Loneliest Island in World Faces Volcanic Eruption Evacuation
Cape Town reports Tristan da Cunha’s 266 residents scramble to flee as 6000 foot volcano erupts with smoke and lava. HMS Leopard speeds to deliver emergency supplies while Tristania and Repetto attempt to evacuate by boat to Nightingale Island.
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Cape Town
South Africa
UPD
Tristan da Cunha
London
South Atlantic
Lingale
Tristan
Tjisadane
South America
Sky Diver Survives 7200-Foot Fall After Parachute Failure
Flemington New Jersey reports Harry Shortt 34 of Fort Lee a Tri State Sky Divers member survived a 7200 foot fall after a parachute failed to open He suffered multiple fractures and was in serious but not critical condition at Hunterdon Medical Center Shortt said he jumped at 630 pm and landed in a corn field after a 1000 foot free fall and a failed second chute tangled in cords A farmer found him and alerted state police.
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Flemington
N.J
UPD
Harry J. Shorit
Fort Lee
N. J
Tri-State
Sky Divers
Hunterdon Medical Center
Shortt
Solberg
Eight survive shipwreck after shark infested Fiji voyage
Eight people including three Pan American stewardesses and crew members spent 24 hours clinging to a capsized 26 foot sloop in shark infested Fiji waters. They swam five miles to Mala Mala island after using a gas can as a makeshift float.
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San Francisco
UPI
Fiji Islands
Honolulu
Gidron Meisner
San Mateo
Calif
Estella Navarro
Marga
Tet’ Kircher
Co. Sunup
Mala
Navy Rescues 74 From Grounded Freighters in Two Typhoons
UPI reports US Navy helicopters rescued 74 sailors from two freighters driven aground by Typhoons Violet and another storm. Forty-seven were from the Pioneer Muse stranded on Kita Daito island, and 27 from the Lebanese ship Sheik. Violet caused casualties in the Tokyo Yokohama area and left about 50 houses destroyed or damaged.
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Tokyo
UPI
Muse
Kita Daito Island
Violet
Japan
Tokyo-Yokohama
Grocers Press Statewide Food Stamp Expansion
West Virginia grocers urge the federal government to expand the food stamp plan statewide for needy families. The Retail Grocers Association also asks the 1962 Legislature to authorize a 3 to 5 percent rebate to grocers on collected sales taxes.
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Huntington
UPI
West Virginia
Grocers Association
Grocers
West Virginia Weather and State Tax Debate
Mostly sunny and warm today with high near 80. Fair tonight and Wednesday, with continued warmth. River gauges show Greenbrier and other streams normal and clear. In other action the association approved tax repeal resolutions and urged a tax study to lower taxes. Bud Flowers elected president. other officers named. Gov. Barron urged broad community development and cautioned against a narrow view of West Virginia.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill
M. A
Bud) Flowers
Charleston
J. E. Wiseman
East Rainelle
William Hennady
William Herrick
New Martinsville
E. G. Wickham
Wheeling
W. W. Barron
Association
West
West Virginia
Hijacker seeks trial outside United States
Leon Bearden accused of hijacking a Continental Airlines jet to Cuba asks for trial in a foreign country claiming bias against atheists socialists and noncitizens. Judge Thoman to rule next Monday on the motion filed in El Paso Texas. Bearden and his son Cody, 16, faced trial for the Aug 3 incident.
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EL Paso
Tex
UPI
Leon Bearden
Cuba
R. E. Thomason
Bearden
U.S
Cody
Berlin talks loom after Gromyko London visit
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko met with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in London and suggested a possible peaceful Berlin settlement. In New York U S Soviet talks continue on a successor to Dag Hammarskjold while Adlai Stevenson and Valerian Zorin seek common ground. Britain seeks entry to the Common Market as a Ford strike nears a week. The U S urges continued exploratory talks with Russia on Berlin as East Germany extends military service.
