Soviet Union pushes General Assembly summit on disarmament
The Soviet Union proposed a General Assembly summit on disarmament opening Sept 20 and urged invitations for heads of government to participate. It opposed an early meeting of the Disarmament Commission and said the UN forum would best advance disarmament, aiming to ease international tensions. U.S. reaction was not immediate.
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United Nations, N.Y
Soviet Union
U.N. General Assembly
U.N
General Assembly
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Commission
Washington
Lodge
Eisenhower
Geneva
AWOL Elephant Returns to Farmer’s Parlor
SAUGUS Calif AP Candi a 500 pound elephant from India is back at Nature Haven Wild Animal Rental Co after two days AWOL. Mr and Mrs O B Land found the elephant in their Action home wandering through to the living room then the back door. The Lands lured her out with lettuce and water. Deputies returned Candi to the animal rental company. The 21 2 year old animal had arrived at the facility the day before. Mrs Land called her a perfect lady saying she did not knock down a lamp.
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Saugus
Calif
Candi
India
Nature Haven Wild Animal Rental Co
O. B. Land
Action
Los Angeles
Sheriff's Deputies
Animal Rental Company
Political Captain Leaving Sinking Ship Flays Nixon
A statement signed by five Democratic Midwestern governors and three Democratic senators accuses Vice President Nixon of lack of basic conviction on farm aid and other issues. Governors Loveless Docking Herseth Nelson Freeman and Senators Burdick Proxmire Humphrey say Nixon abandoned Benson's farm policy and aligned with Rockefeller’s platform in New York. The note compares Nixon to a captain leaving a sinking ship and signals a party critique of his record.
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Hyannis Port
Mass
John F. Kennedy
Richard M Nixon
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
George Docking
Kansas
Ralph Herseth
South Dakota
Gaylord A. Nelson
Wisconsin
Orville L. Freeman
Minnesota
Quentin Burdick
North Dakota
William Proxmire
Hubert H. Humphrey
Nixon
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Nelson
Federal Court Facility Favored in Beckley by Judge Field
United States District Judge John A. Field Jr says a federal court facility should be placed in Beckley in the old post office building. He told the Raleigh County Bar Association that the arrangement would serve the public interest and improve court operations. Copies of his letter were sent to Senators Randolph and Byrd.
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General Services Administration
Beckley
United States District Court
John A. Field Jr
Field
Raleigh County Bar Association
GSA
Kanawha Street
Bluefield
Lewisburg
Jennings Randolph
Robert C. Byrd
Ben Moore
Castro Told to Rest as Ill Leader Eyes Return
Fidel Castro remains convalescent with doctors urging absolute rest and a good diet to restore strength. Maj. Raul Trillo said antibiotics ended, now a rest plan with vitamins. Rumors swirl about possible temporary delegation to Raul while government radio notes his ongoing illness.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Raul Trillo
Castro
Revolucion
Raul
Fidel
Tell City to Host Grand Steam Whistle Concert
Tell City Indiana sponsors the Schweizer Fest with a 90 minute grand steam whistle concert. Thirty three whistles from factories museums and private owners across six states will be sounded individually led by Bert Fenn of the Tell City Historical Society. The finale features ten whistles and the famed large wildcat known as the heal hand.
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Bert Fenn
Tell City Historical Society
Tell City Chair Co
Tell City
West Virginia Weather Outlook and River Update
Mostly sunny today with a high near 80 and a fair night's low in the 60s. Partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow, with five day temperatures about two degrees below normal. Warmer Tuesday and Wednesday with a cooling trend Friday and chances of thundershowers late Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Beckley high 82 yesterday, low 66. Oak Hill high 83, low 61. Greenbrier River conditions normal and clear, Lake normal and clear with gauge reading 1.6 ft.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Kelly Quits State Post
Public Institutions Commissioner Hubert A. Kelly resigned to Gov. Underwood, likely effective Aug. 15. A Charleston resident and former Kanawha County Court president, Kelly was named institutions chief on March 14, 1960, after earlier serving as Motor Vehicles Commissioner beginning Aug. 1, 1957, but failed Senate confirmation in 1960.
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Charleston
Public Institutions
Hubert A. Kelly
Underwood
Kelly
Kanawha
Senate
Stanley Urges GOP To Back State Income Tax
West Virginia labor leader Miles C. Stanley urged GOP platform committee members to back a state income tax and abolish the sales tax and similar levies. He pressed for higher teacher pay, changes in road financing, and a State Civil Rights Commission with strong enforcement.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Miles C. Stanley
West Virginia Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
GOP
Stanley
Labor. This Has Been A Familiar Theme For A Long Time From the State Federation
Harry Moats
Ritchie
Phares Reeder
West Virginia Education Assn
Charles Staats
State Rural Health Committee
Robert McClarran
The
West Virginia Library Assn
Civil Rights Commission
Committee endorses department of natural resources
Charleston report: Legislative Interim Committee on Natural Resources votes to recommend creating a Department of Natural Resources replacing the Conservation Commission. Five existing divisions Game and Fish Forestry Parks plus Water Resources are to join. a Reclamation Department would oversee reseeding and reforestation of strip mine areas. An upcoming session will draft the bill while Agriculture remains separate.
