Soviet nuclear test sparks White House debate on resumption
United States officials briefed by Arthur Dean and Kennedy weigh re starting nuclear tests after Soviet explosion. McCloy and Rusk joined strategy talks as Congress pressures action while analysts discuss mobile warheads and ICBM threats targeting Atlas Titan and Minuteman sites.
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Titan
Red Star
F. Rybkin
Rew Union
Capitol Hill
Senate
Clarence Cannon
House Appropriations Committee
Russia
Novaya Proving Ground
Arctic Circle
Barents Sea
Plane Crash Tragedy Expands With 78 Dead In Route to Los Angeles
From Boston to Los Angeles, Flight 529 crashed after a mid flight emergency attempt. Twenty children, twenty six women and thirty two men died. The Constellation fell near Clarendon Hills and Hinsdale on Labor Day weekend. Witnesses described a sudden fire and debris field spanning a half mile by a third of a mile. Families including Maloney and Gilliam losses and multiple children perished.
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Los Angeles
New York
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Clarendon Hills
Hinsdale
Midway
Josephine Broz
Harry Savage
Allegheny County
Savage
Las Vegas
R. C. Maloney
Canoga Park
Calif
Michael
Maureen
Richard
Mary
James
L. Neil Gilliam
Forest Department
Eureka
New Bedford
Mass
Sylvia Remnant
John
Elmer
Liverpool
England
Tax Bite Spurs Mixed Feelings Across Texas
Texans react to the sales and use tax with confusion and protest as merchants and customers report mixed experiences. Comptroller Calvert defends rulings on penny increments and hosiery, while lawmakers face calls to repeal or revise the levy amid broad public debate.
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Robert Calvert
Calvert
Floydada Chamber of Commerce
Price Daniel
Maiden voyage ends as Beta sinks after sharp turn
Fifteen crew and passengers aboard the 460 ton Nord vessel Beta capsize after a swift maneuver during its maiden voyage. Skipper Ivar Jahnsen ordered full speed to impress a Danish colleague and the ship heeled over within 30 seconds. Two German torpedo boats and small craft rescued the crew before tow back to the shipyard.
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Mandal
Norway
Ivar
Jahnsen
Shiyiyard
Research Site Report Slated on Space Flight Center
A four man team surveying possible sites for a $60 million manned space flight research center plans to make recommendations within a week. They just concluded a site inspection in the Oakland Berkeley area after visiting Jacksonville and Tampa Florida Shreveport Louisiana Mont Tex and San Diego California.
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Washington
UPD
Oakland- Berkeley
California
Jacksonville
Tampa
Fla
Shreveport
Louisiana
Mont, Tex
San Diego
Calif
East Germany protests U S air corridors over Berlin
Berlin AP report states East Germany delivered a protest to the United States for alleged abuse of air routes to Berlin. The note relayed via ADN said Czechoslovakia transmitted the protest. Kennedy warned allies against interference with westbound Berlin flights.
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Berlin
East Germany
United States
ADN
Czechoslovakia
Kennedy
Tiros Ill Praised By Jap Weathermen
Tokyo based Japan Central Meteorological Agency praised the U.S. Weather Bureau for Tiros IM as a peaceful space science example. The satellite detected a weak tropical storm east of Torishima Island before Japanese observations and aided tracking of storms on August 17 and 30 aiding early typhoon detection.
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Tokyo
U.S. Weather Bureau
Japan
Central Meteorological Agency
Tiros
Torishima Island
East German Border Shooting Condemned by U S
The United States condemned East German frontier police shootings at border crossers as criminal and irresponsible. It demanded Soviet control of East German guards after two border shootings in the past week and warned about restraint in U S personnel returning fire.
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Berlin
United States
A. V. Solovyev
U.S
Watson
Budget plan allocates 8.6 million for penal system
The Texas legislative budget board approved a six month penal budget of 8 598 570 with 3 million for construction at Huntsville Smithers Ferguson and Goree bonds rounding out the rest for operating costs. Vernon McGee was reappointed director and Governor Faubus gave final approval.
Shed Fire on Meeiey Street Causes Minor Damage
Fire crews responded to a shed fire on Meeiey Street at 10 19 pm. Te Teale reported the damage was slight and Merrel Timmons identified as the shed owner.
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Meeiey St Te Teale
Oomer
Merrel Timmons
Mexican city celebrates first flight of six passenger plane
In San Luis Potosi Mexico officials hailed the first flight of a six passenger single engine Henger Pp built by Lockheed Azcarate marking a milestone in local aviation and industrial collaboration.
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San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Lockheed-Azcarate
Births Reported in Local Hospitals This Week
Congratulations to multiple families parents listed for newborns at Methodist St. Marys West Texas Taylor and Reese AFB hospitals. Weights range from 4 to 9 pounds with times noted, fathers described as workers and military stationed at Fort Knox Reese AFB and similar.
