Hurricanes Season Opens With Miami Tracking Station
The 1956 hurricane season opens with storm headquarters in Miami under Gordon Dunn. Air Force and Navy fliers will map and track storms from origin to landfall or dissipation, using stations from Brownsville to northern Maine and a new West Palm Beach forecast center. First named storm Anna leads list of female names.
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Miami
INS
Air Force
Navy
Gordon Dunn
Miami Weather Bureau
Lindsay-Hopkins
Atlantic Ocean
East
Mexico
Cuba
Bahamas
Puerto Rico
Jamacia
Caribbean
Toronto
Dunn
Washington, D. C
Norfolk, Va
Charleston
D.C
New Orleans
Brownsville
Tex
Maine
West Palm Beach
National Hurricane Research Project
U.S. Weather Bureau
Nantucket
Worcester
Mass
Hartford
Bridegroom dies after 6000 foot plunge from plane door
Oren Ase Pruitt 38 of Charlotte fell from a Piedmont Airlines plane at 6 08 pm on a honeymoon trip to Asheville. His body was found in a church graveyard near Shelby. A Piedmont inquiry, Civil Aeronautics inspection, and a coroner’s jury were opened to investigate.
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Asheville
N. C
Piedmont Airlines
Oren Ase
Pruitt
Charlotte
Shelby
Pruitts
York
Oren
B. B.er
Winston-Salem
Slaughter
C. A. Murray
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Ollié Harris
W. G. McGee
Piedmont
McGee
Eight-Player Swap Feeds Cardinals Giants Trade
The St Louis Cardinals and New York Giants completed a four for four deal. St Louis sent Red Schoendienst Jackie Brandt Bill Sarni and Dick Littlefield to New York in exchange for Al Dark Whitey Lockman Ray Katt and Don Liddle from the Giants.
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ST. Louis
St. Louis Cardinals
New York Giants
Red Birds
Red Schoendienst
Jackie Brandt
Bill Sarni
Dick Littlefield
Giants
al Dark
Whitey Lockman
Ray Katt
Don Liddle
Five Youths Fined After Crystal Beach Race Riot
At Crystal Beach Ontario a police magistrate fined five Buffalo youths 200 to 350 dollars each for Memorial Day disturbances at the amusement park. Three were white and two were Negro. Two others were dismissed. a missing youth prompted a warrant. Seven tried were ordered deported amid about 50 injuries. Michael Guzzio, 21, failed to appear.
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Crystal Beach
Ont
Buffalo
Michael Guzzio
Crystal Beach, Ont
See-Saw Weather Pattern Prompts Dizzy Minnie Forecast
The forecast describes a fluctuating weather pattern with heat buildup, cloudiness, and showers. In Sarasota expect partly cloudy skies through Friday with scattered showers and a high near 89 to 94, low around 70 to 74, winds light to moderate from the southeast and south. Readings show a 29.90 barometer, temperatures around 72, and rainfall of .08 in the last 24 hours.
Sarasota lychee crop hit by quarantine
Summary notes a quarantine impacting Sarasota County lychee crops and directs readers to page 11 for details. The blurb also mentions upcoming Young Democrats campaign rally and a local accident recovery story, plus features from the UDC luncheon and Betty Vance's Kitchen Talk on women’s pages.
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Sarasota County
Young Democrats
UDC
Betty Vance
Flags Few on Sarasota Flag Day Tour
A Sarasota News survey on Flag Day found most streets surprisingly bare of flags. From Lido Beach to Main Street observers noted only scattered flags at select public buildings and shops while homes and many city sites displayed none. The report ends with a critical note on the disappointing display.
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Lido Beach Casino
City Hall
Memorial Hospital
Lido Casino
National Emblem Was Found At the County Court House, the Post Office
Municipal Auditorium
Bayfront Park
Elks Home
American Legion Coliseum
Veterans of Foreign Wars
City Pier
South Osprey
Dainty Bake Shop
South Washington Shopping
Palm Avenue
Strawberry Avenue
John Ringling
Roger V. Flory
7Th Street
Orange Avenue
Little Five Points
Citizens Bank
The
Herald-Tribune
Alamo
Pineapple Avenue
Ringling Hotel
Gulf Filling Station
E. L. Wiederkehr
3Rd Street
Main Street
Our Man
Saba’s Furniture
Baker's Furniture
Kosteces Realty
Alderman’s
Cecelia P
AMA Urges Halt on Free Salk Vaccine Elsewhere
The American Medical Association urged the federal government to stop free Salk polio vaccine distribution except for public health needs and the un able to pay. The AMA House of Delegates asked restoration of vaccine sales to normal commercial channels.
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Chicago
INS
American Medical Assn
AMA House of Delegates
US and Britain Sign Atomic Information Pact
The United States and Great Britain agreed to exchange information on military atomic engines. The deal aims to share details likely enabling Britain to learn about the U S pioneer atomic submarine Nautilus.
