Atlas Launch Delivers Longest US Rocket Flight To Cape Canaveral
An Atlas missile, weighing over 100 tons and 85 feet tall, vaulted skyward from Cape Canaveral tracing an 9 050 mile path toward the Indian Ocean. After 53 minutes, guidance confirmed correct course but engine shutoff near 1 000 miles southeast of Town, South Africa.
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Indian Ocean
Atlas
Brazil
Union of Cape Canaveral
South Africa
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Familiar doorway puzzle from Kingsport Times News
A Kingsport Times News feature presents a doorway photographed from an unusual angle. The item challenges readers to identify the location, noting many in the office misidentify it. Check the bottom of the column for the answer.
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Kingsport
Times-News
Dedication Set For Wilcox Hall in Kingsport
Wilcox Hall the new Kingsport nursing home will be formally dedicated on July 23 with speeches by state and local officials. Built with federal and local funds at about 864000 dollars, it is linked to Holston Valley Community Hospital to provide meals and services. It will have 50 beds for residents not sick enough for hospitalization but needing nursing care. Rental is eight dollars daily for semiprivate rooms and ten dollars for private. Dedication will include brief addresses and open house for the public at 2:30 p.m.
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Wilcox Hall
Kingsport
T. M. Divine
Halston Valley Community Hospital
Divine
Perley Wilcox
Eastman
Kodak
Tennessee Eastman
Holston Valley Community Hospital
R. H. Hutcheson
Southeastern Aviation Sold to John B Roberts
The sale of Southeastern Aviation, Inc. to John B. Roberts, former vice president, is announced. Roberts plans executive air transportation services including leasing, selling, operating aircraft with flight crews and maintenance, plus repair, storage, and sales of parts. The firm will staff key personnel and operate from Tri City Airport with 16 employees and room for growth.
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Clifford Sanders
Reds Push for Kuwait Troop Withdrawal at UN
The Soviet Union seeks a Security Council deadline for Britain to withdraw troops from Kuwait. Moscow will amend a British resolution to guarantee Kuwait independence and reject any indefinite British presence. Kuwait’s education director urged withdrawal after the UN affirms independence, rejects Iraqi claims, and admits Kuwait to UN membership.
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Britain
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Persian Gulf
Sheik Abdullah as-Salin as-Sabah
Traq
Sheik Abdullah
Abdel Aziz Hussein
Sheik
Council
City Chosen To Help Improve Mail Service
Kingsport named among 300 cities to pilot Nationwide Improved Mail Service. Postmaster Duncan announced a luncheon July 19 to form a Kingsport Mailers Council. The program aims to speed first class mail by shifting nonpriority mail from after 4 p.m. deposits to next day delivery, with anticipated immediate gains in city deliveries and out-of-town connections.
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Kingsport
Thomas L. Donscan
Uncan
Kingsport Mailers’ Council
Duncan
Coopera
Buffalo
N.Y
Ann
Ashley
Delaware Park
Memphis
Atlanta
Chevyl Jolls
Po Duncan
Frank N. Felnat
Ielta
Samuel
Susan Benedict
Leco
Ender
Iborhood
South Africa Prepares For Possible Revolt Across Border
South Africa has moved troops and air and sea forces into South West Africa to guard against potential black revolt or invasion from Angola. The government bars UN access to investigate racial discrimination, while UN investigators tour Africa to interview refugees. South Africa calls the matter domestic and ready to arrest any crossing committee members. The frontier with Angola remains the immediate concern as authorities target gun running and terrorist activity.
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Richard Kasischke
Johannesburg
South Africa
South West Africa
Angola
South West
League of Nations
United Nations
Africa
South Atlantic
Indian Ocean
James Q. Fouche
Britain
Portuguese Angola
Debate Set On Growing Bitterness Of Chinese
UPI reports Washington preparing a series of consultations on Nationalist China s growing bitterness toward U S Far East policy moves. Everett Drumright to arrive for talks with Secretary of State. possible involvement of Dean Rusk. Officials consider a formula to give Reds UN membership on terms they would reject, while State Dept opposes Red China entry.
