Tornado Toll Rises in Alabama and Surrounding States
Rescue workers hunt for more victims after a severe tornado outbreak hit Harpersville Alabama and nearby areas killing at least nine people and hospitalizing several. Wide storms scour Kentucky Missouri Arkansas and Illinois with hail rains and heavy damage. multiple towns report destroyed homes and roads blocked by debris and downed power lines.
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Associated Press
Rector
Marmaduke
Ark
Kennett
Nado
Sandoval
Harpersville
Illinois
Alabama
Kentucky
Missouri
Arkansas
Birmingham
Rodenville
DeKalb County
Gorgas
Walker County
Stevens
Snoqualmie Pass
White Oakscade Mountains
US and USSR agree on cooperative satellite tests
NASA announced plans for a historic joint experiment with the Soviet Union using a communications satellite. No date was set, but readiness was voiced. The Russians would assist with radar tracking to determine satellite position for radio tests between Moscow’s Zemenky Observatory and Jodrell Bank in Britain.
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Echo 2
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Zemenky Mtatory
Moscow
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Froland
British End Mutiny In Tanganyika Riots Kill 17
British forces suppressed a mutiny and rioting in Tanganyika causing at least 17 deaths. The unrest centered on Colito Barracks in Dar es Salaam with clashes leaving towns in turmoil as mobs looted Arab and Asian shops amid heightened tensions between African nationalists and colonial forces.
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Dar
Ee Kappiawarnae
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Es Salaam
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Caboru
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Echo
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Madagascar
Jessane
Pyra
Dar Es Salaam
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Fe Numa
Arshiemaane
Johnson Acts to Preserve Tax Cut Amid Repeal Pressure
Washington AP report details Lyndon B. Johnson's two busiest hours as president as Senate Finance Committee votes to repeal 455 million dollars in federal excise taxes. Johnson fears revenue loss and fights to keep tax cut passage, persuading Democrats to uphold the repeal stance. Concurrent world notes include Kenya mutiny reports and Echo satellite updates.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Capitol Hill
Senate Finance Committee
Elkton Crash Hearings Set
The Civil Aeronautics Board will hold a Philadelphia hearing February 24 on the Elkton Maryland Pan American World Airways Boeing 707 crash of December 8 in which 41 people died. The CAB said evidence pointed to a lightning strike and subsequent explosion.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
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Elkton
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World Airways
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Heart transplant attempt in Mississippi makes first test
Jackson AP reports Mississippi surgeons performed a pioneering heart transplant that functioned for one hour. It marks the first known successful human heart transplant and fuels hope for future organ replacements. Donor heart from a deceased person, recipient died of heart failure. details withheld pending further clinical experience.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Ex-Policeman Stages Sit In at Detroit IRS Office
James Clement a former Detroit policeman and truck driver marked his 56th birthday by a solo sit in at the Detroit IRS office asserting he owes no taxes. He claimed the government deducted $419 from his paycheck and vowed to continue the protest, saying it owes him.
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Internal Revenue Service
James Clement
Clement
Not Guilty Decision Draws Fire
An Allegheny County jury acquitted Abe Zeid of all charges in a Pittsburgh tavern robbery case. William Kohne was convicted of a firearms violation and faces appeal for a new trial. Judge J Frank Graff criticized the verdict as the case closed. Parker was wounded during the Jan 1963 robbery attempt in Hill District.
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Allegheny County
William Kohne
Baldwin Borough
Abe Zeid
New Kensington
Kahne
J. Frank Graff
Armstrong County
Benjamyim Parker
Hill District
Hutchison’s Homecoming Ends 28-Year Prison Term
In a suburban setting the Hutchison family celebrates the return of a man released after 28 years in Pontiac. He recalls warning convicts to wait for release, plans to resume work at his longtime factory, and cherishes rebuilding life with his wife as they plan their future.
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Hutchisons
Hutchison
Pontiac
Rockefeller Campaigns In New Hampshire On Ice Cream Cones
Gov Nelson Rockefeller returned from a New Hampshire tour and officially filed for the presidential primary ballots. He pledged aid for small business, criticized Goldwater supporters, and argued against withdrawing from the United Nations if Red China is admitted. Rockefeller and wife Happy attracted large crowds in Laconia and Tilton, buying cones and speaking at events before addressing the Women’s National Republican Club at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New Hampshire
National Republican Club
Waldorf- Astoria
Rockefeller
Happy
Laconia
Tilton
Concord
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Statehouse
Secretary of State
United States
United Nations
Red China
Nine Die In Alabama Tornado
A tornado struck Harpersville Alabama killing at least nine people in a community of about 1000 as rescuers found multiple victims including Betty McCall and her children Michael and Mitchell and Kathy Brewer. Others named were Ed Virginia and Essie Mae Kelley and Cheryl Kelley died later in hospital.
