Prison revolt ends as tank sentries force surrender
Eight convicts seized 25 hostages at the Tennessee penitentiary and faced a tear gas assault from an Army tank before surrendering. Officials said ringleaders were Raymond Farra and Robert Rivera, with multiple inmates named for various violent crimes. Governor Ellington said authorities planned to use a tank in such emergencies.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tate
Abll
Keith Hampton
Parole Board
Tennessee
Hampton
Raymond Farra
Robert Rivera
Rivera
Farra
Buford Ellington
White Sulphy Springs
W. Va
Associated Press
Three Teens Die in Highway 35 Crash Near Kaukauna
Three Sherwood youths Gerald Holback 18 Shirev Kirwan 17 and James Weazoner 73 were killed in a three car crash on Highway 35 two miles south of Kaukauna. Gary Louis 18 injured seriously and six others hurt as drivers attempted to pass. Separate Belo crash killed Everett Grant 75 when a semi tractor trailer struck a station wagon on Highway 15.
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Associated Press
Kaukauna
Wisconsin
Gerald Holback
Shirev Kirwan
James Weazoner
Sherwood
Gary
Louis
Everett Grant
Green County
Brodhead
Highway 15
Belo
Rock County
Grant
Navy to Increase Fleet by 42 Ships
The Navy plans to add 42 ships and a new attack carrier to reach 861 total by June 30 1962. Government officials say three build up methods will keep aging vessels in service pull mothballed ships out of retirement and deliver new ones. The plan also expands amphibious transport ships and preserves 26 000 personnel.
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Washington
Navy
Mso
Perch
Sea Lion
Hell
Air Training Command
Reinz Iraiming
Random Air Force Base
Texas
Chisago
Millionth passenger aboard river steamer wins prizes
Michael Barclay, a non smoker and non drinker, received a bottle of wine and a discreet lighter for being the river steamer's one millionth passenger. He accepted a two pound box of chocolates as part of the prize bundle.
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London
UPI
Michael Barclay
Wisconsin Synod Breaks With Missouri over Doctrine
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod voted 124 to 49 to sever relations with the Missouri Synod over a church fellowship dispute. The Wisconsin group has about 350,000 members in 18 states and Ontario, while Missouri numbers near 2 million. The split ends 89 years of fellowship.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Synod
States
Ontario
North America
Price Rigging Charged Against Wonder Drug Makers
Three major drug makers Pfizer Cyanamid and Bristol-Myers plus top executives were indicted on price rigging and monopoly charges. The government says they controlled about 70 percent of antibiotics like aureomycin terramycin and tetracycline and kept prices high, with a 1959 drug market of about 250 million dollars.
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New York
Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc
John E. McKeen
American Cyanamid Co
Wilbur G. Malcolm
Bristol Myers Co
Frederic N. Schwartz
U.S. Patent Office
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
E. R. Squibb & Sons
Upjohn Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Pfizer
Cyanamid
Bristol-Myers
Bristol- ‘Myers
Squibb and Upjohn
Tatter
Senate Aims To Pass Aid Setup Today
Washington AP Admin forces hope to pass a five year foreign aid bill by tonight. The Senate voted 50 to 45 to retain five year borrowing authority for economic development loans to struggling nations, rejecting Capehart's three year limit. House moves toward rejecting long term financing, aiming for a conference with the Senate on a possible compromise. Kennedy sought 8.4 billion over five years as borrowing and loan use are considered.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Homer E. ‘Capehart
R-Ind
House
Treasury
Johnson to Visit Berlin and Bonn This Weekend
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson will fly to Berlin and Bonn this weekend at President Kennedy's request to reassure West Germany amid the Soviet crisis. Consideration is being given to a possible token increase in the Western garrison, though officials have not confirmed plans. The decision reportedly rests with Kennedy, British Prime Minister Macmillan, and French President de Gaulle.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Berlin
Bonn
Kennedy
Russia
United States
West Berlin
London
State Department
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Ask Moscow To Hold Talks In Berlin Crisis
Berlin dispatch reports Western Allies draft new messages to Moscow for high level talks on Germany and Berlin. East-West ministers could meet as Khrushchev demands a disarmed neutral West Berlin and separate peace treaties with East and West Germany. West German officials urge patience while Brandt seeks stronger action such as seizing West Berlin rail lines, but Allied commanders remain cautious.
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Berlin
Germany
London
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Kremlin
Khrushchev
West Berlin
West
East Germany
Washington
Franz Joseph Strauss
Munich
Willy ‘Brandt
Brandt
West Ber
No Greed London Personal Notice
A London Times Personal column notice reads Now avaricious landlady sought by famous influential man. The brief ad hints at a notable figure seeking a match with a wealth minded landlady.
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London
UPI
London Times
Cuban cargo ship castaways seek asylum in U.S.
Ten Cuban crew members from the Castro regime traveled aboard the Bahia de Nipe were taken to Norfolk Naval Station after diverting from Cuba to seek political asylum. Coast Guard and immigration officials questioned them as the vessel, loaded with cars and sugar, anchored in Lynnhaven Roads near Chesapeake Bay. The Swiss government is handling U.S. affairs in Havana but had no immediate comment on refugee status.
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Norfolk
Fidel
Cuba
Bahia de Nipe
Coast Guard
Tain
Cutter
United States
Folk Naval Station
Naval
Joy Immigration and Customs
5Th Naval District
Lynnhaven
Tance
Chesapeake Bay
U.S
Havana
Fic
Bahia de Sipe
Ashhes
Lunnhaven
Russia
Baha de Nipe
Washington
Department, Coast Guard
Immigration, Customs and Health
Tax Revision Bill Heads To Governor Nelson In Wisconsin
A Republican sponsored tax revision bill proposes a 3 percent sales levy and income tax withholding. If signed by Gov. Gaylord Nelson, it would start Oct 1 and raise about 192 million dollars yearly, with 316.2 million in the current biennium due to delay. The measure includes repealing personal property taxes in 1963, real property relief, and a $12 per person refundable offset against income taxes, with exemptions and brackets to be set by the tax department.
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Madison
Gaylord Nelson
Lsted
State Tax Department
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John Dean Bohanan
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State Synod
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