Syncom Roars To High Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL FLAP AP The Syncom 2 communications satellite rocketed into orbit and aimed for a 22 300 mile high circular path with a small motor to place it in a near circular orbit over northern South America and the Caribbean The Delta rocket completed stages and the five and a half hour climb began Space agency officials warned it would take hours to confirm the target orbit Syncom 1 had reached near synchronous orbit last February but failed due to power loss.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
United States
South America
Caribbean
Space -Agency
Living Costs Up A Little in June Report
Washington AP report shows June consumer costs rose four tenths of a percent reaching a record high. It marks the steepest monthly increase since September of last year when prices jumped six tenths of a percent.
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Washington
Labor Department
Enrollment To Start At Ottawa U
About 70 new students are expected at Ottawa University for the first day of enrollment for the 1963 64 term. The number represents roughly one quarter of total new students for the term. Among the newcomers are 18 from the class of 1963, a larger than usual showing from Ottawa High School graduates.
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Ottawa University
Ottawa High School
Ottawa
Day resigns as Postmaster General to return to private life
Post master General J Edward Day resigns from the Kennedy administration effective on a date to be set by the President. He will join Sidley Austin Burgess and Smith in Washington as partner in charge of the firm's Washington office. Former Sen. Benjamin A Smith II is expected to succeed him. Day cites an unusual opportunity as his reason.
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Washington
J.edward Day
Kennedy
Post Office Department
White House
Day
Benjamin A. Smith II
Harvard
Senate
ICC chief vows full effort on rail work rules crisis
Washington AP The ICC chairman Lawrence Walrath told Congress the agency will make every effort to handle the explosive railroad work rules dispute as a nationwide strike threat is postponed for 30 days. President Kennedy urged Congress to enact a two year transfer of the dispute to the ICC and railroads agreed to delay the new rules until Aug 29, affecting about 60 000 jobs. Charles Luna AFL CIO Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen criticized the Kennedy plan though carriers supported it with some changes. Four House Republicans, including Robert Taft Jr, proposed a bill to curb feather bedding and require lines to aid workers displaced by rule changes.
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ICC
Lawrence K. Walrath
House Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Congress
Charles Luna
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Afl-Cio
Senate
House Committee
House
Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Taft
Weather County Forecast Shows Clearing, Weekend Thunderstorms
County forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Widely scattered thunderstorms expected Saturday across the area.
Prison Break Sparks Caracas Violence and Arrests
Venezuelan troops hunted 86 FALN terrorists and common criminals who overran Reten La Planta prison in Caracas. At least five people died and 51 wounded as guards were overwhelmed, with about 200 of the 816 inmates involved and scattered gunfire reported through the night. Sixteen were rounded up after the escape, while FALN sabotage and planned attacks accompanied the breakout amid Cuba anniversary timing rumors.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Reten la Planta
Armed Forces of National Liberation
FALN
Romulo Betancourt
Traffic Toll In Kansas Toll Log For July 1963
Kansas traffic death log reports two previously unreported fatalities within the 24 hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday July 2 1963. The toll for the period rises with these added deaths, reflecting the ongoing accident counts across the state.
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Topeka
Kansas
Governor seeks review of land deal over highway project
Gov John Anderson said he will ask the attorney general and the Highway Department legal division to check for potential conflict of interest in the land acquisition by highway commissioner George Gagel for a U S 69 project. If conflict exists, it will be resolved. Anderson added he cannot fix road lines but can fire highway commissioners.
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Topeka
John Anderson
Attorney General’s Office
Highway Department
George Gagel
Anderson
Dale Saffels
Khrushchev Sees Test Ban as Path to Disarmament
Premier Khrushchev said the new nuclear test ban treaty offers a favorable opening to total disarmament. He answered written questions from Izvestia and Pravda readers at a Foreign Office press conference, shortly after Harriman spoke in Washington.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Izvestia
Pravda
Foreign Office
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Killed By A Robber In Wichita Station Attendant Shot
Martin Tucker a 26 year old service station attendant and Army veteran was shot in the head by a robber Thursday evening. The robber emptied the cash register and stole about 175 dollars. James Harshbarger the station owner found Tucker's body in a back room after returning from a customer drop off. No witness to the shooting was located in the west side suburban area.
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Wichita
Martin Tucker
Tucker
Martin Tucker Jr
Hudson
Kan
James 7. Harshbarger
Harshbarger
West Side
Skopje Earthquake Blasts City to Ruins at Dawn
A catastrophic earthquake struck Skopje at 5:17 a.m. causing major destruction across the city. Officials say thousands injured and over a thousand feared dead, with the disaster prompting mass evacuations, fires, and emergency relief as hospitals and utilities collapsed.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Skopje
Radio Belgrade
Tanjug
Quizzing Will Take Five Weeks
Senate investigators expect five weeks to finish questioning Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert about his role in the TFX warplane contract award. Chairman John L McClellan and the committee plan a lengthy cross examination after an initial briefing and prepared statement. The inquiry focuses on possible favoritism in awarding the contract to General Dynamics Fort Worth plant.
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Washington
Senate
Air Force
Eugene M. Zuckert
John L McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Zuckert
Forth Worth
Tex
General Dynamics Corp
President Kennedy to speak on nuclear test ban pact
President Kennedy addresses the nation at 7 p.m. EDT to rally support for the nuclear test ban treaty initiated in Moscow. The pact, a major Cold War step, would ban tests in the atmosphere outer space and under water and needs a two thirds Senate vote for ratification. Leaders worldwide welcomed the initialing, while France and Red China voiced reservations and NATO nonaggression issues sparked earlier delays. The agreement allows underground tests with fallout controls and uses no on site inspections, a point of contention among allies. Harriman and Lord Hailsham led the signing in Moscow with Gromyko, signaling a cautious path toward broader disarmament.
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Washington
Kennedy
Moscow
U.S
Senate
White House
Dean Rusk
Britain
Lord Home
Soviet Union
Andrei A. Gromyko
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Congress
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Sion
Spiridonovka Palace
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Gromyko
Som 100
Harriman
Hailsham
United States
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Raney
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New Macedonia
Aleksander Blagojevic
Cather
Blagojevic
Yugoslav Air Transport Co
Invalid
Greece
Rusk
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Foreign Relations and Armed Services
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Japan
Yasumi Kirogane
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
China
Hyannis Port
Mass
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