Fresh Cast In Estes Probe Touches Witness Row
Washington AP reports a heated Senate inquiry shifts to new witnesses as Estes investigations face political clashes between Sen. Mundt and Sec. Freeman. McClellan warns against spoilers while Mundt demands evidence and transparency, offering to involve DOJ or subcommittee colleagues.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
Freeman
Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Freeman-Mundt
Mundt
South Dakota
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Estes
Justice Department
Democratic Subcommittee
William Faulkner Dies in Oxford Hospital at 64
Nobel laureate William Faulkner, whose Yoknapatawpha County defined fiction, died at a hospital in Oxford after returning from Virginia. The death was attributed to a heart attack.
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Oxford
Miss
William Faulkner
Mississippi
Yoknapatawpha
UCU
University of Virginia
Poison obsessed boy begins 15 year asylum term
London United Press International reports 14 year old Graham Young started a 15 year sentence in an asylum for the criminally insane after a pattern of poisoning his family and others. He carried poison at all times, collected poisons from books, studied them, and moved from poisoning objects to people. Police traced samples to his school and his allowance money funded buying substances.
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London
UPI
Graham Young
Young
Winifred
Woman Offers Fortune to Muslim Sect in LA Incident
In Los Angeles a 52 year old white woman, Helen Herman, tried to donate 11427 to the Black Muslim sect outside the Temple of Islam. She was ignored and later found with 649 shares of blue chip stock worth about 30040 sewn into her undergarments. She claimed she would cash stocks as letters arrived, saying she believed everyone would die.
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Los Angeles
Helen Herman
Santa Monica
Chicago
Central Receiving Hospital
General Hospital
Temple of Islam
Cora Weaver
Too Far For Just A Meal
Washington reports Nobel Prize winners invited to a White House dinner hosted by President and Mrs Kennedy last April. Faulkner explained he did not attend deeming the trip a hundred miles away and a long way to go just for a meal.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
Faulkner
Mason degree conferral by Crossett team in Louisiana
Most Worshipful Grand Master Dwight W. Dahmes and other distinguished Masons will witness the conferring of the Master Masons Degree by the Crossett Arkansas degree team Saturday after dinner at 6 30 p m All Master Masons are cordially invited.
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Masons Grand Lodge
Louisiana
Dwight W. Dahmes
Crossett, Ark
Documents of Jackson Parish Wash Up in Records
A fragment referencing Jackson Parish documents noted as written material and cross‑referenced on CHIT-CHAT page 5A, signaling archival handling. The readable bits imply administrative or clerical records needing fuller retrieval.
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Jackson Parish
Woman Finds Pink Panties in Toronto Prank
Shriners at a convention were pranked when men in the street flashed a pair of pink panties and asked if they had been lost. A woman responded not blushing, took the items, and placed them in her purse as she walked away.
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Toronto
Shooting Erupts Again In Oran Algeria
Europeans run for cover as shooting erupts in Oran with casualties unconfirmed today. An earlier toll from Thursday’s conflict tops 100 dead while rival Muslim factions press for leadership. Algeria seeks Arab League mediation as Ben Khedda’s provisional government appeals for U S recognition.
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Algiers
Antil Oran
Agebia
Arab League
Cairo
Information Minster
Youssef Ben Khedda
United States
Riots Provoke Brazilian Army Calms Rio Area
Brazilian troops enforced calm after mobs looted more than 100 stores in Duque de Caxias near Rio de Janeiro. Mayor Adolfo Daci said 15 people were killed and over 100 injured as 1st Army units ended the violence. Similar food riots occurred in Sao Joao do Meriti and Nova Iguacu amid a general strike over price controls.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Duque de Caxias
Adolfo Daci
1St Army
Rio
Sao Joao Do Meriti
Nova Iguacu
Joao ‘Goulart
Goulart
Rio Grande Do Sul
Leonel Brizola
Niteroi
Youth Killed In Drag Race On Airline Highway
In New Orleans a high speed drag race on Air Line highway ended in the death of 20 year old Camile P Dufour of Aganam Dufour died when his car struck a utility pole near the city limits. He was decapitated and extricated after more than two hours. A second youth in a white car fled the scene after sideswiping Dufour. Police reported speeds up to 1060 mph before the crash and electric lines fell on the car, with 110,000 volts arcing into the air. An AP report notes investigators issued a lookout for the white car and utility crews shut off power to eight blocks to rescue the victim.
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New Orleans
Camile P. Dufour
Aggaman
Dufour
Donald Brisolara
Weather Forecast Sees Heat Wave With Humidity Rise
Hot humid conditions dominate the day with a forecast high near today’s percent and humidity around A 4 percent. Winds of five to 15 mph from Whitlandbiff bring hot air. Thursday’s high reached 94, low 71, and tonight’s low should be 74. Skies will be clear to partly cloudy, with Saturday similar. Sunset near 7:19 p.m., sunrise Saturday about 5:07 a.m.
