Telstar Satellite Set for Tuesday Launch Mission
U S scientists prepare a three stage Delta rocket to launch the privately owned Telstar satellite a 170 pound moonlet built at nearly one million dollars. Telstar aims to relay microwave signals enabling transatlantic TV within a week and a network of 30 to 50 satellites could orbit at about 6000 miles within three to four years.
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Typhoon Joan Pounds Okinawa Killing Dozens
Typhoon Joan battered Okinawa and moved toward southern Japan killing about 100 people, with 94 confirmed dead in the south, 33 missing, and 116 seriously injured. Heavy rains triggered landslides, cutting roads and railways and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.
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Belgian Official's Son Wounded Near Hinton
The 13 year old son of Robert Marjolin Sr. of Brussels, secretary general of the common market, was shot in the right foot while at his grandparents summer home near Hinton. He was taking part in target practice at the Thayer home in Lowell and was taken to a Hinton hospital with a not serious wound.
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Prince Philip Falls From Pony in Polo Match
Windsor England Prince Philip fell from a pony during polo on Sunday but escaped injury after vaulting free. The pony sustained a leg injury in the mishap.
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Weather Outlook For West Virginia This Week
West Virginia faces clearer skies and cooler air today with highs near 78 to 85 and night lows 45 to 55. Temperatures drift near normal with southern areas around 88 and northern around 83. Tuesday remains moderately cool, warming midweek. shower chances Thursday or Friday could bring 0.25 to 0.50 inch. Beckley highs near 86 yesterday, Oak Hill 85, readings show mixed but generally dry conditions with Greenbrier River near normal, gates open, Hinton gauge at 2.1 feet.
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Biggest U S high altitude thermonuclear test shocks Hawaii
United States conducts a high altitude thermonuclear detonation via a Thor rocket above Johnston Island, claiming a megaton yield and triggering aurora like skies over Maui. Moscow Radio denounces the act as a crime while scientists monitor magnetic fields and radiation zones for fallout effects.
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Guerrillas Support Ben Bella in Moroccan talks boycotting Algiers rivals
Dissorant Algerian National Vice Premier Mohammed Ben Bella flies to Rabat for peace talks with two Ben Khedda ministers as armed ALN guerrillas advance from Morocco toward Oran. Emissaries Yazid and Bitat meet Khider while 1,000 troops in Oran bolster Ben Bella’s faction amid executions of suspected outlaws and calls to protect European rights.
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Seek Higher Pay 14 000 Austrian Doctors Strike
In Vienna nearly 14 000 doctors walk out for 24 hours demanding higher pay and opposing government moves to socialize medicine. Offices closed, emergency care only in hospitals, and demonstrations by the Austrian Trade Union while public opinion splits on the dispute.
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State's Fiscal Outlook Bright
West Virginia enters 1962-63 with the brightest fiscal outlook in years, says State Finance Director Truman Gore. Revenue for 1961-62 expected to exceed estimates by about 1.5 million, with total general revenue about 142.8 million. Education dominates the budget, over 60 percent, and increases include higher appropriations for West Virginia University and Marshall University. WVU gets 10.55 million. Marshall 2.8 million.
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Color and Crown News From Poole and Sarasota
Health worker Winifred Bennett resigns over a brown uniform ruling in Poole England. Gloria Brody, 18, wins Miss Florida after holding titles such as Miss Nose and Miss Lifesaver. Two old police stations with jails go on sale in Portsmouth England. In Leicester England music appreciation tops prison courses as English is most popular.
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Senate Medicare Debate Opens as Amendments Mount
The Senate resumes the medicare debate as more than a dozen amendments surface including rival Republican plans for federal subsidies to private insured aged. Backers of a bipartisan compromise bill hope for passage though approval in the House remains unlikely. The plan funds care through Social Security payroll taxes covering about 18 million Americans aged 65. Also in congressional news Proxmire urges House hearings on Fed policy blamed for tightened credit. McCloskey nominates Ireland ambassador with no disclosed conflicts.
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Apple Promotion Plan Rejected by WV Growers
West Virginia apple growers voted 86 to 44 against a plan to seek a 1963 state Legislature enabling act for a marketing order on promotion, research and grower information. Ballots sent to 270 growers represented the broadest listing to date. officials will review next steps but expect no new legislation in 1963.
