Wall Street Over Time As Markets Grind Through Weekend
New York traders ignored a Saturday calm as the New York Stock Exchange ordered staff on the floor to clear massive postweek paperwork after a volatile period. A weekend ahead kept investors cautious, with experts predicting an early rest followed by a potential Tuesday or Wednesday test of last week’s lows before a summer rebound.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
William R. White
Hornblower & Weeks
Shot In Korean Gun Battle Near DMZ
A US Army spokesman said an American soldier guarding the truce line was shot and wounded in a clash with three North Korean spies about three miles south of the DMZ. The wounded soldier was hit twice in the arms and once in the head and is in good condition. One agent was killed, two fled, and the victim’s name was withheld.
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Seoul
South Korea
US. 1St Cavalry Division
Demilitarized Zone
1St Cavalry Division
Food Poisoning Laws Up Airmen At McConnell Base
More than 75 airmen were hospitalized for food poisoning after dining in the main mess hall of McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. They suffered stomach upsets and nausea and were kept overnight for observation, with the group making up part of about 1,900 who ate there.
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Wichita
Kan
McConnell Air Force Base
Pickle Plant Plucker Snags 2400 Pecks of Pickles
Three Oaks Michigan police probe theft by a thief who stole 2400 pecks of pickles from Manhattan Pickle Co. owner Jack Weinberg reports 600 bushels missing. Investigators say dip nets were used to pull pickles from vats and water poured in to fake full measure as workers emptied vats for processing.
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Three Oaks, Mich
Piper
Three Oaks
Jack Weinberg
Manhattan Pickle Co
Weinberg
Eisenhower defends Humphrey amid nickel contract probe
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower pled his loyalty to Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, saying he would be crucified if Humphrey ever did a crooked thing. Symington’s subcommittee prepares hearings on nickel stockpile contracts signed in January 1953 involving M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland and its Hanna subsidiaries.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George M. Humphrey
Secretary of the Treasury
Eisenhower
Humphrey
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Truman
Symington
R. C. Coburn
Kidnaper Dies In Ohio Penitentiary Chair
Ronald George Fenton, 29, convicted of kidnapping and fatally beating 1-year-old Jolaine Starcher in Akron, was executed in Ohio State Penitentiary's electric chair. He recited the 23rd Psalm and Lord's Prayer as guards strapped him in and died at 8:11 p.m. He had one prior minor offense, theft of a purse.
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Columbus. Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Akron
Ronald George Fenton
Jolane Starcher
Fenton
Death Row
Car falls claim life of Rev. Stanley W. Cook in Cambridge
In Cambridge Ohio on Friday the Rev. Stanley W. Cook aged 52 was killed when a jack slipped while he was changing a tire and the car fell on him. The incident was reported by the AP.
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Cambridge, Ohio
Stanley W. Cook
First Pacific high altitude nuke test postponed to Sunday
Weather delays forced the United States to postpone the first high altitude nuclear test of the Pacific series. The blast, set for 3 am EST Sunday, would be under a million tons TNT and require clear skies for photographic data. Johnston Island lies 700 miles from Hawaii as officials awaited better conditions.
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Honolulu
United States
Pacific
Lightning Kills Running Boy in Ohio Storm
In Zanesville Ohio a nine year old boy Jef frey Todd was struck and killed by lightning while running from a baseball diamond as a light rain began. Five other youths were running for a car and were knocked down but escaped injury. A second bolt struck the Muskingum County Children's Home eight miles southwest causing minor property damage with no injuries.
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Zanesville, Ohio
Jeffrey Todd
Zanesville
Muskingum County
Here
Common Market Talks Rise On Britain Paris Visit
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan travels to Paris to press President Charles de Gaulle to soften opposition to Britain's entry into the Common Market. Talks slated to begin as Macmillan arrives include Britain’s tariff agreement with Canada Australia and New Zealand and debates over a possible European political union. De Gaulle favors a looser sovereignty preserving arrangement than a supranational model, while Britain seeks fuller integration.
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Paris
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
Macmillan
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
de Gaulle
OAS and Algerian rebels report secret talks in Algiers
French sources said the European Secret Army and the Moslem Front of National Liberation have made preliminary contact on Algeria's future. The message to Algiers officials claimed the talks are informal yet established, with the secret army seeking special status for European cities and influence on economic and political affairs.
