Girl Carries Dead Baby as Oklahoma City Children Found
In freezing weather police found a 13 year old girl carrying her infant sister's body while two officers searched for the parents of seven starving children. The girl said she saved food for the infant and had bathed and dressed the corpse before seeking a funeral home. The family had been alone since the mother left 10 days earlier. Six children were placed in a county children's home.
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Oklahoma City
B. Meals
Meals
Youth Bureau
Gerald Emmett
Fire Seen In Doomed Airliner at Shannon Airport
An inquest heard a Shannon Airport official recount his attempt to avert a crash of an Italian airliner that plunged into a cemetery killing up to 90 people. Survivors reported a port engine fire before the DC7C plummet. many victims were American or Italian.
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Shannon
Ireland
Limerick
Longing Lisi
Alitalia
Italy
John Lisi
E. 160Th St
Bronx
New York City
Rockett
Vicims
Mario Pavese
Genoa
Ennis
Rocco Cologgi
Tonawanda
N.Y
Diplomat’s Yes No Puzzle Sparks Quiet Wit
A light quip notes that a diplomat’s yes may mean perhaps and perhaps means no, highlighting the tricky language of diplomacy with a playful observation on political communication.
Eisenhower rests at Bariloche during South American tour
President Eisenhower flew to Bariloche Argentina for a weekend rest amid a hectic goodwill trip. He and President Frondizi planned private talks, with a troop review and a ceremony where the mayor handed him the keys to Bariloche. Local crowds welcomed him with flags and balloons as signs supporting Peron were removed.
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Sam St
Bariloche
Argentina
Eisenhower
Andes
Arturo Frondizi
Mar del Plata
Camp David
Nikita Khrushchev
Buenos Aires
Ocean Front
Provincial
U.S
Ags
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paluo
Mar del Puto
Frondizi
Edgardo Castello
Ro Negro
Osiris Lacido
U.S. Marine
Llu
Juan D. Peron
Viva .Peron
Bari‘loche
Mar del Pa A
Inside the Lady Be Good tale and Leap Day births
The Journal previews the World War II Lady Be Good story with AP observer Bem Price on page 23. A local feature on a Middletown Feb 29 baby by Jody Butts appears, while page 21 discusses farmer surplus ironies and the farm program.
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Lady Be Good
Associated Press
Bem Price
Jody Butts
Middletown
Giant plastic sphere launches from Wallops Island for moonbounce test
A 130 pound plastic sphere was launched 225 miles into the sky from Wallops Island Virginia at 6 21 pm EST. The balloon will serve as a reflector for radio signals and voices and was used in its main purpose for the first time. A 12 sentence Bell Labs message was beamed to the sphere and received on bounce at MIT Round Hill Massachusetts and GE Laboratories in Schenectady New York. Observers noted a red glow caused by light reflecting from a red dye mixed with sublimating power.
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Washington
Wallops Island
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Holmdel
N.J
Massachusetts Istitute of Technology
Round Hill
Mass
General Electric Co. Laboratories
Schnectady
N.Y
Ohioan Killed in Ashland Ky Car Crash
Ashland Kentucky officials report a single car crash Saturday that fatality identified Billy Joe Eastham, 24, of Franklin Furnace Ohio.
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Ashland
Billy Joe Eastham
Franklin Furnace
Ohio
Russell accuses rioting plots to stall civil rights bill
Sen. Richard B. Russell charges efforts to provoke race riots in the South to rally support for civil rights legislation. He blames the Congress of Racial Equality for inciting demonstrations and warns against actions that could spark tragedy as debates stretch into round-the-clock sessions to end the filibuster.
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Washington
Richard B. Russell
Dga
South
Nixon
United States
Russell
Jacob K. Javits
Dixie
New York City
Congress of Racial Equality
Senate
Javits
Supreme Court
Russell Says Southern Lunch Counter Protests Alarm Leaders
Russell warns against violence linked to civil rights protests and criticizes Nixon era efforts. He cites NAACP and a Nixon backed civil rights commission as steps toward desegregation in government contracting. He notes a new group, NOW for Education, aims to push school integration nationwide.
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Russell
South
NAACP
National Assny For the Advancement of
Nixon
National Organization of Women For Equality In Education
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Arrests, Sit-Ins Hit South as Racial Tensions Rise
In multiple Southern cities and Madison Wisconsin, police cracked down on demonstrations by Black students pressing for equal lunch counter service. About 100 arrested in Nashville plus 100 more in Montgomery and other sit-ins and scuffles were reported. Christine Stovall, 22, was struck by a paper sack bat in Montgomery during clashes as demonstrators urged voting and civil rights.
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Christine Stovall
Montgomery
South
Ala
Nashville
Tenn
Fifth Ave
Earl Mays
Fisk University
Diane Nash
Fisk
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Richard Wands
Fargo
N.C
Greensboro
Princess Margaret shows ruby engagement ring in Windsor photos
Britain greets news of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones engagement. Photographers captured the couple at the Royal Lodge near Windsor as Queen Mother Elizabeth welcomed the announcement. A Westminster Abbey wedding is anticipated if tradition holds, with Dr Geoffrey Fisher likely officiating.
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London
Margaret
Sweethart
Antony Armstrong - Jones
Royal Lodge
Windsor
Elizabeth
Westminster Abbey
Geoffrey Fisher
Antony Armstrong-Jones
England
Princess Margaret Engagement Ends British Guessing Game
The AP reports Princess Margaret’s engagement ends a long running British pastime of linking her to eligible bachelors. Over twelve years starting at age 17, rumors tied her to 35 men including princes socialites and commoners.
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London
Margaret
Soviet Cavalry Hero Col General Oka Gorodovikov Dies
MOSCOW AP Tass reports the death of Col Gen Oka Gorodovikov a Soviet cavalry commander in the 1918 to 1922 civil war era and a World War II trainer and leader. He was 8 a hero of the Soviet Union and a three time Lenin Order holder among other decorations.
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Moscow
Tass
Oka Gorodovikov
Soviet Union
New Storm Develops In Plains
A winter storm dropped heavy snow sleet and cold in the Plains and Northeast. Upstate New York saw 15 inches along Lake Ontario with traffic paralyzing drifts in western New York. Kansas City Weather Bureau warned of dangerous outbreak with hazardous driving from Arizona to Missouri. A Warsaw New York farmhouse fire killed three children as drifts hampered fire crews.
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Ohio Valley
New England
New York
Lake Ontario
Weather Bureau
Kansas City
Plains
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arizona
Missouri
Texas
Watertown
N.Y
Warsaw
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