FBI Aims to ID 18 Blast Victims in Moab Mine Disaster
FBI disaster squad arrives to identify the 18 killed in the Texas Gulf Sulphur mine blast near Moab Utah. Visual IDs are impossible. bodies lie in a temporary Moab shop morgue. Families will receive remains and a joint Requiem Mass may be held. A widows and orphans fund is launched as the mine remains closed amid federal state probes.
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Moab
Utah
UPI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
John Stocks
FBI
Washington
Grand Junction
Colo
Leonard Blaylock
Salt Lake
John Rasbach
Miner To Hunt Bova In Deep Mine Rescue
State deputy mines chief Gordon Smith said a volunteer would descend over 300 feet Sunday to search for missing miner Louis Bova. High speed drills cleared a rescue hole toward Bova's location as hope kept alive after a prior cave in that left Bova and two others missing.
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Sheppton
UPI
Gordon Smith
Louis Bova
Bova
Smith
Debritko
Charmbury
Memphis kids protest long day plan in first demonstration
About 500 Negro students, many from schools, marched in Memphis to oppose an extended day program in five Negro schools. The plan would split classes into two shifts and is not in effect at white schools. A leader urged further defiance by reporting to class when other schools begin.
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Memphis
Kennedy to tour nine states on conservation trip
President Kennedy plans a September 25 to 29 tour visiting Pennsylvania Minnesota North Dakota Montana Wyoming Utah Washington Oregon California Nevada to spotlight national conservation. He will also be interviewed by Walter Cronkite September 2 and by Huntley and Brinkley September 9 as part of expanded 30 minute news programs.
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Hyannisport
Mass
UPI
Kennedy
White House
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Wyoming
Utah
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
Walter Cronkite
Columbia Broadcasting System
Chet Huntley
David Brinkley
National Broadcasting Co
Fund Cuts Urged For Segregated Methodist Schools
Delegates at the second Methodist conference voted to cut off funds to racially segregated Methodist schools. A Southern delegate warned the move could harm church finances, citing Bible Belt fundraising. Officials note fewer than 20 of about 135 Methodist schools admit Negroes. The resolution, by Robert N. Peters, passed by a slight majority and targets Southeastern and South Central jurisdictions.
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Chicago
UPS
James R. Scott
Monticello, Ark
United States
Weather outlook with warm temperatures and scattered showers
Fair to partly cloudy through tomorrow with a few showers or thundershowers in the mountains east end of Valley. Little temperature change expected. High today near 96 and low tomorrow around 72. Willard L. Greene of the U S Weather Bureau reported Friday's high at 95 and today's low at 76.
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U. S&s
Willard
LL. Greene
Looking For Rare Coins
A 12 year old coin collector and his friend sat on the Bank of Scottsdale lobby floor studying a $12 pile of nickels and dimes. Mike Wardenburg and Jim Jantzen found a buffalo head nickel and two Roosevelt dimes during their search.
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Scottsdale
Mike Wardenburg
Second St
Jim Jantzen
Mike
Jim
George Adams
Bank of Scottsdale
Holiday Toll Mounts as Labor Day Traffic Deaths Rise
Toll rise during Labor Day weekend with 97 deaths by 10:30 a.m. PDT and 21 dead in California within an hour. Fatal crashes claimed families in Michigan and New York while agencies mobilized officers, guardsmen and license examiners nationwide.
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Michigan
Yolanda la Fleur
Sudbury
Ont
Lyette
Barbara Baderschneider
Cadillac
Mich
David
Webster
N.Y
Edward Bryant
Nettie Ruffle
Ronald Young
Irondequoit
Law
Son of General’s Son Kidnapped to San Francisco
The 14 year old Richards Montgomery Jr. was spirited out of Germany to San Francisco with his mother and maternal grandmother. A woman attorney and two private detectives aided the estranged wife in taking the boy from the general’s Weisbaden quarters. The boy traveled by car at high speed to Frankfurt and then boarded a jet trainer.