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Charleston
Legislative Interim Committee On Natural Resources
Department of Natural Resources
Conservation Commission
Roy Lee Harmon
Raleigh
Marshall West
Wyoming
Game and Fish
Forestry
Compromise Day Delays Hammarskjold Congo Trip
U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold extended his Congo visit by 21 hours seeking a compromise over Katanga. He sent Hans Wieshoff to Brussels to meet the Belgian government while resisting calls for immediate U.N. action. Belgian troops pulled out of three towns in Equator province, with 1,500 of 10,000 slated to return home. Katanga remains unrecognized as independent.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
Katanga
Hammarskjold
Hans Wieshoff
Brussels
Belgium
Banningville
Libengi
Coquilhauville
Equator
Kitona
Kamina
Kasai
Two boat disasters feared in Godavari River region
In MADRAS region sixty Indians are feared drowned after two boating accidents. A 20 tone steam launch with freight and 50 pilgrims sank near Kachaluru in swollen Godavari River with about thirty dead including women and children. In East Godavari a second boat sank after a whirlpool trapping thirty aboard with no survivors reported.
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Madrad
India
Godavari
Kachaluru
East Godavari
Wanted List reader fingerprints 10th most wanted killer
Gerald Hudson, 32, a Pennsylvania killer and escaped convict, was jailed in Omaha after farm worker Glendon Maline spotted his photo in FBI wanted circulars. Hudson, alias Gerald Bennett, fled Bellfonte prison in 1957 after a 10 to 20 year term for a 1951 shotgun murder. He waived preliminary hearing and awaits Pennsylvania authorities on $25,000 bond.
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Omaha
Hudson
Pennsylvania State Penitentiary
Bellfonte
John Ferguson
Fayette County
FBI
Ferguson
Terrorist raid on Algiers beach spurs hill battles
French army units and helicopters hunted a rebel band west of Algiers after a beach attack killed 11 and wounded seven. In other news Communists pressed for separate peace treaties with West and East Germany, Mt Etna erupted for the fourth time since July, Kennedy met with Stevenson and planned talks with labor and political leaders, Seadragon began an east west Arctic crossing, Cyprus under Patriotic Front control ahead of independence, a multi-vehicle Pennsylvanian Turnpike crash killed six, Jayne Mansfield gave birth to a premature son, Dahomey gaining recognition from China and the Soviet Union, Typhoon Shirley struck China.
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Algiers
East Germany
Nazi Germany
East
West Germany
Mt. Etna
John F. Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Bernard Boutin
New Hampshire
Portsmouth
N. H
North Pole
Makarios
Patriotic Front
Cyprus
First House of Representatives
Island
Ohio
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Jayne Mansfield
St. John’s Hospital
Santa Monica
Calif
A. C. Meitus
China
Soviet Union
Dahomey
West Africa
Shirley
Queen Mother May Enter Pension at Sixty
London AP reports Queen Mother Elizabeth could become eligible this week for a 7 dollar per week pension once she turns sixty. Eligibility hinges on whether King George VI contributed to the nation’s pension plan, a fact kept closely guarded. The royal will and finances remain secret, and the Queen Mother would likely treat any inquiry as a joke.
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London
Elizabeth
Elizabeth II
George VI
Sherwood Glutz On Balance Of Optimists And Pessimists
Sherwood Glutz contrasts optimistic and pessimistic views noting optimists see opportunity in calamity while pessimists see calamity in opportunity. He cites the idea that people often miss balance and leave reason behind in short patches.
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Shore Wisht Peepul Cood
Micky Mantle
Nixon Seeks Eisenhower Rockefeller Backing For Campaign
Vice President Nixon outlined a plan to enlist both President Eisenhower and New York Governor Rockefeller in the Republican campaign. He will confer with Eisenhower in Newport before a West Coast Hawaii swing, while Finch will meet Rockefeller in New York to arrange his participation. Nixon, Lodge, and staff discussed strategy at a downtown hotel after meeting Dirksen.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
GOP
Newport
R.I
West Coast
Hawaii
Robert H. Finch
Rockefeller
U.N
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Lodge
Herbert G. Klein
Finch
Klein
Leonard W. Hall
Hall
Governor Says Nixon To Speak In West Virginia
Governor Underwood in Charleston said Vice President Nixon would definitely be in West Virginia this fall but could not say when and he would do little campaigning for the Republican cause outside the state. A reporter asked if his Senate campaign against incumbent Sen Jennings Randolph mattered.
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Charleston
Underwood
Chicago
Nixon
West Virginia
Jennings Randolph
Earl's Pearls: Humorous Speaker Warns Listeners
A speaker quips that his job is to talk while the audience listens. He adds a playful warning about a mule from the rear a goat from the front and an umbrella carrying woman from any direction, delivering the line in a humorous talk to the crowd.
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