Khrushchev Backs Date For Nuclear Talks In Geneva
Khrushchev agrees with the Aug 22 proposal to suspend nuclear tests for a year starting Oct 31 and favors Geneva as the conference site. Moscow radio says talks aim to end all nuclear tests by all states forever and to establish a universal control system. The plan hinges on U.S. and Britain joining talks in New York on Oct 31 and continuing unilateral suspensions until a permanent ban is reached.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Geneva
Eisenhower
Newport
R. I
James C. Hagerty
State Department
Washington
U.S
Khrushchev
Crimea
United States
Britain
Russia
New York
Soviet Union
U.S.S.R
Eisenhower signs 42 bills boosting Social Security and other measures
President Eisenhower signed 42 bills including an increase in Social Security benefits and taxes. The measures total over 10 billion dollars for foreign aid, federal offices, military construction, and West European atomic power pooling. Also approved were farm price support adjustments and disclosure requirements for welfare funds. two minor bills were pocket vetoed.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Newport
R.I
U.S
West Europe
Virginia School Lifts Racial Ban
Norfolk Virginia, AP The Norfolk School Board yields to a federal desegregation order and will assign 17 Negro children to white schools but asks U.S. District Judge Walter Hoffman to delay integration until September 1959. The board cites state laws threatening funding and closure. Governor Almond was unavailable.
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Norfolk
Norfolk School Board
U.S. Dist
Walter E. Hoffman
Virginia
Arlington County
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Hoffman
U.S. Supreme Court
Little Rock
Ark
Freak Drowning At LaGrange Lake In Michigan
Hazen Acker, 58, of Alma Michigan, drowned when a parked car rolled into LaGrange Lake while he unloaded a boat from a trailer. The brakes slipped and he became trapped face down beneath the vehicle in the water.
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Dowagiac
Mich
LaGrange Lake
Hazen Acker
Alma
Missing Denver Boy Found Fatally Injured
An 11 year old boy who vanished after visiting a circus for an elephant ride was found fatally injured. Walter Joseph Hamill 28 of Camden New Jersey confessed to strangling Lester G Brown eleven with the boy's own ID tag chain and burying him in a railroad yard gravel pile. In a signed statement he said he had an urge to choke the boy and later admitted improper liberties. A coroner's inquest has not yet been completed. The boy, son of Mr and Mrs Lester G Brown, and friend Kenneth Sharpley 11 joined the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Denver Coliseum grounds and met Hamill near the elephant barn. After offering a ride on an elephant Hamill told Lester to return alone that night. They spent about two hours in the barn, then walked to a dumping ground where the tragedy occurred after Lester complained the knot in his ID tag chain hurt his neck while Hamill tried to untie it.
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Denver
Lester G. Brown
Walter Joseph Hamill
Camden
N. J
Asst
James E. Childers
Hammill
Childers
Kenneth Sharpley
Denver Coliseum
Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus
Coliseum
Lester
Hamill
Right Combination
Burglars attempted a bold Bronx safe theft at a second floor office. They damaged a three by four safe on the second floor, rolled it to an elevator, moved it to a sixth floor office, hoisted it to the window sill and dumped it to the street. The safe shattered on impact and the raiders fled with an estimated amount in cash checks and securities.
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New York
Bronx
Mexico City Police Fire on Mobs in Clashes at D. A. Building
Mexican capital police opened fire as student and worker mobs stormed the federal district attorney building seeking the release of jailed students. Tear gas and water hoses failed to stop the unrest, and gunfire was used until troops from suburban barracks restored order after more than four hours of fighting. Two killed, many injured. details conflicting. The clashes centered at El Caballito and Plaza de la Republica amid bus and Pemex oil union grievances.
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Mexico City
Federal District Attorney
el Cabalito
New York
Times Square
Plaza de la Republica
el Caballito
Little Horse Circle
Charles IV
Pemex
Interunion
Moon based system could monitor world says Fulton
U S congressman James G Fulton reports a new moon use to spy on Earth. He says ion emission and moon bouncing detect launches or explosions, enabling near real time global monitoring behind the Iron Curtain. Fulton notes prior hearings and credit to German Japanese researchers and Britain’s Jodrell Bank support.
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Hague
Netherlands
United States
James G. Fulton
R - Pa
Fulton
International Astronautical Federation
Amsterdam
House Committee For
Astronautics
John T. Hayward
Naval Research and Development
Earth
Moon
Jodrell Bank
Fort Benton Area Boy Killed In Truck Mishap
A 13 year old Fort Benton area ranch boy, Ray Edward Taylor, died when the pickup he drove lost control on a downgrade near the family ranch east of Fort Benton. He was en route to a field to pick up his brothers when the accident occurred Wednesday night. He was survived by four brothers, Kenneth, Robert, William and Paul, and by his parents Mr and Mrs Kenneth Taylor. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Monday in Fort Benton. This marks the 116th Montana road death this year, compared to 133 last year.
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Fort Benton
Fort Benton Area
Ray Edward Taylor
Kenneth Taylor
Kenneth
Robert
William
Paul
Fort Bentor
Montana
First Step In Reshuffle Of Armed Forces
The Defense Department will create eight unified commands starting September 15 with U S European Command led by Gen Lauris Norstad in Paris. Other commands follow December 1 and January 1, coordinating land sea and air forces under Eisenhower approved plans and Joint Chiefs of Staff issuance.
