Blame Placed on Navy and Designers for Texas Tower Collapse
A Senate report harshly criticizes the Navy and the engineers behind the Texas Tower radar structure that collapsed in a blizzard off New Jersey. It assigns blame to Air Force leadership and Col. Banks for duty dereliction, cites design inadequacy, and calls buck passing and indecision factors in the tragedy that killed 28.
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Washington
Senate
Navy
Texas Tower
Air Force
New Jersey
William M. Banks
Banks
Boston Air Defense Center
John Stennis
D-Miss
Defense Preparedness Subcommittee
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Stennis
Escapes One Bigamy Count In St Louis Case
Charles H. Fowler Jr., known for multiple marriages, may avoid prosecution in St Louis on a motor vehicle without consent charge as the statute of limitations has likely run out. He will then be handed to Chicago authorities to face a bigamy charge tied to his December marriage to wife No 4 while still in custody and having fathered five children by three of his four wives.
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ST. Louis
Charles H. Fowler Jr
Chicago
Fowler
Dorothy Finnegan Fowler
Daniel P. Reardon Jr
No. 4
1961 Economic Outlook Uncertain Through Midyear
New York AP assesses a year of shifting questions as the 1961 economy wavers. Unemployment, inflation, tax policy, and government reach over private life loom large. Consumers spend steadily while wages stagnate and business hesitates on investment amid mixed signals from stock markets and housing.
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New York
Boredom Slated As National Health Problem Says Farnsworth
Harvard doctor Dr Dana L Farnsworth told the American Medical Association's 110th annual meeting that aimlessness boredom and lack of meaning are the great sickness of our age He urged doctors to give patients meaning to life and to foster basic confidence competence and faith in humanity while acknowledging advances in medicine.
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New York
Harvard
Dana L. Farnsworth
Harvard University Health Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Farnsworth
American Medical Association
Hearing Set In Cruelty Case In Kansas City
Roy Hall, 48, and wife Margaret, 45, face a July 11 hearing on a minor mistreatment charge after deputies found their 12-year-old son Roy Dean Hall chained to a bed in a one room basement home. Hall claimed the restraint was to prevent running away while they worked. The couple, a trash hauler and wife, are held on $1,500 bond.
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Kansas City
Roy Hall
Margaret
Roy Dean Hall
Hall
Gas Company Strike Ends With Tentative Contract
Kansas City AP reports a tentative contract between Gas Service Co and Local 781 of the Gas Workers Metal Trades Union ends a 20 day strike by 450 workers. Pickets to be removed this morning, union to vote on ratification tonight, resuming work if approved. Terms undisclosed. Missouri Mediation Board, chaired by Daniel C. Rogers, participated in final talks. Company kept service during the strike with supervisory staff.
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Kansas City
Gas Service Co
Gas Workers Metal Trades Union
Harvey Oakes
Missouri Mediation Board
Daniel C. Rogers
Faubus Bond Vote Defeated in Arkansas Counties
Arkansas voters rejected a $60 million bond proposal for state colleges and institutions, harming Governor Orval Faubus's political standing. Only nine of 75 counties approved the bonds as opponents argued they would require new taxes or tapping school and welfare funds. Faubus saw a family win with son Farrell elected to the state House from Madison County.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Farrell
University of Arkansas
Madison County
Arkansas Education Association
Arkansas Committee For Public Schools
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