Frustrating News Items From 1961 Roll Call List
Washington UPI recalls top 1961 stories and prompts a personal list of frustrating items. The writer notes an Amos Neyhart claim about teaching students to attach snow chains in six minutes but says no clear method is revealed. Also questions Kennedy's New York party visit and Frankie Avalon sighting, leaving readers hanging about reactions.
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Washington
UPI
Roll Call
Capitol Hill
Amos E. Neyhart
Pennsylvania State University
Neuhart
Frankie Avalon
United States
Freeman Plan Targets Cutting Farm Support Costs
Washington Agri culture Secretary Orville Freeman released a long range blueprint to trim surpluses and cut farm price support costs roughly in half over five years. The plan centers on supply management to curb crops and turn millions of acres into grass and woodlands, with effects starting in 1963.
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Washington
UPS
Orville L. Freeman
Freeman
Brazil Circus Fire Kills 323, Injures 600 in Rio State
A fast moving blaze tore through Circo Americano in Niteroi Brazil killing 323 and injuring 600 as spectators including many children fled a collapsing Big Top. Police suspect arson. Gov Pecanha called for blood donations while hospitals and navy aid treatment efforts.
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Interoi
Brazil
UPI
Celso Pecanha
Rio de
Janeiro
Ringling Brothers Circus
Hartford
Conn
Circo Americano
Pecanha
Niteroi
Rio de Janeiro
Big Top
Danilo Estavanovich
Demol Brotherton Sr. longtime West Virginia Democrat dies
W T Sucy Brotherton Sr prominent businessman and Democratic leader dies Sunday night after long illness in Charleston. He served as president of Kanawha County Court, was a WV House of Delegates member and a Democratic National Convention delegate. Native of Goldtown Jackson County he began politics in 1932 elected to three terms in the House before resigning in 1937 to join the County Court, later serving as president.
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Charleston
UPI
W. T
Sucy” Brotherton
Brotherton
House
W. T. Brotherton Jr
Kanawha
West Virginia
House of Delegates
Goldtown
Jackson County
County Court
West Virginia Weather Sees Cooler Conditions Across Regions
Rainy and cooler conditions move through central and west portions with highs 45 in the northwest and 50 in the east. Rain ends tonight with lows 35 to 40. Tuesday partly cloudy and cool. Five day forecast shows temps 6 to 8 degreesbelow normal. cooler Tuesday and turning colder Thursday and Friday with rain or snow possible totaling about half an inch. River gauges show Greenbrier muddy and rising. Lake above normal and muddy. new gauge at 6.3 ft near Hinton.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Hinton
Hilo
Safe Crashes Fatal To Five
Five West Virginia road deaths over the weekend raised the year’s toll to 354, with victims including A Lawson Stover, 30, of Scarbro. Patrick P Fitzgerald, 67, of Narrows. David Martin, 20, of Charleston. Jonah Clemons, 37, of Marfork. and Robert Moore, 13, of Follansbee.
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United Press International
West Virginia
A. Lawson Stover
Scarbro
Fayette County
Kimberly
Patrick P. Fitzgerald
Narrows
Kellysville
Mercer County
David Martin
Charleston
Jonah Clemons
Marfork
Raleigh County
Whitesville
Boone County
Robert Moore
W. Va
Follansbee
Australian scientist named director of Green Bank observatory
Washington UPI reports Dr. Joseph L. Pawsey, 53, Australian radio astronomer, was appointed Sunday as director of the National Radio-Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank West Virginia.
Discount Stores Raided Anew In Blue Law Case
West Virginia constables raided Huntington and Weirton discount stores again on Sunday charging blue law violations. Six Heck’s Discount Store employees and 18 at The Bazaar were arrested and posted $500 bonds each before hearings today and tomorrow. Sheriff deputies opened a third-straight Sunday raid in Weirton targeting Jim’s Bargain Store Value Center and Pri-Way Shoe Mart amid ongoing enforcement. Victor Greco of Value Mart posted bond.
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United Press International
Huntington
Weirton
West Virginia
Heck's
Heck’s
Sheriff's Deputies
Jim
Coal Production Up For Month in West Virginia
West Virginia coal output in October reached 10,262,620 tons, up from October 1960 by 1,400,000 tons, boosting ten month total to 86,392,879. Year-to-year production fell from 97,287,557 to a lower level, eight fatalities in October raised the yearly toll to 68, while employment averaged about 5,000 fewer workers at 31,230 to 36,057.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
State Mines Department
Kennedy Returns To U S
President Kennedy, sick with a heavy cold, arrived in Palm Beach from South America after a whirlwind Latin American tour. He will stay overnight and plans to return to Washington, with Bermuda talks and Macmillan meeting on the horizon. Cuban, Colombian reactions reported. 600000 welcomed in Bogota.
