girard Denies Military Pressure On Him
In Washington U S officials and Maj Stanley F Levin deny pressuring Army guard Bill Girard over a Tokyo manslaughter case. Girard claims his Japanese defense adviser advised a trial option, while his brother says he was urged to face court in Japan.
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Washington
Stanley F. Levin
William
Girard
Japan
U.S
Earl Carroll
Ottawa
Louis
Yansep
Bill Girard
Levintown
Jamese
Pan
United States
John Griffin
Carroll
Naka Sakai
Tokyo
T Hat Girard
Sakai
Louis Girard
T Nose Court
Levin
Vnl
Lows Girard
Tor
Senate Approval Of Foreign Aid Bill Foreseen
Opponents warned of economic strain as Congress heatedly debated a 3.6 billion dollar foreign aid measure. Senate leaders predicted passage while a joint committee fought over water programs and adjournment loomed. Blame shifted among parties as a special session seemed likely to resolve water rights.
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Senate
Weather Los Angeles forecast for Friday and weekend
The noon forecast from the U S Weather Bureau notes night and morning low clouds fog and local drizzle along the coast and inland valleys of Southern California through today and Friday. Coastal and intermediate valleys see sunny afternoons while the immediate coast remains only partially clear. Mountains deserts expect sun with strong gusty winds causing blowing dust in desert valleys. Saturday brings less coastal cloudiness and wind. San Bernardino Valley shows late night and early morning low clouds fog and drizzle with hazy afternoon sun. Temperature no major change with highs around 78 and lows near 58. year ago today highs 95 lows 53.
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Los Angeles
U.S. Weather Bureau
California
San Bernardino Valley
Johnson Warns Against Early Cuts in Foreign Aid
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson cautions that drastic meat-axe cuts to foreign aid are dangerous before House study and committee hearings. The current bill only authorizes a program size. actual cash and further reductions follow in appropriations. Sen. Russell B. Leng will offer four amendments to shrink the coming year's aid to the level the Foreign Relations Committee set for the following year.
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Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tex
House
Congress
Knowland
Johnson
Sen
Russell
George Suffers Heart Ailment
Walter F. George, 79, long serving Democratic Senate elder statesman and Eisenhower NATO ambassador, was hospitalized at Emory University Hospital with a heart ailment. Doctors reported serious condition after a checkup and said he received anti-coagulants. He will rest at home in Vienna, Georgia for several weeks, per Dr Willis Hurst.
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Atlanta
IUP
Walter F. George
Senate
Eisenhower
NATO
Emory University Hospital
George
Willis Hurst
U.S. Senate
Vienna
Hurst
Anne Frank Honored In Frankfurt Birthday Tribute
In Frankfurt on what would have been her 28th birthday a memorial tablet was placed on the Frank family house by a German victims group. Anne Frank and her mother and sister died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. Her diary was later made into a prize winning American play.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Anne Frank
Frank
Anne
Veterans Claim Light Made Them Sterile in War Operation
Four World War I veterans allege exposure to blinding light during a top secret war operation caused sterility or genetic defects. Attorney Raymond Lyddy reports multiple marriages and children with defects, plus miscarriages among wives, with a roster tally sought for the 538th Heavy Tank Maintenance Regiment. Joseph Vanacore of Hamden, Conn., has a service disability claim denied twice by the Veterans Administration.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Raymond C. Lyddy
Lyddy
538Th Heavy
Joseph Vanacore
Hamden
Veterans Administration
Wife To Pay Beckett 1200 Monthly For 1013 Years
The wife of architect William Sutherland Beckett agreed in a default divorce hearing to pay him 1200 dollars monthly for 1013 years so he can develop his talent. Mrs Julianna Kemper Beckett, rich from a family trust, cited his temper but said he should pursue his great talent. They married September 11 1948 and have three children Adam 7 Morgan 5 and Deirdre 4. Beckett has won international architectural awards and once served on the city arts commission.
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Los Angeles
William Sutherland Beckett
Beckett
Julianna Kemper Beckett
Fletcher Bowron
Adam
Morgan
Deirdre
The
City Arts Commission
Aleutian Chain Quake Recorded At Fordham University
The seismograph at Fordham University recorded a major Aleutian chain earthquake described as the biggest in years. Officials monitored intensity and possible aftershocks as data were collected for analysis.
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New York
Fordham University
Aleutian Chain
Yerent Manthe
Peggy Hopkins Joyce Dies Former Follies Girl Passes
NEW YORK UP Peggy Hop k Sherburne Joyce the former Broadway showgirl and six times married socialite died Wednesday night in Chicago at a Memorial Center for cancer. She left a $1,500 a month income for life from a $600,000 divorce settlement with lumberman James Stanley Joyce whom she wed in 1920 and later divorced. Born Marguerite Upton in Farmville Virginia she rose to fame with Ziegfeld's Glorified American Girls and spread international publicity through a 1920s 30s matrimonial career.
