Partial Soviet offer on test ban opens path to moratorium
The Soviet Union signaled willingness to consider a partial nuclear test ban within weeks, urging a moratorium and joint research to improve detection. The United States pressed for a ban on atmospheric and underwater tests and certain underground blasts. Western powers insist on strong verification and a future complete ban, while Britain weighs a partial treaty tied to a moratorium.
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Tearapkin
Soviet Union
United States
Eisenhower
Tsarapkin
U. S
Washington
Britain
David Ormsby-Gore
Geneva
Envoy Bonsal to Return to Havana
U S officials tread carefully as envoy Bonsal returns to Havana amid Castro attacks over a Havana harbor explosion. State Department says no charges against Bonsal. Cuba may replace its ambassador with Jose Miro Candona as relations drift toward a Soviet orbit. Some senators call Bonsal’s return a concession, others hope he can influence Cuba.
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United States
Havana
U.S
Castro
Cuba
State Department
Bonsal
Revolucion
Jose Miro Candona
Washington
Ernesto Dihigo
George A. Smathers
D-Fia
Fidel Castro
Congress
Referee Plan Faces House Vote With Narrow Margin
Backers of the voting referee plan express confidence the House will approve next week after a three vote margin defeated a bid to narrow its terms. The plan would extend referees to curb voter suppression in federal, state, and local elections, while a Senate measure to appoint federal registrars in discrimination areas failed 324. Rep. William McCulloch said the close vote reflects conscientious conviction on federal participation in local election machinery.
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EDMOND LEBRETON _ WASHINGTON
House
Senate
William McCulloch
Ohio
McCulloch
William P. Rogers
Wreckage search under way for Northwest crash remains
Investigators probe possible causes after Northwest Electra exploded in flight near Louisville. No sabotage ruled out yet as crews dig through a 25 by 40 foot crater in Joe Wilson field. Northwest president Nyrop plans symbolic caskets for memorial service while CAB and Air Force consider debris recovery and next steps.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Air Force
James P. Moore
Enon
Ohio
Northwest
Louisville
Minneapolis
Chicago
Miami
Ohio River
Joe Wilson
Ed Slattery
Slattery
Capehart
Indiana
Thomas Capehart
Indianapolis
Jamaica Island
Donald W. Nyrop
US Protest On Jailing of Bishop
US protests over the jailing of Bishop Walsh in Peiping amid charges of espionage. The prelate had remained in Shanghai since 1949 after the Communist rise, refusing to return home in 1955. Cardinal Spellman defends Walsh against alleged espionage and calls the charges a pattern of persecution. Senator Beall notes Walsh’s missionary role in China.
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China
Shanghai
Peiping Radio
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Walsh
Red China
Herter
United States
Spellman
Bishop Walsh
Tsing Tao
Congress
J. Glenn Beall
Cumpberland
State study to examine fees paid to physicians
Harrisburg AP The State Health Department will investigate fees paid by various state agencies for services to physicians. Secretary of administration David H. Kurtzman said the analysis could confirm current fees or help establish a fairer future schedule. The review follows a meeting with Health and Public Welfare Department officials and notes a prior $175 in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and $88 elsewhere for exam services used to determine occupational disability. Audit head Charles C. Smith labeled the city rates as exorbitant.
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Harrisburg
State Health Department
David H. Kurtzman
Gaid Sed
Health and Public Welfare Department
Kurtzman
Commonwealth
Police Take Two Men In PC Slayings
Police traced the number and keys then spotted a car on the South Side and arrested Wilson and Perkins as they were about to kidnap it. Irene Showers alias Johnson, 23, lived nearby and was questioned. Wilson described the crime and a gun was fired during a chase. Wilson said he learned of the killings two days later.
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South Side
Wilson
Perkins
Irene Showers
Johnsson
Spizzirri
Phiconere
Nick
Regiment Uprising in La Paz Sparks Bolivian Tension
Bolivian Falange uprising in La Paz failed after attacks on City Hall and regimental barracks and a government radio station. The army killed 22 and wounded more than 50. President criticized wealthy rivals for exploiting labor turmoil to topple his government as May 1 elections loom amid fears of civil conflict. Estenssoro founded a major party. Guevara split to form his own leftist wing. Clashes in Cochabamba valley with 10 and 23 killed in prior months fuel fears of violence over ballots. First American school book was the New England Primer, 1690.
