Record Snow Strands Vacationers in Colorado Rockies
Heavy early September snow and record cold trapped Labor Day travelers in the Colorado Rockies. Six people were reported stranded near Decker west of Golden as roads closed and communications failed. Snow totals reached 18 inches in Conifer with a foot in Leadville and up to 14 inches on the Continental Divide, closing Scenic Trail Ridge Road.
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Weather Bureau
Monroe County Lad Drowns In Pond
Lawrence Wills 19 of near Bozoo Monroe County drowned while swimming with boys at the Boy Scout pond near Shanklin's Ferry within Summers County. He went under about 5 p.m. and was recovered near dark by Peterstown Fire Department and Rescue Squad. Funeral arrangements will be announced. No other fatalities reported in Bluefield area during Labor Day holiday.
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Holiday Death Toll Hits 351
The Labor Day weekend traffic toll rose to 351 with NSC officials urging drivers to show patience and safety on the crowded roads. Multiple fatal crashes occurred, including a two-car collision near Stuttgart killing four youths and a three-car pileup in Illinois near Keokuk that claimed three lives.
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Body found in sunken vehicle near Witcher Creek
Police recovered a body from a sunken 1956 four-door convertible found by two swimming youths east of Charleston. Officials identified the victim as Paul Nugen of Fayetteville Rt. 2, missing since January 28 1960, with family to aid in final ID at a Belle funeral home. Authorities theorize he drifted from U S 60 into backwater of the Kanawha River.
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Fatal Labor Day Toll Rises Across U S Deserts And Highways
The report details deaths in Utah and West Virginia from accidents over the Labor Day weekend. The National Safety Council estimates 420 traffic fatalities before the holiday ends at midnight Monday, with past records showing 461 in 1951 and 415 last year. The AP survey tracked from 6 p.m Friday to midnight Monday, totaling 390 in specific categories and 548 overall across boating and miscellaneous causes.
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Utah
West Virginia
Associated Press
Trading Vessel Sinks Off Pacific Coast Killing and Missing
In Buenaventura Colombia a coastal trading ship named Vencedor capsized in shark infested waters with 200 to 300 passengers returning from La Bocana. Police report more than 100 missing and over 50 bodies recovered within hours as harbor craft joined the rescue effort.
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Pacific
Buenaventura
Little Norton Girl Dies In Norton Traffic Crash
A 10 year old girl Colleen Addison of Norton was killed Sunday evening after being struck by a car on Virginia 23 within Norton city limits. The vehicle was driven by Nina Hagy Greear of Coeburn.
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Carol Johnson to play hillbilly role at Miss America pageant
Miss West Virginia Carol Johnson 21 from Rivesville travels with her parents to Atlantic City for the Miss America pageant. She plans a mountaineer gal talent in a patchwork quilt hillbilly dress, barefoot, and a family rifle routine, with seven outfits and extensive wardrobe in tow.
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Carol Johnson
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Rivesville
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Clark Johnson
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Nehru Says Soviets Preparing Long for Nuclear Tests
Belgrade AP report quotes Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru saying he believes the Soviet Union had long planned to resume nuclear tests and that preparations had been made for a long time. He did not specify reasons.
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Goularts Installation Sets Path for Brazil Presidency
Brazil's military chiefs drop opposition to Vice President Joao Goulart and offer a largely ceremonial presidency. He will be installed Tuesday with honors after Congress limits presidential power to a premier chosen by lawmakers. Goulart plans to fly from Porto Alegre to Brasilia, easing fears of civil conflict.
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Reds Challenge Berlin Air Corridors Rights
The Soviet Union again challenged Western use of the Berlin air corridors. It said no four power decisions exist on uncontrolled commercial transport or German use in the corridors, urging the United States Britain and France to stop West German incursions.
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Eisenhower Seeks Civil War Valor Against Modern Crisis
At a Maryland cemetery near Gettysburg Eisenhower urged Americans to match Civil War era courage and conviction as the nation faces a threat to liberty. He laid a wreath at unmarked Confederate graves from South Mountain and Antietam and cited a clash between state power and human dignity.
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UAW Pushes GM Plan in Drive to End Auto Strike
Walter Reuther leading talks with General Motors as UAW seeks to match AMC profit sharing and secure extra benefits paid from GM treasury. Reuther warns a strike deadline looms while negotiations resume with a demand for 15 percent profits for about 325,000 GM workers.
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Japanese Fallout Fears Rise After Soviet Nuclear Test
Japan, still wary from World War II contamination, notes a slight rainwater radioactivity increase after Friday's Soviet detonation. Tokyo warns wind patterns may carry fallout through midweek while protests mount worldwide led by Australia’s Menzies decrying the Kremlin move as insincere.
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Thousands Flee From California Fires Threaten Amador Towns
California faced hundreds of wildfires with Amador County towns like Fiddletown Drytown Amador City Sutter Creek and Plymouth evacuated or closed as 20 000 acre blazes expanded. Fire crews struggled as winds shifted and damage rose across the Sierra and Russian River regions.
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Three Power Pact Sought To Ban Atmospheric Tests
Kennedy and Macmillan urged Khrushchev to sign a no fallout atmospheric test ban by September 9 at Geneva. The plan proposes all three nations join to halt atmospheric tests and reduce radioactive pollution while leaving open future actions if Moscow declines.
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Tito urges world disarmament and global economic market
Yugoslavia's President Tito calls for a general world disarmament conference including major powers and non aligned states and for universal economic cooperation to replace regional markets at a meeting of non aligned leaders in Belgrade Makarios of Cyprus proposes allowing Germans to decide their fate via a U.N. plebiscite and notes shock at the Soviet nuclear test resumption.
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