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UPI
Europe
Germany
The
San Francisco Examiner
Richard Montgomery Jr
Richard
Richard M. Montgomery
U.S. Air Force
Weisbaden
Examiner
Montgomery
Infant Killed In First Labor Day Weekend Death
A four month old Califomia infant, Paw Wayne Xavier of Redondo Beach, died in a car crash on US 64, nineteen miles east of Kingman, marking the first fatality of Arizona's Labor Day weekend. Authorities urge caution as patrols intensify on crowded highways.
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Virginia
Callifornia
Arizona
Paw Wayne Xavier
Redondo Beach
Calif
Kingman
Death of socialite Jane Langdon investigated in Phoenix
Police pursue tips about three men connected to the Dallas socialite's March disappearance in Phoenix. One suspect is dead of an overdose, another jailed, and a third sought for other crimes. Langdon, 21, was found shot near a prospectors tunnel after arriving by plane March 21.
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UPS
Jane Langdon
Dallas
Tex
Wes Mauldin
Miss Langdon
Texas
Jack Langdon
Mauldin
Washington
Mechanic Burns While Pumping Gas From French Car
An 18 year old Tucson attendant Gerald Grimes misfired while fueling a foreign car with the engine in the rear. He pumped gasoline into a radiator opening, the car ignited as the driver left, and Grimes suffered burns on his right arm from the splash.
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Tucson
UPD
Gerald Grimes
Grimes
Iron River bids to buy 5000 acres in Chino Valley Arizona
J C Ranieri president of Iron River Development Co deposits 40000 for 5000 acres in the Chino Valley from the Arizona Savings and Loan Association receivership. Hearing set Sept 5 before Judge Henry Stevens on sale approval. If accepted, Iron River would control 110000 acres including Wine Glass and Del Rio ranches with plans for residential retirement communities resorts and industrial park linked to a 130 million gallon daily water system and a Emerson Electric plant and Prescott College nearby.
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J. C. Raineri
Scottsdale
Iron River Development Co
Chino Valley
Arizona Savings and Loan Association
Ranieri
Henry Stevens
Arizona Savings
Raineri
Prescott
Wine Glass
del Rio
Scottsdae
Emerson Electric Co
Iron River
Prescott College
Big Three to Meet in New York on East West Peace Talks
U S Secretary of State Dean Rusk Britain’s Lord Home and West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder will hold a New York meeting next month to bridge the deadlock in Allied peace strategy with possible French participation. They will review current divergent positions hindering East West negotiations amid rising tensions.
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London
UPS
United States
Britain
West Germany
New York
U.S
Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Gerhard Schroeder
Diplomats Seek Syria Settlement at United Nations
Diplomats at the United Nations spent the Labor Day weekend studying proposed amendments to an Anglo American resolution aimed at settling the Israel Syria dispute. The Security Council debated the measure after the Soviet Union opposed it, delaying a vote. The resolution condemns the August 19 killings of two Israeli farmers along the border while implying Syrian blame. Some delegates fear a Soviet veto would bolster Arab support for Moscow.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPS
Israel
Syria
Security Council
Soviet Union
Moscow
Halleck credited with saving Kennedy foreign aid plan
Republicans claim House Leader Charles Halleck reversed votes to save Kennedy's foreign aid bill, while Kennedy denounces the move as shortsighted. GOP leaders counter that bipartisan support collapsed due to waste and mismanagement, noting 66 Democrats backed the cut and the president knew little real cross‑aisle backing.
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Washington
UPI
House
Kennedy
Charles Halleck
Republican Congressional
Halleck
Senate Gop
Everett M. Dirksen
GOP
Congress
City builds temporary sidewalk on Indian School Road
The city will complete a 325 foot temporary asphalt sidewalk west of Hayden Road on Indian School Road by Tuesday to reduce danger to students and pedestrians. The path sits on a city easement from Mayor William Schrader, will be torn up for future permanent concrete sidewalks, and includes a small wood foot bridge over drainage ditches. The project echoes a 1962 campaign issue on pedestrian safety.
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Hayden Road
Indian School Road
William Schrader
Ken McDonald
Havden Road
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