Tornado Outbreak Rips Through Illinois Indiana and Nearby Areas
Tornadoes cut a path across Illinois and Indiana destroying farm buildings and damaging infrastructure. Towns hit include Sadorus Philo Iliopolis Cerro Gordo Tuscola Niantic Hopeston Hammond Argenta Newman and Decatur area shelters report multiple injuries and hospitalizations.
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Lafayette
Ind
Ilinois
Sadorus
Chrissman
Pesteum
Philo
Iliopolis
Cerro Gordo
Tuscola
Niantic
Hopeston
Hammond
Argenta
Newman
Illiopolis
St. Mary’s
Decatur
Macon
Monticello
Cliopolis
Hoop
Tornadoes Slug Texas Illinois and Spur City Damages
A series of tornadoes tore through Cerro Gordo Argenta Newman and surrounding areas causing collapsed homes damaged farms and downed lines. Injuries were reported with hospitals moving staff to duty as crews assess extensive damage along U S 36. Temperatures plummeted elsewhere with frost warnings and forecasts of showers and cooler air across Texas and the Panhandle.
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Tulliopolis
Springfield
Ill
Tuscola
Newman
Crissman
U.S
Tuscola Hospital
T. G. McCullough
Duck Hill
Miss
Sheriff's Office
Bud Perkins
Cerro Gordo
Perkins
Argenta
Texas
Laredo
Junction
San Angelo
Amarillo
Dalhart
Panhandle
Childress
South Plains
North Texas
Lubbock
State warns against inflated plant growth claims
Illinois agriculture officials urge skepticism toward exaggerated statements about fruit trees and ornamental plants. Division superintendent William Larkin notes claims of 20 foot trees in two months or 1000 blooms in weeks are false and urges buyers to shop at local nurseries to ensure plants suit their area.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Illinois Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry
William T. Larkin
H. F. Seifert
Larkin
New York Liquor Scandal Probes Expand
Investigation into the New York State Liquor Authority widens as a Chicago broker is indicted in a $50,000 bribe scheme for a Play Boy Club liquor license. A SLA investigator dies amid the probe and four others refuse to testify. Rockefeller promises a full corruption inquiry and moves to remove noncompliant appointees.
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NEW York
UPI
Nelson A. Renee
New York State Liquor Authority
SLA
Rockefeller
Chicago
Ralph Berger
Births Report From Lubbock Area Hospitals
Multiple birth notices detail nineteen newborns with weights ranging from 4 pounds 1 ounce to 9 pounds 8 6/8 ounces, born at Lauf Clinic, Reese Air Force Base Hospital, St. Marys Hospital, Methodist Hospital, Taylor Hospital, and Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital in West Texas. Fathers’ occupations include farmer, farm laborer, city employee, Navy E4, and gun shop laborer. several mothers live in Lubbock, Reese Trailer Park, and Levelland.
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Robbie Lawson Gill
Rt 1
Wilson
West Texas Hospital
Leroy Curtis
Rt. 4
Bock
Lauf Clinic
David Melendrez
33Rd St
City of
U.S. Navy E
Robert E. Horton
Levelland
Reese Air Force Base Hospital
Corpus Christi
A.1.c
Robert R. Sutton
Lubbock
Reese
A.C
Gary L. Logan
Reese Traiier Park
James W. Belongia
Ave. M
Pedro Martinez
St. Mary's Hospital
Don Dodson
E. &the St
Methodist Hospital
Farr
Denver Ity
Bank Bandit Uses Disguise To Rob Connecticut Bank
A gunman wearing orange makeup and tape robbed the Connecticut National Bank branch for 85 thousand dollars. He forced bank manager Charles Wade at gunpoint, used Wade’s car to flee, and whisked away after a staged bomb device failed to detonate. Wade’s wife attempted to call police as wires were ripped out. The getaway car was later found abandoned in Trumbull.
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Monroe
Conn
UPI
Monday
Connecticut National Bank
Charles Wade
Trumbull
Wade
Donovan frees three Cubans in trade for Americans
The Justice Department dropped charges against three Cubans and released 21 Americans after Cuba freed the captives. Donovon described the action as clemency and linked it to the broader exchange with Castro. One American, Rafael Del Pino, remained jailed as negotiations continue.
