Hurricane Flora Batters Haiti and Aims for Cuba
Hurricane Flora lashed Haiti with 140 mph winds for hours, isolating the nation and threatening eastern Cuba and the Bahama Islands. Forecasters warned of floods and heavy rain as the storm moved toward the Windward Passage, with Guantanamo Bay expected to escape major damage.
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Flora
Haiti
Cuba
Bahama Islands
Tropic
U.S
Atlantic
Oriente
Bahamas
U.S. Navy
Guantanamo Bay
Fidel Castro
Guantanamo
Gitmo
National Weather Bureau of
Miami Weather Bureau
Mayaguana
Eleuthera
Exuma
Nassau
New Providence Island
Windsor Assails Strikers Over Shipyard Walkout
Windsor attacks local union leaders as Marietta Manufacturing faces a 600 worker strike at the Windsor plant. He cites a $55,000 weekly payroll loss and calls the stoppage the community’s greatest economic threat. Nearly 100 supervisory staff furloughed. contracts set to expire at midnight Tuesday.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Walter M. Windsor
Windsor
Kennedy defends civil rights in Arkansas dedication remarks
President Kennedy told an integrated audience in Little Rock the grand objective of equal rights for all citizens, while Gov. Orval Faubus praised states and individual rights at the Greers Ferry Dam dedication near Heber Springs. The president did not respond to Faubus’ earlier remarks during the dam ceremony.
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Arkansas
Orval Faubus
Heber Springs
Ark
Faubus
South
Little Rock, Ark
Orval E. Faubus
New South
Greers Ferry Dam
White River
Little Rock
Military Chiefs Claim Victory In Honduras
In Honduras military leaders ousted President Ramon Villeda Morales amid a revolt. Villeda Morales arrived in Costa Rica with his election candidate Modesto Rodas Alvarado as clashes left civil guards loyal to the deposed leader. In Tegucigalpa, fighting left 20 guardsmen dead and 50 wounded while the army reported two fatalities. A separate note in Columbus reports Ohio Atty. Gen. Saxbe restricting simultaneous county school board service and part time substitute teaching.
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Costa Rica
Banana Republic
Honduras
Ramon Villeda Morales
Punta Arenas
Modesto Rodas Alvarado
Villeda Morales
Rodas Alvarado
Congress
Santa Barbara
Octopeque
Tegucigalpa
Columbus
William B. Saxbe
Mormons Pressured By Negroes
Negro leaders warned Mormon Church officials in Salt Lake City that pickets could target the 133rd conference unless the church backs President Kennedy's civil rights program, civil rights legislation in Utah, and equality of opportunity for all Americans.
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Mormon Church
133Rd
Kennedy
Utah
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
The
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
Manslaughter Charges Due in Car Deaths
In Cleveland a 36 year old mother of six faces three counts of second degree manslaughter for a crash that killed three school children on a sidewalk. She is held without bail as police and prosecutors prepare preliminary hearing plans. The dead are David Williams 7 Lynette Shields 7 and Ronie Marie Like 8 all residents of Cleveland. Also hospitalized are Rosa Williams 8 and Carlton Garner 7 with serious injuries. The victims attended Charles H Lake School on Hillock Avenue and East 93rd Street.
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Cleveland
Rose Lukerson
Richard F. Matia
Lukerson
East West agree in principle on banning space nuclear weapons
U S Soviet and British leaders announced a policy agreement to outlaw nuclear armed satellites in orbit. The ministers said the policy should be formalized soon in a public pledge and noted discussions with President Kennedy on next steps and other disarmament issues.
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United Nations
Kennedy
Gromyko
U. N. General Assembly
Bank Holdup Suspect Arrested in Dayton Case
FBI arrested George Edwin Obrist Jr., 34, of Bellbrook for the $14,000 robbery of the Chillicothe Savings Bank Co. branch. Most loot recovered at his home along with a gun, false beards, and dynamite caps. Bond set at $25,000. preliminary hearing planned in Dayton.
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FBI
Chillicothe Bank
E. D. Mason
George Edwin Obrist Jr
Bellbrook
Greene County
Mason
Obrist
Portsmouth
Central Shopping Center
Savings Bank Co
Chillicothe
U. S
Robert A. Bell
Bond
Cbrist
Mead Corp
Roy Corrigan
Where Will Valachi Be Hidden From Mob Death Threats
Joseph Valachi the Cosa Nostra informer faces a life in custody dilemma as U.S. officials search for a safe, secluded prison arrangement to protect him from a $100,000 bounty and vengeful killers while he testifies before Senate investigators.
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Seph Valachi
Cosa Nostra
Bureau of Prisons
Valachi
District of Columbia
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Little Hoover Commission Urges Reform of Federal Unemployment Grants
The commission criticizes federal unemployment grant methods as wasteful and calls for congressional action to enable permanent reform. It cites Alaska receiving $53.74 per worker and Ohio $7.67, urges simplifying the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation and consolidation of claims and Employment Service activities in Ohio.
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Little Hoover Commission
U. S
Alaska
Ohio
Commission
BUC
Administrator - Advisory Council
Board of Review
Willard P. Dudley
Its Bloody Problems for Spacemen
Houston medical experts warn about pooling of blood in legs after long orbital flights. Astronauts Schirra and Cooper suffered orthostatic hypotension after 6 and 22 orbit missions, while four shorter missions showed no signs. up to 34 hours posed no other major health issues.
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Houston
Tex
U.S
Walter M. Schirra
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr
Charles A. Berry
Space Agency
Manned Aircraft Center
Cooper
Polaris A-3 Missile Firing From Ship Off Cape Canaveral
A Polaris A-3 missile was fired Thursday from the USS Observation Island about 15 miles offshore in a test of a steam and gas launching system. The missile ignited above deck and flew to a distant target area, marking the second straight successful test of the new method officials say is simpler and more reliable.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Observation Island
Navy
Unemployment Drops in September Amid School Return
Labor Department data show unemployment thinning to a yearly low of September with 3,516,000 jobless and a 350,000 decline. Employment fell by over a million as youths returned to school, nudging the seasonally adjusted jobless rate up to 5.6 percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Storm Hits Barrow Alaska Wrecks Homes and Aircraft
A fierce storm buffeting Barrow Alaska with winds over 80 mph wrecked homes and fuel supplies. One man was injured and treated. Losses tied to 250000 dollars or more with many structures destroyed and aircraft damaged as evacuations to higher ground began. Red Cross planned relief flights to Barrow.
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Alaska
Barrow
North America
Eben Hopson
William A. Egan
Red Cross
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