Family of 12 Dead in Fire in Clarksville Tennessee
A pre dawn fire at a five room log cabin in Clarksville Tennessee killed 12 in the Alex Whitehead family including nine children and the couple 31 and 29. Neighbors saw flames late and authorities recovered nine or ten bodies from the ruins. Next of kin identified the victims as Alex Whitehead 31 Dorothy 29 and their children Jane 13 Roger 12 James 11 Patricia 10 Diane 9 Carolyn 8 Sarah 4 Wayne 3 Johnny 9 months and Albert Gibbs 61 Mrs Whiteheads father. The cause is under investigation and no foul play is suspected.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Kenneth Albright
Hoon
Alex Whitehead
Dorothy
Jane
Roger
James
Patricia
Diane
Carolyn
Sarah
Wayne
Johnny
Whitehead
Albert Gibbs
Hughes Whitehead
Charlie Satterfield
New Providence Fire Company
Meacham Cathon
W. F. Dailey
Weather cools with near normal temperatures this week
Temperatures stay in the 30s and 40s through Wednesday with a colder night’s low around 25 to 32 degrees. Wednesday highs should reach 35 to 42 with partial clouds tonight and tomorrow. Readings at Southport park 39, downtown 44, and 45 at American Motors plant with a Southport low of 36 and yesterday’s high 65. Rainfall totaled six hundredths of an inch Monday. Sunrise 5 41, sunset 6 12.
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West Side
American Motors
Southport
Students Boycott Classes At Bowling Green State Univ
About 300 students staged a daytime protest on the Bowling Green campus with banners urging freedom. The action was part of a larger two day demonstration by roughly 2,000 students roaming downtown and targeting university rules on alcohol handholding and goodnight kisses outside dorms.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Red Leaders Hold Meeting at Summit
Warsaw Pact leaders met with defense and foreign ministers in a summit level conference held under secrecy. Laos and Germany were believed to be on the agenda while top officials arrived from the Soviet Union Poland East Germany Bulgaria and Hungary. Albania sent its defense minister and observers from Communist China North Korea and Outer Mongolia attended.
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Laos
Germany
Soviet Union
Poland
East Germany
Bulgaria
Hungary
Albania
Kremlin
China
North Korea
Outer Mongolia
Kickapoo Flood Crest Passes After Rising Peak
Flood waters from the Kickapoo River in southwest Wisconsin began to fall after 4 a.m. as Vernon and Crawford counties remained disaster areas. Gays Mills Soldiers Grove Viola and Readstown were hardest hit with about two feet of water flowing through streets. Crests lagged about four feet below the 1951 record.
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Wis
Wisconsin
U.S. Weather Bureau
Vernon
Crawford
Gaylord Nelson
la Crosse
Gays Mills
Viola
Readstown
Vernon County
LaFarge
Ontario
Crawford County
Bruce Hutchins
Kennedy seeks cease fire path in Laos amid budget push
President Kennedy and Congressional leaders meet amid hopes for a Laos cease fire and neutralization of the Communist threat. Rayburn and Mansfield report a hopeful mood as Gromyko signals a possible Khrushchev reply in a few days while SEATO outlines plans in Bangkok.
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House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
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D-Mont
Mansfield
Rayburn
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Russia
Gromyko
Moscow
United States
U.S
Dean Rusk
Free World
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Bangkok
Thailand
Dr R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff found guilty
A third jury in Los Angeles found Dr R Bernard Finch 43 and his mistress Carole Tregoff 24 guilty of first and second degree murder in the July 18 1959 shooting of Finch's wife Barbara Jean Finch 35. They were also convicted of conspiracy to murder. The death penalty will be sought for both defendants.
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R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Finch
Barbara Jean Finch
West Covina
Carole
California
Clifford Crail
Superior Court
David Coleman
Crail
Maxwell S. Keith
Donald S. Bringgold
Kennedy seeks nearly two billion to boost Polaris and Minuteman programs
President Kennedy asked Congress to increase defense outlays by about 1.95 billion, expanding the Polaris submarine fleet by 50 percent and funding greater Minuteman missile activity. The plan also adds funds for Skybolt missiles, continental defense, and manpower, while cutting some Titan, B70, and railway-car Minuteman initiatives.
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Skybolt
State of the Union
Chinese Foreign Minister Chenyi Opens Talks in Jakarta
Jakarta notes arrival of Chenyi of Communist China for talks with Indonesian officials on bilateral relations and regional issues.
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Indonesia
Chenyi
China
White House Phone Fascinates Caroline at Palm Beach
Caroline Kennedy 3 visits Palm Beach with family for Easter. She uses long distance calls to Grandpa Joseph P. Kennedy and briefly chats with President Kennedy on the White House line. The scene includes her Welsh terrier Charlie and cousins Bobby and David Kennedy.
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John
Joseph P. Kennedy
West Palm Beach Internation
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Bobby
David
Robert Kennedy
Charlie
Jacqueline Kennedy
Palm Beach
Middleburg
Hunt County
Glenora
Kennedy
England
Grandpa
Nelson inspects flood areas in southwestern Wisconsin
In Madison Gov Gaylord Nelson flies on a National Guard twin engine plane to survey flood struck regions of southwestern Wisconsin. In Washington the Republican National Committee accuses President Kennedy of submitting a dishonest budget to Congress last Friday. In Madison another bill seeks higher out of state UW tuition setting minimum at 600 dollars annually, up from 200. In Fort Pierce Florida prosecutors rest murder case of Joseph Peel Jr and Floyd Holzapfel is described as brothers with trial to reach jury Thursday after closing arguments.
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Gaylord Nelson
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Wisconsin
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The
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Congress
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Assembly
Fort Pierce
Fla
Joseph A. Peel Jr
Peel
Chillingworth
Floyd
Lucky) Holzapfel
St. Lucie County
D. C. Smith
Embassy riot in Lisbon shocks U.S. mission guards
Police guarded the U S embassy in Lisbon through the night as a Portuguese mob estimated at 15 000 to 20 000 protested U S support for Angola inquiries. Stones smashed windows walls stained with ink and anti American slogans were raised but no injuries were reported in one of Lisbon’s most violent recent demonstrations.
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UPI
U.S
United States
Angola
Laos Premier Foresees Soviet Acceptance With Modifications
Paris report quotes Prince Souvanna Phouma predicting the Soviet Union will accept Britain's cease fire plan for Laos with some slight modifications. The prediction reflects ongoing Western mediation efforts as regional tensions persist.
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Souvanna Phouma
Laos
Soviet Union
Britain
Mme Chiang Kai-shek Observes 60th Birthday
Taipei Formosa Mme Chiang Kai-shek marks her sixtieth birthday as local papers withhold the age in their reports. The event draws attention to the first lady’s public presence amid ongoing political life in Formosa.
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Taipei
Formosa
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
Glasgow Woman Charged After Five Children Thrown From Window
Jean Barclay Waddell a 37 year old spinster is charged with pushing five children from a fourth floor Glasgow apartment. One child Marjorie Hughes aged 4 died on the sidewalk and others were hospitalized. Waddell remanded to higher court amid witness accounts of the horror.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Jean Barclay Waddell
Miss Waddell
James Languir
Marjorie Hughes
Gorbals
Frank Lennon
Margaret
Thomas Devenny
Daniel McNeill
Sevastopol to Open to Foreign Tourists
Informants said Sevastopol the Black Sea fortress city will soon welcome foreign visitors. The port city had been closed to outsiders since World War II, with Soviet citizens gaining unrestrained access only last year.
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Black Sea
Sevastopol
Soviet Union
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