Chile Looks to Trade With Iron Curtain If Aid Fails
Chile may broaden trade with Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc nations if Alliance for Progress aid underdelivers. Soviet ambassador Nicolai Alexeev’s Santiago visit signals Chile’s push to obtain machinery oil refinery and other inputs, despite ideological differences.
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Martin Leguizamon
Santiago
Chile
UPI
Russia
Argentina
Nicolai Alexeev
Jorge Alessandri
Buenos Aires
Alexeev
Moscow
Policeman Injured Testing Firecracker Trick
Police patrolman Bill Hart found a suspicious object on a downtown sidewalk and lit it with the cigarette lighter to test if it was a firecracker. The resulting explosion damaged the ring finger of his right hand and required hospital surgery.
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Memphis, Tenn
Bill Hart
Hart
Heiress to Face Murder Trial in Houston
Margery North Furlong 37, Houston heiress, to stand trial for the 1980 killing of her estranged husband William Harrison Furlong III. Indicted Sept 19, 1960, she claimed self defense in a river Oaks mansion shooting observed by her children and witnesses. The case has seen multiple postponements and tied to a large estate from her mother Floy North.
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Houston (Ap
Margery North Furlong
Houston
Furlong
Sam Davis
William Moore
Bryan
Earl North
Floy North
Social Security funds pay way in 1961 results reported
The 1961 Social Security old-age and survivors insurance and disability insurance funds both showed income exceeding disbursements. Trustees reported combined assets of 23.4 billion, with the old-age and survivors fund at 20.9 billion and the disability fund at 2.5 billion. Commissioner Mitchell said actuarial projections remain sound. About 16.75 million people receive monthly benefits.
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Washington
Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Pension
Board of Trustees
Congress
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
Wiliam N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Buddhist nun cremates herself at funeral pyre in Formosa
Police reported Wu Chen aged 46, mother superior of a Buddhist convent in the Pesca dores, died by her own action after building a funeral pyre. A note left by Wu Chen said she wanted to be with Buddha.
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JASPF
Formosa
Wu Chen
Pescadores
Buddha
Nashville stage production of Stairs canceled
The Nashville theater production of Stairs was canceled after leading lady Barbara Izard slipped on stairs at her home and broke an ankle.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tlheater
Nashville
Young Farmers Field Day Moves Through Tech Tours
About 175 participants toured Texas Tech facilities in Lubbock during the second annual Young Farmers Field Day. J H Baumgardner of Tech outlined a West Texas to Arizona California livestock feeding tour and described the Morrison Bros Ranch operation and its manure fed farming system.
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State Assn. of
Young Farmers of Texas
Seond
Young Farmers Field Day
Eddie Fortenberry
Lockney
Bob Traweek
Dublin
D. W. Phipps
Welch
Dewey Martin
Lometa
Duane Howell
Avalanche-Journal
Lubbock
Texas Tech
J. H. Baumgardner
Tech
West Texas
Arizona
California
Lubbock Agricultural Experiment Station
Sherman Nelson Farm
Textile
Lewis Egeenberger
Tech Agricultural Education Department
Southwest Animal
School of Agriculture
State Young Farmers Organization
Agricultural Education Division
Texas Education Agency
Ei. L. Tiner
Austin
Young Farmers Advisor
Gerald W. Thomas
Baumegardner
Morrison
I Bros
Higley
Ariz
Morrison Bros
Baumgardner
Chief of Staff Named Rome
Gen. Giuseppe Alia named Italian army chief of staff succeeding retired Gen. Antonio Gualano. The report notes a feed mill investment of $125,000 and mentions use of hulls and alfalfa hay as roughage sources at a local facility.
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Rome
Giuseppe Alia
Antonio Gualano
Fire Claims Seven in Charlottesville Rooming House
A three story rooming house in Charlottesville housing elderly hospital out patients burned seven people to death on Saturday. An elderly woman occupant suffered minor injuries fleeing. Victims identified as William T. Johnson 81 Godwin Giles 84 Mrs Mary E. Gentry 93 Elizabeth Watson 81 Linwood C. Taylor 54 Charles Hunt 32 James Meadows 22. The blaze started in the basement and spread rapidly to the roof where collapse followed.
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Charlottesville
William T. Johnson
Godwin Giles
Mary E. Gentry
Elizabeth Watson
Linwood C. Taylor
Charles Hunt
James Meadows
Police Ban Twist Dancing In Taipei Formosa
Police headquarters in Formosa banned teaching of the twist by licensed dancing schools. Officials said the island restricts instruction to folk dancing and ballet, with no authorized twist classes at local studios.
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Taipei
Formosa
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Ford
Jack
Amar
Ges
Spe
Texas
Zale
Broadway and Caprock Shopping Center
Petti Pants
G. C. Murphy
Broadway
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