Body of 15YearOld Geraldine Williams Found on Farm
South Haven Michigan reports 15 year old Geraldine Williams found slain in basement of abandoned farm house after being abducted from a school bus stop. Police suspect a sexual motive though autopsy pending tests. Parents say she was shy, last of eight children at home, and missed class Wednesday.
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South Haven
Mich
Geraldine Williams
Sater
Ine
Fred O'Donnell
State Police
Geraldine
Sergeant Sues USAF for 250000 Over Vaccination
TOKYO AP A sergeant seeks 250000 damages from the U S Air Force claiming a smallpox vaccination at Misawa Air Base Hospital left his wife paralyzed and unable to move. The sergeant T Sgt Allen McCauley and four children fly to Travis AFB as attorney Frank Scolinos says the wife became sicker after the Oct 29 1959 vaccination. The Air Force declines comment and the case will be handled in the United States under the Military Claims Act by Melvin Belli.
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Tokyo
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Allen McCauley
Oberlin
Ohio
United States
Florence B. McCauley
Japan
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Letterman Hospital
San Francisco
McCauley
Travis
Frank Scolinos
Misawa Air Base Hospital
Scolinos
U. S
Misawa
Melvin Belli
Cyclist and Plane Collision Kills Joseph Denet
In Melun France a 57 year old motor cyclist Joseph Denet was killed when he collided with a plane on an airfield Thursday. Witnesses say he was blinded by the sun at the time of the accident.
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Melun
France
Joseph Denet
Denet
Springlike weather to linger for five days
The area will stay springlike for the next five days with temperatures about 6 to 12 degrees above normal. It will cool slightly Tuesday with light precipitation possible as showers Monday or Tuesday. Tonight’s low around 30, Saturday cloudy and cooler with a high near 30. Yesterday’s high reached 52 at 3 PM and the overnight low was W at 6:30 AM today.
Cat mascot at Pacific Mercury sparks labor dispute
In Van Nuys California Mister Tom the plant mascot cat faces removal after a new chief security officer cites substandard hygienic habits. Workers rally with 300 pro cat signatures. A union grievance committee will meet next week with management, else the issue may go to the state conciliation service for arbitration.
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van Nuys
Calif
Tom
Pacific Mercury Electronics Corp
State Conciliation Service
Cuba and Soviet Envoys Expelled By Uruguay
Uruguay orders Cuban ambassador Mario Garcia Inchaustegui and Soviet First Secretary Mihail K. Samilov out of the country for links to pro Castro demonstrations and street clashes. About 4000 marchers protested in Montevideo while 1500 police kept order after a Communist HQ raid that led to 139 arrests and the seizure of documents. One anti Castro partisan was killed in an earlier incident, with no charges yet filed.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Fidel Castro
Mario Garcia Inchaustegui
Mihail K. Samilov
Castro
Cuba
Governing Council
Laotian forces press rebels as new planes join
Laotian government planes supplied by the United States bomb rebel artillery positions north of Vientiane for a third day. Premier Beun Oum's forces push toward Luang Prabang while Western intelligence notes a Soviet spotter aircraft directing fire. No air support detected from the Soviets or Red China or North Vietnam yet. diplomats fear external combat planes may follow.
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Vientiane
Laos
United States
Air Siatson
Soviet Union
China
Viet Nam
Pathet Lac
Conflicting Forces Clash Near Nam Sic River
Reported air activity and ground fighting around the Nam Sic River about 70 miles north of Vientiane as two government companies engage a rebel force of similar size.
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Nam Sic River
Vientiane
Fidel Calls Labor Rally In Havana
AP dispatch reports Fidel Castro plans to address a Havana labor rally seen as unifying dissident unions. Observers note a crackdown after an anticommunist electrical workers march and expect Castro to claim US invasion fears were countered by Czech and Soviet arms. Church sources warn of a protest move over Belen College occupation by Castro’s militia.
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Havana
Fidel Casro
Cuba
Russia
Castro
United States
Belen College
Belen
Barge Breaks Up At Sea Off Florida Coast
A ocean-going barge broke up in heavy seas ten miles off the Atlantic coast near West Palm Beach. Seven sailors are missing after the vessel sank. One survivor was picked up by a tugboat as search efforts continue.
