Hose Company Finances See Gains At Wattsboro Fair
The Elgin-Beaverdam Volunteer Hose Company reports a profitable Wattsboro Fair eating tent boosting finances. Members plan to distribute coin cards and new ones, aided by the Ladies Auxiliary, to raise funds. They consider adding two radios, at about $200 each, using a base station from Corry to link area units.
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Elgin-Beaverdam
Wattsboro
Joe Wetmore
Hose
Wetmore
Fool
Ladies Auxiliary
Rison
Corry Company
Elgin-Beaverdam Company
Body of Missing Woman Found Sealed in Wall
In Los Angeles police found 70 year old Mrs Anna Lewis's body sealed inside a wall of her home. She had been last seen August 13 in Chicago and may have been dead for weeks. Her husband Joseph J Lewis, 72, has been sought for questioning.
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Los Angeles
Anna Lewis
Chicago
Kasper
Joseph J. Lewis
Sandra Cook Crowned Queen Of Sparta Community Fair
Three Sparta High School seniors competed for queen honors as rain fell over the Sparta fairgrounds. Sandra Cook, 17, was crowned queen in a ceremony at the school gymnasium and will reign until the fair ends tomorrow. A parade, fireworks, rides, displays from Erie and Crawford counties, and midway gaming activities are planned for the final day.
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Sparta High School
Sparta
Sandra Cook
Miss Cook
Wirl
Willis Cook
Linda Minnick
Becky Greer
Carol Blakeslee
James Tubbs
William Rote
Guy Fish
Spartansburg
Sandra
Vicki Firth
Erie
Crawford
Warren
Sailor Killed After Break-In At Deputy Game Warden Home
Kane State Police said a Navy submariner Thomas W Coffman 22 of Rixford McKean County fatally wounded during a break in at Ward Wood deputy game warden home two miles north of Port Allegheny. Coffman armed with a knife broke in at 6 am and after a threat Wood fired his 45 caliber revolver. Coffman died five days later in Bradford Hospital.
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Kane
McKean County
George Barron
Kane Barracks
Thomas W. Coffman
Rixford
Coffman
New London
Ward Wood
Wood
Port Allegheny
Bradford
Cuban refugees flee to Cozumel after hijacked navy tender
Rafael Rodriguez, 48, a former Merchant Marine sailor, leads 9 Cubans including 28 women and children from a hijacked Cuban navy tender to Cozumel Mexico. He claims the homeland is run by Russians and reports worsening hunger and privation in Cuba while noting outsiders are kept away from locals. A US Embassy spokesman in Mexico City says visa applications would be given prompt consideration if the refugees seek US entry.
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Cozumel
Mexico
Cuba
Rafael Rodriguez
Rodrigues
Rodriguez
Nyeday
Castro
Fidel Castro
Florida
InMexico
U.S
United States
Policeman Breakfast Bribe Leads to Arrest in Gas Station Burglary
Chattanooga patrolman James Mallette accepted a breakfast offer from ex convict Carl Wesley Brown and reported the large roll of money Brown carried. The investigation resulted in Brown’s arrest over a $500 burglary at a gas station owned by his brother in law.
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Loomerangs
Chattanooga
Tenn
James Mallette
Carl Wesley Brown
Mallette
Brown
Community and School Fair crowned in gym ceremony
A school gym event crowned 2963 with a community fair. The ceremony drew a large crowd as participants celebrated in the gym with local residents observing the festivities.
Anti-Mixing Rally Spurs School Boycott Support
White student protests against school integration continue in Birmingham as demonstrations multiply near Phillips High and other schools. National Guard reductions shift security duties while authorities report arrests includingJack Cash for weapon violations amid roving actions.
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Birmingham
Ala
Harmott
Phillips High
Phillips
Sevel
National Guard
Kennedy
George C. Wallace
Army
Mobile
Tuskegee
Tuscaloosa
Wallace
Baltimore
Alabama
Jack Cash
J. M. McDowall
Cash
Clarence Lewis
Hearing Night Upheaval At Un American Activities Panel
American students who toured Cuba were called before the House committee as police struggled to control a chaotic scene in which shouting crowds and bearded youths confronted officers. A later speaker was escorted out as chants of fascist and communist taunts rang through the hall. No arrests reported despite violence and a long session ending with a continued note.
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Washington
Fidel Castro
Cuba
House Committee
Student Committee
China
Holse
Communist Party
Josh
Fyortian
Anto
Ts Moil
Lev Laub
Union Aides Miss Fine Deadline At Rubber Plant
Erie report says the Continental Rubber Co strike union Local 61 failed to pay court fines by the deadline. Judge Elmer L Evans warned three days to pay or post a 10000 bond underwritten by an insurer acceptable to the court to avoid arrest of four officers and contempt findings.
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Erie
Continental Rubber Co
Elmer L. Evans
Monfiay
Miter
Paty
Enya
Frothonotary
Kennedy says integration progress on track amid mixed views
President Kennedy expressed satisfaction with racial integration pace citing school desegregation progress as impressive credit to Southerners who place law over emotion. He defended the pace against charges of rushing it and emphasized support for the nuclear test ban treaty and U.N. address.
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Washington
API
Kennedy
Senate
United Nations
U. S
South Viet Nam
Alabama
County Health Aide Plans Expanded Public Education
After a three year search Erie County Health Department hires health educator Gerald Farmer at 4200 dollars a year, bringing staff to 21. He begins countywide outreach from Corry with pamphlets on common diseases nutrition and safety, and will lecture locally to educate public health needs.
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Erie County Department of Health
Gerald Farmer
Farmer
Corry
Lawrence Moriarty
Division of Environmental Health
Eric Counllans
Corty
Department of Health
Palmer
Erie Man Admits Attempt To Shoot Officer
An Erie man pleaded guilty in Erie County court to intent to shoot a patrolman during a March 3 incident at an Erie restaurant. He admitted exchanging gunfire with patrolman LT Battles and refusing a demanded loan.
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Erie
Tayi
Kall Yaaturday
Teewilha ” Baan
Wis
LT. Battles
Baiiles
Bassham
Navy Launch Capsizes During Antisubmarine Exercise
A Navy launch capsized in Long Island Sound with two men aboard while ferrying sailors to the destroyer Hazlewood. Twenty rescued, one missing, Coast Guard reported. The Hazlewood, with a 250 crew, carried out rescue operations after the incident near Port Jefferson.
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Port Jefferson
N.Y
Long Island Sound
Coast Guard
Ahora
Hazlewood
Cmdr
Matthew Faessel
Northfield
Ohio
Ditlon
Setailhet Fre House Bare
Haslewood
Donald J. Hanson
Didijoh
Cmdr. Biesel
Major Blunder Blamed For Asian Trouble
Harrisburg AP reports Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton says the 1961 Laos neutrality arrangement by the United States risks semi communization of Laos and complicates the Vietnam conflict. He argues the move gave the Viet Cong supply lines from North Vietnam and through Laos, making the war harder to stamp out. Scranton cites past Eisenhower-era policy and urges reconsideration of U.S. stance toward Southeast Asia.
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Harrisburg
United States
Viet Nam
Laos
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
India
Aus
Chini
Scranton
Newamen
Southeast Asia
Cuba
Capitol Press Corpu
Beranton
Soviet Union
Christe Ian Herter
Eisenhower
Congress
South
Taos
Crite Jahould
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Philippines
Ryu- Ryu
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Nikita Lord
Lange Trewd
Miss Senden Cook
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James ‘Tubbs
Capitol Police
Albert Maher
Houston
Tex
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Washington, Dy
House
America
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JFK
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