Margaret’s Royal Wedding Averts Stage Fright in Abbey
Princess Margaret wed Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony marked by a momentary stage fright when she repeated vows. The groom spoke clearly as Archbishop Fisher pronounced them man and wife. Crowds outside cheered as the couple, escorted by Prince Philip and other royals on a balcony, headed to a champagne breakfast and Caribbean honeymoon aboard Britannia.
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New Laws Boost School Bond and Levy Approvals in Ohio
Ohio Education Association reports that new simple majority rules increased approval rates for school bond issues and operating levies in primary elections. Of 52 bond issues, 67.3 percent passed. of 102 levies, 72.5 percent passed.
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Nine Votes Decide Race In Meigs County Engineer Contest
Meigs County primary results held firm after the official count. Republican engineer candidate Stanley Blazewicz beat J E D Hartinger by nine votes, 2768 to 2759, with unofficial tallies showing a 10 vote margin. Officials expect possible precinct recounts in the tight engineer race.
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Firestone heir dies after 20th floor plunge in Havana
Harvey S. Firestone III, heir of the Firestone rubber fortune, fell from a hotel suite balcony on Thursday night in Havana and died. Investigators pursue motive and details of the fatal incident.
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Point Pleasant Motorist Killed in Route 17 Crash
A Point Pleasant man, Robert Gene Borrer, 25, died at Pleasant Valley Hospital after a high speed crash on Route 17 three miles southeast of Henderson. His brother William Borrer, 26, was hospitalized in fair condition with facial and internal injuries. The car left the road, struck a pole, embankment and flipped into a farm pond after failing to navigate a curve. Funeral services are set for Sunday at Crow funeral home with burial in Suncrest Cemetery. This marked Mason County’s fifth fatality of the year and fourth on Route 17.
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Five Day Forecast For Ohto Region
Temperatures stay near normal with highs from 66 to 70 and lows from 45 to 49. A cooler trend begins Saturday and Sunday, with a slight warm-up Tuesday or Wednesday. Rainfall averages 0.5 to 1 inch in showers or thundershowers tonight with showers ending Saturday.
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Eisenhower Signs Civil Rights Bill in 1960
President Eisenhower signed the 1960 civil rights bill aimed at protecting Black Americans' voting rights. Congress passed it April 21 after long clash with Southern opponents, yielding a new voting-rights enforcement procedure to challenge discriminatory patterns in elections.
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Soviet Downing Claim Prompts Official Caution in U S
Washington states no immediate comment on Khrushchev speech claiming an American plane was shot down. White said the inquiry proceeds and Ambassador Thompson will seek information in Moscow. Indications point to a missing weather plane and pilot Francis Powers, 30, of Pound, Virginia, test pilot for Lockheed.
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House Approves Agriculture Budget and Production Cuts
The House Appropriations Committee approved 3.964 billion dollars for the Agriculture Department, 170 million under Eisenhower’s request. It urged production control to curb surplus crops and proposed CCC surplus stock offers to farmers in exchange for reduced output.
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Body Recovered After 27 Hours Of Sand Digging
Luther Warren Payne an 18 year old high school athlete was found dead after more than 27 hours of rescue work clearing dangerous sand from a well cave in at Ironton. Rescue crews recovered the body late last night.
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Judge Cancels Murder Charge Against Lawrence Gavin
Meigs County Common Pleas Court Judge John C. Bacon dismissed a second degree murder charge against Lawrence Gavin of Middleport. Gavin, serving a 17 year term for receiving stolen property, faced the indictment in the 1959 death of four year old Joseph Sottosanti in Larry's Carry Out store. No trial date was set.
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Tornadoes Kill 25 In Oklahoma
Tornadoes killed 25 people across eastern Oklahoma with 200 injured as violent twisters struck Wilburton and surrounding towns. Rescue efforts were hampered by floods and power outages while Calvary Baptist church served as a missile of tragedy for Eastern A&M College students.
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Tornado Devastates Menifee Arkansas Area
In Menifee near Morrilton Arkansas a tornado struck destroying a dozen houses two churches and the post office. One woman 70 Ora Oliver died and at least twenty people were injured most hospitalized in Morrilton. Sheriff Marlin Hawkins led police and Civil Defense rescue efforts.
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Powerful radar aid to track Gulf storms near Tampa
Workers begin installing a powerful new radar along Florida's Gulf Coast to assist Weather Bureau officials in monitoring severe weather offshore and improving storm tracking accuracy.
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Pass Bill For Help To Areas
The Senate sent to President Eisenhower a 251 million dollar bill to aid distressed areas with federal loans and grants to create jobs in long-term depressed industrial and rural zones nationwide. The measure, smaller than the Senate’s earlier 3894 million proposal but above Eisenhower’s 53 million request, faced House objections over separate funding action and direct appropriation issues.
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Soviet Warns on Separate Peace With East Germany
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko warned that Moscow will seek a separate peace with East Germany if the Big Four fail to reach an all German settlement. He said the USSR and Warsaw Pact would guard East German borders and West Berlin would be off limits, controlled by the East German regime. He rejected US claims the downed pilot may have been unconscious due to oxygen failure and mocked the notion as medical nonsense.
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Khrushchev presses Eisenhower toward summit trap
Soviet Premier Khrushchev aims a coercive bid to force President Eisenhower into a summit conference dilemma. He must choose between making key concessions or bearing the blame for any resulting failure.
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