Air Force to Train Ballistic Missile Crews at Camp Cooke
The Air Force plans a West Coast training base at Camp Cooke Lompoc California to prepare airmen for ballistic missiles. Training will start January with 3000 to 4000 personnel projected as the program develops. Static engine tests will occur though actual missile firings are not planned at Cooke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Air Force
Camp Cooke
Lompoc
Lit
Jll
Air Force Air Force
B. A. Schriever
Mander
Air Research Development Command
West Development
Losles
Schriever
Spinster Found Guilty Of Lonely Hearts Fraud
Philadelphia court convicts Ann Gartman in a lonely hearts scam run via the mails. She posed as a 22 year old heiress and collected bus fare and money from about a dozen men, using photos and fake letters to lure victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Thomas J. Hillegas
Ann Gartman
Miss Gartman
J. Cullen Ganey
Missan
Norbert Trainer
Water
Iowa
Satoshi
Mountainview
Lrf
Gene Keeler
Rhinelander
Wis
Arizona
Keeler
Waving Bandits Active Again In Tucson
In Tucson for the third straight day gun waving bandits struck. George Thornton of the Barrel House Tavern was robbed of about $120 by two men in their twenties. Suspects in earlier holdups arrested. Embry and George J. Bunce face pending trials for related offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Thornton
Barrel House
N. Oracle Rd
Embry
Aetna Finance Co
George J. Bunce
Paul Gee
Catalina
Thornton
NAACP Leader Calhoun Freed After Georgia Records Lookover
In Atlanta NAACP leader J. H. Calhoun was jailed for contempt of court but released after the organization allowed state revenue agents to review its Georgia records. Judge Durwood Pye ordered 12 months imprisonment unless records were turned over. a $25,000 fine was imposed, with potential suspension if compliance continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
National Assn
Georgia
NAACP
J. H. Calhoun
Enue
Pye
Calhoun
Pts
Meanest Thief Right On Schedule
The Meanest Thief began annual thefts near Christmas, stealing $74 worth of toys from Ed Walters's station wagon parked at Lucky Strike Bowling alley on E. Speedway. A screwdriver pried open the window wing as Mr. and Mrs. Walters helped Santa deliver toys to 1189 E. Ellis St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Ed Walter
E. Speedway
Mrs. Walters
Santa Clause
E. Ellis St
Met fires baritone in row over Callas jealousy claim
Enzo Sordello, a 29 year old baritone, is dismissed by Met General Manager Rudolf Bing for insubordination to conductor Fausto Cleva. Sordello accuses soprano Maria Meneghini Callas of jealousy and says patrons rioted when Callas did not appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Enzo Sordello
Met
Rudolf Bing
Bing
Sordello
Fausto Cleva
Maria Meneghini Callas
Enrico Ashton
Frank Valentino
Cleva
Miss Callas
la Scala Opera
Milan
Signor Sordello
Lucia
Italy
Germans Hope To Wrest Gains From World Crisis
Frankfurt dispatch surveys German mood as 70 million citizens split between East and West eye Western leadership amid Cold War strains. Public hopes include possible reunification, freer policy, and new trade with the East, while fearing Soviet moves and seeking NATO stability under U S leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
East Germany
Russia
England
France
Oder-Neisse
Poland
West
NATO
U. S
Konrad Adenauer
Ing
Middle East
Japan
Orient
Europe
Siren Voice Phone Ads Stir Chicago Nightlife
A new advertising gimmick uses sultry recorded voices to lure patrons to Clover Club and Stelzer’s restaurant via dialed numbers. The clips promise romance and cocktails, with other lines offering shopping tips, stock tips, and YMCA inspiration. Most lines go busy, some callers replay.
Record Aid by Arizona Society for Crippled Children
A record number of persons were aided this year by the Arizona Society for Crippled Children and Adults. President Mrs. Harry T. Southworth said the greatest number helped since the society’s 1929 founding, with most funds from the Easter Seal campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix—I
Arizona Society For Crippled Children
Harry T. Southworth
Prescott
U S Demands Syria Allow Emergency Oil Pipe Repairs
The United States protested to Syria over delaying repairs to a sabotaged Iraq Petroleum Co. pipeline crossing Syrian territory. Under-Secretary Hoover urged immediate steps to restore supply, warning that continued blockage worsens oil shortages and risks hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Syria
Herbert Hoover Jr
Farid Zeineddine
State Department
Hoover
Britain
France
Suez Canal
Middle East
Egypt
Majdeddin Jabri
Beirut
Lebanon
United Nations
Iraq
Banyas
IPC
Iraq Petroleum Co
It Just Wasn't Mrs Billings Day
Springfield Utah report of Lizzie Billings slipping on ice breaking her wrist and head, Edgar Drake driving her to a doctor then colliding with Lillian Brown on U S 91 near Springville. Billings with possible internal injuries and pelvis fractures, Drake with back injury, Brown bruised. No corner stone ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Utah
Lizzie Billings
Edgar Drake
Spanish Fork
Mrs. Billings
U.S. 91
Springville
Drake
Lillian Brown
Burglary at Santa Rita Bottling Co. Offices
A thief ransacked Santa Rita Bottling Co. at 107 W. Flores St searching for cash. Desks and filing cabinets were emptied, the burglar failed to open the safe, and two new empty billfolds were missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rita Bottling Co
W. Flores St
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Tucson
Aery
Navy
Antarctic
McMurdo Sound
Callas
By Alfred Leech
Chicago
Alexander Graham Bell
Clover Club
Segalence
Stelzer's
YMCA
Society For Cripples
U.S
WTA Mes
Stone
Broadway
Reilly
John L. Ceceliam
Chris A. Reilly
Reilly Reilly
Pennington
Ryan-Evans Drug Store
Swanway Plaza
Matthias Prescription Pharmacy
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