Train Robbery at Cheddington Blew Up by Masked Bandits
A group of 20 to 30 masked robbers halted the Glasgow London mail train near Cheddington after signaling deception, bludgeoned engineer Jack Mills and escaped with loot possibly exceeding seven figures. The post office warned the haul may top a million pounds, including registered mail and currency.
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London
Cheddington
England
Reginald Bevins
Hatton Market
Jack Mills
Mills
David Whitby
Kennedy Baby In Serious Condition
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, newborn son of the President, remained in serious condition at Boston Children’s Medical Center after his first night. President Kennedy visited the baby and press secretary Pierre Salinger noted the condition was still serious but improved slightly and hopeful, with limited White House updates forthcoming from the hospital.
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Boston
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Boston Children’s Medical Center
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
White House
Kennedy rushes to Boston for hospitalized newborn son
President Kennedy altered plans and flew from Cape Cod to Boston after doctors advised, as Patrick Bouvier Kennedy remains in serious condition with breathing difficulties. Jacqueline Kennedy recuperates at Otis Air Force Base following the premature birth on Wednesday.
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Boston
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Patrick Bouvier
Otis Air Force Base
Jacqueline
President visits baby in hospital before Cape Cod transfer
The President spent about thirty minutes at the hospital where the infant remains in serious condition with an idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome diagnosis. He declined to discuss case details, and then departed by helicopter to Otis Air Force Base Hospital on Cape Cod, the baby's birthplace earlier in the week.
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Tion
Salinger
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
Bryant Denies Receiving Data From Butts
Alabama coach Paul Bear Bryant testified in the libel trial of Wally Butts against Curtis Publishing, denying any receipt of Georgia plays or formations. He said if given such information he would not have accepted it and would not betray his own team. The testimony marked a dramatic moment as the case opened.
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Atlanta
Alabama
Paul ‘Bear
Bryant
Georgia
Wally Butts
Butts
Curtis Publishing Co
Curtis
William H. Schrader Jr
University of Georgia
Kennedy Pushes Test Ban Pact Near Senate Floor
President Kennedy sent a message urging ratification of the nuclear test ban pact as signatories from Brazil Argentina and the United Arab Republic joined in Washington. Delegations from many nations planned to sign in London and Moscow as approval moves toward the Senate.
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Kennedy
Senate
Washington
London
Moscow
Sir Howard Beale
State Department
Brazil
Argentina
United Arab Republic
Pickets Return to Brooklyn Hospital Site Dispute
Pickets reentered a Brooklyn hospital construction site defying a truce declared by Negro clergymen after a talk with Gov Rockefeller. Police managed movement of supply trucks as demonstrations spread to Rochdale Village in Queens and other sites. CORE leaders and NAACP officials reiterated demands for more minority hiring while officials in Washington asserted no discrimination by firms or unions.
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New York
Brooklyn
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Rochdale Village
Queens
Long Island
Congress of Racial Equality
Lincoln Lynch
Rockefeller
Robert F. Wagner
Arnold Goldwag
Brooklyn Core
Brooklyn Hospital
Goldwag
Downstate Medical Center
William A. Jones Jr
Paul Gibson
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Rochdale Apartments
Jamaica
Washington
Department of Labor
Flood Damages in Buffalo Hit $35 Million
Floods caused by torrential rains swamped Buffalo and suburbs with up to 3.88 inches, forcing 300 people from homes. Mayor Kowan put public facility losses at $7 million and private damage at $28 million. emergency declared as power, phones and buses failed. Governor Rockefeller mobilized state crews amid contamination fears and widespread evacuations including Cheektowaga schools.
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Buffalo
N.Y
East Side
Chester Kowan
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Cheektowaga
Buffalo Zoo
Clayton F Freiheit
Zoo
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Grace Trautman
Norman N. Darnell
Twin City Chit Chat and Baby Duke Patton Birth
A breakfast overheard exchange at the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home among residents ends with a cottage mother correcting grammar. Mr and Mrs James D Patton announce the birth of their first son Duke at St Francis hospital at 5 33 p m Wednesday, naming him as a junior.
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Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
David
Tim
Walter Ray Weeks
James D. Patton
North 12
Patton
St. Francis Hospital
Duke
United Givers’ Funds Headquarters
Bossier City waitress stabbed in early morning attack
A 20 year old Bossier City night club waitress named Carol Johnson was found in her apartment with three stab wounds to the stomach and multiple facial and body injuries. She remained in serious condition at a local hospital. No suspects or motive were yet known.
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Shreveport
UPS
Bossier City
Carol Johnson
Blood donor aids First Lady at birth event
Airman John M. Bolger of Jersey City New Jersey donated two pints of A negative RH positive blood to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the birth of her son. The event took place at Otis Air Force Base Massachusetts on Wednesday.
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Otis Air Force Base
Mass
Jacqueline Kennedy
John M. Bolger
Jersey City
N.J
Negro leaders fuel GOP civil rights vote concerns
In Farmville Virginia a meeting of Prince Edward County Negroes is planned to discuss a proposed remedial education program. In Washington Senator Thruston B Morton the Senate GOP campaign chairman warned that criticism from Negro leaders was hindering Republican support for a strong civil rights bill.
