Spokane Area Welcomes Capt Walter E Gray
Walter E Gray 33 son of Mr and Mrs Gilbertt has been assigned to the Ninth Air Division at Geiger Field Spokane Washington He attended Carbondale Community High School 1938 1942 and Southern Illinois University He has served 12 years and was in Okinawa and Guam from 1950 to 1952 Now living in Spokane with his wife and three children Phillip 12 Rebekah 19 and Matthew 8 months
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Walter E. Gray
Gilbertt. Gray
Carbondale
Ninth Air Division
Geiger Field
Spokane
Wash
Capt. Gray
Carbondale Community
Church Leaders See Nuclear Space Challenge to Faith
In St Louis, Christian leaders warned that nuclear power and space travel pose new threats to spiritual values. The National Council of Churches opened its assembly discussing how science affects faith and planning a December 12 interdenominational conference in New York on moral responsibility and nuclear space issues. The council, spanning 30 denominations, urged broader Christian collaboration, noting Southern Baptists and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, along with the Roman Catholic Church, are not members.
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George W. Cornell
Associated Press
St. Louis
America
General Assembly
National Council of Churches
U.S
Red China
Outer Space
Roy G. Ross
New York
Council
Eugene Carson Blake
Philadelphia
Southern Baptists
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Ice Breaks Twins Crown Grass Lake Tragedy
Sun day and Hazel Jean Beaman, 11, fell through thin ice on Grass Lake in Antioch Illinois. Their father Samuel Beaman nearly drowned while rescuing them and was pulled to shore. The sisters wandered about 40 feet from the east shore. their bodies were recovered by searchers with grappling hooks.
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Antioch
Grass Lake
Samuel Beaman
Mary Jane
Hazel Jean
Illinois
Eight Denault children die in Quebec home fire
Eight children aged 8 months to 12 years died in a fire at the Denault home in Sherbrooke Quebec. Authorities believe an oil stove explosion in the kitchen sparked the blaze on Sunday.
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Quebec
Sherbrooke, Que
Lionel Denault
Southern Negroes in South more hopeful on integration
Gallup finds 69 percent of Southern Negroes approve of the Supreme Court ruling on school desegregation, up from 53 percent two years earlier. Respondents cite broader civil rights irritants and a sense of racial loyalty, while fears of trouble remain among a minority.
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South
John M. Fenton
Gallup
Princeton
N.J
Supreme Court
Little Rock
D.s
Site options cast doubt on trillion-volt atom smasher
Senator Wiley reports AEC has not decided on location for the trillion-volt atom smasher. He notes reports the agency favors Argonne near Chicago over Stoughton Wisconsin, while MURA scientists push the Stoughton site with UW and other Big Tech universities involved.
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Washington
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Wiley
Argonne National Laboratory
Chicago
Stoughton
Wis
Madison
Middlewestern University Research Assn
MURA
University of Wisconsin
Commission
Argonne
William F. Libby
University of Kansas
Iowa State
University of Chicago
Washington University
Notre Dame
Helmholtz’s Ophthalmoscope Invents Insight Into Eye
In 1851 Dr Hermann von Helmholtz, a German scientist, invented the ophthalmoscope enabling a doctor to view the interior of a living eye. The device advanced medical examination of eye health and pathology.
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Hermann Helmholtz
Lennon Sisters Win $203 Weekly Contract for Three Years
In Santa Monica California the Lennon sisters Diana Peggy Kathy and Janet win court approval for a three year contract paying 203 50 weekly each The judge also orders 20 percent of earnings to be invested in U S Savings Bonds and allows other engagements that do not conflict with the Welk TV schedule.
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Lennon
Santa Monica
Calif
Lennon Sisters
Lawrence Welk
Orlando H. Rhodes
U.S
William H. Lennon
Diane
Peggy
Kathy
Janet
Florida’s colonial shifts from Spain to Britain to US
Florida passed from Spanish to British control before the American era and was later ceded to the United States, marking a series of sovereignties in its early history.
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Florida
Spain
Great Britain
United States
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U. S. Air Force
Nathan Twining
Curtis le May
Buenos Aires
Washington, D. C
Gallup Poll
U.S. Supreme Court
Eaton & Brown Appliance Co
East Main Carbondale
Cash Rec
Sam. A. Hill
Mgr
O. K
Hill Loan CO
South Hlinois
Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, WM
Winston
Hahad
Logue TV
Univ
Murphypsboro
First National Bank
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