Employment At Record Level Another Drop In Nation's Unemployed Is Reported
Washington AP reports Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg says May employment reached a record 68.2 million, up nearly 14 million year over year, with unemployment falling to 3.719 million and the jobless rate dropping to 3.4 percent. Labor force rose about 11 million from April, while nonfarm employment hit a record high and farm jobs rose seasonally to 5.4 million. Coexisting trends point to ongoing economic expansion and a expected gradual unemployment decline despite a forecasted rise before autumn.
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Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Seymour L. Wolfbein
Labor
Wolfbein
Moore
Rail Wreck in Italy Kills 62 at Voghera Station
A freight train plowed into a standing passenger car at Voghera station near Milan injuring 70 and killing 62. The crash left 10 in critical condition as engineers surrendered to police hours later amid questions over a red stoplight and braking.
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Voghera
Italy
Riviera
Milan
Voghera i
American Missionaries Captured In Viet Nam
Vietnamese forces probed the jungle 150 miles northeast of Saigon chasing a Communist guerrilla band that raided a leper camp and kidnapped three American missionaries. The three are A E Mitchell, Daniel Gerber, and Eleanor Ardel Vietti. Authorities said the raid did not molest 950 lepers or nine other Americans at the camp. A band of about 300 attacked Phu My village, using boats in a waterborne operation. Government troops suffered heavy casualties with 26 dead and 18 wounded. two missing, as reinforcements arrived.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Ban Me Thuot
A. E. Mitchell
Ellensburg
Wash
Daniel Gerber
Dalton
Ohio
Eleanor Ardel Vietti
Houston
Tex
iPhy My
Fire Claims Five In Iowa Home Overnight
A Fort Dodge blaze killed Paul Hayes, 27, and his four young daughters Edna 5 Debbie 4 April 3 and Becky 2. The mother, 22, escaped after waking to flames and was treated for shock and cuts before being discharged. Deputy Fire Marshal Don Hutchinson traced the cause to faulty wiring in the four room frame house. The fire broke out Wednesday night while the family slept.
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Fort Dodge
Iowa
Don Hutchinson
Storm Lake
Paul Hayes
Kale. Hayes
Edna
Debbie
Becky
Slimmer And More Stylish Queen Celebrates Double Anniversary
London reports Queen Elizabeth II marks a double anniversary on Saturday, celebrating her 36th year of birth and the ninth anniversary of her coronation. The official style title is reaffirmed as Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and of Her Realms and Territories.
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London
Elizabeth II
United Kingdom of Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Queen’s Official Birthday Pageantry Brightens London
The article notes the Queen born April 21, 1928, and explains Britain’s weather prompts an official birthday celebrated on the first Saturday in June. It describes Trooping the Colour with the Queen riding sidesaddle in a scarlet jacket and blue skirt, accompanied by mounted bands as the procession proceeds to Horse Guards Parade.
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Commonwealth
Britain
London
Buckingham Palace
Eichmann Hanged By Israel For Nazi Crimes
Adolf Eichmann was executed by Israel for his role in the extermination of six million Jews. The 56 year old Gestapo officer died at Ramleh Prison near Tel Aviv two minutes before midnight after his appeal for mercy was rejected. He walked to the scaffold, faced the noose, and his body was cremated aboard a police boat with ashes scattered at sea.
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Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo
Austria
Argentina
Eichmann
Hitler
Ramleh
Mediterranean
Crimes Against Humanity
Nazi Reich
Germany
Flea
Izhak Ben-Zvi
Carmel
NC State staff member dies after cyanide poisoning
William L Riverbark 31 an assistant professor of crop science at North Carolina State College died in a Raleigh hospital after apparently ingesting cyanide. He was found unconscious in a laboratory after warning a friend by telephone. Riverbark from Metter Georgia joined the faculty in April after teaching at the University of Illinois and held degrees from Bircham Baldwin College University of Georgia and NC State College.
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Raleigh
N. C
State College
William L. Riverbark
Riverbark
Metter
School of Agriculture
University of Tllinois
RK. L. Ennis
Doris Creig
Buy Orders Drive Market Rally After Holiday Pause
The stock market extended its rally for a second straight session in New York as widespread buy orders erased earlier losses from the week. The 60-stock AP index rose to 225.50, the Dow gained 9.40 to 613.36, with volume at 10.71 million shares as investors kept buying and profit-taking appeared. Major movers included IBM up to 392.50, AT&T at 113.25, Bethlehem Steel 97.50, Du Pont 211.25, Sears 73, while Polaroid fell to 127.50 and Goodyear slipped to 85.75.
