Debt Ceiling Boost Urged By Treasury
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon urged the House Ways and Means Committee to approve an $8 billion rise in the national debt ceiling. He warned that without action the government could face expensive financial steps or unpaid bills. The administration backs balanced budgets but cautions a weak first quarter and unemployment above 5 percent.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Kennedy
Dillon
House
Ways and Means
Scretary of Commerce
Luther H. Hodges
Congress
David E. Bell
Secretary of Treasury
West Virginia weighs flexible public works plans over ADCU fate
State Welfare Commissioner W Bernard Smith says agencies prepare alternate plans as Congress hesitates on the 70 percent federally financed ADCU program. About 12 398 people in WV work on ADCU projects. if ADCU ends, $3 million state EEP would fund 1 200 to 1 700 jobs.
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Charleston
Congress
West Virginia
W. Bernard Smith
Smith
House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Missionaries Kidnapped Near Saigon by Viet Cong
Vietnamese army units probed jungle 150 miles northeast of Saigon chasing a strong Viet Cong guerrilla band that raided a leper camp and abducted three American missionaries A F E Mitchell Daniel Gerber and Dr Eleanor Vietti. The raid seized food and medicines while 250 lepers and nine other Americans remained unmolested including four nurse women and the families of the kidnapped men.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ban Me Thuot
A. F E. Mitchell
Ellensburg
Wash
Daniel Gerber
Dalton
Ohio
Eleanor Adrel Vietti
Houston
Tex
Thomas G. Mangham
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Alliance
South
Viet Nam
Lightning Blast Kills 1 Hurts 6 At Potomac Interceptor Site
A lightning induced dynamite explosion at the Potomac interceptor sewer near Great Falls, Virginia, killed Paul Russell at the scene. Six workers were injured and transported to Fairfax and Arlington hospitals in fair condition. Injured: James H. Burroughs 37 Heaters WV, Paul G. Payne 26 Round Hill VA, Randal Davis 38 Flat Woods WV, Donald Cochran Summersville WV, Carl Tomlin 32 Blue...mont WV, Raymond Riggleman Blue Mountain WV.
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Great Falls
Virginia
Potomac
Potomac River
Paul Russell
Fairfax
Arlington
James H. Burroughs
Heaters
W. Va
Paul G. Payne
Round Hill
Randal Davis
Flat Woods
Donald Cochran
Summersville
Carl Tomlin
Raymond Riggleman
Bluemont
Four Year Old’s Body Found in Old Mine Shaft
Officials theorize Kenny Kowalchuk suffocated in a trickle of loose earth after a fall into an abandoned mine shaft near his farm. Rescuers found him 34 hours later, 54 feet deep with broken bones and his head buried in soil. A second body, 12-year-old Kenneth Shickley Jr., was found in a Shamokin mine after tumbling Tuesday while chasing a squirrel.
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Ghost Pine Creek
Alta
Kenny Kowalchuk
Rescu
Kenneth Shickley Jr
Shamokin
Kenneth
Mistrial Declared In $175000 Diamond Case
A Wytheville circuit court mistrial halted Ernest Baylor Stanger's trial on a $175,000 diamond larceny charge after Commonwealth's Attorney Ed win Shaffer questioned Stanger’s right to testify. The judge ruled Shaffer could not comment on a defendant’s refusal to take the stand, ending two days of testimony and delaying the case. A new trial was set for June 11 with another judge to preside.
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Commonwealth
Stanger
Bluefield
W. Va
Chattanooga
Tenn
R. William Arthur
Shaffer
Matthews
Atlanta
Harry L. Henning
Robert Eugene Lewis
Mattoon, Lr
Virginia
62 Riviera-Bound Tourists Die In Italy Train Wreck
At Voghera Italy a freight engine plowed into a standing passenger train killing 62 tourists en route to the Riviera. Police said the engineer and assistant surrendered for questioning eight hours after the crash. Ten are critically injured among 70 hurt as the disaster raised Italy’s rail toll to 148 dead in four major wrecks since December.
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Riviera
Italy
Voghera
Milan
Gers
Mighty Rally Continues On Stock Market
The stock market extended its rally after Memorial Day as buying from individuals and institutions overwhelmed the NYSE ticker tape. Foreign buyers and foreign exchanges supported gains while Congress prepared to investigate stock market inventory policies and potential manipulation by institutions.
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Mighty Rally
New York
U.S
Henry Reuss
Old-Time Orator Henry Ashurst Dies at 87
Washington AP reports former Arizona Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, famed as a flamboyant orator and one of Arizona’s first two senators, died at 87 after a stroke. The Democrat led the Senate Judiciary Committee and captivated with rococo, four syllable phrasing learned from Shakespeare.
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Washington
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Arizona
Ashurst
Henry
Senate
Grand Canyon
Disarm Report Shows No Major Breakthrough
The 17-nation disarmament conference approved an inch-thick report on 11 weeks of talks with no significant agreement reached. The U S delegation warned substantive issues will bring great difficulties as the Soviet push for base elimination and nuclear delivery destruction shapes Moscow’s plan.
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Disarmament Conference
Impor
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Soviet Union
Moscow
McDowell County stays on EST for this year
A Welch mass meeting of McDowell officials and business leaders decided to keep McDowell County on Eastern Standard Time for the year. Mayor W B Swope said changing now would cause confusion as mines and schedules would stay on EST. The group will seek state legislative action to decide statewide time policy next year.
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McDowell County
Welch
W. B. Swope
McDowell
Chamber of Commerce
Swope
West Virginia
Kennedy Drops Herald Tribune in White House Row
President Kennedy cuts 22 White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune prompting columnists to warn of a bootleg paper market inside the White House. Officials say the move aims to diversify reading, not retaliate against the paper.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
New York Herald Tribune
Roscoe Drummond
The
Herald Tribune
Drummond
Pierre Salinger
Robert F. Kennedy
Dean Rusk
United States Information Agency
Rowland Evans Jr
Eichmann Executed by Israel After Clemency Denial
Adolf Eichmann was hanged at Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv less than an hour after President Ben Zvi rejected clemency. The 56 year old was captured from Argentina two years earlier and brought to Israel for trial and execution. Newsmen from Reuters and West German press witnessed the hanging.
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Tel Aviv
Eichmann
Fkichmann
Israeli Supreme Court
Jerusalem
Ben-Zvi
Justice Ministry
Ekichmann
Ramleh
Reuters
Eichmann executes after clemency rejected
Adolf Eichmann is hanged after Israel rejects the last clemency appeal. He was captured in Argentina two years and 21 days earlier by Israeli agents and blamed for the murder of six million Jews, insisting he only followed orders.
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Adolf Eichmann
Israel
Argentina
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