Iowa Senator backs limited nuclear test ban treaty
Senator Jack Miller of Iowa announced support for the limited nuclear test ban treaty becoming the 80th senator to approve. The pact requires a two thirds Senate vote for ratification with division shown by an AP survey that 13 oppose and seven are uncommitted. The final vote may be delayed to next week as debate continues amid criticism.
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Washington
Sen
Jack Miller
Iowa
Senate
Associated Press
Miller
Soviet Union
Ery
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Curtis
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Alan Bible
D-Nev
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
UN Reacts to China and Viet Nam at General Assembly
The 21 nation committee backed debate on South Viet Nam as international concern while leaving See China representation unresolved. Albania urged removal of Communist China and the Soviet delegate supported the move. U S delegate Yost called the debate useless.
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Tom Hoge
Associated Press
United Nations
N.Y
U.N
China
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Albania
U.S
Charles W. Yost
Winged Asset test flight fails to recover in Atlantic
The first American winged payload test in Project Asset launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Thor rocket reaching 35 miles. It streaked toward the Atlantic with a 9000 mph reentry but recovery vessels could not locate the craft hours after splashdown and feared it may have sunk.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Project Asset
Thor
Atlantic Ocean
Air Force
Khrushchev lashes Soviet farmers over poor harvests in Volgograd
Soviet Premier Khrushchev berated farmers for inefficiency and accused bureaucrats of exporting fertilizer as he urged higher mineral fertilizer production. He contrasted Soviet needs with a Canada deal to buy wheat and noted shortages and underuse of fertilizer in state farms.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Volgograd
Stalingrad
Canada
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
United States
Bandit Robs Raleigh Bank Branch at Ridgewood Center
A tall dark skinned robber held up the Ridgewood branch of First Citizens Bank & Trust Co in Raleigh around 11 15 a m. He brandished a gun and escaped with about 11000. The Highway Patrol described the suspect as 6 feet tall 215 pounds wearing a beige coat red sunglasses and a cap. Bank manager Loyce White said officers arrived after the robbery located at Ridgewood Shopping Center near Meredith College. The FBI confirmed the robber told two female tellers he was drunk but could still blow their heads off.
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Raleigh
Ridgewood
First Citizens Bank & Trust Co
Meredith College
Highway Patrol
Loyce White
FBI
JFK backs tax stand by Mills
President Kennedy backed a Mills written statement supporting tax cuts as the path to a bigger economy and urged restraint on spending while arguing the tax cut should not be paired with new big-government programs. He prepared to address the nation with an $11 billion tax cut plan before Congress.
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Washington
Kennedy
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mills
Congress
Cindy Drops Record Rainfall Across Southeast Texas
Tropical storm Cindy stalled near Houston and ground inland dumping extreme rain across the region. Orange reported 22.76 inches, Beaumont 18 inches, with widespread flooding forcing many to flee homes, rescued by trucks and boats as the storm decayed to a tropical storm and drifted north at about 5 mph.
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Beaumont
Tex
Cindy
Houston
Texas
Deweyville
Hun
Orange
Louisi
Beaumont Flood Refugees Packed as Cindy Races Inland
Beaumont and Orange County faced widespread flooding as Cindy's surge sent 3 000 Texans fleeing homes and 10 000 warned to evacuate in Louisiana. Rescue trucks evacuated 325 people from Beaumont's West Side while Air Force trucks moved six families from Green Acres and Fannett. Red Cross and Civil Defense counted 100 evacuees in Orange County and two children, Linda and Jesse Gregg, briefly went missing before being found safe under a bridge.
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Beaumont
Air Force
Green Acres
Fannett
Port Arthur
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Orange County
Orange
J. Cullen Browning
Orange Leader
Pat Wortman
Red Cross Disaster
Texas
Cindy
Louisiana
Linda
Jesse Gregg
British Embassy in Jakarta Sets Ablaze Amid Riots
Indonesian mobs attacking the newly formed federation's anti Communist climate sacked the British Embassy in Jakarta, burning the three story chancery and setting cars alight. Indonesian troops moved to quell the riot as U S Ambassador Jones reported the garrison was ordered to restore order.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Malaysia
Britain
U.S
Howard P. J Jones
Jones
Chancery
London
Lord Home
Burhanudin Mohamad Diah
Kuala Lumpur
Philippines
Subandrio
Manila
United Nations
New York
Tragic Salinas Crash Kills 28 Field Workers
A speeding freight train struck a makeshift bus carrying Mexican field workers near Chualar eight miles south of Salinas, killing 28 and injuring 35. Eyewitness Tony Vasquez described bodies scattered along the track as ambulances ferried victims to Salinas hospitals. Francisco Gonzales Espinosa, 34, of Salinas, the driver, said he stopped at the crossing.
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Chualar
Salinas
Calif
California
Monterey County Hospital
Christopher Hill Jr
Earl Meyers, Co
Three Children Die In Blaze In Georgetown
A wind blew kerosene lamp over in a frame house in Georgetown South Carolina Tuesday igniting wallpaper and papers. Three Negro children Barbara Mike and Kenneth Simmons died in the blaze. Their 10 year old brother had put them to bed and slept through the fire. Firemen found the children in a bedroom corner.
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Georgetown
S.C
Barbara
Mike
Kenneth Simmons
Tom Simmons
Doctors puzzled by mysterious epidemic killer of babies
An AP report details a suspected neonatal epidemic striking infants in Vermont and Atlanta last year. Vermont saw three to four babies born with spina bifida in six weeks, far above the normal rate. researchers traced cases across the state and sent surveys to doctors. In Atlanta, US Public Health Service investigators found an outbreak of similar cases, numbering sixteen, suggesting a wider, unexplained threat to newborns.
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John Barbour
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Vermont
Atlanta
Montpelier
Jerald F. Lucye
University of Vermont
Burlington
U. S. Public Health Service
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Viet Nam
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J. W. Stallings II
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Ana
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
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California Highway Patrol
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