Laika the Space Dog Reported Dead in Space Pact
The Italian newspaper L Unita quoted a Moscow correspondent that Laika the first Earth creature in space was put to sleep with narcotics in the last bite of food to avoid suffering. Tass said the Sputnik program fulfilled its scientific observations and no Moscow official word was given on Laika.
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Washington
Laika
L’unita
Moscow
Earth
Rome
Tass
Moscow Radio
Russia
London
A. C. Lovell
Evening Moscow
Space
Weekend road toll mounts in New Mexico seven deaths raise total
Seven people died in New Mexico road crashes over the weekend raising the year’s toll to 374. victims include Jessie James Felder 28 of Portales killed when his pickup hit two trees on US 70 near Clovis and Ruby Lee Theus 20 of Las Vegas Nev who perished in a head on collision east of Moriarty. Other fatalities involved Albuquer que residents Don Kewert 37 and Willie M Kil lyoum 34 in a head on on US 85 and Eugene Matter 24 of Oscuro Range Camp in a single vehicle crash near Capitan.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Jessie James Felder
Portales
U. S. 70
Clovis
U. 66
Moriarty
Ruby Lee Theus
Las Vegas
Nev
Walter Jones Jr
Jones
Robert Spears
Chickasha
Okla
Spears
U. S. 85
Belen
Willie M. Killyoum
Don Kewert
Albuquerque
Kewart
Killycum
Eugene Matter
Oscuro Range
Three Rivers
Capitan
N. M
Douglas Cramer
James H. Spence
Marion B. Tatum
Bard
San Jon
Discharge of Rifle Hurts Artesia Boy Near Truck
In Artesia the accidental discharge of a 30-30 Winchester rifle injured 16 year old Carol Wayne Stevens while he sat in a pickup cab. John ny Holt, 13, was with him as the rifle discharged while dust was wiped from the weapon. The rifle, reloaded after fox shooting, belonged to Phil Holt.
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Artesia
Carol Wayne Stevens
Ruth Stevens
Young Stevens
Johnny Holt
Everett Holt
Young Holt
Stevens
Holt
Phil Holt
Honor Roll Listed At Walker School
Walker Air Force Base Elementary School reports 17 students on the honor roll for the first six week period. Seventeen names span seventh and eighth grades with 12 in seventh grade and five in eighth grade.
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Walker Air Force Base
Carrol White
Helen Walker
Thomas McLeod
George Pyfrom
Robert Moore
Martin Lasater
Robert Combs
Paul Heiser
Diane Crocker
Kathleen Williams
Patricia Page
Diane Houghton
Beverly Donovan
Catherine Powell
Barbara Guenther
Greg DuCharme
Kim Willits
Norman Lyons
Pauline Bunyan Log Cutting Contest Opens With Surprises
In San Francisco the inaugural Pauline Bunyan Log Cutting Contest faced a prize surplus problem until Jean Davis of Arrostook County Maine was recruited from the audience and emerged as the victor winning first prize.
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San Francisco
Pauline Bunyan
Jean Davis
Arrostook County
Maine
Albuquerque Explorers Solve City Christmas Tree Dilemma
About 150 Explorer Scouts from the Kit Carson Council will collect used trees on January 4. Over 50 trucks will haul them to a bonfire east of Albuquerque near the Animal Shelter, then the teens will hold a dance at the Armory on North Wyoming.
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Albuquerque
Explorer
Kit Carson Boy Scout Council
Boy Scout
Armory
Wyoming
Dayne Stout
Sandia
Kit
Woman shot in church doorway during street dispute
In Los Angeles a 50 year old woman, Lula Glenn, was critically wounded when 36 year old Tommy Tophia fired during an argument across the street from a church. Police booked Tophia on suspicion of attempted murder.
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Los Angeles
Lula Glenn
Tommy Tophia
Tophia
Flares Sighted May Be Stars in Pan Am Search
Coast Guard reports three flares likely shooting stars or from search aircraft as part of a vast Pacific search for Pan American Romance of the Skies missing since Friday night. The operation covers 172,440 square miles with 25 aircraft, 3 submarines, and the carrier Philippine Sea.
