Congo Rift Deepens Over Airport Guards And Kasavubu
UN and Congo Republic clash over guarding Leopoldville Airport with UN guards to protect lines of communication. Kasavubu government demands removal of UN Congo chief Dayal amid broader anti Communist conciliation moves. In Lulua, 44 civilians killed by Congolese troops as unrest continues.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
United Nations
Leopoldville
U. N. Command
Joseph Kasavubu
U. N
Kasavubu
Rajeshwar Dayal
Congo
Dayal
Stanleyville
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Albert Kaloni
Chhef
South Kasai
Cyril Adoula
Kasavaubu
Fies
Luluabourg
Eight Ousters Sought in Newport Demanded by Churchmen
In Frankfort, Northern Kentucky churchmen filed an affidavit requesting Governor Bert Combs oust eight law enforcement officers in Newport and Campbell County. The charges allege officials have been derelict in duties as Newport sits across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.
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Frankfort
Northern Kentucky
Bert Combs
Newport
Campbell County
Combs
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Officials Targeted in Recall Affidavit for Newport Area
An affidavit seeks removal from office of Circuit Judge Ray L Murphy County Judge A J Jolly Sheriff Norbert Rolk Newport Mayor Ralph Mussman Newport Police Chief George Gugel Newport Detective Chief Leroy Frederick County Police Chief Harry Stuart and District Detective Gardner Reed. The affidavit asks Combs to file charges and set a date for a public hearing. The statute allows the governor or appointee to hold the hearing and testimony may be given orally or by deposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray L. Murphy
A. J. Jolly
Norbert Rolk
Newport
Ralph Mussman
George Gugel
Leroy Frederick
Harry Stuart
Gardner Reed
Combs
Allegations Test Authority to Remove Gully Party Officials
Mr Combs asserts the allegations are true and he has authority to remove the gully parties from office. A 31 page affidavit includes three exhibits on Newport and Campbell County. One is a Saturday Evening Post article titled Kentucky's Open City, another Esquire piece Cross Section U.S.A Sun Town, and a list of 108 northern Kentucky residents who bought 950 federal gambling stamps published in the Kentucky Cincinnati Enquirer edition.
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Combs
Newport
Campbell County
Feening Post Magazine
Kentucky
Esquire Magazine
U.S.A
Sun Town
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Rockefellers Escape Fire at Historic Albany Mansion
Gov Nelson Rockefeller and wife fled to safety as a flash fire wrecked the old executive mansion in Albany. Three servants were temporarily isolated by flames. the Rockefellers and staff escaped down ladders with no injuries. The mansion, a Victorian gem once home to Grover Cleveland and two Roosevelts, has housed governors since 1874.
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Albany
N.Y
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Zon
Vay
Grover Cleveland
Roosevelts
Theodore
Franklin D
Rockefellers
Harrimans
Gov
Mrs. Rockefeller
Fire tears through Rockefeller mansion destroying Harriman paintings
Governor Rockefeller surveys the 40 room mansion after a basement fire spreads to the music room and upper bedrooms. Loss is pegged at about 500000 with Harriman donated works including Gilbert Stuart and Thomas Sully. Firemen save Picasso drawings and a Van Gogh pencil study while staff evacuates.
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Rockefeller
W. Averell Harriman
Harriman
Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Sully
Rockefellers
Crest Awaited Today in Cincinnati Flood Watch
The Ohio River was expected to crest today at a shade under flood stage of 52 feet and then decline very slowly, according to the U S Weather Bureau.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
U. S. Weather Bureau
Twenty two miners die in Terre Haute coal shaft blast
In Terre Haute Indiana a flash explosion deep in the Viking mine kills twenty two miners and injures none. Bodies are recovered over ten hours by masked rescuers as investigators begin work. The blast occurred about eight miles southwest of the city with air gauge readings dropping to zero and coal dust seen in the shaft. The victims lay about 265 feet underground three miles back in the slope shaft.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Viking
Absent Miners Survive Viking Mine Blast Night
In Terre Haute Indiana AP 46 year old Lynton Fisher of Clinton says he would have worked the Viking coal mine Thursday night but a doctor ordered rest. A blast deeper in the shaft killed 22 miners. Norman Price of West Terre Haute was spared by being moved to the other side. One unnamed miner avoided the blast after a quarrel with his wife.
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Terre Haute, Ind
Lynton Mose Fisher
Clinton, Ind
Fisher
Viking
Norman Price
West Terre Haute
Judge Nose Aroma, Case Closed in Drunk Case
In Denver municipal court Judge Robert P. Fullerton presided over Arthur Packer, 27, in a drunkenness case. The defendant admitted drinking before court and received a $25 fine.