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Washington
Deense Department
Armed Services
U. S. European
Air Force
Lauris Norstad
Paris
Mediterranean
Adm. L. Hallaway
London
Alaska
Frank A. Armstrong Jr
Elmendorf Air Force Base
Caribbean
Army
Ridgely Gaither
Quarry Heights
Canal Zone
Atlantic
Jerauld Wright
Norfolk
Colo
Strategic Air Command
Thoma Power
Offutt Air Force Base
Neb
Defense Department
Eisenhower
Defense Secretary
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Alaskan
Secretary of Defense
Joint Chiefs
Search Party Finds Congressman's Son in Wyoming
A search party found Christopher Reuss, 15, son of Wisconsin Congressman Henry Reuss, in good health near Gannett Peak in west central Wyoming. He had been missing since Wednesday after separating from two companions during a hiking trip.
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Pinedale
Wyo
Christopher Reuss
Wisconsin
Henry Reuss
Wyoming
Gannett Peak
Sheriff's
Mansfield to Open Montana Democratic Platform Meeting
Senator Mike Mansfield will headline the Montana Democratic platform convention in Billings as more than 300 party leaders gather. The opening follows two days of hearings by the platform committee, with Rep. Lee Metcalf hoping a draft is ready for Saturday sessions. Effie Wilson and Leif Erickson vie for state chairman amid Lemire opposition, while James E. Murray is to speak at a Saturday banquet.
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Montana
Effie Wilson
Billings
State Central Committee
Leif Erickson
Helena
Hugh Lemire
Miles City
Wilson
Erickson
James E. Murray
Yellowstone County
U.S Plans Ten Atomic Blasts Before Test Freeze
Washington AP reports the government will carry out 10 low powered atomic blasts in Nevada to complete the 1958 program, with tests at Eniwetok and Johnston Island having occurred earlier. McCone says shots in Septem ber and October include underground tunnels and balloon or tower detonations, most under one kiloton. seismology data is a key aim.
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Washington
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Test Ground
Eniwetok
Johnston Island
Pacific
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
Britain
John A. McCone
AEC
McCone
Wedding Bells Amid Rising Marriages And For Sale Ads
Economic conditions slow marriage rate briefly yet more people of marrying age wed than before. Want ads see rising use as articles sell quickly at low cost. To place a for sale ad, call 5451.
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Dial
Farm Product Prices Decline Nationwide
The Agriculture Department reports a one percent drop in farm product prices from mid-July to mid-August, the third straight monthly decline, though prices remain about three percent higher than a year earlier. Cotton prices rose while dairy products showed seasonal gains. prices farmers pay for production and living costs fell by one third of one percent. Food prices led the downturn, with overall prices about three percent above last year.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Defense Secretary Lauds Labor's Role on Labor Day
Secretary of Defense McElroy praised the labor force as an indispensable partner of the armed forces in a Labor Day statement. He noted workers contribute loyalty, skill and significant output of weapons and supplies for national security, welcoming recognition by the Department of Defense.
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Washington
Defense McElroy
McElroy
Defense Department
Department of Defense
American Military Men On Formosa See Invasion Soon
Formosa reports a typhoon and heavy artillery bombardment by Communist forces around the Tan islands reinforce fears of a Red invasion. American officials judge chances of an assault on Quemoy and nearby offshore outposts rising, with President Eisenhower weighing U S response and possible intervention.
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Formosa
Forrest Edwards
Taipei
Little Tan
Red China
Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Tatan and
Red
Amoy
Heavy Holiday Travel Sets U.S. Traffic Tone
Associated Press notes heavy Labor Day travel as about 45 million cars head over the three day weekend. National Safety Council forecasts roughly 420 traffic fatalities from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, about 70 more than a typical nonholiday weekend. Comparisons show 300 deaths, 78 drownings, and 94 other fatalities during the last nonholiday period, totaling 472. The record Labor Day toll was 461 in 1951.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Montana Weather Outlook for Saturday and Sunday
Montana east region expects cloudy skies with scattered showers Saturday morning then drying and warming Saturday afternoon with highs 70 to 80. Saturday night through Sunday ailment to partly cloudy, lows 45 to 55, Sunday highs 75 to 85, with increasing western cloudiness Sunday afternoon. West region sees substantial clouds both days with clearing Saturday night and some showers Sunday, highs 70 to 80, lows 45 to 55.
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Montana
Daisy Nixes Major Blow As Hurricane Spares New England
Daisy brushed the Northeast as a capricious storm veering 110 miles off Nantucket Island. Pax weather brought sun to New York and Boston, with evacuations and a six hour delay of President Eisenhower’s Newport trip. Nantucket reported 55 mph winds while Groton’s Nautilus homecoming was postponed then rescheduled.
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Daisy
New
Washington
Newport
R. I
Nantucket Island
Cape Cod
Nantucket
Groton
Conn
Halifax
N. S
Nova Scotia
Maritimes
Woodsman Kills Bear With Chain Saw
Mountain Iron Minnesota AP reports Arnold Anderson, cutting pulpwood, faced a bear rising on hind feet two feet away. He seized his chain saw, turned, and cut open the bear’s belly. The animal dropped dead. Anderson fainted and later found himself partly beneath the bear’s leg.
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Mountain Iron
Minn
Arnold Anderson
Anderson
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