Eisenhower Returns to Washington for Budget Talks
President Eisenhower cut short his Gettysburg vacation to return to Washington for budget negotiations and a decision on Russia's invitation to top level talks. He will consult with John Foster Dulles and Cabinet members, set the July 1 fiscal plan, and consider a later summit if Soviet Western ministers can agree on concrete proposals.
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Merriman Smith
Washington
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Russia
White House
Congress
John Foster Dulles
Nikolai Bulganin
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Civil Rights Commission
Percival Brundage
Defense
Neil H. McElroy
Administration
Bulganin
Safety Council Mourns Loss of 175 Lives On Nation's Highways
National Safety Council cites 213 total holiday deaths from traffic and other incidents during 30 hours from New Year’s Eve to New Year’s Day. New York led with 24 traffic deaths, while Eureka South Dakota reported a fatal nine-vehicle head-on crash. A snowstorm across the Midwest contributed to dangerous conditions and multiple crashes.
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Safety Council
United Press
National Safety Council
Council
Ned H. Dearborn
America
Eureka
S.D
New York
California
New Jersey
South Dakota
Texas
Dearborn
Midlands
San Francisco Bay Bridge
Chicago
Senate
Pasadena
Calif
Ukiah Rainfall Hits 18.34 Inches for Winter
Ukiah area winter rainfall totals rose unofficially to 18.34 inches with a 0.42 inch addition since five last night. County supervisors wrap up 1957 business and brace for 1958 with key items on tap including a water clarity ordinance aimed at curbing waste in streams and a predatory animal control clash. Weather analysts call the season about one to one and a half inches above average, with totals about 14 inches higher than last year at this point.
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Ukiah
Jaebys
Cb. Bley
Fort Bragg
Meniocino State Hospital
Fire Department
Rain totals and weather plans referenced in county report
The report notes rainfall of 18.34 inches, compares it with the 1995-56 season’s 51.09 inches, and cites Jan 1 1956 at 26.42 inches. Forecasts predict scattered showers in Northwestern California, with clearing in the south. Fogs are expected to recur and county officials discuss hospital debt collection and subdivision maps.
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California
Rokossowsky Relieved as Transcaucasus Command Leader
London bulletin via Ph Moscow Radio reports Marshal Konstantin Rokossowsky has been relieved of his post as commander of the Transcaucasian Military Command.
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Bulletin
London
Moscow Radio
Konstantin Rokossowsky
Elephant in Nottingham Home Stuns Wife and Neighbors
Mrs. Noreen Linley woke New Year to an elephant waving from her front door. Her husband fought it with a vacuum hose while she alerted police. The animal, aided by its circus trainer, was eventually persuaded to leave the house and street.
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Nottingham
England
Noreen Linley
Linley
Christenson Baby First New Year Baby 1958
Mr and Mrs Merle Christenson of 704 N State St welcomed a son born 19 minutes after midnight Jan 1 1958 at Hillside Hospital with Dr William West in attendance He may win First Baby honors and prizes The parents are Purity staff and hoped for a girl but celebrate their new year beginning with a boy
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Merle Christenson
N. State Street
Mr. Stork
Journal
Mr. Christenson
Hillside Hospital
William West
Daddy
Purity
Skindivers Aid Search for Tule Lake Bodies
Lake County Sheriff R. L. Marr Jr. called in experienced skindivers from Alameda to locate the bodies of two Ukiah duck hunters, Marvin Keiper 24 and Wayne Curry 22, missing since December 21 after duck hunting on Tule Lake. Their kayak was found washed ashore as divers arrived in Lakeport this morning and were to begin work immediately.
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Lake County
R. L. Marr Jr
Tule Lake
Lakeport
Alameda
Marvin Keiper
Wayne Curry
Brilliant Fireball Sighted in Missouri
A brilliant fireball was seen across northeastern Missouri and central and southern Illinois. A moonwatcher suggested it could be Russia’s Sputnik I only if orbital calculations were off. Smithsonian expert Dr. Donald Lautman said he’s quite confident the object was not the satellite.
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Springfield
Ill
Missouri
Tiaois
Russia
Cambridge
Mass
Donald Lautman
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Council to Consider 1958 Gasoline Bids
Ukiah City Council to hold a short meeting to open bids on gasoline purchases for the coming season and for the third time try to obtain a satisfactory bid on installing a panel control board at the city water well. Minor routine business is expected to fill the agenda.
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Ukiah
Kennedy's Cruelty Trial Continued Ahead of Jan 28
Oscar Kennedy's trial for allegedly running down and killing a dog on Thanksgiving is postponed to Tuesday January 28 before Judge Fred Goss. Police say Kennedy struck the dog after several attempts, jeopardizing local children at 1886 Elm Street. He is defended by Leo Cook of Kasch & Cook.
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Oscar Kennedy
Fred Goss
Kennedy
R. W
Elm Street
Hall
Leo Cook
Kasch & Cook
Famed Photographer Edward Weston Dies at Carmel Home
Edward Weston, renowned for detailed photographs of seashells vegetables rocks and sand, died Wednesday at his Carmel Highlands home at age 71. Critics hailed him as a major artist with imaginative works especially his Point Lobos and Death Valley scenes and he held more than 100 solo exhibitions worldwide.
