Train Collision In Thompsonstown Injures Twelve
In Thompsonstown Pennsylvania a freight car jumped tracks into an oncoming passenger train, injuring twelve. The 60th car derailed the 78 car freight, with ammonia fumes affecting postal workers and one engineer seriously hurt.
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Thompsontown
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Lewistown
Dorothy Schlossberg
Wilmette
S. D. Miller
Altoona
4.3 Per Cent Tobacco Acreage Allotment Increase
The Agriculture Department raised the 1962 flue-cured tobacco planting allotment by 31 115 acres to 747 262 acres from 716 147. The move aims to maintain a reserve stock under farm law and will raise individual farm allotments by 4.3 percent. Price supports run 56.1 cents per pound, up from 55.5 cents. Burley allotment rose 6 percent over 1961. State revisions: Georgia North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia with new and old figures, plus a national reserve for new farms set at 1 868.63 compared with 1 790.82 originally.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
US spent over 14.5 million on Cuban refugee care
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports that the federal government spent more than 14.5 million dollars last year on the care of Cuban refugees in the United States.
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Miami, Fla
United States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Navy
Glenn
World
Nine U2 Jets Lost In Crashes In U S
Washington AP reports at least nine Air Force U2 high altitude jets have been lost in crashes across the United States. The losses involve aircraft used for fallout sampling and weather work, not the Powers affair or CIA planes. Crashes span 1956 to 1960 with multiple incidents at Laughlin AFB and a January Mississippi incident ending with the pilot's safe ejection.
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Washington
Francis Gary Powers
Russia
United States
Air Force
Powers
Soviet Russia
Central Intelligence Agency
Picayune, Miss
Air Force U2
Winslow
Ariz
Laughlin Air Force Base
del Rio
Tex
Abilene
Mississippi
Kennedy Poised to Decide on Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
President Kennedy nears a decision on resuming atmospheric nuclear tests amid Soviet explosions last fall. White House reserves comment while some sources say a verdict is not yet reached. Aims include early press disclosure before the Geneva conference and possible British underground tests at Nevada site.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
United States
Geneva
Britain
U.S
Nevada
Astronauts Say Stars Can Guide Future Moon Flights
The Senate space committee hears John Glenn Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom testify that star navigation can guide future spaceflight like navigation at sea. They warn not all missions will be flawless, stressing education and careful preparation for young Americans.
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Washington
Congress
John H. Glenn
Glenn
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
Senate Space Committee
Capitol
Senate
Shepard
Navy
John
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
House Space Committee
House
House Committee
Tar Heels Leave For Amsterdam on European Tour
A North Carolina tourism mission heads to Amsterdam as the second stop in a European tour. Organizers aim to attract visitors who will spread the word, outlining a plan for about 10 dollars a day in North Carolina including room meals and car hire. Stops include Frankfurt Zurich and Paris with a return March 8.
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London
Europe
Amsterdam
North Carolina
E. L. Washburn
Rocky Mount
Dick Anderson
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
Frankfurt
Germany
Zurich
Paris
Living Costs Unchanged For January
Washington reports that January consumer prices were flat from December due to higher food costs. Despite stable prices, after tax income and purchasing power for factory workers fell about 2 percent because of a shorter 42 minute work week. The revised index shows January at 104.5 versus 4.5 percent above 1957 59 average.
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Washington
Labor Department
Floodwaters drive hundreds from homes across Kentucky and neighbors
Damaging floods from rain swollen rivers sweep eastern Kentucky and parts of West Virginia and Tennessee. National guard assists Corbin and Ravenna while Salyersville and Inez evacuate hundreds. One death reported in West Virginia and widespread closures and isolation occur as roads flood and farms inundate.
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Associated Press
Kentucky
West
Virginia
Tennessee
Ohio
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
North Central
Huron
S.D
North Dakota
Minnesota
Montana
Ashland
Corbin
Louisville
National Guard
Jackson
Ravenna
Salyersville
Inez
Logan
Wayne
Williamson
Nine Shipwrecked Fishermen Await Rescue on Clipperton Islet
Nine tuna fishermen stranded on Clipperton Island for 22 days await rescue. The Monarch crew of nine, one injured, lived on tuna and coconuts until the Fanita could not lift them. The USS Robison was diverted to reach the islet two miles long with coral reefs.
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Pacific
Clipperton Island
Here
Central America
San Diego
Monarch
Cliperton
Fanita
Asocia
Tion
Coast Guard
Navy
Robison
Clipperton
Tuna Boat Association
Manuel Chula
Miss Universe Receives Key After Tampa Hall Incident
Miss Universe Mar ilene Schmidt and entourage were escorted from City Hall after publicist Paul O Hara accused them of noise during a veterans flag debate. Mayor Julian Lane apologized and Schmidt, 24, later met the mayor and received the key to the city. O Hara criticized the pageant group and said apologies should go both ways.
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Marlene Schmidt
Stuttgart
Germany
Tampa
Julian Lane
Fla
City Hall
Marilene Schmidt
West Germany
George Washington
Paul O'Hara
Miss Schmidt
Lane
O’hara
O'Hara
Powers Story May Be Told This Week
U 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers could speak to Congress and the press after a special inquiry board wraps up its questioning by midweek. The CIA, under pressure, may shift toward allowing public testimony and answers about the May 1 1960 downing in the Soviet Union.
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Powers
Soviet Union
Congressional
Kennedy
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
Senate Armed Services Committee
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
E. Barrett Pretttyman
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
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Nora
U. S
By Lewis Gulick
Pentagon
Secretary of the Navy
Fred Korth
Marine Corps
Korth
Tar Heels
San Diego, Calif
Sky
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