Macmillan Announces He's Quitting at Conference
The day after doctors diagnosed a bladder obstruction Macmillan resigns. Foreign Secretary Lord Home reads the letter at Blackpool’s Conservative conference shocking 4000 delegates. Contenders include Deedes Maudling Hailsham and Home, with Butler as possible interim leader.
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Lord Home
Conservative Party
Blackpool
London
William Deedes
Butler
Macmillan
Lord Hailsham
House of Lords
Reginald Maudling
Deedes
Horne
Flood Strikes Piave Banks After 12 Foot Crest
Dozens of bodies drifted downstream along the Piave as a 12 foot flood crest. Observatories in Basel Chur and Trieste logged a late night quake that may have triggered a massive landslide. Italian geologists and Swiss experts debate cause while American and Italian relief workers move to avert further slides and evacuations.
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Piave
Basel
Chur
Trieste
Venetian Alps
Red Cross
Mt. Toc
Nourek
Soviet Union
Grand Dixence
Switzerland
Panel endorses industry school delay for state growth
Dr Miller chairs a panel favoring a unified approach to industry driven education and development in West Virginia. Projects include Morgantown Center for Appalachian Studies, Huntington Center for Industrial Technology, and the Appalachian Institute of Industrial Technology. Leaders urge cooperation to curb out of state offices and retain talent. Barron closes with plans for further meetings to craft a concrete action program. Lightning strikes most frequently hit oaks in trees, while New York port handles about 40 percent of U.S. overseas trade and nearly one million passengers annually.
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Institute of Industrial Technogy
Thompson
West Virginia
Jeffords
Stanley
Institute
Fletcher
Byrd
Barron
U.S
Port of
New York
Telephone Union Backs FMC Drive
Communication Workers of America Local 2001 voted to support a United Auto Workers campaign to organize about 1,500 FMC Ordnance Division workers in South Charleston. The meeting was led by Local 2001 President Wilfred Rowlands with UAW, CWA, and regional staff present to coordinate organizing efforts.
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Communication Workers of America
United Auto Workers
FMC Ordnance Division
South Charleston
Charleston
Wilfred Rowlands
James Klaurer
CWA
Harold Wilson
UAW
C. J. Hyde
S. Region 2
Thalidomide Children Made Belgian Wards
Belgium will educate and treat thalidomide children at state expense following a royal decree. About 40 babies were born deformed in Belgium after mothers took thalidomide during pregnancy.
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Brussels
Belgium
Mild Weather Spreads Across Northeast and West
Mild weather remains across the Northeast with scattered showers spreading from the Pacific Northwest to the northern Rockies. Rain is expected in northern California as cooler air settles from the upper Great Lakes to the central Plains.
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Pacific Northwest
Rockies
California
Great Lakes
Central Plains
Weather summary for October 14 1962 across multiple locales
Weather overview notes mostly sunny conditions in Virginia and West Pennsylvania with highs in the 70s to 80s and lows around the 50s. Reports from Ohio Kentucky and Detroit indicate partly cloudy conditions with highs from mid 70s to low 80s and mild nights. North American sites include sunrise at 6 31 am and sunset at 4 54 pm in Dallas.
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Shierdo Leese
Meweland
Dallas
Charleston
Denver
Detroit
Jacksonville
Virginia
Key West
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Judge Thompson’s role in youth programs and crime prevention
The governor praised Judge Thompson for promoting democracy among students and aiding extracurricular activity planning while stressing scholarship. He highlighted Thompson’s pivotal part in founding the state boys’ forestry camp at Blackwater Falls and leading the Kanawha Crime and Delinquency Foundation.
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Thompson
Blackwater Falls
Kanawha Crime and Delinquency Foundation
Fires Not Halting 63 Hunt Season
Despite 12 forest fires in the state on Thursday Natural Resources Director Warden Lane says the 3983 hunting season remains on track opening as planned unless a major rash occurs. Fires in Brooke Kanawha Mercer Wayne Laz an and Mino counties prompted NR crews and volunteers to battle blazes along U S 60 and near St Albans. Lane cites careless burning as the main cause and urges caution. Charleston bans leaf and trash burning as police extinguish fires. He notes this year’s fires are fewer than last year since the forest fire season began Oct 1.
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Natural Resources
Lane
Brooke County
Panhandle
Kanawha County
Mercer
Wayne
Lazan
Min ®O
Natural Resources Department
Kanawha
U.S. 60
Charleston
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