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Carmel
Calif
Edward Weston
Carmel Highlands
Point Lobos
Dearth Valley
Suitor uses bouquet to spur deadly revenge in Turin
In Turin a 19 year old woman Caria Mus fainted after two roses laced with a chemical were pinned to her dress by a spurned lover on New Year’s Eve. She collapsed for 16 hours and survived. The bout of poisoning is being investigated as retribution.
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Turin
Italy
Caria Musso
Caria
Afro-Asian Parley Ended With Anti Western Resolutions
The Afro-Asian solidarity conference wrapped in Cairo with condemnations of the Eisenhower Doctrine NATO and the Baghdad Pact. Delegates urged the West to accept Soviet nuclear test limits and called out U S Britain and France policies as Egypt and India plan a permanent solidarity committee in Cairo to implement the resolutions.
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Cairo
NATO
United States
Britain
France
Egypt
Tahir
Gaza Strip
Youssef el Sadat
India
Anup Singh
PG&E Opens Case For Raising of Natural Gas Rates
The Public Utilities Commission opened hearings on PG&E's petition for an $18,008,000 increase in natural gas rates to lift the average bill by as much as $11 annually. The case follows a $9,313,000 rise that took effect Wednesday and a $5,670,000 increase approved last September. PG&E seeks to raise its return on rate base from under 5 percent to about 6.8 percent and to simplify its rate structure. attorney John C. Morrissey stated about 14 witnesses will testify.
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San Francisco
Public Utilities Commission
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Pg&e
PUC
John C. Morrissey
Whitaker Named Nation's Top Pass Receiver
Reno and Ukiah players share athlete of the month honors from the Sierra Nevada Sports writers and Broadcasters Association. Don Manouklan of Reno, Stanford bound, earns Shrine Game man of the game honors. Tom Whitaker of Nevada, a sophomore, named nation's top small college pass receiver.
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Reno
Don Manouklan
Tom Whitaker
Ukiah Thay
Sierra Nevada Sports Writer' S and Broadcasting Association
Manouklan
Venezuelan government crushes revolt in Maracay
Government says four loyal columns broke the uprising by army and air force units at Maracay, with rebels routed or fleeing. Gen Romulo Fernandez announced the collapse by midnight. Some rebels fled by plane, others possibly left the country. Caracas lifted a black out as the city returned to normal. US Embassy reports all 30,000 Americans in Caracas safe.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Maracay
Romulo Fernandez
Armed Forces
P.s.t
Sant
Single
Fernandez
Caracas Radio
Valencia
Central Plains
U.S
Champagne Men Expect Bubbly Year of Profits
Hollywood reports that champagne makers anticipate a record year in 1958 as public taste broadens beyond formal events. Ben Heck of F Korbel & Brother notes 1957 sales were among the industry’s best and 1958 marks the centennial of California sparkling wine. Count Agoston Hararthy founded the industry in 1858 and built Buena Vista Vineyards in Sonoma County.
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Hollywood
Ben Heck
F. Korbel & Brother Inc
California
Heck
Agoston Hararthy
Buena Vista Vineyards
Sonoma County
Nation's fire losses set record last year
Fire losses across the United States reached a record 1.275 billion dollars in 1957, the National Fire Protection Association reported. There were 11,300 fire deaths, up 700 from 1956, with the Warrenton Missouri nursing home blaze causing 72 fatalities, the worst single loss of life.
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Boston
United States
National Fire Protection Association
NFPA
Warrenton
Polio Vaccine Clinic Set For Friday At County Health Dept
A polio vaccination clinic will be held Friday at the County Health Department, 880 Bush Street, from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Dr. C. H. Murphy announced the no cost clinic is open to any county resident. The first shot now leads to a second in February and a third seven months later, with the fall virus peak. Mendocino County ranks ninth in the state for vaccinations from April 1955 to November 1957.
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County Health Department
Bush Street
C. H. Murphy
Td ‘Tress
State Department’ of Public Health
Mendocino County
New Year Day Nuisances Plague Ukiah Police
Ukiah police dealt with a busy New Year day totaling incidents from a scooter crash injuring Tony Amundsen, 16, when his vehicle struck a curb on S State Street, to a man Joe Duarte Jr in Hillside hospital after an alleged aspirin overdose and a theft of groceries from a car on Oak and Standley streets.
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Magnolia
Pine Streets
East Perkins
Frank Hoaglin
Harold Wilson
Tony Amundsen
S. State Street
Hillside Hospital
Joe Duarte Jr
J. Q. White
N. Spring Street
Oak and
Standley Streets
Ben-Gurion Forming Cabinet Without Key Labor Parties
In Jerusalem Premier David Ben-Gurion seeks to form a new cabinet excluding the Mapam and Ahdut Avoda labor groups. The two parties helped topple his previous coalition by balking at Western alignment and leaking state secrets about an arms mission to West Germany. He plans to seek Knesset approval next week.
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Jerusalem
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mapam
Ahdut Avoda
Ben-Gurion
West Germany
Knesset
Snow Slows Race To South Pole
Wellington dispatch reports Sir Edmund Hillary’s South Pole trek slowed by deep snow halting his snow-cut halftrack and cutting fuel. rival Vivian Fuchs trail remains over 300 miles away as crevassed icefields slow progress toward the pole. Hillary had been due to reach first, altering schedules for both parties.
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South Pole
Hillary Group
Wellington
New Zealand
Sir Edmund
Hillary
Vivian’ Fuchs
Pole
Scott Base
Fuchs
Antarctic
Pipe Here
Skelton
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Red Skelton
St. John's Hospital
Garth K. Graham
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