Cuban sailors seize ship to seek asylum in United States
The Cuban merchant ship Bahia de Nipe bound for Soviet ports was taken over by 12 defectors led by Captain Jorge Navarro 300 miles east of Bermuda. They held 23 crew at gunpoint and radioed the U S Coast Guard from off Norfolk asking asylum as the vessel lay at Ft Story. The defectors divided prisoners into three groups and brought the ship ashore to the 5th Naval District for custody and feeding.
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Norfolk
UPI
United States
Wuessy
Lehiuiln
Jorge Agustin Navarro
Bahia de Nipe
Havana
Baltic Sea
Navarro
Bermuda
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Ft Story
Lynnhaven Anchorage
5Th Naval District
Johnson to visit Berlin as Kennedy envoy for West German support
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will fly to Berlin as President Kennedy’s personal representative to reassure West Germany of U.S. backing. He travels with retired Gen. Lucius Clay to meet Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Mayor Willy Brandt. Johnson may visit West Berlin or Bonn on arrival, with duration undecided.
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Washington
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Berlin
Kennedy
Johnson
Andrews Air Force Base
Air Force
Lucius Clay
U.S
Germany
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Brandt
East Berlin
Pierre Salinger
Clay
Bonn
Adenauer
Fat Contracts Go Out-Of-State In Louisiana
New Orleans AP report: Louisiana Engineering Society accuses state officials of bypassing local consultants and awarding major contracts for professional engineering services to out of state firms Hayden Harding and Buchanan Inc of Boston and E Lionel Pavie of New York City. LES chairman Alvin Fromherz says no Louisiana firm has won a contract of consequence in over a year and notes a Mobile Alabama firm Palmer and Baker has not yet finished a preliminary report delaying work.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Engineering Society
Louisiana
Alvin M. Froemherz
LES Functional Section Committee
Fromherz
Ted Price
State Board of Highways
Hayden, Harding and Buchanan, Inc
Boston
E. Lionel Pavie
New York City
Palmer and Baker, Inc
Mobile
Ala
East Berlin guards erect barricades amid Berlin crisis
East Germany builds brick walls inside East Berlin as refugees flee to West. Red guards fire on a truck rammed through barbed wire. the trio escapes unharmed into West Berlin. Adenauer vows stepped up NATO readiness and cooperation with Allies. Western powers mull token garrison increases and seek East West talks in hopes of reviving a German peace plan.
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Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
West Berlin
Soviet Union
Germany
London
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Kremlin
Begin Hoarding in West Berlin
BERLIN AP West Berlin housewives hoarded canned goods flour sugar baking powder peas and beans. City officials warned the heavy buying is unnecessary as no food or fuel shortage is expected. A 1948 49 blockade stockpile plan aims to keep the city going 18 months if isolated. Banks report small depositors withdrawing marks to buy.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Mild Weekend Forecast For Northeast Louisiana
A mild weekend is ahead with partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures. Widely scattered thundershowers are possible, with highs of 86 to 90 and lows of 70 to 74. Yesterday reached 87/74.
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Louisiana
Adenauer and Brandt Press Berlin Rights Crisis
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt condemned Communist Berlin barricades as human rights violations during the Bundestag opening. Brandt, a Socialist candidate, urged UN action and likened East Germany to a Great Wall of China while calling for real change in Berlin.
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Bonnn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Berlin
Bundestag
Soviet Union
Brandt
East Germany
Hungary
United Nations
China
Christian Democrat
World Forum
New Sterlington Officials To Be Sworn In Monday
Dr. Calvin Folds, mayor, announced the Sterlington council will be sworn in Monday after commissions arrived from Baton Rouge. He noted the incorporation proclamation on Tuesday, August 15, 1961, and thanked Senator Adcock and Reps Gibbs and John. The council will be sworn in at an early date and will meet soon after clerk B. S. McRaney administers oaths.
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Calvin Folds
Sterlington
Baton Rouge
Davis
Folds
Adcock
Gibbs
John
Dr. Folds
B. S. McRaney
Today’s Chuckle Contradiction About Wasting Time
A lighthearted quip notes the paradox that a man with an hour to spare shares it with someone who has none. The joke hinges on everyone’s different pace and priorities, prompting a smile at the common mismatch in schedules.
Census finds more married women than men in Monroe
Monroe's 1960 census shows 1,000 more married women than married men. The disparity stems from wives at home while husbands are stationed in the military and from men misreporting as bachelors. Deserted wives with children and unwed mothers also affect counts, the Census Bureau notes.
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Mary Ann Pardue
Washington
Monroe
Census Bureau
Bureau
Prof Killed By Gunman In Uruguay
A Montevideo University professor, Arbelio Ramirez, 45, was killed when a gunman fired seven shots at a crowd near the rear door Guevara used after a staged disturbance hours before Ernesto Guevara left the campus. Police say three men had caused the disruption and escaped after the shooting.