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Richard Walton
Emory
West Texas Hospital
U.S. Army
Fort Knox
T. Pst
Edwin J. Zitta
Ananoaer
Reese Afb Hospital
Reese
Iowa Tornadoes Leave Two Hurt
A tornado ripped through Butler County Iowa injuring at least two people and flattening farm buildings with uprooted trees and unhinged power lines. A second funnel near Greene prompted emergency crews to the scene while injuries and damage totals remained uncertain.
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United Press International
Butler County
Iowa
Greene
Gulf
Plains
Virginia
Texas
Laredo
Wink
San Angelo
Childress
Shooting ruled in line of duty in Craig death
A Gray County grand jury ruled that Sheriff Rufe Jordan and other peace officers acted in the line of duty in the August 22 shooting death of A V Craig, 64, a Kings Mill farmer. Craig barricaded his home to resist officers serving a contempt of court warrant, with contempt charges stemming from a 1953 civil suit. The panel heard 19 witnesses over a three day investigation.
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Pampa
Tex
UPI
Rufe Jordan
Peace of
A. V. Craig
Gray County
Craig
Kings Mill
Schnapps Aids East Germans Escape to West Germany
A bottle of schnapps helped two East Germans flee to freedom near Bad Harzburg. A bricklayer and his companion used the liquor to liquor to celebrate Communist moves against the West and then slipped past the border guards into West Germany. Names were not released.
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Bad Harzburg
Germany
West Germany
Two Die in Houston Area Car Crash
Charlie Blinton Boyd 48 of Houston dies from injuries after a one car crash east of Houston Tuesday night. Mona Dell Thompson 27, an expectant mother, died of injuries in the same accident reported Friday.
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Houston
UPI
Charlie Blinton Boyd
Mona Dell Thompson
City Board Rejects Proposals on Single Line Power Service
Lubbock directors rejected options for city ownership with a lease to Southwestern and for divided city Southwestern facilities. They questioned revenue gains, favored competition, and moved to dismiss the engineering report, signaling no further city involvement unless the commission acts.
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Southwestern
Woodson
J. D. Jenkins
Municipal Power & Light
Odessa
Jenkins
Dixon White
Joe Stanley
Casey
Southwestern Public Service
White
Stanley
Paul Graham
Frank Todd
Raymond Burford
Don Farr
Arnold Weed
Rufus Grisham
Burford
Graham
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Iline
Tax Start Confuses Shoppers at Texas Stores
Store managers in Texas reported a mixed first day of the new sales tax with customers joking about the change and clerks noting item classification as taxable causing initial delays. Managers praised overall handling though some confusion over tax lines and cash versus charge purchases lingered.
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Wilson
Charles Wilson
Trinity
Deep East
Texas
Corpus Christi
Federal Reserve Bank
Dallas
Austin
Mac Godwin
Monterey Center
Godwin
Ned Sweatt
F. W. Woolworth
Broadway
Lubbock Business House
Bill Hart
Farr
Louis Griffin
Hemphell-Wells Department Store
Griffin
Bob Titcomb
S. S. Kresge Co
Caprock Center
Secret Soviet Berlin air corridors document released
U.S. officials publicized a long secret Soviet paper claiming the three Western air corridors to Berlin were agreed to for unrestricted use by Allied military and civilian aircraft. The document, presented at the 1947 Moscow foreign ministers meeting, is seen as the clearest note of Soviet consent to unhampered traffic into West Berlin, amid Western fears of a clampdown once a peace treaty is signed.
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Washington
U.S
Berlin
Germany
Moscow
West Berlin
Khrushchev
State Department
Pan Amerean
Two Firms to Share Service on Rough 50 50 Basis
Authorities state the two companies will divide service roughly equally, with switchovers between providers at various intervals across the year to balance workloads and maintain continuity.
Area journalism students receive five West Texas scholarships
West Texas Press Association awards five college scholarships of 600 dollars each over four years. Annelie Holman, Annelie Holman of Colorado City, is a McMurry College senior. Lew Bullion of Lubbock is a Texas sophomore. Eugene Young of Seagraves won first and will enter Texas Tech. Peggy Sue Hale of Canyon and Caroline English of Lubbock are second and third place, entering West Texas State College and Texas Tech respectively.
Senator Yarborough to attend Civil War ceremony in Maryland
Sen Ralph Yarborough of Texas will represent at a Hagerstown Maryland ceremony honoring Confederate dead from Civil War battles South Mountain and Antietam. He serves on the National Civil War Centennial Commission and will join former President Dwight Eisenhower at a reception. The First Texas Infantry Hood's Brigade suffered 82 percent losses at Antietam.
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Washington
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Hagerstown
South Mountain
Antietam
Houston teen in critical condition after hotrod crash
Norris Thompson Jr., 13, of Houston is reported in critical condition after a 1931 model hotrod driven by Robert Earl Dickey, 22, struck another car. Thompson was thrown from the vehicle and the hotrod rolled over him.
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Houston
UPI
Norris Thompson Jr
Robert Earl Dickey
Thompson
Miss Texas Heads to Miss America Pageant
Linda Loftis 5 foot blonde Miss Texas 1961 leaves Fort Worth for Atlantic City Sunday to compete in the Miss America Pageant.
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Fort Worth
Linda Loftis
Texas
Atlantic City
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