Space Ride Pending New Weather Turbulence Delays Grissom
Cape Canaveral weather threats from a Gulf of Mexico cyclone and a Caribbean tropical storm push Virgil I. Grissom toward a further delay in his Redstone rocket flight. Forecasters put launch odds at about 50 50 with another weather review due at 1 pm. Technicians shortened the countdown by about two hours as cloudiness clouds optical tracking.
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Gulf of Mexico
Caribbean Sea
Virgil I. Grissom
National Aeronautics Weather Team
Anna
Ti Pm
Missile Base
Grissom
Civilian Space Agency
CAW Group to Meet Architects for High School Additions
Blairsville group Committee Against Waste CAW plans to consult architectural firm today to draft preliminary plans for a classroom addition to the high school. They will present new information to the joint board at the Monday July 24 meeting and urge parent and taxpayer attendance. The CAW emerged to oppose school building spending and recently helped halt land transfers to the district for a new building amid sewer doubt at the proposed Athletic Field site.
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Blairsville
Committee Against
CAW
Harry W
Woody” Turner
Thomas McClure
Turner
E. Bishop
Scool Board
Citizens Unit
J. M. Turner
William R. McMillen
Dionne Quintuplet Birth Sparks Twin Lineage at 9am
Cecile Dionne, one of the surviving Dionne quintuplets, gave birth to twin boys at St Sacrament Hospital in Quebec. The six pound babies arrive at 9 am to join two older brothers. Their father is Philippe Langlois, a civil servant. Yvonne, the fourth surviving quintuplet, is a nun near Baie St Paul.
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Quebec
Cecile Dionne
St. Sacrament Hospital
Philippe Langlois
Annette
Marie
Yvonne
Baie St. Paul
Que
Approve Light At Homer City Traffic Signal Permit
Homer City State Highway official Park H. Martin approved a permit for a traffic signal at the Ridge Avenue and U S Route 119 intersection. The signal will be actuated to give pedestrians sufficient crossing time.
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Homer City
Park H. Martin
Ridge Avenue
French Assault on Naval Base at Bizerte Persists
AP dispatch from Tunis reports a coordinated French attack by land sea and air on barricades around the Bizerte naval base. Tunisian forces and civilians resisted, with many casualties. Bourguiba seeks UN action and cuts in France relations as fighting disrupts Bizerte’s water and power supplies.
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Radio
Bizerte
Habib Bourguiba
United Nations
France
Nate
Arromanches
Colburl
Bouvet
Chevalier Paal
Weather toll and postal fight shadow 1962
A violent rainstorm swept Charleston area killing eleven, including six children, as postal rate hike plans for 1962 faced a House postponement. The vote, 13 to 9, stalled Kennedy's plan to raise rates to cover a nearly $900 million deficit.
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Washington
House Post Office Committee
Kennedy
Congress
James H. Morrison
D-La
Post Office Department
Charleston
W. Va
Kennedy Aid Bill Victory Boosts Foreign Loan Fund
President Kennedy won a major foreign aid bill victory as the Senate Foreign Relations committee authorized Treasury borrowing to finance a five year, 7.3 billion dollar economic aid loan program abroad. Humphrey said the vote was about 10 to 7 and the panel would act on追加 authority for 300 million annually to repay past loans.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Treasury
Hubert H. Humphrey
D.minn
Humphrey
New Pledges Boost Indiana County Fund Total
New pledges lift the Indiana County Development Corporation drive to 80.6 percent of its $250,000 goal, with last night’s report showing $201,567 raised as 80.69 percent. The update lists 26 firms joining the 100 Percent Club and details many individual gifts from local businesses and residents, noting further reports due and a July 26 meeting at Rustic Lodge.
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B. Leonard Brody
Marcus Drye
Brody’s Dept
Capital Finance Corporation
Colonial Motors
Commercial Credit Corporation
Dick Motor Company
Homer City
Farmers Bank & Trust Company
First Federal Savings & Loan Co
First National Bank
John M. Gray
Kenny Greene
Homer City State Bank
Iimperial Keystone Mine
Tmdiana Wholesale
S. Kunkle Lumber Co
Marhoefer Baking Company
McGill Motors
National Mine Service Co
Penn Furniture Co
Prudential Insurance Company
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co
Savings & Trust Company
Sears Roebuck & Company
Steiner
Diana
Indiana County
Nest
Rustic Lodge
Allied Club Coh
William J. Allison
Anderson Shoe Store
Anonymous
Ash Shoe Company
Banks
Thomas S. Barker
Barclay's Hardware
Beatty's Coffee Shop
Frank Becker
D. Hall Blair
Blairsville Bus Co
Robert Boden
J. P. Brady
Brodsky & Co
Brady's Department Store
Anthony Bruno
Harry J. Buchheit
Capital Restaurant
Talks Planned With Allies On Berlin Crisis
President Kennedy and top advisers met at the White House to chart a course for reinforcing Allied military power in response to the Soviet Berlin threat. Officials said decisions were made, with a phase of consultation with allies and a forthcoming nationwide TV radio address and congressional message. The administration highlighted worldwide danger, noting current ground force strengths and the need to address threats from Southeast Asia as well as Berlin.
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W. W. Barron
White Sulphur Springs
Washington
United States
Kennedy
National Security Council
White House
Pierre Salinger
U.S
Berlin
Eagles Party
Marine Corps
Khrushchev
Southeast Asia
Security Council
Congress
Weather outlook with clouds and showers tonight
Variable cloudiness tonight and Friday with little temperature change and developing showers and thundershowers. Lows tonight 56 to 64.
Confession Retracted in New London Disaster Case
Henderson Texas AP William Estes Benson retracts his confession claiming he caused the 1937 New London school explosion that killed 296. District Attorney William Ferguson says Benson repudiated his earlier statement and new detector tests show he was not involved. Benson claimed in Oklahoma City last Monday that he loosened gas pipe fittings to vent gas under the building.
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Henderson
Tex
William Estes Benson
New London
Dist
William Ferguson
Ferguson
Benson
Oklahoma City
Texas
First Tropical Storm Forms in Atlantic Season
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico AP the first tropical storm of the 1960 Atlantic season formed today in the southeastern Caribbean. It carried top winds of 60 mph at birth and moved west at 17 mph toward a 12 to 24 hour period of growth. Forecasters expect it to build in size and power as it continues westward. The season’s first storm Abby formed July 10 southwest of Martinique and moved west until dissipating over British Honduras. Moose Fish Fry Faday 5 & Members and guests, 286
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Puerto Rico
Caribbean
Navy
Tuts
Abby
Martinique
British Honduras
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