Kennedy Details 36 Aids for Senior Citizens Health Plan
President Kennedy outlined 36 measures to help the elderly including a Social Security hospital insurance program. The five year plan values $10 billion and targets housing, health, income, jobs, and recreation for seniors with options for extended hospital coverage and optional writing before age 65. The plan faces AMA objections and differs from private insurance proposals.
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Washington
Kennedy
America
Congress
American Medical Association
Italian Villages Covered By Mud
Rain drenched the Naples area as mudslides wrecked several villages on the Sorrento peninsula. Nerano faced a major slide threatening homes while Marina di Cantone and Termini were evacuated or isolated. Toll across Italy climbed with renewed winter floods and snow across regions.
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Naples
Italy
Nerano
Sorrento
Marina de Canton
Libya Quake Kills At Least 250, US Europe Says
An earthquake in northeastern Libya has killed at least 250 people. A spokesman for the U S Air Force in Europe said the figure was reported here early Friday.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Libya
U. S. Air Force
Europe
Pedestrian Strikes Back After Truck Nearly Hits On Bland Street
A pedestrian and truck clash occurred at Bland Street and Princeton Avenue about 12:08 p.m. on Thursday. Truck driver T. G. Dillon of 206 Balsam Street Bluefield said he was turning from Princeton onto Bland when the man crossing Bland Street was barely touched and then knocked Dillon for a loop.
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T. G. Dillon
Balsam St
Bluefield
Princeton
Dillon
Merchant's Suspicions Foil Heist
In Williamson, a grocer feared a holdup after a man entered the Piggly-Wiggly near closing. Police later arrested 38 year old Bill Sanders after an intruder, posing as a salesman, demanded money at the home of Bob Falk the market manager. Falk turned over a bag containing one pound of butter.
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Williamson
Rossy Bucci
Bob Falk
Falk
West Williamson
Bucci
Bill Sanders
GOP hopeful of victory in West Virginia 1964
A state Republican official compared perceived misdoing in the Barron administration to the 1956 Marland scandals and predicted 1964 could end Democratic rule. John Hurd urged vigorous precinct campaigns and large GOP participation to secure victory, noting a strong Mercer County club and plans for a March 21 meeting with Howard Corcoran as speaker.
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Marland
John Hurd
West Virginia
Republican Executive Committee
Mercer County
Republican Club
Hurd
Mercer Club
South Charleston
Fifth
Harry Fitzgerald
Green Valley
Kennedy address hints at Cuba attack uncertainty
President Kennedy spoke at a news conference on Thursday acknowledging limited knowledge of the motives behind the attack on an American shrimp boat by Cuban based MIGs in the Florida Straits. He emphasized senior citizen programs and urged arbitration for the New York newspaper strike while deferring details of possible U S responses to future events.
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Kennedy
New York
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Seceretary of State
Secreary of Defense
Arab world shifts as Iraqi coup reshapes alliances
The article analyzes Iraq's 1958 coup and Abdul Salam Arif's rise, with Baathist influence and Arab unity debates. It notes Egypt's Nasser, Russia, and the West in a three way struggle, plus potential moves by Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait amid oil interests and regional power dynamics.
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Jordan
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Baghdad
Alexander the Great
Mohammed
Genghis Khan
Kennedy orders possible shooting in Cuban raid Florida Straits
President Kennedy issued shoot if necessary orders after Soviet built MIGs attacked a U S shrimp boat in the Florida Straits. He warned Cuba and said action would target aggressors over international waters and noted possible Cuban responsibility while planning not to declare hot pursuit. Several thousand Soviet personnel may withdraw from Cuba by mid March amid tensions.
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Havana
White House
Kennedy
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Caribbean
Congress
Capitol Hill
Key West
Sterling Cottrell
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Florida
Kreml
Boulder Kills Miner In Wise
A 53 year old Wise County Virginia miner was killed instantly at 10 a m Thursday when a 45 ton sandrock boulder fell on his coal shovel at Roda near Appalachia The victim Edward W Salyers of Wise a shovel operator for Stamach Coal Co was crushed as the boulder tumbled from a high wall Rescue workers used torches to free him and the body was sent to Baker Funeral Home Wise funeral plans were incomplete
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Roda
Edward W. Salyers
Wise
Stamach Coal Co
Appalachia
Salyers
Baker Funeral Home
Banks and post offices closed for George Washington birthday
Banks and post offices in Bluefield and Princeton Mercer County will be closed in observance of George Washington's birthday. Bluefield city offices remain open and city business continues. stores stay open. Post offices and state whisky stores will be closed.
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Bluefield
Princeton
Mercer County
George Washington
Temperatures Plunge Across West Virginia Snowbound State
The Associated Press reports a familiar pattern of slick highways deep snow and plummeting temperatures in West Virginia. Chains were needed in several counties and districts as up to 16 inches fell in Randolph County and more snow flurried in Mercer and surrounding areas. Ice hazards threatened Ohio River navigation as arctic air continued into Friday and Saturday.
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West Virginia
State Road Commission
Bluefield
Area
Federal Aviation Agency
Mercer County
Mercer
Randolph County
Tucker County
Weston
SRC
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Lincoln
Pleasants
Grant
Randolph
Tucker
Clarksburg
Moundsville
Lewisburg
Princeton
Ohio River
U. S
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