Two USDA Officials Admit Secret Payments in Estes Probe
Washington United Press International reports two former Agriculture Department field service employees, Louis N. Dumas and Arthur D. Stone, publicly confessed before the Senate investigations subcommittee that sworn statements were false and that they received 1640.80 from Billie Sol Estes enterprises. Dumas said he kept half for Stone, and both men said they resigned. They acknowledged payments linked to data aiding Biggerstaff and Calabrese in identifying farmers interested in transferring cotton allotments.
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Alphonse Calabrese
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English Court Delays Soblen Deportation
British High Court issued a writ of habeas corpus keeping Dr Robert A Soblen on British soil at least until a July 16 hearing. The 62 year old former psychiatrist, recovering after a suicide attempt aboard an El Al flight from Tel Aviv, had fled the United States to avoid a life prison term. He is considered a British charge and responsibility, with officials noting anticipated further legal action.
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UPI
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Alan Mocatta
Soblen
Tel Aviv
United States
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West Virginia Weather Outlook and Five Day Forecast
Cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday across northern and southern counties. Temperatures will run 2 to 3 degrees below normal with highs near 82 to 87 and lows in the 60s. Rainfall expected around a quarter to half an inch, rivers and gauges showing varying levels across Beckley Oak Hill and Greenbrier area stations.
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U.S.-Backed Assault Near Saigon in Viet Cong Clash
More than 600 South Vietnamese troops with American air support attacked Communist guerrillas on the northern edge of the Plain of Reeds about 20 miles west of Saigon. Seven guerrillas killed, five wounded, arms captured. an ordnance workshop destroyed. Operation began after 6 am with airlifted rangers and U.S. Army H21 helicopters.
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Long An
Event notes from annual association summer outing
Robert among 86 registered at the hotel by mid morning. Highlights include tours of Grand View State Park and a viewing of Honey in the Rock tonight and a Beckley Exhibition Mine visit Saturday. The annual fall meeting is set for November 8 to 10 in Morgantown. Tetrick serves on the association board of directors.
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Keyser News-Journal
FDA blasts Calories Dont Count book and CDC pills
FDA officials accuse Dr. Herman Taller and Cove Vitamin of promoting a pill through a best selling diet book. The agency seized CDC capsules, halted sales, and recalled products while Cove and publisher Simon & Schuster rebut the FDA. The case includes questions about financial ties and a contempt motion against Taller.
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UPI
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FDA
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Herman Taller
Core Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Inc
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Taller
Cove Vitamin
Cove
Ed Bobley
Glen Cove
N.Y
Simon and Schuster Inc
Simon & Schuster
Ment
U.S
New York City
IDA
Take That You Heel in Wichita Falls Bout
Sue McFarland, 20, 5 ft tall, punched wrestler Donny Fargo with a spiked high heel as he left his dressing room. The 100-pound attacker struck him on head and shoulders, sending him to hospital with facial and scalp lacerations. Two off duty policemen arrested her.
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Upid
Sue McFarland
Donny Fargo
Fargo
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Mickey Rooney declares bankruptcy with minimal assets
Actor Mickey Rooney told bankruptcy referee he has only about $500 in assets to pay debts totaling $484,914. He lives in a $75,000 Encino home with two servants and his family, earning $1,000 weekly from Barbroo Enterprises Productions Inc., a 1960 formed corporation. Rooney cited $106,686 in federal taxes, $23,000 in back alimony, and $2,000 in horse racing losses among his liabilities while seeking a $75,000 life story sale and possible $15,000 advance.
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UPI
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Hursday
Rooney
Encino
Andy Hardy
Joseph Rifkind
Barbroo Enterprises Productions Inc
Ney
Hat wins fanfare at Royal Show despite chaos
Theresa Russell's new hat drew praise from Queen Mother Elizabeth the Duchess of Gloucester and a duke at the Royal Agricultural Show in Newcastle. A police horse later bit off a shiny orange decoration, prompting Russell to complain, while police couldn't identify the culprit among a list of suspects.
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England
UPI
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Punch
Underground Test Today Sets Off Massive Nevada Blast
The United States planned its most powerful nuclear explosion at the Nevada test site as part of Project Sedan. A 100 kiloton underground H-bomb would be detonated 600 feet deep to study peaceful uses of atomic energy under the Plowshare program, aiming to dig harbors and canals.
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Nevada i Desert
State Seeks Way To Keep ADC Program
Charleston reports State Welfare Commissioner W Bernard Smith will meet with the Board of Public Works to chart continued ADC support after federal matching funds expired. The plan costs about 1.5 million monthly. 12,500 workers face leave unless Congress funds extension, with 5,000 kept by the Road Commission and 7,500 awaiting action.
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UPI
W. Bernard Smith
Board of Public Works
Congress
State Road Commission
Burl Sawyers
Smith
BPW
National Probe of Abuses Set
The Senate Appropriations Committee asks HEW to launch a nationwide review of possible abuses in Aid to Dependent Children programs after a 5 percent DC sample found 66 ineligible. The probe aims to curb fraud and improve welfare case oversight.
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Washington
Nevada test site yields largest U S atomic blast
UPI reports the first known detonation of an H-bomb type device in the United States. The 100 kiloton yield rocked southern Nevada desert at 10 00 a m PDT (1 00 p m EDT) with a deep rumble announcing the event.
