Castro Pins Invasion Victory On Mistakes
Fidel Castro declared victory over the April 17-19 invasion citing his movement's strength and invaders mistakes. He toured the invasion site with foreign reporters, showed anti aircraft defenses, and analyzed why the campaign failed while visiting beach ruins, a swamp crater, and a naval hospital in Havana.
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Playa Largo
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Largo
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Free Haircuts for Children by Union Members
Everett Schell at a Barbers Local 619 meeting proposed a two cent pledge to start free haircuts for retarded children at a Selah school and hospital. Union members now volunteer every sixth Monday, trimming hair for 200 children at the institution.
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Yakima, Wash
Barbers Local 619
Everett Schell
Selah
Heat and Floods Roil Far West Uproar Officials Say
The Associated Press reports extreme weather across Western states with deadly heat in California and Oregon, widespread crop and poultry losses, and numerous drownings linked to high temperatures. Fires raged in Southern California aided by rains, while New Mexico rain helped fire crews end a 600 acre blaze. Temperatures reached 108 in Portland and 122 at Palm Desert. eastern regions remained unusually cool.
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Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Mountain States
San Gabriel Canyon
Los Angeles
Mint Canyon
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Portland
San Francisco
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Calif
Brittle Boned Boy Flown For Chicago Surgery
An infant boy with osteogenesis imperfecta was flown from Little Rock Arkansas to Shriners Hospital in Chicago for examination to determine if rodding surgery is possible. Peter Lollar 18 months has suffered multiple fractures since birth and slept during the flight. His mother Lani Loellar said the family was referred by their physician.
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Chicago
Little Rock
Ark
Peter Lollar
Lani Loellar
Peter
Shriners’ Hospital
Bomb Attacks in Washington Tied to Freedom Riders
Two homemade bombs exploded in downtown Washington on Thursday night and Friday morning. An anonymous caller claimed the blasts were connected to the Freedom Riders in the South, saying three more bombs remained to be found. No injuries were reported. The first blast hit a refuse can at Vermont Avenue and H Street NW at 11 p.m., the second in an unused phone booth at 15th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW at 8:10 a.m.
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Washington
Freedom Riders
South
John Logan
Logan
Vermont Avenue
H. Street N.W
15Th Street
Massachusetts Avenue NW
Voting confusion ends as Meigs 1960 goes electric
In Pomeroy Ohio Meigs County polls switch from kerosene lamps to a new township hall for the presidential election. Presiding judge Mrs Orville Rhodes recalls the old one room schoolhouse voting site used since 1926 requiring oil lamps.
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Pomeroy
Ohio
Meigs County
Orville Rhodes
Antenna on Empire State Building Reaches Four-State Area
A giant television antenna atop the Empire State Building serves all seven New York City stations and transmits to a four state region home to about 150 million people.
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Empire State Building
New York City
Service Award Given to Hill and Fogarty
Sen Lis ter Hill and Rep John Fogarty received the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation distinguished service award at a Statler Hotel dinner. Foundation president Robert L Natal presented the honors with host George Frankel of Greenwich assisting.
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Washington
Lister Hill
D-Ala
John E. Fogarty
D-R.i
National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation
Statler Hotel
Robert L. Natal
New York
George Frankel
Greenwich
Dentist Released On Bond In Shooting
Dr. Charles Kendrick a 47 year old Laverne dentist was freed on a 10000 dollar bond after being charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of Max Folmar 50 found dead at Kendrick home Sunday night Crenshaw County Sheriff Ray Horn said the case will go before the Grand Jury meeting October 2.
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Laverne, Ala
Charles Kendrick
Crenshaw County
Ray Horn
Kendrick
Laverne
Max Folmar
Horn
Prisoner Cracks Rusty 300-Pound River Safe
Dayton deputies used a 20-year old jailed prisoner to open a heavy safe pulled from the Miami River. He cracked the combination with his expert talent, providing access to the contents.
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Dayton
Ohio
Miami
Atlanta Sells Steam From Waste Heat at Incinerators
Atlanta operates incinerators that sell steam produced from waste heat for 150 000 dollars annually and earn about 205 dollars yearly from tin cans recovered from rubbish.
Limestone Farm Aid Meeting Tonight in Limestone County
Farmers of south Limestone County plan a 7 30 p m meeting at Jones Crossroads to seek relief for land eroded by Tuesday night flash flood. Creeks Mud Boiles and Round Island overflowed after 2.66 inches of rain prompting contacts with Washington officials and USDA FHA to review hardship cases.
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Limestone County
Jones Crossroads
Washington, D.C
Lister Hill
John Sparkman
Bob Jones
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