Triple Funeral Rites Held Today For Bomb Victims
Birmingham Alabama AP reports three funeral rites today for victims of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing as national leaders join in mourning for Denise McNair 11 Addie Mae Collins 14 and Cynthia Wesley 14. Carole Rosamond Robertson 14 was laid to rest Tuesday. Leaders urge Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation anniversary as a day of mourning and dedication to equality.
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Birmingham
Ala
Carole Rosamond Robertson
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Congress
Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Congress of Racial Equality In
New York
Washington
Wilkins
NAACP
Martin Luther King Jr
Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Bayard Austin
Washington March
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Alabama Christian Movement For Human Rights
Alabama
Our Fair State
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Carole
Burke Marshall
Robert F. Kennedy
Michael Lee Farley
Larry Joe Sims
Virgil Ware
Melvin Bailey
Shuttlesworth
George C. Wallace
Tuskegee High
Macon County
Tough Civil Rights Bill Taking Shape
In Washington the House Civil Rights subcommittee drafts a strong measure stronger in parts than Kennedy’s seven part proposal. Key decision looms on public accommodations ban amid Republican opposition while four provisions gain tentative approval. A separate fair employment practices provision may be added as an amendment.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
Algeria Nationalizes Three Private Newspapers
President Ahmed Ben Bella ordered the takeover of the three privately owned Algerian newspapers, all French-owned, in line with promised nationalization. He told the FLN that privilege would be destroyed by 1964 and that millions in foreign bank funds would be seized and redistributed to the poor.
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Algiers
Ahmed Ben Bella
Algeria
Ben Bella
National Liberation Front
FLN
GE Conneaut plant to expand with $1 million project
GE will expand its Conneaut Ohio plant with a $1 million project to raise employment from 180 to 210. The enhancement will add automated production for Christmas lights. Glass tubing for bulbs will be produced at GE's Logan Glass Plant.
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Conneaut, Ohio
General Electric Co
L. A. Ebert
Conneaut
Logan Glass
New Sale Plan For Grid Tickets Announced Today
Logan High School unveils a new ticket plan for home football games starting Friday with the Wellston game. Tickets will be sold at the east athletic gate and the vocational agriculture building entrance, replacing the former booth under the press box.
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Logan High School
Wellston
LHS
Harley Ellinger
Vocational Agriculture Building
Senator Miller backs test ban pact amid senate debate
Sen. Jack Miller the 81st senator to indicate approval for the limited nuclear test ban treaty saying the risks are acceptable and that a moral effort for peace with the Soviet Union justifies pursuit. Debate and possible floor fight continue as others oppose or remain uncommitted with ratification needing two thirds.
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Washington
Jack Miller
Iowa
Senate
Associated Press
Miller
Soviet Union
Carl T. Curtis
R-Neb
Curtis
Sens
Sam J. Ervin Jr
D-N.c
Alan Bible
McCloy to Receive Honorary Doctorate at Wilmington College
Wilmington College will award John J. McCloy an honorary Doctor of Laws at the upcoming honors convocation. McCloy is a former U.S. High Commissioner to Germany and former president of the World Bank.
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Wilmington, Ohio
Wilmington College
John J. McCloy
U.S
Germany
The
World Bank
Mystery infant killer strikes two U S areas
AP reports an unexplained epidemic of spinal bifida in Vermont and Atlanta. In Montpelier six weeks yielded three cases, then a fourth in six months, with 21 total Vermont cases and 10 survivors. Atlanta saw 16 cases between August and October 1962, with only two survivors.
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Washington
United States
Vermont
Atlanta
Montpelier
Jerold F. Lucye
University of Vermont
Burlington
U.S. Public Health Service
Trains Hit Bus Carrying Farm Workers Near Salinas
A freight train struck a makeshift bus carrying Mexican farm laborers near Chualar eight miles south of Salinas killing 28 and injuring 35. The workers had been returning from a celery field to a labor camp. The driver said he did not hear the train before impact as the locomotive horn blew.
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Salinas
Calif
California
Chualar
Tony Vasquez
Vasquez
California Highway Patrol
Christopher Hill Jr
Earl Meyers Co
San
Highway Patrol
Espinosa
Bob McVay
King City
City Commission To Hear Ousted Fireman Appeal
The Logan civil service commission will hear the appeal of Ralph Courter who was dismissed as assistant fire chief by Service Director Richard Donahey on Aug. 14. The hearing is set for 7:30 p.m. at City Hall with Courter seeking pension benefits and possible further action in common pleas court if overturned.
