Navy plane spots hijacked Anzoategui near Surinam
A Navy P2V from Jacksonville sighted the Venezuelan freighter Anzoategui about 180 miles north of Surinam while it was steered southward at 12 knots. The ship, seized by Communist hijackers, was not near Cuba and was observed as the search widens across the Caribbean.
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Surinam
Dutch Guiana
Anzoategui
Cuba
Washington
Navy
Defense Department
Jacksonville
Fla
Department
Brazil
Henrique Galvao
Santa Maria
Cuba l
Santo Domingo
Roosevelt Roads
Puerto Rico
Guantanamo Naval Base
Government Shipping Company
Africans Flee Bulgaria Amid Discrimination Claims
In Vienna AP reported Ethiopian students left Communist Bulgaria amid charges of racial discrimination by Bulgarian authorities. About 400 Africans were said to be preparing exits with funds or transport help. Ghanaian leaders and others faced arrests and police beatings during protests, while embassies arranged routes to Amsterdam Bonn and Prague for departure.
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Vienna
Austria
Bulgaria
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Amsterdam
Petras Sahlon
Radio Ghana
Sofia
J. L. Appah Sampong
Robert Kotey
Kotey
Sampong
Bonn
Germany
Nigeria
Guinea
Mali
Togo
Kenya
Prague
Kidnaper Of Driver Is Sought
An escapee from Spindale North Carolina prison reportedly hijacked a tractor trailer near Spartanburg South Carolina and abducted the driver. The suspect, identified as James Henry Willis 22, fled toward the south aboard a Florida bound rig marked W B Castleberry.
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Spartanburg
S.C
North Carolina
Lynch
Gillespie
W. B. Castleberry
Auburndale
Fla
Rutherford County
N.C
Spindale
James Henry Willis
Willis
Harris
North Carolina- South Carolina Line
Civil Rights Lawyer Higgs Convicted in Mississippi
Twelve white jurors convicted civil rights lawyer William Higgs in absentia on a morals charge involving a teen runaway. Higgs received six months in jail and a $500 fine. He was not present at the trial and denied the accusation, which stemmed from statements by the youth who testified Higgs befriended him and engaged in illicit acts.
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Higgs
Moore
William McKinley Dagwall III
Collegeville
New York
Freedom Riders
Mississippi
State
University of Mississippi
Dewey Greene
James H. Meredith
Robert Pierson
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Harvard Law School
Dagwalt
Brandeis University
Waltham
Mass
Three Die In Blaze At Lenoir North Carolina Home
An elderly couple Mr. and Mrs. Carter Estes and their son Troy Estes, 53, died in a Friday night fire ten miles north of Lenoir. Firefighters battled for three hours as the four room frame house burned with bodies found in the living room bedroom and hallway.
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Lenoir
N.C
Here
Carter Estes
Troy Estes
Rod Warren
Valmead
Estes
Warren
Aerialist Falls 35 Feet In Shrine Circus
Mary Lou Lawrence a 25 year old aerialist from Crown Point Indiana plunged 35 feet from a flying trapeze to a concrete floor during a matinee at the Shrine Circus. She remained in critical condition with a fractured skull a broken collar bone and possible internal injuries. The Hollywood sky rocket performed without a safety net amid a 2000 person crowd.
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Mary Lou Lawrence
Shrine Circus
Madison
Wis
the Crown Point
Ind
Crown Point
Hollywood
Harriman May Get High Post at State Department
Washington AP reports Assistant Secretary W Averell Harriman is expected to be named undersecretary for political affairs, moving into the No 3 State post as part of Kennedy’s shakeup. McGhee may be reassigned, with broader changes anticipated to speed up foreign policy operations.
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Washington
W. Averell Harriman
State Department
Kennedy
Harriman
Russia
Britain
State
George C. McGhee
McGhee
Dean Rusk
George W. Ball
New York
Old Soldier Dies After Living in Jail in Georgia
Wilmer A. Summerville, 73, a blind WWI veteran who lived in Floyd County Jail after being refused admission to government hospitals, died in a Cedartown nursing home. Sheriff Adams aided him, VA later corrected pension issues, and Christine Perry offered free care. Funeral at 4 p.m. near Rome.
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Rome
Wilmer A. Summerville
Summerville
Floyd County
Joe Adams
Christine Perry
Cedartown
Veterans’ Administration
Adams
Joseph L. Erwin
Medical Administration
Atlanta
Training Set For Cubans In U.S. Forces
The Defense Department announces a special training program in the U.S. armed forces for Cuban veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. The program details were disclosed by Jose Miro Cardona of the Cuban Revolutionary Council in Miami on Friday.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Miami
Jose Miro Cardona
Cuban Revolutionary Council
Patrolman and Singers Highlight Sunday Enterprise Feature
A photo feature follows a highway patrolman helping motorists and directing safe driving courses, including rounding up cows. The Collegians, five High Point College students, sing for pleasure, while High Point's urban renewal area shows early changes as owners cooperate in rehabilitation efforts.
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Sunday Enterprise
Collegians
High Point College
Enterprise
High Point
Enterprise Tomorrow
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Miles
Recife
Galvao
Antonio de ‘Oliveira Salazar
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Caribbean Sea
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Lesser Antilles
la Guaira
Caracas
FALN
Betancourt
United States
Communist
Arnold
MAMA
State Highway
F. E. Gillespie
Dwight Lynch
N. C
Larry Ruhl
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Circus
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Miss Lawrence
William Kay
Shrine
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