Western powers protest Berlin barricade as illegal
The United States Britain and France delivered identical notes to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow demanding removal of the East German border barricades in Berlin. They reject East German claims and insist Berlin remains under four power control with free travel guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Berlin
Moscow
Paris
London
East Berlin
East Germany
U.S
State Department
Lincoln White
U.S.S.R
White
Soviet Union
Youths urged to join East German army drive
Berlin AP reports fast Western protests over East German measures to bar refugees from West Berlin. Youth leader Horst Schumann ordered 1.7 million party youth to volunteer as Berlin guards blamed for violating four power status. Western officials demand end to barricades and freedom of movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
East Germany
Latin Alliance for Progress signed by 19 Latin nations
The United States and 19 Latin American countries signed the Punta del Este charter launching Kennedy's 20 billion Alliance for Progress. Cuba abstained as Dillon and Guevara traded barbed words over the pact while Uruguay hosted the ceremony and the plan aims to boost aid and self help over ten years for 200 million Latin Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roman Jimenez
Punta del Este
Uruguay
United States
Kennedy
Cuba
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Venezuela
Lot
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Dillon
Ernesto Guevara
Guevara
America
U.S
Fidel Castro
Kennedy Urges House to Back Long Term Foreign Aid
President Kennedy urged the House to reverse its stance and approve long term foreign aid loans amid a House Republican Democratic coalition. The Senate cut over $1 billion from the program as the aid battle continued, with clashes over three to five year authority and yearly appropriation options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barry Schweid
House
Kennedy
White House
Senate
Africa
Khrushchev
West
Eisenhower
Thomas FE. Morgan
D-Pa
Foreign Affairs Committee
Indiaborn
D. S. Sound
D-Calif
Sound
Allen J. Ellender
Showers Skirt Scurry County Area Late Monday
Late afternoon showers moved near the Scurry County area but stayed outside the county line with only a light sprinkle. Reports from the Colorado River bridge on the Big Spring Highway to the southwest noted up to three quarters of an inch between the river and Vincent in Northeast Howard County. Only a sprinkle fell at the Lake J B Thomas dam in Southwest Scurry County.
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Lake
J. B. Thomas Dam
Scurry County
Soviet Chemist Defects and Hides in Canada
Soviet chemist Mikhail A. Klotchko, a Stalin Prize and Lenin Order recipient, defected during a Montreal visit for the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Chemistry and remains in a secret Canadian hideout awaiting decisions on his future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ottawa
Mikhail A. Klotchko
Klotchko
Moscow
Foreign Ministry
Soviet Academy of Science
Soviet Academy of Organic Chemistry
Kletchko
Montreal
Soviet Union
Alan D. Westland
Explorer XII completes first wide earth orbit and heads out again
Explorer XII, an 83 pound instrument package, completed a first looping orbit about 54 000 miles from Earth and 170 miles altitude. NASA reports telemetry is excellent and the craft appears on target as it continues its space journey to study magnetic fields and radiation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Earth
Oil Proration Set at 2 699 540 Barrels Daily in Texas
The Railroad Commission today set September oil allowable at 2,699,540 barrels per day, up from August due to one fewer calendar day. The eight-day production pattern was kept for the 13th time in 17 months, with Phillips the only nominator seeking a seven-day pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Oil Regulatory Agency
Texas
Commission
Phillips
Sinclair
Sun
Shell
Mobil
Cities Service
Atlantic Refining
Humble
Gulf
Texaco
Indiana
Standard of Texas
Ramsey Named to Texas Railroad Commission Seat
Gov. Price Daniel appointed Ben Ramsey as the new Texas Railroad Commissioner to fill the vacancy created by Olin Culberson’s death. Ramsey, 57, becomes the third member of the commission and will serve until the 1963 term. Ramsey has long public service including six terms as lieutenant governor and time in the state House and Senate. He and wife, Mrs. Ramsey, have three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
API
Ben Ramsey
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Ramsey
Olin Culberson
Price Daniel
Bruce Regan
Corpus Christi
Senate
State House of Representatives
East Texas
San Augustine
Railroad Commission
Beauford Jester
Allan Shivers
Rita Rhea
Ann Hankla
Mariben
Ernest O. Thompson
William Murray Jr
Daniel
Culberson
Joe Laird
Houston
French Robertson
Abilene
Charles Crownshaw
Jake Jacobsen
Carl Phinney
Dallas
36Th National Guard Division
Adj
James Taylor
Everett Hutchinson
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
George Hinson
Mineola
Crawford Martin
Hillsboro
James Turman
Gober
Weather snapshot across Texas regions
Regional forecast notes across Snyder Northwest Central Northeast South Central South Southwest and Coastal zones. Highs range from mid 80s to mid 90s with low 60s to mid 70s overnight. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers in most areas today and Friday. Winds northeast to east sea breezes. little temperature change expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Texas
Porla
Government grants clearance for oral polio vaccine
The Public Health Service announced clearance of a live oral polio vaccine for type I. Pfizer Ltd. of Sandwich, England, will manufacture it for the U S market via Chas. Pfizer & Co. Inc. Dr Albert Sabin developed the vaccine. Type II and III vaccines are expected to follow later. The service stresses vaccination as the key protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Luther L. Terry
The
Public Health Service
Pfizer Ltd
Sandwich
England
United States
Chas. Pfizer & Co. Inc
New York
Albert Sabin
Cincinnati
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Phillip Davis
Louwisville
Mark An
Red Youth Organization
Horst Schumann
Junge Welt
Young World
Socialist Republic
Andrei I. Solovyev
Solovyev
Homero Martinez Montero
Erlin
Harvison
Versity
Westland
RBC
Terry
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