Gaza Strip raid sparks UN censure bid
The Mixed Armistice Commission branded Israel the brutal aggressor for a Feb 28 Gaza assault that killed 38 Egyptians and eight Israelis, violating the 1949 Palestine truce. The panel backed Egypt’s charge as UN officials in New York prepare a potential Security Council rebuke and Burns plans a report.
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Edson L. M. Burns
Canada
U. N. Palestine
Gaza
Palestine
Truce Commission
U. N
Francois Geicomaggi
France
Ghomaggi
Burns
Government House
Biggest A-Blast Seen From Nevada Test Site
The 1955 Yucca Flat blast lit western skies twenty minutes before dawn, seen from Las Vegas and as far as Klamath Falls Oregon and San Francisco. The 30 kiloton device rose to thirty thousand feet with a two puff mushroom cloud, observed by about 50 people on Angel's Peak. More than 100 aircraft participated as the AEC notes forty experiments in the test series.
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Yucca Flat
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Nevada
Angel’s Peak
Charleston Range
Yucca
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Ede Head
Klamath Falls
Ore
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Phoenix
Ariz
Mexico
Air Force
Navy
Marines
AEC
Air Academy Tests Set For Saturday
Nominees from Illinois for the new Air Academy will take entrance examinations Saturday at 13 schools and colleges. The Air Force announced 6,358 nominations for 300 vacancies in the first class, with exams to be held at Chicago area sites and schools in Oak Park Peoria Quincy Rockford Springfield Urbana and Winnetka. The tests cover verbal and mathematical aptitude achievement and English composition and social studies, plus medical and officer aptitude screenings. The first class will begin July 11 at Lowry Air Force Base and a permanent academy is under construction at Colorado Springs. About 2,500 last minute nominations were received as officials sorted applications.
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West Point
Annapolis
Colorado Springs
Airboat Collision in Everglades Kills One, Injures Sixteen
One man is dead and sixteen people injured after two airboats filled with passengers collided near the Tamiami Trail in the Everglades. The craft, propelled by plane-type propellers, struck at a bend on Sunday before drivers could maneuver to avoid impact.
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Tamiami Trail
Weather and lake levels at Crab Orchard and Little Grassy
The report notes yesterday low of 28 and high 39 with 6 p.m. today 23 and noon today 44. Sunrise 6 23 a.m. and sunset 5 58 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake sits 5 inches above spillway today and Little Grassy Lake 2 inches above spillway today.
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Cough Drop King Dies at 67 of Smith Bros Cough Drops
William W. Smith II president of Smith Bros. Cough Drops, died of a heart attack. The 108 year old secret formula, guarded by family, may pass to a brother or stepson. For decades he secretly spent two weeks twice yearly in a vaulted room overseeing the mix of sugars, oils, and flavors that built an American candy icon.
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Smith Bros
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
William W. Smith II
Smith
Blind Couple To Keep Baby In Akron Court Ruling
Akron Ohio March 7 A deaf and blind couple won their bid to keep their two week old baby. Juvenile Court Judge Russell Thomas ruled the County Welfare Department cannot remove the child for placement in foster care. Hathaway couple of Stow defended their ability to care with support.
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Harold Hathaway
Welfare Department
Leo Mulhearn
Hathaway
Georgia
Stow
Hot Rodders Denied Use Of Los Angeles River As Race Track
Los Angeles police rounded up about 150 youngsters racing souped up jalopies on the dry river bottom of the Los Angeles River. About 30 other cars fled up the San Fernando Road ramp. no arrests were made as officers reminded the river is not a race track.
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Air Force C54 Crashes in Formosa Mountains
A U S Air Force transport plane carrying 14 people crashed Sunday in cloud shrouded mountains of southeast Formosa near Taitung. Rescue teams head to the scene. no survivors reported. The plane, from the 6000th Squadron in Tokyo, had less than an hour after last radio contact near Hengchun.
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Tokyo
Hengchun
Air Traffic Control Center
Theater
Church warns East Germany Catholics on indoctrination program
The Roman Catholic Church told about two million East German members that sacraments will be denied to anyone taking part in a proposed Communist indoctrination program, West Berlin Catholic spokesmen said.
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East Germany
West Berlin
Italian Police Let Church of Christ Sign Stand
American supported Church of Christ members in Italy installed a fourth improvised sign after police earlier tore down three signs. A U S Embassy query prompted a shift as Rome police permitted the sign, with officials signaling it could remain after promises to stop removals.
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Cline R. Paden
Brownfield
Lubbock
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Italy
U. S
Rome
Bakery Oven Blast Kills 5 in River Forest Store
A gas oven explosion in the bake shop of the River Forest Wieboldt Store killed five men and injured another, damaging walls and windows across the four story building. Four victims were installers of the new 32 pan oven, the fifth a store engineer. Police attribute the blast to illuminating gas. exact trigger undetermined. Damage estimated over $100,000.
