Atlas Fires Over Atlantic On Intercontinental Test Flight
Cape Canaveral reports the 85-foot Atlas missile launched Friday night on an intercontinental range flight over the Atlantic in a test aimed at improving accuracy. At Eglin Air Force Base a 47-foot Bomarc was destroyed after launch, plunging into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Fla
Air Force
U.S
Atlantic
Eglin Air Force Base
Gulf of Mexico
Cape
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Soviet Union
Chandler says he is a serious Derby winner in 1960 race
Kentucky Governor A. B. Chandler, 61, a former baseball commissioner, declares he is a serious presidential contender. He notes he is not running for the exercise but for the roses and plans to enter early primaries in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and possibly Indiana.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
Chandler
New Hampshire
Wisconsin
Indiana
Burglars Make Capture Easy
DETROIT AP Police tracked Theodore R. Cooper and Paul Steven Stevenson after a grocery store burglary. The youths loitered outside the market, provided names and addresses, and minutes later the store was robbed. Police found the safe under the front steps with the dial knocked off. Cooper and Stevenson pled guilty to robbery.
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Detroit
Theodore R. Cooper
Paul Stevenson
Cooper
Stevenson
Vermont Vigilantes Trial in Chelsea Court
The case centers on a Newbury murder linked to a December vigilante plot over a beating of Eli Martin by Gibson. Welsh faces trial after a lynching escalated from a planned punishment to Gibson's death. Mass lie detector tests in Concord unsettled the town, with direct testimony to begin Monday in Chelsea.
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Eli Martin
Reed
Welch
Martin
Newbury
Concord
N. H
Vermont
Frank Carpenter
Chelsea
Nixon Dedicates Oregon Dam
Vice President Richard M. Nixon dedicates The Dalles Dam in Oregon and presses the button to start a 10th hydroelectric generator, adding 76 000 kilowatts to the northwest power pool as part of federal Columbia River projects.
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Dalles, Ore
Richard M. Nixon
Dalles
Columbia ‘River
Nixon
Northwest
Tough Greek Cypriot Leader Calls for Unity
Gen George Grivas urged reconciliation and unity for Greek Cypriots after a peace conference with Archbishop Makarios in Rhodes. The pair, leaders in Cyprus independence efforts, met to mend differences seen as threatening regional peace and voiced mutual cooperation despite not issuing a joint communique.
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Rhodes
George Grivas
Makarios
Cyprus
U.S. Calculations Align with Russian Lunik Claims
U.S. officials said calculations based on limited Soviet data broadly supported Moscow on Lunik I and II flight details. They noted only sparse data on Lunik II and III but found rough agreement on orbital periods and Earth proximity while a potential orientation discrepancy with Tass charts remained unresolved.
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Moscow
Russia
Illness prompts further tests for Dr. Arthur H. Compton
Nobel laureate and former Washington University chancellor Dr. Arthur H. Compton, 66, was flown to St. Louis after falling ill at his northern Michigan summer home. Barnes Hospital officials called his condition serious but satisfactory and stabilized as doctors planned more examinations following last July surgery to replace a weakened artery segment with a dacron tube.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Arthur H. Compton
Compton
Washington University
St. Louis
Michigan
Barnes Hospital
Barnes
Lopez Mateos At Ike's Camp
President Eisenhower hosts Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos at Camp David for an overnight visit. Lopez Mateos joins a growing list of heads of state entertained there, following Khrushchev and Macmillan. He will leave Tuesday for a tour of Chicago New York Ottawa Niagara Falls and Texas. Mrs Lopez Mateos stays in Washington for the weekend.
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Eisenhower
Mexico
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Catoctin
Lopez Mateos
Camp David
Thurmont
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev
England
Harold Macmillan
Chicago
New York
Ottawa
Niagara Falls
Texas
Red Chinese Down Nationalist Plane Over North China
Communist Chinese guns shot down a Nationalist Chinese reconnaissance bomber over North China. The Red New China news agency identified the aircraft as an American-made RB-57-D twin engine turbo prop and said it was engaging in harassing activities when shot down Friday.
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TOYKO
UPI
North
China
Red New China News Agency
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt to Reach 75 Tomorrow
New York reports Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt will turn 75 on Sunday with a private Hyde Park party for about 28 guests. She will begin two new careers including a Boston educational TV program and a Brandeis University teaching position.