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Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Washington
New York
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
London
Harold Macmillan
Tate
Gromyko J
United States
Russia
U. N
Dag Hammar Iss
U.S
Adlai E
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Ford
Malcolm L. Denise
Nikita Khruleche
East Germany
Syria Receives Official U S Recognition From Washington
The United States officially recognizes the new rebel government in Syria, three days after the Soviet Union extended recognition to the Syrian regime. The State Department designated Damascus as an embassy and Ridgway B. Knight, the consulate-general, will act as chargé d affaires.
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Washington
UPD
United States
Syria
Soviet Union
United Arab Republic
State Department
U.S
Damascus
Cuba says U S trains invaders for large scale attack
Premier Fidel Castro's government accuses the United States of training invaders at 30 sites in the Caribbean and Florida for a larger assault on Cuba. Foreign Minister Carlos Olivares told diplomats the plan includes bases in the Caribbean and at Guantanamo Bay. He urged world powers to note the aggressor and denied Argentina plot documents.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
Caribbean
Cuba
Carlos Olivares
Florida
Olivares
U.S
Guantanamo
Castro
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
Buenos Aires
Campaign fund drive aids scouting at Beckley hotel
March David Mullins sits at the Beckley Winn Hotel as initial returns total 1031.21 in the drive to raise 4500 for scouting needs. Other image appears on page 12.
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David Mullins
Beckley - Winn Hotel
Supreme Court adds racial case on segregation in airports
The Supreme Court accepted review of a Memphis case against Dobbs Houses Inc for denying service in airport restaurants, signaling a new term focus on segregation in air port facilities. The term opened with two other actions including a Tennessee voting representation appeal and three Louisiana school appeals rejected.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Ihe
Jesse Turner
Memphis
Dobbs Houses, Inc
Louisiana
Explosion Kills Bridgeport Mayor and Three Others
Bridgeport Illinois mayor James W. Neely and three Marathon Pipe Line Co. workers were killed when gas vapor above a leaking oil pipeline exploded. Three others were injured as a fire threatened the Ohio Di Co. tank farm. Names include Muril McGee Lee Askren and Walter Burton.
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Bridgeport
Ill
Ohio di Co
James W. Neely
Muril McGee
Lee Askren
Walter Burton
Marathon Pipeline Co
Ohio Oil
Senate panel questions 1959 Bang-Jensen death as possible murder
The Senate Internal Security subcommittee suggested UN diplomat Poul Bang-Jensen may have been killed rather than dying by own action. The report cites Soviet motive and calls security at the United Nations dangerously lax. Bang-Jensen was found dead November 26, 1959, in Alley Pond Park, New York after refusing to reveal witnesses’ identities.
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John A. Goldsmith
Washington
UPI
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
U.N
Poul Bang - Jensen
Bang-Jensen
United Nations’ Security
Menetes
Freedom
United Nations
Hungary
Alley Pond Park
New York
Long Wrangle Over Communist Party Ruling
Washington reports a new round in the government drive to force the Communist party to register under the 1950 Internal Security Act. The Supreme Court refused to reconsider its June ruling upholding the registration. Attorney General Kennedy says enforcement will proceed despite party defiance.
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Washington
UPI
Compmoist Party
Russia
Supreme Court
Robert F. Kennedy
Communist Party
Minister-Boy Scout Executive Confesses Burglaries
Charleston police say Donald T. Ford a minister and Boy Scout executive and Leon Esrger a former U S Chamber of Commerce employee both 32 and of St Albans confessed to 16 burglaries across West Virginia Virginia and Ohio over three states. They signed statements admitting breaking into homes and businesses and police recovered much of the roof and several stolen guns. Both men worked as temporary city policemen during last July floods emergency.
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Charleston
UPI
Donald T. Ford
United Brethern Church
Leon Esrger
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
St. Albans
R. L. Hurt
West Virginia
Virginia
Ford
Burger
Berserk Worker Kills Four At Gary Mill
A laborer identified as Davis Archie opened fire at the Gary sheet and tin mill killing four men and wounding three others before plant police fatally shot him. Victims were taken to St Marys Mercy Hospital where one wound was listed as serious. Police traced the shooter to a disturbance with coworkers prior to the massacre.
