Senate Debates Bill To Give Medical Aid
The Senate opens debate on a medical care program for the elderly with a Social Security financed option backed by Kennedy and Johnson and opposed by the Eisenhower administration. The bill aims to provide federal funds for hospital, home nursing, home health, and lab services for seniors on relief rolls or with low income.
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Senate
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Richard M. Nixon
Latin America
Fisenhower
Nixon
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
Cuba
Congo
Senate Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
House
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Finance Committee
Church activities and church merger noted in local notices
Congregation members visit First Evangelical and Reformed Church Sunday at 11 o clock. Sunday School directed by Bruce Woodell at 9 45 a.m. in Tomlinson School Auditorium. The Congregational Christian and Evangelical and Reformed churches merged to form the United Church of Christ. Kindergarten director Mrs W R Harrelson to lead weekday kindergarten at First Presbyterian Church. Dr William R Locke of High Point College will guest preach at First Presbyterian. Homecoming and revival at Pleasant Grove Methodist near Randolph and Davidson counties line. North Wood Methodist Church will host Rev C W Buckey at 11 a.m. service. Rev Herbert M Jameison attends Pleasant Grove homecoming in Nash County. Youth Activities Week at Pleasant Grove Thomasville Aug 21 27 with evening programs and special speakers. Holy Communion Thursday. address by Rev June P Green of Ruffin Sunday night. Picnic to close the week.
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First Congregational Christian
First Evangelical and Reformed Church
Bruce Woodell
Tomlinson School
Congregational Christian
Evangelical and Reformed
United Church of Christ
W. R. Harrelson
First Presbyterian Church
William R. Locke
High Point College
Wesleyan University
Locke
Boston University
North Wood Methodist Church
Guyer
Homestead Avenue
C. W. Buckey
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Mr. Buckey
Herbert M. Jameison
Northwood
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church
Nash County
Bailey
Pleasant Grove Church
Rt. 3
Thomasville
Herbert Penry Jr
B. B. Brown
Roxboro
John Carper
Harley Cecil
Wesley Heights Methodist Church
Lexington
B. D. Wilson
Unity Methodist Church
June P. Green
Ruffin
Largest Airdrop Since War At Ft. Bragg
The 101st Airborne Division carried out a mass parachute drop at Ft. Bragg as part of Exercise Bright Star Pine Cone Ill. About 7,000 troopers jumped with 1,500 airlanded by noon, while 8,000 more from the 82nd Airborne were to jump on Tuesday in a joint Army Air Force and Reserve drill.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
101St Airborne Division
101St
Army
Air Force
82Nd Airborne
Ben Harrell
Ft. Campbell
Myrtle Beach Air Force Base
Sumter Afb
Donaldson Afb
North Auxiliary Field
South Carolina
T. J. H. Trapnell
Xviii Airborne Corps
Strategic Army Corps
Maurice A. Preston
19Th Air Force
Seymour Johnson Afb
Western Europe views Powers trial as a lenient farce
AP reports Western Europe called the Moscow trial a propaganda show with a lenient sentence for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. Press reaction across Britain Denmark Italy and other nations praised no anger toward US policy while slamming Soviet framing and the attempt to place the United States in the dock.
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London
Western Europe
Francis Gary Powers
U. S
Powers
Britain
Daily Telegraph
Russia
America
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S.S.R
Rome
Il Messaggero
Recovery of space capsule marks first aerial catch
Hawaii to California transfer of the 85 pound capsule from Discoverer XIV after a successful 8,500 foot retrieval over the Pacific. The event follows the Powers case where the family seeks clemency from Khrushchev and Brezhnev to reduce a spying sentence. The recovery involved Lt Robert Counts and Capt Harold E Mitchell receiving honors and the capsule sent to Lockheed for analysis.
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U. S
Hawaii
Air Force ‘Ballistic Missile Division
Los Angeles
Robert Counts
Yuba City
Calif
Lockheed Laboratory
Sunnyvale
Washington
Harold E. Mitchell
Bloomington
Ill
Louis F. Bannick
Hermiston
Ore
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Mitchell
al Harmon
Wedowee
Ala
America
Satellite Timetable for Echo I sightings over Carolinas
The timetable lists Echo I satellite sighting times tonight and Sunday night over the Carolinas. Times include 7:05 and 9:14 p.m. tonight with directions and horizon angles, followed by 11:20 p.m. 1:25 a.m. and 3:33 a.m. Tonight sightings repeat with Sunday times: 6:42 p.m. 8:51 p.m. 10:57 p.m. 1:02 a.m. 3:10 a.m. 5:23 a.m.
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Charlotte
Echo I
Carolinas
Sunday Enterprise Preview: Cuba Question and Local Features
The Sunday Enterprise teases tomorrow features on a Cuban policy question from High Pointers, a story on a High Point girl making progress at Samarcand Training School, and an article on Thomasville’s remedial reading program with staff writer Frank Warren outlining its need and purpose.
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United States
Cuba
Enterprise
NEW Life
Domestic Relations Court
Samarcand
J.W.P. Mooney
Sunday Enterprise
Thomasville
Frank Warren
Slightly Tipsy Marine Turns Melvin Into Man Of The Hour
A Laguna Beach Marine starts a million to one tale by dialing Melvin Miller of Peoria by mistake. The unlikely friendship grows from Labor Day prank calls to a California party ice delivery and Christmas greetings from Japan Hawaii and ships at sea.
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Joe Gestson
U.S. Marines
Laguna Beach
Calif
Melvin Miller
Peoria
Ill
Gestson
Marine
Melvin
Man of the Hour
Illinois
Camp Pendleton
Gestion
Pendleton
el Toro Marine
Joe
Mel
California
Japan
Hawaii
Cuba
Ole Mel
Mali Split Threat Looms as Rival Leaders Clash
In Dakar amid a tense standstill, rival leaders threaten violent dismemberment of the new Mali state. Acting President Keita reportedly under house arrest as Senegalese authorities announce Senegal’s secession from the Mali Federation.
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Paris
Mali
Dakar
Modibo Keita
Senegal
Keita
Sudan
Abako vows to remove Lumumba by legal or illegal means
The Abako party in Leopoldville declares it will censure Lumumba and, if needed, use other measures to remove him when Parliament convenes. Gen Vital Mpanda says autonomy for the lower Congo is key and warns Lumumba’s policies alienate many tribes.
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Leopoldville , the Congo
Abako Party
Patrice ‘Lumumba
Abako
Vital Mpanda
Lumumba
United Nations
Moanda
Lower
Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
U.N
Dag
Lower Congo
M. Hammarskjold
State Dept. Backs Down On Students
The State Department retreated from its earlier claim that funding for traveling African students was merit based not political. Officials cited misstatements about application details and said the proposal originally involved students from several African nations, not just Kenya.
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State Dept
Stanley Meisler Washington
State Department
Richard M. Nixon
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Kennedy Foundation
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Senate
Frank C. Montero
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Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail I. Grimov
Frank Rogers
Roanoke
Virginia Bar Assa
Rogers
Gary
Oliver W. Powers
Pound
Ida
Supreme Court
Supreme Courts
Barbara Powers
Leonid Brezhnev
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Miller
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