Trading Heavy as Stock Market Drops to New 62 Low
New York AP report shows heavy trading as the stock market hit new 1962 lows with big losses in industrials and utilities. The Dow fell to 539.19 as the AP index sank to 52.68, with several major names like General Electric and Republic Steel posting sizable declines and a few gains by a handful of growth stocks.
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New York
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Standard & Poor
General Electric
Republic Steel
Eastman Kodak
Goodrich Rubber
Pfizer Drug
Us, Steel
Ford Motor
Woolworth
Boeing Aircraft
United Aircraft
United Air Lines
American Telephone & Telegraph
International Business Machines
Jury Selected For Murder Trial In Raines Case
In Benton Missouri a jury of 12 white men was chosen for the first degree murder trial of James Williams a 34 year old ex convict charged in the rape slaying of 17 year old Brenda Joyce Raines. Testimony began with the state seeking the death penalty and 28 witnesses subpoenaed. Williams has undergone six weeks of mental evaluation at Fulton hospital.
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Benton, Mo
James
Buddy) Williams
Brenda Joyce Raines
Holland High School
Frank Craig
Holland
Craig
Williams
Benton
Fulton State Hospital
Weather Summary for Jefferson City and Central Missouri
Showers across Jefferson City and central Missouri with partly cloudy skies through Sunday. Temperatures near 90 during the day and around 65 at night. Measured rainfall 0.0 inches in the last 24 hours, with monthly and yearly totals provided by the News Tribune Weather Bureau.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
News-Tribune Weather Bureau
Memorial Airport
Wsw
Getierson City
Flight Engineers threaten strike against two lines
Flight engineers threaten a 1 p.m. Saturday strike against Eastern Air Lines and Pan American World Airways over unsatisfactory contract settlements. They reject the TWA proposal over licensing, representation rights, and economic terms. Pan Am vows to operate. Eastern warns of possible shutdown without a deal.
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NEW York
Eastern Air Lines
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
Pan Am
Malcolm A. MacIntyre
Ronald Brown
Flight Engineers International Association Association
Afl-Cio
TWA
Brown
Eastern
White House
Neutral Laos to install three party coalition today
Laos moves toward a three party government as Prince Souvanna Phouma outlines a royal decree schedule. The plan calls for Prince Souphanouvong to arrive as deputy premier and for royalist Premier Boun Oum to resign. The new cabinet will convene, and a Geneva delegation will be chosen to sign an East West neutrality pact.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Savang Vathana
Prince Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
Boun Oum
Geneva
Souvanna
Cambodia
Paris
VA Announces Low Bidders in State
The Veterans Administration named apparent low bidders for air conditioning work on VA hospitals in St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri. St. Louis bids: Associated Engineering Co $1,228,897. Thomas J. Sheehan Co $1,350,194. General Installation Co $1,380,000, all from St. Louis. Kansas City bid: U S Engineering $1,117,339. Kellar-Hunt Contractors $1,238,000. Interstate Heating and Plumbing Co $1,296,000, all based in Kansas City.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Missouri
Congress
St. Louis
Kansas City
Associated Engineering Co
Thomas J. Sheehan Co
General Installation Co
U.S. Engineering
Kellar-Hunt Contractors
Interstate Heating and Plumbing Co
Centertown Man Takes Own Life
A 68 year old Centertown resident, Herbert Elliot, shot himself in the stomach with a 10 gauge shotgun in a shed behind his home after learning he would require leg amputation. He was a former prison guard, diabetic, and a Centertown Baptist Church member. Survived by his wife Beatrice Garnett, daughter Bessie Lavine, brother Clarence and sister Tishie Hickam. Funeral at New Hope Baptist Church with burial there.
