Soviet Launch Carries Two Dogs Into Space Orbit
Moscow announced a five ton space ship carrying dogs Strelka and Belka plus other animals into a 320 kilometer orbit. The mission tests life support and return procedures with television reports planned. Laika's earlier flight is noted as a one way mission.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Strelka
Earth
Francis Gary Powers
Sovet
Tass
U.S.S.R
Ohio Weather Outlook Skies Turn Cloudy at Sunrise
Official Weather Bureau summary reports Ohio skies mostly fair Thursday night with increasing cloudiness toward sunrise. By sunrise the state was hazy overall.
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Columbus, Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Ohio
Heat continues with 92 degree high and warm forecast
The Hocking Valley logged a 92 degree high at 2 p.m. Thursday and a 57 degree low last night. By 10 a.m. today the temperature was 83 degrees, dropping to 82 within the following hour. Forecast calls for mostly fair warm weather with possible thunderstorms tonight and Saturday.
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Hocking Valley
Mercury
Ohio Fog Shuts Visibility Along Riverine Corridor
Heavy fog along the Ohio River reduced visibility to under a mile in many sections. Early temperatures ranged from 61 in Cleveland and Bellaire to 67 in Columbus and 70 in Cincinnati, with a forecast of fair warm weather across Ohio and scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday as a cold front nears from the west.
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Ohio River
Cleveland
Bellaire
Columbus
Cincinnati
Ohio
FDR's Son Hanged in Effigy at Texas Protest
Demonstrators outside the Shamrock Hilton Hotel hanged Rep. James Roosevelt in effigy as he urged abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Roosevelt spoke at a luncheon for National Congress of Petroleum Retailers delegates.
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Houston
Tex
James Roosevelt
Calif
House Un-American Activities Committee
Shamrock Hilton
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Congress of Petroleum Retailers
Kennedy Minimum Pay Bill Clears Senate Narrowly
The Senate approved the Kennedy minimum wage bill 62 to 34 with major provisions intact and sent it to the House. Kennedy heads seven conferees as he seeks to extend coverage to about four million workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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Washington
Senate
House
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Sen
A. S
Mike Monroney
D- Okla
Ohio
Stephen M. Young
Frank J. Lausche
Compromise Sought In Latin Crisis
In San Jose a meeting of Inter-American Foreign Ministers seeks a compromise formula to pressure the Dominican Republic toward democracy. Debates involve sanctions, an observation committee, and a plan to approve then suspend sanctions pending free elections under Trujillo rule.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference
Dominican Republic
Western Hemisphere
Cuba
United States
Venezuela
Caribbean
Rafael L. Trujillo
Wayne Ball Re-Elected ASC Chairman in Hocking County
Wayne Ball of Falls Two was re-elected chairman of the Hocking County Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Committee at the county convention. ASC delegates named Raymond R. Bailey Laurel Two vice chairman, Robert Daubenmier Marion Two regular member, L Gene Bailey Green Two first alternate, and Ralph J. Cherry Washington Two second alternate. The committee will administer ASC programs for the coming year. Delegates to the convention and township committees were elected by mail ballots.
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Wayne Ball
Falls
Hocking County
Quake Shakes Italian Town Rieti
An earthquake struck Rieti and surrounding areas in Italy today driving many residents into the streets. Rieti sits about 50 miles northeast of Rome.
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Rieti
Italy
Rome
Space Capsule Midair Catch Slated Today
Air Force Flying Boxcars depart Hawaii to attempt an aerial recovery of the Discoverer XIV capsule over Hawaiian waters. The capsule, circling Earth every 94 minutes, is to slow with forward rockets and descend by parachute. no living occupants aboard.
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Vanderbert Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Hawaiian
Globe
Hawaii
Navy
North Pole
18 Year Old on Crutches Escapes Police
Charles Durrett an 18 year old patient at Hocking Valley Hospital escaped from a room between midnight and 4 a.m. using a fire escape taking $3, a pack of cigarettes a lighter and hospital crutches. He rode a stolen motorbike and faces charges if recaptured.
