Chimponaut Enos Resumes Public Life After Orbit
KINDLEY AIR FORCE BASE Bermuda AP Enos the chimpanzee who orbited the earth twice met the press with dignity after landing back on dry land. A medical check up at Kindley Field Hospital found him hale enough to dine on 250 banana pellets daily, while aboard the destroyer Stormes he received two oranges and two apples. A barge collision near the pier caused a civilian to fall overboard but he was saved. Enos proceeded with his hospital stay and transport to Cape Canaveral, showing no weight loss and remaining in high spirits.
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Kindley Air Force Base
Bermuda
Enos
Fla
Sitce
Kindley Field Hospital
Enoai
Earth
Kitty Hawk
le Bourget
J Finney
Air Force
Cape Canaveral
Stormes
Atlantic
Claude Gibbong
Finney
Balaguer Bows To Army Plan
President Balaguer backed a military plan granting virtual autonomy to the armed forces as antigovernment protests raged across Santo Domingo. Clashes between troops and civilians continued for a third day of a general strike aimed at ousting Balaguer and Trujillo era loyalists. One youth was killed amid the violence.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Joaquin Balaguer
Balaguer
Trujillo
National Palace
Space Men Wont Confirm Or Deny
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP U S space scientists return to work aiming to hurl a man around the world by year s end amid only partial success of the chimp Enos flight The next space passenger may be another chimpanzee The 360 000 pound Atlas booster arrived for the man in space project and will be erected Saturday John H Glenn Jr the oldest projected Mercury astronaut at 40 is the pilot with Scott Carpenter as backup Enos rests in Bermuda hospital awaiting further tests and a Bermuda stopover before Cape Canaveral flight plans are finalized.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
U.S
Enos
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Mercury
Robert R. Gilruth
John H. Glenn Jr
Glenn
Navy
Cmdr
Scott Carpenter
Rites Set For Mrs St Clair Bluefield Widow
Funeral services for Mrs Natalia Maynard St Clair wife of Dr Charles T St Clair Jr will be held Saturday at 2 pm at Bratton Memorial Chapel Mercer Funeral Home with Dr L D Roe officiating and burial in Monte Vista Cemetery The body remains at the funeral home for viewing after 2 pm today She died at 1 45 am Thursday at her Bluefield home born in 1907 she was active in civic and religious work in Bluefield and attended Beaver High School and Ward Belmont College She leaves husband a son in Columbus Ohio a daughter in Morgantown five grandchildren and a brother J Frank Maynard of West Palm Beach Fla Pallbearers are James Mann Harry Holmes Dr Wade St Clair Jr J EB Barden Dr Charles Scott Philip Daly Aller Gandykoontz Dr E M McCauley and Mason Claytor
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Natalia Maynard St. Clair
Charles T. St. Clair Jr
Spring Garden Drive
Bluefield
Bratton Memorial Chapel
Mercer Funeral Home
L. D. Roe
Monte Vista
St. Clair
J. Frank Maynard
Sarah Singleton Maynard
Beaver High School
Ward-Belmont Woman's College
Nashville
Tenn
Bland Street Methodist Church
Mercer County Medical Society
D.A.R
East River Garden Club
Charles T. St. Clair UI
Columbus
Ohio
Norvel Sutherland
Morgantown
West Palm Beach
Fla
James Mann
Deer Slayer in engrn New York tale reported
An AP brief from engrn New York recounts a domestic incident where Mrs. Colin reportedly shot an animal but details are garbled. Authorities or witnesses are not clearly named and the fragmentary text limits clarity on outcome or motive.
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Engrn
N.Y
Colin
US Britain Quit Geneva Nuclear Talks Over Test Ban
The chief delegates of Britain and the United States quit the Geneva talks and report to the U.N. General Assembly over Soviet refusal to discuss a controlled test ban. Dean and Godber will resume negotiations at the U.N. with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Zorin as the West seeks world opinion backing for a ban.
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Geneva
Britain
United States
U.N. General Assembly
Soviet Union
Kremlin
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Joseph Godber
Dean
Godber
United Nations
Miniter
Valerian A. Zorin
General Assembly
Semyon K.tsarapkin
343Rd
U.N
Worker Critical After Fall At Plant
A 20 year old Ingleside construction worker, James Everett Blankenship, fell from a scaffold at the old Appalachian Power Co plant on Poplar Street in Bluefield and was reported in critical condition at Welch Sanitarium. He, employed by Lilly Construction Co, was admitted at 3:10 p m. The power plant is being torn down under the Route 52 bridge behind Tri City Traction Co Barage.
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Wwefield
James Everett Blankenship
Appalachian Power Co
Poplar Street
Bluefield
Blankenship
Lilly Construction Co
Tri + City Traction Co
Proposed London cabbies strike collapses in rain
London taxi drivers aborted a planned 48 hour strike after rain kept most cabs on streets and union leaders called it off. About 3,000 drivers were set to walk out at midnight, but by midday many cabs were operating normally.
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London
Npse Ten
Two Charged In Car Thefts And Break-In
Sheriffs identify a 2 year old, James JD Gadsey, and three others in a case involving theft of four automobiles and a service station burglary. Investigation continues as suspects face hearings in Tazewell County with juvenile adjudications pending and additional charges linked to River and Long Ridge incidents.
