Olin Develops Jet Starter Cartridge for Air Force
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp awarded a $1 million Air Force contract to manufacture MXU-4-A jet starter cartridges at East Alton. The compact football sized cartridge stores onboard starting power, enabling jets to land on fields lacking starters and speed up engine startup. Developed at Olin’s solid propellant lab, the device replaces older starting equipment.
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Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
D. J. C. Copps
The
Corpotation
Energy Division
Olin
Air Force
Olin’s
Solid Propellant Laboratory
Olin Mathieson
East Alton
Weather and aviation fuel details in 1997 Wy and Illinois report
Mostly fair weather for tonight and Saturday with low 60s in both. Temperatures: yesterday high 83, today 80, sunrise 5 25 a m, sunset 8 25 p m. Lake readings note Crab Orchard Lake 3 inches above spillway, Little Gassy Lake at spillway, Devil's Kitchen Lake 20 feet below spillway. Jet starting tech describes a new ammonium nitrate propellant cartridge for F 105 F 100 and B 52, delivering gas to power a starter turbine. delivery to begin in July and end in December. Energy division also makes gas generators for Nike Zeus Falcon Sidewinder and Navy torpedoes.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Gassy Lake
Copps
Air Force
Energy Division
Kennedy Endorsed by Michigan Governor Amid Campaign Tilt
Sen. John F. Kennedy received the endorsement of Michigan Governor G Mennen Williams as the political spotlight shifted. A forthcoming Midwest foray by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller appeared poised to re-center attention on Republican aims.
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Associated Press
John F. Kennedy
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
Midwest
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rescued Manitoba Boy Survives Week Alone After Plane Crash
A helicopter plucked 9 year old Walter Sedor from near the wreckage of a May 18 plane crash in northwest Manitoba after 15 days alone in the bush. His father Steve Sedor and friend Ken Harrison died. Walter, exhausted but in good condition, drank rain water and ate roots as rescuers found him. The body of his father and friend were recovered by the rescue crew days after the crash near Tartan Lake.
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Flin Flow
Man
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Walter Sedor
Flin Flon
Steve Sedor
Ken Harrison
Tartan Lake
Khrushchev Attacks Eisenhower Nixon at News Conference
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ridiculed President Eisenhower and questioned Nixon as a working partner, calling Eisenhower’s presidency a dark period and saying he lacks will power. He warned leaders like Dulles and Herter could lead the U.S. toward a new war during a Kremlin news conference with 400 reporters.
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Ichev
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Richard M. Nixon
United States
John Foster Dulles
Nixon
Dulles
U. S
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Christian A. Herter
Stratton Opposes Atom Dumping in Illinois
Gov. William G. Stratton declares he is absolutely opposed to using southern Illinois as a dumping ground for atomic waste. He vows to use every resource to block the plan and says the discussion is repugnant. Clarence W. Klassen notes the issue is still in the discussion stage by health officials and the Illinois Legislative Commission on Atomic Energy.
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Springfield
William G. Stratton
Southern
Illinois
Stratton
Clarence W. Klassen
Illinois Legislative Commission On Atomic Energy
Bank Chief Walther Funk Dies at 69 in Germany
Walther Funk, who ran Hitler's war economy and led the Reichsbank, has died at 69 in Dusseldorf. The former Nazi financier was sentenced to life as a war criminal but released on mercy three years ago due to age and ill health.
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Walther Funk
Hitler
Friends
Hitler’s Sister Paula Hitler Dies in Germany
Paula Hitler sister of Adolf Hitler died Wednesday in Berchtesgaden at age 64. She preferred to be called Paula Wolf.
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Paula Hitler
Adolph Hitler
Paula Wolf
Japanese Leftists Demonstrate Against Eisenhower Visit
Radical students clashed with police around Japan's Parliament and Kishi residence in a 12 hour protest against the U.S. Japan security pact and Eisenhower visit. About 5 000 students participated with protests denouncing Kishi and Ike while unions planned a 1 hour transport tie up in Sohyo led actions.
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U.S
Eisenhower
Japan
Nobusuke Kishi
Ike
Kishi
Sohyo
Labor Federation
Khrushchev Attacks Eisenhower to Discredit U.S. Leadership
Khrushchev declares a broad cold war campaign to isolate the United States and discredit President Eisenhower as a free world leader. He ridicules Eisenhower and Nixon, attacks on Camp David, and proposes a revised Soviet disarmament plan amid stalled Geneva talks.
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John M Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
U.S
Richard M. Nixon
Lke
Khrushcev
Camp David
France
State Department
Geneva
Khrushchev Proposes Disarmament Plan With Base Pledge
At a Kremlin news conference Khrushchev outlined a revised disarmament plan demanding the U S abandon foreign bases. He warned host nations would be first hit if war erupts and gave rocket troops authority to strike bases with nuclear warheads if spy flights over the USSR continue. The plan also calls for destroying delivery systems and envisions an open skies surveillance regime once disarmament is achieved.
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Eisenhower
Kremlin
Khrushchev
United
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
United Nations
U. S
Soviet Union
France
Rodion Malinovsky
M. I. Nedelin
Khrushchevy
Beardsley State Legal Chief Dies at 62 in Illinois
Grenville Beardsley, 62, Illinois attorney general since 1959, died at Mercy Hospital after brain surgery to remove a clot following a heart attack. He had suffered a heart attack earlier that day and lapsed into a coma. Survived by widow Leona Murray and son Frank Grenville II. Funeral plans pending. The Republican committee will name a replacement on the state ticket as William G. Clark pursues the Democratic candidacy.
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Grenville Beardsley
Illinois
Mercy Hospital
Beardsley
Atty
Latham Castle
Castle
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Cook County
Salem
Iowa
Knox College
Galesburg
Ill
Illinois Wesleyan
Bloomington
Leona Murray
Frank Grenville II
Republican State Central Committee
Four Per Cent Pay Boost For U S Railroad Engineers
A six member arbitration board awards a 4 percent wage rise in two steps to 40 000 engineers on US railroads. The 2 percent increases take effect July 1 and March 1 1961 with fringe benefits unchanged and COLA included. The ruling delays further changes until November 1 1961.
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Chicago
U. S
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Moscow
Republican
John Marshall Law School
C. Wayland Brooks
Judge Advocate ‘General's Department
William G. Clark
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