Reds Play Leader In UN Plans
United Nations coverage centers on Soviet proposals shaping disarmament and outer space issues. Khrushchev’s push for global arms scrap and an international space conference dominates the Assembly stage while Western powers face backlash over a Tibet debate raising neutral concerns and East-West tensions.
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United Nations
N.Y
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Khrushchev
Assembly
Eisenhower
Tibet
L.g
U.N
U. N
Snow and Rain Sweep Nation Trigger Cold Front
Icy air surged into the plains from northern Wyoming to the Dakotas, ending a Friday warm spell. Minot North Dakota added five inches of new snow while Glasgow Montana reported two inches. South Atlantic states saw showers, with Greensboro North Carolina and Tallahassee Florida recording heavy rains. Temperatures dropped from New York through Ohio with Zanesville Ohio at 44 degrees, while the Pacific Northwest cleared and the Southwest enjoyed fair skies.
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Wyoming
Dakotas
Minot
N. C
Glasgow
Mont
South Atlantic
Virginia
Florida
Greensboro
N.C
Tallahassee
Fla
New York State
Ohio Valley
Zanesville
Ohio
Pacific Northwest
South
Central Plains
Compton Liness Is Under Study
Nobel laureate Dr. Arthur H. Compton, 66, longtime Washington University leader, is seriously ill in St. Louis after arriving from Michigan with illness. Doctors planned further examinations to determine the illness while noting stabilization after prior abdominal surgery at Barnes Hospital last July with a dacron arterial repair.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Arthur H. Compton
Compton
Washington University
St. Louis
Michigan
Barnes Hospital
Barnes
Todaws Chuckle on River Bank Onion Peels River Kwai
A quirky scene unfolds as Todaws and others peel onions along the riverbank. The activity prompts a playful reference to the River Kwai, suggesting a lighthearted local vignette rather than a formal event.
Macmillan Hopes To Arrange For Summit Meeting
London AP Harold Macmillan wins an overwhelming mandate to push for a Western summit as early as next month. He favors quick action with Khrushchev while De Gaulle and Adenauer weigh delaying talks till after Eisenhower’s visit to the Soviet Union. Conservatives win 364 seats to 258 in a landslide, with two districts still undecided.
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London
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Charles de Gaulle
Konrad Adenauer
de Gaulle
Adenauer
Soviet Union
Two Teens Die In Ohio Auto Crash Near Mechanicsburg
In Mechanicsburg area two teen girls, Carol Jean Duwel 18 and Marjorie Beckey 17, died after a head on collision between a Lennart car driven by Patricia Lennart 18 of Sidney and a Booze car driven by Fred Booze 44 of Urbana on Ohio 29.Six other people were seriously hurt and hospitalized including Judy Kiser 17 and Lois Elsas. Booze's son Richard was taken to University Hospital in Columbus. The crash occurred Friday night near Mechanisburg.
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London
Ohio
Mechanicsburg
Highway Patrol
Carol Jean Duwel
Rt. 1
Houston
Shelby County
Marjorie Beckey
Rt. 2
Delphos
Patricia Lenhart
Rt. 6
Sidney
Judy Kiser
Lois Elsas
Jackson Center
Urbana
Fred L Booze
Booze
Joyce Caldwell
Richard
University Hospital
Columbus
Teenager Seeks Leniency in Drugstore Slaying
In Cincinnati, Huston Nelson aged 17 contends he was drunk during the February 9 robbery and murder of 61-year-old druggist Bernice Wilson. The defense finished testimony Friday, arguing lack of intent to kill while facing first degree murder and armed robbery charges.
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Cincinnati
Huston Nelson
Bernice Wilson
Atlas Test Last Night Is Success
Cape Canaveral reports an 85 foot Atlas launch on an intercontinental range flight over the Atlantic with a seemingly perfect lift off. At Eglin Air Force Base a 47 foot Bomarc was destroyed after launch and fell into the Gulf. The Atlas tests aim to improve accuracy for potential nuclear delivery to 6300 miles.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
U.S
Atlantic
Eglin Air Force Base
Gulf of Mexico
Cape
Four space launches set for U.S. schedule this year
An informed source said Friday that the moon shot, expected late in November, is one of four space launches on the U.S. schedule here this year. The others include an experimental transit navigation satellite to be boosted aloft by a Thor-Able, and two scientific satellites to be carried by Juno II rockets.
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U.S
Hike in Dues to be Asked for Strikes Hike
Atlantic City AP report notes supporters of President Walter P. Reuther will urge the United Auto Workers convention to raise basic monthly dues from 3 to 5.50 dollars. Secretary-Treasurer Mazey says 1.50 goes to a 46 million dollar strike fund in 1961, fund now about 15 million. He adds 2.25 to locals and 1.75 to the international.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers Convention
Emil Mazey
The
International
Fatal sawmill accident claims life in Waverly area
William Musser, 63, of Route 3 Lucasville in Scioto County, died Friday after a band saw board struck him in the face during a sawmill accident near Waverly Ohio. Sheriff Jesse Foster reported the incident.
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Waverly
Ohio
Willaim Musser
Rt. 3
Lucasville
Scioto County
Here
Jesse Foster
Townsend to Marry Belgian in Brussels
AP reports 44 year old Peter Townsend engaged to Marie-Luce Jamagne 21 daughter of a wealthy tobacco industrialist. The Belgian bride known as Moustique aided Townsend in documentary work and traveled with him. no wedding date announced. Townsend’s past romance with Princess Margaret ended in 1955 amid church remarriage objections.