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Algiers
Pene
Mosler Front of National Liberation
Algeria
Cotacts
Struce
Secret
Charles de Gaulle
Secret Army
Isaid
Berserk Slayer Fights For Life
William Pola a 27 year old man from Wilmerding is hospitalized in semi comatose condition after a mass shooting at Leech Farm Veterans Hospital. He killed psychiatrist Dr Daniel Thaw and wounded Patrolman Horace McDaniel before police used tear gas and an armored car to capture him. Pola has a history as a Marine and schizophrenia and was a voluntary patient who had left the hospital against medical advice prior to the incident.
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Pittsburgh
William Pola
Wilmerding
Leech Farm Veterans’ Hospital
Daniel Thaw
Thaw
Pola
Horace McDaniel
Edward R. Bennett
Bennett
Chuckle Chronicle: Children Ask Awkward Invention Questions
A light feature notes how curiosity from kids prompts inventive thinking. Parents and educators find humor in the quirky inquiries that spur new ideas and good-natured problem solving.
Teen-Ager Kidnapped At Border In Berlin Trap
West Berlin police report two 17 year old girls Ursula and Karin walked into East German border territory when lured by a voice asking to meet a friend. Karin was dragged through the wire and presumed seized, Ursula wounded and returned to the West. Earlier border shootings raise Western protests to East German guards.
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Red
Ursula
Karin
Karin East
West Berlin
East Berlin
Andrei Solovyev
Explosives Found On Palm Beach Beach Near Kennedy Estate
Navy demolition men reported a 55 gallon drum of metallic sodium found beached 15 yards from the Kennedy family mansion. If rain had entered the open top, it could have flattened everything within 50 yards. A brief shower occurred 1.2 hours after the arrival of the Navy team.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Navy
Sleeping Beauties Case Mother Sentenced
Mrs. Lillian Fratantonio was ordered to serve at least 30 days in the workhouse for secretly drugging her two sleeping beauty daughters Venita now seven and Bernadette now five with barbiturates sending them to a near death coma two years ago. Juvenile Court Judge Albert A Waldman delivered the sentence on a Friday. The 30 days will be served on Saturdays and Sundays starting next week. The judge withheld decision on remaining elements of a one year sentence or a $500 fine plus $1,200 in court costs. The sentence was imposed over a year and a half ago after appeals exhausted.
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Cleveland
Lillian Fratantonio
Venita
Bernadette
Albert A. Waldman
Fallout Defects Seen From Nuclear Testing Fallout
Washington AP reports the Federal Radiation Council says fallout from nuclear testing slightly raises health risks. Future birth defects are likely. for the living, leukemia and bone cancer risk may rise though overall numbers are very small. Individual risk cited as up to one in 100000 for leukemia and one in 300000 for bone cancer.
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Washington
Federal
County prosecutor urges public apology in child mistreatment case
Asst. County Prosecutor Thomas L. Osborne pressed for accountability as Mrs. Fratantonio, mother of five, faced the court. The judge noted irony in her claim she should not be separated from her children. Mrs. Fratantonio, tearful, fled with her husband and brother while photographers fled. AP photographer Julian C. Wilson was knocked down and treated for a knee cut, and Fratantonio hurled a TV camera 15 feet.
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L. Osborne
Fratantonio
Waldman
Vincent
Richard la Riche
Julian C. Wilson
Associated Press
la Riche
Wilson
St Vincent Charity Hospital
George Hixon
Wi We TV
Dead Agent Warned Estes in Agriculture Report
Washington AP Henry H Marshall an Agriculture Department official whose death is under Texas grand jury scrutiny told Estes lawyer that the cotton allotment scheme was illegal A confidential report dated Oct 27 1961 says J Taylor Allen told investigators Marshall advised Estes lawyer the plan violated regulations Estes indicted financier sought more price supported cotton by obtaining government allotments, selling land to farmers who lost land then leasing back and transferring allotments He claimed reliance on his lawyer Dennison and associates and vowed to appeal to Secretary Freeman or President Kennedy if allotments were canceled.
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Washington (Ap
Henry H .Marshall
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Marshall
Texas
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Estes
U.S
J Taylor Allen
Allen
Ers
John P. Dennison
Stabilizattion Service
Agriculture
J Orville L. Freeman
Kennedy
Department
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Chuck Taylor
Lafayette
Nick
Richardson
Richard Lariche
Ike
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Hanna Mining Co
Hanna Nickel Smelting Co
Hawaii
Leather Bureau
Johnston Island
Joint Task Force 8
Running Boy
Brussels
Belgium
Holland
OAS
Berserk Slayer
By George Boultwood
Demarkaion
JPK
Thomas
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