Four Killed In Beechcraft Crash Near Franklin
A twin engine Beechcraft Bonanza carrying six engineers and two crew members from Charlotte to Chess-Lamberton Airport crashed into a fog shrouded hill two miles from the destination. Four were killed four injured. The crew included pilot William G. Bailey and co pilot Robert P. Daniels both of Ohio. The Talon engineers aboard were Francis Piefer Carl Orzepowski. Injured listed as fair were Jack Hickerwell Russell Stauffer Walter Redmond and Ralph Harrah.
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Franklin
North Carolina
Jack Hickerwell
Meadville
Youngstown Airways
Youngstown
Ohio
Talon, Inc
Charlotte
N.C
Chess- Lamberton
Stanley
Talon
William G. Bailey
Lisbon
R.D
Robert P. Daniels
Warren
Francis Piefer
Carl Orzepowski
Conneaut Lake
Franklin Hospital
Hickerwell
Russell Stauffer
Walter Redmond
Ralph Harrah
Winter Tornadoes Ravage Oklahoma Towns
Central Oklahoma faced winter tornadoes Friday night causing heavy damage in Konawa and four surrounding towns. No deaths reported and injuries total at least 12. Konawa suffered 85 percent destruction on Main Street as National Guard fenced off the town and rescue crews searched debris.
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Konawa
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Okla
Here
F. M. Perkins
National Guard
Ex Pentagon employee pleads guilty in secret document case
Former Pentagon contractor worker Arthur Roddey, 38, pleaded guilty to unauthorized possession of a secret defense document in Alexandria. The government dropped 11 of 12 counts, sentencing deferred for a probation report, bond kept at 15000, and no espionage finding.
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Pentagon
Arthur Rogers Roddey
U.S
Albert V. Bryan
Roddey
South Carolina
Columbia
S.C
FBI
Falls Church
Four Boys Not Indicted in Bridge Burning Case
Tarrant County grand jury declined to indict Clinton Veres Tracy Stanley Richard Truette Rivers and Max Moore all 17 or 18 for burning a bridge linked to a fatal crash that killed Kathy Fleming Mary Lou Gladner and Claudia Jean Reeves. The jurors said the act was a spur of the moment prank not intended to cause deaths.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Tarrant County
Marshall Kennedy
Arlington
Kennedy
Clinton Veres
Tracy Stanley
Richard Truett
E Rivers
Max Moore
Stanley
Kathy Fleming
Mary Lou Gladner
Claudia Jean Reeves
Experimental mill planned to cut costs in Columbia
Experimental spinning mill proposed by Deer ing Milliken mills with input from Southeastern textile engineers may lower costs and meet foreign competition. The project will use the Institute of Textile Technology ideas and draw on broad industry experience. Engineers plan to reconvene at the Institute’s Charlottesville headquarters April 18–19.
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Columbia, S.C
Deering Milliken Mills
Institute of Textile Technology
Deering Milliken
Institue
Charlottesville
Sputnik Scientist Admits U S Leads In Some Phases
A Soviet Sputnik scientist in Milan acknowledged that the United States leads in some aspects of the space race. Prof. Cilla Massevitch praised the Soviet system for centralized rocket research and criticized U.S. approach as duplicative between private enterprise and government agencies.
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Sputnik
U.S
Milan
Italy
United States
Soviet Union
Cilla Massevitch
Friendship Assn
Communist Party
Ion
Prof
Massevitch
Strike Threatens Airline Walkout Widens Across Nation
A wave of walkouts by flight engineers spread from Pan American to Trans World Eastern and American Airlines threatening to halt most domestic and overseas air service. Pan American began the walkout after its contract expired and key issues include reducing in flight hours for jet crews.
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New York
Seas
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
Eastern Airlines
American Airlines
Kennedy
Pan American
Los Angeles
San Francisco
International
TWA
Eastern
Charlotte
N.C
Carolinas
Washington
National Mediation Board
Air Line Pilots Association
White House
State Department
Demonstrations Across Britain Against Polaris Base
London and Glasgow saw large protests opposing the Polaris base planned for Holy Loch Scotland. Rallies disrupted traffic as thousands marched led by Earl Bertrand Russell demanding Britain abandon nuclear weapons and reject alliances tied to them.
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London
America
Scotland
Glasgow
Bertrand Russell
Britain
Holy Loch
U. S
Proteus
Pat Farrer
Park Lane
Marble Arch
Trafalgar Square
Michael Scott
East
Hitler
Kennedy Economic Bills Face House Consideration Next Week
One plan would add up to 13 weeks of unemployment benefits for long term jobless, while a second measure to raise and extend the minimum wage faces opposition. Ways and Means handles unemployment pay financing changes to win broader GOP support, with labor panel on the wage bill.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means
Labor Committee
Committee
Blockade Tightened as Congo Revolt Reported Near
In Leopoldville the Kasavubu government says a revolt brews within rebel army ranks and notes payments to troops are overdue. Mobutu reportedly sought aid from rebel camps, while border blockades curb cotton and palm oil exports to fund Stanleyville forces.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
Joseph Mobutu
Oriental
Leopoldville
Kivu
Stanleyville
Sudan
Antoine Gizenga
Cairo
Egypt
United Arab Republic
U.A.R
Fall Salmone
Gizenga
United States
Congo
Lumumba
Brentano Assures Aid For Nations
West German Foreign Minister Heinz von Brentano promised aid for underdeveloped countries during talks with President Kennedy. His departure from Washington was delayed by a Pan American strike causing cancellation of his 10 a.m. flight to New York, with an alternative later flight offered.
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Geoffrey Gould Washington
Heinrich von Brentano
Kennedy
Brentano
Idlewild
New York City
Bonn
Pan American World Airways
Pan American
Sunday Enterprise Preview Pictorial on Davis Inauguration
One hundred years after Jefferson Davis took office as Confederate president a feature in the Sunday Enterprise explores the event with Rev. W. S. Patterson and his painting. The edition notes North Carolina’s Civil War costs and a special AMA health program feature stirs debate among readers.
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Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
W. S. Patterson
Presbyterian Home
Mr. Patterson
North Carolina
Sunday Enterprise
Asian African bloc backs stronger UN action in Congo
Asian and African leaders pressed the Security Council to authorize force to head off civil war in Congo. Ceylon Liberia and the United Arab Republic backed the measure with U S support but reservations. A veto by the Soviet Union looms and an emergency Assembly session could follow if the resolution fails or abstentions occur.
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Asia
Africa
Security Council
United Nations
Congo
U. N
Ceylon
Liberia
United Arab Republic
United States
U. S
Adlai Stevenson
Dag Hammarskjold
Joseph Kasavubu
Soviet Union
Kasavubu
Hammarskjold
Guinea
Yugoslavia
Discoverer 20 Satellite Sets Weight and Orbit Records
At Vandenberg Air Force Base the Discoverer No. 20 satellite, weighing 2,459 pounds, becomes the heaviest in the series while achieving a perigee of 201 miles. The 81 foot XX projectile entered polar orbit at 12 26 p m Friday, with a recoverable 300 pound capsule planned to eject after a four day flight and be caught near Hawaii.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Alaska
Hawaii
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Alexandria, Va
Louis Koutoulakos
Paul Revere
National Security Council
Byron Matthews
Southeastern Textile Engineers
Prof. Massevitch
Soviet UN
Flight Engineers International Association
Palaris
Ronald Thomson
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