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Gordon
Durret
Durrett
Antarctica Fire Kills 8 Scientists
A fire at the Soviet Mirny base in Antarctica on August 3 killed eight scientists including six Russians one Czech and one German. The disaster was reported to the U S National Science Foundation via the McMurdo Sound base. Gilbert Dewart of Cloverdale California is an American attached to the Mirny group for cooperative studies.
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Washington
Antarctica
National Science Foundation
U.S
McMurdo Sound
Mirny
Gilbert Dewart
Cloverdale
Calif
Eight Die in Colorado Car Truck Crash Near Alamosa
Eight people die in a late night collision near Alamosa Colorado including Audrey Eileen Cole of Grants New Mexico and Harriett Charlene Martin age 20 also of Grants plus six unidentified children under ten.
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Alamosa
Colo
Colorado
State Highway Patrol
Audrey Eileen Cole
Grants
N. M
Harriett Charlene Martin
Congo Chief Claims UN Aide Tries Blackmail Over Congo Crisis
Premier Patrice Lumumba accuses UN Secretary General Hammarskjold of blackmail over troop commitments. He challenges a note Bunche delivered, while Hammarskjold convenes a four-nation meeting to prevent Congo’s collapse. Security Council convenes amid airport clashes and emergent Congo policy.
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Associated Press
Patrice Lumumba
Congo
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
Lumumba
Hammarskjold
Ralph J. Bunche
Lepoldville
New York
U.N Security Council
Special Security Council
London
Zumumba
Leopoldville
U.N
New
African Republic
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Harold Beeley
Armand Berard
Soviet Union
Council
Earth People’s Casualties Mount
A casualty report from the space age notes Mrs. Donald Newton of Nelsonville sprained her wrist after falling on her lawn while watching Echo I overhead. She was treated at Mount St. Mary Hospital Emergency Room.
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Donald Newton
Nelsonville
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Grand Petit Jurors To Be Drawn Aug 27
Judge Harley Meyer ordered a drawing of grand and petit jurors for the September term of Hocking County Common Pleas Court at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 27. The first 15 names will form the grand jury and 35 others will serve as petit jurors.
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Harley Meyer
Hocking County Common Pleas Court
Britain Born Prisoner Hanged in Kenya for Murder
Kenya hanged Peter Richard Poole a 29 year old Briton the first white man executed in the colony for killing a Negro. The execution occurred Thursday night in Nairobi AP reports.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Peter Richard Poole
Eisenhower regrets Powers sentence in U2 case
President Eisenhower expresses regrets over the severity of the Soviet sentence against U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and states the U.S. will keep interest in the case. White House notes he and Secretary of State will not drop concern as Moscow trial closes.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Francis Gary Powers
White House
Powers
U.S
James C. Hagerty
United States
Moscow
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
Spunky Firman Still Evades Police In Ohio Chase
Desperado Gordon Spunky Firman remains in hiding after escaping Coshocton County jail on July 26. Police chased a black car believed to be his near the Jefferson Harrison line, but he eluded capture. Firman, 21, has been linked to car thefts abductions and burglaries while boasting they won’t take him alive.
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Steubenville
Firman
Ohio
Coshocton
Coshoet
Robert Johnson
Dillonvale
Here
Jefferson County
Johnson
Three year prison term for U2 spy Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers was sentenced by a Soviet military court to ten years for espionage but the sentence was commuted to three years in prison with the rest as deprivation of liberty. The case draws tense Cold War context as Powers faces possible exile or transfer after serving the term.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
Powers
Roman A. Rudenko
Mikhail I. Grimov
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Eisenhower
Victor Borisoglebsky
Oliver Powers
Barbara
Mikhail 1. Grimov
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Grimov
Washington
U.S
Gov
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