Opposing Boycotts Drive Louisiana and New Jersey School Strife
United Press International reports parallel boycotts in Louisiana and Englewood New Jersey as segregationists push to keep white students from parochial schools and Negro residents protest state home neighborhood schooling. In New Orleans 15 public schools begin integration amid parochial school tensions. bomb scares disrupt two campuses and crowds harass families outside Our Lady of Prompt Succor.
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United Press International
Louisiana
New Jersey
New Orleans
Englewood
N.J
Our Lady of Prompt Succor
Westwego
George Julian
St. Louis Cathedral
Fall Festival Dates Approved by Beckley Chamber Board
Beckley Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce approves a four day Fall Festival for Oct 17 to 20. William T Blakely chairs the steering committee for the parade with Randey Webb Phil Payne Tony Gonzalez Clay Price and several others. Merchants discuss Christmas lighting and extended shopping hours from Nov 21 to Dec 26 with special Dec 24 and Dec 26 observances. A Christmas parade could be explored with Payne assigned to study the idea.
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Mercantile Board
Beckley-Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce
G. C. Murphy Co
William T. Blakely
Blakely
Phil Payne
Randey Webb
Tony Gonzalez
Clay Price
Madge Richardson
Eve Br
Payne Reports
Beckley
Payne
Riots at Bexar County jail spark blunt remark
In San Antonio Bexar County Sheriff Bill Hauck addressed protesting prisoners after a meal riot saying if you think you're going to run a restaurant around here you're in the wrong hotel. A separate dispatch notes NASA officials discussing a parachute free landing concept and Adenauer and de Gaulle backing a European union urging action.
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San Antonio
Tex
Bexar County
Bill Hauck
West Virginia Weather Fair And Cool With Sun
Fair and cool conditions persist across West Virginia with highs mostly in the 60s to low 70s and clear, cooler nights. Beckley and Oak Hill report cool early today with surrounding gauge readings. rainfall scarce and rivers steady. New York UPI bulletin notes Pellston, Michigan at 30 degrees and Blythe, California at 106 as today’s extremes.
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Oak Hill
Greenbrier
New
Hinton
New York
UPI
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pellston
Mich
Blythe
Calif
Short News Briefs Span Space to South Africa
Multiple short items: Air Force Academy doctors say Llewellyn E. Thompson rests comfortably after a kidney stone attack during golf. Geneva talks show cautious Soviet readiness on a nuclear test ban. Pittsburgh fire causes over 200000 dollars in damages, no injuries. Miss Illinois Pamela Gilbert wins swimsuit round in Atlantic City Miss America prelims. Hoover improving after surgery. Florida reports encephalitis cases rise to 154 with fourteen deaths. Mariner 2 speeds toward Venus with Dec 14 flyby. US mint to economize pennies switching from tin to zinc. South Africa may ban strip-teasers as Jan de Klerk bills new parliament.
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Air Force Academy
Llewellyn E. Thompson
U. S
Russia
Geneva
Soviet Union
Pittsburgh
Illinois
Pamela Gilbert
Atlantic City
N. J
Charlotte Ann Carroll
Mississippi
Popeye
Olive Oyl
Herbert Hoover
Florida
Earth
Kennedy
Jan de Klerk
de Klerk
Pastor Believes He Saw Fireball Over West Virginia
The Rev. Robert Hayworth reports his family seen a fiery object moving low across the night sky Saturday around 10 pm near Green Bank West Virginia He says it appeared to flame as it fell toward a mountain opposite his home and caused fear with no sound He may contact the National Radio Astronomy Observatory for confirmation though he is currently unavailable for comment.
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Robert Hayworth
West Virginia
Stephenson
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank
Hayworth
Frank Drake
The
Observatory
Second Man Hanged For Crime Spree
Charles Edwin Kelley, 21, was hanged at the Iowa State Penitentiary for the murder of IRS agent Alvin Koehrsen after a six day crime spree that began in Minnesota and ended in Iowa. He died at 5 46 a.m. after pleas for clemency were denied. Kelley’s partner Charles Noel Brown, 29, died on the same gallows six weeks earlier.
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Fort Madison
Towa
UPI
Charles Edwin Kelley
Internal Revenue Service
Minneapolis, Minn
Iowa State Penitentiary
Kelley
Charles Noel Brown
Alvin Koehrsen
Walnut
Iowa
Koehrsen
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Korean Troops Kill Three Communists in Truce Zone
Three North Korean soldiers were shot and killed by South Korean troops after entering the southern part of the truce zone. A fourth South Korean was wounded in the arm as a 30 minute firefight occurred about 80 miles northeast of Seoul. An Allied team will inspect the scene and review violations of the armistice by the North Koreans.
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Samuel Kim
Seoul
UPI
1St Army
Red
Widow clings to canyon wall eight hours before rescue
Gertrude Ida Long, 58, of Tujunga California, survived eight hours clinging to a canyon shrub 200 feet down after her car plunged 300 feet. Rescuers answered her calls at 8 p.m. and pulled her to safety by basket stretcher. She suffered head injuries a broken rib and lacerations.
