Dying Rayburn Needed by Kennedy Regime
President Kennedy needs Speaker Sam Rayburn to manage the House in the coming election year. Rayburn lies in a hospital room as political muscle dissolves. No House Democrat is equal to his leadership, and Kennedy faces a tense session without a successor.
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UPI
Kennedy
Sam Rayburn
Sam
House of Representatives
Rayburn
House
Senate
Congress
Capitol
U.S
Sir Winston
House of Commons
House Democrats
Director Blames Softness For Draftee Rejections
PHOENIX UPI Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, head of the National Selective Service, told Arizona draft board members that a soft, pseudo sophisticated American citizenry causes about a 58 percent national draftee rejection rate. He warned that with 1,600,000 men ranked 1-A, the pool will thin quickly as pre induction physicals further cut acceptances. He urged a return to simple values and sacrifice amid concerns about a soft environment.
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Phoenix
UPI
National Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Arizona
Plane Hijacker Seeks Trial Outside United States
Leon Bearden of Coolidge Arizona asked a federal court to move his hijacking trial for a five million dollar jetliner carrying 73 people to a foreign neutral country. He cites being an atheist and a socialist as grounds for a fair trial abroad. Judge Thomason withheld a ruling pending decision.
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EL Paso
Tex
UPI
Leon Bearden
Coolidge
Bearden
United States
Two Men Die as Alaska Plane Crash Kills Editor
A light plane on a Hudson Hope to Dawson Creek flight crashed in snow 50 miles west of Dawson Creek. Pilot Ron McdAuliffe and Ron Murphy editor of the Dawson Creek News died. Survivor Tom Humble walked from the bush Monday night and is hospitalized for exposure and burns.
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B.C
UPI
Here
Hudson Hope
Ron McdAuliffe
Ron Murphy
Tom Humble
Mrs. Golub
Amsterdam
Holland
Woman returns to fatherland after Schiphol standoff
At Amsterdam Schiphol Airport a Soviet defectors drama ended when Mrs. Alexandrovna Golub, 32, chose to return to the Soviet Union despite a tense confrontation with 10 Russians including Ambassador Ponomarenko. Dutch police held a seven hour siege before she boarded a flight to Moscow with her husband weeping.
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Holland
Amsterdam
Schiphol
Moscow
P. K. Ponomarenko
Ponomarenko
Golub
Aeroflot
Supreme Court
H. R. Zaaijer
Zaaijer
Too Old Clown Kills Woman Then Surrenders in New Jersey
In River Vale New Jersey Edward Guillaume a 69 year old former circus clown fatally stabbed Eleana Gabriella Nelson 49 and wounded her before using a stage prop bomb miss the attempt to kill himself. Police say he confessed after surrendering to officers noting years of fame and rejection. He had performed for decades including audiences before Roosevelt and royalty across five continents.
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N.J
UPI
Edward Guillaume
Polidor
Guillaume
Elena Gabriella Nelson
Bergen County
Guy W. Calissi
France
Franklin D. Roosevelt
King George
Greece
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Arizona National Guard unit heads to active duty
The 222nd Truck Company of the Arizona National Guard departed from Winslow for Fort Ord California. The unit included two officers 69 enlisted men and 41 trucks as the first Arizona force to be mobilized under President Kennedy's defense call.
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Winslow
UPI
Arizona
Kennedy
Arizona National Guard
Ft. Ord
Calif
US troops watch the Czech German border from Hohenberg castle
American GIs man the Allied early warning post on the Bavarian frontier near Eger valley. Sgt. Denver Short and a three man detail report all sightings from a castle tower while the border is sealed by barbed wire and nearby towns face wartime tension.
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Selb
Hohenberg
Eger River
Denver Short
Kingsport
Tenn
Datail
Eger
Czechoslovakia
West Germany
Short
Asch
No-Man’s Land
Diver survives 7200 foot fall after parachute fails
Harry J. Shurtt a 34 year old Fort Lee New Jersey resident and Tri State Sky Divers member plunged seven thousand two hundred feet into a cornfield when his main chute failed to open He was listed in serious but not critical condition at Hunterdon Medical Center with multiple fractures after a two stage descent and a tangled emergency chute.
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Flemington
N.J
UPD
Harry J. Shurtt
Fort Lee N.J
Tri-State
Sky Divers
Hunterdon Medical Center
Shortt
Solberg
Rail Struggle Over Western Pacific At ICC Hearings
At the Interstate Commerce Commission hearings in San Francisco the public struggle between Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railway to gain control of Western Pacific intensified. WP President Frederick B. Whitman alleged SP seeks a general transport monopoly and would first take over WP parallel lines to crush competition.
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San Francisco
UPI
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Western Pacific
Santa Fe
ICC
Frederick B. Whitman
Whitman
UA Professor Will Study Air Pollution
Tucson reports a three year air pollution study by the University of Arizona and microbiologist Dr. Kenneth F. Wertman on a $64,442 Army Chemical Corps grant. Wertman will trace microscopic troublemakers from the influenza virus in the atmosphere. He says the air we breathe must be examined more critically.
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API
Arizona
University of Arizona
Kenneth F. Wertman
Army Chemical Corps
Wertman
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