Laos Rebels Halt After Capturing Royal Outpost Near Houei Sai
Pro Communist Laotian rebels possibly aided by North Vietnamese troops reported to have halted a new offensive after seizing a royal government outpost about nine miles from Houei Sai on the Nam Tha road. Radio messages from American advisers said the attack paused before dark Sunday with no further contact since. Government forces had fled to Thailand earlier this month, and troops aided by advisers regained Houei Sai.
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Tornadoes Rip Midlands Fourth Straight Day
Tornadoes and violent spring storms swept the southern plains from the Rockies to the Appalachians on Sunday. Texas and Nebraska towns faced damage and injuries as twisters touched down in Booker and Perryton Texas and in Jansen Nebraska. Hail and flooding occurred in Spearman and surrounding areas while Ohio Valley rainfall drenched Fort Knox and other regions.
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West Virginia Weather Outlook With Clouds and Showers
Cloudy conditions continue with showers and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon mainly in the east, highs 70s to 80s. Tonight, partly cloudy with scattered storms, lows 58 to 62. Tuesday warm with afternoon thundershowers, highs upper 70s east to upper 80s west. Temperatures run 5 to 10 degrees above normal in southern and northern parts. Rainfall expected about half an inch on Tuesday, Wednesday, and again Saturday.
Posse hunts killer of five in Iowa farm family massacre
Unionville Iowa dispatch reports Gayne Gilbert Smith 24 believed cornered in brush and gulleys after mass killing of Andrew McBeth Dora Mae McBeth and their children Amos Anna and Donna Jean. Patsy McBeth wounded as car found near Unionville. Smith accused of abducting two McBeth children to a Saturday dance in Brighton.
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Massive turnout as 900000 take Sabin vaccine in Cleveland
About 900,000 people in Cuyahoga County, roughly half the population, received Sabin oral polio vaccine in Cleveland on Sunday, far exceeding forecasts. Officials anticipate 575,000 more next Sunday to reach about 80 percent coverage. Four northern Ohio counties also distributed over 100,000 doses. Dr. Albert Sabin called the response unprecedented and extraordinary.
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Air Force Cargomaster Missing With 6 Aboard
Dover Delaware report says an Air Force C133 Cargomaster transport with six crewmen aboard disappeared after leaving Dover at 9 a.m. for an eight hour flight to Lajes Air Base Azores. The four engine plane carried a classified cargo described as not dangerous. Related thunderstorms were reported near the flight path as contact was lost with U S control stations.
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York acutely ill in Jamestown hospital
Alvin B. York, famed World War I Medal of Honor winner and a bedridden 74, is acutely ill at Fentress County General Hospital after a reported gastro intestinal hemorrhage. Doctor Guy C. Pinkley, his long time caregiver, said the bleeding was checked Sunday night and there is no immediate cause for alarm.
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Cosmos V launches as routine Soviet satellite
Moscow reports Cosmos V, a routine uncrewed artificial satellite, in its lunar program tests. It orbits every 102.75 minutes from 126 to 993 miles altitude with a 49 degree inclination. Cosmos V exceeds prior apogee by 24 miles. five of 21 Soviet satellites remain in orbit. The United States has 32 of its 70 known launches still circling Earth.
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Carpenter's seven orbit Mercury plan eyed for fall
Cape Canaveral reports Scott Carpenter’s successful three orbits bolster plans for a next Mercury mission with seven orbits and Pacific landing. Officials say the 10 plus hour flight could occur next autumn, with John Glenn as the earlier two man test. Carpenter’s calm after the mission underscored the craft's soundness and readiness for longer weightless periods.
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Two Men Fatally Struck Near Jaeger
Two passengers, Jack Farmer and June Mayberry, were killed when they were struck by a car on U S 52 near Jaeger. The victims had been riding as passengers in a car driven by Farmer’s brother and stopped to stretch as the driver napped. The other car was driven by Martin Lee Bailey, a 27 year old soldier from Panther, McDowell County, stationed at Fort Meade Maryland.