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UPI
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United States
Far East
U.S
Everett Drumright
USS
Red
Dean Rusk
Mula
Kennedy
United Nations
Chiang Kai - Shek
Er Mongolia
Chiang Efainm
U.N
Reds
Chiang
State Department
Lincoln White
General Assembly
White
Moscow
Outer Mongolia
United Staes
Russia
Maucelonia
Mongolia
New Threat Faces Berlin
East Berlin authorities ordered residents to seek permission to work in West Berlin. The government accused workers there of aiding Western capitalists seeking to sabotage the East’s economy and spark conflict, signaling possible closure of the border that currently allows thousands to flee weekly.
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Berlin
UPI
Soviets Reject Ban Proposals in New Note
MOSCOW UPI The Soviet Union rejected United States proposals for a nuclear test ban and pressed to merge talks into a general disarmament conference. Andrei Gromyko handed Ambassador Lewis Thompson a note reaffirming Khrushchev’s troika principle, accusing the U S of seeking tests and loopholes while seeking an executive body with equal rights for Western, Communist, and Neutral states.
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UPI
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United States
Veda
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U. S
Liewllyn Thompson
Kennedy
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Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Vienna
Judge To Rule On Extension Of Strike Ban
A federal judge in New York holds a hearing to decide whether to extend the Taft-Hartley cooling off period in the nationwide maritime strike dispute. Judge Sylvester Ryan considers permanent injunctions to maintain the current ban if safety and health concerns persist.
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UPS
Sylvester Ryan
Ryan
U. S
Mawaii
Most City Teachers To Return Next Year
Almost all Ks 1960-61 school teachers plan to return next fall. A City Board report shows only 7 percent not returning, with higher salaries and weaker unemployment cited as factors. Details list departures for marriage motherhood full time homemaking transfers ill health and training. Overall turnover compares to past years and remains within average 10 to 20 percent.
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City Board of Education
Dana F. Swick
Tenneste
Swick
Weather Outlook for Kingsport and Vicinity
Weather story reports cloudy conditions with scattered rain and isolated thunderstorms, possible mild temperatures around 61. Saturday forecasts show partly cloudy skies with lingering thundershowers in the afternoon. Sunday looks fair and mild with a high near 82 and a low around 61.
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Kingsport
Street Scenes and Quiet Debate Across Virginia Streets
Rain pours as a man on East Sevier Avenue struggles with his convertible roof. Two elderly men on Broad Street argue heatedly about the Virginia primary. A pair of teenagers, sleepy and bundled, head home after a night in a yard, yawning and rubbing eyes.
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Broad Street
Virginia
Earth Yard
Hope Fading For Teenage Kidnap Victim In Utah Canyons
UPI reports Southern Utah canyons and Colorado River are prime search zones for Denis Sullivan, a 15 year old Connecticut girl believed abducted after her mother was killed. Sheriff Stocks says her survival chances are near zero as authorities scour dirt roads, river, and remote areas by jeep, plane, and boat. The FBI joined the probe after dark in Rockville, Connecticut, identifying the killer as a 40 year old suspect with a dark complexion. Charles Boothroyd, 55, of Rockville, was wounded when the suspect misled the victims to stop.
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Utah
UPI
Colorado
John Stocks
Denis Sullivan
FBI
Sian
Jeanette Sullivan
Rockville
Conn
Dead Horse Point
Info
Charles Boothroyd
Soviet trawlers mapped New England coast top officer says
Vice Admiral John T. Hayward states Soviet trawlers and a submarine are mapping the New England coast in detail. He notes a Boston harbor visit by a Russian trawler with two sick men aboard may be related to such work and warns it is hard for the United States to counter these operations in international waters. A separate note from Halifax reports a Russian fishing trawler altering course off Nova Scotia, retrieving a submarine-detection buoy, then vanishing as Canadian navy tracked sonobuoys about 100 miles offshore.
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United States
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Berlin
Britain
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Kennedy
Vienna
Landen
Paris
Honn
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Ber-lin
East Germany
Russia
Dean Rusk
Boston
UPI
New England
John T. Hayward
Long Beach
Halifax
N.S
Pentagon Leaks Probe Nears Conclusion
Washington FBI finished the probe into alleged military leak disclosures at the Pentagon. The White House had asked the FBI to investigate the source of articles troubling President Kennedy. Newsweek reports Hutchins and others tied to a Kingsport case regarding a 12 year old girl.
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FOE
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White House
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Virginia
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Cincinnati
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