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Joaquin Angel Ossario
Miami
Homestead Afb
Ossario
Fidel Castro
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Justice Department
Donovan
Department
Roberto Santiesteban Casanova
United Nations
Antonio Sueiro
Jose Garcia Orellana
FBI
Garcia
Jose Gomez Abad
Elsa
United States
State Department
Washington
Homestead Air Force Base
Fla
Castro
Jake
Lenin Prize Awarded to Italian Physicist Pontecorvo
Soviet Tass reports Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-born physicist who defected from Britain, received the Lenin Prize for pioneering neutrino research. A prominent Harwell and Joint Institute of Nuclear Research figure, he aided Soviet atomic work after fleeing to the USSR. The prize includes over $8,000.
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Moscow
Bruno Pontecorvo
Soviet Union
Britain
Ussr
Tass
Pontecorovo
Harwell Nuclear Research Institute
Pontecorvo
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Joint
Institute of Nuclear Research
Dubno
Pisa
Rome
Universites
France
U.S
United States
Canada
Enrico Fermi
Harwell Laboratory
THR
Italy
Perth Lights Inspire Gift to U S Astronauts
UPI reports Australians sent a painting titled Perth all night to USA astronauts Donald K. Slayton and Walter M. Schirra Jr. The work by Frank North shows a lit Perth skyline reflecting a city’s spontaneous tribute during John Glenn’s early orbit in February 1962. Premier David Brand accepted the gift.
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Houston
UPI
U.S
Perth
John Glenn
Australia
Glenn
David Brand
Western Australia
Donald K. Slayton
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Swan River
Frank North
Perth Art Gallery
Brand
Laos Crisis Into Laos Neutralist Shift Intensifies
White House and NSC reviewed Laos reports with no decision on intervention. Adm Harry D Felt visited SEATO in Bangkok while Harriman sailed for Paris to bolster the Geneva Laos accord. About 24 000 SEATO troops are slated for mid June maneuvers in Thailand as US forces move closer. Red China and North Vietnam accuse US agents of instigating renewed fighting.
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White House
National Security Council
Laos
U.S
Adm
Harry D. Felt
Pacific
Thailand
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Bangkok
Harriman
Paris
W. Averell Harriman
Geneva
Moscow
Kenneth Young
Washington
Thai Supreme Command
Dawee Chullasab
Red China
Viet Nam
Plaine Des Jarres
Pathet Lao
Wheeling Steel Cuts Back Price Hikes Amid Industry Trend
Wheeling Steel Corp withdrew some selective price increases on steel and reduced others by 50 cents to 1.50 a ton. The move aligned the firm with U S Steel and other major producers as the industry pattern shifted. Republic Armco Sharon and others trimmed plate prices after U S Steel and Bethlehem patterns emerged.
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New York
Wheeling Steel Corp
U.S. Steel Corp
Wheeling
U.S
Nationwide
National Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Lukens Steel Co
National
J&l
Lukens
Republic Steel Corp
Armco Steel Corp
Sharon Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel Corp
U.S. Steel Bethlehem
House Debates First Education Bill Amid Grumbling Over Aid
The House plans a Tuesday vote on a $237 million medical school aid bill to fund construction and loans for students. Critics fear advancing this measure before a broader college aid bill could dampen support for subsequent education legislation.
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House
Washington
UPS
Friends of
Edith Green
Dore
Dallas Speech Urges Cleanup Of Juvenile Delinquency
James V. Bennett director of the U S Bureau of Prisons said Dallas and the Southwest send far more juvenile delinquents to federal custody than New England states. He urged cleaning dives, boosting community programs, and creating jobs to curb youth crime.
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Dallas
UPI
James V. Bennett
U. S. Bureau of Prisons
Southwest
New England
Bennett
America
Supreme Court upholds state ban on airline job discrimination
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states may bar racial discrimination in hiring by interstate carriers. Marion D. Green, a 33 year old former Air Force captain, had sought a pilot job with Continental Airlines in Denver since 1957, alleging he was passed over for white applicants with less experience. The Colorado Antidiscrimination Commission ordered Continental to place him in its next pilot training class.
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Jerry T. Baulch
Washington
Supreme Court
Colorado
Hugo L. Black
High Tribunal
Black
Marion D. Green
Air Force
Virgil I.grissom
Green
Continental Air Lines, Inc
Denver
Continental
Colorado Antidiscrimination Commission
U S Australia to sign status of forces pact soon
Canberra reports Australia and the United States will sign a status-of-forces agreement soon. The pact covers American servicemen on high atmosphere and other projects. It assigns jurisdiction: the United States handles offenses under U S laws, Australia handles offenses under Australian laws.
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Canberra
Australia
United States
U.S
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