Joyful Easter Rites Across Churches and Parades
Millions of Americans celebrate Easter the greatest Christian feast day. Many attend church services while others join traditional public observances in mountains glens amphitheaters and churches, reflecting a nation in festive religious observance.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Latter-day Saints Church
Oklahoma
Wichita Mountains
Lawton
Boston
Naval Shipyard
Moundsville
Ala
Indianapolis
Monument Circle
Sierra Madre
Calif
Youth For Christ
Withers of Movies TV star Grant Withers dies by own action
NORTH HOLLYWOOD A former Hollywood leading man Grant Withers dies by overdose at 55. Found in his apartment Friday with sleeping tablets, a novel open, and two notes explaining his intent. Landlord discovered him after about 24 hours, left hand on a telephone receiver. corpse was propped up.
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Ber Friday
Nixon to Spend Quiet Easter in Miami
Vice President Richard M. Nixon has arrived in Miami to spend a quiet Easter. Associates said he probably will attend services in the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church near an exclusive hotel where he is a frequent VIP tourist.
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Miami, Fla
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Miami
Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church
Dike Breaks Threaten Small Illinois Town
The Pecatonica River surged as spring melt pounded the dikes protecting a northwest Illinois town. Hundreds of volunteers reinforced levees while officials warned a breach could occur at any moment. Water already covered the main street as authorities feared four more feet of floodwaters.
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McConnell
UPI
Pecatonica
Igois
Stephenson County Sheriffs Office
Freeport
Weather outlook clear with sun Sunday after clouds
Considerable cloudiness tonight but clearing and becoming sunny Sunday. Little change in temperature.
What Makes Mr. K. Tick Analyzed in PT Articles
East and West move toward a summit. Nikita Khrushchev, a 5 foot 5 ex coal miner, is examined as a leader of a third of the world’s people. William Ryan analyzes Khrushchev’s rise, strengths, weaknesses, and the pressures shaping peace prospects in a perceptive Press-Telegram series.
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Nikita Khrushchev
William
Ryan
Press-Telegram
Khrushchev
Ussa
Five Killed When Car Rams Tree Near Washington Pa
State police reported five people killed when a car ran into a tree near Slovan, Pennsylvania, early today. Two hours earlier a head on collision on Route 40 near Washington killed two and injured five. Victims in the Slovan crash were Raymond Ayers Jr, 21, his wife Macy, 20, their two children Dolly and Robert, and Ayers sister Hazel, 19. Ayerses were from Cleveland, Ohio, en route to visit relatives in Shinnston, West Virginia. Also killed were Walter W. Boswell, 56, chief deputy recorder of deeds for Washington County, and Geraldine Snead, 21, of Cleveland.
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Slovan
Route 40
Raymond Ayers Jr
Macy
Dolly
Robert
Ayers
Hazel
Ayerses
Cleveland
Ohio
Shinnston
W.va
Washinon
Walter W. Boswell
Three Die in Linwood Truck Tragedy Near Lancaster
In Lancaster County four miles west of here a car hit a truck trailer after the truck attempted a U turn. State police say the trailer collapsed the car, killing driver Robert K. Haines 24 Ruth E. Miller 33 and Carl J. Larson Jr 24. Clyde A. Watkins 50 of Lynwood California driver of the truck was unhurt and employed by Olin Osborne Lines Temple Texas.
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Lancaster
Here
Robert K. Haines
Ruth E. Miller
Carl J. Larson Jr
Clyde A. Watkins
Lynwood
Calif
Watkins
Olin Osborne Lines
Temple
Tex
Classified Page Guide In A Historic Newspaper
A concise listing shows where to find sections such as Churches on pages A and B, Classifieds on B-5 to B-11, Comics on B-4, Crossword on B-12, Death Notices on B-5, Financial on B-5, Shipping Table on page 3-5, Sports on B-2 and B-3, Theaters on A7 Tidles Temperatures on B-S Ty and Radio on B-12.
Flight Row Over Chair Teams Delays Grove Tournament
A bitter dispute between Congress and military brass over Air Force flights for a wheelchair basketball tournament in Garden Grove halted the Illinois Gizz Kids and other teams from Illinois New Jersey Brooklyn New York City Tampa and Long Beach. The Pentagon ordered the tours flown only on an as available basis prompting protests from Senator Douglas and Calif Senators Kuchel and Hosmer.
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Garden Grove
Caifornia
Pentagon
Illinois
New Jersey
Brooklyn
New York City
Tampa
Long Beach
Paul Douglas
D-Til
Senate
Vtoro
University of Minois
Douglas
D. Craig Hosmer
Calif
Thomas H. Kuchel
Rcalif
Long Beach Veterans Hospital
Hosmer
Donald A. Quarles
Defense
Air
Mother and infant dead in Tehachapi crash
A Adelanto California report indicates a mother Marjorie J. Terrell 29 and infant son Robert Thurman Terrell died after cars carrying a Terrell family lost control and rolled over on U S Highway 395 five miles north of Tehachapi. The father Edwin Terrell and daughter Deborah 11 were hospitalized in critical condition.
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Calif
UPI
Tehachapi
U.S. Highway 395
Here
Marjorie J. Terrell
St. Mary's Hospital
Apple Va Iry
Robert Thurman Terrell
George Air Force Base Hospital
Edwin Tee Terrell
Deborah
Iraq Gets Steady Flow of Soviet Arms
Beirut report notes Soviet tanks and arms pouring into Iraq to expand the Iraqi army under Premier Abdel Karim Kassem after a July coup. One new division has fought, another is planned, with the latest shipment at Basra including 34 tanks.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Soviet Union
Iraq
Abdel Karin Kassem
Basra
Tke
Red China claims it crushed Tibetan revolt and names Panchen Lama leader
Peiping said rebels supplied by Nationalists abducted the 23 year old Dalai Lama and that 4,000 rebels were captured after two days of battle. The Panchen Lama, 21, will chair committees for an autonomous region while the Red Army maintains control from Lhasa to other cities.
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Red China
Tibet
Dalai Lama
Chou En-lai
Peiping
Buddha
Chou San
Tibet Autonomous Region
Red
Lhasa
Red Army
Ghampa
Ribesmen
Chou
Tinese
Tonomous Region
Bathers Treated After Portuguese Man-Of-War Invasion
Miami Beach lifeguards treated over 400 swimmers for painful stings from Portuguese man o war since Wednesday. The season’s large influx of these blue ballooning jellyfishlike creatures prompted water safety warnings along the Gold Coast.
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Miami Brac
Gold Coast
U. S. Gives Tibet Its Sympathy
Washington stated it is profoundly sympathetic with the Tibetan people as Communist China pursues what the State Department calls barbarous intervention. It condemns Peiping for abolishing the Dalai Lama's regime and imposing military rule, violating 1951 pledges of Tibetan autonomy. The report cites five Chinese appointees to an administrative control committee and the Panchen Lama's role as evidence of Beijing's plans without Tibetan consent.
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Washington
United States
China
Tibet
State Department
Peiping
Red China
Dalai Lama
Red Army
Hussein Plans Stop at Naval Academy
Jordan's King Hussein visits the Naval Academy in Annapolis to begin a three week cross country tour of the United States. He travels from Maryland to other major cities meeting officials and addressing public appearances.
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Hussein
Naval Academy
Washington
UPI
Jordan
Annapolis
United States
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Mr. K. Tick
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Apostle
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Middle East
Larry Collins
Baghdad
By Larry Collins
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