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New York
UPI
Hyde Park
Boston
Brandeis University
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Ture
John
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Henry Morgenthau
Henry Morgenthau III
Radio man’s foundation gets million from widow’s bequest
A Connecticut widow May Rockwell Page left 22000 shares of General Motors stock to radio broadcaster Joe Rosenfield Jr. and his Happiness Exchange Foundation. The foundation funds a program on WABC that helps listeners in need. Page died at 88, widow of GM executive De Witt Page.
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New York
Connecticut
General Motors
Police Visitor Lands In Cell
A Portland man Patrick F. D. Martine 25 was questioned at the city police station and jailed on a warrant charging forged checks. Detectives took him to the identification bureau after a inquiry about an accident report. Also noted UPI report: U.S. armed forces in Britain spent over 213 million dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30.
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Portland
Ore
Jake Winter
Patrick F. D
Martine
Britain
South Ruislip
England
U.S
Man and Wife Die Fifteen Minutes Apart in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh a couple died within fifteen minutes of each other on Friday. Mrs Helen M Kernan aged 52 died of a heart attack at her McCandless home. As she was being consoled by a physician her husband Thomas Kernan aged 51 collapsed and died of a stroke doctors said.
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Pittsburgh
Helen M. Kernan
McCandless
Buckingham Palace Guard Ordered to Parade Behind Rail
London AP reports tourists crowded the gate forcing Buckingham Palace guards to retreat indoors. A War Office decision effective Oct 17 keeps guards on view but protected by railing, aiming to prevent provocation and allow proper patrols amid crowd pressures and a prior incident involving an American tourist.
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London
Buckingham Palace
War Office
Tokyo Welfare Office Plans Wives Quarrel Shelter
Tokyo officials announce a plan to open a building to house wives while domestic quarrels are settled, aiming to keep them from returning to their mothers. An official said the shelter would provide temporary housing during marital disputes.
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Tokyo
UPI
Metropolitan Welfare Suretu
Rockefeller Praises Harriman on Handicapped Employment Program
New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller lauded former Governor W. Averell Harriman for shaping the program to employ the physically handicapped. At the Governor's Committee meeting, Rockefeller cited the State Employment Service data showing over 20,000 disabled workers placed in jobs through July, exceeding all of 1958.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
W. Averell Harriman
Rockefeller
Harriman
State
Ted Williams Ex-Wife Seeks Higher Child Support
Doris Tridico of South Miami asks the Miami circuit court to raise child support for her 12-year-old daughter Barbara from $100 to $250 monthly. She was divorced from Ted Williams in 1955, with Williams keeping the $42,000 home, a Cadillac, and $50,000 in the divorce settlement.
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Miami, Fla
Ted Williams
Barbara
Doris Tridico
South Miami
Boston Red Sox
Circuit Court
Williams
Perishables Move First On Docks
Longshoremen returned to work after an eight day strike as 85,000 dockers obeyed a federal order. Airports from Maine to Texas resumed operations while perishables valued at about 30 million dollars moved amid a 160 million dollar strike cost. Automation remains the core issue in talks with the New York Shipping Association. Wages average 2.80 dollars an hour.
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New York
Maine
Texas
Atlantic
Eisenhower
International Longshoremen’s Assn
ILA
Northern Ports
New York Shipping Assn
Virginia
Divorce Awarded To Bambi Linn
Stamford Conn AP The split up of dancing partners Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander is final as they end their marriage. Linn Burke of Westport won an uncontested divorce on mental cruelty. Alexander absent touring in the Orient. Linn Burke waived alimony but keeps custody of daughter Belinda 2 and receives $220 monthly support. Alexander gains limited visitation. Belinda to receive unspecified stock.
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Stamford, Conn
Bambi Linn
Rod Alexander
Miss Linn
Rod Alexander Burke
Westport
Alexander
Orient
Belinda
Awning Breaks 75 Feet Injures Painter In Louisville
William Thomas Watts, 32, a window frame painter, chose not to roll up an awning from a sixth floor window. Moments later his bosun's chair collapsed, sending him 75 feet into the awning and then to the street. He suffered cuts bruises and a possible back injury. A doctor said the awning saved his life.
