Melvern Residents Seek Support for Local Highway Project
A Melvern group met with the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce highway committee to urge Ottawa to back a hard surface road from US 50 north to Melvern and onward to a K-68 reroute near flood control works. Walter Price, highway committee chair, will present resolutions to the directors Friday for highway commission backing.
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Melvern
Highway Committee
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Ottawa
Ottawa Chamber
Walter Price
Highway Commission
Derailment of Milwaukee Road Train Injures Dozens
A 17 unit Milwaukee Road passenger train hit a trailer truck on Monday near St Paul. Dozens of passengers on the Hiawatha train to Chicago suffered minor injuries with 10 hospitalized overnight. The truck driver Robert Kensler 31 escaped injury as the lead diesel engine and seven cars flipped over and others stacked in chaotic patterns.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Milwaukee Road
Chicago
Robert Kensler
St. Paul
US Frowns On Talk Delay in Atomic Talks
Washington officials yesterday resisted Soviet and British calls for a recess in the Geneva talks on an atomic test ban. The three party conference, ongoing since November 1966, has paused for several recesses and some progress toward a treaty was noted. The proposed recess would begin August 15, but length was not disclosed.
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Washington
U. S
Soviet Union
Britain
Geneva
Weather County Forecast
Generally fair and warmer through Wednesday. Highs this afternoon upper 80s, lows tonight mid 60s. Highs Wednesday lower 90s.
Soviet Union warns U.S. to keep hands off Cuba
At the UN in New York Soviet Delegate Arkady Sobolev warned the United States not to threaten Cuba and said the USSR would beat any U.S. economic moves to topple Fidel Castro. He accused Washington of interfering in Latin American affairs and opposing moving the dispute to the OAS. Nine Security Council members backed shifting the case to the OAS.
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Soviet Union
U.S
Cuba
United Nations
N.Y
United States
Arkady A. Sokolev
Sobolev
U. N. Security Council
Fidel Castro
Soboley
Castro
Organization of American States
Security Council
Moscow
Leopoldville
Congo
William N. Oatis
United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Security Council
11-Nation Council
Arkady A. Segolev
inter-American Organization
OAS
Council
Nikita Khrushchev
OAS Council
Washington
Inter-American Peace Committee
Roa
Henry Cabot Lodge
Hisenhower
Belgian Troops Withdraw From Congo Capital Leopoldville
U N forces to maintain peace as Belgian troops pull back from Leopoldville ahead of Saturday 7 p.m. deadline. Lumumba warned of Soviet aid request, Bunche said withdrawal complete by time. U N Security Council to review Congo situation Wednesday. Belgian base protection and evacuation plans outlined with U N assurances for all residents.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
U. N
Ralph J. Bunche
Patrice Lumumba
Congo
U. N. Security Council
New York
Belgium
Lumumba
Bundie
Carl von Horn
Bunche
Soviet Union
Homemade Ice Cream and Cake Social at St Anthony's Hall
Homewood hosts a community ice cream and cake social at St Anthony's Hall this Sunday July 24 starting at 5 p.m. Proceeds support hall activities and parish programs. Advance tickets are encouraged.
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St. Anthony’s Hall
Homewood
Fifty Miners Trapped as German Mine Fire Claims Lives
About 50 miners were trapped underground in an iron ore mine at Salzgitter Germany after an underground fire broke out. Four bodies were recovered and rescue teams faced flames and fumes blocking escape routes. A mine spokesman cited a faulty cable that may have sparked the fire which then exploded an oil storage tank feeding a generator.
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Salzgitter
Germany
Lon
US Demands Release Of Two Airmen In Soviet Rally
Washington protests to Moscow after an RB47 downing on July 1. The United States demands release of two captured airmen Lt. John R. McKone and F B Olmstead and access to see them, while the U N Security Council considers the case. Capt. William A. Palm’s body will be returned. Three crewmen remain missing.
