Is Your Postman a Good Egg
A Nashville postman prepares a curious first class mail item a three ounce egg with two 6 cent stamps sent to W. T. Brien of Berkeley California. The note reads judgment by the gods arriving whole you are a good egg broken you re cracked not arriving U S postmen are poor sports. Postmaster Lewis Moore says he has never seen such a thing. The egg is hand cancelled and set for a two day trip to Berkeley.
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Nashville, Tenn
California
Lewis Moore
Nashville
W. T. Brien
Buena Vista
Berkeley
Calif
U.S
Victory In Parliament Keeps Britain On Common Market Path
London AP reports Britain's Conservative majority backed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's plan to begin talks for entry into the European Common Market. A dissident revolt fizzled as 313-5 passed the government motion with Labour abstaining. The Lords approved the motion, and talks on terms will likely begin in October, with Britain seeking protections for Commonwealth ties, subsidized farmers, and sovereignty.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Macmillan
Labor Party
European Free Trade Association
Common Market
Commonwealth
Fidel Protests U N Security Council over hijacking note
Havana accuses U S congressmen of an ultimatum and war threat tied to the hijacking of a Boeing airliner. Cuba seeks U N action to avoid escalation as it offers to return the aircraft if U S authorities treat Cuban planes identically.
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Fidel Castro
U.N. Security Council
U.S
U. S
Cuba
Security Council
Tinental Airlines
Senate
Washington
Castro
United Nations Security Council
Two Injured As Cargo Plane Burns At Idlewild
An Eastern Air Lines four engine Constellation cargo plane burst into flames while taxiing to a takeoff runway at Idlewild Airport. Pilot Dave Mudd and co-pilot Paul Schiper sustained burns and bruises and were transported to a hospital. Flight engineer John Bol linger treated for shock. Two Port Authority patrolmen received minor injuries and returned to duty. The aircraft was en route to San Juan Puerto Rico.
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Eastern Air Lines
Idlewild
New York Authority
Dave Mudd
Paul Schiper
John Bollinger
Port Authority
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Weekend Weather Outlook Warm Saturday Then Cooler
The weekend weather will be warm with a high near 88 on Saturday and cooler conditions from Sunday through Wednesday. Scattered showers may drop 0.25 to 0.5 inches tonight or Saturday, with tonight’s low around 67. The official high yesterday reached 8 at 3:30 p.m. and the overnight low was 61 at 6 a.m. today.
Titan Hit Edges Titan Missile Test Toward Readiness
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP a 5000 mile test flight of a Titan intercontinental missile moved it closer to combat readiness. The 98 foot rocket crossed the ocean with a strobe signal as tracking cameras captured positions for precise data. Within weeks Air Force troops will launch a Titan from Vandenberg AFB California under operational conditions marking deployment readiness and boosting U S I C M missiles to two. The Titan test included decoy nose cone payloads to study countermeasures and neutralize enemy denial efforts.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
United States
Nkruma Visits Tito in Belgrade for Talks
President Kwame Nkruma of Ghana arrived in Belgrade after visits to the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. He was welcomed at the airport by President Tito who plans a series of talks with the neutralist African leader.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Kwame Nkruma
Ghana
Soviet Union
Tito
Plane Steal Hero Recalls El Paso Hijacking Rescue
Leonard W. Gilman, 43, aided in subduing two gunmen who hijacked a Continental Airlines 707 and held police at bay for hours. He describes restraining the elder hijacker, engaging the father to surrender the weapon, and coordinating hostages’ safety before sustaining a fractured hand. FBI agent Francis Crosby and border patrol officers assisted, and the hijackers planned to flee to Cuba.
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EL Paso
Tex
Leonard W. Gilman
Continental Airlines
Gilman
Francis Crosby
FBI
U.S. Border Patrol
San Pedro
Calif
Crosby
Bearden
Rusk Flies To Talks With Allies
Secretary of State Dean Rusk flies to Paris to join Britain France and West Germany in three days of secret talks with the foreign ministers on West Berlin and Germany. He cautions against reckless rhetoric while signaling willingness to negotiate. Moscow voices keep calm while East German authorities tighten border controls.
