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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1961
Page
2
Harley of Marlinton will headline the Fourth of July celebration in Pocahontas County. Rep. Harley is slated to address attendees while the local fair hosts the festivities in this regional event.
Federal investigators charged Brous Jensen and others with conspiracy to blow up three AT&T microwave towers in Nevada and Utah on May 28 1961. The arrests followed a Mexico link with Brous and Jensen questioned over an arsenal aboard The Monsoon.
Greene County coroner reports Richard Patterson 26, farm laborer, killed his two children Jyneane 23 months and Ricky three, then shot himself after picking them up Sunday. The incident occurred near Apple Creek nine miles east of Roadhouse, with Patterson later dying at Our Saviour's Hospital Jacksonville.
Montclair Calif. officers broke up a youth party at a vacant home. Officer Andrew Farthing 27 was killed after being knocked down and kicked. David James Cain 18 was booked on suspicion of murder. Nine other youths aged 16 to 21 faced curfew liquor and drunkenness charges. Cain's parents were away when about 25 people gathered before 1 a.m.
Police report a car ran off Sissonville Road striking a rock injuring two youths and fatally injuring a veteran officer. Angela Romeo 23 and Thomas Whittington 27 from Putnam County treated at Charleston Memorial Hospital. Jim Valdez D booked on suspicion of murder after confrontation. officer Gilbert Baughman involved in gun struggle. An autopsy cites skull fractures and broken ribs for the deceased officer.
A 300 pound Discoverer XXV capsule was recovered by Air Force divers off Hawaii after landing north of the planned impact point. A C119 piloted by Captain Warren C. Schensted guided search and a three man parachute team placed the capsule in a life raft before pickup by the destroyer Escort Radford.
A Bat Stratojet bomber exploded and crashed during takeoff at Lincoln Air Force Base in Lincoln Nebraska Sunday night. No immediate word on the fate of the airmen aboard the craft. The B47 normally carries a crew of three or four.
Fayette County Education Association elects officers Hugh Cavendish president Danese W D Skaggs vice president Mrs Wilhelmina Ashworth secretary treasurer and appoints an executive committee including Ross Dever Lottie Johnson Doyle Wickline Anne Rowe WH Frazier and Ray Carson Four area teachers will attend the National Education Association convention in Atlantic City June 25 30 Marion Miller Wilhelmina Ashworth Edith Price and Barbara Chaffins represent the Fayette CEA and the Classroom Teachers Assn.
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