Guerrilla Attacks Shake Southern Viet Nam Towns
Massive Communist attacks hit government towns across Viet Nam's southern tip, overrunning a district capital, burning Dam Doi, and costing more than 100 enemy killed while U S advisors counted about 60 bodies. The Dam Doi district HQ became a morgue as 4 400 emergency kits were rushed to survivors.
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Cai Moc
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Dam Doi
U.S
Cai Nuoc
Cau Mau
Harriman Urges Restoration of Foreign Aid Funds
Boston AP W Averell Harriman under secretary of state for political affairs urged restoring House cuts in the foreign aid budget saying national security is at stake and the move would aid enemies. He spoke at a regional Foreign Policy conference luncheon. He warned Khrushchev would applaud the cut as weakening U S competition with communists.
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Boston
W. Averell Harriman
Ofi State
House
Harriman
Bir. Khrushchev
Boston World Affairs Council
State Department
Reluctance Evident as Birmingham Negro students return to class
Five Negro students resumed classes at three Birmingham schools amid protests by white students at West End High School. Police controlled crowds as more than 100 white youths gathered, marching with Confederate flags and chanting anti integration slogans. Attendance dropped at West End, while Ramsay High and Graymont Elementary were calm.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
West End
Ramsay High
Graymont
West Hol
Mobile
Murphy High
Ramsay
Kennedy
Alabama
National Guardsmen
George C. Wallace
Tuskegee
Birmingham City
Pearson Avenue
Ramsay Mish
Jack Warren
Scotland Yard suspects bandits of changing face
AMBURG Germany AP. Scotland Yard suspects the men behind Britain's seven million train robbery may seek facial surgery to alter their appearance. Richard Reynolds, 41, and Thomas Daly, 32, are believed to be trying to contact a plastic surgeon in Germany. Wiesbaden police confirm Yard telegrams. Hamburg detectives urge surgeons to be on alert.
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Amburg
Germany
Britain
Scotland Yard
Federal Criminal Police
Wiesbaden
Richard Reynolds
Thomas Daly
Hamburg
New $1.5 Million Motel Proposed at Lenox Site
Allied Mortgage and Development Co plans a 120 room Holiday Inn style motel on the old Cardinal Inn property at Route 7 20 Lenox. The 30 acre site near Lenox bypass is under 90 day option by the Tennessee firm from Lenox Bradford Realty Trust. A planning board hearing will decide zoning and permit requirements with neighbor notice.
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LENOX
Tennessee Corporation
Allied Mortgage and Development Co., Inc
Lenox- Bradford Realty Trust
Pittsfield
Joseph Budnitz
Arthur A. Maisien
Herbert R. Gladt
Fred Bashara
Bradford
Benjamin Earp
Palm Beach
Fla
Chicopee
Source
Allied Mortgage and Development Co
Holiday Inns of America, Inc
Holiday Inn
Laurel Lake
Route 20
Lee
Cary Whitehead
Memphis
Planning Board
Five Day Forecast Ahead of Weekend Cold Spell
The forecast calls for temperatures averaging three degrees below the seasonal norm of 59 through Friday. Expect a cold spell Friday to Sunday with gradually warmer readings by Monday. Showers are likely again late Monday.
Demoted Hanover Chief Resigns After Demotion
Chairman Lewis J. Bresette of the Hanover precinct commission announced the resignation of Andrew Ferguson, former Hanover police chief, following his demotion after a finding of improper conduct at the Vermont home of a Hanover officer and her roommate. Ferguson had 23 years on the Hanover force and served as chief for JS years.
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Hanover
Lewis J. Bresette
Andrew Pl Ferguson
Hanover Force
Ferguson
Force
Vermont
M Hanover
Sen Church Urges Colleagues To Back Nuclear Test Treaty
Senator Church urges Senate to ratify the nuclear test ban as Kennedy signals continued U.S. weapons development. He warns the world faces two nuclear-armed “old-time Western gunmen” and calls for first steps back from disaster amid Cuba crisis and Khrushchev’s stance. Dirksen plans to review his position. Goldwater seeks a vote on a reservation delaying treaty.
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Sen. Church
Washington
UPI
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Senate
Church
Kennedy
U.S
Everett M. Dirksen
Til
Dirsen
United States Senate
Russia
United States
Nika Khrushchev
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Illinois
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Cuba
Typhoon Gloria Strands Taipei Over 100000 Marooned
Typhoon Gloria battered Formosa with 140 mph winds and 21 inches of rain in 36 hours, marooning over 100000 in Taipei. Government deployed 10000 police and civil defense staff to evacuate via rafts as Shihmen Dam spilled, raising fears of thousands of deaths. five confirmed dead, including a mother and child.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPI
Shihmen
Gloria
Pacific
Train Returns to North Bennington Sparks Local Hopes
In North Bennington Vermont residents greet the first freight train since Rutland Railway halted service two years ago. The backward arrival carried boxcars from Lackawanna Seaboard Delaware Hudson and a Boston and Maine switch engine. Officials unlocked switches as the engine trundled through the yard, reviving memories of rail activity and sparking talk of possible reestablished service. Jesus Saves The Day was chalked on a boxcar as a hopeful sign.
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North Bennington
Rutland Railway
Bennington
Ranner
New England
Lackawanna, Seaboard Railway
Delaware and Hadson
Boston and Maine
Carbam Bend
Hoosick
Vermont
House Adds Prohibitive Conditions In Highway Bill
Boston UPI report notes Gov. Peabody plans a new 125 million highway program after the House refused to concur with Senate changes. House votes blocked a conference, signaling no immediate compromise. Senate amendments gave veto power to 15 communities and drew DPW directives, making the bill unworkable.
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Boston
UPI
Peabody
Senate
House
Department of Public Works
DPW
John F. Thompson
D - Ludlow
Thompson
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Massachusetts
Ren. Sidney Q. Curtiss
R - Sheffield
Curtiss
Mrs Isobel Schofield Fined After Impassioned Defense
Carlisle England witness recounts case as Mrs Isobel Schofield is fined five dollars and twenty cents despite defense claiming she is a careful driver and citing her husband’s support.
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Carlisle
England
UPI
Isobel Schofield
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Dirksen
Hope
Elizabethe Dwyer
Lhrge
Jesus
Cardinal Spellman
American Legion
Miami Beach
New York
Veterans’ Organization
Armed Services
Cmdr
James F. Powers
Associated Press
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