Workings Of Atomic Reactor Revealed At Idaho Site
The Materials Testing Reactor at the Atomic Energy Commission testing station near Idaho Falls disclosed to reporters its capacity to produce a record 500 trillion neutrons per hour and to radiate intensely even after fuel removal. The reactor uses 18 million dollars in infrastructure and cools with 20,000 gallons of water per minute from the Snake River, despite core temperatures reaching millions of degrees.
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Associated Press
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Atomic Energy Commission
Here
MTR
Earth
Chalk River
Ontario
Snake River
Rainfalls Dampen Scurry Area with Measurable Amounts
Rain showers yesterday and last night dropped varying amounts across Scurry and surrounding counties. Total yearly rainfall nears 8.5 inches with amounts ranging from light sprinkles in Helmleigh and Ira to about 1.5 inches at Gail, .2 in Snyder, and up to .6 in Lamesa. Fluvanna reported .2 inches, while areas five miles northwest saw as much as one half inch.
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Helmleigh
Ira
Gail
Snyder
Fluvanna
Lamesa
Officials Say Program Okay Despite Rough Spots
In Austin, August 21, federal agriculture officials voiced strong confidence in the emergency drought relief program. K. L. Scott and R. B. McLeaish said early problems are expected but solvable, meeting Gov. Allan Shivers after his Gulf Coast campaign. Walter McKay of the FHA joined to discuss rules under which drought aid operates.
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Austin
Allan Shivers
Ezra T. Benson
Shivers
K.L. Scott
Agricultural Credit Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Scott
R.B. McLeaish
Farmers Home Administration
Gulf Coast
Walter McKay
FHA
John C. White
Lyndon B. Johnson
Seven Vehicles In Two Wrecks At Dusty Roadside
Two crashes on a dusty westbound road near Snyder involved seven vehicles, occurring about five minutes apart after the rodeo dance. Sheriff deputies Bill Love Buddy Norris and Lowell Holt identified total damage mainly to a late model Chevrolet and others with a trailer horse in the mix. no injuries were reported.
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Sheriff's Department
Sheriff's
Bill Love
Buddy Norris
Lowell Holt
Rodeo Grounds
Snyder
Indian cultural delegation to tour Soviet Union
Twenty five Indian dancers musicians dramatists educators and other cultural leaders plan a six week tour of the Soviet Union from New Delhi. The visit follows an earlier Soviet cultural delegation's stay in India this year.
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New Delhi
India
Soviet Union
Public reveal of Eisenhower private power contract talks
The Eisenhower administration released a detailed record of negotiations over a private Dixon Yates power contract in TVA territory. It shows Budget Bureau backing and opposition from TVA and some AEC members, with key figures Bobby Jones and Southern Co. linked to the deal.
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Washington
Eisenhower
TVA
Budget Bureau
Tennessee Valley Authority
Atomic Energy Commission
Democratic National
Stephen Mitchell
Bobby Jones
Jones
Atlanta
The
Southern Co
E. A. Yates
Middle South Utilities, Inc
Edward H. Dixon
Dixon-Yates Group
Memphis, Tenn
AEC
Paducah
Congress
Eugene M. Zukert
Henry D. Smyth
Yates- Dixon
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Thomas E. Murray
Lewis L. Strauss
Joseph Campbell
K. D. Nichols
Waco Transit Workers Threaten Strike Over Hours
Waco Transit Co. employees have given notice to strike September 1 unless the contract is improved. They seek a five day 40 hour week with the same take home pay they now receive for a six day 57 hour week. They are members of the Transit Workers of America CIO.
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Waco, Tex
Waco Transit Co
The
Transit Workers of America
CIO
U S envoy works to bridge rift in Europe talks on EDC
In Brussels on August 21 a French led push against the European Defense Community drew sharp divisions with its five partners. The U.S. special envoy David K. Bruce met with Mendes France and other leaders to seek a compromise while ministers resumed talks aimed at a workable formula before France’s parliamentary debate.
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Belgium
France
EDC
David K. Bruce
U. S
Pierre Mendes-France
Konrad Adenauer
Paul-Henri Spaak
Bruce
United States
Eisenhower
Free World
Mendes - France
U.S
European Defense Community
Pierre Mendes- France
West
Mendes- France
Paris
Defection Rumor Tangles Bonn Politics Over John Case
Bonn reports claim CDU parliamentarian Karl Franz Schmidt Wittmack and family sought asylum in the East, tying the defection to the John case. Adenauer weighs crisis as government contemplates cabinet session while Schmidt Wittmack vacationed in Bonn.
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Bonn
Germany
Red East German
Adenauer
Otto John
Cludes
Franz-Josef Strauss
CDU
Schmidt-Wittmack
John
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
ADN
Strauss
Berlin
Franz Bleucher
Adaneuer
Wolfgang Wohlgemuth
Hitler
Britain
Russia
Washington
Allen Dulles
CIA
Hubertus Zu Loewenstein
Panel to deliver verdicts by Aug. 30 in McCarthy Army case
Senators in the McCarthy Army controversy agreed to submit their verdicts by August 30. Mundt said the special subcommittee set 5 p.m. Aug. 30 for additional statements and finalized a narrative summary of the evidence. A second Senate group plans to begin McCarthy censure hearings on the same date.
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Wilmont Hercher
Washington
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Senate
Sen. Watkins
Utah
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Watkins
Edward B. Williams
Mundt
Secretary of the Army
Stevens
Pvt. G. David Schine
Army
John G. Adams
Schine
Train Truck Crash Claims Three Lives
A Southern Pacific Freight train collided with a pickup truck in Houston at the intersection of tracks and old Highway 146, killing three men. The victims were Pete Perez Maldonado, 18, Baytown. Thomas O. Capetillo, 26, Texas City. and Alfred Benites Garcia, 32, Baytown. Wreckers towed the crushed cab after an hour of work.
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Houston
Gulf Coast
Pete Perez Maldonado
Baytown
Thomas O. Capetillo
Texas City
Alfred Benites Garcia
Southern Pacific
Galveston
Port Arthur Faces alleged Communist led labor unrest
Snyder citizens heard a first hand report on how a labor movement backed by communists disrupted Port Arthur Texas population 67000. Anonymous residents described DPO strikes in 22 firms with paid pickets and threats and said leaders came from distant cities to influence schools churches and hotels. They urged vigilance against complacency and warned other Texas cities.
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Snyder
Texas
Port Arthur
Distributive and Processing and Office Workers of America
DPO
AFL
CIO
American Legion Post
Attorney General’s Office
Washington
Brooklyn
Allan Shivers
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