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Louisville
William Thomas Watts
Watts
Bosun
Monkey’s paw found in moonshine jars at Yee King Jung den
Treasury agents seized three jars of moonshine at Yee King Jung’s opium den after his April arrest. Convicted of narcotics, Yee avoided moonshine charges. Agent Jack Courtney opened the jars and found two hands and a foot, later identified as monkey limbs by County pathologist Henry Moon. Old Chinatown residents say monkey’s paws in aging liquor are a rare delicacy.
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San Francisco
King Jung
Treasury
Yee
Runnning
T-Men
Jack Courtney
Henry Moon
Chinatown
Record U S Interest Rate Tops 4 1 Percent on Short Bills
Washington AP reports the U S government paid a record 4 262 percent yield on a 3 month bill auctioned Friday. The issue totaled 1 2 million with a 400 million 182 day bill bid at 4 666 percent. Over 100 000 individual investors bought 9 27 billion in new 5 percent notes maturing in four years 10 months.
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Washington
Treasury
GE to light Panama Canal with 1300 fluorescent fixtures
General Electric wins a $500,000 contract for 1300 fluorescent lighting fixtures to illuminate regular night passage through the Panama Canal. The Earl M. Freund Co. of Panama will install the fixtures, replacing old lights that currently allow only emergency night traffic.
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Hendersonville
N.C
Panama Canal
General Electric Co
Earl M. Freund Co
Panama
Canal
Quiz winner defends integrity after $106,500 prize
Army Capt. Michael O Rourke says he received no help and saw no questions on Tic Tac Dough while winning 106500 from 1957 to 1958. He testified before a House Commerce subcommittee amid NBC firing producer Howard Felsher and amid past coaching allegations within the show.
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Sill
Okla
Army
Michael O'Rourke
O'Rourke
Army Artillery Center
Joe
Howard Felsher
National Broadcasting Co
NBC
Dan Enright
Jack Barry
Council Fails to Take Stand on Adirondack Preserve Road
Niagara Falls AP report notes the State Conservation Council did not adopt a position on a proposed amendment allowing use of part of the Adirondack forest preserve for the Northway superhighway. Delegates split 24 in favor of a Lake Champlain highway alternative, short of the three quarters needed. The meeting also heard Assemblymen Leo Lawrence and R. Watson Pomeroy endorse condemning a plan to turn the Barge Canal over to the federal government, with calls to study before voter action. The council wraps its 26th annual meeting with officer elections.
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State Conservation Council
Adirondack
Lake Champlain
Leo Lawrence
Herkimer
R. Watson Pomeroy
Wassaic
Pomeroy
Frank E. van Lare
Rochester
Senate
Council
London financier Grunwald held on 9 million pound fraud charge
London AP reports financier Friedrich Grunwald, 34, was ordered held on 40,000 pounds bail to face charges of misappropriating 3.255 million pounds. He appeared without plea as detectives investigated a sprawling takeover scheme linking firms run by Harry Jasper. Grunwald was released to await a Nov. 4 hearing after bail approval.
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London
Friedrich Grunwald
Grunwald
Grunwad
Harry Jasper
Israel
Rockefeller calls Soviet trade stance Cold War trap
Soviet official Georgi Zhukov condemned New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller for urging cautious East-West trade expansion. Zhukov accused Rockefeller of Cold War rhetoric and said peaceful coexistence is the only alternative to nuclear war.
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Moscow
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Georgi A. Zhukov
Soviet State Committee For
Rockefeller
Russia
Free Nations
Tass
Zhukov
Ford Powell Split Off for 11th Time
SANTA MONICA Calif AP The 11th postponement has been granted in hearings preliminary to the divorce trial of Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell. The court delayed the hearing until Oct 21 when told it would take half a day. Ford 43 and the former dancer 46 became estranged last May 1 but still share the Beverly Hills home.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Glenn Ford
Eleanor Powell
Ford
Beverly Hills
Public Views Shock Chemists
A nationwide survey of 2000 people finds 83 percent credit scientists with important contributions but most view chemists as shy awkward and socially inept. Dr Wayne E Kuhn of the American Institute of Chemists released the findings.
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Huntsville
Ala
Eighly
Wayne E. Kuhn
American Institute of Chemists
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