Mother and three children killed in grade crossing crash
A mother Mrs Lawrence H Clewell 45 and her children Lucian 10 Rebecca 14 and Jennifer 12 died when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train traveling about 55 mph near Guilford Lake. The 58 car eastbound train dragged the sedan about a mile as skid marks show braking before impact.
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Salem
Here
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lawrence H. Clewell
Guilford Lake
Clewell
Lucian
Rebecca
Jennifer
Highway Patrol
Wreck derails Nickel Plate freight. no injuries reported
A 12 car derailment near Ohio 212 sparked a fire when a chemical tank car ignited. Two nearby families were evacuated as fumes spread from the burning tank car. Officials cite a possible broken rail or axle as the cause.
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Ohio 212
Postman Ends 250 Mile Walk In Pay Campaign
Ed Kline completes a 250 mile hike ending in Washington as the National Association of Letter Carriers opens a salary conference. He started February 22 in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio to publicize a campaign for a 14 percent pay increase.
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Washington
Ed Kline
National Association of Letter Carriers
Kline
Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
Echo Route Passes Over Ohio This Week
The United States satellite Echo I will make four visible passes over Ohio in eight days all low in the southern sky moving northeast. Pass times include March 8 at 5:44 a.m. two degrees above the horizon March 10 at 6:15 a.m. two and a half degrees March 11 at 5:26 a.m. twelve degrees and March 12 at 4:36 a.m. two degrees.
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Washington
The
United States
Echo I
Ohio
Police search for man after car found submerged in Winton Woods Creek
Hamilton County officers widened a search in Winton Woods for 27 year old Robert Alcorn Jr. whose car was found partly submerged in a flooded creek north of Cincinnati. Police theorize loss of control on the flooded road may have led to the incident.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Winton Woods
Here
Robert Alcorn Jr
Derailment Blocks Tracks in Painesville Cleanup
Repair crews cleared tracks after a 76 car New York Central freight derailment Sunday. Five cars wrecked and one struck a Baltimore and Ohio car on a transfer track. No injuries reported.
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Dover
Painesville
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Car wanted and sold ad notes demand in March
A Plymouth four door V-8 with radio and heater sold for 250 dollars. The advertiser reported the sale and cancellation as ads continued to run. March is highlighted as a good month for car sales and wants ads urge listing of cars.
Three Fugitives Still At Large In Ohio Manhunt
Three Cleveland escapees from a Lorain County state prison farm remain at large after fleeing with stolen weapons in a 1959 green car from the Teeters home in Grafton. They held a couple hostage for nearly four hours and are described as armed and dangerous.
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Elyria
Cleveland
Ohio
Lorain County
Earl E. Teeters
Thomas Smith
Sterling L. Jones
Louis E. Bailey
Smith
Honor Farm
Grafton
Nixon Takes Nomination Loses Birch
In Berkeley the California Republican Assembly endorsed its 1962 ticket with bitter clashes over candidates and the John Birch Society. Nixon won the governor endorsement over Joseph Shell by 263 to 176 but failed to sway Birch policy. Boos and heckling marked the fray as conservatives and regulars split.
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Berkeley
Calif
California Republican Assembly
John Birch Society
Richard M. Nixon
Apartment Fire Causes 30000 In West Side Loss
Five fire departments fought a pre dawn blaze at a 10 unit apartment house in Harter Heights Canton West Side. Damage estimated at 30000 with no injuries. Two couples escaped via television antenna from the second floor. Fire believed caused by defective wiring.
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Canton
Harter Heights
Adventist Dedicate $60,000 Junior Academy in Lakewood
Cleveland Seventh Day Adventist leaders celebrate the dedication of a $60,000 junior academy and recreation center in the suburban city of Lakewood on Sunday.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
Africa's Worst Air Crash Kills 111 in Cameroon Swamp
Rescue teams found all 111 aboard dead after a four engine DC7 chartered British airliner crashed and exploded in a swamp near Douala Cameroon. The victims included 42 Britons 40 South Africans and passengers from Rhodesia and other nations.
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Yaounde
Cameroon
Douala
Africa
Europe
West African Republic
South Africa
Rhodesia
Mozambique
Air France
Sahara
Powers to testify on U2 flight before Senate panel
U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is set to testify in open session before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday after noon. The board of inquiry found he generally complied with orders during the flight and suggested he coped with the disaster reasonably well. Also noted is Congress concern over not destroying the aircraft and equipment when it landed in the USSR. Mrs John Kennedy plans a Vatican City audience with Pope John XXIII during a Rome stopover en route to India and Pakistan.