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Harpersville
Ala
Alabama
Birmingham
Betty McCall
Michael
Mitchell
Kathy Brewer
Ed Kelley
Virginia Kelley
Essie Mae Kelley
Cheryl Kelley
Stella Thomas
Huntsville
Rodenville
DeKalb County
Gorgas
Walker County
Lawyer Honored by Pennsylvania Bar Association
The Pennsylvania Bar Association awarded 77 year old William T. Schnader of Philadelphia its distinguished service award for leadership in jurisprudence and justice administration including work toward a revised Pennsylvania constitution. He chairs the governor's commission on constitutional revision and originated the bar association's Project Constitution.
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Pennsylvania Bar Association
William T. Schnader
Schnader
Pennsylvania
Governor's Commission On
Bar Association
Not Smoking, Can't Sit Not Smoking Cant Sit
William J. Blass vice president of a savings and loan firm vowed to quit smoking on New Year’s Eve. He began calisthenics but strained his back and could not move from his chair. He is 31 and had a birthday party canceled along with other engagements. He says he will persevere despite no benefits yet.
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William J. Blass
Blass
Calvin Warren McCoy
Commodore R. D
Indiana Hospital
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Catherine Parry McCoy
Rayne Township
Commodore
Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co
Zella Decker
Weldon McCoy
Dennie McCoy
Commodore R.D
William
Queen) Mitchell
Cookport
Donald McCoy
H. D. Raleigh
Hillsdale
Leonard Pearson
Edward Furman
Greenwood Cemetery
Indiana
Atlanta Negroes Protest U N group during southern visit
Atlanta protesters from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee picketed at the airport and outside a motel where a United Nations subcommission on discrimination visited. They carried signs reading Atlanta Needs U N Help and Atlanta Gateway to the Segregated South. No incidents were reported as U N members from ten countries observed racial issues in the city during their two day tour.
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United Nations
Deep South
U.N
South
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Soviet Union
Lester Dunbar
Southern Regional Council
Hernan Santz-Cruz
Chile
Morris Abram
Abram
U.S
Taylor
Bel Air
Ale
Barbara
Fisher
Baltimore
Hugh Gee
Homer City
R.D
Logan South
D. Geesey
Indiana
Abe
Obituaries Reach Across Time in 1964 Indiana County
A batch of obituary notices from Indiana County honors TWILA McCALL FRONK 62 of Cherry Tree, ADAM CLAY MARTIN 64 of Indiana, CANDIDA RICCUTTO 89 of Torrance and others. The notices list birthplaces, family ties, churches, funeral homes and interment details, with service times and locations in Cherry Tree, Indiana, Blairsville and Torrance.
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Victor L. Frank
Cherry Tree
Miners Hospital
Spangler
Austin and
Bertha Brickell McCall
Banks Township
H. D. Raleigh
Hillsdale
Methodist
Harter S. Taylor
McDowell Cemetery
Adam Clay Martin
South 10Th. Street
Indiana
Conemaugh Valley Hospital
Johnstown
Rance Twp
Indiana Co
William H. and
Mary ,Wineberg Martin
Robinson-Lytle’s
Candida Riccutto
Torrance
Frank
Marian Riccutto
SS. Simon and Jude Church
Blairsville
American Legion Auxillary
Italian Mutual Aid Society
Nick Sundry
Bolivar
Albert
William Sundry
Victor Sundry
Latrobe
James Sundry
Chicago
Ill
Frank Sundry
New Alexandria
Sara Mastrorocco
Greensburg
Helen Calderone
Nellie Petrarca
Ferguson Funeral Home
Blairaville
Navy Tanker Collision Yields $3.8 Million Award
A 1957 crash between the Navy tanker Mission San Francisco and the freighter Elna II killed ten. Judge Layton denied the government and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries further limits, while Tiedemann's petition was granted. Tiedemann's share roughly $240,000. pumpman William Galligan of San Pedro received $27,850 as the top individual award.
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U.S. District Court
Mission
Tiedemann
Mathiasen
William E. Galligan
San Pedro
Calif
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