Hunt for gun-toting bank robbers continues in Abington
Abington police and about 125 officers pursued a gunman resembling Albert F. Nussbaum after a weekend search, with one officer injured by shattered glass when a suspect fired at a patrol car. The suspects linked to two Brooklyn bank holdups totaling over 100000 dollars include Bobby R. Wilcoxson and Jacqueline Rose.
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Abington
Mass
Albert F. Nussbaum
New York
Bobby R. Wilcoxson
Duke
Okla
Brooklyn
N. Y
FBI
Nussbaum and Wilcoxson
Jacqueline Rose
Buffalo
Cosmos 5 Launch Marks Fifth Soviet Unmanned Satellite
Moscow reports Cosmos 5, fifth in the Cosmos series, has been placed in orbit as a routine artificial satellite. Tass says the flight is proceeding normally on an orbit near the planned path with no crew aboard.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Light Helps Rescue Man Adrift in Bay
Lt. Jim G. Pinson, 21, of Pease Air Force Base, was rescued after his motor boat failed off Mott's Point in Great Bay. Cries for help and a flashlight guided Harbormaster William Welcome, state and local police, and firemen to pull him to shore. Pinson assisted in the search using a strong flashlight.
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Portsmouth
N.H
Air Force
Great Bay
Jim G. Pinson
Pease Air Force Base
Mott’s Point
William Welcome
Welcome
Pinson
Carpenter Defends Third Earth Orbit Performance
Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter says he did not become confused or tired on his third Earth orbit, though he was preoccupied with tasks. He details fuel, control system errors, and radio range issues while recounting his drifting, overflight, and reflections on weightlessness and depth perception.
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Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Earth
Hawaii Station
Carpenter
Boulder
Colo
Mercury Control Center
Rebels Launch New Drive in Laos Amid Coalition Talks
In Vientiane AP reports rebels push toward Houei Sai near the Thailand border as Prince Boun Oum visits the Philippines for three days. Government forces retreat earlier, with U S. military advisers surveying Houei Sai and a 5000-man U S. brigade deployed south of the Mekong. Souphanouvong and Souvanna signaled no new offensives before coalition talks resume.
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Vientiane
Boun Oum
Philippines
Houei Sai
Thailand
Phoumi Nosavan
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
United States
Soviet Union
Souvanna
R. H Tucker
U.S
Mekong River
Souphanouvong
International Control Commission
Khang Khay
Shepard to Visit His Hometown Gala Homecoming in Derry
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. returns to his birthplace Derry New Hampshire for a June 9 homecoming. A two hour parade begins at 10 a.m. with more than 40 organizations already signed up. A motorcade to Manchester and Concord follows as dignitaries review the parade.
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Derry
N.H
Alan B. Shepard Jr
New Hampshire
Shepard
Manchester
Concord
Astronaut Committee
Bay State Men Held After Hoard of Stolen Weapons
Two Massachusetts men including a Boston University student were held without bail after police and federal agents trapped them with thousands of dollars worth of firearms and ammunition for sale. Peter J. Schuffels and Craig W. C. Brown faced charges of possession of machine guns and transporting loaded weapons across state lines.
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Massachusetts
Boston University
Manchester
U.S
Peter J. Schuffels
Deershorn Road
South Lancaster
Craig W. C. Brown
Park Drive
Boston
Brown
Bu’s School of Liberal Arts
Andrew J. Polak
Hudso
Treasury
New York City Tops Nation in Early 1962 Murder Rates
FBI figures released by Atty. Gen. Kennedy show New York City leading in murder and non negligent manslaughter for the first quarter of 1962 with 119 deaths, ahead of Chicago with 99. The report also lists 1961 comparisons and crime figures for New England cities such as Boston Hartford Lynn Providence Springfield and Worcester.