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Dow
New York Stock Exchanges
American Telephone
Bethlehem Steel
du Pont
Sears Ree
Polaroid
Goodyear
Xerox
Litton Indus
Attorney General Seeks Communist Label for 10 Activists
Kennedy asks the Subversive Activities Control Board to label ten National Committee for the Communist Party USA members as Communists and require them to register under the 1950 Internal Security Act. Names include William L Patterson Jr and Miriam Friedlander of New York plus party leaders in Oakland Berkeley Los Angeles Seattle and Brooklyn. The move follows Supreme Court action upholding registration and prior indictments in the ongoing enforcement against the party.
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Washington
Aty
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Subversive Activities Control Board
National Committee
Communist Party
U.S.A
New York
William L. Patterson
Brooklyn
N.Y
Betty Gannett Tormey
William Albertson
New York Party
Arnold Samuel Johnson
Miriam Friedlander
Louis Weinstock
Albert J. Lime
Oakland
Calif
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Gus Hall
Benjamin J. Davis
Five Die as Plane Crashes Near Holly Hill South Carolina
A single engine Cessna 173 disintegrated in a severe thunderstorm near Holly Hill killing five aboard. The victims included J G Reid 34 pilot his wife Betty and daughters Sheila Faye 12 Betty Clara 10 and Earl C Huband Jr of Houston. The fuselage struck pine trees as authorities suspect an attempted emergency landing.
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Holly Hill
G. C. Merchant Jr
South Carolina Aeronautics Commission
Merchant
Houston
Tex
J. G. Reid
Betty
Sheila
Faye
Betty Clara
Earl C. Huband Jr
Reid
Lightning Sets Off Dynamite at Construction Site Killing One
GREAT FALLS One man was killed and six workers injured Thursday when a lightning bolt ignited dynamite at the Virginia end of a 35 mile sewer project. Paul Russell died at the scene near the Potomac River. Injured workers were hospitalized in Fairfax and Arlington in fair condition. The blast occurred while unloading near a tunnel mouth under the river bluff. The tunnel runs 9,000 feet under the bluff on both sides and 3,100 feet beneath the river bed. Injured include Abe H. Burroughs 37 Heat ers West Virginia Paul G Payne 26 Round Hill, Rand al Davis 38 Flatwoods Summersville WV Donald Cochran Summersville WV Carl Tomlin 32 and Raymond Riggleman (Blue mont) VA. See BLAST page 1A.
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Great Falls
Virginia
Tony Potomac
Potomac River
Paul Russell
Fairfax
Avington
Asabe HL. Burroughs
Heaters
W. Va
Paul G. Payne
Round Hill
Randal Davis
Flatwoods
Donald Cochran
Summersville
Carl Tomlin
Raymond Riggleman
Bluemont
Rusk defends policy. calls for alternatives from critics
Secretary of State Dean Rusk challenged Kennedy era foreign policy critics to offer viable alternatives at a Washington news conference. He warned that anti policy talk could lead to hydrogen war or U.S. withdrawal from the world, urging support for Atlantic alliance, trade and aid plans, and U.S. roles in U.N. and NATO.
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Sec. Rusk
U.S
Washington
Dean Rusk
Kennedy
Rusk
United States
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
State Department
Free World
U.N
NATO
Tesge
Alliance For ‘Progress
Youth Injured By Lightning Near Charlottesville
An Albemarle County teen was struck by lightning while mowing at his home on U.S. 250 East. Meredith Thomas Bickers Jr., 17, was found unconscious and rushed to the University of Virginia Hospital. He remained in satisfactory condition and was expected to be released the next day. He recalled little of the incident as an electrical storm passed overhead. Doctors noted a long, dark mark along his left side from shoulder to foot.
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Charlottesville
Albemarle County
Here
Meredith Thomas Bickers Jr
U.S. 250 East
University of Virginia Hospital
Widemarle
Weather read from the Dial Thermometer on the Register Building
Virginia shows variable cloudiness with humid conditions and scattered thundershowers. Highs near 85 to 90, cooler 75 to 80 in mountains, then cooler north. Friday night. Saturday cloudy with showers. North Carolina partly cloudy and warm with afternoon and evening thundershowers mainly east, highs around 80, mountains cooler.
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Virginia
North Carolina
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