Katanga Crisis Heightens as Frontiers Face Invasion Risk
Rebels under Moise Tshombe rush troops to the northern frontier while Lumumba loyalists move from Kasai province toward Katanga. Belgian troops prepare to withdraw by Tuesday, with UN buffer proposals disputed. US protests over an attack on eight American airmen reach Leopoldville.
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Elisabethville
the Congo
Katanga
Patrice Lumumba
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Lumumba
Kasai
Luputa
Luluabourg
Bakwanga
Albert Kalonji
Katan
Laumumba
Mwene
Sasai
Kalonji
Kaloni
United Nations
Kamina
Emile Gheyssens
Ian Berendson
Congo
Leopoldville
United States
Clare H. Timberlake
Justin Bomboko
Snyder High Band Rehearsal Open Tonight
Snyder High School conducts first rehearsal of the season with Band Director Melvin Montgomery guiding members to report to the band hall at 7 30 p m. Separately all Snyder teachers report for the new term and elementary pupil registrations begin at 1 p m at city schools.
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Snyder
Melvin Montgomery
Airliner with 63 Aboard Sinks After Dakar Crash
A four engine Air France Super Constellation en route from Paris to Abidjan plunged into the sea near Dakar. All 63 aboard reportedly perished as searchers found the hull in about 60 feet of water. Eight crew and 55 passengers were aboard with no survivors detected eight hours after the crash amid cloudy weather and circling approaches.
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Dakar
Senegal
Air France
Dakar-Yoff
Atlantic
Paris
Abidjan
Dekar
Khrushchev Plans Helsinki Visit for Kekonen Birthday
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev will visit Helsinki on September 3 for President Urho Kekonen's 60th birthday celebration. This marks his first Finland trip since 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helsinki
Finland
Nikita Khrushchev
Urho Kekonen
Adjournment Drive Tied to Wage Bill Conferees Clash
Congress moves toward adjourning as a Senate House conference on minimum wage faces tough odds. In the Senate a showdown vote on a Social Security bill to boost care for the elderly and disabled stretches into Sunday, with Sen. Russell B. Long protesting cuts. The House moved to DC legislation while Eisenhower pressed for foreign aid funds and security concerns amid a last minute appropriations push.
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House
District of Columbia
Senate
Russell B. Long
D-La
Senate House
Long
White House
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Douglas Dillon
Heavy Rains Hit South Texas Flood Threat Rises
Torrential rains across Pleaston Karnes City and Palacios trigger flood risk along Atascosa Middle Nueces and Lower Frio rivers. Reports top 7 inches with warnings of flash floods. One deadly crash near San Antonio adds to storm toll.
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Texas
Pleasanton
Karnes City
Palacios
San Antonio
KBOP
Atascosa County
Tom Brite
Peasanton
Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Atascosa
Middle Nueces
Lower
Frio
Gulf
Stephany Mill
New Orleans Schools Plan Plea For Integration Delay
Orleans Parish School Board seeks up to a one year delay in the federal court order to integrate New Orleans public schools. Board leaders planned a conference with Judge J Skelly Wright while Gov. Davis’ involvement sparks ongoing dispute over the timetable and authority.
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New Orleans
Laap
Orleans Parish
Lloyd Rittiner
US Dist
J. Skelly Wright
Emile Wagner Jr
Jimmie Davis
Wright
Gov. Davis
Jack Gremillion
Davis
Louisiana
Gremillion
Ferry and Cargo Ship Collide Off Lower Manhattan
In fog on the Hudson River the passenger ferry Chatham and the cargo ship Seatrain Georgia collided near Manhattan. Police said at least nine people were being taken to hospital. The Chatham sailed from Hoboken toward Barclay Street Pier while Seatrain Georgia carried loaded freight cars and traveled from Savannah to Edgewater.
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New York
C AP
Hudson River
Lower Manhattan
Hopital
Chatham
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hoboken
N.J
Manhattan
Barclay Street
Seatrain
Georgia
Savannah
Edgewater
Weather summary for Texas regions and temperatures
Readings show varied temperatures across Texas with highs in the 90s to near 100 and lows in the 60s to 70s. Partly cloudy, warm conditions persist through Tuesday with widely scattered thundershowers mainly at night. Light to moderate easterly winds accompany the unsettled pattern.
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Snyder
Texas
Ethiopians Save Airmen After Congo Attack
In Stanleyville, eight American airmen and two Canadians were brutally beaten by Congolese attackers. U.N. official Bunche credited Ethiopian UN troops with saving the men, who are recovering in Louvainium University hospital under care. Diplomats Jammed to Congo to investigate.
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Lynn Hfinzeem
Leopoldville
the Congo
Ralph Uv
United Nations
Stanleyville
Bunche
U.N
Patrice Lumumba
Louvainium University
Andrew Cordier
Dag Hammarsk
Claire Timberlake
Justin Bomboko
Gerald T. Henery
Washington, DC
Mrs Gladson Dies Today in Lubbock Hospital
Mrs Gladson aged 76 of 3000 Thirty-eighth Street died at 6 am after a three week illness in Methodist Memorial Hospital Lubbock She was a Trinity Methodist Church member Survivors include three daughters five sons a sister and a widowhood date and birth details are listed with funeral arrangements pending at Bolger Funeral Home
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Hettie Gladson
Thirty-eighth Street
Methodist Memorial Hospital
Lubbock
Trinity Methodist Church
J. M. Griffin
Littlefield
J. B. Early
Charlie Myers
Snyder
Lester
Seminole
MR. Gladson
Knott
Willard. Wayne
Waylan
OAS Deplores Red Campaign at San Jose Meeting
In San Jose Costa Rica foreign ministers of the OAS condemn Soviet and Chinese use of Cuba as a base in the Americas. The group rejects a Cuban resolution and omits Cuba from the San Jose declaration while urging discipline within the inter American system.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Organization of American States
Cuba
Americas
United States
Fidel Castros
Raul Roa
Dominican Republic
Hemisphere
Castro
OAS
Nikita Khrushchev
Fiance Ended engagement as Veronica Wise remains unconscious
Veronica Wise 22 has been unconscious since a May 1958 car crash in Oxfordshire. Her fiancé Colin Slaymaker, 22, was told by her father Frank Wise to consider himself released after Veronica’s lengthy, unresolved coma. Doctors say she may be the longest recovering patient, with no definite return in sight.
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London
Veronica Wise
Veronica
Colin Slaymaker
Frank Wise
Colin
Great Milton
Oxfordshire
Wise
Oxford
Royal Air Force
Walpole Lewin
Gray
Verny
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U. S. Army
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Soviet Union
Theodore F. Hoffman
Khrushchev
John Chadwick
Washington
Senate House Conference Committee
THE
Associated Press
Victoria
Loren N. Fryar
Ft. Sam Houston
Houston
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Dalhart
Galveston
Beaumont
Austin
Lufkin
Beeville
Dallas
Mrs. Gladson
Vikki Dougan
Los Angeles
Vikki
Jim Sweeney
Texas Christian
Stanford Bradshaw
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