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Nevada Test Site
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Nevada Desert
Atmospheric nuclear test planned at Nevada site
The AEC announced a Saturday atmospheric detonation at the Nevada test site expected to blast a crater about a quarter of a mile wide and 300 feet deep. It will be the first such test in the United States in nearly four years, last conducted on Oct 30, 1958.
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High Altitude Blast Delayed Over Johnston Island
The United States postponed a 24 hour post ponement in its third attempt to explode a rocket borne nuclear device over Johnston Island in the Pacific. Weather appears to have influenced the delay after a prior hold.
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Johnston Island
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State Probation Officer Fired in Harrison County
H E Clifton, probation officer in Harrison County, was dismissed by the State Board of Probation and Parole for remarks to news media opposing parole for Carl Lee Gallo. Board Chairman J Alexander Creasey said Clifton criticized parole policy and ordered officers to avoid public comment. Clifton will be replaced by James C Frame of Kiwood.
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Clifton
James C. Frame
iKi Wood
Rhoden town selects male mayor in all-woman administration
Rhoden's all-woman administration pledged cooperation and progress and chose Magistrate J. K. Cole as mayor in a closed session at noon Thursday. He immediately assumed duties, succeeding Rosa McKinney who resigned after her pastor objected to the town approving a street dance. The pick was made with four of five councilwomen present, including Ruth Dunford, Lucille Sizemore, Ruby Augustine, and Donna Lopez.
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J. K. Cole
Ruth Dunford
Lucille Sizemore
Ruby Augustine
Donna Lopez
Cole
Rosa McKinney
Faulkner dies in Oxford after heart attack
Nobel laureate William Faulkner, famed American novelist, died at 4 a.m. in Oxford Mississippi with wife Estelle at his bedside. He created Yoknapatawpha County in his fiction, won the 1949 Nobel Prize, the 1954 Pulitzer, and the 1950 National Book Medal. Funeral planned Saturday at 4 p.m. EDT. survivors include his wife, daughter Mrs. Paul Summer, and three grandchildren.
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Ernest Hemingway
Faulkner
University of Virginia
Emily Clar Balch
Charlottesville
Yochnapatawpha
Mississippi
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Paul Summer
New Albany
Kennedy weighs early tax cut on economic outlook
President Kennedy said he would monitor the economy over the next months to decide if a tax cut this year is needed but remains committed to asking for a general tax reduction next year. AFL-CIO criticized waiting, urging an immediate cut as the economy weakens.
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UPI
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Cuban defense minister cites blockade impact and Soviet aid
Raul Castro told a Moscow audience that the American economic blockade has affected Cuban life and that imperialists would have forced bloodshed without Soviet help. Saskatchewan doctors strike enters sixth day amid possible legislature session for a compromise. The Defense Department calls for 5,000 September draftees, unchanged from July and August quotas. Ruth Williams sues United Air Lines and Douglas Aircraft for $3 million after a Denver jetliner crash last July. A year long Seafarers union and Canadian railway workers dispute shuts down the Welland Canal. police guard Seaway points. Flight engineers union will appeal a federal judge’s second no strike extension.
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Moscow
Cuba
Soviet Union
Saskatchewan
Defense Department
Ruth E. Williams
Denver
United Air Lines
Douglas Aircraft Co
Seafarers’ International Union
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers
Welland Canal
St. Lawrence Seaway
Flight Engineers Union
Little Liz 7-6 Cars Throng Roads Across Time
A cryptic verse fragment notes there are too many cars of tomorrow on the roads of yesterday and too many of yesterdays cars on the roads of tomorow. The line hints at a looping traffic reflection with playful wordplay.
Bloodshed erupts again in Oran near cathedral
In Oran, shooting flared near the Roman Catholic cathedral as curfew ended, with reports that 19 Algerians and 17 Europeans were killed in recent riots. Algerian guards said shots came from European-occupied apartments, amid tensions linked to the OAS. Police also fired on a speeding truck as authorities scramble to restore order.
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UPI
Oran
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Youth Killed In Hunting Mishap
A 13 year old Crab Orchard boy Arley Cline was killed while ground hog hunting with his father and a family friend near Sinks Grove. The shooting occurred about 10 a m at an old laundry site between Links Grove and Fort Springs. A. L. Keene was identified as the shooter and is the brother in law of the funeral home attendant. Lewisburg State Police investigated.
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Arley Cline
Arley R. Cline
Aubrey Keene
Crab Orchard
Williams Funeral Home
Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home
Ronceverte
Cline
Keene
Slab Fork Coal Co
Arley
Slab Fork
Beckley
Ronceverte Funeral Home
Links Grove
Fort Springs
A. L. Keene
Lewisburg
Heavy Selling Drops Market in Early Trading
New York reports fairly heavy selling ends a six session market advance. By around 11 a.m. the Dow Jones industrials fell to lows before rebounding slightly. Brokers expected a technical setback and a possible consolidation to curb recent gains.
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Stock averages at noon show declines across sectors
The Dow Jones noon averages slide with the 30 industrials at 574.44, down 9.03. rails at 121.16, down 0.89. utilities at 112.00, down 0.48. and 65 stocks at 200.40, down 2.26. Volume reaches 1,540,000 shares.
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