Weather Delays Major Hydrogen Bomb Test At Bikini Atoll
Newsmen learn from mid Pacific observers that a ground level detonation of a hydrogen bomb could cause earthquake like destruction. Weather postponement pushes the air drop test to Wednesday or possibly May 15.
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MT. Mckinley
Bikini Atoll
U. S
William E. Ogle
Joint Task Force 7
mid-Pacific Proving Ground
Atomic Energy Commission
Gaelen L. Felt
Enya Island
Civil Defense
Four Boys Hurt by Blasting Cap Near Missoula Gulch
An 8 year old boy lost thumb and forefinger and suffered head injuries when a blasting cap exploded in Missoula Gulch near McGlone Heights. Three other boys were hospitalized for observation, one escaped unharmed. Names: Randy Lehtonen and Curtis Pederson and Kenneth Salmenen and Robert Woody and Robert King. Police found dozens of caps at the scene and in Lehtonen’s pockets.
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Butte
Missoula Gulch
McGlone Heights
Randy Lehtonen
Willie Lehtonen
11Th St
Randy
St. James Hospital
Curtis Pederson
J. W. Pederson
Missoula
Kenneth Salmenen
Arnold Salmenen
St. James
Robert Woody
Bill Woody
Robert King
Hilda King
Walter Stocker
Young Lehtonen
Stocker
William Ryan
Don Plessas
Syrian students raid U S Peace Exhibit in Damascus
A group of Syrian students staged a night raid on the U S atoms for peace exhibition building in Damascus and damaged a globe map that bore the name Israel, authorities reported Sunday.
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U. S
Damascus
Syria
U.S
Israel
Dulles backs UN Security Council path to Middle East peace
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, with Britain and France, endorsed the UN Security Council as the best route to peace in the Middle East. He noted the 1950 Big Three ceasefire pact remains in effect if UN efforts fail, while Arab Israeli issues may shift to the Security Council amid Soviet arms influence.
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Carl Hartman
Paris
John Foster Dulles
Britain
France
Middle East
U. N. Security Council
United Nations
Security Council
U. N
United States
Pineau
Graham Requests Death at Once in Colorado Case
Denver. John Gilbert Graham 24 asks for immediate execution in the gas chamber after a seven man, five woman jury found him guilty of dynamiting a United Air Lines DC6B carrying 44 lives. He waives appeal and presses for speedy death while lawyers seek a new trial on 36 alleged errors.
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Graham
Denver
John Gilbert Graham
Colorado
Daisie E. King
Helen Hablutzel
Spenard
Alaska
Denver Post
Jack
Dist
Joseph M. McDonald
United Air Lines
Longmont
Colo
John R. Gibbons
Capt. N. Wright
Gibbons
FBI
Hammarskjold Returns to Chorus of Praise
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold returned to praise for his Middle East negotiations on Israeli Arab peace. He urged regional governments to honour ceasefire pledges from Israel Egypt Jordan Syria and Lebanon and said the future would show what grows from the assignment. Minor clash on the Jordan Israeli line noted amid tentative Security Council plans for May 13.
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United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
Middle East
New York
Idlewild
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Lebanon
Council
Hammarskjold
E. L. M. Burns
Canada
U. N
Montana Road Toll Rises to 56 With Fatal Montana Crashes
Montana highway deaths climbed to 56 as a Missoula man, Gary Levere Lincoln, 49, Alberton, died from injuries after his station wagon left U S Highways 10 93 and hit a mud bank near a railroad overpass west of Missoula. Survivors include his widow and three sons. In Cut Bank, Robert Holt, 37, of Taholah Wash., died when his car went out of control on U S Highway 2 near Cut Bank. a passenger, Marjorie Lewis of Seattle, was in critical condition. Holt’s death marked Montana’s 55th highway fatality for 1956.
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Gary Levere Lincoln
Alberton
U. S
Lincoln
Here
Montana
Cut Bank
Robert Holt
Taholah
Wash
U. S. Highway 2
Marjorie Lewis
Seattle
Holt
Grace
Hoquiam
Mental Institution Burns 49 Saved in Lakeland Fire
A fire at a rental hospital in Lakeland Camden County, N J, forced evacuation of 49 patients. The blaze was controlled within two hours as hundreds of firemen battled dense smoke. 40 firefighters succumbed to smoke but were treated nearby. The 100 year old psychiatric building housed 33 men and 16 women patients.
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Camden
N. J
Lakeland
Camden County Institutions
US set to restudy disarmament policy after London talks
President Eisenhower adviser Harold E. Stassen said the United States will soon undertake a broad restudy of disarmament policy, with eight task groups led by figures like Gen. Walter Bedell Smith and Ernest O. Lawrence. He expects Moscow will review its positions as well after the London U N disarmament sessions.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
United States
Russia
United Nations
Stassen
Eisenhower
U. S
London
U. N
Walter Bedell Smith
Ernest 0. Lawrence
William H. Doolittle
New York
Moscow
Five Drown as Boat Capsizes in Indiana Farm Pond
In Indiana Pennsylvania five people including four children drowned when a flatbottom boat capsized at a pond in Willet while testing a new outboard motor. Two children survived by clinging to the overturned craft for hours until found by neighbors after Hazel Fairman raised the alarm.
