Letters Reach Powers Family Amid Spy Trial Talk
Newsweek reports one letter reached Mrs Powers in Milledgeville Georgia while elder Powers remained unavailable for comment. A cousin, Mrs Helen Beck, says no letters are known to have arrived and Powers cannot talk. The letters reportedly say he must stand trial for spying and urge family to refrain from visiting until after the trial.
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Powers
Milledgeville
Newsweek Magazine
Helen Beck
Newsweek
Russia
Cary
Spy Pilot Writes To Family
Norton Virginia report notes a spy pilot writes to his family as authorities reveal a captive situation involving Sol Cury a Norton businessman and ally of Oliver Powers from nearby Pound. The fragment indicates ongoing suspense around a possible capture and local reaction.
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Norton
Sol Cury
Oliver Powers
Pound
Housewife Labor Brigades Formed in East Germany
Frankfort Germany UP I reports East Germany plans housewife labor brigades under the Democratic Women's League to ease a labor shortage. Brigades would work 15 to 20 hours weekly in industry or agriculture and renounce pay for patriotic reasons, aiming for over 25 million man hours in 1960.
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Frankfurt
Germany
UPI
East Germany
Institute For German Industry
East
West Germany
Democratic Women's League
Bells And Flashing Lights Announced Chilean Quakes
Two Tucson men Ronald Viets and James Roberts were first to learn of the Chilean earthquakes when alarms at the U S Magnetic Observatory rang at 3 48 am on a Saturday. The bells and flashers alerted families as seismographs and a magnetometer recorded a severe quake about 400 miles south of Tucson. The observatory monitors global seismic and magnetic activity and relays data to Honolulu via FAA. Observers note quakes often strike at night and residents remain calm after alarms.
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Tucson
Ronald Viets
James Roberts
Chile
U.S. Magnetic Observatory
Tanque Verde Road
San Francisco
Honolulu
Leslie Ernenwein
U.S
Viets
Roberts
Catalinas
Hich
Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States
Fredericksburg
Tucey
Federal Aviation Authority
Oilfield Smorgasbord Showcases Diverse Drilling Terms
New York based UPI account describes an oil field driller using a playful taxonomy of field jargon. He lists appetizers as TNT beans as valves and cabbage bearings, biscuits as rocks, apple butter as belt dressing, donuts as round tubing, macaroni as big pipe, spaghetti as lite pipe, and catsup as red acid, illustrating a semantic buffet of equipment and processes.
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New York
UPI
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