Kennedy Paris Vienna London talks show limited progress
President Kennedy's talks with De Gaulle Khrushchev and Macmillan in Paris Vienna and London yielded no major solutions but eased public bitterness in East West relations. Western Allies stay united on fundamentals yet differ on methods to hold the line against expansion. Top level diplomatic contact with the Soviet Union is restored after a year. France's nuclear program and NATO cooperation remain unresolved issues.
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Stahr Resigns as WVU President Amid Cabinet Duties
Elvis J. Stahr Jr. resigned as West Virginia University president effective after meeting the Board of Governors, citing duties with the Secretary of the Army post under Kennedy. Acting president Clyde L. Colson will serve until a permanent successor is chosen, though he is not seeking a full-time role. Stahr expressed hope WVU will gain stronger public support and progress.
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Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
Speaker Sam Rayburn says he will settle for age 104 though doctors warned 106. A Dominican bishop urged prayers for Trujillo’s soul as police captured suspect Marcelino Vele z Santana, three others at large. Peggy Day gave birth to Mary Kate, eighth child. About 25 horses burned at Bayview riding academy in Toronto. Gard Gardner McKay won dismissal of paternity suit. Churchill vacationed in Monte Carlo after illness. Adlas Stevenson met Venezuelan leaders before Argentina stop. Venezuelan unrest noted as taxes and wage cuts spark protests. Fire killed three at a frame hotel near the cell See Shortening Page 2.
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Virginia weather outlook and river conditions today
Variable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms today and tonight. Highs in the 80s and lows around 60s. Wednesday brings scattered thunder showers to the south, partly cloudy and cooler in the north. Beckley high 81 yesterday, Oak Hill 84, Greenbrier River normal and clear, Lake with slight cloudiness. New gauge 2 ft.
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President's Report To Be Carried Live
President Kennedy's summit report will be carried live nationwide on television and radio at 7 to 7 30 p.m. EDT. The three networks CBS NBC and ABC will air the report from the White House.
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Pickled Parakeet Pickled Parakeet
Spike the parakeet in Sistersville has become a whisky addict after初 being given three drops daily by Mr and Mrs Eugene Boston to improve his plumage It now demands alcohol and spits seeds when neglected and refuses plain water
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UPI
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Kennedy to Report to Congress on Talks with Khrushchev
President Kennedy, looking fit, returns to Washington to brief Congress and the nation on meetings with Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Western leaders. He lands at Andrews Field after London and Goose Bay layover, then heads to the White House for a 4:30 pm meeting with party leaders and Foreign Relations panels. A 7 pm nationwide radio television address will summarize private talks with Khrushchev, de Gaulle, and Macmillan.
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UPI
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Congress
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Andrews Field
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London
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White House
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J. William Fullbright
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House
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Charles de Gaulle
Harold Macmillan
Vienna
Paris
People Before
West would use nuclear weapons to meet Soviet attack
Deputy Defense Secretary Gilpatric stated the West would employ nuclear arms if NATO forces faced overwhelming non nuclear assault in Europe, maintaining allied policy and suggesting any war could become global. He warned against reducing nuclear capability while boosting conventional forces and noted the army should improve efficiency with existing personnel.
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NATO
Vision Glitch Quietly Passed In Shepard Flight
Alan B. Shepard’s 15 minute suborbital flight featured blurred vision during liftoff due to head rattling vibrations but instruments remained readable. He lost three pounds yet endured a "very small physiological price" for America's first space shot. NASA NIH and NAS hosted the medical results conference amid hopes for further Mercury hops and a full orbital flight soon.
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UPI
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National Institutes of Health
National Academy of Sciences
Ships collide off Cape Henry in heavy fog
In thick fog eight miles southeast of Cape Henry Virginia two ships collided. The 458-foot Maipo carrying 50 crew and four women passengers suffered a six-foot hull gash and flooded compartments but steamed to Norfolk with a Coal Guard escort. The 559-foot World Challenger sustained bow damage but continued to Baltimore. No casualties on either ship.
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Cape Henry
Picnic Facilities Closed at Grandview Park
Grandview Park will close the picnic area and toilet facilities all day today and probably Wednesday. Park superintendent James Jennings says the closure is necessary for reservoir repairs.
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Grandview Park
James Jennings
White Negro Youths Clash In Carolina
White and Negro youths clashed in Trinity North Carolina as highway patrol and sheriffs deputies broke up a potential race riot. About 150 whites armed with makeshift weapons confronted Negroes at a crossroad area after a store refused service to two Negro youths. Store owner Robert Parris vanished during the uproar but later returned and said he hid overnight fearing abduction.
