Builder Pressures to Buy Sun Valley Land Firm
A New Orleans builder testified in the Hoffa fraud trial that he was asked to buy the Sun Valley land development near Orlando Florida in 1960 in a scheme linked to Hoffa. Prosecutors say Hoffa invested Teamster pension funds and sought help to bail out the project while misusing loan security for the Fontainebleau Hotel.
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Chicago
New Orleans
Sun Valley, Inc
Florida
Teamster Orail
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Teamster
Warren Rose
Teamster Pension Fund
Benjamin Dranow
Dranow
Detroit
Rose
Cranon
Cranow
Former Suffragette Day Dies in Connecticut
Katharine Seymour Day, 94, lifelong suffragist who helped preserve Mark Twain's Hartford home, once rode on horseback across neighborhoods to rally support for women's voting rights. She descended from Thomas Hooker and was related to the Beecher family in Hartford.
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Hartford
Conn
Katharine Seymour Day
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Miss Day
Thomas Hooker
Beecher
Exile Leader Vows Return To Cuba Soon
Cuban exile leader Manuel Ray, captured on a Caribbean island after missing a rendezvous with Castro, vows he will reach Cuba soon. Ray, 39, says the destination remains Cuba and cites wartime conditions delaying his infiltration plan. He and seven companions were fined and ordered deported by Bahamian authorities.
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Cuba
Nassau
Bahamas
Manuel Ray
Caribbean
Ray
Miami
Fidel Castro
Havana
Fulgencio Batista
Revolutionary Junta
Weather Bureau tracks potential tropical storm in Gulf
The Weather Bureau reports a weak tropical low in the south Gulf of Mexico about 400 miles southwest of Miami could become a tropical storm tonight. An Air Force reconnaissance plane from Hunter AFB was set to probe the disturbance. Peak winds reached 35 mph, below the 39 mph threshold for a storm, as the low moves north. Havana radio notes heavy rains in western Pinar del Rio for 30 hours, disrupting tobacco and sugar cuts.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Air Force
Hunter Air Force Base
Savannah
Havana Radio
Pinar del Rio
Tobacico
Time magazine banned by Philippine Post Office
Manila AP report says the Philippine Post Office refused the current issue of Time magazine, citing a reproduction of Goya's The Naked Maja as obscene under postal law. The magazine carried the painting in connection with the New York World's Fair exhibit.
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Belarmino Navarro
Time
Church Official to Speak at First Christian Church Services
The Rev. Clifton McCoy of Columbia district Six Association of Christian Churches will guest speak at 8:30 and 10:50 a.m. services. Native of Virginia with a Lexington Bible College degree, he has pastored in Roanoke Bassett Washington Danville and Lexington and now serves 95 churches in 14 counties. His Sunday topic is To Such Belongs the Kingdom.
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Clifton McCoy
Columbia
District Six Association of Christian Churches
First Christian Church
McCoy
Virginia
College of the Bible
Lexington
Bethany Christian Church
Roanoke
Bassett
Washington, D. .C
Danville
Highlights In History Chronicle
Highlights of notable events across years include George C. Marshall launching the Marshall Plan at Harvard in 1947, Adam Smith born in 1723, Augusta, Georgia captured in 1781, the 1848 Wisconsin Legislature forming, 1917 draft registration over 10.5 million, Tiber crossing in 1944, Dulles warning France and Italy in 1959, Adenauer renouncing a presidency in 1953, desegregation at Ole Miss in 1962, and a Nepal royal visit ending in France with Mahendra and Queen Ratna departing.
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Associated Press
George C. Marshall
Harvard University
Adam Smith
Augusta
Wisconsin
Tiber River
John Foster Dulles
France
Italy
U.S
European Defense Command
Konrad Adenauer
University of Mississippi
Goldwater Sees Narrow Path To Nomination This Year
The piece compares Goldwater’s 500 to 600 delegate hopes with Taft’s 1952 bid and notes possible strategies to hinder him, including a late setup to deny him the convention majority. It recalls Dewey Lodge and Brownell moves that cut Taft’s delegates and warns similar tactics could arise to stop Goldwater, though public sentiment may resist such maneuvers.
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Rockefeller
Taft-Hisenhower
GOP
Goldwater
Taft
Ike
California
Eisenhower
Tom Dewey
Henry Cabot Lodge
Herbert Brownell
Texas
Goodwin A. (Goody) Knight
Barry
Jbeat
Kansas Viet Nam Officer Ralph G. Redmond Identified
Army identifies Lt. Ralph G. Redmond of Topeka Kansas as the officer killed in Vietnam by a land mine explosion. His widow Mrs Willette L Redmond and his mother Mrs Letitia Redmond, both of Topeka, are named.
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Washington
Ralph G. Redmond
Topeka
Kan
Army
Viet Nam
Willette L. Redmond
Letitia Redmond
Afghan premier departs Moscow after Soviet medical care
Moscow Reuters reports Afghan Prime Minister Mohammed Yousuf left the Soviet Union for home Thursday following medical treatment received during his stay in the USSR.
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Moscow
Reuters
Mohammed Yousuf
Afghanistan
Soviet Union
Mansfield Leads Attack Senate Over Cartwheel Silver Dollars
In Washington the Senate readied a poetic clash over silver dollars as Sen. Mike Mansfield led a verse filled assault on the east. He warned Westerners will keep fighting until cartwheel dollars fill pockets and belts.
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Chicago Tribune-Press Service
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Senate Democratic
Mansfield
Treasury Department
Milward Simpson
Wyo
Honduras Missionary Speaker at Lohman church
The Rev. Harold Hurst, a missionary to Honduras, will be guest speaker during morning worship at Memorial Baptist Church. Pastor Rev. Robert E. Werner announced a time change with services moved to 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Harold Hurst
Honduras
Memorial Baptist Church
Robert E. Werner
Bible School Display Scheduled Sunday
An open house is scheduled from 9 15 a m to 10 a m Sunday at St John s Lutheran Church in Lohman for display of Vacation Bible School projects. The annual Bible School was conducted during the week with an attendance of 44 children. Theme of the session was Great Heroes of the New Testament.
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St. John’s Lutheran Church
Lohman
German to Head New NATO Unit
NATO announced a new international strategic planning staff to be headed by West German Maj. Gen. Ernst Ferber. The four deputy directors will come from the United States Italy the Netherlands and France with Italy’s deputy also serving as vice-director. The standing group of the U S Britain and France remains unchanged and staff members will serve in an international capacity.
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Reuters
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Ernst Ferber
Washington
United States
Britain
France
NATO
U.S
Italy
Netherlands
NATO changes broaden participation in planning and policy
An official announcement states that adopted changes will widen involvement by officers from nonstanding group nations in the preparation of NATO military plans and policies, expanding capacity for periods of two to three years.
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NATO
British Blue Streak Rocket Is Launched
ADELAIDE Australia AP After four launch failures in two weeks Britain's Blue Streak rocket rose from the Woomera Range but fell 209 miles short of its 1 000 mile target The 90 ton rocket abandoned as a strategic weapon in 1960 is being developed to supply the first stage of a rocket to send aloft satellites in 1967 or 1968 for the nine nation European Space Research Organization
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Adelaide
Australia
Britain
Woomera
European Space Research Organization
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Ten Mile Drive
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