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Brussels
Belgium
Peter Townsend
Britain
Princess Margaret
RAF
Marie-Luce Jamagne
Townsend
Marie-Luce
Moustique
Mosquito
Margaret
Church of England
Broadcaster Receives Million Find From Connecticut Widow
New York AP reports radio host and his foundation gain over a million dollars in the will of May Rockwell Page of Bristol Connecticut. She died at 88 leaving 22,000 GM shares to the Happiness Exchange Foundation aimed at aiding the needy. The broadcaster, a constant late night listener to WABC, plans careful investment of the bequest.
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New York
Connecticut
General Motors
May Rockwell Page
Bristol
Ne Win Ends 44 Hour India Visit Amid Border Tensions
New Delhi reports prime ministers Nehru and Ne Win concluded a 44 hour stay with talks on tensions along the borders with Red China. No communique was issued.
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New Delhi
India
Ne Win
Nehru
End To Steel Strike Can't Come Quickly
In Lackawanna New York steelworker John Kowaluk hopes a court injunction halting the 88 day strike will allow about 80 days of work. He and wife Caroline describe dire finances, unemployment checks, and savings drained while awaiting Taft Hartley law action.
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Lackawanna
N.Y
John Kowaluk
Kowaluk
Buffalo Area
Bethlehem Steel Co
Caroline
Gary
George W. Taylor
War Labor Board and Wage Stabilization Board
Yom Kippur Opens Sunday
New York AP reports Yom Kippur, the Jewish faiths most solemn day, begins at sundown Sunday for adherents worldwide. It means Day of Atonement and calls for fasting, self examination, and prayer for forgiveness and moral renewal through the last service at dusk Monday marked by the shofar blast.
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New York
Susan Weld Officially Changes Name to Tuesday Weld
In Santa Monica California a Superior Court approved actress Susan Weld changing her name to Tuesday Weld ending years of use as Tuesday. Her mother Aileen Weld testified she has called her daughter Tuesday since she was two months old.
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Calif
Susan Weld
Tuesday Weld
Superior Court
Susan
Tuesday
Aileen Weld
Dutch radio operator pleads loneliness as wife urged to join him
Willem Van Rie, a Dutch radio operator jailed in Boston awaiting trial for the shipboard slaving of Miss Kauffman, pleads via letters urging his wife Nel to join him. His lawyers say funds and Dutch consular support cover travel and living expenses for Nel during the case. Kauffman was found beaten and drowned after an affair aboard the freighter Utrecht during its Singapore to New York voyage.
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Willem van Rie
Holland
Wy Mauliman
van Rie
Boston Globe
Edward A. Costello
Rijen
W. Langdon Powers
Frans van Heem- Stra
Nel
Powers
van Heelmstra
Suffolk County
United States
Rotterdam
Utrecht
Miss. Kauffman
New York
Dance Team Split Ends Marriage in Stamford Divorce
Bam bi Linn Burke of Westport won an uncontested divorce from Rod Alexander on Friday charging mental cruelty. Alexander was in the Orient on a dance tour. Linn Burke waives alimony but gains custody of daughter Belinda, 2, and $220 monthly support. Limited visitation for Alexander and Belinda to receive unspecified stock.
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Stamford, Conn
Bambi Linn
Rod Alexander
Miss Linn
Rod Alexander Burke
Westport
Alexander
Orient
Belinda
Perishables Take Priority at Docks as Strike Ends
The eight day strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association disrupted ports from Maine to Texas. 85,000 dockers returned to work after a federal court order, with perishables valued at about 30 million dollars moved first. Shippers say losses reached roughly 160 million. Talks resume October 19.
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Maine
Texas
Raa
Atlantic
Eisenhower
International
Northern Ports
Ike Ends Walkout Used By Ike To End Walkout
Norman Walker reports that President Ike relied on a decisive move to resolve the walkout, ending the industrial dispute and restoring normal operations. The administration employed strategic leadership and coordinated messaging to defuse tensions and bring workers back.
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Ike
Eisenhower invokes Taft-Hartley to end steel strike
President Eisenhower uses Taft Hartley to set hearings for a week to try to mediate the 88 day steel strike. George Taylor John Perkins and Paul Lehoczky lead the inquiry with a deadline next Friday. steelworkers leaders criticize the move while workers in Pittsburgh protest and hint at a new walkout during the holidays.
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George W. Taylor
Philadelphia
John Perkins
Newark
Del
Eisenhower
Washington
Taylor
University of Delaware
Paul N. Lehoczky
Ohio State University
David J. McDonald
Pittsburgh
McDonald
Bob Geddis
Ike
Inspector McCrea Reflects on Work Return and Relief
Robert McCrea, a 31 year inspector, says he would not return to work but has no alternative. He notes he went on relief but is not ashamed of it.
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Robert McCrea
Will Van Doren Face Question At TV Quiz Hearing
Congress probes TV quiz show rigging as Charles Van Doren faces possible testimony. The former Twenty-One jackpot winner denies knowledge of fixes while FCC FTC challenge authority and schedule shifts loom. subcommittee chairs press producers and witnesses.
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Charles van Doren
van Doren
Columbia University
National Broadcasting Co
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John C. Doerfer
Federal Communications Commission
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FTC
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Harris
Cwiz
Daniel Enright
Moniday
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