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Towell
Tarewell Teanager
Sherif Clarence Davie
James JD. Gadsey
We Hans
Jal
Tazewell
Tazewall
Hert Peary
Princeton
Ebandone Neaday
Jamra
Bhoriff Davie
Beaah Long Ridge
Riverjack
Gary Bowen
Firms Combine To Form Bishop Mining Outfit
Inland Steel Co of Chicago and Consolidation Coal Co of Pittsburgh announce Bishop Coal Co a new coal mining firm at Bishop Virginia joint venture operated by Consolidation Coal Co with access to Pocahontas District reserve. The venture aims to produce metallurgical and double screened heating coal about 1.5 million tons annually though a production start date was not set. C R Naillier becomes president. P P Ferrett and Carl B Jacobs named vice presidents. Consolidation is a large US coal producer with operations in West Virginia Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Inland Steel Co
Chicago
Consolidation Coal Co
Pittsburgh
Bishop, Va
Bishop Coal Co
Pocahontas
Bishop Ne
Bishop
G. A. Shoemaker
Consolidation
Philipe Black, Jr
Inland Steel
C. R. Naillier
P. P. Ferrett
Pocahontas Coal Co
Carl B. Jacobs
United States
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Woman Dies In Bluefield Fire On Hill Street
Mrs Anni e M 71 of 193 Young Street Bluefield died when flames swept a two story frame house. Fire chief McClure said the fire started from an oil heater and the victim may have fainted preventing escape. Fire confined to her room and adjacent spaces. The body was found beneath plaster after firefighters reached the death room. Funeral arrangements awaited.
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Ansie M. Miller
Ning
Appalachian Power Co
Young
Annié
Young St
Bluefield
FE. L. McClure
Richard Madison
McClure
Appalachian Power Company
Meljano Lago
Jawait
Solid-Fuel Rocket Motors Are Fired Up
In Santa Monica California Senator Strom Thurmond warned at an anti Communist rally that a Moscow meeting a year earlier showed a need to halt anti Communist talks by American military leaders His remarks cited a Communist official claiming the U S military is a primary target The report notes a Red propaganda offensive and references a 1958 Defense Department directive asking military leaders to stress the dangers of communism in the U S White Sands New Mexico reports the first test firing of all three solid fuel rocket motors for the Army Nike Zeus antimissile missile The third stage motor ignition occurred as planned and aims to maneuver payloads at very high altitudes The Zeus propulsion includes seven solid fuel motors and the test highlighted a secondary propulsion role The piece mentions Gus Hall relating to Communist ties and a Mus Moscow meeting that allegedly spurred action
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Santa Monica
Calif
Sen
J. Stram Thurmond
D-8.c
Moscow
Gus Hall
U.S
Defense Department
Thurond
MUSE
N.M
Zeus
One Man Army Spurrier Sentenced In Maryland
Former Bluefielder James Spurrier known as One Man Army was sentenced to two years in the Maryland House of Correction after a Baltimore conviction for a deadly weapon charge. Witnesses described a Sept. 5 shooting following a drinking spree quarrel over a trip to Virginia for bootleg whisky. Spurrier, a WWII hero awarded the Medal of Honor in 1945 for liberating a French town, had prior legal troubles since 1951.
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James Spurrier
Virginia
Maryland
House of Connection
Joseph Carter
Spurrier
Baltimore
Sporrier
36Th Army
Adain
United Nations Defeats Western Bid On Non-Nuclear Club
The UN Political Committee backed a non-nuclear club proposal 57 to 12 with 32 abstentions, despite U.S. and NATO opposition over fears it would affect nuclear defenses. Ireland’s plan for a treaty with inspections to block nuclear spread gained support, while the neutralist approach urged nonnuclear pledges and stockpile avoidance.
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United Nations
N.y.apy
U.N
Thureux
Nationa
United States
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Sweden
General Assembly
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Nuclear Club
Luka F. Palamarchuk
Ukraine
Moscow
West Germany
U.S
Frank Aiken
Ireland
Middle East
Aiken
U Thant
Kuwait Denied U N Seat by Soviet Veto
The Soviet Union vetoed Kuwait's admission to the United Nations, the 104th member, in the Security Council. Only Zorin voted against, with 10 in favor and one abstention, sparking protests from Omar Loutfi and others who praised Kuwait's independence and Arab support. The move signaled heightened Soviet-UAR tensions.
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United Nations, N. Y
Soviet Union
United Aral Republic
USAR
Kuwait
United Nation
Valerian A. Zorin
I-nation Security Council
Sheikdom
Zorin
Omar Loutfi
U.A.R
Loutfi
Patrick Dean
Francis T. P. Plimpton
United States
Iraq
Moscow
V.A.R. Peeaidant Gamal Dbdej Nasser
Lebanon Border Closed By Syria Amid Election Talks
DAMASCUS Syria reports border closures with Lebanon after two bomb explosions as Syria moves to deter voting ahead of Friday parliamentary elections. Mamoun Kuzbari says the blasts were by Nasser loyalists while other leaders warn the attacks aim to suppress turnout.
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Damascus
Syria
API
Ita
Lebanon
Tesday
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Mamoun Kuzbari
Nasser
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New Bishop Mining Outfit
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