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Washington
United States
U. S
Moscow
William A. Palm
John R. McKone
F. B. Olmstead
Two destroyers collide off Newport Beach in fog
Bulletin from Newport Beach California reports USS Ammen and USS Colette collided 32 miles offshore in heavy fog. Initial word says several sailors injured and one ship on fire in the engine room as Coast Guard details the incident.
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Newport Beach
Calif
California
Coast Guard
Ammen
Colette
Eniine
Eight Die In A Store Explosion In Merrill Wisconsin
An explosion at the J C Penney Co department store in Merrill Wisconsin killed eight people and injured eleven. The dead include Einar Seger a 55 year old customer and former clerk and several women employees and shoppers. Investigators from the State Industrial Commission began probing the blast while city officials ruled out a gas leak from the Merrill Gas Utility.
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Merrill
Wis
J.C. Penney Co
Ralph Voigt
Einar Seger
Wisconsin
Louis Hamilton
Geraldine Wisson
Lawrence Borchardt
George Erickson
Amanda Evans
Carl Yorde
I. S. Stats
John McHale
State Industrial Commission
A&p
Merrill City Gas Utility
Penney
Eisenhower Reads Tough Line With Soviet Propaganda
President Eisenhower meets with a strategy team at the summer White House to prepare a United Nations response to Soviet propaganda against the United States. The gathering includes Herter Bohlen Kohler and focuses on Air Force encounters, Congo unrest, and Cuba, reflecting a hard line against Soviet threats and inflammatory rhetoric.
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Newport
R.I
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
United States
White House
Christian A. Herter
Charles E. Bohlen
Moscow
State Department
Foy D. Kohler
United Nations
Higher County Budget Is Proposed For 1961
Franklin County submits a 1961 budget totaling 1 806 898 43 with a higher levy and increased expenditures led by a welfare budget up to 695 069 from 635 815.04. The levy rises to 26 44 per thousand, due to reallocations of federal funds, and hospital maintenance and general fund see reductions. The budget hearing is set for August 1 in the county commissioners' office.
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Franklin County
Bruce Spears
Wanda Baird
General Fund
Social Security Health Department
Republicans Ponder Platform As Campaign Moves Ahead
The GOP shapes a 1960 platform in Chicago with Morton guiding a 109 member Platform Committee. Rockefeller backs a civil rights plank and hints at broader aims for a Nixon challenge while Kennedy tightens campaign control, seeks unified state chiefs, and faces Mississippi split. Eisenhower offers direct intelligence briefings to Kennedy and Johnson, accepted by Democratic leaders.
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Associated Press
GOP
Thruston B. Morton
Chicago
Morton
America
Los Angeles
Rockefeller
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
Virginia
William F. Battle
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
White House
Barnett
Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Lawrence Man Charged After Car Hits Train at Ist and Main
Lawrence man Harold I. Gumm was jailed after his 1955 sedan struck a Missouri Pacific train at Ist and Main around 11 15 p.m. He faced driving while intoxicated reckless driving leaving the scene failing to heed a red light and siren with bond set at 500. A witness said Gumm slumped at the wheel before the collision and officers noted an oil and water trail as he fled then was arrested after a zig zag chase.
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Ottawa
Don Collins
Harold J. Gumm
Lawrence
Gumm
Missouri Pacific
First and
Main
Harold I. Gumm
Ist
Main Streets
Robert Pinet
Mark L. Middlebushler
RFD 4
Japan's Ikeda Aligns with West Against Neutrality
Japan's new premier Hayato Ikeda declared a pro Western alignment and opposed neutrality. He criticized Noboru Kishi's treaty ratification tactics, proposed interparty talks with the Socialist opposition, and urged normal ties with Red China while expanding cultural and economic exchange with the mainland. He stressed avoiding violence and faced a labor crisis at the Miike coal mines amid union clashes.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hayato Ikeda
Nobusuke Kishi
Ikeda
Kishi
U. S
Red China
Red Mainland
Western Free Nations
Tkeda
Miike
Kyushu
Sokyo Labor Federation
Zengae
Kuren Student Federation
Eisenhower
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