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Uruguay
Montevideo
UPI
Cuba
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
Guevara
Arbelio Ramires
Ramires
Runaway Bride Held In Carolina
Georgine Gorman aged 18, the Miami wedding runaway, was found near Columbia South Carolina and held for questioning by the Highway Patrol. Her father Harold Dale Gorman, a retired trucking executive, filed a Florida grand larceny warrant accusing her of stealing his sports car.
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Columbia, S.C
Miami
Fla
Here
South Carolina Highway Patrol
Georgine
Gigi) Gorman
Harold Dale Gorman
Florida
Rocky Pomerance
Gorman
Pomerance
Mother and four sons perish in house fire
In Vail Mills New York a mother and four of her young sons died in a blaze believed to be sparked by a defective heater. The father George Beekman Jr. 28 and two daughters were injured with Cathy Jo 15 months in critical condition Eunice 3 and Beekman in fair condition. Sheriff Pencheff said the father lit an oil heater after starting coffee on the gas stove then returned upstairs to wake others.
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Vail Mills
N.Y
API
George Beekman Jr
Cathy Jo
St. Mary's Hospital
Amsterdam
Beekman
Eunice
Chris Pencheff
Milwaukee housekeeper kills two young boys in bed
Milwaukee authorities say Lucille Adams a 24 year old housekeeper confessed to squeezing brothers Donald Craig four and Ronald Craig two to death in their bed. Detective statements note her pregnancy and lack of remorse as the father William Craig Jr 27 discovered the bodies and hospitalised after the shock. Adams claimed urges after children threw items around their five room apartment and that she was inspired by a Dubuque babysitter case.
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Milwaukee
UPI
Dist. Atty
William McCauley
Lucille Adams
Donald Craig
Ronald
McCauley
Miss Adams
William Craig Jr
Dubuque
Craig
Birds Swarm Ocean Resort In Santa Cruz Area
Thousands of birds invaded the Santa Cruz area spilling from Capitola to downtown. Traffic slowed as birds perched on rooftops and poles and many carcasses were found. University of California Berkeley zoology officials identified the birds as sooty shearwaters migrating north for squid.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Oceanside
Sheriff's Office
Capitola
Cadet Hand
University of California At Berkeley
Hand
Prisoner floods East Carroll Courthouse after drunken booking
Lake Providence special report notes 42 year old Jesse White ripped a water fixture from a wall at the East Carroll Parish Courthouse after a 1 30 a.m. arrest. Water two inches deep flooded the first floor. ceilings walls and chairs damaged. Offices of assessor registrar police jury district judge and sheriff’s department were harmed. records spared. White charged with damage to public property. trial set for September in district court.
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Lake Providence
East Carroll Parish
John W. Gilbert
Jesse White
Gilbert
White
Sheriff's Department
Senate Rejects Veto Proposal On Aid Loans
Washington AP The Senate rejected an amendment by Sen Winston L Prouty to grant Congress a veto over foreign aid grants above five million dollars, voting 59 to 30 against applying the same oversight as for development loans The vote came as leaders sought Senate passage of a foreign aid bill acceptable to President Kennedy and as the House moved toward rejecting long term foreign aid financing with potential conference talks likely on borrowing authority for three to four years
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Prouty
Kennedy
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
House
Jtoday
Two Young Summer Workers Found Safe Near Langs Peak
Estes Park Colorado AP reports two young summer workers missing since Wednesday were found unharmed. They emerged from the rugged Glacier Gorge Junction area about 3.5 miles from Langs Peak after a climb at the 14 255 foot summit.
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Estes Park
Colo
Langs Peak
Park Service
Glacier Gorge Junction
Easy to Tell Who's Boss Formula S D K Spells Success
New York AP reports on a satire noting the formula S equals D over K to gauge status in organizations. D counts doors opened, K counts keys carried, with examples like janitors having many weak keys to match mobility.
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New York
Robert Sommer
Worm Runner’s Digest
University of Michigan
Sommer
Saskatchewan Hospital
Weyburn
Canada
Distraught Wife Wipes Out Family in Atlanta Tragedy
AP reports a young housewife, Lammie Jean Kicklighter Richardson, shot her husband James C. Richardson and four children before killing herself. Police say she feared another pregnancy, later found to be two months along. Neighbors note she discussed pregnancy weeks earlier. The family perished in their beds and bathroom reloads were found with a mound of shells. The tragedy surfaced when the husband failed to report to work.
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Atlanta
Lammie Jean Kicklighter Richardson
Martha Katherine
Richardson
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