U.S. Accused Of New U2 Spy Flight
Senator Keating charged 10 shiploads of Russian military supplies head to Cuba with cargoes of trucks missiles and electronic gear. He said 5,000 Russian troops are in Cuba plus camps outside Havana. Moscow accused a new U2 flight over Sakhalin and warned of retaliatory measures unless the United States punishes those responsible.
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UPI
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Norway
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Senate
U.S
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Japan
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
Ench
Sakhalin Isand
John Mc Sweeney
Francis Gary Powers
Siberia
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Ussr
U.S.A
Tass
Far
International Rescue Operation Mobilized After Iran Earthquake
An international relief effort mobilized for Iran after the worst earthquake in the country’s history. The United States and about a dozen nations pledged aid, with 10 000 blankets 1 000 tents and a 100 bed hospital unit dispatched. CARE and the Red Cross also sent substantial supplies while Iran received emergency funds and food shipments.
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Joseph Mazandi
Tehran
Iran
UPI
United States
U.S
U.S. State Department
American Red Cross
Red Lion and Sun Society
Red Cross
New York
CARE
Cooperative For American Relief Everywhere
UN predicts fast action on Congo unity plan
United Nations officials welcomed Katangese acceptance of the plan for Congo reunification. Acting Secretary General Thant was to move the program upon returning from Europe. The plan would end Katanga's two year secession and establish a federal government, with the UN force costing about ten million dollars monthly. Katanga President Moise Tshombe notified acceptance.
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UPI
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U.N
Congo
Thant
Vienna
Europe
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Baldy Sought As Strangler In Six Boston Cases
Boston police search for a balding 25 year old man who pretended to be a water inspector to approach elderly women living alone. The phantom strangler is linked to six killings in and around Boston. A black and white sedan was used. detectives have been tripled to 150 as the case unfolds.
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Boston
UPI
Roxbury
Edmund L. McNamara
FBI
West Virginia Weather Forecast With Showers Likely
Beckley and Oak Hill report highs in the upper 60s to mid 80s yesterday with morning readings in the 60s. Forecaster notes thundershowers and clouds across the state this afternoon and tonight, with showers and storms ending by Wednesday as cooler air moves in. River gauges show Greenbrier river normal and clear, new gauge at Hinton reads 1.7 ft.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Hinton
Senator Payroll Puzzles A Reporter Questions Descriptions
Washington columnist Dick West critiques quarterly Senate pay lists. He highlights odd job titles like inserting machine operator laborer in charge of private passage and wagonmaster on the Capitol grounds, noting possible errors and unclear duties that cloud what earners actually do.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Senate
Senate
John M. Price
Price
Mary E. Scroggins
James A. Mullally
George Smith
Louis A. Queen
Smith
Queen
Capitol
Anay
Refugee shot escaping over cemetery wall at Berlin crossing
UPI reports Communist police shot a refugee trying to escape from East Berlin over a cemetery wall toward West Berlin. Western police said he showed no life signs after tumbling back into East territory as U.S. troops manned checkpoints to block a Soviet attempt at the border. A French ambulance was alerted but recalled after word spread that the refugee was dead or wounded.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
East Berlin
United States Army
Friedrichstrasse
Johnson In Rome on final leg of Middle East goodwill trip
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrived in Rome from Athens as the last stop on his two week goodwill tour of the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
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UPI
Lyndon B. Johnson
Athens
Middle East
Mediterranean
Albany Rebuffs Integration Try
In Albany Georgia Negroes seeking integration faced firm refusals as school assignments for the upcoming year had already been made. Fifteen students entered Albany High through police barricades while Klansmen staged a large anti integration rally nearby with more than three thousand attendees from Georgia and Alabama.
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Albany, Ga
API
Albany
J. J. Cordell
Albany High
South
Georgia
Alabama
Labor Day traffic toll hits 499 nationwide
United Press International reports 499 deaths during a 79 hour Labor Day period ending Monday. California led with 47 fatalities. New York 26. Texas 25. Ohio and Pennsylvania 20 each. National Safety Council calls for immediate drastic actions to curb rising traffic deaths.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
Howard Pyle
The
Safety Council
Chicago
Pyle
California
New York
Texas
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
North Carolina
Virginia
Wisconsin
Delaware
Vermont
Ten Die In State West Virginia Labor Day Toll
Ten people died in a 78 hour Labor Day weekend highway toll in West Virginia ending midnight Monday. The latest death was 66 year old Eli Kukuljan whose tractor left a road near Fairmont and overturned. Seven deaths occurred Saturday in Kanawha County, with two Sunday deaths and four additional fatalities in other states. The year to date road toll reached 286, 51 more than last year at this time.
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West Virginia
Eli Kukuljan
Sec. 44
Fairmont
Kanawha
West
Professor Wins Chess Laurels West Virginia tourney champion
Dr. Alex Darbes, a Marshall University psychology professor, won his second West Virginia Chess Tournament championship in Wheeling. He finished the three days with a 5-1 score, topping a field of fourteen in the senior division. John C. Scherer and Don McKee tied for runner up on tie breaks.
