Yank Troops Quit Base To Reinforce Berlin Garrison
A 1 506-man battle group from the 8th Infantry Division moved from Sandhofen Germany to reinforce West Berlin. Commanded by Col Glover S Johns the unit travels via Helmstedt Berlin Autobahn after Kennedy orders following advisory discussions with Rusk and others. The Allied garrison in West Berlin totals around 11 000 with Americans numbering 5 000. The move is described as a token expansion in response to East German military activity.
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Washington
Kennedy
East Germany
West Berlin
Pentagon
8Th Infantry Division
Sandhofen
Mannheim
West Germany
Glover S. Johns
Berlin
Secetary
Dean Rusk
Red
U.S
White House
Pierre Salinger
East Berlin
U. S
Helmstedt-Berlin
Johnson
Vital U S Space Test Grows Near
An 88 foot Atlas missile on a Cape Canaveral pad stands ready for a key unmanned Mercury orbital test before year end. The plan calls for a 110 minute suborbital pass to reach 154 miles, then a chimpanzee test before a manned flight. NASA aims for orbit before 1962, with mixed schedule optimism across officials. The agency reports no new suborbital flight needs after evaluating Shepard and Grissom flights, and will focus on an orbital phase of Project Mercury. The Atlas has failed thrice in prior attempts, including the only previous orbital launch attempt. (Continued on Page Two)
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Caupe Canaveral
Fla
United States
Gagarin
Gherman Tsev
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Space Agency
Alan B. Shepard, Jr
Virgil I. Grism
NASA
Space Task Group
Atlas
Kennedy orders reinforcement of West Berlin garrison
President Kennedy ordered a 1,500-man battle group to West Berlin and sent Vice President Johnson on a flying trip to Bonn and West Berlin. The moves aim to reassure West Berliners and to signal allied resolve to Soviet demands. Johnson to confer with Adenauer and Brandt, while Kennedy stays in the capital.
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Kennedy
West Berlin
Johnson
Germany
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Khrushchev
Britain
France
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Willy Brandt
Brandt
American Action
Aban
Berlin Refugee Exit Blocked by Concrete Walls in West Berlin
AP correspondent Lynn H. Zerling describes Harzerstrasse in Berlin where north of the street lies East Berlin yet the street remains in West Berlin. Workers sealed doors with brick walls and set concrete barriers to trap residents, with Communist soldiers patrolling gardens and barbed wire added near a corner. Crowds gathered as residents and visitors faced restricted access and tension across the border.
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Harzerstrasse
Kennedy Hopes to Salvage Foreign Aid Plan
Washington AP Kennedy administration leaders seek to merge conflicting Senate and House foreign aid plans into a compromise. The Senate approved a five year $8 billion borrowing backed program, while the House favored a one year $1.2 billion package financed by appropriations. Conferees will hammer out a path likely preserving some borrowing power and multi year lending.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
House
Treasury
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Adinistration
Foreign Relations Committee
Snowshoe Club Breaks Ground on New Biddeford Home
Ground was broken yesterday for the Rocham beau club’s new home on a 46 acre site on upper South Street in Biddeford. The 120 by 72 foot building will host a large auditorium, lounge, kitchen, offices, restrooms, and a checking room with a 36 by 18 foot lobby. General contractor is Philip L. Gadbois with Richard Howard excavating and Emile Lamontagne plumbing. The club can merge the lounge and auditorium to a 100 by 54 foot space using a movable partition. The facility will be on one floor.
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Rochambeau Club
Upper South Street
Biddeford
Philip L. Gadbois
Richard Howard
Emile Lamontagne
Johnson Proclaims US Distaste For Retreat In Berlin
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives in Bonn and declares the United States will not retreat amid Communist threats in Berlin. Kennedy orders a U.S. battle group toward West Berlin to bolster Allied forces as Adenauer and Johnson discuss steps to counter the Red squeeze in a divided city.
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America
Johnson
Kennedy
Adenauer
Bonn
Berlin
Dog Triggers Auburn Crash. Teen Injured
Thomas J. McDonald 18 of Lynn Massachusetts lost control when his dog leaped into his lap while driving a pickup along an Auburn road. The vehicle swerved, struck a utility pole, and tipped into a ditch. McDonald was treated at Lewiston Hospital.
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Auburn
Thomas J. McDonald
Lynn
Mass
McDonald
Lewiston Hospital
Negroes Aid Caucasian Missionary
Rev. Thomas Tune, 32, a white minister in Rochester Michigan, finished a six week 60 hour per week capsule Chinese course funded mainly by Negro churches to prepare for his Hong Kong mission. Officials call him the first white evangelist sent by a Negro church abroad and the first to cram Chinese study in a Christian college nationwide.
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Rochester
Mich
Hong
Thomas Tune
Hong Kong
Tune
United States
Michigan Christian Junior Church
Baptist Clergyman Refuses To Turn His Other Cheek
Los Angeles AP report: Rev Wayne Eurich of First Baptist Mar Vista seeks to oust John Chapman family from church over loud singing and scriptural readings. Court grants preliminary injunction barring the Chapmans from church premises as dispute over conduct and rights escalates.
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Los Angeles
Wayne A. Eurich
First Baptist Church of
Mar Vista
John H. Chapman
Superior Court
Chapman
Betty
Connie
Eurich
Chapmans
Civil Rights Commission Extension Tops Senate Agenda
In Washington the Senate plans a Monday move to suspend the rules and attach a two year extension of the Civil Rights Commission to a $741 million State and Justice appropriation bill. Leaders Mansfield and Dirksen coordinate the effort while Javits and Keating push for broader civil rights measures.
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Washington
Civil Rights Commission
Senate
State and Justice Departments
Commission
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Kenneth B. Keating
Javits
Keating
Kennedy
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Ray Belanger
Joseph Larose
Robert Martel
Lains
Gerard Moreau
Clement Deschambault
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Gerard Lamontagne
U. S. Space Test
Doned
Hyannis Port
Lynn Heinzerling
JFK
Snowshoe Club
Atlantic
War Office
United
Old Orchard House
23Rd Canadian Legion
Old Orchard Beach
Rupert McCabe
New Brunswick
Edna Howe
Eastern States Auxiliary
Legion and Auxiliary
Maurice R. Parisien
Portland
Maine
American Legion
John H.reed
Edwin W. Heywood
Reed
Legion
Parisien
Fort Fairfield
General Heywood
Augusta
Fea. Corp
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