Southern Rhodesia imposes emergency and bans African National Party
Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead declared a state of emergency in Southern Rhodesia and outlawed the African National Party to curb nationalist unrest linked to Nyasaland. Raids arrested most party officers while the congress leader Hastings Banda was not detained. Authorities allowed arrests without charge and imposed curfews and movement controls amid strikes at the Kariba hydroelectric project.
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Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Edgar Whitehead
African National Party
Whitehead
Nyasaland
Southern
Northern Rhodesia
Central African Federation
Kariba
Zambesi River
High Court Refuses Two School Cases
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to review two school district consolidation cases. One involved Wooster Local and Wooster City districts. the other the transfer of Morgan Two to Ross Township district in Butler and Wayne counties. Lower courts had upheld consolidation actions, while the appellate court had ordered them in one case.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Wooster
Wooster City
Butler County
Wayne
County Common Pleas Court
Supreme Court
Butler County School Board
Morgan Two
Ross Twp
Herbert C. Baird
Discoverer Satellite Launching Postponed at Vandenberg Base
The Air Force again postpones indefinitely the Discoverer I satellite launch toward a polar orbit from Vandenberg California. The two stage rocket came within 30 seconds of firing on Wednesday twice before countdowns were halted for undisclosed reasons.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Democrats Push Housing Bill Advances in House Action
House Democrats push a $2.075 billion federal housing bill despite veto warnings. The Banking Committee approved the measure, beating back Republican attempts to pare it to the administration’s $1.66 billion plan. No House vote is set yet. the Rules Committee must still review it.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Banking Committee
House Rules Committee
Miami University to Build Physics and Math Building
General construction work on a physics and mathematics building at Miami University in Oxford will cost at least 756,900 dollars.
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Columbus
Miami University
Oxford
Conant Links Community Duty to School Standards
Harvard president emeritus Dr. James B. Conant argues education quality mirrors voting outcomes and places responsibility on communities and local school boards. He cites his The American High School Today findings with 21 recommendations and warns overemphasis on sports or bands can distract from academic goals.
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James B. Conant
Harvard
Germany
Ohio University
Carnegie Corporation
America
Messenger Newsphoto
Harvard University
Boards of Education
U. S
Conant
Berlin tensions rise as Khrushchev speaks on German issue
Washington officials fear a renewed Berlin crisis this spring if the Soviet leader refuses to join high level talks on German reunification. Eisenhower warns Western rights in West Berlin must be defended and calls for negotiations only if Moscow offers measurable concessions.
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Washington
Berlin
Nitka Khrushchev
Explosion rocks Aldermaston H bomb base in England
An explosion at Aldermaston Britain's largest hydrogen bomb facility killed two workers and injured one. Officials said no radioactive material was involved and there is no hazard to staff or the public. The blast occurred while an explosive charge was being unloaded from a vehicle at the site near the village of Aldermaston.
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England
Britain
Woodley Thomas
British Atomic Energy Commission
London
Los Alamos, N. M
Atomic Laboratory
Talks End With No Side Budging in Kiev Bulletin
Kiev bulletin reports Macmillan Khrushchev talks closed with no inch gained by either side. Formal communique to be agreed next Monday remains the sole outstanding item.
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Ukraine
Macmillan - Khrushchev
Reds Told To Avoid Interference
Moscow reports Foreign Prime Minister Harold Macmillan warned Nikita Khrushchev against any move to disrupt Western rights in Berlin. Macmillan then left for Kiev without Khrushchev, who did not attend the departure at the airport. Tass communique avoided notes of warmth after the Kremlin meeting.
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Harold MacMillan
Eisenhower
United States
Moscow
Harold Macminnan
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Kiev
Macmillan
Kremlin
Tass
Citizen Files Petition To Investigate DiSalle
Clifford Crail of Cincinnati filed a petition with House Speaker Sam Rayburn demanding a congressional investigation of Ohio Governor Michael V DiSalle for alleged mistreatment in the governor's office on February 17. Crail claims his citizen rights were violated and the petition was sent to the House Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Clifford Crail
Cincinnati
Sam Rayburn
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
Crail
House Judiciary Committee
General Marshall in serious condition at Fort Bragg
Gen. George C. Marshall, 78, remained resting but seriously ill at Fort Bragg, N C, as officials provided updates on his condition and recovery prospects.
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FT. Bragg
N. C
George C. Marshall
Rhodes Newsman Pair Challenge Mary Todd Lincoln Lunacy Verdict
Ohio state auditor James A. Rhodes and Dean Jan chius publish The Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln arguing the 1875 Chicago insanity verdict was a railroaded conviction. They present the original trial and a cross-examined re presentation suggesting perjury avoiding answers and dismantling the insanity finding.
