Khrushchev Holds Long Moscow Press Conference
J P Harris and 12 other American editors report Khrushchev’s 150 minute Kremlin session. He mocked opponents, stressed West Berlin as an armed camp, urged free city status under UN guards, warned of separate peace with East Germany if Western powers reject a Potsdam revision. Khrushchev noted anti vodka, kidney issues, and emphasized disarmament and Berlin as key divides.
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Moscow
Khhrushchev
Soviet Union
Council of Ministers
Kremlin
Khrushchev
West Berlin
United States
East Germany
Peru President Stands Firm On June Elections
In Lima AP reports a military coup loomed after President Manuel Prado refused to nullify the June 10 elections. Cabinet resignations by Premio Carlos Monteyra Paz Soldan and ministers followed. The army seeks to block APRA candidate Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who failed to win one third, while Prado's stance stems from APRA support in 1956.
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Lima
Peru
Manuel Prado
Carlos Monteyra Paz Soldan
Prado
Alex Zarak
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Popular Revolutionary Alliance
APRA
Haya de la Torre
Congress
Weather County Forecast Shows Warm, Clearing Skies
A forecast indicates few thunderstorms tonight or early Wednesday with overall clearing or partly cloudy skies. Temperatures expected to rise a bit this afternoon and remain warm through Wednesday across the county.
White Puts X-15 To A New Ceiling
Edwards Air Force Base California AP Maj Robert M White flew the X-15 to an altitude estimated at least 54 miles becoming the first to qualify as an astronaut in a winged craft. Unofficial reports put the flight above 285000 feet surpassing the old 246700 feet mark. White would be the fifth American to wear space wings joining Shepard Grissom Glenn and Carpenter. At peak altitude he flew almost automatically with an electronic brain making rapid corrections and coasted weightless for three minutes.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Robert M. White
White
Alan R. Shepard Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
John H. Glenn Jr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Traffic Toll Topeka Log Compared July 1962
Traffic death log for Topeka shows 26 fatalities in July 1962 and 294 deaths in the comparable 1961 period. The AP report records 24 hours ending 9 a.m. Tuesday with three deaths in July and total counts for the period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Soviet Fighter Comes Close to U S Plane Over Berlin
Berlin bulletin reports a Soviet fighter approached a U S DC3 in the north air corridor to isolated Berlin. The fighter came within 300 to 400 feet as the U S mission protested to Moscow. The U S crew was on a routine flight testing navigational aids with a flight plan filed under agreed rules.
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Berlin
U.S
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
France
Concert Tonight in City Park Features Blue Tail Fly
Loren Matthews, park concert director, lists Blue Tail Fly and Tango for Band among selections for tonight’s City Park concert. He notes it may be the last park performance this season and that the group will play Forest Park next week. The show starts at 8 p.m.
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City Park
Loren Matthews
Park
Forest Park
Space Agency Chiefs Wary of Women in Orbit
Washington AP reports a senator’s wife who is mother of eight urged a closer look at sending a woman into space. Space agency officials showed no enthusiasm for proposals to include women in the space travel program.
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Washington
PTA
Bridge Club
Outer Space
Philip A. Hart
House
United States
Space Agency
Plucky dog loses a leg in field tractor mishap
An 8 year old dog belonging to Clifford Goodwill of Williamsburg was injured after wandering into a field and under a tractor mower. The master carried the animal home for treatment and the dog, though crippled, followed back to the house as it recovers.
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Clifford Goodwill
Williamsburg
Goodwill
Saffels Backs State Withholding Tax For Kansas
Democratic governor candidate Dale Saffels told about 50 Franklin County Democrats that Kansas must hold the tax line and adopt a state withholding on income. He argued withholding would aid enforcement and boost total state tax collections while noting transit workers should pay their share and pledging no increase in state taxes. He urged responsible candidates and reserved support for flood control efforts.
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Dale Saffels
Franklin County
Saffels
Kansas
Senate Kills Kennedy Health Care Measure
The Senate voted 52 to 48 to table President Kennedy's Social Security age health care plan, killing it for this Congress. Administration supporters failed to muster House-approved support and the defeat dims prospects for Kennedy’s proposal amid a charged, tense Senate session.
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Senate
Kennedy
Washington
Backer
House
Jennings Randolph
D-W.va
Randolph
American Medical Association
Wellare Department
Governor to Trigger Pomona Reservoir Flood Control Demo
Kansas Governor John Anderson will press a dynamite blast at Pomona Reservoir to start water flow from 110 Mile Creek through the dam’s gates. Col Andrew P Rollins Jr of the Corps will speak at 7 p.m. on the Marais des Cygnes valley project, preceded by a 6:30 band concert at the dam’s southwest end. Visitors are guided via K-68 to the overlook as Cook Construction Co. proceeds to close a 700 foot gap and raise the dam toward full design height for emergency flood control and a permanent lake.
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John Anderson
Kansas
Pomona Reservoir
Andrew P. Rollins Jr
Corps of Army Engineers
Kansas City
Marais Des Cygnes
Pomona
Ottawa
West 7Th Street
Cook Construction Co
Jackson
Miss
Tony's Toot Nikita Stop Boasting
A terse note warns that American editors will print everything you say, urging restraint and caution about statements that could be publicized. The line plays on press scrutiny and the risk of overbragging or sensational claims in print.
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Nikita
Big Rails Go Into Merger by Two Major Lines
The Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads announce a merger plan aimed at saving about 75 million dollars yearly within five years. The plan calls for a 70 million dollar capital improvement program and expects generally improved freight service with no passenger service changes except for terminal operations in New York and Chicago. New York Central long-distance trains via Hudson and Albany corridors would switch to Pennsylvania Station in New York. Chicago trains would operate from Union Station, while some New York Central services would stay at the Illinois Central Terminal.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania and
New York Central Railroads
New York
New York Central
Harmon
Albany
Syracuse
Bufale
Pennsylvania Station
Union Station
Illinois Central Terminal
Olathe Man Killed in Highway Crash
Lawrence W. Kill, 62, of Olathe died in a highway collision 214 miles east of Olathe. The Kansas Highway Patrol said Kill's pickup locked bumpers with another pickup as he passed.
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Olathe
Kan
Lawrence W. Kill
Kansas Highway Patrol
Kill
Deduction blogger taunts Detroit income tax request
A letter signed D. Deduction mocks Detroit's new one percent income tax by arguing no work was done in Detroit all year and that the withholding should be zero. The writer jokes about discussing this with his boss.
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Detroit
Seminole prophet warns of bad hurricane season
Billy Bowe of Dania, a Seminole weather prophet claiming to be 100, sees rats nesting on an oak log as an omen of a rough hurricane season. He notes rats nest inside logs normally, but nests atop logs signal trouble. He predicted a harsh season in 1947, when a hurricane hit Florida, lending some credibility to his forecast.
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Dania
Fla
Billy Bowe Legs
Florida
Two drownings reported at Lake Kanapolis near Salina
AP dispatch reports Sgt. Hilliard K. Mills stationed at Schilling Air Force Base and his 5 year old son John drowned in Lake Kanapolis near Salina on Monday.
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Salina
Hilliard K. Mills
Schilling Air Force Base
John
Lake Kanapolis
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