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Washington
Francis Gary Powers
Soviet Union
Powers
Aeana
Senate Armed Services Committee
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate
Rudolf I. Abel
E. Barrett Prettyman
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dga
McCone
Full Armed Services Committee
Russell
John Kennedy
Pope John XXIII
Vatican City
Rome
India
Pakistan
Mechem and Cloud Denounce DiSalle as Bad Faith Politicking
Ohio Senate Majority Leader C Stanley Mechem and House Speaker Roger Cloud accuse Governor Michael DiSalle of creating a phony political issue over state appropriations. They say Finance Director James H Maloon shifted funds and deferred payments, draining liquor profits and delaying about 29 million dollars to teachers and school employees pension funds as revenues lag Maloon's estimates by nine million in six months.
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Columbus
Ohio
Michael
DiSalle
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
House
Roger Cloud
James H. Maloon
Maloon
Maroon
Search for Flight Recorder Halts Wreck Recovery Efforts
Salvage crews in Jamaica Bay work to lift the cockpit and flight recorder from the American Airlines crash wreckage. A 35 ton derrick is in place as divers seek the black box and intact instruments amid submerged debris.
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New York
American Airlines
Jamaica Bay
President's Program To Get Tests
Democratic congressional leaders push for final action this week on two Kennedy administration bills pension welfare fund regulation and jobless retraining. Delegations from both chambers will meet Tuesday to work out a compromise retraining measure with similar programs but different durations. The Senate backs four years while the House favors two. The House plans to debate the first fiscal 1963 money bill, a $5.46 billion measure for Post Office and Treasury financing.
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Washington
Senate
House
Post Office
Treasury Departments
Balloon plans delayed after high altitude explosion
An unmanned test balloon exploded over the High Sierra Sunday at about 42 000 feet, wrecking a gondola with telescope gear. The event halted Air Force plans to launch two men aloft from Chico Airport to view the planets.
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Sierra
Chico
Schiro Wins New Orleans Mayor Runoff in Democratic Primary
Interim Mayor Victor H. Schiro celebrates a decisive Democratic primary runoff win in New Orleans, virtually assuring a full four year term as mayor.
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New Orleans
Victor H. Schiro
New Concord Relaxes After Its Big Day
New Concord recovers from a large Gl ens Jr celebration with 50 000 visitors. Town officials say the event was self sustaining and no major impact on coffers. Madeira residents vote on a 1.29 mill school levy today, needing 60 percent to pass. Canton Aluminum Manufacturing Co. suffers $25000 fire damage. no injuries reported.
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New Concord
John H. Glenn Jr
Zanesville
United States
Cincinnati
Madeira
Canton
Canton Aluminum Manufacturing Co
Khrushchev Promotes Take a Chance Agricultural Plan
Khrushchev opened a week long Central Committee session to outline his take a chance program to boost Soviet food output. He urged plowing more land and reducing fallow, while critics warn semi arid regions may lose fertility and yields. Pravda highlighted farm woes as the party girds for its fourth year of the seven year plan.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Central Committee
Soviet Communist Party
Soviet Union
Pravda
Two Murders Spark Rumor of Gang War in St Louis Area
In Belleville Illinois on a rural road Elmer Dutch Dowling 56 and Mel Beckman 32 were shot dead. Dowling was Wortmans top aide and Beckman his protege. Several major underworld figures were questioned as officials weighed possible gang conflict in the St Louis area.
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Belleville
Ill
Frank
Buster) Wortman
St. Louis
St. Clair County
Elmer
Dutch Dowling
Mel Beckman
Dowling
Wortman
Beckman
Jimmy Michaels
Joseph Costello
John Vitale
West Will Demand Inspection At Geneva Disarmament Talks
The United States and Britain win Khrushchev’s agreement to open the 18 nation Geneva conference with a foreign ministers session next week. U S disarmament chief William C Foster says any nuclear test ban must include cross inspection to prevent secret tests and would require inspectors in the Soviet Union. He warns against a spiraling arms race ending in world destruction.
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Washington
Khrushchev
Geneva
U. S
Soviet Union
William C. Foster
Foster
Indonesia Braces as West New Guinea Tensions Grow
War fever grips Indonesia as air raid drills sweep major cities under military direction. Authorities warn of possible Dutch bomber raids from West New Guinea as Ramadan ends March 8, raising diplomatic tensions.
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Indonesia
West New Guinea
Jakarta
Atom Splitter Is Stricken
BERKELEY Calif Dr Arthur H Compton world famous physicist and Nobel prize winner who directed the creation of the worlds first nuclear chain reaction during World War II remained critically ill after a stroke He is 69 and was hospitalized after dizziness and nausea.
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Berkeley
Calif
Arthur H. Compton
Dr. Compton
Washington University
St. Louis
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