Test Hour Sees Bikini Lagoon Personnel Quit Evacuations
Aboard USS Appalachian at Bikini on June 20, Vice Admiral Blandy says a 50-50 chance the atomic bomb will be dropped Monday. Over 30 000 military personnel scientists and observers will depart the lagoon if the test proceeds. Only target ships and minimal crew remain to record heat light and radioactivity.
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Don Whitehead
USS
Appalachian
Bikini
Bikini Lagoon
W. H. P. . Blandy
Atomic Task Force
Blandy
U.cigam
Admiral Blandy
Kenneth Whiting
Lagoon
Nevada
Bombing operation hinges on Maj. Harold H. Wood
The plan centers on Major Harold H. Wood of Bordentown New Jersey a top bombardier who will drop the bomb from a B 29 at about 30600 feet aboard Dave's Dream More than 70 planes take part in photo or instrument tasks with army and navy drone planes guided through the atomic cloud to collect particles for analysis
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Harold H. Wood
Bordentown
N. J
Army
Nevada
Dave
Navy
Southeast Cattle Prices Drift as Receipts Tick Up
Thomasville Georgia reports mixed price trends across southeastern markets with slightly higher cattle receipts but reduced arrivals at eight major plants. Slaughter cows softened, good calves fell, bulls rose, and stocker cows held strong while common grades languished. Weekend and holiday closings noted for New York New Orleans Chicago exchanges and July 4 observance.
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Thomasville
USDA
Florida
Othe
Ana Caokce
Tyne Mide
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Five-man Alabama Senate Primary Looms in Huntsville
Montgomery June 29 AP Five candidates pursue the Democratic nomination for U S senator with Rep John Sparkman of Huntsville highlighting TVA work. Sparkman said he stayed in Washington to press an 8 million dollar federal outlay for a TVA superphosphatic fertilizer plant at Mobile and funds for additional TVA dams. He pledged to continue the TVA fight for Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
U.S
John Sparkman
Huntsville
TVA
Sparkman
Washington
Mobile
North Alabama
Georgia pig production up five percent in 1946 spring crop
Athens June 29 AP Georgia's 1946 spring pig crop is estimated at 980000 up five percent from 934000 in spring 1945. Pigs saved are 25 percent below 1944 levels and ten percent under the ten year average for 1935 to 1944.
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Athens
Georgia
Markets At A Glance Chicago Livestock Report
Chicago livestock market report notes salable hogs around 200 head, top price 14.85, cattle salable around 200 with overall market uneven. Close showed price declines across classes, with strictly choice fed steers and yearlings steady, heifers and other grades mostly lower. Grassier and warmed-up light steers and heifers under pressure as Eastern demand narrows. local killers largely out of market. vealers steady, stock cattle opening strong but closing weak.
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Chicago
USDA
Hght
Chicago grain prices and notes from AP report
Chicago grain prices listed by type with No 2 red wheat at 1.97 nominal and No 2 yellow corn at 1.44 nominal. No 3 corn quoted at 1.43 nominal.
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Chicago
Weather Report for Thomasville June 29 1946
Partly cloudy conditions continue this afternoon into Sunday with scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoon. Temperature notes show the highest and lowest readings for the period, with precipitation totaling 0.18 inches in the last 24 hours and 1.94 inches since the start of the month. Normal for the month is listed.
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U. B. Department OF Agricul
APSE
Prigem Tj
Lwest
Ste Ban
Truman Sees Auto and Steel Prices Jump Amid Veto Message
President Truman warns the CPA bill would raise the price of a low cost automobile by 225 to 250 dollars and adds further costs by the measure. He likens exact totals to estimating a city fire. The report also notes scattered Indian reservations in Arizona and mentions Mooney Falls in Havasu Canyon as a geographic highlight.
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Washington
Truman
CPA
U S OK ON LOAN HITS POLE IN POLAND PLEBISCITE
AP analysis notes the United States loan reinstatement complicates Mikolajczyk and the Polish peasant party ahead of the plebiscite. It reveals U S and Britain pressure, government raids, and a rising threat to the party's political survival as Poland heads to elections.
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U.S. OK
Pole Peasant Party
Roberts
J. M. Roberts
JSR
United States
Mikolajczyk
Moscow
Poland
Russia
Warsaw
Lewon
London
Lublin
Britain
Polish Peasants Party
U.S
State Department
Poles Vote For First Time In 11 Years Tomorrow
Warsaw reports that about 11 million Poles will vote in a national referendum marking the end of a turbulent campaign. Officials note nearly 8,000 political killings in the past 10 months and newspapers warn of growing terror with killings of voting commission members and voter intimidation by outlaw bands as the campaign ends.
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Warsaw
Poland
Klan Granted Ten Day Extension on July Answer Deadline
Atlanta June 29 AP Superior Judge Frank Hooper today gave the Ku Klux Klan a ten day extension of the July 1 deadline to answer a suit filed by the State of Georgia seeking to revoke the hooded group's charter. Klan attorney Morgan Belser cited insufficient time to prepare a formal response to the charter violation charges.
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Atlanta
Frank Hooper
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Georgia
Morgan Belser
Hooper
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