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Columbus
Ohio
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
James A. Rhodes
Dean Janchius
Mrs. Lincoln
Chicago
Alcorn names Percy head of GOP study panel
National Chairman Meade Alcorn named Charles H. Percy to chair a 44 member committee to draft a long range statement of Republican party principles. The group will meet March 13 14 in Washington and aims to publish a policy statement by September 1 covering civil rights agriculture labor monetary policy and other topics.
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Percy
GOP
Washington
Meade Alcorn
Congress
Eisenhower
Charles H. Percy
Bell & Howell Co
Chicago
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee
Adopted Son of Sheriff in shooting incident
The 12 year old adopted son of Geauga County Sheriff Louis A. Robusky was detained after a Wednesday shooting at the Hosford home. Lynn H. Hosford Sr., 63, was in fair condition at Lakeide Hospital in Cleveland after being wounded. The boy said he took his father's .38 pistol for target practice and acted when Hosford threatened to call his father. Deputies report the boy had run away last September.
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Chardon
Ohio
Geauga County
Louis A. Robusky
Cleveland
Chardon Two
Lynn H. Hosford, Sr
Lakeside Hospital
Richard Ford
Michael Robusky
Hosford
Michael
Burns Fatal Fire Claims South Zanesville Baby
A 20 month old boy, Joseph Maxwell, died the same night his clothing caught fire from a gas heater at his South Zanesville home. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Maxwell.
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Zanesville
Joseph Maxwell
Glenn Maxwell
Rail Workers In Mexico Face Noon Ultimatum
Striking Mexican rail workers were ordered to return to work by noon or be dismissed. The wage walkout affected about 9150 miles of the 14030 mile government system, tying up two thirds of the network. Some trains resumed by Wednesday night as the government labeled the strike illegal and warned penalties.
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Mexico City
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Titan ICBM Makes New Test Flight Success
Cap Canaveral reports two straight Titan intercontinental ballistic missile test flights. The 90 foot rocket launched Wednesday covered nearly 300 miles and officials say the test appeared successful throughout.
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Titan Icbm
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
U.S
Committee To Inquire Into Unions
Washington The Senate Labor Management Committee plans an extensive investigation of unions tactics and spending in political campaigns. Sen Karl Mundt predicts the inquiry will probe flower funds used for sick or dead members and whether federal laws forbid union involvement in federal elections. The panel’s eight members face likely controversy.
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Washington
Senate Labor Management Committee
Karl E. Mundt
R-Sd
Mundt
Chicago
Workers to Vote on Contract at Aluminum Plant
Union members will vote next week on ratification of a contract ending a 344 week strike at the Olin-Mathieson Aluminum Plant near Clarington. The agreement reached Tuesday night was announced Wednesday.
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Woodsfield
Olin-Mathieson
Clarington
Gas Kills Man and Wife in Cincinnati Fatal Blaze
Carbon monoxide poisoning blamed for the deaths of James Dozier 46 and his wife Rachel 45. Their bodies found Wednesday in their West End apartment.
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Cincinnati
James Dozier
Rachel
West End
Desperate Migrant Farm Workers Helped by Priest in Nevada
In Las Vegas Nevada unable to find food or shelter desperate migratory workers from Arizona camps along ditch banks. Father Richard A Crowley a Roman Catholic priest distributed food and clothing and coordinated aid. National Guard tents provide shelter and the Moapa Valley harvest brings work and typhoid inoculations begin.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Richard A. Crowley
Arizona
Nevada
Moapa Valley
Father Crowley
National Guard
Columbus plans shopper’s mall to ban private autos
Columbus traffic engineer James V. Musick proposes an eight block mall in downtown bounded by Long Front Town and Third streets. Private cars would be banned with free buses inside the area and only business vehicles allowed. First phase to start late spring with completion in five years to alleviate expected traffic snarls after the inner belt is done.
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Columbus
James V. Musick
Musick
Grand Jury Hears 9 Witnesses in Klumpp Murder Case
Cincinnati report indicates the Hamilton County Grand Jury may issue findings today after hearing nine witnesses in the investigation of the murder charge against Mrs Edythe Klumpp who is accused of killing her lover's estranged wife. Five witnesses testified Wednesday.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County Grand Jury
Edythe Klumpp
American freed after six days in Tijuana jail
An unnamed American was released after six days in a Tijuana jail as authorities said he was cleared of suspicion in the strangulation and dismemberment of a woman found unidentified.
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Tijuana
Mexico
West Virginia Weather Outlook Tonight Through Friday
Mostly cloudy and not as cold tonight with lows around 30 to 32. Friday partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional rain likely by afternoon or evening. Also light showers possible tonight then a mix of clouds and rain with lows near 28 to 32 and highs near 37.
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