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United Press International
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Randolph County Sheriff's Deputies
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Randolph County
W. W. Wilson
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Russians Arrive in Havana to Train Cuban Farmers
About 25,000 Havana residents welcomed 300 Russian farm technicians at dusk to spend a year in Cuba teaching new techniques. The crowd included roughly 1,000 young Cubans who will soon depart for Russia for training.
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Auto Sales Show Sharp Increase Across May
Washington reports May activity rising with strong April, signaling a broad-based recovery. Treasury officials project Fiscal 1963 budget surplus. Heller’s council expects 1961 output to reach a record 530 billion dollars. In Detroit, Ford Motor Co. May sales total 177,840 cars and trucks, best May since 1925, with 147,115 cars and 30,725 trucks. GM May sales hit 261,219 passenger cars, near May 1960, up 21 percent from April 1961, with strong demand for used cars.
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Douglas Dillon
Walter W. Heller
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UPI
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General Motors
Fire Levels Two Factories And Seven Homes In Ayer
Ayer Massachusetts faced a major blaze that leveled two factories and seven houses in a quarter mile zone. About 25 people were injured or overcome by smoke as 1 000 firefighters and 200 Fort Devens soldiers fought the four hour fire. Twenty one were taken to hospital with none seriously injured. Damage was pegged at five million dollars with greater economic losses feared. Local officials planned a meeting with factory representatives to discuss the disaster and its impact on the town’s 15 000 residents.
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Walter F. Picard
Ayer
European Reds Losing Ground
London reports Communist party membership in free Europe fell from 3 million to 2 million in seven years. The Times notes a smaller drop in votes from 13 million to 11 million but says parliamentary representation declined markedly, with lower-house Communist members decreasing by 100 to 331 in 1953.
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AWOL editor flees WV penitentiary publication
The West Virginia Penitentiary’s inmate paper Penscope lost its editor Rob ert G Craft 24 of Sutton after he escaped from Buckhannon Sunday night during a church performance with a singing troupe. Craft, serving a Kanawha County forgery sentence, remained at large as wardens searched for a replacement editor.
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UPI
West Virginia
Penscope
Robert G. Craft
Sutton
Craft
Buckhann
Kanawha
Otto C. Boles
Bold Shoplifter Claim Delicate Swimwear Swap
A women's garment shop reports a customer took a bathing suit without paying. The store says the shopper wore the suit under her dress and later returned seeking a smaller size exchange. The incident follows a prior attempt to leave with the item.
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Doctor Loses Wife On X Country Tour
Waynesburg physician Dr Charles Cullings 42 and his daughters 13 and 6 were in a station wagon while his wife and 12 year old son rode in a sports car on a cross country trip from Waynesburg to Buhl Idaho The two cars separated Saturday between O Neill and Ainsworth Neb The Wyoming Highway Patrol found Mrs Cullings and the son in Buhl Neb Mrs Cullings apparently followed U S Highway 20 through Nebraska and Yellowstone while Cullings headed to Jackson after the separation
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Idaho
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Ainsworth
Neb
Wyoming Highway Patrol
Cullings
Nebraska
Yellowstone National Park
Six Children Die In Blaze In Portageville Mo
In Portageville Missouri a fire in a shack killed six children of Mrs. Jessie Mae Forest and badly burned a seventh. The victims Aaron Forest 10 Don 7 Ema Mae 6 Kayseen 5 Jennett 2 and Robbie 1 were all Negro. Michael age undetermined was rescued with burns over about 60 percent of his body and was expected to survive. A M Graves principal of Carver Elementary spoke with Mrs. Forest before she collapsed from shock. Cause of blaze unknown at this time.
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Bootheel
Jessie Mae Forest
Aaron Forest
Don
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Kayseen
Jennett
Robbie
Michael
James Davis
Hayti
A. M. Graves
Carver Elementary
Forest
More Rounds In Court Seen After Anti-Red Ruling
The Supreme Court upheld two anti-Communist laws in a 5-4 decision splitting along liberal and conservative lines. Communist Party general secretary Gus Hall condemned the ruling as an attempt to intimidate the party and limit its legal rights.
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Washington
UPI
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New York
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Hall
Justice Department
Felix Frankfurter
John M. Harlan
Harlan
Frankfurter
Greece Greet Jackie on Athens Nine Day Visit
Athens prepares to host Jacqueline Kennedy as the Greek capital rolls out a welcome. Prime Minister Caramanlis will host a reception at Kavouri with Amalia Caramanlis. Jackie arrives Wednesday with sister Lee Radziwill for a personal rest trip lasting nine days.
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Vienna
London
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Washington
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Queen Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Interviewers Interviewed Each Other in TV Summit Coverage
New York based UPI reports Big Chief Hoacum critiques network coverage of Kennedy's European trip. He decries reporters interviewing themselves and missing native voices while noting CBS Small World format innovation and potential for live global TV pickups of heads of state.
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