Moon Shot Acclaim Follows Soviet Moon Landing
Premier Khrushchev travels to Washington amid worldwide praise for the Soviet rocket touch on the moon. NASA officials, scientists, and observers across six continents hail the feat as a major advance in space exploration.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Washington
U. S. National Aeronautics and
Tass
Heinz Kaminsky
Bochum Observatory
Ruhr
RADIO
Budapest
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Khrushchev
Jodrell Bank
England
Alfred Lovell
Soviet Union
Informa
Hagerty
U.S.S.R
Khrushchev to Address Un as Washington Visit Looms
Khrushchev heads to New York for a 13 day US visit and will address the 82 nation General Assembly as diplomats gauge whether the session will tilt toward cold war or reconciliation. He speaks Friday and attends a dinner with Dag Hammarskjold after meeting the Assembly. The agenda includes China India border issues Algeria independence and Palestinian refugee questions. Belaunde is set to be elected president of the UN General Assembly. A steering committee will select items for debate amid the China India dispute over representation.
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UN General Assembly
Nikita Khrushchev
Washington
United States
Khrushchev
China
France
Victor Andres Belaunde
Dag Hammarskjold
India
Algerian Army Back De Gaulle Plan To End War
In Algiers the majority of French army officers signify support for President De Gaulle as he prepares a nationwide radio and television broadcast to reveal a new approach to ending the Algerian war. Some officers remain hostile but not enough to derail the plan. New Delhi reports Prime Minister Nehru departs for an eight day trip to Afghanistan and Iran, his first to both nations.
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Charles de Gaulle
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New Delhi
Nehru
Afghanistan
Iran
Weather Outlook Fair Warm With Little Change In Temperatures
Oho fair with little temperature change today tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight 45 to 52 high Tuesday 84. West Virginia mostly sunny dry high in low 80s west 70s east today and Tuesday. Fair cool tonight low in 50s west in 40s east. Five day forecast shows temps 5S to 5S below normal with little change Tuesday cooler Wednesday and Thursday little change Friday Saturday. little or no rain expected.
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Congress May Close Shop Today
Congress edges toward possible adjournment as Southern opposition to a Civil Rights Commission rider lingers. The Senate may complete action on a 3.281 billion foreign aid bill approved in substance, while the House works on a 3.186 billion overseas aid version. Those money items have been tentatively decided.
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Death of 88-year-old Sam Collett Found in River
Sam Collett, 88, an apparent drowning victim, was found in the Muskingum River Sunday. He had been missing since last Monday after visiting the Washington County Home residents at the county fair near the river that borders the fairgrounds.
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Sam Collett
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Washington County
Ohio Highway Traffic Kills 22 On Weekend
Ohio traffic accidents killed 22 people over the weekend with four additional deaths reported. The Associated Press notes drivers and pedestrians faced dangerous conditions across multiple counties as responders worked to clear wrecks.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Missing four engine plane believed linked to British Embassy
A four engine plane reported missing by the FAA was said to be linked to the British Embassy in Washington. The pilot Paul Parton filed a Sunday flight plan from Los Angeles to Seattle with no confirmation of takeoff. British Embassy and FAA inquiries continue as an air search begins over the Los Angeles area.
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Washington, D. C
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Paul Parton
Los Angeles International
Seattle
Washington
FAA
E. E. Wise
Ike Signs Bill Regulating Labor Unions and Picketing
President Eisenhower signed into law a major revision of labor management relations. The act tightens Taft Hartley provisions to curb racketeering and abuses in unions, restricts organizational picketing, and limits secondary boycotts amid debate with AFL-CIO and business leaders.
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Eisenhower
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
Organized Labor
Moldmakers Strike Idles Glass Industry
About 2000 mold makers from the American Flint Glass Workers Union began a nationwide protest against 26 companies and seven subsidiaries in the glass container trade. The strike entered its second day with no new talks, picket lines at most plants, and federal mediator William Rose saying negotiations were discontinued indefinitely while remaining in contact with both sides.
