Air Force test Thor IRBM flies 1500 miles in space
The Air Force fired a Thor Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile about 1500 miles through space in a test with aims to recover a data nose cone. The 65 foot missile launched from Cape Canaveral coasted out of view after 20 minutes, with a planned recovery of a cone data capsule.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Air Force
Thor
Rovel
England
Atlantic
Douglas
Army
Trbm’s
Senate approves expansive housing bill opposed by Ike
The Senate passed a $2.475 billion omnibus housing bill by voice vote despite Eisenhower administration opposition. It includes $1.8 billion for urban renewal, $400 million for college dorm loans, and $125 million for college loans with a $250 million private loan guarantee option. Amendments cut new money by 475 million, yet the measure still exceeds the president’s recommendations.
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Washington
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Preacott Bush
R-Conn
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Sparkman
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
Capehart
Nuclear test fired at Bikini atoll in Pacific
A Defense Department Atomic Energy Commission release said a nuclear blast was touched off Friday night at 11:30 pm at the Eniwetok proving grounds in the Pacific. It is the 13th test announced in a current Bikini atoll series with few details released.
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Ashington
Eniwetok Proving Grounds
Pacific
Defense Department and
Atomic Energy Commission
Bikini Atoll
Search Abandoned For Thor Able Nose Cone and Mouse
Cape Canaveral Florida AP reports the Air Force abandoned efforts to recover the Thor Able nose cone and the white mouse Laska after a 30 minute 6000 mile space flight. Telemetry indicated the mouse’s heartbeat remained strong for 22 minutes. Crews from ships and planes located the nose cone but recovery was called off.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Atlantic Missile Range
Atlantic
Ascension Island
Africa
E. M. Griffith
Laska
Griffith
Seven Cars Burn In Blaze After Blonde Nap
Beverly Hills police report Yolanda Cancelmi a 26 year old hotel receptionist fell asleep at the wheel on Wilshire Boulevard causing a chain reaction crash that damaged seven cars including two Thunderbirds three Cadillacs a Buick and a Pontiac with damage around 30000 no charges were filed.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Yolanda Cancelmi
Wilshire Boulevard
Five Turkish Cypriots killed in ambush on Cyprus main road
Five Turkish Cypriots were killed and three wounded in an ambush near Kondea Village on the Famagusta to Nicosia road. The attack, the heaviest since fighting began five weeks ago, followed a day of Greek Cypriot assaults that left 14 Turkish Cypriots and 27 Greek Cypriots dead. The island's British governor, Sir Hugh Foot, works with leaders to halt the violence.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Kondea
Famagusta
Hugh Foot
Early Apples Ripening With Limited Volume Expected
The area’s early apple harvest is underway but no large volume is seen before the week of July 20. Growers H. W. Butler Jr and broker Pierro expect a bigger crop once all early varieties are in, with Canada as a major export market and sizes ranging from two and a half to two and three quarter inches.
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H. W. Butler, Jr
Robert Pierrro
Martinsburg
W. Va
Pierro
Canada
Fierrro
F.O.B
Winchester
Baltimore
Washington
California
Fierro
New Jersey
Butler
Division of Markets and Statistics
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Frederick County
Clarke County
Ike's Brother Begins Central American Tour
Dr. Milton Eisenhower starts a goodwill and fact finding tour of Central America with stops in Panama City Tegucigalpa San Jose Managua San Salvador Guatemala City and Puerto Rico. He travels with Rush Eisenhower and will meet students at the embassy and university while officials from State Treasury and loan agencies accompany him.
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Washington (C
Miton Eisenhower
Central America
U.S
Eisenhower
White House
Panama College
Panama City
Panama
State Department
Rush
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
San Jose
Costa Rica
Managua
Nicaragua
San Juan
Puerto Rico
San Salvador
el Salvador
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Washington
State and Treasury Departments
Export-Import Bank
Development Loan Fund
First Class Row With Russia Over Nine Captives
The United States and Soviet Union face a major constitutional dispute as Moscow refuses to free nine American soldiers held in East Germany. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy pressed the Soviet envoy on the hostage issue and also protested the downing of a U S transport plane. Murphy warned continued tension benefits neither nation. The U S asserts Russia retains control in East Germany as a postwar occupier.
