Wintry Blast Leaves Northeastern States in Death Toll
A winter storm across the Northeast caused at least 20 deaths mainly from traffic accidents. Snow and ice knocked out power to over 25 000 homes, with Connecticut reporting 10 000 outages and Governor Ribicoff mobilizing armories for heating and shelter.
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Hartford
Conn
New England
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Abraham Ribicoff
West Virginia
Eisenhower Wins Reelection In 1956 Vote Totals Record
President Eisenhower swept to reelection on November sixth with 35,575,420 votes to Adlai Stevenson’s 26,033,066, a 9,542,354 lead. Other candidates gained 417,090, totaling 62,025,576, a new record though near the 1952 high. The GOP margin was the largest for a Republican in history.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alf Landon
Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
Reception Center At Prison Urged
Benjamin W. Wright of the Montana State Board of Pardons urged a Deer Lodge reception center for felons to study case histories before prison placement. He argued for a diagnostic center with psychiatrists, psychologists, educators, sociologists, and others to tailor treatment, rehabilitation, and social reeducation programs.
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Helena
Deer Lodge
Montana
Benjamin W. Wright
State Board of Pardons
Montana Judges Assn
Wright
Workers Return To Jobs in Budapest Plants
Hungarian workers showed renewed job attendance at the Csepel plant as pressure for the release of arrested leaders continued. Western reporters faced expulsion while authorities allowed some continued coverage. 36,000 workers are employed there and about 28,000 sat down Friday demanding frees.
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Budapest
Janos Kadar
Erica Waha
Associated Press
Richard Kilian
London Daily Express
Hungary
Waha
Kilian
New York City
Richard Kasischke
Endre Marton
Kasischke
Marton
Csepel
Danube River
Sandor Bacz
Boy suffocated in old icebox during play in Baltimore
A nine year old boy, Melvin Ray Menear, died after being found suffocated inside an unused refrigerator in his home during a game of cowboys and Indians. His father Ray M. Menear found him. he died at Johns Hopkins Hospital despite revival efforts. A toy pistol in the refrigerator was his new Christmas gift.
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Baltimore
Melvin Ray Menear
Ray M. Menear
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Menear
Santa Claus Name Origins and Dutch Influence
The name Santa Claus arose from English attempts to say San Nicholas, the Dutch Saint Nicholas. The Eve of St Nicholas, gift exchange date, moved from December 6 to Christmas Eve. If you seek cash for unwanted items, place a Want Ad by dialing 5451.
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Santa Claus
New York
San Nicolaas
Seal Sale Faces Curtailment Threat in Butte County
Silver Bow Tuberculosis Association pleads for greater support for Christmas Seals amid slow donations. If funds remain low, 1957 may see cutbacks in free services including the courthouse chest X ray clinic, jeopardizing tuberculosis detection and control programs for Silver Bow County.
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The
Silver Bow Tuberculosis Assn
Association
Hiram Biiney
James F. O'Brien
James McCashin
William Daley
James F. McCarthy
Frank L. Harrington
Patrick Whalen
James T. Finlen
Luke F. Hasley
J. L. Mondloch
John Walsh
Matt Christy
Frank Gersh
O. R. Ashford
Carroll Fabian
Oscar Hills
Eugene Hogan
Silver Bow
Montana Weather Summary Reveals Cold Wave Across State
Montana east region faces a cold front Sunday with near zero temperatures after daybreak and 10 to 30 degrees in the southwest. Highs fall from 35 south of the front to near zero behind it. Sunday night lows drop to zero to 15. Snow possible, dangerous road conditions. western Montana expected cloudy with light snow, highs 25-35 and lows 10-20 through Sunday to Monday.
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Montana
Great Falls
Lewistown
Miles City
Possible US role may curb Soviet pull in Middle East
William L. Ryan reports six weeks across Europe and the Middle East suggest US aid could keep Arab nations from leaning to the Soviet camp. He notes Nasser openness to UN study on Israel Arab tensions and urges US leadership as Soviet influence grows amid oil economies and political strains.
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William L. Ryan
Associated Press
Europe
Middle East
U.S
Russia
Israel
United States
Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Nations Commission
Nasser
NATO Vigor and Unity Hailed by Ike and Dulles
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles praised renewed vigor and unity in the Atlantic Alliance amid tensions with Eastern Europe. They cited NATO’s post Paris talks on modernizing forces and a plan to reduce U S infantry by about 4000 men over two years, with a new emphasis on consultation and peaceful dispute resolution.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dulles
Atlantic Alliance
Europe
Duiles
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Council
United States
White House
NATO Council
Britain
France
Guerrillas Attack French Jeep Norwegians Fire
U N troops in Port Said opened fire Saturday on Egyptian guerrillas attacking a French jeep. It was the second shooting incident since the international police force began in Egypt. Norwegian blue helmets fired at grenade throwers with no reported casualties. The Norwegians had been attacked earlier in the day.
