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Halley offers Rogers ouster resolution, Council
Caudle testifies on phone call to Oliphant on lien against plant of T Whitehead, Charlotte mfr; DeWind shows lien removed next day; Caudle denies knowing this; testifies that Whitehead, while under tax probe, flew him and Oliphant to Fla in '47, let Caudle use private plane for 2 other trips; Caudle lists others on trips, including Justice Dept aides; says he did not know of Whitehead's tax trouble at time; recalls that as US Atty he recommended E Punt for wholesale liquor license; says he did not know Beaty would have controlling interest in Punt firm; Whitehead comments; White House repts no hint of Truman action against Oliphant; cites Truman approval of Justice files release
chmn Davis ousts pres P J Neff for giving testimony 'detrimental' to co at ICC hearing; scores chief acctg officer C D Peet testimony; Neff declines comment; his testimony cited; will remain as chief exec officer for trustee G Thompson
Dewey frees him after Gov Persons recalls warrant
1951Barbara Morgan, American educator and astronaut[†]
Barbara Radding Morgan is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. In 1998, eight years after the Teacher in Space Project had ended, she was selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate, training as a mission specialist; astronaut Morgan flew on STS-118 in August 2007. As such, she became the first teacher to go into space.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]