Anchorage Aftershock Eyed From Snow Veiled Ruins
Anchorage ten days after a massive earthquake, snow lightly covers rubble as troops guard Fourth Avenue and Turnagain Bluff. A new store wall stands blasted, office buildings sit empty, and quake refugees face continued hardship yet show cooperation and resolve for rebuilding.
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Marlin Spencer
Anchorage
Alaska
Cook Inlet
Parkaclad
Fourth Avenue
Turnagain Bluff
J.C. Penney Co
New
Svith
Aan Aintree Asian Sania
Alaska Relief Effort Spreads Aid Across Remote Villages
Portage refugees stay in Diamond Jim's cabin and 266 Indians from Kodiak miss home while 38 Portage villagers find shelter in a Cordova church. Relief workers rely on helicopters planes trucks and foot travel to reach isolated areas after the March 27 earthquake and tidal waves. Cash donations surge as Red Cross and Salvation Army urge funds for rebuilding. Government estimates put damage in the hundreds of millions with widespread homelessness and joblessness ahead.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Portage
Diamond Jim's
Kodiak Island
Onegd
Cordova
New Jersey
Portland
Pau VI
Methodist Council
Bishops
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Washington
William Egan
Italian Foreign Minister condemns British Yemen bombing
Cairo AP Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat condemned the British bombing of Fort Harir in Yemen and said Italy opposes foreign bases in principle. Saragat nears end of a three day visit to the United Arab Republic as Britain reports border strikes after Yemeni attacks on the Protected South Arabian Federation.
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Cairo
Giuseppe Saragat
Fort Harir
Yemen
Saragat
United Arab Republic
Britain
South Arabian
New Zanzibar Seen as Guerrilla Base by Refugees
Refugees report Zanzibar turning into a staging ground for rebellion under Afro Socialist rule. They claim arms landings and a Soviet role, with clove shipments to the Faisabad and mass departures of British staff as tensions rise. President Karume faced decrees from a Revolutionary Council amid growing anti white dominance rhetoric.
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Dar ES Salaam
Tanganyika
Zanibar
Cuba
Africa
Zanzibar
Mozambique
South Africa
Southwest Africa
Faisabad
Zovsramert
Abeidu Karume
Karume
Revolutionary Council
Cigarette tax revenues rebound in March after dips
State Treasurer Jesse James reports March gross cigarette stamp sales at 7 038 S01 with February at 5 651 381, below January's 7 301 582. March 1963 cigarette taxes reach 6 941 689 as smoking fears ease. Liquor and wine tax revenues also rise from February.
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Austin
Jesse James
James
U. S
State Comptroller’s Office
Death Sentence Upheld For Smith In Slaying
NEW ORLEANS AP The 5th U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Joe Smith s death sentence for the suffocation slaying of 12 year old William Bodenheimer I in a shack during an attempted assault in Texas four years ago Smith now 22 faces execution in the electric chair on May 5 Gov Connally had granted a 30 day stay earlier this month Smiths lawyers had argued the state failed to prove all elements of the offense.
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New Orleans
Joe Smith
Houston
5Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
William Bodenheimer I
Smith
Texas
John Connally
Ofena
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Seattle
Associated’ Press
Khown
Beleirs
Asey
John's Trim Shop
W. Maln
Diamond Jim
Italy
Blake
Ted
S. Ashbel
Ashbel & Pearce
Goodyear
Dee
Blackwall
Goodzyear
Idryer
India
Kashmir
DELHT
Sheik Mohammed Abdullah
Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Abdullah
F Ollowers
Shastri
G. L. Nanda
Pakistan
Long
Oxford
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