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West Palm Beach
Fila
Atlantic
Lone
Readmission bid filed for two Georgia students
In Macon at U S District Court Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes seek reversal of suspension from the University of Georgia after an anti integration protest that included thrown stones and tear gas. FBI and Georgia Legislature opened separate probes into rioting on the Athens campus as the judge scheduled a written motion and reconvening.
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Macon
University of Georgia
FBI
Georgia Legislature
Athens
Atlanta
Constance Motley
Charlayne A. Hunter
Hamilton K. Holmes
U.S. District Court
Georgia faculty adopts resolution to readmit suspended students
More than half of the 690 member faculty on Thursday night unanimously adopted a resolution insisting the two suspended students be returned to their classes. The resolution urged authorities to take all measures needed to protect students and faculty and preserve orderly education. Fifty student leaders circulated petitions protesting violence and calling for decisive action by university officials.
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Georgia
Chuckle on Faster-Than-Light Measurement Ideas
A veteran white collar worker jokes that if science seeks a better unit of measurement than light it should consider something faster than the office grapevine. The quip riffs on how information travels and how faster metrics could reshape understanding.
Disabled Vets Get Free Tickets for Demo Show
About 950 disabled veterans, a military hospital patient, and Medal of Honor winners will receive free $190 tickets to the preinaugural show by Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford. Tickets will be selected from Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed Army Hospital, and hospitals at Andrews Air Force Base and Fort Belvoir.
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Washington
Frank Sinatra
Peter Lawford
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Andrews Air Force Base
Ft. Belvoir
Kennedy converts investments to government bonds
President elect Kennedy has converted all investments under his control into government bonds. Total holdings include bonds plus homes in Washington and Hyannis Port, and three irrevocable family trusts. Trust income is about $100,000 yearly after tax, with pre tax around $500,000. Principal estimated near $10 million at 4 to 5 percent interest.
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Palm Beach, Fla
Join
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Washington
Hyannis Port
Mass
Joseph P. Kennedy
Salinger
Edly
Georgetown
Sceme
Eisenhower
Europe
Back For Treatments A Bomb Pilot Judged Insane
Claude R. Eatherly, a pilot in the Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic missions, was ordered by a County Court jury to receive mental treatment at the VA hospital in Waco. The 41 year old from Van Alstyne Texas showed a history of hospitalizations and had previously faced mental health checks tied to wartime guilt over the bombings. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for reconnaissance flights before the 1945 raids.
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Waco, Tex
Claude R. Eatherly
Eatherly
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
Japan
Veterans Administration
Hiroshima
van Alstyne
Tex
Air Force
Bykins
Pacific
Texas
James Eatherly
Vani Alstyne
Waco Hospital
New Saturn Tower Dominates Cape Canaveral Skyline
Cape Canaveral Florida officials reveal a 310 foot Saturn service tower for the Saturn rocket program. The 28 story steel structure towers over Titan, Thor, Jupiter, Polaris and Atlas Minuteman gantries. Saturn tests are slated for next fall as the United States aims for multi ton payloads to orbit and lunar missions.
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Cape Canaveral
Titan
Thor
Jupiter
Polaris
Redstone
Saturn
United States
Moon
Mars
Venus
Earth
Saturn tower built by Kaiser for Army Corps of Engineers
Kaiser Steel Co constructed a self supporting Saturn tower for the Army Corps of Engineers at a cost of 4 million. It contains its own power heating and lighting systems and three elevators plus five enclosed mobile platforms for servicing a 230 foot rocket at multiple levels. Each platform equals the size of a typical three room house.
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Kaiser Steel Co
Army Corps of Engineers
Tension Grows In Haiti Amid School Closures
In Port au Prince amid martial law and expulsions of church leaders, students strike over absenteeism rules and communist screening. Noise devices at schools, a graveyard execution, and arrests of priests inflame tensions as schools plan reopening.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Moniday
Francois Duvalier
Repme
Remy Augustin
Francois Poirier
Negro Republic
Vaticans
Dominican Republic
Duvalier
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