Senate panel warns Cuba build-up could trigger Latin American takeovers
The Senate preparedness subcommittee urged top priority for countering the Cuban threat and warned that without decisive steps a Soviet led subversion could spread through Latin America. It faulted U S intelligence for misjudging missiles in Cuba and urged continued surveillance while noting no firm plan beyond vigilance.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Latin America
United States
Western Hemisphere
Cuba
John C. Stennis
D - Miss
U.S
Stennis
Kennedy urges equal treatment to curb U S racial troubles
President Kennedy says racial difficulties will persist until all citizens receive equal treatment. He praised Birmingham residents for striving to end the unrest and urged prompt removal of barriers to equality, stressing the moral imperative and avoiding federal law claims amid local demonstrations.
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Merriman Smith
UPI
White House
Washington
Kennedy
United States
Birmigham
Ala
Alabama
Birmingham
Truce in Birmingham Faces Fresh Strife as Patrols Reinforce
In Birmingham Alabama a fragile racial truce teeters after a 250 man highway patrol force and about 400 plainclothes officers guard the city amid violence and mass arrests of 2200 Negroes. Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Rev Fred Shuttlesworth expressed cautious hope as a bi racial committee met without results and King faced jail for a second time in weeks.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Steel City
Martin Luther King Jr
Fred Shuttlesworth
King
Atlanta
Ralph Abernathy
Dola Mine Probe Hearing Hears Unsafe Practices Claims
About 40 United Mine Workers witnesses were to testify as investigators resumed the Dola mine explosion probe that killed 22 miners on April 25 in Clarksburg. The hearing led by State Mines Director Leonard J. Timms was to continue through Friday, with testimony on safety practices and a referenced rule book sought by UMW District 31 President Cecil J. Urbaniak.
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Clarksburg
UPI
United Mine Workers Union
Dola
Leonard J. Timms
Harry Chapman
Cecil J. Urbaniak
UMW District 31
Chapman
Haywood Harris
Clinchfield Coal Co
Harris
Ike's Book on White House Years Due in November
New York reports the first volume of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s two book set on his eight years as president will be published in November. Doubleday & Co. announced the volume titled Mandate for a Change covering 1953 to 1956, with the second volume slated for completion in fall 1964.
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New York
UPI
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The
White House
Doubleday & Co
West Virginia Weather Outlook Sunny and Hot
Sunny conditions dominate with occasional cloudiness and a warm high near 86, low 60s tonight. Friday brings partial clouds and continued warmth with scattered showers possible in the south and cooler readings in the north. Beckley and Oak Hill report high 80s yesterday, river gauges show Greenbrier and Lake at normal/clear, new Hinton gauge at 24 feet.
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Beckley
Rome
Greenbrier
Hinton
Plane crash at golf course pond kills St Joseph family
A light Beechcraft Baron crashed into a golf course pond 10 miles northeast of Benton Harbor Michigan. Victims include Robert Finch 49 his wife Mary Lou 47 their 12 year old son Barry and Marie Ashworth 59 Charleston West Virginia the stepmother of Mrs Finch. The CAA and state police cited turbulence as a possible cause. Finch president of Appliance Buyers Credit Corp a Whirlpool subsidiary had just test flown the plane with plans to buy it. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
UPTY
Civil Aeronautics Administration
St. Joseph
West Virginia
Robert Finch
Mary Lou
Barry
Marie Ashworth
Charleston
W.va
Ashworth
Finch
Whirlpool Corp
Sam Drake
Paw Paw
Benton Township
USW Board To Review Contract
The United Steelworkers International Executive Board will meet in Pittsburgh next week to discuss the current contract with the big 11 steel producers. The Wage Policy Committee, the union’s final authority, was not called. Major topics include Human Relations Committee developments and potential contract negotiations under the 1962 pact, with reopening possible any time after May 1.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers Union International Executive Board
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Cooper Prepares For U.S. Space Flight
CAPE CANAVERAL UPI Cooper 36 year old astronaut runs through a dry run for a 34 hour spaceflight planned to begin next Tuesday from Cape Canaveral. He and Alan Shepard will enter Hangar S for final checks this weekend before Faith-7 blasts off aboard an Atlas rocket to circumnavigate the globe 22 times and end in the Pacific near Midway Island. Ships monitor potential landing zones across the Pacific and Atlantic in case of emergency.
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Cape Canaveral
UPI
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Cooper
Space
United States
Mercury
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Earth
U.S
Pacific
Midway Island
Atlantic
Little Liz Take
Those people who go to pieces so easily were probably never put together right in the first place.
GOP Chairman Sees Rockefeller Remarriage Aiding Candidacy
Republican National Chairman William E. Miller said Rockefeller’s remarriage could help his presidential bid, noting many prefer a married man. He stressed judging candidates by records and positions, and named Scranton Romney and Goldwater as strong contenders amid GOP gains in key cities and the South.