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Wheeling
UPI
Alex Darbes
Marshall University
West Virginia
Darbes
John C. Scherer
South Charleston
Don McKee
Edward M. Foy
Charleston
David Marples
St. Albans
Scherer
Seigfried Werthammer
Huntington
George Pierson
New Unit Expected To Be Activated In Raleigh County
Dr. Robert J. Johnson announced the Raleigh County Unit of the West Virginia Division American Cancer Society will not receive a charter until reorganization completes. The State Board cited failure of education programs and policy infractions. A field team will guide volunteer leaders, and a new unit is expected within two weeks while the Cancer Center in Beckley continues patient services.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia
American Cancer Society
Robert J. Johnson
Robert Lee Daniels
Beckley
Tom Watts
Parkersburg
The
Cancer Society
Beckley Newspapers Corp
Prince Street
Johnson
Department of Anatomy
University Medical Center
ACS
Doomed Dog Hiding In W Va Spurs Pet Rescue Appeals
Ricky the German Shepherd deemed to die for sheep killings eludes Virginia authorities. Owners seek mercy while Ricky hides near West Virginia hills. supporters in Florida Texas North Carolina and Virginia urge various pleas including training as a seeing eye dog and gubernatorial intercession.
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Pearisburg
UPI
Virginia
Ricky
Cartoman Cecil
West Virginia
Virginia Supreme Court
Edgewater Fla
Richmond
Times-Dispatch
Waco
Tex
Texas
Albert
Harison
Harvey S. Lutins
James Laing
North Carolina
Laing
Laings
Plot to assassinate president reported in Brazil
Forest Service Inspector Arturo Paloqui alleges a murder plot to kill President Kennedy during his Brazil visit in November. He presented what he claimed were detailed plans and guerrilla training photos on a Sunday telecast, linking Communist groups to Rio de Janeiro State near Guanabara Bay.
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Brazil
UPI
Forest Service
Arturo Paloqui
Kennedy
Baloqui
Joao Goulart
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Branco Avenue
Guanabara Bay
Rio
Cambodian Friendship Highway may cost U S more than 50 million
UPI report notes House investigators now estimate the Cambodian-American Friendship Highway could exceed 50 million dollars, triple its original 17 million tag. President Kennedy earmarked 7 million for repairs. Congress had given 2.7 million last year. 34 million already spent.
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Friendship Highway
U.S
Washington
UPI
House
Kennedy
Congress
A. L. Dougherty Overseas Inc
New York
Hammond, Inc
Bolivia Leader Cancels Washington Visit in Protest
President Victor Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia cancels a Washington trip planned for Sept 24 to protest U S exports of stockpiled tin and demand special considerations due to mining costs. A mediator planned separate talks with CNW Railway officials and striking telegraphers as negotiations break down.
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Victor Paz Estenssoro
Bolivia
Washington
U. S
United States
Estenssoro
Chicago and North Western Railway
Venus Probe Midcourse Maneuver Delayed For Checks
Scientists at JPL canceled the Mariner-2 midcourse maneuver to verify whether its high gain antenna Earth censor is locked on Earth or the Moon. If locked correctly, a small rock et motor would adjust trajectory to fly 250,000 miles closer to Venus for data.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Venus
Caltech
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL
Earth
Moon
LAFTA Excludes Cuba From Latin Bloc
delegates from nine LAFTA members voted 7 to 0 to exclude Cuba over its Communist style economic system. Brazil and Mexico abstained for technical reasons from voting on resolutions to shut Fidel Castro's revolutionary regime out of LAFTA.
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Mexico City
UPI
Latin American Common Market
LAFTA
Cuba
Brazil
Mexico
Fidel Castro
Fire Kills Boy 6 in Linden Blaze
Dallas Glenn Boggs, six, died in a Linden fire that destroyed the Boggs home. His father Curtis Lee Boggs saved two other children and caught his wife as she leaped from a second story window. The cause was not immediately determined.
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Spencer
UPI
Dallas Glenn Boggs
Curtis Lee Boggs
Linden
Here
Boggs
Dallas
Fierce battle claims halt of Bellists near Algiers
Guerrilla units allied with Willaya Four report heavy fighting south of Aumale, about 55 miles south of Algiers, with artillery and automatic weapons. They claim to have repelled Ben Bella forces and inflicted dozens of dead and wounded as clashes continue. Police report violence near Massena, Medea, with ten killed.
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Paul Chwat
Algiers
UPD
Ahmed Ben Bella
Willaya
Ben Bella
Willaya Four
Aumale
Here
Medea
Massena
Miss W Va Float Plugs Centennial Miss WV Pageant
Diana Joyce Hunter, West Virginia’s Miss America hopeful, will ride a float in Atlantic City highlighting West Virginia’s 1963 Centennial. She spent Monday receiving rules, taking photos, and gifting the other 53 contestants engraved crystal bells from Seneca Glass Co. in Morgantown.
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N. J
Diana Joyce Hunter
West Virginia
Miss Hunter
West Virginia University
Seneca Glass Co
Morgantown
W. Va
Charleston
Convention Hall
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