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Palm Beach
Fla
UPI
Kennedy
White House
South America
West Palm Beach
Bogota
Colombia
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Caracas
Venezuela
Ramey Air Force Base
Pierre Salinger
Air Force
Sunnyview name change for Hamshire residents
Hamp shire town residents vote to rename their community Sunnyview to escape constant jokes. In Hollywood a traffic jam formed with onlookers watching six to seven deep as three couples danced a twist marathon. A New York showroom opens offering rentals from A to Z including zithers at 7.50 daily. In Redbourn England a fox eludes six hounds but blocks traffic on a busy six lane highway. In Chelmsford burglars steal 2800 dollars worth of merchandise from a shop near the county jail.
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Hollywood
UPI
Hollywood Boulevard
Vine Street
Redbourn
England
Indian assault on Goa stalls at sea and land
India launches land sea and air moves to seize Goa Damao and Diu with claims of progress Goa Radio later broadcasts denial of Indian occupation and continues resistance Portuguese set scorched earth defense while Lisbon disputes Indian claims Anjediv Island falls as Nehru voices sorrow over the action. Robert Byrd congratulates F Alv in Webb on oath as Deputy Director for the Washington Regional Office of the U S Post Office Department.
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Patrick J. Killen
Belgaum
India
UPI
Goa
Damao
Diu
Portugal
United Nations Security Council
Dium
Indian Defense Ministry
Lisbon
Pangim
Sanquelin
Sarvona
Jawaharlal Nehru
Anjediv Island
Anjediv
Angediva
Goa End
Arabian Sea
Robert C. Byrd
D.W. Va
F. Alvin Webb
Washington
U. S. Post Office Department
West Virginia
Fergus McRee
Webb
McDowell County
Postal Service
Flash floods kill 22 in Charleston in 1961 top story
West Virginia’s capital was hit by a catastrophic flood on July 19 leaving 22 dead and extensive damage. The piece lists Charleston’s flood as the state’s top news story of 1961, noting the disaster area declaration and ongoing recovery efforts.
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J. Richard Toren
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Kanawha
Elk
Reading
National Guard
Marshall
Shinnston
Big Bill
Conscience Stretches as Views Expand
A witty aphorism notes that when a man believes his views are broadening it is likely his conscience that is stretching. The line uses concise humor to reflect on self-perception and moral growth.
UN Jets Hit Katanga Mine as Truce Talks Rise
UPI reports United Nations jets bombed the Union Miniere mining company in Elisabethville as U.S. envoy Edmund A. Gullion arrived in Ndola to press Katanga President Moise Tshombe for a possible truce talks venue near Kitona. Heavy fighting and refugees marked the siege. President Kennedy sent a message urging Tshombe to meet Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula to discuss reuniting Katanga with the Congo.
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Elisabethville
UPI
United Nations
Union Miniere Mining Company
United States
Katanga
U.S
Congo
Edmund A. Gullion
Ndola
Rhodesia
Moise Tshombe
Gullion
Leopoldville
Tshmbe
Cyrille Adoula
Kitona
U. N
Leooid II
Union Miniere
Tshombe
Adoula
U.N
Bush
Kennedy
U S regrets Indian action over Goa clash
The United States voiced sincere regret over India's invasion of Goa and other Portuguese enclaves in India. A State Department spokesman said Washington urged India to avoid force for weeks and Kennedy pressed Nehru in a letter and ambassador Galbraith to seek restraint.
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Washington
UPI
United States
India
Goa
State Department
Kennedy
Jawaharlal Nehru
John K. Galbraith
Nehru
U.S
Indian Defense Ministry
Foreign Office
London
Britain
Supreme Court declines to halt Jackson prosecutions in freedom ride case
The Supreme Court refused to block prosecutions of freedom riders in Jackson Mississippi while it rules on a federal case about travel segregation. In a brief unsigned order the court said granting an injunction would be an extraordinary remedy. The NAACP had asked to bar prosecutions on behalf of three African Americans.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Freedom Riders
Jackson
Miss
High Court
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Etiquette Guide For Social Climbers
London report reviews Guy Egmont’s etiquette manual for Americans entering British nobility circles. It cover dress, wife’s attire, flattery, name dropping, pronunciation and social pitfalls with dated tone and playful caution about aristocratic manners.
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Administration
By Heber Lobato
Estavanovich
Vircinia
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lewiston
Havre
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Vero Beach
Discount Stores
Colleen Vetter
LaDean
Greeley
Colo
Merriman Smith
Pudding Baglane
Hampshire
Sunnyview
New York
Chelmsford
St.Francis Xavier
Old
St.Francis of Assisi
New Delhi
Keystone
West Virginia Postmasters Association
National Association of Postmasters
Byrd
Post Office Department
U.S Post Office Department
Dispatches
Ohio River
Greenup
W. W. Barron
Ae. Ls
UN Jets
By Neil Smith
U. S
Harry Ferguson
Guy Egmont
Duke of Bedford
Woburn Abbey
Lock
Chippendale, Adams
Repeney Hepplewhite
Shernon
Somerset Maugham
Willy
Viscount Blongbroke
St. John
Bullinbrook
Sinjun
Lord Clwyd
Cloo-idd
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Mawlbro
Zie Wernher
Zeen Werner
Egmont
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