Rehanging border signs in divided Berlin keep soldiers in the West
Sgt Leroy E Pratt of Las Vegas Nevada inspects and repairs signs along the American sector border to prevent crossings into East Berlin. Pratt works about two days weekly, replacing about 25 of 457 signs a month. The signs warn Western nationals of Four Power rules and reinforce the distinct East West boundary.
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Berlin
UPI
Leroy
E. Pratt
Las Vegas
Nev
Pratt
Piatt
East
West Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
Athnile
Tipping Guide For Cafes Hotels And Soldiers In Berlin
The Chicago and Illinois Restaurant Association offers tipping tips including 18 percent for meals, 15 percent for banquets, separate tips for headwaiters, and 25 cents for checkroom attendants. Travelers on hotel plans should allow 1.25 dollars per day for meals, with bellhops and maids receiving typical per-day tips. The piece also touches on Army guidance about uniforms, travel to East Berlin, and cautions soldiers against visiting East Germany due to currency and safety concerns.
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Chicago
UPY
Illinois
Soviet Cosmonaut Praised by Khrushchev for Space Plan
Moscow reports Yuri Gagarin congratulated Premier Nikita Khrushchev with filial gratitude on receiving the Order of Lenin for advancing the Russian space program as noted in Pravda.
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Moscow
UPI
Yuri Gagarin
Nikita Khrushchev
Lenin
Communist Party
Pravda
French Train Derailment Kills Dozens in France
Rescue teams and American troops in eastern France search wreckage after a passenger train derailed near Nitr y le Francois. Death toll estimates range from 20 to 24 with about 153 injured. The crash, blamed on track failure after extreme heat, left coaches torn from the embankment and many passengers buried in mud or rendered survivors.
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Nitry LE Francois
France
UPL
U. S
U.S. ‘Army
Verdun
Paris
Strasbourg
A. Marsh
Norman Flatean
Medford Mass
Flateau
Catherine’ McGuinness
Bayside
N.Y
U. S. Air Force Base
Wiesbaden
Ger
Mesa Baptist Gains Office in New VP Selection
C Dewey Creasman of Mesa Arizona was elected vice president of the American Baptists at the five day Portland Oregon convention attended by about 5000 delegates. The body passed a civil rights resolution urging integration of all Baptist institutions and opposed church segregation. It endorsed distributing birth control information to married couples.
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Portland
Ore
UPI
Allschwager Serves Aboard USS Kearsarge
Merrill C. Allschwager, son of Ora R. and Mrs. Allschwager of Elm, serves as a machinist mate second class on the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge in the Western Pacific. The Seventh Fleet uses the carrier as its primary anti submarine unit and operates Grumman tracker planes to scout for subs.
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Merrill C. Allschwager
Ora R. Allschwager
Uss
Kearsarge
Western Pacific
Seventh Fleet
Gramma Experience Prompted by Declaration of Independence
Special report notes a fragile origin for the Declaration of Independence and recounts how some signers faced barriers to voting. The piece traces its early perilous history as Congress moved from Philadelphia fleeing dangers.
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Washington
Congress
Phila
Body found in canal after Phoenix crash injures eight
Searchers located the body of Tommy Hostler in the Cross Cut Canal near Thomas Road two miles below 67th Avenue after a two car crash that injured eight. Victims include Clemens Opel and his daughters Robin and Jo Ann. Roger Picard and his family. Mike Picard survived in serious condition.
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Phoenix
Tommy Hostler
Arizona
Sheriff's Deputies
Thomas Road
Clemens E. Opel
Robin
Ane Jo-Ann
Roger Norman Picard
Avondale
Arline
Roger
Mike
Paul
Mike Picard
Larry J. Neuteboom
Picard
Indians Demand Bureau Reform at Chicago Conference
Delegates from virtually every tribe urge a sweeping reorganization of the Indian Bureau and a strong new commissioner to carry out Kennedy era promises. The draft declaration warns Congress 1958 policy ends federal control without tribal consent. Indian leaders also press appointments reform and greater self determination. Anthropologist Sal Tax notes Indians are speaking out more openly.
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Kennedy
University of Chicago
Congress
Indian Bureau
Indian Affairs
Sal Tax
New Surgical Refrigeration Method Allows Body Cooling
An experimental technique called hypothermia cools circulating blood to reduce the body's oxygen needs. Surface temperatures near 60 degrees Fahrenheit may allow delicate operations to proceed with safer brain and tissue handling, as Scottish researchers report.
Man Receives Four Daughters Return As Father’s Day Gift
Lee Meadows a 36 year old World War II veteran from Torrance California rejoiced as his four daughters Rita Lauren Carla and Robin aged 7 5 3 and 2 respectively were released from Olive View Tuberculosis Hospital after 10 months apart from July 1960 to May 1961. The girls and their baby brother Marion born last January had seldom seen each other during the lengthy hospital stay.
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San Fernando
Calif
Lee Meadows
Rita
Lauren
Carla
Robin
Olive View Tuberculsis Hospital
Meadows
Marion
Torrance
Soviet fires three more local party officials
Moscow report says in Khrushchev's campaign to clean government three additional local Communist Party officials were dismissed for inefficiency and dishonesty as announced Sunday.
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Moscow
UPI
Communist ' Party
Nikita Khrushchev
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