Search for DC-6 Survivors Resumes Amid Pacific Hunt
Pacific search teams press on for survivors of the four engine DC-6B off Wake Island. Navy planes and ships comb the area after a flare sighting and debris including an empty life raft and seat cushions were found. The flight from Guam to Oakland carried 58 aboard including eight children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Wake Isiana
Transocean Air Lines
Guam
Oakland
Calif
Barrett
T. O. Murray
Hawaiian Seat Frontier
William Ward
United States
Charles Gallop
San Letandro
Nebraska
Fred Hansher
Newman Grove
Weather Summary from U S Weather Bureau Readings
Temperatures recorded from 2 PM yesterday to 11 AM today show a high of 91 and a low of 61 with readings ranging around 0.62 to 0.90 inches for precipitation in 24 hours ending 11 AM. Sunrise 4 58. sunset 7 09. day length 14 2 hours. Forecast calls for increasing clouds and warmer conditions with little rain expected tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basands
Scoett
Asee
Scattered Rains Bring Some Relief to Parched New Mexico
The Associated Press reports scattered showers across New Mexico offered brief relief to drought areas. Grants recorded the heaviest rainfall at .51 inch while other towns logged lighter totals such as .32 at Socorro and .31 at Carlsbad. Cooler air followed, with Las Vegas at 75 and Rodeo at 96 as temperatures cooled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Grants
U.S. 85
Belew
Truth Or Consequences
West Central
Seek to Identify Body Found in River
A body found in the Rio Grande near Anapra over the weekend is tentatively identified as David Wilson from Leakey Texas. District Attorney C Chase said no gross evidence of foul play but not ruled out. Autopsy shows drowning with head wounds likely from a sharp object in water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Cruces
Rio Grande
David Wilson
Leakey, Tex
C. Chase
Anapra
House Votes on Foreign Aid Ceiling and EDC Link
The House votes a second time to withhold about a billion dollars in arms for Western Europe unless an international army forms. A $5,157,232,500 foreign aid ceiling is set for the year ending next June 30, with a Richards amendment directing roughly one billion for the EDC or an alternative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Brines
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Europe
Rep. Richards
D-Sc
European Defense Community
EDC
Congress
Senate House
Senate
Richards
United States
Rhee Pledges Cooperation to Ease Armistice
A well informed source says President Syngman Rhee pledged in writing that South Korea will not obstruct an armistice and may change tactics but not its objective of unifying Korea. The report notes Robertson won concessions including a promise not to free more prisoners and a joint postwar policy dialogue with the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Rhee
Associated Press
Tokyo
Robert Bunson
Eisenhower
U. S
Walter S. Robertson
United States
Korea
Bunson
U. S. Information Service
Panmunjom
Robertson
Red Radio
Japan
Scripps- Howard
Jim Lucas
Nam Il
Red
Sunan
U.N
Red Peiping Communist Radio
Peiping
ROK
Rancher Beats Low Calf Prices in Oklahoma Direct Sales
In Kiowa County Oklahoma, clay Weaver, facing drought and losses from $33 calves selling for $21.50, joins with his sister to sell cattle directly to consumers from a Snyder shop. The venture aims to recover investments for local ranchers while offering affordable beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Kiowa
Weaver
Snyder
Flash Flood Claims Two in La Junta Area
In Colorado near La Junta a flash flood swept down Crooked Arroyo drowning Fire Chief Clyde Summers and volunteer firefighter William Lueker as they rode in a boat to aid a stranded family. Patrolman Costa and G H Smith survived. The flood followed a railroad trestle collapse and debris surge from a cloudburst near Timpa s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Junta
Colo
Santa Fe
Clyde Francis Summers
William Martel Lueker
Rocky Ford
Lueker
Crooked Arroyo
Arkansas River
Carl Costa
G. H. Smith
Smith
Costa
Timpas
Abduction fear grips Ismailia as airman vanishes
British troops ring Ismailia after the disappearance of Aircraftman A V Rigden. Egypt denounces the claim, while President Naguib convenes emergency meetings. Cairo and London report heightened tensions with armed patrols and danger of escalation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ismalia
Egypt
Suez Canal
Ismailia
Britain
Suez Canal Zone
Mohamed Naguib
Cairo
Naguib
U.S
Jefferson Caffery
Robert Hankey
Caffery
London
Foreign Office
Washington
Lord Salisbury
Salah Salem
Suez
Japan protests after patrol boat fired on coast guard
Japan sent a sharp protest to the Republic of Korea accusing Korean police of firing on a Japanese coast guard patrol boat from a disputed islet in the Sea of Japan. The incident escalates tensions between Tokyo and Seoul over the islet, with no immediate reports of casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Republic of Korea
Sea of Japan
Japan demands action after coast guard clash with Korea
Foreign office note denounces ROK nationals intrusion into Japanese territory and fishing in Japanese waters. It demands compensation for damage to the 450 ton coast guard vessel Hokura and calls for punishment of Korean officials with assurances the incident will not recur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Office
Japan
South Korea
Indochina War Likely to Intensify After Korea Truce
Western powers face possible escalation in Indochina as Korea peace talks advance. Dulles and Bidault discuss Navarre plan to expand French forces with a potential 285 million dollar aid rise. Bohlen arrives with Kremlin purge news as Take Shima dispute flares with Korea and Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Indochina
Korea
United States
Britain
France
Dulles
Georges Bidault
Red China
Bidault
Henri Navarre
Navarre
Eisenhower
Far East
U. S
Charles E
Chip) Bohlen
Russia
L. P. Beria
Kremlin
Bohlen
Justice of Peace Bean Delivers DWI Fines in Two Courts
Roswell official R. Perry Bean alternated duties between police court and his own justice court. In police court 11 cases were heard including two DWI offenses with fines totalling 395 dollars and 10 day jail sentences. One DWI in justice court carried 100 dollar fine, costs, and 30 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell
R. Perry Bean
Justice Bean
R. L. Ballard
Justice of the Peace
Rumaldo Sigala
Pedro C. Hernandez
Donavard V. Bitz
Life-Giving Rains Soak Texas Areas
Rain-fed relief spread across Central and Northeast Texas and El Paso pockets, with scattered showers in West Texas. The slow front split the state, easing heat in the north but not ending drought. Reports include Kilcullen 2 inches of rain and Canutillo flash flood forcing Highway 80 closure near the New Mexico line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texas
Congress
el Paso
West Texas
Galveston
Pecos Valley
Kilcleen
Sherman
Bonham
Muenster
Pilot Point
Trenton
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Foster Dulles
Great Britain
State Department
PMA Dreuth
PMA
Rowellah Lukens
Chaves County
United States Weather Bureau
Okla
Clay Weaver
Beria
Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov
Moscow
Lavrenti Beria
Tae
Take Shima
Coast Guard
Shimane
Honshu
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
James Saunders
Earl J. Duhon
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!