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Washington
Moscow
East Germany
United States
Russia
Robert Murphy
Mikhail Menshikov
Murphy
Soviet Union
U.S
Armenia
U. S
Menshikov
Sovett
Lincoln White
State Department
Republican resolutions committee tables Adams resignation call
Roanoke RP The resolutions committee of the Republican state convention tabled a resolution demanding the resignation of Presidential assistant Sherman Adams amid Goldfine hearings. The panel deferred action on two other resolutions to let the U.S. Senate race default to veteran Democrat Sen. Harry F. Byrd. It approved a brief schools resolution urging harmony to keep Virginia public schools open.
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Roanoke
Sherman Adams
Goldfine
U.S. Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Republican Party
Faubus seeks Supreme Court review on Little Rock injunction
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus moves to have the U S Supreme Court review the federal injunction that ordered removal of National Guardsmen from Central High School. The Court of Appeals previously censured Faubus for actions risking government breakdown and a hearing is set in St Louis Aug 4 on related intercreation suspensions at Little Rock school.
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ST. Louis
Arkansas
Orval E. Faubus
U.S. Supreme Court
Central High School
Little Rock
Faubus
Federal Court of Appeals
Robert C. Tucker
Harry J. Lemley
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
City Tax Receivables Reach 35 602 As Of June 30
City auditor Robert S. Barbour reported at the July council meeting that taxes receivable totaled 35 602 as of June 30. The breakdown includes 20 802 in 1957 taxes and 9 933 in personal property taxes with other years 6 901 and penalties 3 150. Collections stood at 639 445, up 27 746 from last year. Real estate collections were 97.7 percent of a 478 441 assessment, and personal property 93.5 percent of 152 135.
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Robert S. Barbour
Middletown Man Killed As Truck Crashes Near Winchester
Charles A. Hanshew 58 of Middletown died when thrown from his delivery truck on Route 608 near Double Churches west of Winchester. Investigators say the top heavy 1952 Metro International had no brakes and the open door contributed to the fatal crash. Hanshew, owner of Middletown Cleaners, leaves a wife and four sisters. Funeral set for Monday at Omps Funeral Home with local clergy officiating. A second Winchester accident reported with $650 damage. no injuries.
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Charles A
Jack) Hanshew
Middletown
Frederick County
Double Churches
Winchester
Hanshew
L. Lee
Henshaw
Metro International
Lee
Mr Hanshew
Mr. Hanshew
Martinsburg
John A
Bertha Herrington Hanshew
Charles A. Hanshew, Jr
Marlowe
W.va
Dennis Hanshew
William Hanshew
John Hanshew
H. B. Small
Aleene O’brien
J. J. Cardarelli
Washington, D.C
Raymond Myers
Charles Town
W. V
Omps
George LeMoine
Trinity Church
Josiah Andrew
Thunderstorms Sweep Broad Swath of Nation With Tornadoes
Storms roared from Texas to the mid Atlantic driving downpours and tornadoes in central Plains and Mississippi Valley. Atchison Kansas suffered a 10 million dollar hit from a hurricane driven deluge. Twisters touched down in Miami Oklahoma Forsyth Missouri and Mattoon Illinois with two injuries in east central Illinois and a Chester West Virginia emergency after floods.
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Central Plains
Mississippi Valley
Rockies
Pacifica Coast
Northern Plains
Atchison
Kansas
Miami
Okla
Forsyth
Mattoon
Texas
Gulf States
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
New England
Sudden Noon Storm Floods Loudoun St Shoppers Stranded
A sudden storm at about 2 p.m. drenched Loudoun Street from Piccadilly to Boscawen, flooding sidewalks and stranding shoppers in stores for about 30 minutes. Police reported temporary traffic disruption as storm sewers overflowed and a service line failed in Joist Hite Place. Power outages and scattered damage were noted townwide with rainfall reaching 1.45 inches.
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Loudoun St
Piccadilly St
Boscawen St
Silco
Power Company
Northern Virginia Power Co
Berryville
White Post
Middletown
Stephens City
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Hershey's Copper Shop
Blonde
Shirkey’s
Sunnyside
House of Good Food
Rt. 50 East
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W. Boscawen St
Posseemen
Norman A. Foose
Regina
N. M
New Mexico
Cuba
Ike's
Tehran
Iran
Turkey
Bernard Goldfine
Supreme Court
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Williams
Boston
Mississippi
Subcommittee
Golfine
Adams
Holdfine
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Harris
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Margaret Shanholtz
Hagerstown, Md
The
Middletown Fire Company
Trinity Episcopal Church
Braddock St
North Ave
Maurice Lake
Frederick A. Fout
Hayfield
Braddock
Jack P. Mansfield
Berkeley Springs
Associated Press
Middle Atlantic States
Bayliss Market
N. Rt
Pleasant Valley E.ub
White Hall Grange
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