Trenton State coeds burn to death in highway crash
A bus carrying 40 Trenton State College students and a professor, Dr Ernest Sixta, was hit by a tank truck on Rt 1 in the rain near North Brunswick. The bus exploded, the professor and nine coeds died, driver Roscoe Poe and bus driver Carmen Nini were injured, eleven students hospitalized and twenty-five unaccounted for.
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Rutgers University Agriculture College
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St. Peter's Hospital
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Macmillan Wins Landslide Victory For Conservatives
London AP reports Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative government secured a landslide majority in the House of Commons, surpassing 100 seats and gaining about 20 seats from Labour as nationwide returns favored the party amid rising stock prices and prosperity.
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Labor Party
Macmillan
Britain
Deale
Stock Exchange
Dodgers Crowned World Series Champions in Six Games
Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the World Series with a 9 3 victory over the Chicago White Sox in six games. Larry Sherry earned the win in the finale and contributed on the mound in games four and two, while Duke Snider and Wally Moon homered in the decisive fourth. White Sox manager Al Lopez blamed missed chances, saying Los Angeles played better and Chicago was never in this game.
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Los Angeles
Chicago
Larry Sherry
Duke Snider
Wally Moon
White Sox
Ted Kluszewski
Chuck Essegian
Chuck Dressen
Dodger
al Lopez
Autumn Weekend Weather Promises Cool, Dry Miami Valley
Cool dry air moves through the Miami Valley bringing football weather. Forecast calls for today high 63 and low 42 with Saturday fair and cool at 65. Some warming expected Sunday. Middletown reports a Sunday high of 72 at 5:30 p m and a morning low of 46 at 7:15 a m.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Election tally shows party seat distribution by district
Reported counts from 580 districts assign 34 to Conservatives 235 to Labor 5 to Liberals with 87 percent reporting. Conservatives lead in remaining districts as results continue to come in.
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Conservatives
Laborites
Liberals
London Daily Worker postpones results in page 1 box
London Daily Worker skips early election returns and says it will publish results Saturday. Of 18 Communist candidates, 15 were defeated. Counts for the remaining three were incomplete but deemed hopeless.
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London
London Daily Worker
Communist Party
Voting shares and district victories shape election outcome
The report notes Labor at 43.8 percent of the popular vote, down from 46.3 in 1955, while Liberals rise from 2.7 percent to about double this time. the popular vote alone does not decide the result, which hinges on the number of districts carried across 636 seats.
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United States
Dead Pope Honored in St Peter's Basilica
In Vatican City a quiet crowd gathered in St Peter's Basilica to mark the first anniversary of Pope Pius XII's death with solemn homage.
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St. Peter's
Basica
Pope Pius XII
Police seek ex-prisoner’s missing artificial arm
Police in Pensacola Florida search for an artificial arm belonging to Joe Lumley a former prisoner who fled from jail more than a year ago He says he needs the arm to get a job and would repay the city for time owed Authorities say the arm is no longer in the vault and its whereabouts are unknown.
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Fla
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Troy
Heroic boy and cabbie save Premier Kassem in Baghdad
In Baghdad assailants aimed at Premid Abdel Karim Kassem as he rode daily along the crowded main street. A young boy and a cab driver shielded him, the driver was killed, and Kassem escaped with injuries including a broken arm. A dusk curfew was imposed and schools closed as authorities pursued suspects.
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Lebanon
Premid Abdel Karim Kassem
ASSR
al Nassem
Baghdad
Kassem
Dar Es' Salaam Hospital
Attackers flee after chaotic gun assault on car in Cairo
Reports say criminal elements fled during confusion after a machine-gun attack in Cairo. It remained unclear if the boy shielded by authorities, named Kassem, sustained injuries. Cairo also had reports that a bomb was thrown into Kassem's car prior to the attack.
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Cairo
Bank Call Issued for National Bank Condition
Washington AP reports the comptroller of the currency issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Tuesday October 6.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency
City to ban heels over one inch high in mobile
Three male Mobile city commissioners proposed a footwear ordinance banning spikes taller than one inch and bases under one inch, citing 30 injury lawsuits. Enforcement would be lax with a five dollar fine. the rule would apply on streets and sidewalks but not at home or events.
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Ala
Cops Stop Youths Set For Rumble
In Canton Missouri an attempted raid on Culver-Stockton College led to fines of 39.50 for 15 youths after pleading guilty to unlawful assembly. Six of the 52 arrests were juveniles with Juvenile Court hearings set for Oct. 13, and one youth to be tried Oct. 14. A crowd from Canton Lagrange and Wayland was rounded up along the Mississippi River. no college students were involved. The incident stemmed from town youths upset over students dating local girls. a bus carried 22 to jail.
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David Wilson
Wilbur Wallace
Culver-Stockton College
Lagrange
Wayland
Mississippi River
Wilson
Trenton Officials Compile Death Toll After Bus Crash
Trenton State officials arrived hours after the crash to begin listing the dead working by elimination. Eighty six girls had traveled to New York to see Archibald MacLeish play J.B. on Broadway. Two buses were involved.
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Trenton State College
New York
Trenton State
Archibald MacLeish
J.B
Wage Wars Must Stop Reuther
Walter P. Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, urged an end to private wars between workers and management on the eve of the union convention. He outlined a militant labor program, blamed big business for national economic distortion, and called for profit sharing and stronger bargaining, organizing, and legislation. He denied a rift with UAW vice president Richard Gosser amid a Senate investigation and asserted union unity for re election.
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Soviet Union
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White House
Richard T. Gosser
Toledo
Ohio
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N.J
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Eisenhower
Chuckle on misquoted words and mixed thoughts
A light joke notes the humor in how phrases can get scrambled before leaving the mouth. It plays on a familiar saying about things entering the ear and exiting altered, prompting a wry smile at human verbal clumsiness.
No Word From the Mitchell Reports On Steel Strike
President Eisenhower met for an hour with four Cabinet officers to discuss the steel strike but the White House would not confirm any imminent Taft Hartley back to work injunction. Labor and industry remained silent as the 87 day stoppage continued with 13 million idled man days in August and wage offers debated.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Janes P. Mitchell
New York
David J. McDonald
Hagerty
Raymond J. Saulnier
President’s
California
James P.mitchell
Mitchell
Labor Department
Former Tic Tac Dough producer testifies on rigging ties
AP reports Howard Felsher testified he advised about 30 contestants to tie to the New York grand jury probe into rigging of quiz programs. He was fired by NBC for refusing to sign an affidavit denying contestant assistance. He alleged pressures tied to the case.
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New York
Grand Jury
Howard Felsher
National Broadcasting Co
Soviet Union unveils staged disarmament plan details
United Nations New York AP reports the Soviet Union presented more specifics of Premier Khrushchev’s broad disarmament proposal. The plan calls for international controls to be imposed gradually in staged steps as progress toward broader limits is achieved.
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