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Indiana
U.P
Willet
Eugene Fairman
Fairman
Hazel
Battleship Wisconsin Hits Destroyer Escort In Fog
In dense fog off the Virginia coast the battleship Wisconsin collided with the destroyer escort Eaton during a rescue of a man overboard. Neither ship faced sinking, but the Eaton was badly flooding and no casualties were reported.
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Norfolk
Red China Reported to Receive Jet Bombers
Taiao News Agency citing the Chinese Nationalist Interior Ministry said Soviet Russia delivered 15 jet bombers to Red China last month in a strategic arms transfer.
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Taipei
Formosa
Taiao
Interior Ministry
Soviet
Russia
China
Ellender predicts bloodshed if forced school integration
Senator Allen J. Ellender warned on Sunday that bloodshed would occur in the South within five to ten years if forced school integration proceeds. He spoke as political tensions over desegregation stirred national debate.
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Washington
U.P
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Disgruntled Drinker Sought In Slaying At Church
New York police sought Tony Tudorache after a sniper killed a church warden or warden at St. Dumitru Romanian Orthodox Church during a large Easter service. Five others were wounded as hundreds gathered for the Gregorian calendar holiday.
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New York
Florian Galdan
Ileana
Carol
West Side
Tony Tudorache
Tudorache
Tony Savas
Costachi Mihalachi
St. Dumitru
James B. Leggett
Algerian Battle Ends With About 80 Nationalists Dead
A two day clash near Ouenza in the Constantine district pitted Algerian rebels against French troops. About 80 nationalists were killed and 50 captured in the fighting that spilled into Sunday. French losses were not disclosed. Rebels ambushed two French groups Saturday night during the eastern Algeria battle.
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Algiers
Algeria
Ouenza
Constantine
10 000 Foot Descent Into Tyrrhenian Sea Reported
Prof. Auguste Picard and his son Jacques completed a bathy scaphe descent near Ponza in the Tyrrhenian Sea on September 30 1953 reaching about 10168 feet. The report appears in maritime coverage alongside Want Ads offering marine equipment.
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Auguste Picard
Jacques
Ponza
Dial
Trio Is Quizzed After Butte Bar Robbery
The Oasis Bar at 201 S Main was held up at gunpoint by a stocking masked bandit around 10 15 Sunday night. About an hour later three young men were taken to the city jail for questioning and were being held. It was the second armed robbery in uptown Butte in 48 hours as detectives sought a break.
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Oasis
S. Main
Butte
Montana Weather Overview for Monday and Tuesday
Weather summary for Montana shows mainly cloudy conditions across the south with partly cloudy skies in the north. Expect scattered afternoon showers or thunderstorms in the southwest and extreme south with little temperature change, highs around 55 to 60. In the western portion expect partly cloudy conditions to start and clouds with scattered afternoon thundershowers in the south, highs about 60 to 65.
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Montana
Butte youths win Navy ROTC scholarships
Two Butte high school students, James R. Bassett and Jack Edwin Duffy, are among 13 Montanans named for Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarships. Duffy will study petroleum engineering at Oklahoma University, while Bassett will attend Harvard to major in chemical engineering. Both graduates of Butte High School will join the Naval Reserve after college and serve two years on active duty.
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P. C. Gaines
Montana State College
Butte
James R. Bassett
Jack E. Duffy
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Bassett
Duffy
Butte High School
Oklahoma University
NROTC
Harvard University
National Honor Society
Key Club
Key Club International Board of Trustees
Protection Club
Order of DeMolay
Order For
Projection Club
Montana
Dillon
American Legion
Supreme Court
Naval Reserve
Naval Sciences
Attlee Daughter Works On Love Machine Invention
The London Sunday Dispatch reports Lady Janet Shipton, eldest daughter of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, is developing an invention called the love machine. The device would assess if a couple is compatible for marriage and is tied to her work as a psychologist at the Burden Neurological Institute.
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London
Russia
Eisenhower
U. S
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
U. N
U.P
The
London Sunday Dispatch
Clement Attlee
Attlee
Janet Shipton
Burden Neurological Institute
Balloting Set Today in Maryland State Primaries
National campaign tempo shifts with six states voting this week. Maryland holds balloting Monday ahead of Indiana Ohio West Virginia Florida and New Mexico on Tuesday. Johnson dominates Texas Democratic faction, shaping delegates for the national convention.
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Maryland
Indiana
Ohio
West Virginia
Florida
New Mexico
Sen
Lyndon Johnson
Allan Shivers
Texas
Johnson
U. S. Senate
Shivers
Shivers-Johnson
Washington
Associated Press
Traffic Scramble Begins Today in Uptown Butte
Butte launches a pedestrian scramble at Park and Main turning the intersection into a crossing zone for walkers in any direction while auto traffic stops in all four directions. A walk signal will allow pedestrians to roam freely as motorists see red and green signals. If successful, the system may spread to other busy downtown intersections.
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Butte
Park and Main
Local land law plan commended by Eisenhower
The White House praised a 16 month interdepartmental study urging federal properties across the 48 states to come under state and local laws where possible. It cites post offices veterans hospitals national parks and military reservations as examples of installations now under exclusive federal jurisdiction. The plan aims to reduce legal confusion and preserve federal interests while enabling state law application through Congressional and state action.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
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