Explosive Truck Explodes Killing Ten Near Pocono Mountain
A truck carrying 26,000 pounds of nitro carbonate and 4,000 pounds of dynamite blew up near a reptile farm south of the Pocono Mountain resort town. Ten people died including a driver, a woman in a station wagon, a teacher and three volunteer firemen. Emergency antidote rushed in as snakes were freed by the blast.
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Marshalls Creek
American Cyanamid Co
NCNA
Albert Koda
Port Carbon
Reptile Farm
Stroudsburg
Wallace Declares He Will Not Enforce Civil Rights Law
Gov. George Wallace of Alabama vows no enforcement of the civil rights law. At a Columbia rally he predicts quick repeal by voters and says independent electors effort will fare better. He claims the law harms neighborhood schools private property rights and labor seniority.
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Columbia
S. C
George Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Philosphy
United States
Miners Start Long Holiday After UMW Vacation Rule Change
West Virginia 35,000 union coal miners begin a two week holiday as the United Mine Workers mass vacation starts. The new contract offers two vacation periods June 27 or July 11, with over 90 percent choosing the earlier. Each miner gets 225 dollars in vacation pay. The shutdown affects tolls, river barge traffic, and coal train loadings statewide. District 29 officer Carl Bunch notes many workers will take independent trips with no planned union gatherings.
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West Virginia
United Mine Workers
UMW
Carl Bunch
District 29
Beckley
Cuba to gain control of 24 Soviet missile sites
Washington reports the USSR is turning over operation of 24 surface to air missile systems in Cuba to the Cuban armed forces. The weapons are described as very modern and capable of shooting down high flying U S reconnaissance aircraft. Soviet officers reportedly still control the central command at the bases as withdrawal of troops continues. About 600 to 800 Soviet personnel have left in the past month with a training mission of 800 to 1,000 being prepared.
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Washington
Cuba
U.S
Fidel Castro
Italy Faces Government Crisis as Moro Resigns
Rome AP A center left government led by Premier Aldo Moro resigned after a budget provision granting under 240000 in aid to Catholic schools failed by four votes. Segni awaits advice from political leaders as consultations to form a new government were expected to begin Saturday.
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Rome
Aldo Moro
Italy
Moro
Antonio Segni
Segni
Communist Party
Viet Carriers Strike Cong Amid Major Vietnam Battle
Vietnamese armored carriers clashed with a Viet Cong force near BAUCO sixty miles northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh Province. Reports say as many as 100 Viet Cong were killed while American advisers tied to ongoing searches for two missing Americans.
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Bauco
South Viet Nam
Saigon
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Viet Nam
Nguyen Khanh
Tay Ninh
FBI arrests three whites over voter registration threats in Mississippi
The FBI says Merritt Ely Randle James E Hodges and Lawrence Neal McGraw all of Itta Bena Miss were charged after they allegedly threatened two white men from Oxford Ohio Roy Bernard Torkington and John Lyon Paul and a black coworker William Henry McGee during a Thursday incident in Itta Bena The arrests come as a search for three missing civil rights workers in Philadelphia Miss continues with FBI Director J Edgar Hoover stating the arrests are unrelated.
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Itta Bena
Philadelphia
Miss
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Merritt Ely Randle
James E. Hodges
Lawrence Neal McGraw
Greenwood
Randle
Hodges
McGraw
Itta
Roy Bernard Torkington
John Lyon Paul
Mississippi
Council of Federated Organizations
Oxford
Ohio
Hopewell Baptist Church
Torkington
Paul
William Henry McGee
Ida Bena
Goldwater Oversees Daughter Peggy's Wedding Plans
Phoenix AP Sen Barry Goldwater directs final preparations for daughter Peggy Goldwater's wedding to Richard Holt in Phoenix attending ceremonies at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral with about 800 guests. Holt is a Beverly Hills oil firm executive. couple to honeymoon in Hawaii before returning to Beverly Hills. Goldwater planned early arrival for the 8 30 p m ceremony while recovering from a heel tendon pull.
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Barry Goldwater
Margaret Ann
Peggy
Phoenix
Ariz
Len
Richard Arlen Holt
Beverly Hills
Calif
Peggy) Goldwater
Goldwater
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Balboa Bay Club
California
Holt
Hawaii
Johnson Wins Senate Support for Debt Limit Increase
The Senate approved a $9 billion rise in the temporary national debt limit to a peak of $324 billion, the largest jump since World War II. The bill passed 48 to 21 after House approval, extending the limit through June 30, 1965, to prevent a drop below the current $315 billion ceiling.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
Treasury
Bryant Calls In 80 More Officers To Aid St Augustine
Gov. Farris Bryant toured strife torn St Augustine and ordered 80 additional state officers to join the force bringing total to 230 to curb violence. He considered banning all demonstrations day and night and said he would not invoke the National Guard at present.
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ST. Augustine, Fla
Farris Bryant
St. Augustine
Bryant
National Guard
U.S
Bryant Simpson
Jacksonville
Atty
James Kynes
Kynes
Simpson
Florida
West Virginia Sees Warmer Trend With Scattered Showers
An increasing warmer trend is forecast for West Virginia with readings about four degrees above normal. Afternoon highs around 87 and early lows near 63 are expected, with scattered showers possible Sunday or Monday.
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West Virginia
Landowners Sought Help in Civil Rights Workers Search
Gov Paul B Johnson arrived in Philadelphia Mississippi and urged landowners to aid in locating Michael Schwerner Andy Goodman and James Chaney missing since Sunday night. The burned station wagon was found northeast of town with two hubcaps removed by Choctaw Indians as searches continued in Indian country south of here.
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Will Grimsley
Philadelphia
Miss
Paul B. Johnson
Red-Hill
Johnson
State Highway Patrol
Mississippi
Cuba
White House
Here
Gwin Cole
Neshoba County
Cole
Michael Schwerner
Andy Goodman
New York City
James Chaney
Washington
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Jackson
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Mesa
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