Base Summer Festival Plans Announced at Walker AFB
Walker Air Force Base unveils a three day summer festival on June 30 to July 2 with a parade ground midway. The event features food stalls including hot dogs popcorn and drinks and promotes Miss Walker AFB 1961 with contestant Carol Wiegman.
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Air Force
Walker Afb
Strategic Air Command
Royal Air Force
Walker Air Force Base
Tharea Erill
Ueppiligo
Lalilival
Almcig
Walkerites
Walker
Carol Wiegman
Russian Space Chief Mikhail Khrunichev Dies at 59
Deputy Premier and head of the Soviet space program Mikhail Khrunichev died suddenly in Moscow. A longtime party and aviation official, he rose from humble roots to lead space and planning efforts, earning seven Lenin orders and the Hero of Socialist Labor title.
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Soviet Union
Mikhail Khrunichev
Tass
Khrunichev
Kremlin
Red Army
Communist Party Central Committee
State Economic Commission
Judge fines man for stealing ship sheets in Wisconsin
Les ter Rankin aged 47 a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad worker admitted taking clean sheets from the Lake Michigan ferry Spartan to use at home and returning dirty ones. Judge Donald Gleason ruled theft and fined rankin 100 dollars in municipal court.
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Green Bay
Wis
Lester Rankin
Lake Michigan
Spartan
Rankin
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Donald Gleason
Balloons to Detonate High Explosives Over White Sands Range
City officials including Mayor Lake Frazier and Fire Chief George Daniels were briefed on Project Banshee a DoD program to launch large translucent balloons carrying chemical explosives to high altitudes above New Mexico. Flights will originate from Hobbs Air Base and tests run for months within White Sands Missile Range with strict safety controls and coordinated with Army Naval and Air Force labs.
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Lake J. Frazier
C. M. Woodbury
George Daniels
Civil Defense
Frank Shelton
Chamber of Commerce
Robert Huber
Maj
August T. McColgan
Public Information Office
White Sands Missile Range
Department of Defense
New Mexico
Defense Atomic Support Agency
Hobbs Air Base City
White Sands
Army Ballistic Laboratories
Aberdeen
Maryland
U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory
White Oak
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory
Hanscom Field
Massachusetts
Summer School Enrollment High in Roswell
About 25 percent of Roswell high school students enroll for a 9 week summer session. Of 426 students, 95 percent take courses for extra credit across 500 subjects, leaving around 5 percent to do makeup work, per R Marshall Clark director of special services.
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Roswell
R. Marshall Clark
Soviet View Sees Path to Peace in Kennedy Khrushchev Talks
Vienna dispatch reports guarded Soviet optimism for a productive Kennedy Khrushchev summit. Moscow press and bloc attaches say accepting Soviet policy offers world peace. Pravda and Moscow Literary Gazette attack U.S. rigidity and urge Berlin firmness. Khrushchev arrives, Kennedy to meet at the American ambassador’s residence with talks continuing through Sunday.
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Pravda
Moscow Literary Gazette
U.S
Kennedy
London
Paris
Bonn
Berlin
Khrushchev
de Gaulle
Vienna
Bratislavia
Czechoslovakia
Antonin Novotny
Llewellyn Thompson
West Berlin
Germany
Man Held As Shooting Investigation Unfolds
J W McElroy of 608 E Tilden St was arrested for questioning after a servant shot wife of a serviceman at Walker AFB. Mrs Mary Weaver of 606 E Summit St was wounded in the chest by a .38 pistol found on McElroy’s back porch. Police await her statement and note uncertainty about where the shooting occurred.
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J. W. McElroy
Tommy Thompson
Weaver
St. Mary’s Hospital
E. Tilden St
Walker Air Force Base Hospital
McElroy
Uranium Mills Eye Sugar Beet Shift In Grants New Mexico
In Grants New Mexico a uranium company considers converting its $7 million milling operation to sugar beet processing if Atomic Energy Commission demand drops. Officials from Homestake New Mexico Partners say a study is underway to assess conversion costs while extension experts call the Grants area ideal for sugar beets and potential beet import from nearby regions. The firms plan farming ventures to preserve water rights, growing hay potatoes dry beans alfalfa and oats under state law conditions.