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New York
Peggy Hop- Sherburne Hopkins
Kins Joyce
Broadway
Chicago
James Stanley Rity
Joyce
Andrew C. Meyer
Husf
Thelis
Memorial Center For Cancer
Stassen Heads to London for Informal Talks With Russians
Washington (UP) Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen departs for London with orders to avoid upsetting allies and keep private talks with the Russians low key. Officials say the United States will delay presenting a new disarmament plan at the London conference to ease allied concerns.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
London
America
Stassen
Jie
New York
France
U.S
Valerin Zovin
United States
Dulles
Public Works Budget Slashed in Ike Administration Cut
Washington (UP) The Appropriations Committee slashed 61 639 944 from President Eisenhowers public works program today to fit the 7 percent economy line. If the 814 813 023 bill is approved without change the House will have cut 4 042 855 929 from total appropriations of nearly 5 billion dollars it has acted on so for this year. The funds are for the next fiscal year starting July 1. They were reduced more than 52 million dollars below spending for the present fiscal year. The public works measure provided new funds for construction planning and maintenance work by the Army Corps of Engineers the Interior Departments bureau of reclamation and the Bonneville Southeastern and Southwestern Power Administrations.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House J
Army Corps of Engineers
Interior Department
Bureau of Reclamation
Bonneville, Southeastern, and Southwestern Power Administration
Mayflower II Towed Into Plymouth Harbor
Mayflower II sails into Plymouth Harbor towed by Coast Guard tug Yankton amid light delays and a minor mishap. Capt. Alan Villiers aims to unfurl full canvas for the approach as thousands gather for the 54th voyage day. The replica’s Provincetown stop reenacted the Mayflower Compact signing with tourists aboard.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Harbor
Coast Guard
Coast Guard Cculler
Plymouth Rock
Jacquish Head
Alan Villiers
Provincetown
Coast Guards
Arctic Open Skies Comical To Khrushchev
Khrushchev called the Arctic open skies inspection idea comical during a Helsinki press conference. He noted no Western approval and referenced Russia's earlier proposal for a Far East Alaska Western U S zone from London disarmament talks tied to Eisenhower’s open skies plan.
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Helsinki
Finland
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Russia
U.S
Eisenhower
Trial Delayed For Awarding Of Degree
Contempt trial of West Coast Teamster Boss Frank W Brewster was recessed to allow government's sole witness to receive an honorary degree. Robert F Kennedy, counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, stood on the witness stand as he was to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College of the Assumption in Worcester Mass. Brewster refused in January to produce documents and answer 31 questions citing subcommittee authority. He later testified for five days before the Special Rackets Committee.
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Washington
Frank W. Brewster
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate
College of the Assumption
Worcester
Mass
Western Conference of
Teamssters
Kennedy
Special Rackets Committee
Rebels ambush Algerian bus kills two European passengers
Rebels halted a Tlemcen to Eugene-Etienne bus with a 15-man group, killing the two European travelers aboard. French troops meanwhile killed 35 rebels in other skirmishes, including 19 in a major clash near Perregaux. Violent anti Muslim rioting left six dead in Algiers as calm returned.
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Algiers
Algeria
Tlemcen
Eugene-Etienne
Perregaux
Oran
Double Decker Bus Mows Down 6 in London
A London double decker bus veered off course and struck about twenty people awaiting its arrival. Six were killed and at least twelve seriously injured requiring hospitalization. Police investigated the downtown street corner tragedy as bystanders fled.
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London
Loyalty Probe Next Week
House Committee on Un-American Activities will hold four days of public hearings in San Francisco June 18 to 21 to investigate alleged Communist activity in theater television and other groups about 50 witnesses are slated. Chairman Francis E Walter leads the subcommittee with Reps Willis Scherer and McIntosh as members.
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Washington
House Committee On UN - American Activities
Jit
San Francisco
Francis E. Walter
Edwin E. Willis
Gordon H. Scherer
Ohio
Robert J. McIntosh
Mich
Queen Celebrates Turning 31 Years
In London Queen Elizabeth II marked what editors call a momentous year on the throne with the Trooping the Colours ceremony before about 250 000 people. The queen wore a colonel’s uniform, rode on her horse, and her birthday is officially counted in June though she turned 31 last April 21.
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London
Elizabeth
United States
Canada
Buckingham Palace
Admiralty Arch
Horse Guards Parade
Britain
Commonwealth
Todd Hires London Amusement Park for Midnight Premiere Party
American producer Mike Todd hires Festival Gardens on the Thames in London for a 1500 guest midnight party ahead of Around The World in Eighty Days July 2 premiere. Park to reopen at midnight with ferris wheel dodgems and side shows, with chartered buses and river launches providing guest access.
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London
Mike Todd
Todd
Thams River
U S Planes Accused Of Invasion In Far East Clash
U S Navy reports Chinese coastal batteries fired on an American carrier plane eight miles off the Chinese mainland amid accusations of invasion by Communist China. Peiping demands retaliation and defends its territorial inviolability while Taipei reports its planes shot down two Nationalists with one U S craft damaged during a routine training flight near the Formosa Straits.
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Washington
China
U.S
U.S. Navy
Peiping
Formosa
State Department
Navy
Peiping Peoples Daily
Peiping Radio
Red China
Far East
Taiwan
Taipei
Lu Ho-tu
Formosa Straits
Hornet
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Formost Straits
Justice Dept steps in steel merger bid
The Justice Department moved to block Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube's $2.5 billion merger with a summary judgment filing in federal court. If granted, the case goes to the Supreme Court. a denial leads to a trial. The merger would form a steel giant with assets over $2.5 billion and sales above $2 billion.
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New York
Justice Department
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet &Tube Co
Supreme Court
E.J. du Pont de Nemours & Co
General Motors Corp
Edward Weinfeld
Bethlehem
Youngstown
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Joseph Lynch
Father Lynch
Earl
Pacific
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NEA
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Justice Dept. Steps In Steel Company Merger
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