Toll Exceeds NSC Estimate During Holiday Traffic Surge
NSC appealed for caution as preliminary counts show about 25 percent higher deaths than earlier estimates during the four day Fourth of July weekend. George C. Stewart warned that if the trend continues the toll could top 550, with 262 traffic deaths, 27 boating, 73 drownings and 46 other fatalities. Rainy highways appeared nation wide while the East and South enjoyed dry, warm weather.
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Associated Press
Stewart
Man hanged himself in Man City jail cell
Dawid Samuel Ayers, 35, was found to have hanged himself Saturday night in a jail cell in Logan after being arrested for intoxication, according to police reports.
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Logan
Dawid Samuel Ayers
Man City
Girl Holds Police Chief Hostage in Missouri Standoff
In Springfield Missouri 18 year old Mildred Weaver held a gun on a patrol car until Police Chief Sam Robards and Assistant Chief Gordon Loveland persuaded her to surrender after about two hours. Weaver was taken to police headquarters facing felonious assault with a deadly weapon.
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Springfield
Patricia Campbell
Sam Robards
Mildred Weaver
Robards
Asst
Gordon Loveland
Miss Weaver
Pital
Nevada
Missouri State Hospital
Elwin Harmon
Weaver
Negotiations Collapse in Nationwide Maritime Strike
In a 17 day maritime dispute, federal mediators suspended talks as Labor Secretary Goldberg leaned toward a back to work order. A partial accord freed about 200 South Atlantic and Gulf Coast ships from strike restrictions, while unions and shipowners aimed for broader settlement amid threats of a Taft Hartley injunction.
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New York
Kennedy
Arthur J. Goldberg
Finders
Threea
David L. Cole
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Masters, Mates and Pilots Union
American Radio Association
National Maritime Union
Cole
Rain Ends Crowded disturbance in Lake Geneva
Police and deputies dispersed a large youth crowd in Lake Geneva Wisconsin after a heavy rainstorm. Several thousand had gathered for the resort town's anniversary weekend amid fights with officers. Three youths were jailed after a Friday to Saturday disturbance.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
Wisconsin
Youth Drowns During West Virginia Fourth of July Holiday
West Virginia saw crowds at beaches and pools on Sunday as the Fourth of July holiday continued. A 16 year old, Rebert Harless of St Albans, drowned after slipping off an underwater ledge in Coal River at Tornado Kanawha County. Fire departments aided in the search. The report notes no traffic fatalities during the federal count period beginning Friday at 6 pm.
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West Virginia
Rebert Allen Harless
Prostrated Dog Revived by Mouth to Mouth Respiration
In Windsor England a widow Violet Furnace 66 saved her pug Vi Queen Black Violet after it collapsed from heat exhaustion. She breathed into the dog for two hours, used ice water, then gave a heart injection enabling recovery.
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Windsor
England
Queen Black Violet
Violet Furnace
Broadstairs
Mrs. Furnace
Vic Queen
Grand Jury Deliberations Start in Mercer County Court
The Mercer County Criminal Court grand jury begins July term deliberations with jurors reporting to Judge Howard M. Jarrett in Princeton at 9 50 a m. Three murder cases and several other felonies are to be examined.
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Mercer County Criminal Court Grand Jury
Howard M. Jarrett
Princeton
Hemingway Dies in Gun Mishap at Idaho Home
Ernest Hemingway 62 died when a shotgun blast killed him while cleaning a gun at his canyon home in Ketchum Idaho. Wife Mary Hemingway released a statement calling it an accidental death with private funeral plans.
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Sun Valley, Idaho
Ernest Hemingway
Mary Hemingway
Hemingway
Pga
Keuchu
Ray "McCelérics
Blaine County
Canyon
Ketchum
Here
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Mina
Idaho
Mayos de
Gary Cooper
Chuck Atkinson
Britain says troops will fight if Kuwait border is crossed
At the United Nations Security Council Britain warned it would deploy troops from its Kuwait wait if Iraqi forces cross the Kuwait border. Iraq denied plans to use force and urged the council to demand unconditional withdrawal of British forces and aircraft and naval deployments into Kuwait.
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Sheik Abdullah
Kassein
United Arab Republic
Middle East
Valerian A. Zorin
Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Patrick Dean
Abdullah as-Sabah
as-Salim
Baghdad
Pacheachi
Kuswait
Omar Loutfi
Defensive Ring Formed In Torrid Kuwait Lands
British tanks commandos and paratroops formed a defensive ring around Kuwait City as reinforcements landed to protect the oil state from a potential Iraqi invasion. Brig. Gen. Horsford led operations. No. 45 Commando joined the Bulwark assault group. troops from Coldstream Guards and 11th Hussars arrived.
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Iraq
Sheikdom
7Th Parachute
Royal Horse Artillery
England
Britannia
Kuwait City
Sheik Sir
Abdel Karim Kassem
Ku‘wait
Moon
Bruoes
Bulwar
Kuwait Bay
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Balaclava
Hussars
Aden
Arabian Peninsula
Bahrain
Persian Gulf
24Th Infantry Brigade
Kenya
East Africa
Nairobi
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Royal Air Force
No. 45 Commando
Commando
Miss Virginia Wins Pageant After Wager Made
Roanoke Va AP Jo Ann Smith of Woodbridge paid off a dollar bet to Charlotte Ann Thomas Roanoke the newly crowned Miss Virginia 19 year old from Roanokewill travel state events and Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City this fall She studied chemistry and plays piano with Sibelius Romance as talent. Thomas will be absent from school for a year to promote the title.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Woodbridge
Jo Ann Smith
Charlotte Ann Thomas
Western Virginia
Russell E. Thomas
Miss Thomas
Lynchburg
Randolph-Marcon Woman's College
Thomas
Roanoke County
Sibelius
Charlotte
Atlantic City
Labor chief backs Taft Hartley in ship strike dispute
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, aboard Cape Cod for a Kennedy holiday, signals that only a Taft Hartley injunction may end the 80,000-strong maritime strike affecting Atlantic Pacific and Gulf ports. Kennedy weighs Justice Department action after a three-man fact finding board report due Monday.
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Andrew Hatcher
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf Coast
Hyannisport
Mass
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Cape Cod
Kennedy
White House
Washington Storm Strikes 1702 16th St Roof Railing
A brief severe afternoon storm hits Washington causing a 93 to 73 degree drop in minutes with 51 mph winds and lightning. A lightning bolt damages the Chastleton Apartments roof area while residents report no serious fire damage. In Arlington biology? area Carol Yeatman, 14, drowns after fainting while swimming at a private pool. autopsy to follow.
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Chastleton Apartments
16Th St. NW
Albert Hurst
Bolt
Carol Yeatmen
Sibley Hospital
Edward L. Yeatman
Arlington
Robald FE. Banta
Homicide
Charles V. Taylor
MacArthur Boulevard
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