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UPI
West Virginia
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Abbs Valley
Welch Hospital
June Mayberry
McDowell County
Paul Gyke
Welch
Farmer
Jesse
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Martin Lee Bailey
Fort Meade
Personal Income Up West Virginia March Gains
West Virginia total personal income in March reached 273.6 million, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier, per Business Week. The March total was 1.1 million below February's 274.7 million. For the first quarter of 1962, income totaled 822.8 million, a 5.8 percent rise from 777.7 million in Q1 1961.
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Business Week
Spaceman Carpenter Answers Nations Call in Spaceflight Report
Scott Carpenter held a Sunday news conference calling the flight “the report of a working astronaut to the nation.” He described the five hours as fastest and easiest, praised sunrises and sunsets, and noted luminous particles seen around the capsule. He discussed possible causes for landing overshoot, apologized for communications blackout, praised weightlessness, and explained his condition, controls, fuel, and decision to leave the capsule in water after splashdown.
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Hawaii
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Probers Link Bomb to Deadly Continental Jet Crash
Federal investigators piece together evidence from the Centerville crash site of a Continental Airlines Boeing 707, 45 dead, showing a dynamite type blast in a washroom under the tail. FBI and CAB probe a possible murder for insurance motive and an on board detonator.
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Kansas City
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Amputee Boy Seeks Thanks For Support After Arm Reattachment
Everett Knowles Jr., a 12 year old Somerville Little Leaguer, remains on the danger list as doctors report good circulation after last week’s six hour surgery to reattach his severed arm. He hopes to thank Joe Cronin and Bud Daley, plus Milton Berger who sent religious medals blessed by Pope John XXIII, as officials say it may take three to five years to assess the operation’s success.
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UPI
Everett Knowles Jr
Somerville
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Joe Cronin
New York Yankee
Bud Daley
Milton Berger
New England Provision Co
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Pledges Reach $66,800 for Beckley Textile Plant
Pledges in a stock sale for a Beckley textile plant on the By Pass reached 66800 at noon, $33800 short of the 100000 goal. Harrison C. Ash, president and chair of New Kanawha Industrial Corp, extended the fundraising deadline from midnight tonight to midnight tonight, with backers hopeful for more time through the week.
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Harrison C. Ash
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Estes Faces New Charge At Hearing In Washington
Agriculture Department official tells House investigators there is reason to believe Billie Sol Estes may be guilty of a criminal violation related to grain storage deals with the government. Information has been turned over to the FBI and the Justice Department. The alleged offense involves false financial statements and carries up to five years in prison on conviction.
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UPI
Agriculture Department
House
Billie Sol Estes
Wmbine
Punick Nuhlin
Texas
FBI
Justice Department
Roland Ballou
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Government Operations Subcommittee
Estes
Florence P. Dwyer
N. J
Texas Atty
Will Wilson
Striking Spaniards Return as Franco Appeals for Sacrifices
Thousands of coal miners resume work in Spain after Francisco Franco calls on all Spaniards to make sacrifices for the common good. The 52 day strike ends as a significant break in the labor action and follows a broader sequence of international and domestic tensions including OAS attacks in Algiers and a U.N. disarmament discussion in Geneva.
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Francisco Franco
Secret Army
OAS
Algiers
United States
Arthur H. Dean
Geneva
Stock Averages Dow Jones Noon Snapshot
The Dow Jones noon averages show 30 Industrials at 602.02, down 9.86. 20 Rails at 126.75, off 2.48. 15 Utilities at 109.42, down 3.15. 65 Stocks at 206.53, down 4.09. Volume traded to noon totals 1,890,000 shares.
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Mona Lisa debate returns in U S visit
Washington columnist Dick West argues against bringing the Mona Lisa to the United States despite talk during Andre Malraux's visit. He notes chronic disagreements over what the smile means, citing a Geographic Society study claiming pregnancy and another physician suggesting asthma.
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UPI
United States
Andre Malraux
National Gallery of Art
National Geographic Society
the Geographic
Leonardo da
Mixup in Operating Room Sends Two Infants to Wrong Procedures
In Pontiac Michigan two infant boys aged 17 and 13 months had mistaken charts for operations. Mark Trautman received a hernia operation while Tracy Fernald had a tonsillectomy. Both boys now face another surgery to correct the mixup.
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Mich
UPI
Tracy Fernald
Mark Trautman
St. Joseph Hospital
Mark
Tracy
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