Nixon and Kennedy Plan Campaign Runs North
Nixon and Kennedy head north for campaign events amid Senate wage bill debates. Nixon flies to Maine for Cumberland County 200th anniversary. Kennedy plans Hyde Park visit unless Roosevelt tragedy alters plans. Kennedy presses to speed minimum wage vote, faces House opposition and farm bill talks with Johnson and five House Democrats.
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Associated Press
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Washington
Nixon
Maine
Sen. Kennedy
Congress
Cumberland County
Lon L. Fuller
Harvard
Senate
Kennedy
Hyde Park
N.Y
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
House
Gas Smell Sends 500 From Homes in La Porte
In La Porte Texas an unidentified gas with a rotten potato odor sickened more than 40 people causing vomiting nausea and headaches for 90 minutes as 500 families abandoned their homes. Investigators seek the source and type while doctors consider phosgene as the likely culprit.
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LA Porte
Tex
Ray Gresham
Walter Quebedeaux
Harris County Antipollution
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Quebedeaux
Hungary Orders Out U S Attache In Rift With Hungary
In Budapest the U S military attache was expelled by the Hungarian government. The move appears tied to Washington’s refusal to permit Col Karoly Laszlo the Hungarian military and air attache to return to the United States.
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Budapest
Hungary
U. S
Karoly Laszlo
Washington
Five Crewmen Die In Fire Aboard Exultant
A fire on the mine sweeper Exultant ruptured a fuel line in the engine room killing five crewmen. The ship, about 70 miles southeast of Savannah, was extensively damaged and towed to Savannah. Navy officials withheld names pending notification. The Exultant, launched 1953 and commissioned 1954, carries 75 crew and has a wooden hull for magnetic mine defense.
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Savannah
Tropicana Ra
Exultant
Sagacity
Guard
Cone
Jhase
Charleston
S. C
Exultant J
Miami
Fla
Navy
Nimble
Savan- Savannah
Atlantic Fleet Headquarters
Naval Reserve Training Center
Hunter Air Force Base
Silver Dollar Days Sale Here Thursday
Chanute merchants announce the second monthly Silver Dollar Days sale set for Thursday. Shoppers may register in participating stores, with prizes of 50 dollars top, plus two tens and two fives. winners announced at 4 p.m. signals. Registration closes Tuesday. limited silver dollars used as change.
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Chanute Merchants
Two Public Hearings Set by City Monday
City commissioners schedule two public hearings at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial building. One invites residents to question or protest the 1961 budget. The other covers James H. Taylor Jr. request to rezone 402 S Lincoln from residential B-1 to business B-2 for wholesale fireworks sales.
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Memorial Building
James H. Taylor Jr
S. Central
S. Lincoln
Taylor
Special Zoning Committee
City Commission
Blood Program To Be Discussed In Neosho County
Neosho County Red Cross directors will meet at 7 30 p m Monday at the county welfare offices to discuss the blood program. The chapter cites a fund shortage from a weak annual drive as endangering continued participation in the Red Cross blood bank.
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Neosho County
Red Cross
Driver Is Arrested On DWI Charge
Donald D. Wilson, 22, of 1524 S. Central, was arrested early today on charges of driving while intoxicated and reckless driving after his car struck a curbing on 910 S. Central, rolled over, and was a total loss. He posted $150 bond and was released after refusing a blood alcohol test.
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Donald D. Wilson
S.central
Wilson
S. Central
Farm Youth Killed in Tractor Tragedy at Hiawatha
In Hiawatha Kansas Jim Moore aged 13 died Friday when a tractor overturned into a ditch. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Francis Moore of Hiawatha.
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Hiawatha, Kan
Jimmy Moore
Francis Moore
Hiawatha
Neosho County Fair Kicks Off With Exhibits and Shodeo
Erie begins the four day Neosho County Fair with exhibits accepted Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Judging of open and 4-H booths and livestock classes runs Tuesday and Wednesday. A free Shodeo opens the program at 8 p.m. Monday.
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Erie
Neosho County
Fadley Resigns from SBA Post Over Health
Richard T. Fadley, former Kansas state treasurer 1945 57, resigns as regional chief of the Small Business Administration investment division due to health. SBA regional director C I Moyer says no successor chosen yet for the region covering Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Southern Illinois.
