French Air and Ground Battle in Bizerte Escalates
Villages around Bizerte endure heavy bombardment as French planes and paratroopers reinforce loyalist positions. Tunisian forces fire on barricades and civilians amid bloody street fighting. Embassies warn of danger while Tunisian authorities urge calm as the crisis deepens.
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Bizerte
France
Tunisia
Foreign Legionnaires
Algeria
Iseler
Thei
Tunis
Space Shot Inches Toward Launch Amid Weather Hurdles
Space efforts moved toward a possible early morning launch for Virgil Grissom aboard a Titan missile from Cape Canaveral. Forecasters warned weather remained marginal with Hurricane Joaguin nearby and another briefing planned at 2:30 a.m. local time. Astronaut Donald Slayton accompanied Grissom to the pad as mission preparations continued and oxygen loading timed to allow a possible scrub without long delays.
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Fred
Hoffman
Canaveral
Fla
Virgil I
Gus
Grissom Lnto Space
Grissom
Atlantic Missile Range
Paul Haney
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape
Donald Slayton
William Douglas
Silyton
San Rafael Tunnel Fire Claims Fireman Life
A 2,000 foot tunnel fire in San Rafael California Thursday night caused timber shorings to collapse, killing a fireman and injuring others. A fire truck and nearby apartment house were caught in the blaze. Evacuation efforts were underway as the tunnel collapse disrupted operations.
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San Rafael
Calif
William Benson confesses hoax on New London explosion
William Este Benson, 41, an ex convict, admitted Thursday he created the tale of causing the 1937 New London Texas school explosion to gain publicity. The hoax revived grief over 293 deaths and raised lingering doubt despite his confession after a lie detector indicated guilt on separate burglary claims.
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Enderson
William Este Benson
New London
Tex
Benson
Rusk County
U.S
Dist.Affy
William Ferguson
Dallas
Ferguson
Proposals Rejected By Local Tax Plan Vote
AP report by Lee Jones Istin notes a Thursday decision to reject a 1 cent sales tax plan designed to raise about $215000. The article mentions amendments lowering the expected revenue and altering the proposal as part of the local consideration.
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Lee Jones Istin
Decoys Tested in Titan Flight
Cape Canaveral reports a Titan missile carrying a secret decoy package was launched five thousand miles into the South Atlantic. The five-foot package contained ten decoy rocks and the nose cone separated as the casing re-entered the atmosphere, marking a first test of these advanced countermeasure devices.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
South Atlantic
United States
Air Force
Titan
Kennedy speeds up civil defense shift to Pentagon
President Kennedy orders major civil defense tasks moved from OCDM to the Pentagon to speed up a nationwide shelter program. He outlines two fronts including a speech to the nation and to Congress, while reorganizing OCDM into a small Office for Emergency Planning with limited powers.
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Congress
Kennedy
Office of Civil and Defense
Pentagon
U.S
Civil Defense
Sec. of Defense
Robert
McNamara
Office of Civil Defense
OCDM
OCPM
National Security Council
Berlin
Sec
Dean Rusk
Kennedy to tell nation on Berlin crisis with possible call up
President Kennedy plans a Tuesday night national address to press Khrushchev on Berlin. He aims to show that America would go to war if necessary and may announce a national emergency and mobilization of reservists and National Guardsmen plus a demanding increase in draft quotas.
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Leslie Carpenter
Avalanche Journal
Washington Bureau
Ashington
Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
John Q
Khrushchev
America
Berlin
White House
Wire Service
U.S
Dt. Khrushchev
Diplomacy: The Craft of Being Artful and Crafty
A compact glossary entry notes diplomacy as the art or craft of being crafty. The term is explored as a historical social skill, detailing sly negotiation and tact in political contexts.
Prayer Version: A Simple thanks to God for day and night
A devotional verse thanks God for birds that sing and stars that shine at night. The prayer expresses gratitude to the Heavenly Father for day and night.
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Heavenly Father
Floods and Lightning Strike Kill Over Twenty Three Die As Weather Worsens
More than a score dead and hundreds homeless after flash floods and violent storms hit the eastern half of the nation and the northern Plains. Tornado warnings issued in North and South Dakota and Minnesota. severe thunderstorms in Oklahoma Missouri Arkansas and Iowa. Hurricane Anna remains offshore, while fires on the Pacific Coast are mostly contained. Charleston West Virginia reports 17 dead 6 missing in a 15 foot flood. A farmhand killed by lightning in Arkansas. five die in Missouri storm car crash. Tornado sightings near Independence and Melrose Kansas with hail and heavy rain. Panhandle Texas hit by large hail and flood damage. See Charleston page 10.
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Plains
Puerto Rico
U. S
Dakotas
South Dakota
Minnesota
Powder
Charleston
W.va
Aletie
W. W. Barron
West Virginia
Crubbs
Ark
Poplar Bluff
Independence
Melrose
Kan
Ger
Bart Kan
Hays
Montgomery
Texas ‘Panhandle
Borger
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
San Juan
Hail Strikes Panhandle as Front Brings Heavy Rain
Hail the size of hen eggs dented cars along a 24 mile stretch of State 15 between Panhandle and Borger. Perryton recorded up to 1.95 inches of rain near the Oklahoma line, Amarillo up to 2.1 inches, with many areas receiving under half an inch. High winds shattered a plate glass window in Dumas and toppled a trailer, though no injuries were reported. temperatures fell from 86 to 68 in about 20 minutes as ominous clouds lingered over the South Plains.
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Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
State
Panhandle
Borger
Perryton
Texas-Oklahoma Line
Amarillo
Dumas
Ares
South Plains
Sudan
Vernon Man Killed in Farm Road Crash Near Plainview
A Vernon man Claude Wesley Rogers 2117 Wood St Vernon died after a two vehicle head on collision one mile south of Plainview on Farm To Market Road 400 at 745 pm Thursday. A 9 year old was injured critically and Hale County residents reported the crash as area tolls increased.
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Avalanche-Journal
Clainview
Vernon
Hale County
Seniaenls
Claude Wesley Rogers
Wood St
Plainview
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Evan Esar
Lway Tunnel
United. Presa International
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Dean Chapman
Swanson
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