Ninety-Five Die In Worst U S Plane Crash
Rescue teams mobilized 300 to 400 workers as a United States jetliner crashed near Idlewild, plunging into shallow water near Jamaica Bay. Debris and bodies scattered, with investigators noting the loss marked the worst single aircraft disaster in U S history at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Asic Takeoti
Anhur Ruddick
Frst
Los Angeles
Jamaica Bay
Wwers
Lang Uslung
Trans World Airlines
Constellation
Chicago
Midway Airport
New York
Mohawk Air Lines
Idlewild
Glenn
Frank Robb
Polce ‘Academy
Manhattan
Tacr
Jones
Tax Withholding Debate Echoes in Assembly
The Assembly continued debate on withholding and its tax impact. Opponents warned withholding could trigger future income tax increases, noting a $20.3 million one time windfall from lump sum 1962 income payments and the first quarter of withholding overruns next year, while self employed would bear the tax rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isleep
Del
Lacey Putney
Bedford
Jetter
Khrushchev
T. Coleman Andrews Jr
Khrush
Dave Satterfield
Rich Lchey
Geneva
Mond
Shrwkehow
Sam! Pope
Southampton
Pops
Walter Ujazdowski
Two Airlines Held Liable In Air Crash
A Chicago federal judge ruled that Trans World Airlines and United Airlines are liable for the Grand Canyon collision on June 30, 1956, killing 128. Both pilots were found negligent as the suits seek damages and April 2 set for initial hearings. The crash involved a TWA Constellation with 70 aboard and a United DC-7 with 38 aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Trans World Airlines
United Airlines
TWA
United
Grand Canyon
I U.S. Dist
Wiliam J. Campi
Iffs
Campbell Sog
Canpell Fi
Campbell
United Dct
Constellation
Los Angeles
Kansas
Grand
Roberta Wilde
la Grange
Iil
Nancy Lou Kemnitz
Moline
United Flight
Robert Harris
Harry Allen
Plane crash in New York area linked to tax dispute and Geneva talks
The Mohawk jetliner crash near Idlewild is described with grim detail by patrol officers and medical staff. Officials noted the 10.07 a.m. departure and a dive before impact, with bodies recovered from shallow water and taken to Bellevue Morgue. Separate political debate covered a proposed withholding tax amid budget strains and calls for international disarmament talks in Geneva.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ujazdowski
Bac
Bellevue Hospital
Manhattan
Mixup and Travel Delays Ripple Through Kelly Family
The narrative recalls Tesssired and B20 as engaged, with a New York trip involving a four hour train delay caused by a Tiomp sontown Pa wreck. Kellys include a 14 year old daughter The Man, a nurse, and a Havertown Miss Kelly planning to resume nursing after leaving airlines.
Ayub's Pakistan Affects Power in Parliament and Referendums
Ayub Khan, a six foot field marshal with a clipped British accent, rules Pakistan's 156 member Parliament with veto and referendum powers. Parliament can dismiss him by a three fourths vote and may dissolve to trigger new elections within 120 days. Six seats are reserved for women. the rest are split between east and west Pakistan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayub
Ote
Britain
Sandhurst
East Aml
Pakistan
House Favors Substitute Redistricting Bill In Test
In Richmond Del Ralph James of Hampden debated a substitute redistricting bill on a key test vote. The plan adds three delegate seats to Fairfax Alexandria and Princess Anne Virginia Beach by reshuffling southwest districts, while Chesterfield Colonial Heights loses seats to Henrico County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Warrer Cooke
Fairfax
Alexandria
Princess Aene-Virginia Beach
Arlington
Feff
Norfolk
Aid Fairfax
Richmond
House
Del
E. Ralph James
Hamp
Delegates
Privileges and Elections Committee
Edward MM. Hudgins
Chesterfield
Colonial Heights
Henrivico County
Henrico
Robert S. Orr
Lee
New York Hails Glenns Homeward Astronaut Parade
A New York City celebration saluted John Glenn and family with a Broadway parade and banners saying Astronauts Way. Officials including Vice President Johnson and UN Secretary General Thant joined crowds, while the motorcade carried Glenn, his wife Annie, and their children. Glenn’s visit featured tributes, theater reception, and plans to travel next to Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn
Natfion
Broadway
Glens
Park Ave
V Thant
United Nations
U. S. Amba
Gly
Wagner
Col
John A.shory
J Powers
Queens
Bowling Green
City Hall
Her
New York
Privat
Ally
Iwoam Athas Aan
Page
Rickey
Garcia Corp