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Centertown
Herbert Elliot
Elliot
Marion
Medorah Taggart Elliot
Centertown Baptist Church
Beatrice J. Garnett
California
Bessie Lavine
Clarence
Jefferson City
Tishie Hickam
Coquille
Ore
Ozark Deadline Passes Amid-Unresolved Pilots Strike
In St Louis AP report notes midnight strike deadline for Ozark Airlines passed with no immediate strike action. Negotiations continue via federal mediator. Ozark employs about 180 pilots and 1,000 other workers across 54 cities in nine states. The union seeks a 2 percent wage rise and pension contributions of about 7.5 percent of payroll. Current pilots earn from $420 monthly for a first year co pilot to $1,310-$1,544 monthly for captains depending on equipment.
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ST. Louis
Air Line Pilots Association
Ozark Airlines
Ozark
Lambert-St. Louis
C. L. Tabor
Robert B. Vining
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Nebraska
Monday Reception Set for Kempers in Jefferson City
Crosby Kemper of Kansas City announces his first public campaign appearance in Jefferson City as he seeks the Republican nomination for the U S Senate. A reception sponsored by Citizens for Kemper Committee runs 2 30 to 6 p m at the Governor Hotel ballroom with two talks at 3 15 and 5 15 p m and a Q A period. Mrs Kemper will greet attendees and no contributions will be solicited. Music and refreshments will be provided.
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Crosby Kemper
Kansas City
Jefferson City
United States Senate
Governor Hotel
Kemper
Versailles
California
Soviet Deputy Premier Kosygin Tours Fiat Plant
Soviet Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin visited the giant Fiat works in Turin Italy on a Friday tour. The site employs 112 000 workers and builds automobiles tractors airplanes and marine engines. The visit hinted Khrushchev may push Fiat to open a tractor factory in the Soviet Union.
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Turin
Italy
Alexei Kosygin
Fiat
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Dalton Reaffirms Missouri Support for Ozark Rivers Monument
Missouri Governor John M. Dalton reiterated state backing for the Ozark Rivers National Monument amid a Senate interior subcommittee hearing at Big Spring State Park. He cited 1949 preservation posture for Eleven Point currents and urged Congress to favor H.R. 5712 and S. 1381 creating a 113000 acre monument under National Park Service jurisdiction.
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State of Missouri
Ozark Rivers National Monument
John M. Dalton
Senate Interior
Big Spring
van Buren
Dalton
70Th
General Assembly
Missouri Conservation Commission
Missouri
Congress
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
National Forest Service
Park Service
Air France Jet Crashes in Caribbean Killing 111
An Air France Boeing 707 crashed in a predawn storm on Guadeloupe, killing all 111 aboard including seven children and four babies. Debris spread over a mile, the plane named Chateau de Chantilly, with Capt. Andre Lesieur at the controls.
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Pointe-A-Pitre
Guadeloupe
Air France
Caledonian Airways
Douala
Cameroon
Air France Boeing
Paris’ Orly
Atlanta, Ga
Art Association
James Welsh
US Information Agency
Atlantic
Andre Lesieur
Charles de Gaulle
Atlanta
Chateau de Chantilly
Paris
Lisbon
Portugal
Azores
Caracas
Venezuela
Bogota
Colombia
Lima
Peru
Santiago
Chile
Lawmakers Extend One Year Of Emergency Grain Programs
Representative Harold Cooley leads a one year extension of current emergency wheat and feed grain programs after the farm bill defeat. The plan preserves voluntary acreage reductions with a renewal likely, as a shift away from Benson era price supports. Freeman assails Republican opposition while Hoeven touts past defeats of controls.
