Week of July 1, 1951
Washington - The fiscal year 1951 ends with the government assured of a
budget surplus.
Korea - Chinese and North Korean Reds radio acceptance of an allied offer to
talk cease-fire, but at a time and place of their choosing inside South Korea.
Later, the United Nations and Communists agree officially to meet Sunday in the
Kaesong area for preliminary peace talks to end the bloody war.
A United Airlines Mainliner smashes into
Crystal Mountain, killing a 50 aboard.
Flight 610 was en route to Chicago from
San Francisco.
The Navy claims a world speed and
altitude record when its Skyrocket research plane hits 1,300mph at 70,000 feet.
Spies? - Two American diplomats are ordered expelled from Hungary by the Red
government.
President Truman issues an order extending for one year, the enlistments of all
members of the armed forces who otherwise would be released between now
and next July.
Sports -
Sam Snead
creeps past Walter Burke for his
third PGA championship.
Television news - Color-TV broadcasts begin on a limited
scale in the East. But the 5-year-old battle between the
color systems of CBS and RCA is in a fury. Frank Stanton
of CBS said his competitors had conspired to impede
CBS color because they had failed to get government
approval for their own color system. TV pioneer Allen B.
Du Mont replied that the CBS method “is already
obsolete” and the RCA color tube is the future of TV.
