Iran Earthquakes Raven Iran Death Toll Tops Four Thousand
Weeping workers buried victims from northwest Iran after the Dan-Isfahan quakes struck about 100 villages. The official toll surpassed 4000, with Iran Red Cross estimating up to 10,000 dead and thousands injured. Aid shipments and airlifted supplies arrived as rescuers searched mud huts across 23 000 square miles.
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Red Cross
U. S
Germany
Tehran
Dan-Isfahan
Kiavan
Farmer Injured In Blast Near Substation
Carl Greenlee 58 a carpenter suffered a serious skull fracture and facial injuries in a dynamite blast on his farm near the Southeast Ohio Agricultural Experimental Substation at Carpenter. He was working on a cistern when the explosion occurred about 7 pm. He was taken for treatment and underwent surgery at University Hospital Columbus after initial care at Albany and Sheltering Arms Hospitals.
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Carpenter
Southeast
Ohio
Greenlee
Robert Bishop
Bishop
Albany
Sheltering Arms Hospital
University Hospital, Columbus
University Hospital
Officials Urge Cooperation To Curb Encephalitis
In St Petersburg Florida health officials urge residents not to panic and to remove mosquito breeding sites as Pinellas County records 17 new encephalitis cases in two days, raising the total to 137 with ten local deaths and four more elsewhere. School classes start today as planned.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Pinellas County
Refugee Shot by East German Border Guards
West Berlin police reported an East German border guard shot a refugee trying to escape over the Berlin Wall. The man lay about five yards inside the Soviet sector and appeared dead before being removed. He reportedly tried to scale a cemetery wall on Bernauer Strasse.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Bernauer Strasse
Ohio State Fair Closes After Record Attendance
The 1962 Ohio State Fair in Columbus drew 320 459 paying customers over eleven days with 9 768 on Labor Day. Final grandstand night missed fireworks as management ran out of pyrotechnics.
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Columbus
Tax Revision Bill Battle Is Resumed
The Senate resumes its struggle over President Kennedy's tax revision bill with over 80 amendments pending. Leaders hope many will drop, but major floor fights remain before the 392 page measure passes. Five all-night sessions failed to finish by last Friday. next Friday is the new goal.
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Senate
Kennedy
Senate Finance Committee
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Youth Killed In Accident On Route 124
Meigs County report states 18 year old Harry Els worth Morton of Wilkesville died in a head on crash on Route 124 two miles east of the county line. Harley Strong 41 was injured and his two sons treated and released. Morton was a U S Marine Corps private. The incident followed a bean dinner fund event with over $200 receipts.
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Harry Elsworth Morton
Wilkesville High School
Rt. 124
Vinton-Meigs County
Meigs County
State
Morton
Harley Strong
Strong
Joseph Freeman
American Legion
Legion
Wellston
William
Donley
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
U. S. Marine Corps
Officials aim for Venus as Mariner 2 faces detour
Pasadena scientists postponed a mid course correction as they determine if Mariner 2’s antenna remains aimed at Earth or the Moon. The 447 pound craft had been set to adjust its path toward Venus next December, with data showing the antenna swung to its planned Earth position. The maneuver could bring Mariner 2 within 10,000 miles of Venus, otherwise missing by about 200,000 miles.
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Pasadena
Calif
Venus
Earth
Flying Space Laboratory
Mariner 2
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Bolivia Withdraws From OAS Over Lauca River Dispute
Bolivia suspends participation in the OAS Council over the Lauca River water dispute with Chile. President Paz Estenssoro delays a U S. visit due to tin stockpile sales threatening Bolivia’s economy. Foreign Minister Fellsmann Belarde said no new U S. trip date was set.
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Washington
Bolivia
Organization of American States
Chile
OAS Council
Albert Zulueta Angel
Victory Paz Estenssoro
United States
Jose Fellsman Belarde
Paz Estenssoro
OAS
Lauca
Desegregation Begins in New Orleans Parochial Schools
Negro schoolchildren entered St. Leo the Great St Mary of the Angels and Mater Dolorosa in the first parochial desegregation in the archdiocese. About a dozen at St Leo and several at the other schools began integration with no incidents as mothers watched. Father Pyzikiewicz spoke outside Mater Dolorosa as the band played the national anthem. Roughly 9,000 of New Orleans 48,000 parochial pupils are Negroes. Public schools start a third year of integration Thursday.