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Dean Rusk
America
West Berlin
Germany
Moscow
Rusk
Britain
France
West Germany
Todays Chuckle Women Reflected Since Time Immemorial
A humorous note asserts that modern women were created before mirrors and have remained there ever since, wryly commenting on vanity and perception through time.
Hijackers' plane standoff shocks nation and Congress
An itinerant car salesman Leon Bearden and his son Cody hijacked a Continental jet near El Paso. They held 10 hostages for nearly nine hours before landing to refuel. Bearden faces grand jury bonds of 200000, while Congress weighs life imprisonment piracy penalties and the White House's response frames the crisis.
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EL Paso
Tex
White House
Congress
Leon Bearden
Cody
Bearden
Arizona
California
Kennedy
Border Patrol
Elections Ordered For Bread Unions
The National Labor Relations Board ordered elections next Wednesday on union representation for Pennington Bros. Inc. bread plant employees in four Ohio cities with the Teamsters Union facing a private Pennington union. About 100 eligible drivers and extra personnel at Columbus Dayton and Washington Court House plants will vote, while at Pennington's Seaman facility seven eligible driver salesmen will vote only on affiliation with the private union or none.
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Cincinnati
National Labor Relations Board
Pennington Bros. Inc
Ohio
Teamsters Union
Pennington Union
Columbus
Dayton
Washington Court House
Pennington
Seaman
Tenino Mock Holdup Stirs Civic Celebration
In Olympia AP report, Tenino merchants staged a mock holdup during a three day civic celebration while thieves stole 500 dollars from a Tenino grocery store cash box.
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Olympia, Wash
Tenino
Reds Warn About Military Threats
MOSCOW AP The Soviet government told the United States and other Western powers it was ready to negotiate a settlement of the Berlin question but warned against military threats. The note, delivered to U.S. Britain France and West Germany, repeated Premier Khrushchev's threat to sign a Soviet East German peace treaty if Western powers block agreement. It urged a freely negotiated settlement leading to West Berlin normalization, and tied a separate East German treaty to Western non obstruction. Khrushchev warned against Western misjudgment of Soviet firmness and recalled the 1960 Paris summit failure prompted by the U2 incident.
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Berlin
White House
Kennedy
Rusk
Iron Curtain
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East Germany
West Berlin
Moscow
Amintore Fanfani
Soviet Union
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Britain
France
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Russia
Germany
Kremlin
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Italy
U.S.S.R
Paris
U.S.A
Francis Gary Powers
Satellite Attempt Fizzles at Vandenberg
Vandenberg Air Force Base California reported Discoverer No. 28 a two stage rocket launched Thursday aimed for polar orbit then failed 90 minutes after launch. It failed to reach orbit with components likely splashing into the South Pacific while some instruments transmitted data aiding future launches.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
S AP
South Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Pacific
Air Force
East Berlin Tightens Rules For West Berlin Commuters
BERLIN AP Communists in East Berlin ordered commuters from the east who work in West Berlin to pay bills in Western marks on a one for one basis from August 1. Violation risks jail and fines. About 52,000 commuters are registered in West Berlin, with up to 30,000 unregistered or unlisted. The move follows a protest by the Allied commandants over travel restrictions between sectors. Mayor Willy Brandt did not respond to East Berlin mayor Ebert’s talks proposal.
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East Berin
Red East
West Berlin
East
West
U.S
East Berlin
Red
Willy Brandt
Friedrich Ebert
Brandt
Civil Rights Hearings Set for Dayton and Cincinnati
The Ohio Civil Rights Commission will hold its first public hearings in two years on Sept. 6 in Dayton and Sept. 19 in Cincinnati. The hearings will address charges by Black musicians alleging racial discrimination in violation of the fair employment practices law.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Civil Rights Commission
Dayton
Cincinnati
Workers unearth 27 bodies in Normandy shelter blast
French workers digging a cable trench in Caen uncovered the bodies of 13 girls and 14 nuns buried alive beneath a shelter under a burning building during the Normandy fighting in June 194
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Caen
France
Normandy
King Mahendra to Lead Five Man Delegation to Yugoslavia Summit
To Head Delegation KATMANDU Nepal AP reports King Mahendra will head a five man delegation to the neutral factions summit opening Sept 1 in Yugoslavia, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
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Nepal
Mahendra
Yugoslavia
Foreign Ministry
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