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Honolus Cl
Pacific
Coast Guard
Oahu Island
Philippine Sea
Epperson
Romance of the Skies
San Francisco
Honolu
Pan American
Gruman
Veterans honor at Tomb and armistice anniversary noted
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ceremony honored military dead from all wars with three unknowns to represent Korea and other conflicts next year. Gov. Joe Foss of South Dakota, a WWII ace, spoke at Veterans Day events marking the armistice anniversary. NATO panel tensions rise as US and UK worries over ground forces and atomic weapon emphasis face Belgian Dutch critique. Doctors complete Eisenhower health checkup amid White House routine annual exam.
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Washington
Korea
Joe Foss
South Dakota
Eisenhower
White House
Po River floods Rovigo farmland forcing hundreds from homes
In Rovigo Italy heavy rains swollen the Po River burst its dikes flooding thousands of acres of farmland and displacing hundreds. Soldiers firemen and police rushed to the Po delta while eleven tugs hauled sandbags and stone to volunteers to plug breaches.
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Rovigo
Italy
Church remains among most segregated institutions in America
Rev Dr Lis ton Pope of Yale divinity school told the annual ecumenical service of the Massachusetts Council of Churches that the church lags behind the Supreme Court and other major groups in achieving racial integration. He warned the church has not kept pace with unions factories schools and stores in its own life.
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Boston
Liston Pope
Yale University Divinity School
Massachusetts Council of Churches
Supreme Court
Institute Teacher Predicts Space Woe
Portales notes Jack Williamson, English instructor at New Mexico Military Institute, warns that rocket fuel byproducts such as boric acid may seed clouds like silver iodide, increasing rainfall and cloudiness. He suggests this could cool the planet and possibly trigger another ice age, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
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Jack Williamson
Williamson
New Mexico Military Institute
Dexter Man Wounded by Hunters Near Nogal Canyon
Dallas Morgan, 47, of Dexter, was shot in the right wrist and thigh by unidentified hunters in Turtle Leaf Canyon northwest of Nogal. The shooters fled. sheriff S M Ortiz investigates. Morgan and his son Dallas Morgan, 19, heard the shot as they camped near the trail, with the younger Morgan aiding after the incident.
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Dallas Morgan
Dexter
Morgan
Turtle Leaf Canyon
Nogal
New Mexico A&m
Carrizozo Hospital
Lincoln County
S. M. Ortiz
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Carrizozo
Nogal Lake
Henderson Lanham Dies in Rome Train Car Collision
Georgia congressman Rep. Henderson Lanham, 69, a 11 year veteran and House Appropriations member, was killed when his car collided with a train at a Rome crossing.
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Rome. Ga
Henderson ‘Lanham
D-Ga
Congress
Rome
House Appropriations Committee
Cairo Press Attacks King Hussein Regime Over Deals
Cairo newspapers attack the Jordan regime led by King Hussein accusing him of covert talks with Israel. In Damascus about 10 000 Palestinian refugees march denouncing alleged Jordanian peace talks and lands not for sale slogans. Syrian guards tightly surround the Jordan legation as Hussein answers the campaign.
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Cairo
King Hussein
Egypt
Hussein
Jordan
Israel
Damacus
Tinian
Palestine
Jordan Legation
Damascus
Non-Injury Wrecks Reported in City
A quartet of two car crashes occurred in Roswell over the weekend with no injuries. Incidents were at North Sea and W 10th St at 7 07 p m Friday East Alameda and Ash at 12 03 a m yesterday Main and Hendricks at 5 51 p m yesterday and Second and Washington at 8 10 a m today during the weekend.
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Roswell
North Sea
W. 10Th St
East Alameda
Ash
Main
Hendricks
Second
Washington
Man shot while seated ends deer hunt near Hope
23 year old Ronald Lease of Portales was shot in both legs while seated during the 1957 big game season at Bates Ranch near Hope. Joseph Nickson of Lovington fired thinking he saw a deer’s head. Lease was transported to Roswell for bone fracture care. Nickson fined 200 dollars and banned from hunting for ten years after aiding the injured man.
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Artesia
Ronald Lease
18Th St
Portales
Lease
Eastern New Mexico University
Joseph B. Nickson
Roswell
Nickson
George Martin
1006
Sears Ave
Martin
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