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Port Said
Egypt
U.N
U. N
United Nations
Dean Francois Chavel
Chavel
Clarence Saylor Dies During Montana AIME Meeting
Clarence V. Saylor of Great Falls, head of the Montana Section of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, collapsed from a heart attack at the Finlen Hotel during a section meeting. He died en route to hospital. survived by his wife and a son. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Clarence V. Saylor
Great Falls
Montana
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
Finlen Hotel
Saylor
Butte
J. R. van Pelt
Anaconda Company
Richards Funeral Home
Salmon Woman Killed Crossing Highway in Arlee
A 64 year old Salmon Idaho woman Mrs Mabel White visiting a sister in Arlee Montana was struck and killed by a truck on U S Highway 10A through Arlee. The driver Lawrence Redman of Polson reported he saw her just before impact. An inquest was scheduled for Dec 27 in St Ignatius. Mrs White is survived by a brother Art McLain of Salmon. This death is Montana highways 254th fatality this year.
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Arlee
Mont
Salmon
Idaho
Bill Graham
Mabel White
Ada Chaffin
Graham
Lawrence Redman
Polson
St. Ignatius
Mrrs. White
Art McLain
Montana
Father Sets Fire Killing Children in Oakland
Police say Gerald Clayton confessed to setting an early morning blaze that killed his four year old son Jerry and three year old daughter Diane to scare his estranged wife Dolores. Babysitter Rosie Scotto saved two year old Stephanie as neighbors investigated the fatal fire at their home.
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Oakland
Calif
Gerald Clayton
Jerry
Diane
Stephanie
Rosie Scotto
Clayton
Dolores
Vanderbilt student’s late quiz after wrong pills incident
Bobby Hale of Wilmington Del faced an exam at Vanderbilt University after taking two stay awake pills from the wrong pocket and woke 18 hours later in hospital. He then resumed studying and flew home the same day.
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Nashville
Tenn. A
Bobby Hale
Vanderbilt University
Wilmington
Del
Hale
Vanderbilt Hospital
Butte Youth Wins Rhodes Scholar Nomination in Spokane
Two Seattle youths Gordon Bjork and Theodore Houk won two year Oxford scholarships. Also named were W. Bruce Cook of Butte Montana and John E. Moore of King’s Beach California, chosen from four states in the Pacific Northwest regional selection. Bruce Cook, 21, Montana State University senior, will study in London for two years.
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Wash
Washington
Montana
California
Pacific Northwest
Oxford University
England
Seattle
Gordon Bjork
Dartmouth College
Theodore L. Houk
University of Washington
W. Bruce Cook
Butte
Mont
Montana State University
John E. Moore
King’s Beach
Calif
Reed College
Portland
Oregon
Idaho
North Dakota
Wyoming
Bruce Cook
Bernard Cook
S. Idaho
Cook
Missoula
London
Sherman
Walkerville
Webster-Garfield
The
State University
State Highway Dept
Cooks
Robert
Butte Night Shopping Draws Largest Crowds of Season
Large crowds filled Butte stores and streets on Saturday night as Santa prepared gifts and reindeer for the season run. Stores will stay open until 9 pm Monday with Christmas Eve hours at 6 o'clock.
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Butte
Santa Claus
Psychopathic killer blamed in New Britain double murder
In New Britain Connecticut two men were killed at a service station owned by Edward Kurpenski and an attendant Daniel Janowski. both shot in the head. A third man was seriously wounded in nearby Hartford as police investigate a possible psychopathic killer.
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New Britain, Conn
U.P
Hartford
Edward Kurpenski
New Britain
Daniel Janowski
British and French to Withdraw from Port Said
An Egyptian official said British and French forces would leave Port Said Sunday. One thousand Egyptian policemen would move by train from Ismailia to Port Said Sunday morning, and the foreign troops would already be gone. U N sources indicated a possible completion by Monday.
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Abu Suweir
Egypt
Port Said
Ismailia
U. N
Ballah
EgyptianOfficials Deny Bomb Attacks at Port Said
Burns protested to Egyptian authorities in Cairo over attacks on U N patrols. Egyptian information director Abdel Kader Hatem said Egypt had no knowledge of grenade or bomb throwing incidents and that security in Port Said remained under British responsibility.
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Stockwell
Burns
Cairo
U.N
Abdel Kader Hatem
United Nations
Hatem
Parents Unable To Save 2 Sons In Ice Water Rescue
In Ketchikan Alaska a skiff capsized offshore near Clover Pass during a late night trip home. Father and mother swam to shore with their two boys Charles 3 and Douglas 12 but both drowned despite Coast Guard and medical crews efforts.
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Ketchikan
Alaska
Charles
Douglas
Warren Stanley
G. Lee Stagg
Clover Pass
North Tongass Highway
Stanley
Point Higgins
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