Indiana County crash kills Nancy Sink and daughter Lou Ann
An Indiana native and her three year old daughter died in a three vehicle wreck on Route 30 in North Versailles Township near Pittsburgh. Eight others were injured. The victims were Mrs. Nancy Lee Hile Sink, 24, and Lou Ann Sink, 3, wife and child of John D. Sink. The couple had been traveling with the Kelly family from Greensburg.
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North Versailles
Pittsburgh
McKeesport Hospital
Nancy Lee Hile Sink
Lou ‘Ann Sink
John D. Sink
Homer City
Pennsylvania State University
Sink
McKeesport
Aaron T. Sink
Maurice F. Hile, Jr
George S. Thompson
Kelly
Indiana County
Walter A. Kelly
Clarksburg
Katherine Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly
William S. Kelly
Kellys
George Severns
Geraldine
Bernadette Hodgkiss
Crafton
Severns
Link
Park Forest
State College
Greensburg
Beaver County
Kennedy intensifies push on disarmament crisis
Ambassador Arthur H. Dean returned from the Geneva nuclear test conference and was summoned to the White House with John J. McCloy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk as President Kennedy sharpens focus on a new U.S. disarmament agency and congressional passage of a related bill. McCloy was to meet Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin in New York next Wednesday amid resumed Soviet atomic testing.
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Arthur H. Dean
Geneva
White House
Kennedy
John J. McCloy
U.S
McCloy
No Gazette Labor Day publication note
The Indiana Evening Gazette will not be published Monday due to the Labor Day holiday. Complete coverage resumes with Tuesday editions, covering local, state, national, and international news.
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Indiana Evening Gazette
Gazette
State Radar Law Takes Effect For Pennsylvania Highways
Pennsylvania state police begin using radar to prosecute speeders on state roads and Turnpike at 12:01 a.m. Two-car teams, daylight operation for two weeks, then day and night coverage. Signs warn drivers of radar speed checks as Gov Lawrence calls radar a silent sentinel to save lives.
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George M
Lawrence
Philadelphia
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Scranton
Harrisburg
Erie
Bethlehem
Butler
Punxsutawney
Washington
Hollidaysburg
Montoursville
Hazleton
Wyoming
Reading
Lancaster
Frank G. McCartney
Stars On Parade Highlights Indiana County Fair Grandstand
Indiana County Fair opens tonight with Stars on Parade a free admission variety show at 8 30 p m featuring singing dancing comedy and acrobatics. Tomorrow Thrill Day brings stock car races at 2 30 p m and WWVA Hillbilly Jamboree at 8 p m headlined by Hard Rock Gunter. Grandstand attractions priced, children enjoy pet show at 9 a m and 2 30 p m LeMay Grandstand Giveaway Show with 500 in prizes. Junior Livestock Judging trophies awarded at 8 p m with top honors to Kenneth Dowden and runner up Gene Oblinsky. Continuous midway rides and acts including Billy Webb Palestos Singers Tom Garey Sherry Novelty Acts Acrobatic Contortionists Walton Linn Frankie’s Rides.
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Fairgrounds
Gunter
LeMay
Indiana Evening Gazette
Kenneth Dowden
Elders Ridge
Gene Oblinsky
Penns Manor
Billy Webb
Palestos Singers
Tom Garey
Sherry
Constanins
Walton & Linn
Frankie
Local Club Dance Schedule and Officers Nomination
Coral Graceton Fire Company announces nomination and election of officers on Sept 3 1961 at 1 30 p m secretary Joseph Kiral. Upcoming dances include 17x W F W Dance Sept 2 at Top Dance Sokal Club with Cadert Hatter's Orchestra 1x Sept 9 Jet Tones Sept 16 Raglan at Slovak Club Clymer. Dance details note hours Sept 3 10 00 till and Moose music for Sat nite. Strongstown Pa 17x M.
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Jet Tones
Raglan
Clymer
Moose
Jet
Melodiers
Indiana State College field house is approved by Senate
The Pennsylvania Senate approved a bill to convert Indiana and 13 other state colleges to liberal arts institutions. A $257.7 million General State Authority package includes field house at Indiana State College for 2,085,182 and other campus projects. A $23 million education tax was defeated, delaying teacher salary increases and subsidies.
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Pennsylvania Senate
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Buchanan
House of Representatives
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House
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Bath Houses
Harrisburg
GSA
Indiana County
Indiana State College
Fish Commission
Yellow Creek
Penn Run
Field House and Fish Commission
Jefferson Cowan
Balcare & Ohio
Erie
Acqurance
Comba
Nation Prepares for Labor Day Travel Surge
The Associated Press reports millions gear up for the final summer holiday weekend. An estimated 74 million cars will hit the roads as safety experts warn that about 420 motorists could be killed over the 78 hour Labor Day period from 6 PM today to midnight Monday. The National Safety Council projects nearly 8 billion miles of highway travel, averaging over 103 million miles per hour during the holiday.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Iselin man dies in TWA crash near Chicago
Woodrow W. Bevans 42 an Iselin resident and nine other relatives mourn a traveler among 78 aboard a TWA four engine Constellation that crashed minutes after takeoff from Midway on the Boston to Los Angeles run. Bevans worked at the U S Bureau of Mines in West Lebanon and had been living in Iselin about a year. Local FBI probe considers bombing as a possible factor in the Labor Day disaster near Hinsdale Illinois about 10 miles west of Midway Airport.
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TWA
Woodrow W. Bevans
Pittsburgh
Yuerma
Calif
Edward
Boston
Los Angeles
Midway
Vestaburg
Washington
Rosetta
Nancy Shoup
Waynesburg
Wilson, Jr
Emmett
Lois Jean
Dollie
Bonnie
John David
George Gary
Susan
U.S. Bureau of Mines
West
Lebanon
Midway Airport
FBI
Itt
Jerry Broz
Hinsdale
Pittsburgh area crash victims identified aboard Constellation
AP report notes eleven aboard a Constellation flight near Hinsdale New Jersey were killed. One victim, John M. Macaska, 55, of Pittsburgh, was en route to California to visit relatives. Macaska worked as an engineering draftsman for Blaws Knox Co. in Pittsburgh.
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IWA
Hinsdale
John M. Macaska
California
Macaska
Blaws Knox, Co
Warm, humid with thundershowers across Pennsylvania
Partly cloudy and very warm today with scattered thundershowers late today or tonight. Saturday brings highs near 84 to 99 degrees and a few showers possible. Overnight low around 73 to 77 with continued humid conditions.
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Pennsylvania
Nasser attacks Soviet tests at Nonaligned Nations Meet
Belgrade AP reports President Nasser tells open session the Soviet decision to resume nuclear tests endangers world peace and regional stability. He urges Soviet restraint and warns against fake decisions that ignore major powers and global problems. Other leaders made no formal comment on the Soviet test issue.
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