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Washington
New York City
FBI
Robert F. Kennedy
Chicago
New England
Boston
Hartford
Conn
Lynn
Providence, R. I
Springfield
Mass
Worcester
Lutheran aid leader named first chairman of refugee commission
Rev. Bruno Muetzelfeldt named first chairman of the Commission on Refugees of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies. He previously directed the Lutheran World Federation's World Service department. The council formed last March includes 78 member agencies.
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Geneva
Bruno Muetzelfeldt
Commission On Refugees of the
New International Council of Voluntary Agencies
Muetzelfeldt
Lutheran World Federation
Department of World Service
International Council
Day of Decision Big School Issue Up for Vote in Bennington County
Voters in four Bennington County districts decide on forming a union school district to create a Grades 7 12 regional high school and regional junior high. The plan envisions a $2 million high school and consolidation of district schools, with no immediate funds or tax levies.
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Bennington County
Bennington Graded
Bennington
Greater Bennington
Molly Stark
North Bennington
Shaftsbury Town
Coe Hall
Bennington-Southwest
Bennington Village
Bennington Town
Shaftsbury
Planning Board
France may seek death penalty in Salan retrial
Paris AP reports France considering a new trial for Raoul Salan after the military tribunal was dissolved. Authorities may pursue a regular criminal case on treason and related charges to push back against Algerian independence opponents. De Gaulle reportedly furious at the original verdict.
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Salan
Paris
Raoul Salan
Algeria
Special High Tribunal
France
Secret Army
Edmund Ou Haud
Sallan
Algeries
Jouhaud
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Pacifist Held In Ban-the-Bomb Voyage Arrest
Ed Lazar, 27, charged with resisting arrest after refusing to leave the ban-the-bomb vessel Everyman during a protest voyage intended to reach the Pacific tests. Lazar was brought to trial in San Francisco as Coast Guard halted the 30-foot craft 18 miles offshore and ordered the crew back.
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San Francisco
Ed Lazar
U.S
Donald B. Constine
Lazar
Pacific
United States
Coast Guard
Harold Stallings
Even Yoes
Quiet China Border Amid Refugee Influx Felt by Two Americans
Mrs. Mary Downey and her son William arrived from Peiping reporting a calm Communist border. They noted thousands of refugees swarmed to the Hong Kong frontier earlier, with border guards tightening control after May. Downey said their 1,200 mile, 13 day trip found no signs of starvation or unrest and that John Downey remained jailed in Red China. He also asked for magazines for his son.
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Hong Kong
Canton
William
Downey
Peiping
GOP Mail Against Kennedy Plan After TV Appeal
Republican lawmakers report mail backlash to Kennedy’s Medicare financing proposal. Goldwater cites 3 to 1 opposition in New York and 5 to 1 in California since Kennedy’s TV appeal. Javits backs a modified King Anderson bill while Curtis and Ribicoff dispute hospital control under the plan.
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GOP
Congressional Mail
Medicare
Kennedy
Wasington
Congressional Republicans
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Senate
House
New York
Goldwater
California
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
King-Anderson
Ways and Means
White House
Sig
Parachutist Aims to Set World Record in Norfolk
Bernard L. Nutting Jr. 34 a former paratrooper plans in July to make 150 parachute jumps in 15 hours one every six minutes at Norfolk airport using three planes five pilots 150 chutes and reserves to beat the unofficial 135 jumps in a day. He says fresh chutes each jump save time and the stunt will prove sports parachuting is not dangerous.
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Norfolk, Mass
Bernard L. Nutting Jr
Expara
Lexington
Nutting
New England Sport Parachutist Associates
Norfolk
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Holbrook
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Cape Canaveral, Fla
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America
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Patrick Air Force Base
Grand Turk Island
British West Indies
Rene
James E. Webb
Cocoa Beach
Cape Canaveral
Walter C. Williams
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Rene Carpenter
Patrick Afb
Fla
Oum
U. S
Bay State
Hudson, N.H
Hudson
Polak
Red China
John Downey
Seoul
Japan
Richard Fecteau
Manchuria
Fecteau
Kenedy
CBS
Abraham Ribicoff
Thomas B. Curtis
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