Tremors Rock Turkey and Soviet Armenia
Iran reports severe earthquake effects across borders as Turkey Igdir area suffers structural damage and Yerevan feels aftershocks. Shah tours quake zones. Red Cross officials note wiped out villages and uncertain death toll. US aid movements include 28 C130s with field hospital and medical supplies.
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David Lancashire
Tehran
Iran
Turkey
Soviet
Armenia
Shah
Red Lion
Sun
Red Cross
U.S
Ramstein
Germany
Attorney General Sets Notice Rules For Public Meetings
The Wisconsin attorney general says governmental bodies must notify the press and public of meetings and keep doors open. The La Crosse City Plan Commission faced criticism for a August 21 meeting held with no notice to the school board, administrators, or media. Deputy AG Elliot Walstead calls the failure a secret meeting and urges advance notice to school authorities and parent teacher groups. He cites Sheboygan practice of serving notices to press representatives as a model.
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the Tribune
Attorney General's Office
Plan Commission
Elliot N. Walstead
Walstead
Sheboygan
la Crosse
Levittown School Board adopts prayer substitute exercises
The Levittown School Board approved a four to two plan for opening exercises as an alternative to prayer. The program offers allegiance, Bible recitations, or song and excerpts from documents, despite attorney and state education chief cautions.
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Levittown
N.Y
Leroy van Nostrand
James E. Allen Jr
Allen
U.S. Supreme Court
New York Board of Regents
Khrushchev Aids Cuba With Aging Weapons, Kennedys Says
President Kennedy reports Soviet supplies to Cuba include aging anti aircraft missiles and motor torpedo boats. He notes Nike like T6 missiles with 20 to 25 mile range and radar gear, plus Soviet technicians in Cuba. No evidence of ground to ground missiles or long range bases.
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Kennedy
Cuba
U.S
Castro
Nike
Iraq
Indonesia
Long Strike Seen Dim Prospects for CNW Settlement
Chicago AP. Telegrapher strike against the Chicago and North Western may last weeks or months. Ben W. Heineman, CNW chairman, says the railroad will stay closed as long as necessary. Francis A. ONeill Jr. of the Federal Mediation Board to meet with telegraphers and CNW negotiators as talks stall. Over 1,000 union members began the strike August 30 over job eliminations.
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Chicago
Ben W. Heineman
North Western
Chicago and North Western
Heinemann
Tellegraphers
Cuba Talks of Plenty and Rationing in Parallel
In Havana the Cuban press lauded Soviet military-industrial aid as a path to Socialist plenty while noting a study of rationing shoes and clothes. Industries Minister Ernesto Guevara and armed forces chief Emilio Aragones, after a Moscow visit, said Soviet armament aid and technical specialists were requested and granted. They announced plans for a steel plant and agricultural assistance.
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Havana
Soviet Union
Ernesto Guevara
Emilio Aragones
Armed Forces
Moscow
Tragic 13 Die in Ashland Oil Plane Crash in Ohio
A twin engine Lockheed Lodestar carrying 13 oil executives crashed over Lake Milton near Ravenna Ohio. Witnesses report engine trouble before the aircraft went down one mile east of the farm. No survivors and power lines caused outages after debris scattered across the area. The disaster marks the worst industrial air crash in U.S. history at the time with total fatalities surpassing a 1954 Shreveport event.
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Ravenna
Ohio
William Weimer
Youngstown
Lake Milton
Ashland Oil & Refining Co
Cleveland
Buffalo
Ashland
Shreveport
Continental Oil Co
Marion
Glenn Sickle
Germans Crash Plane Crew Also Among Those Aboard
Frontier Oil executive Clayton Maxwell and four Allied Oil sub sidiary staff were aboard the downed plane near Buffalo. Ashland officials and others from Ashland Oil and Allied Oil groups were identified among the travelers, along with John Drennan and James Goff. Chief pilot Blaine Berkstresser and copilot Ronald Roberts were on the trip.
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Frontier Oil &Co
Buffalo
Clayton G. Maxwell
Frontier
New
Ton A. Bricka
James A. Mahan Jr
James Whittaker
Exonter
Joseph A. Collins
Ashland Oil Co
Allied Oil of
Cleveland
Jay P. Alexander
Allied Oil
Robert Wulff
Wayne T. Wiggins
W. H. Parr
Allied
Ashtabula
Ohio
John W. Drennan
Ashland
James Goff
Blaine Berkstresser
Ronald Roberts
Richard McKenzie
Salt Lake City Quake Causes Building Damage
A strong Salt Lake City earthquake damaged buildings and caused wall cracks in offices and schools. No injuries were reported though several people suffered heart attacks during the tremor. The quake, centered in the Salt Lake Valley, followed a prior event in northern Utah with up to 1 million dollars in damage.
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Utah
Logan
Richmond
Lewistown
Salt Lake Valley
The
Capitol
South High School
California Institute of Technology
Great Salt Lake
Johnson Meets Fanfani in Rome Talks on Signuation Tour
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson held talks with Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani in Rome as the final round of major conversations on his international tour began.
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Rome
Lyndon B. Johnson
Amintore Fanfani
Unknown Objects Seen In Northern Wisconsin Skies
In the early hours, deputy sheriff Stanley Kukanich and Eagle River officers reported about 24 unidentified objects streaking west to east across an 80 mile wide area of northern Wisconsin. Astronomer Edward Halbach linked the sightings to Sputnik Four re-entry, noting hope some debris survived for recovery.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Seehof
Teltow
Wisconsin
Eagle River
Milwaukee
Edward Halbach
Milwaukee Astronomical Society
Halbach
Vilas County
Stanley Ku
Kukanich
Louis Cook
Three Lakes
Tomahawk
Merrill
Miss Wisconsin explodes at Miss America talk rule
Joan Mary Enghe of La Crosse, Wisconsin blasts a Miss America pageant rule forbidding contestants from talking with men unless a hostess is present. She says she never did it before and finds it terrible. The incident occurs during Atlantic City events.
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Atlantic City
Joan Mary Enghe
la Crosse
Wis
LeMay Foresees Focused Energy Weapons
Air Force chief Gen Curtis LeMay predicts a future with focused energy weapons that could travel at light speed across space to intercept missiles and decoys. He writes in Air Force magazine that such weaponry could neutralize an aggressor’s intercontinental missiles and render current warfare obsolete.
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Washington
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
Air Force Magazine
LeMay
Creel Dies After Staircase Fall At Home
Edward J. Creel aged 50 died at General Hospital a day after a fall at his residence 2809 36th Ave South. He was injured Tuesday night when he tumbled down a flight of stairs.
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Minneapolis
Edward J. Creel
General Hospital
36Th Ave. S
Kennedy warns US will act to halt Cuban arms flow
President Kennedy said the United States will use whatever means are necessary to stop Cuba from turning Soviet arms toward the Western Hemisphere. He cited shipments of missiles torpedo boats and 3500 Soviet technicians, while noting no organized Cuban combat force or wide offensive buildup. Page 6 Cuba report.
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Kennedy
United States
Cuba
Western Hemisphere
Soviet Union
White House
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Angel Gonzalez
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