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Denver
Cole
Robert P. Fullerton
Arthur Packer
Fullerton
Weekend Weather Outlook With Mild Temperatures
A mild weekend is forecast with occasional showers. The five day average temperatures will run about five degrees above normal. Precipitation near an inch total, with showers Saturday and Sunday, rain Monday, and slightly cooler temperatures after. Tonight cloudy and mild in mid-40s. Saturday cooler with more showers. Thursday peaked at 60 and overnight low around 38.
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Seys
Jury Ponders Fate Of Triple Slayer at Starved Rock
Ottawa AP report says Chester Weger observed his 22nd birthday in LaSalle County jail as jurors weighed whether to impose the death penalty for Weger, accused of murdering three women in Starved Rock State Park on March 11, 1960.
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Ottawa
Ill
Chester
Rocky) ‘Weger
LaSalle County
Weger
Starved Rock State Park
West Agreed On Another Try Nuclear Test Ban
Britain and the United States agreed to one more major effort to negotiate a treaty outlawing nuclear test explosions with the Soviet Union. They would offer compromise on inspection to police the ban, with decisions by late May on Soviet interest. Geneva talks set for March 21. if fruitless, pressure to resume tests.
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John Mr. Hightower
Washington
Britain
United States
Efort
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Moscow
U. S
Geneva
Red China
Reds player indicted for carrying concealed weapons
Hamilton County grand jury today indicted Frank Robinson a Cincinnati Reds baseball player on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. He will be arraigned Monday. In London sculptor Mark W Batten was found stabbed to death in a cluttered antique shop in the heart of the theater district.
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Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Frank Robinson
Cincinnati Reds
Robinson
London
Mark W. Batten
Miner Drives to Indianapolis With Son and Dies
A miner, angered by his wife not packing sandwiches, decided to drive to Indianapolis with his soldier son. They traveled 90 miles to the airport, but the journey ended with the miner's death.
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Indianapolis
Proteus Docks Safely as Pacifist Blockade Falters at Holy Loch
Thousands watch the U S Navy tender Proteus moor at the new missile submarine base Holy Loch Scotland after a pacifist canoe blockade is swamped and six canoes are seized. Police and naval launches chase demonstrators as protests against the base intensify and plans for the first nuclear subs gather pace.
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Holy Loch
Scotland
Proteus
Ned the Loch
Clyde
America
Harold Macmillan
Commons
Photographer Eugene Meece Returns From Proteus Voyage
First ashore from the Proteus crew was photographer Eugene Meece of Dayton Ohio age 32 who found a friendly welcome from Scots as he stepped from a launch after a 10 day voyage from New London Conn. Six pacifist demonstrators were landed by police and navy launches. Police said they will be
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Eugene Meece
Dayton
Ohio
Meece
New London
Conn
190 Jailed After Walk In Carolina
Demonstrators marching on the South Carolina state house in Columbia were arrested after ignoring warnings to stop. Four hundred? persons were held, 159 in jails, with 31 bond cases. Authorities say 190 were arrested and charged with breach of the peace, including one white youth and a NAACP field secretary. Separately, the 8th Circuit ordered Little Rock to speed desegregation, directing objective use of the pupil placement law without racial discrimination.
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Columbia
S.C
State House
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Statehouse
US Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Random City Protests Lead to Arrests and Convictions
In Chattanooga nine Black demonstrators were arrested for disorderly conduct after blocking a sidewalk. Lynchburg jailed six Black students who resumed a hunger strike over textbook access while awaiting an antitrespass hearing related to their sit in. Sumter officials convicted thirteen Black protesters in antisegregation demonstrations, with fines of $100 or 30 days and $200 bonds on appeal. about 65 arrests were reported in recent actions.
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Chattanooga Tonn
Lynchburg
Sumter
Pilots to face reporters on RB47 incident details
Two Air Force captains Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone, rescued from a Soviet prison, will be questioned by reporters about the 1950 RB47 downing over the Barents Sea. The unanswered crewmen include Maj. Eugene E. Posa, 1st Lt. Dean B. Phillips, and 1st Lt. Oscar L. Gosforth. Capt. William A. Palm was killed. The RB47 and crew were based at Forbes AFB near Topeka and deployed abroad in June 1960.
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Topeka
Kan
Barents Sea
America
Freeman B. Olmstead
John R. McKone
Air Force
Olmstead
McKone
Eugene E. Posa
Visalia
Calif
Dean B. Phillips
Sacramento
Oscar L. Gosforth
Sardis
Okla
William A. Palm
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Witty quip on government spunk and debt during marriage
A humorous line from Chuckle Wife to husband contrasts personal finances with government spending. The wife notes the government's lack of concern for debt and its continued spending, highlighting a playful critique of public finance.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr
Pablo Picasso
Vincent van Gogh
Robert Bennett
Ellen Westberg
Hilda
Triple Slayer
West
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Davis Ormsby-Gore
John J. McCloy
McCloy
Eisenhower
Bulletins
Theater
Exmouth
Lochside
Scottish Council For Nuclear Disarmament
British Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament
Fice
Carolina
Associated Press
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