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Washington
Harold D. Cooley
D-N.c
Orville L. Freeman
House Agriculture Committee
Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
Cooley
Benson
House
Ezra Taft Benson
Freeman
Republican Party
Rep
W.R. Poage
D-Tex
Congress
Hoeven
Republicans Press Freeman Over Agriculture Letters
Republican Sens Mundt and Curtis accused Secretary Freeman of pressuring them with department letters before Senate hearings on Billie Sol Estes. The White House backed Freeman, and Kennedy offered no comment. Hearings on Estes begin next Wednesday to probe favors in grain storage and cotton allotments.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
White House
Karl S. Mundt
South Dakota
Carl T. Curtis
Nebraska
Freeman
Senate
Billie Sol Estes
Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
Estes
Texas
Special Agriculture Department
Mundt
Curtis
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
U S Will Offer No More Berlin Crisis Proposals
Bonn reports U S will make no further proposals to the Soviet Union on settling the Berlin crisis until Moscow agrees to let Western troops remain. Washington may press for a four power agreement to stop gunfire at Berlin wall if Russians drop demand for withdrawal.
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Bonn
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
Berlin
Washington
Dean Rusk
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
West Germany
Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
West Berlin
East Germany
Ford UAW Reach Agreement On Walton Hills Strike
Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers union reached a settlement ending the Walton Hills stamping plant strike that idled 77,000 workers. The deal awaits ratification by 3,200 Walton Hills workers at a membership meeting set for 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Cleveland
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
Walton Hills
M. M
Mike) Cummins
Ford
Ken Bannon
UAW
United States and Korea eye status of forces pact
A SOFA talks framed between the United States and South Korea cover criminal jurisdiction over about 50,000 U.S. troops in Korea. Washington officials suggested an agreement might not take effect until civil government resumes in June 1963, amid a military junta and planned civilian transfer after next year’s election. Student protests in Korea push for the pact, similar to NATO and Japan practice where off duty violations fall under host-country courts.
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Washington
United States
South Korea
Korea
State Department
Lincoln White
Park Chung Hee
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Japan
NATO
U.S
American climbing team found safe in Nepal Himalayas
An American mountain climbing team headed by Woodrow Wilson Sayre was found in Khumjung Nepal 13 000 feet up in the Namche Bazar area. The group included Sayre Norman Hanson Roger Alan Hart and Hans Peter Duttle. A U S helicopter will fly to the village tomorrow to airlift them to safety.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Himalayas
Khumjung
Woodrow Wilson
U.S
Namche Bazar
Norman Dyrenfurth
California
Wil
Mt. Gyachung Kang
Mt. Everest
Nepal-Tibet
Ngojumba Glacier
Washington
White House
State Department
Eisenhower Attacks Kennedy Letting Economy Sink
In a prepared speech to 3,000 Republicans at a fund raising dinner, former president Eisenhower labeled the Kennedy administration as floundering and thrashing amid worsening economic conditions. He accused Democrats of alienating business and attempting to dictate economic decisions, urging bipartisanship on foreign policy while criticizing Washington maladministration.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Eisenhower
GOP
Tts
Wheeler Reports Teaching Progress In Missouri
State Education Commissioner Hubert Wheeler said real progress is being made in teaching Missouri students the American way of life. A steering committee was named to develop plans for strengthening instruction and will report at the next meeting in September. Representatives from colleges, State Teachers Association, principals, school administrators, the Department of Education and the Missouri Bar Association took part in the session.
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Hubert Wheeler
Missouri
Wheeler
State Colleges and Universities
State Teachers Association
State Department of Education
Missouri Bar Association
Baseball Scores From National League and American League Games
National New York 2 to 3 lost to Houston 0 to 16. St Louis beat Philadelphia 7 to 3, while Pittsburgh defeated Chicago 7 to 5. Milwaukee and San Francisco tied 0 to 0, Los Angeles 0, Cincinnati 0 in two games. Baltimore beat American rival 4 to 1, Boston 3 to 2 over Cleveland, Washington 2 over Detroit 7, New York 5 over Chicago 5, Kansas City 1 over Minnesota 3 to 7, and Los Angeles 23 to 18 in a high scoring affair.
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National
New York
Houston
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Milwaukee
San Fancisco
Los Angeles
Cincinnati
American Baltimore
Boston
Cleveland
Washington
Detroit
Kansas City
Minnesota
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