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Pittsburgh
American Flint Glass Workers Union
William Rose
UN Group Arrives to Probe Laos Fighting in Southeast Asia
Shibusawa of Japan leads a United Nations subcommittee in Bangkok to investigate the revolt wrecking Laos. He expects the mission to stay at least a week in the conflict torn nation.
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Thailand
Shinichi Shibusawa
Laos
Communists Beaten in San Marino Legislative Election
The Christian Democrats and Democratic Socialist allies captured San Marino's legislature, defeating the Communists in an election the first since World War II.
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Christian Democrats
Democratic Socialists
Congress Considers Ban on Junkets During Session
Washington report notes House leaders weigh a rule to bar using public funds for overseas trips while Congress sits. Some members travel abroad, leaving Saturday’s session with less than a quorum as absenteeism rises and routine business proceeds.
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House
Congress
Abductors Seek Two of Three as Mansfield Couple Is Released
A Mansfield couple, Marion and Edyth Porch, were abducted at gunpoint by three young men and forced to surrender $18 before being released in a field near Litchfield. One suspect, Lodell Thweatt, 19, of Los Angeles and Shelby, Ohio, was captured. Police and a state patrol plane joined a search of the Litch area with roadblocks and a Ditch canyon arrest.
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Midwest Dems Split Elects Own Officers
The 14 state Midwest Democratic Conference divided into two factions at a Kansas City meeting. Leaders Jame More of Harlan Iowa and Frank Theis of Arkansas City Kan head rival groups. More declared a Milwaukee constitution illegal triggering walkouts by officers from 11 states.
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Katydid Club Owner Reports Shoot At Waiter In Point Pleasant
Mrs Kate Robey proprietor of the Katydid Club said Wallace Smith Jr waiter accompanying her home with club receipts was shot at twice by an unknown assailant who ordered him to raise his hands. Sheriff and state police searched area for hours with no lead. The incident followed recent break ins at the Katydid club and jukebox theft.
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Troop Movements Reported Near Laos Border
VIENTIANE Laos government communique reports large guerrilla movements by the Laotian Communist Pathet Lao in a wedge area 30 to 35 miles north and east of Sam Neua near the North Vietnamese border. No fighting was noted.
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Laos
Viet Nam
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Pathet Lao
San Neua
Trial Begins for Clermont Official Embezzlement Case
John P. Friend Jr a prominent Clermont County figure goes on trial in Batavia Ohio on embezzlement charges. The indictment covers 47 592 of funds from August 1958 to January 1959 among three counts totaling 52 217. He pleads innocent and the packed Common Pleas Court room awaits verdict.
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Ohio
John P. Friend Jr
Clermont County
Friend
Eisenhower Plans Strategy for Khrushchev Talks
President Eisenhower and top officials meet at the White House to map a broad strategy for the talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The 75 minute session included Secretary of State Herter, Secretary of the Treasury Anderson and Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. Khrushchev and Eisenhower are set to meet Tuesday afternoon for a 90 minute discussion following Khrushchev's arrival.
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Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
White House
Christian A. Herter
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Llewellyn Thompson
U. S
Soviet Union
State Department
Kremlin
Khrushchevy
James C. Hagerty
USW Leader Warns Union Won't Retreat
United Steelworkers Union President David J. McDonald warned on TV the union will not back down from its demand for higher wages and oppositions to changes in work practices as the nationwide steel strike resumes. The walkout, in its 63rd day, idles about half a million workers and affects roughly 90 percent of U.S. steel output with some 175000 other workers idle. Prestrike wages averaged 3.11 dollars per hour.
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United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
Is Switzerland On Your Carrier's Route
A Messenger newspaper boy is chosen as city representative for a national Junior Reporters competition. Read about a Swiss National Tourist Office planned itinerary including a transatlantic flight, visits to Zurich Lugano Bern Lausanne and Geneva, electric trains, Postal Motorcoaches, and Jungfraujoch at 11330 feet.
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