Ottawa Is Go committee boosts town pride effort
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce advocates a positive view of the city through the Ottawa Is Go committee. Geor ge E. Lister and Rus sell Crites led talks to Kiwanis and other groups, promoting Ottawa as a growing, future city. The pamphlets highlight rising employment, population, construction value, university growth, bank deposits, and retail sales, while plans for off street downtown parking and enhanced recreational facilities accompany a push to counter local negativism.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ottawa
Crites
Pomona
Melvern
Five More Miners Rescued In Good Condition At Utah Mine
Five trapped miners were rescued alive and in good condition at the Moab potash mine in Utah Thursday night. Ten miners were found dead in the blast that trapped 25 workers 3,000 feet down. The final toll reached 18 dead and seven survivors, with two rescued earlier. Rescue teams found the last survivors in the east shaft after a makeshift air-line patch helped one air supply. Investigations by state and federal authorities were announced to probe safety practices.
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Moab
Utah
June Crawford
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co
Grant Eslick
Crawford
Paul McKinney
Donald Hanna
Thomas Trueman
Toronto
Canada
Hanna
Hanna and
McKinney
Washington
Bureau of Mines
George D. Clyde
Volunteer To Be Lowered To Search Mine Chamber
Hazleton Pa AP a man will be lowered today into the 1744 inch shaft at the Sheppton mine to search for Louis Bova after television showed what appeared to be a body in the chamber where miners Fellin and Throne were rescued. H B Charmbury said the descent was planned with some consensus and the identity kept secret for now.
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Hazleton
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Louis Bova
H. B. Charmbury
State Secretary of
Charmbury
Sheppton
Fellin
Hazleton State Hospital
Tra Mills
Clear to partly cloudy mild through Saturday
COUNTY WEATHER reports continued mild conditions with clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday. lows 60 to 65 tonight, highs near 90 Saturday. Yesterday’s high 60, low 58. record highs and lows for this date noted, plus scattered hourly observations with incomplete entries.
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Cote
Cesreere
Castro Ramps Up Cuban Military Readiness Near Havana
Havana reports say Fidel Castro’s government raised armed forces alert and increased troop and militia presence at key sites in the capital. Intelligence links the move to possible exiled incursions from Nicaragua or other Central American nations, with earlier raids on the northern coast cited as precedent.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Ures
Nicaragua
San Jose
Costa Rica
Manuel Artime
Managua
United States
Cuba
Defiant Students Return From Cuba Trip At Idlewild
Fifty American students defied a State Department travel ban to Cuba and came back by plane from Madrid. A stand in at Idlewild Airport protested passport suspensions while a letter notified each student of suspension. Ten were subpoenaed to appear before the House Un American Activities Committee in September.
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New York
State Department
Cuba
Madrid
U.S
Idlewild
Smathers Doubts 63 Tax Cut Pass This Year
Senator George Smathers of Florida said he doubts the Senate will act on President Kennedy's tax cut bill this year owing to delays in the House and the looming civil rights debate. He noted hearings could run six to eight weeks with up to 200 witnesses, risking a Senate tax plan inaction if civil rights discussion stretches. The plan, tentatively approved by the House, would cut net income taxes by 10.5 billion dollars in two stages starting January 1, 1964.
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Washington
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
Senate
Kennedy
Smathers
House
Harry ¥. Byrd
D-Va
Russell B. Long
D-La
Finance Committee
Finance
Ways and Means
Rosy Skunk Support Grows Over Pet Skunk Case
KANSAS CITY AP Some Nebraskans back Rosy the pet skunk seized by Missouri agents at Sedalia Fair. Two youths, sons of Ed L Pruitt a Kansas City contractor, raised Rosy after their mother was killed. Pruitt faces common assault charges after resisting entry to his home. Nebraskans plan to bail Rosy and relocate him with others to Elkhorn for a festival, per county official Sam Howell.
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Kansas City
Rosy
Missouri Conservation
Sedalia
Ed L. Pruitt
Servation
Pruitt
Sam Howell
Douglas County
Nebraska
Howell Sug
Gested
Missouri
Howell
Pruitts
Smokey Joe
Elkhorn
Neb
St. John Seminary
Miner Describes 49Hour Underground Ordeal At Moab
A former Scott City man Robert June one of five miners recounts being trapped 49 hours deep in a Moab Utah drift after Tuesday explosion He describes darkness heat and smoke and hearing a teammate scream before rescue finally came and all but one coworker survived.
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Scott City
Kan
Robert June
Moab
Utah
Soviets Weigh Building Golf Course Amid Cold War Thaw
Western reports claim Soviet officials are sounding out Western experts on constructing a golf course, signaling potential shift in attitudes toward the West. Golf has long been denounced as bourgeois decadence, once condemned by Molotov who called it a pastime for the rich.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
V. M. Molotov
Tauy's Toot Conservations in Skunk Battle Struggle
In a quirky local column, agents of Tauy’s Toot Conservations face tough odds as they grapple with a persistent skunk conflict. The piece notes challenges, humorous misfires, and the stubborn animal’s elusive refusals to surrender.
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Conservations
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Throne
Chambury
Lee Levi Laub
Columbia University
Byrd
Rosy Skunk
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Paul Archer
S. Hickory
White House
James L. Emery
Iowa
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