First Social Security Disability Checks to Start in August
More than 100000 severely disabled people will receive their first Social Security disability insurance checks in August. Roswell district manager Strickland urged eligible workers aged 50 to 65 to apply before June 30 to preserve rights to benefits and explained the disability criteria including six months’ duration and inability to engage in substantial gainful activity.
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J. Hassler Strickland
Roswell
Social Security
Strickland
Gov
Buerger
Heavy Patrols Change The Highway of Death
Tucson Arizona reports a yearlong emphasis patrol on the 65 mile Tucson to Nogales highway reduced fatal crashes from 30 deaths in the prior year to three. Roadblocks and three-man patrols nightly cut injuries and deter drunken driving while 6,700 drunks were hauled off, 3,477 warnings issued, and 40,000 drivers checked. Lt Velasco credits education and enforcement but warns the regimen is costly and hard to sustain.
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Tucson
Arizona Highway Patrol
B. D. Velasco
Tucson- Nogales
Velasco
Nogales
The
Morning Star
Allen White Claims DA Office Urged $10 000 Bond
Allen White 62, convicted of killing his wife in a 1953 Albuquerque motel, says a caller from what he called the Santa Fe district attorney’s office advised him to post a $10,000 bond in June 1955. He was jailed in Reno on $30,000 bond awaiting extradition as Nevada Gov. Russell considers a hearing. FBI arrested him at his Reno home where he lived as John Tyler. White, a Santa Fe mining engineer, had a prior 50 to 80 year sentence.
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Reno
Nev
Allen White
Albuquerque
District Attorney
Santa Fe
White
Washoe County
Nevada
Charles Russell
FBI
John Tyler
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Weather summary with temperatures and skies across regions
Local reading shows highs near 97 and lows around 65 with no precipitation in the last 24 hours. New Mexico experiences partly cloudy skies with afternoon and night thundershowers, mainly in the southeast, while other areas stay fair with little temperature change.
How to Survive a Bomb Attack by Nuclear Shelter System
San Francisco June 22 Researchers from the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory propose a radiological recovery system centered on strong shelters to survive a mass atomic attack. Capt Mandelkorn says evacuations are ineffective and a national plan could cost about three billion dollars over four to five years to give 100 million Americans a good chance of survival.
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San Francisco
Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
Richard S. Mandelkorn
Navy
Bikini
Mandelkorn
Navy Department
United States
Tornado devastates Fargo homes killing 10 and injuring many
A Fargo tornado killed 10 and wounded more than 80 as it struck a residential area Thursday night. A Red Cross survey found 329 houses levelled and 1,135 damaged, with 202 severely so. Debris cleanup continued as authorities searched for additional victims.
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Fargo
N. D
Indians Claim Superhighway Land
Fifteen Indians camp beside the New York State Thruway at Fort Hunter claiming that some land for the St Lawrence Seaway project was never sold to whites. Standing Arrow, 24, chief of the band, says four St. Regis families were uprooted for the project. They pitched tents under a bridge approaches near the Mohawk Valley community.
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Fort Hunter
N.Y
Standing Arrow
St. Regis
St. Lawrence Seaway
Mohawk Valley
Governing Board May Bar Use by Religious Groups
Assistant Attorney General Robert Pyatt has ruled that a consolidated school district board may refuse use of its facilities to all religious organizations sects or denominations. The opinion was sent to District Attorney Norman Hodges in Silver City.
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Santa FE
Robert Pyatt
Norman Hodges
Silver City
Real McCoy Robber Foiled By Woman Tellers Courage
A well dressed man attempted a bank robbery at the Devon North Town State Bank in Chicago. Teller Marian Walter, 30, questioned the pistol’s authenticity after it appeared toy like, pressed the alarm, and the suspect fled into the street.
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Chicago
Marian Walter
Devon-North Town State Bank
First U S Rayon Yarn Spun at Marcus Hook in 1910
The first spool of rayon yarn made in the United States was spun in Marcus Hook Pennsylvania in 1910 marking a milestone in American textile history.
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U. S
Marcus Hook
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