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Youths Fail In Wild West Jail Break Try
In Russell Kansas two youths Phillip Deaton Ireton and Marshall Burke attempted to free ex convict Paul Conway from the Russell County Jail. Sheriff Milton Galgar was shot at but unharmed. A radio dispatcher Grace Wilkerson was abducted and jumped from a moving car. Burke captured. Ireton later arrested after wrecking a car two miles north of Sylvan Grove. Ireton faces parole revocation and possible charges.
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Conway
Road Deaths Boost State Toll For 62 To 212
Four young people drowned and three other persons died in weekend traffic crashes in West Virginia raising the year toll to 212, 52 more than a year ago. A sailor died in a head on collision on U S 50 west of Clarksburg. the victim’s identity was withheld pending kin notification. The driver Elbert Ray Richards, 33, of West Union, Doddridge County, was hospitalized with serious injuries. Both men were reportedly en route to their U S Navy stations in Norfolk, Virginia aboard the U S S Yancey. David Lee Rhoden, 14, of Kingwood, drowned in a branch of the...
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Clarksburg
Elbert Ray Richards
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Doddridge County
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Norfolk
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Kingwood
Eight Die In 3 Car Crash Near Brandywine Md
Maryland state police report a high speed crash on Route 5 near Brandywine killing eight people in a single car that flip slammed into a second sedan and a third vehicle. All victims were from Washington and include a newborn died at the scene. The dead in the convertible were John A. Johnson 20 Joan Ball 22 Barbara Hollis 15 Jean Jackson 19 Evelyn Adams 21 Vincent Whitfield 22 Oliver N. Armstad 20 and John L. Ford 22. Salvatore Balazzolo 34 of Park Md drove the southbound car. he was injured.
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Panhandle City Council Rescinds Planning Appointments
Martinsburg planning commission lacked two members as the new Republican dominated Panhandle City Council voided two appointments made by the old Democratic council set to take effect June 30. Only Paul Anglin’s immediate appointment to a third post was deemed in order. no action on the vacancies followed.
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Morgantown To Buy Old Ordnance Works
Morgantown Ordnance Works will be sold to the Morgantown Community Association for 1.25 million unless Senate Government Operations Committee objects by August 3. Senators Jennings Randolph and Robert Byrd were notified. GSA had pursued sale since 1958 and accepted the bid pending committee approval.
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Stock Averages At Noon On Wall Street
Dow Jones industrials stand at 573.20, down 2.97. Rails up 0.05 at 121.51, 15 Rails down 0.17 to 112.19. The broader market index at 200.29 drops 0.63 as volume reaches 1,000,000 shares at noon.
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Oak Hill Man Missing Foul Play Suspected
Oak Hill state police investigate the disappearance of Ernest Esker Slick Gwinn 76 a retired railroad worker last seen Tuesday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Club He is described as 5 ft 9 in 170 pounds with gray balding hair His family suspects foul play after Gwinn received his pension Tuesday and was seen with three unidentified men at the club the same night Police are verifying the trio while he promised to return Wednesday and ordered a chicken for that day
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President Kennedy Welcomes 50 Berlin Reservists Home
Fifty air force reservists returned from Europe to Andrews Air Force Base as President Kennedy greeted them personally. He shook hands with each man, praised their service, and noted they would resume civilian status later the same day. Major Robert M. Savage received the commander’s commendation and Kennedy asked about their tour while offering congratulations.
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Train Crash Kills 45 near Garmsar Iran
A freight train collided with a crowded bus near Garmsar, 75 miles from Tehran. Initial reports indicate 45 dead and 29 injured. The injured were taken to hospitals nearby and in Tehran as the Tehran to Meshed line traffic was disrupted for hours.
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No Trace Sought In Oceana Teens Missing
State Police and volunteers pursued a broad search for two Oceana youths, David Griffith and Wayne Shadrick, after they failed to return from an overnight campout. Clothing found at Devil's Hole suggested possible drowning, but extensive river and woods searches yielded no trace, and investigators pursued reports of hitchhiking toward Tennessee.
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Churchill Comfortable After Fractured Leg At Hospital
Sir Winston Churchill, 87, spent a comfortable night at Middlesex Hospital amid a possible dangerous side effect from a broken thigh bone. Hospital officials said he is being treated with anticoagulants for phlebitis to prevent blood clots, a condition that inflames a vein.
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Man Dies In Fire At Greenwood Home Explosion
A Doddridge County man, Mike Smith, was fatally burned when an explosion and fire destroyed his family home at Greenwood. He died hours later in Clarksburg hospital. His parents, Porter and his wife, and Porter Jr. escaped serious injury. Authorities did not yet determine the explosion's cause.
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