East German drives recruiting amid Berlin barricades protest
East Germany launched a huge military recruitment drive calling 1.7 million youth to volunteer as Western powers protested the barricades in Berlin. The move followed U.S. Britain and France charges that East German measures violate four power status and hinder free movement for refugees.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
Red Youth Organization
Horst Schumann
West Berlin
Junge Welt
Young World
Revolting inmates seize hostages at Tennessee prison
At Tennessee's maximum security prison in Nashville, 15 inmates, two guards, and three civilian clerks were taken hostage in an armed uprising led by two long-term prisoners linked to a 1960 revolt. Police and highway patrol responded. no injuries reported as staff and inmates were returned to cells.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Lynn Bomar
Bomar
Robert Rivera
Raymond Farra
Man and Children Killed in Suburban Atlanta Home
A man James S. Richard and his three children Kathy 3 Beth 9 months were found dead in bed in their suburban Atlanta home. Police say the mother Lammie Richardson killed the four and then shot herself. Richardson and all four children were shot multiple times.
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Atlanta
James S. Richardson
James
Kathy
Beth
Lammie Richardson
Richardson
Defecting Soviet Chemist Seeks Haven in Canada
Ottawa reports Mikhail A. Klotchko a Stalin Prize winner and Lenin Order recipient deflected from a Soviet group during Montreal visit and sought political asylum in Canada. RCMP Commissioner Harvison protects the chemist noting his world importance while officials in Moscow and Soviet academies refrained from comment.
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Ottawa
Mikhail A. Klotchko
Canada
Klotchko
Moscow
Soviet Academy of Science
Soviet Academy of Organic Chemistry
Montreal
Kletchko
Soviet Union
Alan D. Westland
University of Ottawa
Westland
U.S
Igor Gouzenko
Oral Polio Vaccine Clears for Type I Protection
Washington AP reports that the government licenses an oral polio vaccine for type I. it provides immunity only to type I and not the other two types. Surgeon General Luther L. Terry emphasizes continuation of Salk vaccine use and notes type II and III vaccines will come later, with type I causing 60 to 70 percent of paralytic cases recently.
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Washington
Luther L. Terry
The
Public Health Service
Terry
Most Heroic Dog Of 1961 Selected
Duke the collie, five years old, won the 1961 Most Heroic Dog award after saving his mistress Penny Grantz from a flaming skirt. He received a gold medal, gold collar, a gold plated leash, a blanket, a year’s dog food, and a $1000 bond at a ceremony in Chicago.
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Chicago
Duke
Penny Grantz
Penny
John D. Grantz
Niles
Ohio
Daytona Beach
Fla
Bloomington
Army Aims Major Build Up of 1,008,000 By Next June
Secretary Elvis J. Stahr Jr says the mobilization could add up to 150,000 enlisted personnel by next summer. The plan alerts 113 National Guard and Reserve units totaling 23,626 to possible active duty, with a target authorized strength of 1,008,000 by June 30. The Army may extend enlistments for about 84,000 soldiers by up to four months to maintain numbers.
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Washington
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
Berlin
Army
National Guard and Reserve
Stark
Philpott Slightly Improves in Critical Condition
Lt. Gov. H. Cloyd Philpott remains in critical condition at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem after an illness. Doctors say he is resting comfortably and is on oxygen with sedation, with a tentative diagnosis of a dissecting aneurysm of the aorta. An operation is not ruled out. medical officials will decide after further tests if surgery is indicated.
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Winston-Salme
N.C
H. Cloyd Philpott
Baptist Hospital
Lexington
Philpott
Cuba Abstains as Latins Sign Progress Alliance Charter
The United States and 19 Latin American nations signed the Punta del Este charter launching President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Cuba abstained. Dillon signed for the U.S. while Venezuela signed first and Uruguay last. The pact aims to counter communism in the region.
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Roman Jimenez
Punta del Este
Uruguay
United States
Kennedy
Cuba
Secretary of Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Venezuela
Homero Martinez Montero
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Dillon
Ernesto Galvara
Reprisals Against Reds Urged By Fulbright
Senator J William Fulbright urged economic retaliation against the Soviet Union and East Germany for the East German refugees crackdown. He proposed cutting West German oil purchases to pressure Kremlin leaders, while allies consider agreed countermeasures.
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Washington
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
East Germany
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Rusk
U.S
Soviet Union
Arkansas
Berlin
Hubert H. Humphrey
West Germany
Humphrey
Senate Democratic
Khrushchev
Western powers protest Soviet Berlin barricade legal status
The United States Britain and France delivered identical notes to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow and made them public in Paris London and Washington protesting the Berlin border closure as a flagrant violation of four power status. They urged the Soviet Union to end the measures calling them illegal and noting the wartime accord guarantees free travel in Berlin.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Berlin
Moscow
Paris
London
East Berlin
East Germany
U.S
State Department
Lincoln White
U.S.S.R
White
Warsaw Pact
West Berlin
Salis bury man to discuss solar powered home heating in Rome
Harry E Thomason formerly of Salisbury North Carolina will tell an international conference in Rome how he uses sun power to heat and air condition his home. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation his trip Aug 21 31 to the United Nations conference includes his two daughters Teresa and Mary Ellen who have solar energy invention patents. He notes his system heats water heats a 2000 gallon pool and can store heat for cloudy days.
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Margaret Kernodle Washington
Harry E. Thomason
Salisbury
N. C
Rome
Italy
National Science Foundation
Thomason
Catawba College
Georgetown University
Hattie Davis
Gorham
Teresa
Mary Ellen
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