Faint Signals Spur Search For Vessel
Halifax reports faint radio signals spurred the search for the Danish ship Hans Hedtoft missing after striking an iceberg off Greenland. Lifeboats possibly drifted southwest with 95 aboard as crews from Canada Denmark and Germany, aided by Danish ships and U.S. forces, scoured 40-foot seas and 60 mile winds.
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Hans Hedtoft
Greenland
Hedtoft
Umanak
U.S. Coast Guard
Campbell
Poseidon
Denmark
Engineers urged to back Southern Illinois University degree grants
Springfield staff reports the United Steelworkers education committee will vote Tuesday at the St Nicholas Hotel on a resolution urging the state Legislature to remove restrictions on granting engineering degrees at Southern Illinois University. The move cites engineer shortages in Southern Illinois and argues a new SIU engineering school would boost regional economic strength and national tech standing.
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Springfield
United Steel Workers of America
Southern Ilinois University
St. Nicholas Hotel
Southern Illinois University
St. Clair-Madison
Miinois
Urbana
Illinois
Madison
St .Clair
University of Illinois
Chicago
Lingis
Missouri
Southern Illinois
Easity
Swiss Men Vote No on Women's Federal Suffrage
In Geneva, February 2, Swiss men rejected a constitutional amendment to grant women the vote in federal elections and the right to national office by 654,924 to 323,306. Turnout reached 65 percent with three French-speaking cantons supporting women’s suffrage.
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Switzerland
Europe
Rockefeller Proposes Record NY Budget With Big Tax Increase
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller unveiled a 2.041 billion budget calling for the largest tax rise in New York history. More than 400,000 low wage workers would pay state income taxes for the first time to fund the plan, with new or raised levies totaling 277 million dollars on incomes cigars motor fuel race-track betting estates cigars and tobacco. The income tax would shift to payroll withholding starting April 1 and rise about 25 percent for most people, with the 1958 tax canceled to avoid two-year payments, a claimed 500 million saving amid a fiscal crisis.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Lewis Improves After Pneumonia At Georgetown
Labor Leader John L. Lewis, 78, is much improved after hospitalisation at Georgetown University Hospital. Doctors say his illness, initially described as serious, is pneumonia rather than embolism and his temperature has fallen as treatment proceeds.
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John L.lewis
United Mine Workers Union
Georgetown University Hospital
John B. Minor
Lewis
Minor
Stratton Says Tax Change Still Too Early To Judge
Gov. William Stratton said it is too early to tell if a one cent rise in the Illinois sales tax can be avoided this session. He predicted expanded programs for schools buildings and public aid may require additional revenue and opposed an income tax. A two part civil rights bill was announced with an employment discrimination phase and a temporary commission for hearings. Stratton rejected hints he seeks national office and said he is not considering retirement next year.
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Charles Whalen
Associated Press
Springfield
William G. Stratton
Illinois
Stratton
Rockford Register- Republic
GOP
Weather Outlook for Southern Illinois Turns Cold
Cloudy and cold conditions dominate southern Illinois with a partly cloudy night. Tuesday brings windier and milder weather with a high near 30 and lows around 10 to 15 above.
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Illinois
Castro Plans Wide Agrarian Reform in Cuba
Fidel Castro moves to enact a sweeping agrarian reform in Oriente promising land redistribution to landless peasants. The regime also outlines housing, school and medical center projects while Batista supporters face resumed war crimes trials and Captain Pedro Morejon is executed.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Castro
Oriente
Fulgencio Batista
Batista
Pedro Morejon
Havana
Oped
Sierra Maestra
Raul
Morejon
Virginia Schools Integrate Quietly Amid Calm Patrols
Virginia began racial integration with 21 Negro pupils entering Norfolk and Arlington schools while police kept watch around seven campuses. No disturbances occurred, and officials praised the peaceful transition as Gov. Almond expressed gratification. In Arlington four pupils entered Stratford Junior High, while Norfolk admitted seventeen to three junior and three senior high schools.
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Richmond
Virginia
Norfolk
Arlington County
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
John J. Brewbaker
Brewbaker
Stratford
Arlington
Washington
Stratford School
Arlington County School Administration
Joann Potts
Andrew Kirk Sr
Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties
Jack Rathbone
Space Chief Urges Urgent U S Space Effort
U S space chief T Keith Glennan called for a sustained time money and effort to regain leadership in space as Congress opened a House Space Committee inquiry. He warned the United States trails the Soviets on the time scale due to bigger boosters and proposed mid summer targets for new rocket engines and payloads. President Eisenhower said the nation has a record of solid achievement in space and outlined 1958 experiments and progress in a formal report.
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Washington
U.S
T. Keith Glennan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
House Space Committee
United States
House
Overton Brooks
Dsa
Senate
Eisenhower
Glennan
Moon
Congress
Demos Urge Dulles to Bring Fresh Ideas for Europe
Senate Democrats led by Mike Mansfield demand fresh ideas from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles before his European talks. Dulles plans London, Paris, and Bonn meetings with Fulbright, Macmillan, de Gaulle, and Adenauer to align on Germany, Berlin, and possible East West talks.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Senate Democrats
Soviet Union
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Democratic Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mansfield
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
State Department
Dulles
Fulbright
Europe
London
Paris
Bonn
Moscow
Germany
Berlin
Tunneys Son to Wed In Amsterdam Wedding
Former heavyweight champion Gene Tunney and family arrive in Amsterdam for Varick Tunney’s wedding to Mikie Sprengers a 23 year old daughter of a brick manufacturer The Roman Catholic ceremony is set for Thursday in Amsterdam Netherlands.
Mediation sought in Eastern Illinois University student paper strike
Dr. Quincy Doudna president of Eastern Illinois University asked the Publications Board to submit the dispute to another student faculty mediation group. Editors and 30 reporters quit after Bruce Shaeffer 21 was fired by a 5 4 vote.
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Charleston
Quincy Doudna
Eastern Ilinois University
Eastern Illinois News
Bruce Shaeffer
Skokie
Doudna
Publications Board
LT Am
Washington, D.C
Shaeffer
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