Week of August 8, 1959
Space race - Explorer VI, described as the “greatest
satellite” and carrying the most comprehensive
scientific package yet, hurls into space by the United
States. Scientists say it will relay data from space as
long as a year.
Downtown Rosenburg OR - A truck loaded with six and a half tons of explosives
catches fire from a burning building and explodes, killing 10 persons and injuring
more than 100. The immediate area was virtually leveled in this town of 12,200.
Premier Castro flies suddenly to Las Villas province where government troops
are reported to be fighting unidentified counter-revolutionary forces.
Fidel Castro’s forces smash a two-pronged air-sea invasion of Cuban territory
and foil a threatened uprising.
Vice President Nixon says his cordial reception by the Russian people shows
that Soviet propaganda has failed in its effort to make the average soviet citizen
hate Americans. This failure plus a genuine longing for peace among the
Russian masse, is the “only explanation for the tremendous outpouring of
friendship” toward him on his recent visit behind the Iron Curtain said Nixon.
Around 3,000 persons are reported rounded up in the Castro regime’s harsh
military drive against alleged counterrevolutionary plotters.
Gov.
Orval E. Faubus
says he saw nothing to be gained by
opposing the violence the integration of Little rock’s public
high schools this week. The governor went on Little Rock
television and accused the school board and police chief
Gene Smith of becoming puppets for the federal government,
but he urged citizens to fight integration through the election of
officials who would not betray them.
More Little Rock - Two Negroes integrated Central High
School as club-swinging police held back a crowd of jeering segregationists. At
least 24 persons were arrested.
