Carla Shifts North As Gulf Coast Braces for Carla
Hurricane Carla with 125 mph winds veers toward Louisiana and Texas coasts. The storm’s center sits about 420 miles southeast of Galveston as forecasters expect a more northerly path. Evacuations underway in low-lying Louisiana marshes. oil rigs halted and crews evacuated.
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New Orleans
Carla
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Texas
Walter Conner
Lake Charles
Gulf
Cameron LA After Audrey Devastation Narrows Town
In Cameron Louisiana hurricane Audrey 1959 left more than 500 dead and a surviving small core of less than 25 of the town’s 5000 residents. All stores and businesses were boarded up as the community faced ruin.
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Cameron
Disharmony May Snarl Pact Reuther
Walter P. Reuther warned that UAW GM talks may drag on if shop committees and plant managers fail to agree on working conditions. He said there is no chance of extending the 10 am Monday strike deadline against 129 GM plants. Reuther noted the Sept 11 date holds and unions have weekend time to finish negotiations or a strike could continue.
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Detroit
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corp
UAW
United States
Reuther
U S May Dispatch 40 000 To Europe
The Pentagon may announce the dispatch of about 40 000 U S troops to reinforce Germany amid the Berlin crisis. The move would raise European forces by around 16 percent from roughly 250 000, with first waves possibly ready by October. Generals Norstad and Decker described ongoing preparations and training for additional armored personnel carriers and mechanized units as National Guard divisions face potential call ups.
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Washington
Pentagon
Germany
U.S
Berlin
Europe
Atlantic
Lauris Norstad
7Th Army
George H. Decker
Army
Decker
Association of the
United States Army
National Guard
De Gaulle Escapes Injury In Fire Bomb Incident
In Paris a plastic bomb set on a country road failed to injure President Charles de Gaulle during a late night ride to Colombey. He shrugged it off saying it was a joke in bad taste and resumed travel after halted cars. Police arrested a suspect with unclear ties to the act.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Nugent
Romilly
Colombey-les-Deux Eglises
Woman shoots husband after threats in Gratis area
A Middletown area woman, Pauline Gibbs, 32, shot and killed her husband Rollie Gibbs, 49, a Sorg Paper Co. foreman, at their country home four miles south of Gratis on Route 122 shortly before 2:30 a.m. Gibbs had threatened his wife and ten children in the past. Sheriff John Stover said Gibbs was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds after Mrs. Gibbs called relatives and the sheriff. Gibbs had a history of violence, including a prior incident three weeks earlier when the sheriff took him into custody for threats and beating. Mrs. Gibbs was taken to the Preble County jail. Gibbs’ body went to the morgue after a post mortem.
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Middletown Area
Rollie Gibbs
Sorg Paper Co
Pauline Gibbs
Gratis
Route 122
John Stover
Preble County
Gibbs
Richard Liehl
Stover
Calvin Tucker
Middletown
Walter Williams
Seal
Preble
Eaton
Zimmerman
Dayton
West Getting Nowhere On Berlin Talks
Washington reports show Western efforts to establish a basis for Berlin negotiations with the Soviet Union have been unsuccessful so far. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said negotiations could begin once a serious dialog is possible, warning the Kremlin not to misread Western peace wishes as a concession to Berlin demands.
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Washington
Berlin
Soviet Union
U.S
Moscow
United Nations
Dean Rusk
Khrushchev
Rusk
West Berlin
Kremlin
West
Beauties Compete for Miss America Crown in Atlantic City
In Atlantic City 35 contestants seek the Miss America title with preliminaries over three nights. After Friday’s events Susan Ron Henryson of Fresno won the talent award and Maria Beale Fletcher of Asheville claimed the swim suit prize amid microphone mishaps and stage moments.
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East
West
North
California
North Carolina
Susan Ron Henryson
Fresno
Calif
Maria Beale Fletcher
Asheville
N.C
Bert Parks
Miss Henryson
Last Rites Performed For Talks On Nuclear Test Ban
Geneva AP says the United States Britain and the Soviet Union held burial rites for the 340 sessions of the nuclear test ban conference after the Soviets resumed tests. Kremlin delegate Tsarapkin was to reject the West last minute proposal. The deadline for an answer expired. The three powers may press to end the talks pending possible future resumption through diplomatic channels.
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Geneva
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Semyon K. Tsamipkin
Kremlin
U.S
Charles C. Steele
Michael Wright
Tsarapkin
Khrushchev Rejects Atmosphere Test Ban Offer
Soviet Premier Khrushchev rejected the U S British appeal for a ban on atmospheric nuclear tests. He urged a big power study of major world problems to avert nuclear war and warned the West against isolating disarmament from broader security aims.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
U.S
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Berlin
MacMillan
Ohio Solons Agree On Disarming Agency
Washington AP report says Sen. Frank J. Lausche and Sen. Stephen M. Young of Ohio joined the Senate majority in passing a bill by 73 to 14 to establish a new disarmament agency.
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Ohio
Solons
Washington
Frank J. Lausche
Stephen M. Young
Senate
Plane Lands Itself After Pilot Absent Over Burlington
Doren Bumgardner planned a short flight in Burlington Iowa but the Civil Air Patrol plane jumped its moorings and flew two hours with no one at the controls. Circling at 1200 feet over downtown then climbing to 12000 feet, it ran out of gas and crashed in a bean field near Aledo Illinois. Bumgardner, a six year pilot, suffered a spine and hip injury and was hospitalized after attempts to regain control failed.
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United States
Conner
Louisiana
Weather Bureau
Burlington, Iowa
Doren Bumgardner
Burlington
Civil Air Patrol
Municipal
Bummgardner
Illinois
J. L. Garmer
Aledo
Ill
Bumgardner
Moderate Rule Again In Brazil
In Brazil a moderate coalition government led by Tancredo Neves takes power amid protests from Goulart supporters. Neves, a financier, aims to revive growth while restraining spending, continuing close Western ties and shifting foreign policy from Quadros neutrality. Francisco San Tiago Dantas named foreign minister.
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Brasilia
Brazil
Janio Quadros
Joao Goulart
Goulart
Tancredo Neves
Juscelino Kubitschek
Neves
Kubitschek
Congress
Francisco San Tiago Dantas
Quadros
Four Years of College Ends with Graduates’ Question
The reader sees a humorous graduation quip as a girl reflects on four long years of college and asks, “and who has it got me.” The line captures light irony about the payoff of education.
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Stull
Louisiana Coast
Mississippi
Richard Thibodeaux
Cameron, la
Sorg
Utah
Atlantic City
N.J
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