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Kansas City
Richard T. Fadley
Small Business Administration
Fadely
Kansas
C. I. Moyer
SBA
Missouri
Nebraska
Illinois
Preliminary Hearing Set for Wichitan
A preliminary hearing is set for August 26 for Robert J. Guy 32 arrested in Wichita on illegal manufacture and untaxed liquor charges. Bond was steadied at 1000 by U S Commissioner Glenn Jones as Wichita commissioner is on vacation. officers seized parts of two stills and liquor at his home.
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Parsons
Kan
Robert J. Guy
Wichita
Guy
U. S
Glenn Jones
Routine Day X15 Pilot Sets Record Elevation Near Space
Maj. Robert M. White described the flight as routine after piloting the X15 rocket plane to almost 25 miles above Earth, a new high while the B52 mothership remained at 45,000 feet. He noted the test flew with radio chatter, sonic booms, and a dramatic view of earth as the X15 reached 131,000 feet before a fuel depletion and descent.
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Doris
Maj. White
Doris White
California
White
Edwards
Sara Roosevelt Dies of Injury at Adirondack Camp
Sara Dela no Roosevelt 13 daughter of John A Roosevelt and granddaughter of Franklin D Roosevelt died from a brain hemorrhage after fainting during a mountain climb at a girls camp in the Adirondacks. She fell from a horse days earlier at Moss Lake School for Girls and was later transported by ambulance to Utica.
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Utica
N.Y
Sara Delano Roosevelt
John A. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sara
Adirondacks
Oneida County
Preston R. Clark
Calais
Maine
Nixon
Lodge
Roosevelts
Hyde Park
Sally
Moss Lake
Bell Labs Hooks Two Way Phone Via Echo Satellite
Bell Laboratories at Holmdel and colleagues in Goldstone California carried a live two way phone conversation via the Echo satellite for several minutes. Earlier, engineers using Echo relayed two way talks between Dallas Iowa Cedar Rapids and Crestview, showing growing satellite communication potential.
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Holmdel
N. J
Dallas
Tex
US space triumph sparks Western Europe optimism
AP reports that the X15 flight and Echo satellite launches boosted confidence across France Britain and West Germany that the United States leads the space race. Newspapers from Figaro to Die Welt hailed Americas advances as a turning point in manned space exploration and a blow to Soviet progress.
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London
United States
Europe
France
Britain
West Germany
Daily
Express
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Die Welt
Hamburg
America
Soviet Union
Figaro
Combat
L'Humanite
Fruehauf Awarded Million Judgment in Trailer Case
U S District Judge Albert Ridge awarded Fruehauf Trailer Co of Detroit a net judgment of 1 021 480 against Riss and a Riss affiliate of Kansas City after a four month trial over 250 refrigerator truck trailers. Riss credited for 162 244 in repair costs. The suit claimed nonpayment for ordered trailers, while Riss alleged defects and other damages.
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Kansas City
Fruehauf Trailer Co
Detroit
Riss & Co
Riss
U. S
Albert A. Ridge
Fruehauf
Weather forecast shows warm spell and scattered storms
Topeka AP reports a narrow band of thunderstorms crossed western Kansas with fair conditions elsewhere. Forecasters expect a few storms to redevelop in the west and possible showers in the northeast tonight. Temperatures today near 90 with mid 60s at night. Sunday highs in the lower 90s.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Traffic Fatalities in Topeka 1960 Compared to 1959
In Topeka the Kansas traffic tally reports 24 hours to 9 am for 1960 shows figures matching the comparable 1959 period. The AP dispatch notes a cathlog of fatalities and counts during the 24 hour window ending at 9 am.
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Topeka
Kansas
Powers Family in Moscow to Attend Son's Trial
Oliver Powers traveled to Moscow with his wife to attend the espionage trial of their son Francis Gary Powers. He planned to appeal directly to Premier Khrushchev, saying he comes "as one father to another" to aid his son. The trial begins in the Hall of Columns as Powers Sr. contemplates meeting his son after the proceedings.
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Powers
Moscow
Son
Oliver W. Powers
Nikita Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
Pound, Va
Sol W. Cury
Mr. Khrushchev
Barbara Moore Powers
Milledgeville, Ga
Sleep-Inducing Drugs Blamed In Cleveland Sleep Mystery
Two young sisters Bernadette and Venita Fratantonio were made wards of Juvenile Court after tests found barbiturates in their blood. Police questioned the parents who denied drugging the girls. An eye dropper with barbiturate traces was found in the mother’s purse. A July hearing is set for Aug 19 to review the case.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Vincent
Lillian Fratantonio
Bernadette
Venita
Samuel R. Gerber
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
New York
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