Adm.lo. Come
M. Scott Carpentier
Richard Lansing Conolly
USN
Leroy G. Cooper
Walter M. Shir
Tola
Donald E. Slayton
Ang Powers
Sodium Vapor Shot From Wallops Island Experiment
A Nike-Cajun rocket released a sodium vapor package high above the Atlantic from Wallops Island Virginia at 6 23 pm EST in a test of upper air density and winds. A second rocket followed releasing water vapor to study its behavior at about 62 miles altitude. Five more firings were planned that night from Wallops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Atlantic
Wallops Island
Wallops
Schedle
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
Virginia
Space Agency
Slaying of Lou Loudoun man shocks community
Dr Roy D Sampson Jr says Newcomb died from a left neck stab wound about 12 30 pm Wednesday with a kitchen knife found near the body. He was beaten prior to death and a woman, Mrs Boley, escaped to call authorities. Newcomb, a Lou county native and Harvard graduate, headed the American Boxwood Society and served on the Loudoun County Historical Society board. He leaves a wife and five daughters Penelope 33 Catherine 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buick
Roy D. Sampson Jr
Loudoun
Newcomb
Sampson
Dwyer
Boley
Kennedy proposes grants and land reforms for recreation
Kennedy announces a four point program to Congress including matching grants for state outdoor recreation plans, easier acquisition of surplus federal lands for park and wildlife use, and funds to create urban recreation spaces. He urges studies on federal state shoreline preservation and plans for water resources use, land transfers, erosion prevention, and faster development of transport and forest infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
Congress
Nuclear test site talk shifts timing in Nevada
Salinger says Kennedy may have asked Britain’s Haruki Mac imalan about the address. ABC CBS NBC will air the President’s speech live on TV and radio, with the Voice of America also broadcasting. The plan hints the administration may delay explosive air shots in Nevada as Geneva talks open March 14, affecting U.S. Russian disarmament postures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Salinger
Kennedy
Haruki Macimalan
Britain
Washinston
Briain
Ger
ABC
CBS
NBC
Mutual
Voice of America
Geneva
Senate Passes Increase in National Debt Ceiling
The Senate approved by voice vote a bill to raise the national debt limit to 200 billion dollars, up from 298 billion, with Kennedy planning a June 30 expiry for the temporary cap and seeking a 306 billion limit for the new fiscal year starting July 1. Treasury officials noted the debt stood at about 297.6 billion, just below the current ceiling, as March income taxes bolster revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C._H
Morrissett
Finance Committee
Pope
Smith
Appropriations Committee
Del
Fred Pollard
Richmond
H. Daniel
Charlotte
the Mouse
Eamployers
House
Pepe
Lewis
Murra
N News
Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Congress
Harry P. Byrd
D-Va
Treasury
ApHl
Mystery Island Colony History Surfaces in Report
Report recounts Clipperton Island’s French ownership and a 1700s English mutineer as namesake. It notes 1908 Mexican expedition with 29 men, 13 wives, and several children to colonize the atoll, all men later perishing. surviving women and children evacuated by USS Yorktown in 1917 after a skiff accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clipperton Island
Acapulco
France
Mexico
Yorktown
Also Mentioned on This Page
IM Warde
Tia Ganllo
Robert S. Harrar
Utica
Noy
Jellinér
Joseph F. Farano
Schenectady
United States
Soviet Union
UN. Disarmament Committee
Doc Lap
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Pacific Stars & Stripes
New York City
Sixth Avenue
Cal
Lu Umurel Val
Alan B. Sheparddr
Virgil 1
Gus) Grissom
Witthad
Project Mercury
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Robert R. Gilruth
Wa Vwua
Glenns
Powers
Newark
Inj
Zanesville
Ohio
New Concord
Connolly
Jiversity
Amokd S. Kirkeby
Bel Air
Califns
New Yorks
Perth
Australia
Harry Howard
Tne
Harry
Felbeck
Union Carbide
Ole- Bee PA
Strkeby-Natus = Corp
Wach
George T. Felbeck
Oak Products
Ridge, Tenn
Nuclear Co
Johnson
Mie
David L. Corbin
Itm
Haight, Gardner
Tavens
Corbin
Greenwich
Conn
Arthur Linton
Nelson A. Rockefeller Devm
Fortune
Luella Beckmeyer
People of
Texas
Oregon
Maine
Neb
California
Cos
Slane
Sweetie Pie
Nuclear
Bate Eetenee
Smithfield
Ballou Park
Maip
Masonic
Chatham
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!