Fire Kills Father and Four Daughters in Rural Iowa Home
A father Paul Francis Hayes 27 and his four young daughters Edna Debbie April Becky ages 1 to 5 died in a blaze that destroyed their Otho area residence southeast of Fort Dodge. Ruth Hayes 22 escaped through a window. fire officials investigated the cause as firefighters rationed water due to no local hydrants. A babysitter Lois Palmer 14 survived outside as others were found body by body in the smoldering frame house.
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Fort Dodge
Here
State Fire Marshal’s Office
Paul Francis Hayes
Edna
Debbie
April
Becky
Lois Palmer
Robert Palmer
Otho
Hayes
Rasch Construction Co
Walter Hayes
Train Collision Kills 62 in Italian Station Crash
A fast freight train ran a red light at Voghera station and plowed into a Riviera bound express jammed with holiday travelers. Seventy injured, ten gravely, as the 15 car passenger train was boarding for a sea shore weekend. The freight crew fled and a warrant was issued for questioning.
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Voghera
Italy
Milan
Samuel Vezzosi
Italian Republic
Ashurst Famed Arizonan Dies at 87
Henry Fountain Ashurst, 87, longtime Arizona Democrat and one of the first two U. S. senators, died Thursday after a stroke. He served 29 years in the Senate from 1912 to 1941, chaired the judiciary committee, and backed FDRs court reorganization plan.
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Washington
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Arizona
U. S
Ashurst
Senate
Henry
Judiciary Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Boy Dies After Fall Into Abandoned Mine Shaft
In Ghost Pine Creek Alberta a four year old boy named Kenny Kowalchuk died after slipping into an abandoned mine shaft. Rescue workers located him 54 feet down between mine ladder steps with a head injury and suspected suffocation from loose earth.
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Ghost Pine Creek
Alta
Kenny Kowalchuk
Employment Sets Record for May
Washington reports May employment rising by about 1.4 million to 68.203 million, a May record. Unemployment falls by 227 thousand to 3.719 million, with the unemployment rate dropping from 5.5 to 5.4 percent in a six month decline.
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Washington
Cargomaster planes grounded after wing cracks
The Air Force grounded all 46 C-133 Cargo Master planes after cracks appeared in wing structures of three aircraft. Major Irving Breslauer said the grounding is unrelated to a separate six man crew missing in the Atlantic. Twenty four planes inspected with five showing defects. nineteen cleared for service. inspections to finish Friday.
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Breslauer
Not Drunk Just Imbibed Gasoline Dragged From Court
Mohammed Azad 30 told a Chatham court he drank gasoline to ease tooth ache after police arrest on a drunk driving charge. The judge fined him 14 dollars for careless driving.
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Chatham
England
Mohammed Azad
Artist Abel Warshawsky Dies in Monterey at 78
Abel George Warshawsky, a renowned Monterey artist, died Wednesday night at age 78. He gained recognition for his distinctive landscape and portrait work and had a significant influence on regional art circles. His family requested privacy as memorial arrangements were being planned.
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Monterey, Calif
Abel George Warshawsky
Eisenhower Says He Would Go to Jail Over Farm Regimentation
Rep Catherine May recalls Eisenhower’s angry reaction to Kennedy farm proposals with jail penalties for noncompliant farmers. Officials say civil penalties only and the dairy records provision has been removed from the bill.
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Lke
Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Catherine May
Wash
Kennedy
Agriculture Department
G.O.P
Gettysburg
May
Gen. Eisenhower
Congress Back After November Elections
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said on Thursday that he expects Congress will return after the November elections to finish its work.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Congress
Smith Says He Didn't Kill Five
Smith, a 24 year old farmhand, is jailed after being charged with murdering five relatives. He denies the killings, says he is writing his mother, and awaits a lawyer as arraignment is postponed. He was captured near Unionville six hours before a mass funeral for the McBeth family.
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Smith
Sigourney
UPI
Gayne Gilbert Smith
Denver
Colo
Stephen C
Girard
Unionville
Andrew McBeth
Dora Mae
Amos
Anna
Donna Jean McBeth Kellogg
Perry
Du Pont Plans Split GM Stock Distribution
Du Pont to divest GM holding by distributing one half share of GM for each du Pont share. Distribution set July 9 for holders of record June 8, under court order to finish by Feb 28, 1965. Initial value about 1.25 billion dollars. tax implications explained by Crawford Greenewalt as return of capital with potential capital gains tax only on excess over cost.
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Wilmington, del
UPI
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
General Motors
du Pont
Crawford Greenewalt
Greenewalt
Judd Reverses Decision and Will Run Again
Representative Walter Judd of Minnesota reversed his retirement pledge and announced he will seek an eleventh term. Supporters cited more than 5000 letters and telegrams from many backgrounds urging him to continue in public service.
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Robert Bjorklund
Judd Volunteer Committee
Judd
Gains Lift Wall Street Amid Heavy Volume
New York shares rose Thursday as trading volume stayed high, with gains trimmed by afternoon profit taking. The Dow was up about 7 points at 611 at 2 p.m., while the NYSE composite and S&P gained. buying appetite grew despite a still-soft overall market. The session prompted a congressional inquiry into the drop, with Rep. Reuss stating hearings would probe inventory policies in June.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Standard & Poor
American Telephone
Reuss
Dwis
Hick Pushes Tough Line Against Kennedy Policy
Senate Republican policy committee led by Senator Hickenlooper of Iowa develops a hard line against President Kennedy. He denounces Kennedy promises as ash can symbols and criticizes price fixing and the farm program. Hickenlooper, a foreign relations member, shows moderation yet aligns with conservative ratings from Americans for Constitutional Action.
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Washington
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Iowa
Hickenlooper
Kennedy
Sen. Bridges
N.H
America
Sen. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Reds Kidnap U.S. Missionary Trio in Saigon Region
A communist guerrilla band attacked a leper colony about 150 miles northeast of Saigon on Wednesday night and abducted three American missionaries. One rescued by a nearby town ranger alerted authorities. Vietnamese army units searched for the kidnappers. The missionaries belonged to the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
U. S
The
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Chuckle: Listening to Both Sides of a Family Argument
A humorous quip notes that only neighbors hear both sides of a family quarrel, cheekily implying outsiders miss the full story while living next door.
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