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Archdiocese of
Leo the Great
St. Mary of the Angels
Mater Dolorosa
Msgr
Joseph Pyzikiewicz
Rebels Stall Troop Move Near Algiers In Mountain Clash
Rebels halted a column of Deputy Premier Ahmed Ben Bella's troops south of Algiers and claimed another repulsed farther east. Dozens were killed and wounded as Ben Bella's forces attacked the mountain village of Oued Djenane with heavy and automatic weapons, the guerrilla command said.
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Algiers
Ahmed Ben Bella
Ben Bella
Oued Djenane
Aumale
Traffic deaths on Canadian roads exceed forecast
A Canadian Press survey shows at least 62 people died on Canadian roads over the Labor Day weekend, surpassing the Canadian Highway Safety Council forecast of 55 and matching last year's toll. In Tokyo, Nike Ajax missiles for Japan arrived at Yokohama per the Defense Agency.
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Toronto
Canada
Canadian Highway Safety Council
The
Safety Council
Tokyo
United States
Yokohama
Japanese Defense Agency
Ohio Representative Selected For Contest
Glyn Warstler a 17 year old Canton model is named Miss Ohio and will join Andrea Getzlaff Miss Cleveland as they head to Huntington for the Miss World contest starting September 13.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Glyn Warstler
Canton
Huntington
Andrea Getzlaff
Solon
Tshombe Accepts UN Congo Plan Reunification Effort
Elisabethville reports that Katanga President Moise Tshombe accepted in principle a UN plan to rejoin the Congo. The plan would have Katanga join under a new federal constitution in 30 days, share mining revenues 50 50 with Kinshasa, and merge Katanga’s army with the Congolese army within 30 days.
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Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Congo
U Thant
Funeral services for Mrs Ollie Sylvester in Wellston
Mrs Ollie Sylvester 82 wife of Wells ton Telegram editor John E Sylvester died Monday in Gallipolis Hospital. Funeral services are set for Wednesday in Wellston.
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Wellston
Ollie Sylvester
Wellston Telegram
John E. Sylvester
Sylvester
Gallipolis Hospital
Kremlin Warns Of Retaliatory Steps Over U2 Flight
Moscow accuses a U S U2 of violating the Soviet frontier near Sakhalin Aug 30 and warns of retaliatory measures if it happens again. The note was delivered by Deputy Foreign Minister Pushkin to U S counselor McSweeney as Washington declined comment. The Tass dispatch recalls the 1960 Powers flight and questions a revival of punitive provocations in the region near Sakhalin and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Soviet Union
Kremlin
Sakhalin Island
Japan
Washington
White House
Giorgi Pushkin
U.S
John M. McSweeney
Tass
McSweeney
Francis Gary Powers
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Sea of Okhotsk
la Perouse
Sakhalin
Hokkaido
Russia
Record Labor Day Traffic Toll Reaches Historic High
National Safety Council reports 495 to 500 deaths during a 78 hour Labor Day period from Friday 6 p.m. to Monday midnight. Total holiday toll 668 with 22 boating deaths 57 drownings 94 misc mishaps. Previous records dated to 1951 and counts could rise with belated reports as motorists headed home.
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National Safety Council
Loren and Ponti Seek Annulment to Quash Bigamy Charges
Actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti hope that annulling their Mexican proxy marriage will drop Italian bigamy charges. Judge Carlos Aranga Muñoz announced the move in Juarez where the 1957 marriage occurred after Ponti’s Mexican divorce from Giuliana Fiastra.
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Sophia Loren
Carlo Ponti
Carlos Aranga Munoz
Juarez
Mexico
Ponti
Miss Loren
Giuliana Fiastra
Italy
Toll kept low in Labor Day weekend road deaths
The Associated Press reports Ohio avoided big accidents as 18 people died in traffic during the 78 hour Labor Day weekend from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The figure matched last year’s early September holiday toll of 19, and fell short of a preholiday estimate of 23 fatalities.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Preholiday
Red Sky Diver Seeks Asylum In America
An Iron Curtain sky diver Milan Knor 23 of Belgrade Yugoslavia refused to return home after the sixth world sports parachuting championships and will seek asylum in the United States.
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Orange
Mass
Milan Knor
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Toledo Labor Leader Challenges 35-Hour Week Plan
Richard T. Gosser of Toledo, international vice president of the United Auto Workers, criticized a proposed 35-hour work week in a Monday speech to 250 labor and management officials, arguing the plan shortens productivity and raises costs.
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Labor
Richard T. Gosser
United Auto Workers Union International
Gosser
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