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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1956
Page
3
Forecast shows warm Southwest and mixed clouds with high near 92 and low around 68. Normal highs 93 and lows 64 for date. sunrise 4 49, sunset 7 11. Precipitation sparse. 24 hours ending yesterday showed none. New Mexico scattered showers, month to date 0.04 inches. Bible translated into 207 languages via American Bible Society sponsorship.
James Marlow reports French Force Minister Pineau urged peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union while wiring concern over Western inferiority. Dulles Adenauer and Pineau issued communiques stressing NATO unity and a wary stance toward Russian sincerity, with Pineau proposing limited East West exchanges to test real cooperation.
A Denver business survey describes the Rocky Mountain region expanding through industrialization and closer ties to the East driven by rising costs and Western population growth. Bankers executives and miners foresee continued strength if national payrolls and mining production hold, while Trans America moves banks into Montana Wyoming Utah Colorado linking the area to San Francisco.
In Columbus Ohio two boys, Robert Fletcher eight and James Plunkett ten, dropped a lighted matches book into an underground waste oil storage tank at a gasoline station. The resulting explosion wounded them with third degree burns to their faces and arms as hot oil spurted twenty feet. Authorities said the blast ignited fumes but apparently put out the fire with no further damage.
Bob Jenni, curator of reptiles at the Oklahoma City zoo, says one giant Galapagos tortoise named Me thuselah weighs 450 pounds and may be about six centuries old, though he cannot prove the age.
Senate Internal Security Chair Eastland described Maud Russell of New York City and Far East Reporter as anti American propagandist. He urged foreign agent registration labeling or mail bar. The witness refused to disclose Communist party membership under the Fifth Amendment. Others named included John W Powell and William Hinton.
During a thunderstorm in Van Etten New York Fire Chief Pete Butts reached into a cooler for a bottle of pop when lightning struck the firehouse. The bottle shattered in his hand and he felt numb for a moment but was not hurt.
Motorist Frank Washington Jr. of Seaside Heights was fined $25 in Dover Township traffic court. He paid $20 for speeding and $5 for not carrying his license. He told Magistrate Benjamin Nevins he was drying his car after a wash.
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