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Harrisburg
UPI
William E. Miller
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Miller
Capitol Press Club
Rockefeller
White House
GOP
William Scranton
Pennsylvania
George Romney
Michigan
U.S
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Goldwater
West
South
Postal Budget Cut Restored to Preserve Saturday Mail
Senate approves a $6,069,466,250 appropriation for the Post Office and Treasury for the fiscal year starting July 1 restoring $50 million of the $69.8 million House cut. The move lessens the threat to Saturday deliveries and other services.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Post Office
Treasury Departments
House
Water Co Endorses Lake Levy in County Letter
A Beckley area notice features endorsements from Water Co officials and other utility majors backing a levy for Stephen's Lake management. The piece cites A G Wilcox and M A Johnson praising local leaders and notes tax contributions from Appalachian Power Amere Gas The C P Telephone The C O Railway N W Railway Godfrey L Cabot Gas Beckley Water Co and Beaver Coal Corp. as supporters. It argues water investments improve districts and drinking water availability.
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Stephen's Lake
A. G. Wilcox
Raleigh County
M. A
Ping” Johnson
Beckley
Appalachian Power Co
Amere Gas and Utilities Co
C & P Tele
Beckley Native's Death Ties Questioned in Phantom Strangler Case
Beckley resident Beverly Samans 26 was found slain in a Cambridge apartment. Autopsy shows multiple stab wounds, not strangulation, challenging links to the Boston phantom strangler case. Samans, a Boston University music therapy student and singer, had ties to local hospitals and schools.
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Cambridge
Mass
Beckley
Beverly Samans
Boston
Beckleyan
Miss Samans
Peter A. Delmonico
Middlesex County Medical Examiner
University Road
Harvard Square
Radcliffe College
Boston University
New England Conservatory of Music
Fernald School
Medfield State
Oliver Chamberlain
Second Baptist Church of Boston
Woodrow Wilson High School
Samans
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Boston Conservatory of Music
Boston Mass
Walter F. Ferald State School
Waltham, Mass
Metropolitan Opera Co
New York City
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Evacuation of U S Dependents From Haiti Under Naval Watch
UPI reports the United States continued air removal of government dependents from Port au Prince under a naval task force. Aboard a chartered Pan Am plane and two regular flights, 195 Americans left, part of 770 total dependents slated to depart as tensions with the Dominican Republic and Duvalier regime persist.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
U.S
Pan American World Airways
U.S. State Department
Francois Duvalier
Dominican Republic
London
the Hague
Britain
Netherlands
United States
Six Mile
Duvalier
Raymond Thurston
Foreign Office
Thurston
Cavalier
Bay of Gonave
National Palace
Relief centers aid Chicago families as relief funds stall
Food distribution centers across Chicago launch to feed families cut off by halted relief checks. The Federation of Settlements runs 32 neighborhood centers while Woodlawn hosts another. Salvation Army and Catholic Charities issue rations to households with no breadwinner as Mayor Daley is urged to seek rent and utility moratoriums.
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Chicago
UPI
Federation of Settlements
Woodlawn
Salvation Army
Catholic Charities
Welfare Council
Richard J. Daley
Richard Bachman
Daley
Illinois Public Aid Commission
South Side
Ten Indicted In Mine Incident At Phelps Collieries
Ten persons faced indictments in Munro County related to a December shooting at Phelps Collieries Coal Co. in Thacker that left Don C. Dotson with an eye loss. Indicted individuals include Ernest Casey, William Casey, George Casey, Thomas Casey, Walter Casey, Clinton Casey, Ray Smith, Ralph R. Ferrell, Andy Dotson, and Johnny J. Phillips. A separate murder indictment was returned against Carson Golegrove in the January 31 fatal shooting of Mathew Browning Jr. in East Kermit.
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Ray Smith
Ralph R. Ferrell
Andy Dotson
Don Dotson
Johnny J. Phillips
Carson Golegrove
Hardy District
Mathew Browning Jr
East Kermit
Youths Body Found Near Gas Station in Calhoun County
Dale Parks, 17, was found Wednesday in a large storage tank at a pumping station in Calhoun County near Annamariah. He reportedly entered the tank seeking gasoline and may have succumbed to fumes or drowned. The body was located after Parks’ brother-in-law, Jim Blair, searched the station.
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Grantsville
UPI
Dale Parks
Wirt County
Annamariah
Calhoun County
Parks
Jim Blair
Scranton Declares He Is Not A Presidential or Vice Candidate
Harrisburg report states Gary William W. Scranton announced he is not a candidate for the presidency or the vice presidency and he considers a draft for the top office to be an impossibility.
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Harrisburg
UPI
Gary
William W. Scranton
For The Levy Brochure Unsigned By Authority
A 40 000 copy brochure on Stephen's Lake facilities and map was printed unsigned first, distributed under Lake Stephen's Tourism Development Authority. Investigators say C Harold Hanks did not commit a law violation by circulating mimeographed figures to members of the McMillion family, though proof of actual distribution is lacking. The remainder will bear the originator’s name.
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Lake Stephen
C. A. “Slim” Thompson
C. Harold Hanks
McMillion
Terry
Thompson
Hanks
Free advice worth what it costs, says Sherwood Glutz
Sherwood Glutz quips that free advice is only worth its price and jokes that nearly anyone can claim to cure a cold or build a barn. He notes Irvin Cobb and older men offering advice to young men as they age and set a bad example.
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Annybody
Irvin Cobb
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