61 Are Killed In Alarming Weekend Highway Crashes
The Associated Press reports 61 people died in 16 traffic accidents during the first full weekend of spring. Victims include eight in a Canadian train collision near Drummondville and multiple teen and college student deaths across California Florida North Carolina Wisconsin Texas and North Carolina with several others injured.
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Que
Modesto
Calif
Jake Green
Darryl A. Borges
Gustine
Jacksonville
Fla
Duke University
U.S
North Carolina
Miami
Fort Lauderdale
Hebron
Wis
Tiny Laverne
Livermore
Marshall
Tex
U.S. 80
Burst Water Main Fixed in Glouster
Glouster residents on Front Street Madison Street areaidle water for about 12 hours after a six inch water line broke Sunday evening. A village crew patched the line in about 30 minutes today at the Front and Madison Street intersection. Water is restored with traffic kept flowing. Keith says the water was shut off during repairs. It was the second break in the line since 1961.
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Glouster
Front Street
Madison Street
Front
Madison Sts
Chester Keith
Pro Nasser Officers Seek Egyptian Reunion in Syria
In northern Syria a revolt by officers demanding reunion with Egypt surfaced from Aleppo. A rebel command reportedly imposed martial law in northern and eastern areas as Damascus urged unity on a genuine basis. Demonstrations spread to Homs and other cities amid deadly clashes with government troops.
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Syria
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Aleppo
Free Officers
U.A.R
Area Command
Egypt
Damascus Radio
Beirut
Lebanon
Homs
Tartous
Deir Ez Sor
Damascus
Traffic Dead Reaches 13 Over State
A major weekend traffic crash near Mount Vernon killed four, part of an Ohio toll that rose to 13 after 54 hours of reporting. An 11 year old Columbus girl perished in a fire and a Cincinnati man died from injuries after a stairway fall. Democratic gubernatorial candidates agree to May 4 Cleveland debate.
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Donna Marie Stone
James Stone
Chicago
Belleville
Ill
George Ballard
Texas
John Edwin Myers
Associated Press
Columbus
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Sigma Delta Chi
Journalism Fraternity
Elizabeth Taylor Goes Out With Burton After Message to Fisher
Elizabeth Taylor sent a courier to New York with a personal note to Eddie Fisher and then took her three children by previous husbands on a date with Richard Burton. Police and a chauffeur with a broom shielded her from photographers during the Sunday outing.
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Rome
Elizabeth Taylor
New York
Eddie Fisher
Richard Bur
Miss Taylor
Cleopatra
Argentina Tries to Move On With Patchwork Cabinet
President Jose Maria Guido pushes a fragile cabinet to restart government as Congress may block. The Intransigent Radical party resents military control while debate over recognizing Peronist election victors remains heated and military aims to bar Peronists from offices.
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Buenos Aires
Jose Maria Guido
Guido
Frondizi
Radical
Juan D. Peron
Peron
Steel labor pact grants extended vacations for workers
The two year steel industry settlement raises vacations toward two months a year for seasoned workers and adds forfeit pensions layoff benefits and grievance procedures. Negotiators from 11 major companies will finalize contracts with Steelworkers Union teams with signing ceremonies expected next Friday.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
Kennedy
Gas Blast Destroys Columbus Home After Potato Plug
A natural gas leak from a potato over a disused pipe exploded Sunday in Columbus Franklin Township injuring no one but wrecking a four room house. Fire Capt. Don Welsh said the blast came from gas escaping and being ignited by a heater or water heater. Damages were estimated at 12 000 to 12 500 dollars. Neighbors heard a roar like a sonic boom.
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Columbus
Franklin
Don Welsh
Five Day Forecast with Below Normal Temperatures
The forecast calls for five days with temperatures about 10 degrees below normal. Normal highs range from 55 to 63 and lows from 35 to 40. Cooler conditions persist with rain or snow expected Friday and Saturday.
Athens Postal Worker Charged With Embezzlement
An Athens substitute clerk Paul E. Parsons 22 was arrested at the post office by postal inspectors after being found with Easter Seals envelopes and Messenger subscription money. The three week probe traced 37 envelopes and 55 dollars in cash and checks, with 21 dollars in Easter Seals funds. Parsons faces a federal embezzlement from the mails charge and will have a Monday hearing in Columbus.
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Athens
Paul E. Parsons
Grosvenor St
U. S. Postal Department
Parsons
Cincinnati
Meade
Athens County Society For Crippled Children
Messenger
Columbus
U. S
William Carson
Athens County
Fred Weber
Weber
Indonesia Says Troops Have Landed Along West New Guinea
Defense Minister Nasution announced to a Bandung university group that Indonesian guerillas landed at Sorong Fakfak and Kaimana along the West New Guinea coast under air and sea escort. Reports also claimed fighting on Waigo Island while Dutch authorities denied heavy Dutch Marine casualties and said they still held Waigo Island.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Abdul Haris Nasution
West New Guinea
Nasution
Bandung
Sorong
New Guinea
Fakfak
Kaimana
Waigo Island
Jakarta Radio
Fire damages Newman Hall dorm in University Circle
A Sunday night blaze at Newman Hall, a Catholic college dormitory near University Circle in Cleveland, caused 4100 dollars in damage and forced 11 students to find new quarters.
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Cleveland
Newman Hall
University Circle
Cemetery Workers End 27 Day Bay Area Strike
In San Francisco the 27 day strike by cemetery workers at 10 major Bay Area graveyards ends as the union accepts a new three year contract. The wage rise totals $18 and the workers will earn $105 a week. The first of about 400 halted burials is set to resume.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
Catholic Excommunication Threat Tied To Segregation Stand
Mrs. B. J. Gaillot leader of Save Our Nations says Archbishop Joseph Rummel warned of excommunication over her segregation stance. She received a personal letter from the archdiocese and questioned the move as picketing continues near Rummel and the chancery.
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New Orleans
B. J. Gaillot
Save Our Nations, Inc
Joseph Francis Rummel
Archdiocesan Chancery
Gaillot
Rummel
Chancery
John Patrick Cody
Buildup Cited For No Nuclear Test Inspection Post
Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin said Moscow rejects foreign inspectors on Soviet soil as new military measures boost defense amid the Berlin crisis. He blamed the Western buildup and said international control posts cannot be stationed on Soviet territory. Arthur Dean urged a reversal of the Soviets’ stance.
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Geneva
Valerian A. Zorin
Kremlin
Soviet Union
Zorin
Berlin
U.S.S.R
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
Tank Outfit Equipped With Unfit Tanks At Ft. Bragg
A House Defense subcommittee and GAO investigators found that a strategic Army unit on alert during 1960 had M48 tanks unfit for combat. About $300000 was spent on repairs but many tanks stayed unrepaired for up to two years while the 4th Medium Tank Battalion, 68th Armor at Ft. Bragg moved to Europe.
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Strategic Army Corps
House Defense Appropriations
Government Accounting Office
68Th Armor
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Europe
Meadville Tribune Increases Daily And Weekly Prices
The Meadville Tribune raises its daily price to eight cents and the weekly to 50 cents effective today. The six day paper previously sold for seven cents daily and 42 cents weekly. In Milton Florida a deadly tornado killed 15 people, one of the state's most powerful on record.
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Meadville
Meadville Tribune
Milton, Fla
Milton
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Workers credit Kennedy in steel contract settlement
Pittsburgh workers across two mills say President Kennedy influenced the new steel labor contract. They credit his role in ending the strike and bringing the settlement, calling it a relief after a long dispute.
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Kennedy
Paul F. Stanny
John C. Susko
Andrew Mastonak
Joe Sokol
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