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Harry Moskos
Atomic Energy Commission
Philip Leyendecker
New Mexico State University
Leyenaecker
Clyde Osborn
Homestake-New Mexico Partners Uranium Company
Charles Markosky
Leyendecker
Grants
New Mexico
Estancia
Moriarty
Colorado
Clovis
Portales
Homestake
Homestake-Sapin Partners
Judge Upholds Convictions Of Price-Fixing
In Hammond Indiana Federal Judge Luther Swygert upheld the 11 major oil firm convictions for gasoline price fixing. Firms were fined a total of 425000 with Gulf Oil winning an appeal in South Bend. Stand ard Oil of Indiana and Central West Oil Corp each faced 50000 fines.
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Hammond, Ind
Luther M. Swygert
Gulf Oil Co
South Bend
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Central West Oil Corp
Pure Oil
Swygert
South Bend- Mishawaka
Mishawaka
Socony Mobil
Ohio Oil
Phillips Petroleum
Cities Service
Texaco
Shell
Hudson
Tornado
Pacer
Khrushchev Arrives in Vienna for Kennedy Summit
Premier Khrushchev enters Austria through the Iron Curtain and meets President Kennedy in Vienna for weekend talks. Khrushchev notes they aim to ease tensions and seek goodwill, with preparations by Austrian security and officials. The talks start Saturday and run through Sunday as strains between powers loom.
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Vienna
Khrushchev
Austria
Kennedy
Soviet Union
United States of America
Trujillo's Son Named Leader Of Dominican Army
Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo’s son Rafael Trujillo Jr. was named commander in chief of the Dominican Republic’s 25,000-strong armed forces by President Balaguer and others. The elder Trujillo, 69, died in a Tuesday night ambush while en route to his country estate.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican
Rafael Jr
Joaquin Balaguer
Trujillo
National Palace
San Cristobal
Octavio Bera
Free World
Armadi Forces
Juan Tomas Diaz
War Department
Governor Mechem to Head Chaves County GOP Convention
Governor Edwin L. Mechem will lead notable guests at the Chaves County Republican Convention at Roswell High School Little Theater. The event features Congressman Walter L. McVey and concludes with a 6:30 barbecue at Dr. R. P. Waggoner’s home.
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Edwin L. Mechem
Chaves County
Walter L. McVey
Roswell High School Little Theatre
Paul W. Eaton Jr
Frederick O’neill
St. Mary’s Hospital
Eaton
R. P. Waggoner
Washington Ave
Central Committee
Car Wrecks After Theft Report At Local Intersection
Police recovered a car later reported stolen from Walker Air Force Base last night. The vehicle crashed at Poplar Avenue and Summit Street after the driver fled on foot. Owner Stanton Ford of the Sixth Bomb Wing WAFB identified the car and said it had been checked at 6:30 p.m. by a friend who returned it to the base parking area.
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Walker Air Force Base
Poplar Avenue
Summit Street
Stanton Ford
Sixth Bomb Wing
WAFB
Ford
Three Burglaries Reported On Old Dexter Highway
Three burglaries were reported to sheriff officers last night and this morning. Firms burglarized were Fletcher Brothers Implement Co The Farm Equipment Co and Pat Faireys Junk Yard all on the Old Dexter Highway. About $25 was reported stolen. Officers questioned two suspects at 10:30 a.m. today. Sheriff Howard Babcock Jr. said the Fletcher Brothers burglary was found by the Argus Patrol about 8:45 p.m. last night. the other two were found this morning.
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Farm Equipement Co
Pat Fairey
Old Dexter Highway
Howard Babcock Jr
Argus Patrol
Fletcher Brothers
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