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St. Mary’s Mercy Hospital
Garment Plant Eyed For State
Commerce Director Hulett C. Smith said Petersburg Grant County will get a new industry if the Small Business Administration provides a loan. Windsor Knit Inc would run a $110000 garment factory employing 110 people making children’s clothing as its main operation.
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Charleston
UPS
Hulett C. Smith
Petersburg
Grant County
Windsor Knit Inc
Smith
Dutch may oust Soviet envoy over Schiphol clash
Government sources say the Netherlands considers declaring Soviet Ambassador Ponomarenko and other embassy staff persona non grata after their scuffle with Dutch military police at Schiphol Airport. The incident followed Mrs. Alexandrovna Golub’s decision to return to the fatherland, leaving her husband behind.
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Amsterdam
UPI
Netherlands
P. K. Ponomarenko
Schiphol
Ponomarenko
Moscov
Alexandrovna Golub
Holland
Mrs. Golub
Former Judge A D Preston Rites Held
A D Preston former Raleigh County Circuit Court judge died early Saturday in the Masonic Home Parkersburg where he had lived about a year Funeral services were held Sunday in Parkersburg and burial followed at Mount Olivet Cemetery He was an attorney in Beckley around 1900 and later moved with his wife Blanche Barger to New Orleans where she led the Mardi Gras Krewe of Comus pageant.
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A. D. Preston
Raleigh County
Parkersburg
Mount Olivet
Judge Preston
Beckley
Blanche Barger
New Orleans
Comus
Grime Caption Prompts Punishment But TV Runs Ads
A cheeky commentary notes that authentic consequences for grime are rarely shown on television, where commercials interrupt coverage and undermine follow through. The piece critiques media pacing and audience expectations.
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Emae
China declines veto on Mongolia UN seat move
Nationalist China will not veto Mongolia's UN membership, citing risks to its own Security Council seat. Diplomatic sources in Taipei say Beijing fears angering the 12 nation Brazzaville group and causing broader damage.
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Taipei
Formosa
UPI
China
Outer Mongolia
United Nations
Security Council
U.N
Brazzaville
Camel Driver To Visit LBJ
Bashir Ahmad a Pakistani camel cart driver, invited by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson after their Karachi meeting last May 20, is set to visit the United States. Johnson plans to host him in Washington and likely tour the capital and the Johnson ranch in Texas. Donations through People-to-People will cover travel and lodging.
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Washington
UPI
Bashir Ahmad
Lyndon B. Johnson
Karachi
Bashir
Johnson
Johnson Ranch
Texas
America
Miner Deaths Down in 1961 Eight-Month Totals
Charleston report shows 51 miners died in accidents during Jan Aug 1961, versus 80 in the same period 1960. Coal production slipped to 65.97 million tons, down from 78.18 million tons a year earlier, per State Mines Department.
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Charleston
UPL
State Mines Department
Clown Edward Guillaume Kills Woman Then Tries Bomb Escape
Edward Guillaume a 69 year old former circus clown known as Polidor killed Ele na Gabriella Nelson 49 in her New Jersey home and wounded no one else. He then attempted to blow himself up with a stage prop bomb but it failed and he surrendered to police. The case ends a 57 year career of performances before heads of state and dignitaries including FDR and Kaiser Wilhelm.
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Guillaume
Elena Gabriella Nelson
Bergen County
Guy W. Calissi
Franklin D. Roosevelt
King George
Greece
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
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Syriayria
U. S
Stephanie Thompson
Fred Hurt
Hurt
Stephanie
Charlotte G. Moulton
Solons
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
Informa
Justice Department
Boy Scout
By Henry Schoup
A.D. Preston Rites
Mongolia
LBJ
River Vale
Edward Guillaume
Polidor
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