Compromise Hinted In Doctor Strike In Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan deputy premier said the government will push the compulsory medical plan but may consider a special session to amend the Health Act to allow doctors to practice outside it. Premier Lloyd possibly on mediation mission as doctors strike enters sixth day. emergency services shrink as volunteers quit.
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Regina
Sask
Saskatchewan
J. H. Brockelbank
Brockerbank
Woodrow S. Lloyd
Canada
Lloyd
Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons
Dori McMillan
Saskatchewan Hospital Association
Sam Landa
Canadian Medical Commission
Saskatoon
Brockelbank
Citizens’ Safety Committee
Negina
Crane operator halts jump from fifth floor window
New York AP reports crane operator Dominick Amendolara 4 of East Meadow N Y spotted Ellen Anderson 66 on a fifth floor sill. He moved the crane to block the leap while Detective Daniel Keogh rushed to the apartment. Anderson was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
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New York
Dominick Amendolara
East Meadow
N.Y
Ellen Anderson
Bellevue Hospital
FDA attacks dieting book Calories Don't Count
Washington UPI The FDA denounces the best selling health book Calories Don’t Count as promoting worthless pills and accuses its ghost written author Dr Herman Taller and publisher Cove Vitamin of financial interests in a CDC pill scheme. Cove withdrew the product and recalled pills after an FDA seizure and hearings. Ed Bobley of Cove blames publisher Simon and Schuster for the controversy.
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Washington
UPI
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
George P. Larrick
Herman Taller
Core Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Inc
CDC
Larrick
Dr. Taller
Taller
Cove Vitamin
Cove
Ed Bobley
Glen Cove
N.Y
Simon and Schuster Inc
Nevada set to detonate first above ground test since 1958
CAMP MERCURY Nev AP the Atomic Energy Commission plans a Saturday detonation of a thermonuclear device in the Nevada test site to demonstrate shallow above ground explosions for potential harbor and canal creation. The test, described as under 20 kilotons and about 30 percent fission yield, remains shrouded in secrecy.
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Camp Mercury
Nev
United States
Nevada
Atomic Energy Commission
Desert Proving Ground
Pacific
Philippine Sea
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Far East
AEC
Witnesses Describe Murder Plot In Phoenix Case
In Phoenix a retired Air Force sergeant and a truck driver testified that Samuel L. Resnick of Albany hired them to kill him claiming incurable cancer. Five Phoenix area defendants admit involvement in the strangling of Resnick, with others saying Resnick sought the murder for double insurance benefits.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Air Force
Samuel L. Resnick
Albany
N.Y
Phoenix Area
Ro EF. Jackson
Clemmie
Ernest Spurlock
Jesse Tillis
John Henry Lewis Jones
Resmick
James B. O'Grady
Phoenix
Resnick
O'Grady
Alfred L. Schroeder
Schroeder
Schroder
Sugar Lobbying Probe Ordered Over Foreign Influence
A Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Thomas J. Dodd will probe foreign agents paying sugar lobbyists to influence the sugar bill. Officials say lobbyists earned over 500000 from foreign clients with some fees up to 50 cents a ton. Kennedy calls the situation unfortunate while noting legality depends on registration rules.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Three Youths Spanked For Beer Drinking in Whiting
In Whiting Indiana three youths ages 16 to 17 were spanked by two policemen and a bailiff after being convicted of beer and brandy drinking at Whiting Beach. The youths Steve Shorr 16 Peter Welcome 17 and James Hunt 16 received 15 whacks each with 250 spectators present. They also face shaven heads haircuts not more than a half inch high beach cleanup duties every Saturday until Labor Day and examinations on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Cardona 15 got 30 days in jail and a $65 fine for intoxication prior offenses. The judge, William Obermiller, has presided about two years.
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James Hunt
Daniel M. Cardona
Whiting Beach
Obermiller
Cardona
Ex-Legionnaire Executed in Paris Firing Squad
Roger Degueldre a 37 year old ex lieutenant of the Foreign Legion was executed at Fort d Ivry near Paris for leading the Secret Army terror campaign to keep Algeria French. He faced charges over the May 1961 murder of police commissioner Roger Gavoury in Algiers and was named as the man who ordered OAS killer commandos to shoot Algerian Muslims.
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Paris
UPI
Roger Degueldre
The
Foreign Legion
Fort d D’yvry
Secret Army
Algeria
Degueldre
Roger Gavoury
Algiers
Albert Dovecar
Legion
Claude Pigets
OAS
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Italy
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Spain
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Japan
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