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River Forest
Wieboldt
Bernard Gerard
Ohio River Still Rising Families Moved
The Ohio River rose toward multi year crests with 706 families moved from lowland homes and 116 business establishments affected along the river in Ohio. Crests reached Cincinnati 61 feet and Portsmouth 60 feet with various nearby levels. Ashland 62.5 feet and Huntington 59 feet. Gallipolis expected to crest tonight, possibly reaching 61 feet earlier in the week. Weather Bureau tentatively set the 61 foot crest for Cincinnati early Thursday.
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Portsmouth
Ashland
Huntington
W. Va
Gallipolis
U. S. Weather Bureau
Coroner Jesse Boyd Dies in Hillsboro Home
Jesse Boyd aged 83 and Montgomery County coroner died Saturday night at his son’s Hillsboro home while serving his fifth term.
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Jesse Boyd
Montgomery County
Hillsboro
Boyd
Princess Margaret Romance Rumors See Boost in London
Persistent rumors that Princess Margaret will wed divorced air ace Peter Townsend gain traction as a major tabloid features an interview with Townsend in Brussels. Reports note Margaret would gain freedom to wed a commoner upon 25th birthday, but Townsend’s 1952 divorce and Church of England rules complicate any potential marriage.
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Forty eight Little Stinker entries seek $250 prize
The mail brought forty eight entries for the $250 prize, all on postcards except four. No poems accompanied any submission, and no harsh remarks were directed at the Stinker Editor.
Gunmen Kill Ex-Convict Near Northwest Side Tavern
Police hunted two masked gunmen who ambushed and killed Emil Grudecki 36, a fre quently arrested burglar suspect, in front of the Twenty Hundred Club. Two witnesses, tavern owner Rock Cassella and another man, described the attack as gunmen in a blue sedan firing before fleeing. Authorities noted Grudecki had over 100 prior arrests since 1936 and a 1938 sentence for assault.
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Grundecki
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James McMahon
Rock Cassella
Mike Lacurda
Cassella
Gradecki
Five Die in Two-Car Crash Near Dwight
A Sunday night collision on Routes 47 and 66 near Dwight killed five people and left a sixth seriously injured. Victims include Mrs Felecia Polizanis and LaVerne Heele both 29, plus passengers Vincent Craddock 28, Clarence Peterson 30, and Raymond Sassenger 35. Ralph Denge 27 of Des Plaines was critically injured with a double skull fracture. The crash occurred at an icy intersection when two southbound cars could not stop and struck the wreckage of the other vehicles. Helen Buell Joliet and Alonzo Hudson Centralia drove south and were not harmed.
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Felecia Polizanis
Chicago
LaVerne Heele
Vincent L. Craddock
Pontiac
Clarence Peterson
Raymond Sassenger
Helen Buell
Joliet
Alonzo Hudson
Centralia
Egypt and Syria push for a new neutral Arab alliance
Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia called for a new neutralist Arab military and economic alliance to replace the eight nation Arab League. They agreed on principles for a joint military command and bal lances with non Arab nations, inviting Iraq later if it severs ties with Turkey. Saudi Arabia voiced full support, with a meeting of premiers and defense ministers planned next month to finalize details.
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Syria
Saudi Arabia
Arab League
Iraq
Turkey
Saud In Riad
Lebanon
Jordan
Yemen
Libya
Khaled el Azem
Damascus
Gaza
Israel
Ford Foundation pledges 50 million for college faculties
New York March 7 AP the Ford Foundation sets aside 50 million dollars to aid private colleges and universities raise faculty salaries. Henry Ford II announced after a foundation trustees meeting that recipient institutions will be chosen by a forthcoming advisory committee. Schools must match the gift with funds from other sources at varying ratios, with final distribution due by end of 1957.
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Ford Foundation
Henry Ford II
Ford
Storm toll in Tokyo area rises from five day storm
Eighteen people were killed and 46 remain missing after a five day storm that swept the Yellow and East China seas last month. One hundred seventeen small ships were sunk damaged or washed away in the tempest.
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Yellow
East China Seas
Federal payroll cut totals 282,893 in two years
The Eisenhower administration says the federal payroll fell by 282,893 in two years. Civil Service Commission figures show employment dropping from 2,649,441 on Jan 31, 1953 to 2,366,548 on Jan 31, 1955, with Washington area lost 26,481. The decline began in mid-1952 and continued through the period, including a December to January net drop of 319,002, much of it due to Christmas temporary post office workers.
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The
Civil Service Commission
Washington
Truman
Davis defeats Vincent in Illinois Supreme Court race
Official canvass shows Republican Charles H. Davis of Rockford leading Democrat John T. Vincent of Sugar Grove 33 210 to 12 514 in the February 28 contest. Davis will serve out the unexpired term of Justice William J Fulton from the 6th district, running to 1960.
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Charles H. Davis
Rockford
John T. Vincent
Sugar Grove
Supreme Court
Davis
William J. Fulton
Sycamore
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