Death ruled accident in Nelsonville man’s death
Albert Edward Thress 77 of Nelsonville Route 2 died in what coroner Dr. Owen Yaw ruled an accident from a loaded shotgun incident. He reportedly fell and shot himself while attempting to shoot squirrels. Thress was last seen about 1:30 p.m. Monday and found by his son Gilbert in a trailer used as a chicken coop near his home. He was a retired coal miner with extensive survivors including eight sons and three daughters. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Pilgrim Holiness Church with burial at Green Lawn Cemetery.
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Hocking County
Owen Yaw
Albert Edward Thress
Lanner
Thress
Paul Hartman
Gilbert
James Betts
Charles Betts
Akron
Ferdinand Hannan
Harry Thress
Garnet Dicken
Lancaster
Margaret Woolett
New Plymouth
Vandaleen Shaw
Zanesville
Arthur
Logan
Johnson Funeral Home
Retrial Testimony Not New in Ratterman Civil Rights Case
In Covington Kentucky six men face retrial for civil rights violations linked to the 1961 arrest of George Ratterman with a striptease dancer. After six days little new testimony emerged as two FBI agents testified about interview statements. Judge Mac Swinford earlier limited portions of the agents statements amid attorney arguments.
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George Ratterman
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U. S. District Court
Ratterman
Campbell County
Mac Swinford
U S Wins Contract for Deep Space Station in Australia
Works Minister Gordon Freeth announced a US operated deep space tracking station at Tidbinhill near Canberra with a construction price of 1 170 000 dollars. New York reports actress Gertrude Berg’s illness forces Broadway show Dear Me The Sky Is Falling to close.
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Australia
Gordon Freeth
United States
Tidbinhill
New York
Gertrude Berg
Antique Drop Leaf Table and Draperies Ad
Sold both on first call. Antique drop leaf table six legs black walnut ninety five years old in excellent condition fifty dollars. Draperies eight strips forty five inches wide two yards ten inches long brocaded satin rose and white like new fifteen dollars. Call Albany LY 3 1242 to place your ad. 16 word ad only one dollar.
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Albany
Picketing Ramps Up at New York City Construction Sites
Civil rights demonstrations blocked hospital, public housing, and apartment projects in Brooklyn Manhattan and Queens. Police removed vehicles and arrested two leaders, including William Booth of the Jamaica NAACP chapter, as organizers planned talks with Mayor Wagner.
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New York
New York City
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
William Booth
Jamaica
The
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Two Negroes Non lgnition Tob Halted
Sixty men walk off the 11.5 million Public Auditorium expansion after two Black plumbers reported for work. Project manager Blount Construction says workers quit when the men failed to show union books. Negro hires followed civil rights pressure. mayor Ralph Locher reviews the dispute.
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Cleveland
Public Auditorium
Lee Henry
Blount Construction Co
Ralph Locher
Kennedy Plan Seeks ICC Authority to End Rail Featherbedding
Congress weighs President Kennedy's emergency rail plan to block new work rules and defer a nationwide strike. The ICC would get court enforced powers to review rules, delaying actions for two years to push toward bargaining, with possible extensions.
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Congress
Kennedy
Congressional
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Egypt Shows New Two Stage Rocket At Parade Anniversary
Cairo reports President Nasser displayed a new two stage rocket with a claimed range over 360 miles at a parade marking the 11th anniversary of King Farouk’s overthrow. Defense chief said submarine sea trials begin in 15 days and eight Egyptian jet trainers were shown alongside Soviet aircraft.
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Cairo
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Farouk
United Arab Republic
Women repair hazardous cemetery hill road in New Cumberland
A group of about 10 New Cumberland Heights house wives formed a road gang to patch Cemetery Hill Road after the state road commission and city declined repairs. They used shovels and slag to fix holes along the edge where a steep embankment raises safety concerns for local families and school buses.
