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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1961
Page
3
President Nixon, returning to Washington with his wife and two daughters, resumes public duties after reviewing his first 100 days. He will stay briefly, travel to Detroit for a speech, then proceed to Columbus for rental ads and other classified notices.
Storm reports show tornadoes in Oklahoma killed 15 people and injured about 60 others after striking Howe Reichart and Savoy. Two deaths occurred Sunday from injuries suffered Friday. In Texas a tornado damaged homes near Stamford. Flooding in Illinois Indiana and Kentucky displaced families and damaged hundreds of homes. Ohio floods drowned six people fleeing rising waters.
President Kennedy flew from Middleburg Virginia to Sen Harry Byrd’s country estate near Berryville for a Sunday gathering with about 150 guests. Byrd, who often opposed administration measures, said he sent the same invitation to Kennedy as to others and did not know of the surprise visit until a phone call minutes before aircraft arrived.
A Moscow Pravda report says six members of a Pentecostal sect tied to American evangelist Oral Roberts received prison terms from two to ten years. They were convicted of illegal gatherings with alleged savage customs causing mental breakdowns, one death by suicide, and another killing a grandson. Roberts had left a pastorate in Enid Oklahoma in 1948 for evangelistic work.
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