FDR Jr to Campaign For Bailey in West Virginia
Roosevelt will tour parts of the 1st District in support of Rep. Cleveland Bailey against Arch Moore. He arrives in Wheeling and will visit Weirton Follansbee and Wellsburg, backing Bailey as in the 1960 Kennedy campaign.
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FDR Jr
Bailey
W. Va
Wheeling
UPI
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Cleveland Bailey
DW. Va
Arch Moore
R-W. Va
Roosevelt
Weirton
Follawsbee
Wellsburg
West Virginia
John F. Kennedy
Soblen Thwarts Return Yet Again in London
London officials disclosed that convicted Soviet spy Dr. Robert A. Soblen remains in hospital for at least 24 more hours and cannot be moved to the United States until doctors decide. He was unconscious at noon and had possibly taken a barbiturate, with a full inquiry under way.
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London
UPI
Home Office
Robert A. Soblen
United States
New York
Brixton
Hillingdon Hospital
Soblen
Middlesex
White House Antique Exposed As A Phony
Washington rumors of a fake White House Baltimore desk reach First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The desk given by Mrs Maurice Noun of Des Moines was misrepresented as 1800 era and valued around 20000 dollars, but White House and other experts traced it to the 1880s and not a Baltimore desk. The donor requested its return and the desk will be shipped back.
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White House
Kennedy
Pike collections set August record on turnpike
Charleston APS reports West Virginia Turnpike toll revenue for August at 432,646 dollars, up nearly 7 percent from 1961. The 88 mile route between Charleston and Princeton carried 187,183 passenger cars and 47,522 commercial vehicles during the month.
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Charleston
APS
West Virginia
Railway Strike Impacts Midwest as Talks Continue
The Chicago and North Western railway strike disrupts the Midwest with plant shutdowns and farm product delays. Federal mediator Francis A. O'Neill Jr. resumes talks with the railroad and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers as 1000 AFL-CIO telegraphers remain on strike with no settlement in sight.
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Chicago
UPI
Chicago and North Western Railway
Midwest
Wyoming
Francis A. O'Neill Jr
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Ort
North Western
Afl-Cio
De Gaulle and Adenauer Push Toward Europe Unity
De Gaulle and Adenauer urged rapid moves toward a political merger of France and Germany at a state dinner. They hinted at a possible formal agreement before De Gaulle's departure, while Benelux favored delaying steps until Britain joins the Common Market. Details of discussed ideas remained secret.
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de Gaulle
Adenauer
France
Germany
BOM
UPI
Charles de Gaulle
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
Britain
Nee
Cries Mount For Action Vs. Cuba
Senators Morse and Javits urged concerted action with Latin American allies through the OAS to counter Cuba. Tower proposed arming Cuban exiles, while Rusk sought an informal Latin American ministerial meeting in New York during the UN General Assembly.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Organization of American States
OAS
John G. Tower
R-Texas
Cuba
Morse
Javits
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Kennedy
All America
Tower
State Department
Havana
Dean Rusk
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Rusk
Kremlin Rejected Cuban Guard Promise by Castro
London reports authoritative sources say the Castro regime sought and was refused a full Russian military guarantee and Warsaw Pact alignment. Instead Moscow offered an arms deal and sending experts to Cuba, framing the Moscow Havana accord as limited to countering threats rather than automatic defense.
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London
UPD
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Moscow
Warsaw Pact
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Washington
United States
Case Against Bluefield Cop Dismissed in Burglary Case
PRINCETON UP I Mer cer County Criminal Court Judge Howard Jarrett dismissed the burglary indictment against Bluefield patrolman Robert E. Lee after Prosecutor W O Bivens said there was not enough evidence for a jury trial. Lee was the third of seven Bluefield officers slated for trial for burglaries dating to the late 1940s. The first two trials ended in hung juries.
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Princeton
UPI
Mercer County
Lee
Bluefield Supply Co
Theodore R. Land
Eugene Kirk
Jarrett
Charles Creeger
Roby Brown
Brown
Kennedy tax reform bill passes Senate in 59 24 vote
A sharply modified Kennedy tax reform bill clears the Senate 59 to 24 after a late wave of criticism. The vote drew liberals and conservatives into the opposition. Other briefs include East Germany warning over US helicopter flights and flight crew safety photographs released by the FAA. Fighting reported near Orleansville in Willaya Four as Ben Bella loyalists clash with guerrilla forces.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Kennedy
Berlin
East Germany
United States
East Berlin
Gary Francis Powers
Algers
Orleansville
Willaya
Ahmed Ben Bella
Massena
First-year students bused to Blue Jay building
Walter Smith Kathryn Lucas David Epperly and Randy Scott embark on the first daily ride from Beaver to Blue Jay as the district opens its first Primary Block housed in a single school. Betty Toney Rebecca Shafer Roger Wethington Robin Scott Linda Weed and Mrs. Mason Anderson join the new class. Principal Sherman Akers reports a smooth move on the first day of classes.
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Beaver
Blue Jay
Walter Smith
Kathryn Lucas
David Epperly
Randy Scott
Betty Toney
Rebecca Shafer
Roger Wethington
Robin Scott
Linda Weed
Mason Anderson
Sherman Akers
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D-Ore
Latin America
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Kremlin
Castro
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Flight Engineers Union Today
Federal Aviation Agency
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