Missing trio hunt continues in Mississippi
Presidential fact finder Allen Dulles says he sees no likely explosion in Mississippi over the disappearance of three civil rights workers Michael Schwerner Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. Sailors FBI agents and Mississippi highway patrolmen search swamps near Philadelphia with hundreds of troops, while civil rights leaders call for action and White House talks loom.
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Philadelphia
Miss
Allen Dulles
Deep South
U.S
Mississippi
Johnson
Meridian Naval Air Auxiliary Station
FBI
Michael Schwerner
Andrew Goodman
New York City
James Chaney
Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney
Jackson
Paul B. Johnson
LBJ
Aaron Henry
Clarksdale
Charles Evers
White House
Henry
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evrs
Medgar Evers
Meridian
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Othr
Red China viewed weak for major modern warfare
A U S briefing contends Red China's armed forces lack up-to-date equipment and fuel, a result of Soviet cutoffs and a four year decline in readiness. Officials forecast U S use of air power rather than ground war, with raids on supply lines and bases in and beyond Southeast Asia if conflict escalates.
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Washington
United States
Southeast Asia
Red China
China
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Red
Laos
Vietnnam
South Korea
North Korea
Hawaii
25Th Infantry
Bus Carrying 32 Overturns Near Madera Killing Three
A chartered bus with 32 passengers from Los Angeles overturned on Highway 99 north of Madera California. At least three people were killed and the remaining passengers appeared injured, all taken to Madera County Hospital.
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Madera
Calif
Los Angeles
Highway Patrol
Madera County Hospital
White House misinfo stream on Mississippi search dogs Johnson Marines
AP reports White House press secretary George Reedy backed off a briefing that claimed 200 Marines based at Meridian and eight helicopter units joined the Mississippi civil rights workers search. Reedy later corrected that Marines may have been mischaracterized and clarified the status of military involvement and state cooperation.
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LT. Augustine
Fla
Farris Bryant
St. Augustine
Martin Luther King
Bryant
Jacksonville
U.S
King
White House
Washington (Ap
George Reedy
Mississippi
Reedy
Johnson
Meridian
Miss
Heli
Paul Johnson
Drought Drives Rainmaker Hiring in Eastern New York Counties
Farmers in two additional New York counties weigh hiring a rainmaker to combat a crop killing drought, a tactic already adopted by three eastern counties. Community leaders seek urgent relief as arid conditions threaten yields and livelihoods.
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N.Y
Albany
Confused Actress Mailes Her Dog By Mistake on Sunset Strip
Gale Gilmore, 21, a Hollywood actress, walked to a Sunset Strip mailbox with a package and her pug dog Snipper. She mailed the dog by error, and police and postal workers recovered Snipper unharmed. A passerby alerted the press as authorities reviewed the incident.
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Hollywood (Ap
Gale Gilmore
Sunset Strip
Gale
Miss Gilmore
Hollywood
Scranton Seeks Michigan Second Ballot Support
William W. Scranton camps in Michigan to win about 45 of the state's 48 Republican delegates for his second-ballot push at the San Francisco convention. He argues Michigan is ripe for a Scranton path to the GOP nomination despite Goldwater’s lead.
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Lansing
Mich
William W. Scranton
Michigan
Pennsylvania
San Francisco
Scranton
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
George W. Romney
Detroit
Johnson
Miami
Fla
Cleveland
Ohio
Illinois Aublican
Everett M. Dirksen
Public Square
Helen Keller To Be Eight On Saturday
A caller reports Helen Keller aging with grace at her Easton home. The 84 year old author and speaker has stopped writing and giving lectures. She declines interviews and photographs while old friends and relatives visit for chats at her white clapboard house.
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Easton
Conn
Helen Keller
Miss Keller
Hessler kills wife and son then dies by suicide in New York
Paul Norman Hessler 47, despondent after his father's death, shot and killed his wife Dorothy 46 and son Norman 18 before taking his own life. The three bodies were found in the family home near Walker in Monroe County. Hessler was found slumped over a 12 gauge shotgun.
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Walker
N. Y
Paul Norman Hessler
Hessler
Dorothy
Norman
Monroe County
Koda
Marshalls Creek
Stroudsburg
William Paesch
Baltimore
Paesch
Monroe County Ganeess Hospital
Stroubsrg
First Mid Winter Flight To Dark Antarctica Reaches McMurdo
A U S Navy transport plane completed the first mid winter mission to the dark Antarctic to evacuate an injured Seabee. The four engine aircraft landed at McMurdo Sound after an 8 hour 25 minute flight from Christchurch with visibility at 15 miles and zero degree temperature. Commander Daniel Balish of Scranton Pa. said the flight was unusual but carefully planned to mitigate risk.
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Washington
Navy
Antarctica
McMurdo Sound
Christchurch
New Zealand
Antarctic
Cmdr
Daniel Balish
Scranton
Johnson turns to UN for Cyprus crisis as talks stall
Washington AP reports after four days of failed diplomacy Johnson sends Undersecretary George Ball to New York to brief UN officials and seek international mediation. He urged Inonu and Papandreou to resume direct negotiations while warning concessions are needed to avert NATO conflict and a new Soviet push.
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Cyprus
Johnson
George W. Ball
New York
U.N
Ismet Inonu
George Papandreou
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Inonu
Papandreou
Greece
Mediterranean
Turkey
NATO
Soviet Union
New Ball
U Thant
U.N. Cyprus
Sakari S. Tuomioja
Finland
U.S
Tuomioja
Athens
Ankara
Blair House
Doubts Grow on Rome Air Base Closure Savings
The General Accounting Office could not verify most of the Air Force claimed savings from closing the Rome N Y Air Materiel Area. It cited destroyed documents and missing details after a request by Sen. Javits, Sen. Keating, and Rep. Pirnie. The report questions $2 million of $11.8 million in savings and the job-cut calculations.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Air Force
Rome, N.Y
Jacob K. Javits
Kenneth B. Keating
Alexander Pirnie
New York
Joseph Campbell
ROAMA
Campbell
Rome
Seven Die in Head-on collision near Boswell Oklahoma
A two-car head-on crash two miles west of Boswell on U.S. 70 in the Lake Texoma area killed seven people and critically injured an eighth. Dead were C. R. Brackett Jr., Glenn Russy, F. M. Mack McMenamy, Mabel B. Newton 30, Raymond A. Newton 31, and their two daughters aged 11 and 5. Mrs Newton, from Russellville Georgia, apparently dozed and crossed the center line.
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Boswell
Okla
U.S. 70
Lake Texoma
Durant
C. R. Brackett Jr
Glenn Russy
F. M. Mack McMennamy
Mabel B. Newton
Congress Debates Smoking Health Role Amid FTC Warning
Congress faces a hazy path on smoking health questions as FTC moves to require death warnings on cigarette ads and labels. Bills before Congress range from doing nothing to delaying FTC action or enacting similar labeling into law, with debate echoed at a House Commerce Committee hearing.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
House Commerce Committee
U.S. Public Health Services Special Advisory Committee
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