Sky Shield ItI drills in North America test defense
NORAD reports over 1600 aircraft engaged in Operation Sky Shield III a mock air war testing US Canadian defenses. US SAC bombers faced simulated attacks as 800 Norad units and 250000 personnel coordinated from Colorado Springs. A civilian crash in Florida occurred during grounding.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
North American
United States
Canada
North American Air Defense Command
Norad
Defense Department
Free World
John K. Gerhart
U.S
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Everglades
Fla
Mid-Canada
Cleanup To Fight Disease
In Pinellas County Florida residents organized a yard by yard cleanup of old tires cans and other mosquito breeding sites to combat an encephalitis sleeping sickness outbreak. Ten deaths in Pinellas and four elsewhere are reported with attribution pending. Dr W C Ballard notes eliminating breeding sites is the only action individuals can take. John Mulennan cites the countys dense bird population and explains birds harbor encephalitis while mosquitoes transmit it to humans.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Pinellas County
Shore Acres
W. C. Ballard
John Mulennan
Bureau of Entomology
The
State Board of Health
West Coast
At Least 13 Die On Highways Labor Day Toll Rises
The Associated Press reports North Carolina’s Labor Day traffic fatalities surpassed 13 with two teens among the dead after a Sunday crash near Charlotte. Victims include Robert Coble 19 Susan Tucker 13 and others from Caroleen Elkin Lenoir Elizabeth City and Raleigh. A man named George Lane was shot and killed Saturday in a separate incident as police investigate.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
N.C
Charlotte
Robert Stevenson Coble
Locust
Susan Lynn Tucker
Rt. 7
Monroe
Terry
Alonzo Deese
Ruth Deese
Caroleen
Lynn Monroe
Philadelphia
Chris Wood
Craven County
Betty Napier
Elkin
Donna Miller
Lake View
S.C
James Laws
Rt. 1
Lenoir
Huston Spencer Morton
Gold Hill
John Oscar Hobbs
Rt. 3
Elizabeth City
Alfred Lee Sanders
Raleigh
Fred Hanby
Ferguson
George Lee Lane
Viet Nam Efforts May Be Increased
Tokyo AP report says Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor states the United States will increase military effort in South Viet Nam if necessary. He notes encouraging progress since his October visit and confirms readiness to do more if current efforts fall short. Taylor to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff starting next month.
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Tokyo
Maxwell D. Taylor
United States
South Viet Nam
Taylor
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Soviet technicians or troops landings in Cuba fuel debate
About 3,000 Soviet military technicians reportedly arrived in Cuba with two signs they are troops rather than technicians. Isidoro Borja, Cuban Student Directorate official, argues troops have been landed and cites a cabin cruiser raid near Havana. Senators Smathers and Thurmond urge U.S. intervention to expel communism in Cuba as Kennedy resists invasion.
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Isidoro Borja
NBC
Borja
Havana
U.S
Castro
James B. Donovan
New York
Cuba Families Committee
United States
George Smathers
D-Fla
Frank K. Tiffany AP reporter dies at 55 in Wichita
Frank K. Tiffany 55 an Associated Press correspondent in Wichita since 1945 died Saturday of a heart attack. Tiffany served eight years at the Topeka State Journal before joining AP in Topeka in 1937.
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Wichita, Kan
Frank K. Tiffany
Associated Press
Wichita
Tiffany
Topeka State Journal
Topeka
Rainmaker Homer Berry Retires From Rainmaking
Rainmaker Homer Berry retires at 55 after two Arkansas rain contracts. He says he will vacation in Arizona with his wife and infant daughter and plans to air condition Chicago to clear smog from Los Angeles. Berry claimed to use chemicals to bring rain and cited pressure from would be rain buyers as reason to quit.
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Little Rock
Ark
Homer Berry
Berry
Arizona
Chicago
Los Angeles
Arkansas
Air Force
North Little Rock
TV Actor Held In Death Of Roommate
Hollywood police booked 34 year old television actor and writer Robert Richards on suspicion of murder in the death of his roommate James Yarbrough 44 a former Rawhide director. An autopsy found Yarbrough died Friday night from inhalation of his own blood after Richards said he slapped him to keep him awake following an overdose. Yarbrough died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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Hollywood
Robert Richards
James Yarbrough
Yarbrough
Richards
Log Saves Boy From Drowning at Niagara Falls
A log wedged by rocks saved 17-year-old Richard Nicholson of Kenmore from being swept over Niagara Falls. He swam 300 feet to reach the log, was pulled from the water by a bystander who tied a rope to his waist, and then climbed onto a spillway before being swept back into the river. He escaped with cuts on both knees.
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Ont
Horseshoe Falls
Niagara River
Richard Nicholson
Kenmore
Nicholson
Rear Adm Thomas Moen Dies at 67
Rear Adm. Thomas Moen USN retired, a two war hero, died Saturday in Long Beach California. He was a 1917 Naval Academy graduate.
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Long Beach
Calif
Thomas Moen
USN
U.S. Naval Academy
Pleasure-loving Sybar citizens pipe wine from hilltop vineyards
Ancient Sybar on the Mediterranean coast is noted for wine piping from hilltop vineyards to the city. Citizens enjoy lavish living and refined pleasures as trade and viticulture flourish in the region.
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Ancient
Sybar
Traffic Toll Rises Across States in Holiday Weekend
An Associated Press survey logs 256 traffic fatalities during the 78 hour nonholiday span from 6 p m Friday August seventeenth to midnight Monday August twentieth. Across categories boating drownings miscellaneous deaths bring total to 438 with several fatal crashes reported in Colorado Minnesota Arkansas Nebraska and West Virginia.
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Craig
Colo
Litchfield
Minn
Weiner
Ark
Schuyler
Neb
West Virginia
Charleston
The
Safety Council
Associated Press
Soblen Asylum Plea Turned Over To Home Secretary
Dr. Robert A. Soblen's lawyers filed a 20 page memorandum to Home Secretary Henry Brooke in London, as Soblen seeks asylum or exile options to avoid deportation to the United States where he faces a life sentence as a wartime Soviet spy. The document's contents were not disclosed.
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London
Robert A. Soblen
Home
Henry Brooke
Soblen
United States
Brooke
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Insurance Executive Brooks Dies at 67 in Charlotte
W Lester Brooks longtime Jefferson Standard Life Insurance director died Sunday at a Charlotte hospital at age 67. He joined the Charlotte agency in 1914 built it into a large operation and retired in 1959. Funeral set for Tuesday at Myers Park Methodist Church. Survivors include wife Mrs Oren Ritch Brooks daughter Mrs F T Miller Jr son Dr W Lester Brooks Jr three sisters and a brother.
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W. Lester ‘Brooks
Jefferson ‘Standard Life Insurance Co
Brooks
Jefferson Standard
Myers Park Methodist Church
Oren Ritch Brooks
F. T. Miller Jr
Charlote
W. Lester Brooks Jr
Bertha Brooks
M. M. Wilson
Ed Case
Greensboro
Clyde K. Brooks
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