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Falange
Siles
Bolivia
U. S
Estenssoro
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
Guevara
Esjtenssoro
United States
Cochajbamba Valley
Benefit Supper in Homer City
Homer City TA will sponsor a spaghetti supper at Hotel Homer on March 22 from 4 to 7 p.m. Home made candy will also be sold.
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Homer City
Homer
Governor Blasts Republicans Over Obstruction in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh AP Gov. Lau rence charges Republican controlled Senate with chronic obstruction of progressive laws for over two decades. In a speech to United Steelworkers Legislative Committee he notes only nine of 83 bills sent to the Labor and Industry Committee in 1959 reached the full Senate.
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Pittsburgh
Laurence
State Senate
United Steelworkers Legislative Committee
Pennsylvania
Senate
Labor and Industry Committee
ACLU Drops Aid in Amish School Case Near Morgantown
The ACLU will not offer legal help to nine Amish fathers who refused to send children to a nearby high school, deeming the case not a religious freedom issue. The fathers were freed from jail after an anonymous benefactor paid over 245 dollars in fines and costs. they face further penalties at a Monday hearing.
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Philadelphia
American Civil Liberties Union
Morgantown
ACLU
Spencer Coxe
Conestoge Christian Day School
Plate
Twin Valley
Honey Brook
Anti-Church Literature in Wisconsin Sparks Campaign Response
In Wisconsin during the struggle for Democratic National Convention delegates, anti Catholic hate literature circulated from Minnesota. Humphrey campaign officials denied any involvement and asked the Post Office to trace the mail as Kennedy aides and Salinger also denied knowledge. Kennedy and Humphrey held speaking tours across southern and northern Wisconsin, aiming to win delegates ahead of the April 5 primary.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey Organization
Hutchinson
Minn
H.E. Jensen
Jensen
Pierre Salinger
Sen. Kennedy
Kennedy
Superior
Sen. Humphrey
Racine
Jwoa
Boy Builds Artificial Heart Unit in Farmington
In Farmington Michigan 16 year old David Randolph built a working model of an artificial heart using a umbrella handle parts of old fire extinguisher plywood and other odds and ends The project inspired by Dr James Fryfogle a Detroit heart surgeon used a stainless steel crank rollers umbrella parts and a 98 degree water bath to drive a blood pump The device demonstrated a functioning oxygenator and circulatory loop though David remains focused on sports as captain of the Our Lady of Sorrows High School track team
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Farmington, Mich
David Randolph
James D. Fryfogle
Detroit
David
North America
Transactions of American Philosophical Society
Fryfogle
Our Lady of Sorrows High School
Pony Express Centennial Ride Plans Unveiled
North Platte Nebraska AP reports plans for the National Pony Express Centennial Ride in July from Sacramento to St Joseph with 1000 riders and 1000 horses. Each rider and horse cover about four miles on the 1966 mile route starting July 19 from both ends carrying 20 pounds of mail each way over nine days.
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North Platte, Neb
National Pony Express
Sacramento
Calif
St. Joseph
Obituaries from Homer City area bring several deaths
Multiple memorial notices record the deaths of Mary Babinetz YeczK of Bilawnox Pennsylvania Mary Jane Foutz Graff George W Bortree Mabel Clare Tuck and others. Survivors include children spouses siblings and grandchildren with services and interments set at various local churches and cemeteries. Funeral homes Askew Robinson Lytle and Ferguson arrange wake times and burial dates.
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Mabel Clare Tuck
Railroad Street
Homer City
Diamondville
Cherryhill
Tno
Charles W
Elenore Sickenberger Tuck
Gertrude Tuck
E. D
Laura) Gagnier
Manhattan Beach
Calif
J. C
Eleanor) Thomas
North
Clyde W. Tuck
Punxsutawney
Miss Tuck
Presbyterian Church
Homer
Howard J. Cooper
Gresgwood
India
Hire English Move In New York Illegal Says Commission
New York state officials said it is illegal to require English Secretaries or specify race creed or national origin in hiring as a judge of efficiency. The State Commission Against Discrimination announced it would probe reports of a growing preference for English secretaries in executive suites.
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Gerald Miller
NEW York
New York State
State Commission
Commission
Austin Executivel Personnel Agency
Queens
Vera Sugg
Wexler
Observers Proposed for West Berlin Plebiscite
Secretary of State Herter urged international observers for a West Berlin plebiscite to deter Soviet propaganda. Adenauer backs a Western powers led poll, while Britain and France weigh the plan ahead of the Paris summit.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Christian A. Herter
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
West Berlin
Adenauer
United States
Britain
France
U.S
London
Paris
West
Berlin
Khrushchev
Herter
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