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Farmville
Prince Edward County
Washington
UPI
Thruston B. Morton
Senate
GOP
Train Crash Kills Driver and Brakeman in Indiana
An 83 car freight train collided with a skidding beer truck near Michigan City Indiana. The trucker William Warren and head brakeman Lovi Mosey died. Injured engine Loyd Chambers and fireman Gen Maycroft were hospitalized. A witness said the truck could not stop at the U.S. 20 crossing.
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Michigan City
Ind
Chesapeake & Ohio
William Warren
Grand Rapids
Mich
Lovi Mosey
Loyd Chambers
Gen Maycroft
Muskegon
Michigan City Memorial Hospital
Maycroft
Chambers
Walt Carlson
New Buffalo
U.S. 20
Cotton Crops Show Progress On Week Of Rain Delays
Louisiana and parts of Mississippi cotton crops advanced generally well amid weekly reports from federal agriculture officials. Frequent showers hindered maturation and caused some boll rot in early rank cotton, but crop conditions remained favorable and growers were optimistic. New Orleans spot trading moved slowly while interest in new crop cotton edged up.
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New Orleans
Oreans
Storm Arlene Near Bermuda With Hurricane Force
Tropical storm Arlene regained hurricane strength and is forecast to strike Bermuda Friday morning. The 11 am advisory put winds at 75 mph near the center, with gusts higher, and the center about 350 miles southwest of Bermuda and 675 miles east of Daytona Beach. The storm moves northeast at six mph, with gale winds extending 150 miles. Forecasters expect the system to accelerate to roughly 12 mph and pass northwest of Bermuda, after previously threatening the Leeward Islands. Arlene’s history includes penetration by a hurricane hunter on Aug 2, when it was a 100 mph hurricane, later downgraded to a tropical storm on Aug 4 and then to an easterly wave by midnight.
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Miami
Fla
Arlene
Miami Weather Bureau
Bermuda
Daytona Beach
Young Demo Leader Dies In Plane Crash
Roy Schafer 37 former president of the national Young Democrats was found dead in a small plane wreck on Laurel Mountain near Ligonier Pennsylvania. A surviving passenger, Philip Asher 33 of Bethel Park, an engineer for radio station WWSW in Pittsburgh, was located among the wreckage 18 miles east of Ligonier.
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Ligonier, Pa
Roy Schafer
National Young Democrats Organization
Laurel Mountain
Philip Asher
Bethel Park
Pttsburgh
WWSW
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Cloudy Skies Are Forecast Today Through Friday
Weather shows little change with partly cloudy skies and scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoons and evenings. Highs stay in the mid 90s through Friday, with tonight's lows from 72 to 78 degrees and variable winds of 5 to 12 mph.
Public life insurance worth 730 billion in 1962
The Institute of Life Insurance reports that American policyholders held life insurance totaling 730 billion dollars at the close of 1962.
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The
Institute of Life Insurance
Fall Kickoff Politics Aplenty Ahead For State
Louisiana voters face a busy fall and winter with a December 7 first Democratic primary for governor and state offices followed by spring city elections in 1964. Voters will see early 1964 primaries then a general election in the spring with Republicans also contesting posts. Monroe mayoral and city races plus parish school board elections are noted for May 1964 local ballots.
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Sam Hanna
Louisiana
House
Senate
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Parish
Chuckle on tidy homes and grandchild chaos
Wry quip notes that as the youngest children learn to keep a house neat, the oldest grandchildren arrive to tear it apart, capturing a humorous cycle of family life. The remark underscores household mayhem across generations.
South Africa Defies UN and Maintains Apartheid Policy
The UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a worldwide arms embargo on South Africa to pressure an end to racial segregation. Britain and France abstained, signaling non-enforcement by some members, while Liberia warned African states may push for stronger measures in November if policy does not change.
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United Nations, N.Y
South Africa
U.N. Security Council
U.N
J. Rudolph Grimes
Liberia
Britain
France
Roger Seydoux
Patrick Dean
Dean
Charles W. Yost
United States
Invasion Claims Split as Haitian Exiles Advance
Exile sources in the Dominican Republic say insurgents led by Gen Leon Cantave push toward Cap Haitien and Gonaives as government officials claim the invasion was crushed after hours of fighting in north Haiti. Government figures say Cantave is not in Haiti and that the rebels were routed.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Dominican Republic
George J. Figaro
Duvalier
Leon Cantave
Adrien Raymond
Foreign Office
Cantave
Santo Domingo
Cap Haitien
Gonaives
Postmaster Discloses Santa Has Zip Code
Postmaster General J Edward Day announced this year’s Christmas stamp and revealed Santa Claus has ZIP code 99701. The 5 cent stamp shows a three color view of the White House Christmas tree. Day retires Friday after 24 years in office.
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Washington
J. Edward Day
Santa Claus
White House
Maureen Harris
Mike Blake
Grass Valley
Calif
Day
National Tuberculosis Association
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