Spacewoman may join Russia in parallel orbit
Reports claim a 25 year old woman named Ludmilla could become the first spacewoman aboard a parallel orbit to cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in the Vostok 5 mission. Sources say she passed tests well and would fly about 24 hours or less. Bykovsky completed multiple orbits and sent greetings to the United States.
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Moscow
Russia
Valery Fedorovich Bykovsky
Outer Space
Tass
Bykovsky
Red
Ludmilla
Siberia
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Soviet Union
United States
West
U. S
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Moscow Radio
Sioux City Armour plant closes as workers pivot to retraining
United Packinghouse Workers Local 34 held a final meeting to explain post shutdown compensation and retraining options. Arnold Weber of the Armour Automation Committee said funds cover retraining for most laid off workers, with courses in many fields and some travel costs. Local employment and reemployment groups outlined job search and act retraining plans as about 600 workers completed slaughtering and 75 to 80 remained for next week’s unloading and office duties.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Armour & Co
United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 34
Armour Plant
Arnold Weber
Chicago
Armour Automation Committee
Ing
Gus Hahn
Iown
Armour
Jack Dowd
Kennedy Seeks Breakthrough in Rail Work Rules Fight
President Kennedy plans a White House meeting with railroad negotiators and five operating unions to avert a looming nationwide rail strike. Union leaders, about 200,000 on train crews, face new work rules that could cut roughly 40,000 firemen from freight and yard trains after Monday midnight.
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W. B. Ragsdale, JR
Washington
Kennedy
White House
Labor Department
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Independent Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Order of Railway
Cleveland Race Riot Shatters Peace After Park Clash
Crowds of white residents clashed with Black residents in Cleveland after an assault on two white youths near Rockefeller Park. Police dispersed about 300 white protesters at the park following the attack, triggering rock throwing and street violence across neighborhoods.
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Cleveland
Rockefeller Park
Los Angeles
Hoover in Serious Illness Reported at Waldorf Towers
Former President Herbert Hoover aged 88 is seriously ill in his Waldorf Towers suite. Doctors describe the condition as anemia due to bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and report reduced bleeding in the last 24 hours. No transfer to a hospital is planned at this time.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
Waldorf Towers
Hoover
Maryland Guardsmen Move In To Quell Cambridge Riots
Maryland guardsmen ordered into Cambridge by Gov. Tawes imposed a 9 p.m. curfew on businesses and halted demonstrations after four nights of violence. National Guard and state police urged residents to clear the streets as bayonets stood ready.
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Cambridge
National Guard
J. Millard Tawes
Tawes
Stanley Branch
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Milton A. Reckord
Thanking a Friend For Talk That Kept Him Alive
Dewell Stover, 37, an Iowa State Penitentiary inmate serving seven years for bad checks, climbed 100 feet up a water tower to threaten suicide after parole denial. A fellow prisoner, allowed by Warden John Bennett, talked him down after three hours on the tower. The warden did not identify the helper.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
Dewell Stover
Burlington
John Bennett
Stover
Bennett
Rain arrives in Great Plains averting farm disaster
The Associated Press reports timely rainfall across the Great Plains prevented catastrophe for thousands of farms though drought lingers in the South and Southwest. While eastern Colorado, Kansas and Texas see drought relief and sizable wheat yields, other regions, including Arkansas and Louisiana, still face water shortages and financial losses.
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Great Plains
Associated Press
Southwest
Montana
Texas
Deep South
Colorado
Kansas
Arizona
Arkansas
Louisiana
Dave Pearce
South
Mississippi
Si Corley
Seek Youths in Stabbing Beating on Detroit West Side
Police seek about 10 Negro youths after Anthony Duva 42 auto plant worker was stabbed in the back and beaten outside a west side Detroit school where he went to pick up his children Joanne 8 Annette 9. Duva said attackers shouted That's for Mississippi and That's for Alabama. He was listed as temporarily serious.
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Mississippi
Alabama
Anthony Duva
Duva
West Side
Joanne
Annette
Evers
FBI
Pierce
Washington
Rolvaag Criticizes GOP Votes On Redevelopment Funds
Gov Karl Rolvaag condemned four Minnesota Republican congressmen for opposing a 450 million dollar area redevelopment grant. He warned the move could cost up to 2000 Minnesota jobs while noting up to 1000 men would gain work Monday under the new natural resources program. Atty Gen Walter Mondale urged imagination in solving jobless issues and promised taconite plant construction by 1966.
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Virginia
Minn
Karl Rolvaag
Minnesota
Rolvaag
Iron Range
Walter Mondale
Mondale
Generators to Fight Drought Across Delta Area
Rainmaking generators will be set up in northeast Louisiana and southern Arkansas to seed clouds and induce rain. The project, under a six month contract worth 39000 dollars with I. P. Krick Meteorological Corp. of Denver, aims to alleviate a critical drought by weather modification operations.
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Monroe
Louisiana
Arkansas
Northeast Louisiana Water Resources Corp
I. P. Krick Meteorological Corp
Denver
Colo
Graven Named Finance Chief for Minnesota DFL
Albert Lea attorney David L. Graven was named finance director for the Minnesota DFL Party in Minneapolis. The post had remained vacant for three years.
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Minneapolis
David L. Graven
Albert Lea
Minnesota
DFL
Demonstration in Tokyo Opposes U S Submarine Visits
About 1,500 students staged a downtown Tokyo protest against possible visits to Japan by U S atomic powered submarines. The action mirrors growing anti-nuclear sentiment and regional tensions.
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Tokyo
Japan
U.S
Khrushchev Opposes On Site Nuclear Test Inspections
Premier Khrushchev said concessions in a nuclear test ban would have to come from the West and rejected on site inspections. He asserted readiness to sign a ban today but insisted the West decides and warned against opening Soviet territory to espionage scrutiny.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
West
Kennedy
American University
Washington
Negroes Plan Mass March After Evers Funeral Rites
In Jackson Mississippi thousands mourn Medgar Evers with a 11 a.m. funeral at the Negro Masonic Temple as churches call for bells to toll 15 minutes. NAACP and NAACP leaders vow continued demonstrations despite a Supreme Court setback.
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Raymond J. Crowles Jackson
Medgar Evers
National Council of Churches
United States
Evers
M. B. Pierce
U.S. Supreme Court
Jackson
Charles Jones
Campbell College
Macmillan Keeps Secluded as Ouster Demands Grow
London remains tense as Prime Minister Macmillan stays at his country home amid increasing calls for his resignation. Officials report no public appearance while political pressure mounts from opposition and party members seeking change.
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London
Macmillan
Indian Leader Urges Training Over Joining Other Groups
A Menominee official in Eau Claire Wisconsin argues Indians gain leadership through training and hard work not by aligning with other minorities. George Kenote, supervisor at a key Menominee County sawmill, warns against street violence and calls for self improvement as crucial to progress.
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Eau Claire
Wis
George Kenote
Indian Leadership Forum
Kenote
Menominee County
Menominee
Soviet Cosmonaut Known as "The Hawk" Calls Self
Moscow AP reports Valery Bykov, the fifth Soviet cosmonaut, nicknames himself The Hawk in radio chatter with Earth during mission communications.
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Moscow
Valery Byovsky
Earth
Washington racial protest ends with call for housing bias ban
Washingtons largest racial demonstration concluded peacefully as marchers numbering about 3000 on Pennsylvania Avenue after prayers by the White House. Police aided flow. one arrest for a motorist obstruction. Leaders hailed progress on housing bias and non hiring discrimination.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
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