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Washington P
United States
Great Britain
U. S
Ike Meets Adenauer at Bedside in Hospital Talk
President Eisenhower and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer held a ten minute hospital meeting at Walter Reed. Eisenhower, in pajamas, urged early action on German reunification to free 17 million in the Eastern zone. Dulles called the exchange a miracle and noted the President’s recovery. Adenauer flew to New York to继续 unofficial U.S. visit.
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Konrad Adenauer
L. Wehrman
Blair House
Richard Nixon
Washington
Eisenhower
Germany
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Dulles
Henry Kellerman
State Department
Adenauer
New York City
Lor
Derailment Kills Nine on Paris Luxembourg Express
Nine passengers died and 30 were seriously hurt when the Paris Luxembourg express derailed near Fismes, 17 miles west of Reims, France. Rescue workers feared more victims trapped as the train traveling at over 60 mph jumped the rails. ten cars left the tracks, two overturned, and three were unroofed.
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Reims
France
Fismes
Tides Highest Since '47 Blow
Three survivors from the sinking of the tug May Dee in the Mississippi Sound were rescued early today amid a tropical storm. Four men were still missing as Coast Guard air and sea units continue a nightlong search near Gulfport and Cat Island for remaining crewmembers.
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New Orleans
May Dee
Mississippi
O. J. Senac
Morgan City
Gulfport, Miss
Ins
Gulfport
Miss
Coast Guard
Clay Calhoun
Stevens
Calhoun
WGCM
Conrad
Cat Island
South Mississippi
Florida
Biloxi
Connelly and Caudle Convicted in Tax Case Conspiracy
In St Louis a federal jury found Matthew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle guilty of conspiring to defraud the government by influencing the prosecution of Irving Sachs. The eight man four woman panel deliberated eight hours forty three minutes before the verdict. Both could face five years and a ten thousand dollar fine. Sachs pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and was fined forty thousand dollars.
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ST. Louis
Matthew J. Connelly
T. Lamar Caudle
Connelly
White House
Truman
Caudle
Justice Department
Irving Sachs
Sachs
Negro Escapes Death In Pardon Board Ruling
Tallahassee The State Pardon Board commuted Otis D. Jackson to life imprisonment after a death sentence for rape, restoring death row after his escape nullified a prior commutation and noting he entered death row at 17.
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Otis D. Jackson
Jackson
Death Row
Air Force targets 600 long range bombers by 1959
In secret testimony Lt. Gen. C. B. Irvine said the Air Force will raise its goal to 600 long range B52 jet bombers by 1959. He claimed the U.S. still leads Soviet air power and noted a House Armed Services review of rocket developments, including the Army Jupiter IRBM, may proceed next month.
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Washington
Air Force
C. 8. Irvine
Orday
Special Armed Services
Irvine
Sde
Armed Services Committee
Army
Patterson
Bus Boycotts Stir Florida Race Tensions Across Cities
Negro leaders urge caution in St. Petersburg Tallahassee and Miami as talks of city bus boycotts echo Montgomery and Tallahassee. In Columbia SC attorneys weigh appeal after dismissal of a segregation case. Meanwhile NAACP legal moves test Louisiana anti integration laws.
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Florida
Montgomery
Ala
Tallahassee
Columbia
D.C
Enoch D. Davis
Negro Citizens Cooperative Committee
St. Petersburg
Four Atlanta Men Die in Brunswick Plane Crash
Four Atlanta businessmen were killed when their four place Cessna crashed into the sound between St. Simons and Jekyll Island at 5 a.m. The accident occurred off Brunswick Georgia as rescue and aviation authorities investigated the cause.
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Brunswick
Atlanta
St. Simons
Jekyll Island
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Anna
Betsy
Carla
Dora
Ethel
Flossy
Greta
Hattie
Inez
Judith
Kitty Laura
Molly
Nona
Odette
Paula
Quendy
Rhoda
Sadie
Terese
Ursel
Vesta
Winny
Xina
Yola
Zenda
Minnie
Minnie Weather-Vane
Silly
Inside the News
Lad
Andrew Jack High
Nixon
Sarasota
Cook's
Pure Oil
Atomic Info Trade
Ike, Adenauer
Bulletin
Cormorant
Bay &J. Louis
Mississippi Sound
Stevens and Co. Inc
Grand Island Channel
Pardon Board
Associated Press
Montgomery and
Ross E. Windom
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
S.C
Sara Mae Flemming Brown
South Carolina
Elec
Tric and Gas Co
George Bell Timmerman
Federal District Court
Board of Rents
University System of Georgia
Georgia Stateollege of Business Administration
Board of Regents
Baton Rouge
NAACP
Louisiana
Kingstree
Buford Boyd
Order of Our Lady of
Pro Segregation Citizens Council
FBI
Commission On Human Rights of the
Catholic Committee of the South
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