Katanga Blocks UN Plane as Tshombe Defies Intervention
In Elisabethville Katanga officials refuse UN entry for a 20 man advance guard led by Ralph Bunche. Tshombe proclaims Katanga secession and pledges to keep UN troops out, warning any intervention would trigger defense measures. Bunche returns to Leopoldville to report to Hammarskjold.
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Elisabethville, the Congo
U. N
Katanga
Leopoldville
Ralph J. Bunche
Bunche
Moise Tshombe
Congo Republic
United Nations
Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
Tshombe
Hammarskjold
Munongo
U.N
Elisabethville
Central Congo
Security Council
Home Marsh
Poiies
Nixon pledges U S to guard free nations abroad
In Honolulu Nixon vows U S will back free nations with strength and diplomacy. He calls for military buildup and firm, nonbelligerent handling of foes while boosting the United Nations and regional bodies. He signals a personal foreign policy role and outlines potential advisers.
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Whitney Shoemaker
Honolulu
Richard M Nixon
United States
Nixon
U.S
Waikiki
Seattle
Hawaii
United Nations
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Thomas K. Dewey
Luis Munoz-Marin
Puerto Rico
Christian A. Herter
C. Douglas Dillon
Kennedy Launches Busy Day In NYC
Sen John F Kennedy arrives in New York for a packed schedule of speeches and meetings. He says the forthcoming special session should not be viewed as party platform writing and seeks broad voter mandate. He invites West Germany official Von Eckhart and plans farm policy efforts with Loveless and Johnson touting a January program submission.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Democratic Party
Kennedy
Hyannis Port
Mass
Senestes Kefauver
Tennessee
Time
Life
Felix von Eckhart
West Germany
Park Avenue
von Eckhart
Free World
West Berlin
von Eckhartis
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
Abe Feinberg
Feinberg
Kayser-Roth Corp
Lyndon B. Johnson
Agricultural Progress
Herschel C, Loveless
Iowa
Five Victims Burn In Shirley Fire Tyler County WV
In Shirley Tyler County West Virginia a predawn fire killed a teen girl and four children in the Ferrebee home. Victims include Walter 9 Dorma 8 Janet Dotson 4 Billie Dotson 1 and Marybelle Wadsworth 19. Mothers were asleep in the same room. Daisy Dotson visiting from West Union and Mrs Dotson hospitalized with minor burns.
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Middlebourne
W.va
Shirley
Tyler County
Bert Ferrebee
Ferrebee
Walter
Dorma
Janet Dotson
Billie Dotson
Marybelle Wadsworth
Dotson
Miss Wadsworth
West Union
Daisy Dotson
East Liverpool
Ohio
Kefauver Wins Third Term in Tennessee Senate Primary
Sen Estes Kefauver captured a landslide in the Tennessee Democratic primary, defeating Judge Andrew Taylor on civil rights contrasts. With 2,448 of 2,635 precincts reporting Kefauver led 448,759 to 238,820, securing the party nomination and signaling strong support for his liberal stance nationwide. Taylor conceded only reluctantly as Kefauver swept East and most urban counties, including Nashville, Chattanooga, and Davidson.
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Nashville
Tenn
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Andrew T. Taylor
Kefauver
Taylor
Senate
Pat Sutton
South
John F. Kennedy
Jackson
East Tennessee
Tennessee River
West Tennessee
Memphis
West State
Fayette and
Haywood
Fayette County
Hamilton County
Chattanooga
Knox County
Davidson
Wounded Boy Transferred After Hunting Accident
Randall Fambro, 15, of San Benito, was transferred by Bell Funeral Home Ambulance to Parkland Hospital in Dallas for further treatment after a hunting accident damaged his left arm. He was injured while rabbit hunting with a cousin near Snyder when a rifle discharged. He underwent surgery at Cogdell Memorial Hospital to repair torn ligaments, muscles, nerves, and a shattered bone. The doctor warned the arm may not regain full use if nerves were destroyed.
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Randall Fambro
San Benito
Lloyd Mountain
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Bell Funeral Home
Randall
Dewey Fambro
G. K. Fambro
Snyder
Densel
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
Weather Synopsis for Texas Regions
Readings show highs from 76 to 105 with hot conditions across East Texas through Saturday. Isolated thundershowers possible in the afternoon and evening, mainly in Panhandle and Northwest Texas with clear to partly cloudy skies elsewhere. Night lows expected in the 60s to 70s and winds southeast to east 6 to 18 knots.
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Snyder
Texas
South Central
North Central
South West
Northwest
Panhandle
West Gulf
Saturcay
Six-Year Aid Outlay Totals 12 Billions
The United States led global economic support to underdeveloped nations over six years with 12.025 billion dollars from 1954 to 1960. Joined by 14 others who contributed 5.904 billion, the total aid reached 18.0 billion, yet the State Department urged greater effort to meet rising needs in Asia and Africa and counter Soviet influence.
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Washington
United States
State Department
Asia
Africa
Senate Foreign Relations
House Foreign Affairs Committees
Free World
Britain
France
Canada
Australia
Japan
West Germany
Congress
U.S
Soviet Union
Leona Gage ties to 1957 Miss Universe headlines and arrest
The former Miss Universe contestant Leona Gage, later Mrs Leona Covacevich, faces a charge of endangering a child after a court appearance for beating her son David Ennis. She described an abusive childhood and claimed she acted to stop him from harming himself as she faced a child cruelty allegation in Hollywood California. Her history includes a Las Vegas showgirl stint and a 1957 pageant win stripped when her marriage to Sgt Gene Ennis was revealed.
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Leona Covacevich
David Ennis
City Jail
Las Vegas
Gene Ennis
Nicholas Covacevich
Hollywood
Guadalupe Covacevich
Leona
Sgt
Ennis
Vernon
Tex
Walter Biggs
Dallas
F. D. Gage
Wichita Falls
Wichita Falll
Fifteen Years Since First Atomic Bomb Blasted Hiroshima
Fifteen years after the Hiroshima blast, a silent memorial tolls for about 70,000 killed. The Enola Gay crew remains noted. surviving members include Brig. Gen Paul W. Tibbets Jr and Lt Col Thomas W. Ferebee. Nagasaki followed three days later. global nuclear testing expanded with Britain France and the Soviet Union joining the atomic club.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
Hiroshima
United States
Lars
Paul W. Tibbets Jr
Strategic Air Command
6Th Air Division
MacDill Air Force Base
Florida
Thomas W. Ferebee
MacDill
Nagasaki
Atomic Club
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
Two Children Die In Auto Truck Crash Near Pecos
In Pecos Texas 38 miles west two young children Lee Ann Ross 20 months and Anna Marie 3 died in a car truck crash. Their mother Bobbie Jo Ross 22 was in critical condition. Two other women and two children sustained injuries. Truck driver Billy Cavin escaped injury.
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Pecos
Tex
Here
Lee Ann Ross
Anna Marie
Benton Ross
Denison
Bobbie Jo Ross
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Fidel Castro
Key West
Fla
Red
Sill Gellins
Calif
Maryland
Leona Gage
Covacevich
David
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