Officials Embarrassed By Johnston Island Test Flops
US officials faced embarrassment as Johnston Island missile tests failed to detonate a high altitude nuclear device. The Thor missile malfunction halted two sequential tests, with debris landing near Johnston and a nearby Sand Island, while the Soviet press seized on the misfires.
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U.S
Johnston Island
America
Pacific
Soviet Union
Thor
Johnston
Hawaii
Joint Task Force 8
Christmas Island
Missilex
Radio Moscow
Panama and Colombia eyed for new Atlantic Pacific canal
Washington officials say the Kennedy administration plans formal authoriza tion to study sites in Panama and Colombia for a possible new through route to replace the aging Panama Canal. Two potential routes near San Blas and Sabana River would link the Atlantic to the Pacific, with Panama and Colombia identified as the most promising locations.
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State Department
Bejries
Pan-itokl
Kennedy
Panama Canal
Sol
Bindies
Engi
Congressional Auneers
Nicaragua
Augusto Guillermo Arango
Panama
Mexico
Carlos Colombia
Isanz de Santamaria
Con
Colombia
Anama
Gulf of San Blas
Isthmus
Pacific
Sabana River
Gulf of San Miguel
Tees
Singer Marries Columbia Newsman in Double Ring Ceremony
Singer Jane Froman wed Columbia Newsman Rowland H. Smith in a surprise Wednesday ceremony in Columbia Missouri. Smith, assistant managing editor of the Columbian Tribune, has been on the paper’s staff since 1926. Froman, famed for With a Song in My Heart, has recovered from a 1943 Lisbon plane crash during a USO tour.
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Columbia, Mo
Jane Froman
Rowland H. Smith
Miss Froman
Panama
Atralo
Truando
Anna Froman Hetzler
University of the Panama
Missouri
Panama Waterway
Panama Canal
Fearly
Jeff
Paul Whiteman
Smith
The
Columbian Tribune
Daily
Lisbon Harbor
John Curtis Burn
Burn
Donald Ross
Man tops bowls in Newark flower arranging event
John C. Dowling Jr. of Gaffney South Carolina won the national flower art championship at the Sterling Bowl Tournament in Newark New York. He was the sole male finalist among 14 in the festival from 41 states using roses foliage and other materials. Dowling and his wife Mary Whisonant operate a women’s ready wear store and he credits a Spartanburg Clemson Clemson University lecture for sparking his interest.
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Newark
N.Y
Sime
Dowling
Spartanburg
D.C
J. Gregory Conway
State Garden Club Council of
Clemson
Raymond P. Wismer
Cranford
N.J
Roderick Black
North Hollywood
Calif
Mary Whisonant
Embezzling Spinster Wins Essay Prize in Virginia
Miss Minsie Mangum, a Portsmouth embezzler serving a 20 year sentence, ties for a $3 prize in an essay contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Her topic is "Why I'm Glad, I'm a Virginian" as she remains incarcerated in Norfolk.
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Richmond, Va
Minsie Mangum
Portsmouth
United Dat Hvers
Confederacy
Minnie
Norfolk
Joan
Seven Appointed To Advisory Unit
Gov. John M. Dalton named seven men to the revived Governor's Advisory Council on Employment Security. The board, created in 1937 and inactive since 1952, includes Dr. Donald Holm Jr., chair, and six others from education, law, industry, and labor. Members serve without salary but receive expenses. The council advises the division on unemployment, training, and retraining, and may conduct investigations and publish research.
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John M. Dalton
Governor's Advisory Council
Ion Employment Security
Donald 8. Holm Jr
University of Missouri School of Business and Public Administration
Columbia
Carl A. McCandless
Washlington University
St. Louis
John Benjamin Moore
Lindenwood College
St. Charles
Family of Four Hit By Lightning on Hike
An Air Force jet pilot Capt. Conrad Kress, his wife, and their two children were struck by lightning while hiking in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Kress was knocked unconscious and treated for bruises and a shoulder injury. His wife Sheryl, 5, and son Robert, 7, were treated for minor injuries and released.
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Gatlinburg
Tenn
Great Smoky
Four Year Old Averts Mistake by Wrecker in New Jersey
Four year old Donald Rubino spotted a tow truck taking his grandmother’s car. Police stopped the truck after his shout alerted his mother. The driver had misidentified the vehicle but found the correct car nearby.
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Averts
Nutley
Donald Rubino
Donald
Rubino
Cubans Clash Outside New York Meeting Hall
In New York City a few hundred Cubans divided over Fidel Castro fought outside a meeting hall for about three hours. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown but caused no damage. Six men were arrested on unlawful assembly and mischief. One man was stabbed. others were hospitalized with cuts and bruises as anti Castro and pro Castro factions clashed after a Cuban American Civil Rights Committee meeting at Palm Gardens on West 2nd Street.
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New York
Fidel Castro
Castro
Palm Gardens
S2nd Street
Subcommittee Delays Estes Case Hearing
A House subcommittee investigating the Sol Estes case has postponed today's hearing until next week. The delay pauses discussion of the alleged irregularities linked to Estes and the ongoing inquiry process in Washington.
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Subcommittee
Estes
Washington
House
Sillie Sol Estes
Death Log from Missouri Highway Patrol Traffic Deaths
The Missouri Highway Patrol lists 6 traffic deaths in the last 24 hours and 383 for the year to date with one death carried from earlier injuries. No data for the previous year is provided. This summary reflects the ongoing toll on state roads.
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Missouri Highway Patrol
Dancer Sheree North and Dr Gerhart Sommer File Divorce Suits
Los Angeles AP Actress dancer Sheree North and her husband Dr Gerhart R Sommer filed for divorce. North sued January 28 seeking temporary alimony child support and counsel fees. Sommer filed a cross complaint seeking custody of their daughter Erica Eve. They married December 17 1958 in Los Angeles. It was the third marriage for each.
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Los Angeles
Sheree North
Gerhart R. Sommer
Miss North
Dr. Sommer
Erica Eve
California Deputy Dies of Injuries in Crash
Breck M. Harrison, 57, of Martinez California, died in a Columbia hospital from injuries after a pickup he drove overturned on U S 70 near midnight. He held deputy sheriff credentials for Contra Costa County and police said he may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
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Columbia
Breck M. Harrison
Martinez
Calif
U.S. 70
Harrison
Conta Costa County
Michigan Graduates Honor Classmate With Washington Trip
1962 Glen Lake Community High School graduates from Michigan gave $700 to support a classmate with cancer. The group traveled to Washington with a welcome from President Kennedy, a White House tour, and a planned Cabinet-room visit, after earning national praise for their selfless act. The event drew support from senators, representatives, and a local radio station as they departed by train for the capital.
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Washington
Union Station
Kennedy
Air Force
Richardson
Michigan
J .Glen Lake Community High
White House
Wallad
Cetin al
Piany
Melodie Stouder
Duane Richardson
Lower
Bulldozer Operator Interferes With Little League Game
In Albany a bulldozer operator, unpaid for field work, halted a league game Wednesday night by using the machine near second base and lifting a mound toward home plate. Police reported no charges. Officials had agreed to pay $175, but the operator sought $350.
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Var
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