Side Swipes and Storks and Static Traffic Tales
Miami police forgave Isaac Reed after his car rear ended a vehicle while he drove his wife to the hospital and later welcomed a newborn daughter named Charity. In the Bronx, Victor Torres received a red light ticket as a 50 pound concrete slab and stonework rained on a patrol car from a building roof, with no injuries reported.
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Miami
Fla
Isaac Reed
Isaac
Ethel
Reeds
Reed
Charity
Bronx
Patromen
Victor Torres
Torres
Requiescat Poole Hen Adelaide Dies at Dorset Nest
Adelaide the curved egg laying hen, famed across Britain and the United States, died this week in Poole England after laying hundreds of curved eggs. She collected over 1000 pounds for charity and drew fan mail, television attention, and naturalist astonishment.
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Poole
England
Adelaide
Britain
United States
Dorset
Tower of Pisa Guards Tightened After Threat
An anonymous letter threatens to blow up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, prompting police to double security around the historic structure in Italy. No injuries reported and investigation ongoing.
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Pisa
Italy
Little League district director born to the job
Athens Georgia AP reports Dr. Wayne Centerfield is described as the naturally suited leader for the local Little League district tournament, with a career built on baseball service and community involvement. The piece emphasizes his readiness and commitment to guiding youth baseball through the event.
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Athens, Ga
Wayne
Rain and Wind Hit Kansas From Cold Front
Fairly heavy rains fell in northern Kansas as a cool front clashed with humid air. Damaging winds were reported in Russell County and an unconfirmed tornado was reported near Cawker City. Northern counties saw 1 to 2 inches of rain with notable totals at Hiawatha 2.28 and Bare Oak 2.28 inches.
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Topeka
Kansas
Russell County
Cawker City
Osborn County
Luray
Hiawatha
Centralia
Frankfurt
Blue Rapids
Fact
Cedar Bluff Dam
Clifton
Bare Oak
Jewell
Hunter
Harlan
Stockton
Ellis
County Forecast Partly Cloudy to Fair Tonight
Weather report notes partly cloudy conditions then becoming mostly fair tonight and Saturday with cooler temperatures. Tonight’s low in the 60s. Local forecast emphasizes a relaxed pattern with gradual cooling into the weekend. Replacement phrasing remains nontechnical and concise for a newspaper card.
Missing Car Found In Garnett Lake By Divers
Garnett residents Mr and Mrs Earl Knauss recall a seven year mystery after five Raytown skindivers discover an overturned 1947 Chevrolet at 40 feet in Garnett Lake. The car, reported missing when the couple left it by the bank during a lake outing with their son Earl Jr and Ruby Burris, had been found with its radio intact and in decent running order. Police retrieved the vehicle. locals note it had become a good fish nesting spot and had attracted a fisherman who hooked it previously.
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Knauss
Garnett
Khrushchev urges talks but warns on war threat in Berlin
In a Kremlin rally for Gheorghiu-Dej Khrushchev pressed for a German peace treaty and Western participation. He warned of massive deaths if war erupts, rejected Western claims of low casualties, and asserted the Soviet Union as a great power while pledging to sign a peace pact with East Germany.
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Khrushchev
Berlin
West Berlin
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Communist Party
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
East Germany
Germany
Three Million Dollar Bonus Found in State Treasury
AP report from TOPEKA cites budget director James W. Bibb as noting a $3 million surplus in the fiscal year end general revenue fund and sales tax fund, driven by $2 million in higher tax receipts and $1 million in under-spending. The combined surplus totals $3,069,156, largely from inheritance taxes and under-spending, with warnings that these gains are not guaranteed for future years. Bibb attributes the gain to a faster economy recovery and says no major budget changes are expected for 1962 and 1963.
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Topeka
James W. Bibb
Bibb
General Revenue Fund
John Anderson
Vie For Yankee Dollar At Inter American Conference
At the Inter American Economic Conference in Punta del Este Uruguay smaller Latin American nations press to secure their share of Kennedy's 20 billion Alliance for Progress funds. Uruguay leads a drive to create a seven wise men commission to coordinate development amid fears bigger nations would dominate aid benefits.
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Punta del Este
Uruguay
Latin America
Kennedy
United States
Seven Wise Men
239 Man Draft Call In Kansas September
Topeka AP reports Kansas will call 239 men in September the largest draft number since November 1955 Maj Gen Joe Nickell state Selective Service director announced. The figure follows Thursday's national draft call of 25000 men tied to President Kennedy's buildup request Kansas August quota was 116 men.
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Topeka
Kansas
Joe Nickell
Selective Service
Kennedy
U S Sends Note To Cuba On Hijacked Aircraft
The United States has sent Cuba a note on hijacked planes and ships, delivered to the Swiss for relay to Cuba. The note responds to a Cuban reply to a July 24 U.S. demand for the release of the Eastern Air Lines plane hijacked to Havana. The Cuban proposal linked exchanging the airliner for a Cuban patrol boat and a future return of property.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
U.S
Eastern Air Lines
Havana
Teens steal yacht after bicycle theft spree in San Pedro
In San Pedro, Charles Thomasset sees his $50,000 white hull Los Amigos yacht seized by harbor patrol en route to Honolulu. Teens Jan Hornsby and Geof Chadwick, ages 16 and 15, confessed to riding bicycles to the yacht landing and selecting the vessel, hoping to sail to the South Pacific. They were booked on grand theft after admitting the plan and locating stolen bicycles.
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San Pedro
Calif
Charles Thomasset
San Pedro Harbor
Coast Guard
Los Amigos
Honolulu
South Pacific
Jan Hornsby
West Los Angeles
Geof Chadwick
Los Angeles
Kennedy extends call up of reserves to active duty
President Kennedy issued an executive order granting the Pentagon authority to call up reservists and extend enlistment periods for service members. Congress had approved the move to strengthen the armed forces amid the Soviet Berlin threat. Duty tours may be extended up to 12 months if they would end before July 1.
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Washington
Kennedy
Pentagon
Congress
Berlin
East Germany eyes peace talks and refugee clampdown
East Germany announced negotiations on a German peace treaty with Soviet bloc partners while promising sterner steps to halt West Berlin refugees. Foreign Minister Bolz and Deputy Premier Stoph told Parliament that talks would occur in the fall, with measures to seal off Berlin and curb refugee flight as 150,000 depart this year.
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East Germany
East Berlin
Lothar Bolz
Willy Stoph
Berlin
Stoph
NATO Negotiations and Military Buildup Over Berlin Crisis
Kennedy received a personal report from Secretary of State Rusk on Allied plans to meet the Soviet challenge to West Berlin. Rusk noted NATO nations will push toward 30 combat-ready divisions while contingency plans for anti-Western moves are developed and negotiations with Khrushchev may come later as Berlin demands harden.
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Washington
Kennedy
Rusk
West Berlin
Western Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Khrushchev
West
Berlin
U.S
Europe
NATO
France
Coupe de Murville
California boys in Hawaii land in trouble with cops
Joel W. Mueller and Robert C. Coughlin, both 17 from Panorama City, arrived in Honolulu with four dollars and beat up bongos, seeking summer work and a flight home. After sleeping in a Waikiki park and a bath house, police detained them for questioning about their improvised Hawaii visit and their plan to earn money for return.
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Honolulu
California
Waikiki
Joel W. Mueller
Robert C. Coughlin
Panorama City
San Fernando Valley
Hawaii
Joel
Robert
Juvenile Crime Prevention Bureau
Waikiki Beach
Coughlin
Coppers
Muel
Jer
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