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Richard Donahey
Ralph Courter
Logan Civil Service Commission
City Hall
Courter
Donahey
Department
Firemen’s Pension Board
Common Pleas Court
First American winged space craft tests begin at Cape Canaveral
The first winged space payload, part of Air Force Asset tests, flew a 20 minute mission at 35 miles altitude over a 9 000 mph ballistic path. It splashed down 1 000 miles east of Cape Canaveral as radio signals confirmed successful flight. The $34 million program aims to study re entry heat and material endurance for future maneuverable manned spacecraft capable of selecting landing zones and landing like an airplane.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Air Force
Colombian Guerrilla Chief Killed In Hideout
Colombian guerrilla leader Roberto Gonzalez Prieto, who boasted of organizing peasants as Castro-type fighters, was killed with one associate in a mountain hideout in west-central Colombia. Two other gangsters were captured after troops, guided by informers, closed in.
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Bogota
Colombia
Roberto Gonzalez Prieto
Prieto
Cuba
Khrushchev Criticizes Farmers and Officials Over Fertilizer_use
Soviet Premier Khrushchev blasted farmers for inefficiency and denounced officials exporting mineral fertilizers. He argued it would be cheaper to keep fertilizer in the soil and cited a Canada wheat deal worth 500 million dollars as context for agricultural failures.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Volgograd
Stalingrad
Canada
Soviet Union
Intimate Conferences With Allies Assured
Dayton based AP summary notes state department official Rostow says the United States will consult allies in greatest intimacy before further U S Soviet talks. He urges NATO partners to work with equal intimacy to explore gradual steps toward a more peaceful world.
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Dayton
Ohio
State Department
United States
NATO
Walter W. Rostow
Kennedy Urges $11 Billion Tax Cut Amid Senate Hurdles
President Kennedy to address the nation night to build support for an $11 billion income tax reduction with a House vote pending and strong Senate opposition over civil rights. Republicans demand spending controls as floor procedures are set and lawmakers seek tying limits to the bill.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Senate
Congress
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
House Rules Committee
Weather Outlook for Ohio Maintains Fair Conditions
Official Weather Bureau summary notes a stationary high pressure area over Ohio sustaining fair weather through Tuesday night. A continuation of stable conditions is expected as the system remains nearly stationary over the region.
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Columbus, Ohio
Official Weather Bureau
Ohio
Fair mild weather forecast for Hocking Valley through Thursday
A five day forecast shows fair conditions with highs in the 80s in Ohio and little change through Thursday. Tuesday’s high reached 84 and the low 42 with 80 degrees at 11 am. Heavy ground fog reduced morning visibility across much of the state.
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Hocking Valley
Ohio
Jackson Plastic Firm Plans $390,000 Expansion
Officials of the Jackson Corp. and the Jackson Community Improvement Corp. announced a $390,000 plant expansion in Jackson Ohio expected to create about 100 new jobs. An application was made for a $350,000 loan from the Ohio Department of Development's Development Finance Committee. Remainder would be borrowed locally.
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Jackson, Ohio
Jackson Corp
Jackson Community Improvement Corp
Cindy Dumps Record Rainfall Across Southeast Texas
Hurricane Cindy stalled over Beaumont area bringing 22.76 inches in Deweyville and widespread floods. Some 3,600 residents fled homes in Texas and 10,000 were warned in Louisiana as 80 mph winds diminished and rescue trucks moved people to safety.
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Beaumont
Tex
Texas
Texas Gulf Coast
Houston
Deweyville
Orange
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
Beaumont Sone Annes Aheach
Air Force
Green Acres
Fannett
Port Arthur
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Orange County
J. Cullen Browning
Orange Leader
Pat Wortman
Cindy
City Grants Approval for Third Logan Improvement Project
Service Director Richard Donahey announced official notification of the third of five Accelerated Public Works grants from the Housing and Home Finance Agency for Logan improvements. The $33,000 federal grant funds grading drainage and paving on James Road Arlington Avenue and Norwood Avenue south of Front Street with total project cost estimated at $66,000. Solicitor James Stilwell outlined upcoming legislation to authorize hiring an engineer and begin final plans before the council proceeds with standard procedures for securing construction. Grant offers from the federal agency are pending and projects must begin construction within 120 days of offer receipt.
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Richard Donahey
Logan
Housing & Home Finance Agency
James Rd
Arlington Ave
Norwood Ave
Front St
James Stilwell
Y R . Day
Stilwell
Council
Judge Suspends Yarber's License for One Year
Judge Harley Meyer suspended William Henry Yarber's driver's license for one year under the traffic point penalty law. Yarber, 42, of Logan Route 3, accrued 15 points in nine months, exceeding the 12-point two-year limit. He has two drunken driving convictions totaling six points and one reckless operation conviction for three points.
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Harley Meyer
William Henry Yarber
Logan Rt. 3
Yarber
Ohio
Indonesians Sack British Embassy In Malaysian Fuss
Indonesian demonstrators riot against the creation of Malaysia looting and setting fire to the British Embassy in Jakarta. Fire damages the three story chancery while troops move in to quell the violence as anti British sentiment rises across the region.
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Malaysian
Jakarta
Indonesia
Malaysia
Federation
Britain
U.S
Howard P. Jones
Jones
Chancery
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