Snowstorm Ties Up Mountain Traffic Buses
A major snowstorm crippled roads across a wide mountain region causing five inches of snow in Bluefield and delays on U S Highways 460. An eight-vehicle chain reaction wreck near Oakvale Mountain stranded 118 students at Oakvale School while buses were delayed. No serious injuries. one minor head laceration reported.
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Bluefield
Virginias
Oakvale Mountain
Princeton
Glen Lyn
Oakvale School
Washington
Dickenson
Wise
Wythe
Craig
Montgomery
Mercer
McDowell
Summers
Wyoming County
Helen Watson
Cumberland Road
St. Luke's Hospital
Cherry Street
Bluewell
Oakvale
Storm Lashed Nation With Snow And Cold Blast
The nation faced a winter storm delivering heavy snow and sleet from the East to the South with Arctic winds. Traffic halted in hard hit areas and schools closed as snow warnings extended from western Virginia to New York and New England. Big snow totals were forecast for elevations from New England to North Carolina, while record freezes and subfreezing temperatures spread across the country.
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Midwest
Appalachian Mountains
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
North Carolina
el Paso
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Florida
Poughkeepsie
N.Y
Charges filed in Canadian forest feud killings riot
Kapuskasing Ontario police charged 19 settlers with murder and 400 loggers with rioting after three union strikers were killed in a clash at Reesor Siding. Authorities warned of possible further arrests as tensions rose in the isolated logging community.
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Kapuskasing
Ont
Canada
H. H. Graham
Ontario Provincial Police
Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union
CIC
Reesor Siding
Graham
Frederick M. Cass
Macmillan Wins Handily In Key Commons Vote
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s government defeated a no confidence motion 333 to 227 after two days of debate and then won approval for the emergency economic program 330 to 227. The opposition criticized handling of the Common Market talks and relations with France.
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London
Harold Macmillan
France
Britain
House of Commons
Macmillan
George Brown
Senate Extends West Virginia sales tax boost
In a 17 to 11 vote the West Virginia Senate approved a one year extension of the 2 to 3 percent sales tax increase on purchases over 1 to avert June 30 expiration. The measure, first enacted at Barron's request, moves to the governor after House approval. The session also saw an insurance premium tax expansion advance and a constitutional redistricting opinion from Attorney General Robertson finding parts of the House bill unconstitutional.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Senate
Barron
Dan Cahill
Logan
James H. Davis III
Kanawha
William Tempas
Hancock
House
C. Donald Robertson
Howard W. Carson
D-Fayette
Robertson
Carson
Kanawha County
State Senate
Atty. Gen. Robertson
43 Perish As Airliner Crashes In Everglades
A Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720B with 43 aboard crashed and burned in the Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami in heavy squall. Coast Guard found all aboard believed killed. rescue teams searched the swampy area nine miles from the nearest road as relatives waited at O'Hare.
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Everglades
Miami, Fla
Miami
Chicago
Florida
Coast Guard
Cmdr
James Dillon
Dillon
James Wallace
Northwest Orient Airlines
Air Force
Civil Air Patrol
Glades
Father Kills 5 Children Self in Tennessee Tragedy
In Kingsport Tennessee a young father C Pierson 34 killed his five children Cathy 13 Ricky 10 Diana 5 Jackie 3 and Tommy 2 then killed himself He left a note saying his wife ran off with another man and that the children deserved to go to heaven to avoid a broken home Police ruled the deaths murders and the father’s death by his own hand.
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Kingsport
Tenn
C. Pierson
Pierson
Cathy
Ricky
Diana
Jackie
Tommy
Frank Broyles
Ime
Russians Seek Partial Nuclear Pullback At Geneva Talks
At the Geneva disarmament conference the Soviet Union proposed a treaty limiting U S nuclear forces abroad while demanding on site inspections on Soviet soil. The United States and Britain called the move a political maneuver and pressed for more inspections. Kennedy urged a safeguarded test ban and broader trust. Kuznetsov resisted expanding inspections beyond on site visits, favoring Kremlin controls.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Kennedy
U.S
William C. Foster
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Kuznetsov
Britain
Kremlin
U. S
West
Airliner crash in Everglades claims all aboard
Miami to Chicago Northwest Orient Boeing 720B goes down in Florida Everglades during squall. The badly burned plane hit rocky swamp as the pilot attempted an emergency landing. All 43 aboard believed dead.
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Dillon and Wallace
Miami
International
U.S. 41
Florida
Gulf Coast
Everglades
Coast Guard
Chicago
Florida Everglades
Northwest Orient Airlines
Warren urges law to keep pace with science at Atlanta ceremony
Chief Justice Earl Warren told 3600 at Georgia Tech’s 75th anniversary convocation that a world with self destructive power needs a forward looking law. He warned law lags until crisis, urged legal research to match scientific advances and emphasized restraint to keep wartime science from erasing peace.
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Atlanta
Warren
Georgia ‘Tech
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Bland
David Mark Freeman
Keith Freeman
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Labor Party
Hugh Gaitskell
Margaret
Paris
Brussels
Brown
Atlantic Alliance
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pla
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Wash
Portland
Ore
Roy W. Almquist
O'Hare International
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Ellynee
Ivy
O'Hare
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Kassem
Javits
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