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New Cumberland Heights
New Cumberland
Harry Hanst
Work Gang
State Road Commission
Cemetery Hill Road
South Viet Nam religious strife blamed on exiled leaders
A Defense Department official said South Viet Nam's religious troubles worsen due to out of power Vietnamese politicians. Flood cleanup begins in Midland Pennsylvania after a flash flood inundated basements. Night fights with heavy casualties reported near Port au Prince as efforts to topple President Duvalier continue.
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Defense Department
South Viet Nam
Midland
Beaver County
Santa Domingo
Dominican Republic
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Kennedy Seeks Immigration Law Overhaul Plan
President Kennedy calls for replacing country quotas with a skill and family based system. First priority would go to needed skills, then relatives in the United States, then those who apply first for visas. He cites bias toward Northern Europe and limits on Southern and Eastern Europe. Ottawa reports a 10 member commission to ease French and English speaking tensions over the coming year.
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Congress
United States
Europe
World
Ottawa
Co op Faces FPC Jurisdiction Test Case
The South Central Rural Electric Co operative of Lancaster Ohio leads an FPC test case with cooperatives from North Dakota and Wisconsin. Hearings begin October 22 to decide if these entities qualify as public utilities under interstate electricity transmission. Egypt Iraq and Syria dispute unity under Baath Socialist rule in Syria, says President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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South Central Rural Electric Co-operative, Inc
Lancaster
Ohio
Federal Power Commission
Cairo
iPi
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Iraq
Syria
Ba’ath Socialist Party
Kennedy civil rights bill faces Senate hearing day
Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D Roosevelt Jr says business leaders likely support a civil rights public accommodations bill. The measure targets hotels motels restaurants and other privately owned establishments with interstate trade impact. Senators debate how to handle civil rights and railroad legislation in upcoming sessions. In Miami exiled veterans and commandos prepare to move toward Central American bases amid Castro era tensions.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Kennedy
Norris Cotton
R-N.h
Commerce Committee
Cotton
Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Nations near accord on test ban as talks continue
Western sources say the United States Britain and the Soviet Union completed work on a treaty banning nuclear tests in air space and under water and may initial it this week The leaders Harriman Hailsham and Gromyko left Spiridonovka Palace after long talks and discussed a possible NATO Warsaw Pact nonaggression pact while awaiting final wording for Senate approval and possible congressional delegation to Moscow.
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Soviet Union
Britain
United States
Spiridonovka Palace
U S
W. Averill Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Andrei A. Gromyko
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
U.S
Khrushchev
W. Averell Harriman
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
White House
Pierre Salinger
Sen
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harriman
NATO
GOP Governors Press Civil Rights Action at Conference
Republicans led by Govs Rockefeller and Hatfield push for a civil rights declaration at the 55th Governors Conference in Miami Beach. Democrats control the agenda with Kennedy welfare proposals favored by a Hughes committee report. A minority report may challenge the majority’s rules as the GOP aims a conference showdown.
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New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Florida
Ferris Bryant
Miami Beach
Rockefeller
Fla
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Kennedy
Richard J Hughes
New Jersey
Hatfield
Ohio Ad Push Promotes Profit Not Dirty State
Columbus reports Ohio launches a nationwide ad campaign paid by the Department of Development to attract new industry. The full page WSJ ad claims profit is good for Ohio and promotes a five part service package including planning research development sales financing and training. Former West German spy Heinz Felfe gets 14 years in a Stuttgart court for spying for the Soviet Union.
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Ohio
Wall Street Journal
Department of Development
George E. Wilson
Statehouse
Karlsruhe
Germany
Federal Supreme Court
Heinz Felfe
Soviet Union
Steel Firm Reports Profit Rise for First Half of Year
Cleveland based Republic Steel Corp reports 31.11 million earnings for the first half, 198 per share, up from 23.25 million and 148 per share a year ago. Six month sales reach 607.54 million vs 592.42 million prior year. New York. Actress Arlene Francis sued for 1 million by Brooklyn man over a fatal auto crash.
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Arlene Francis
Brooklyn
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