Powers Cleared by CIA in U2 Pilot Case
The CIA and an advisory board concluded that U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers acted within his instructions under pressure from captors after his May 1960 downing. Powers reportedly could have triggered an explosive destruct switch but chose not to and disclosed his Air Force and CIA employment. He is to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 2 p.m. on the incident.
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Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Francis Gary Powers
House Armed Services Committee
Russia
CIA
Intelligence
Powers
Moscow
Rudolf I. Abel
Senate Armed Services Committee
Germany
United States
Khrushchev Warns Kennedy on Atomic Testing
Soviet Premier Khrushchev calls Kennedy plan to resume atmospheric nuclear tests atomic blackmail and says it would torpedo the Geneva disarmament conference. He warns that U.S. tests could derail talks as Kennedy seeks a foreign ministers meeting after failing to secure a summit.
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George Syvertsen
Moscow
Khrushchev
Kennedy
U.S
Llewellyn Thompson
Geneva
America
Speech Therapy Aid To Many Pupils Here
Snyder Public Schools run a speech therapy program begun in 1958 to aid students with cleft palates speech sounds stuttering and lip reading. Classes of one to four meet 20 to 30 minutes twice weekly through high school with parental consent. About 160 students receive therapy with 120 hours of clinical work required for certification.
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Snyder
Pat Young
Dub Holt
Snyder Public
Miss Young
Sayger
Kennedy Seeks Real Disarmament Progress at Geneva Talks
President Kennedy favored direct talks with Khrushchev and Macmillan and proposed starting three power discussions on March 12 to push a genuine disarmament path. Gromyko to join Geneva talks, Rusk to attend, with aims to halt propaganda exchanges and secure a test ban. France plans to skip the conference reducing invited nations to 17.
Cold Spell Grips Texas With Midwest Snowstorm
The Associated Press reports a deep cold snap across Texas as a Midwest snowstorm pushes south. Temperatures dipped into the middle 30s from San Angelo to the upper Texas coast with clear to partly cloudy skies in the east and no precipitation expected through Wednesday.
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Texas
Midwest
San Angelo
Tyler
Longview
City Delays Plans to Buy Snorkel Type Fire Engine
City council delaying purchase of a snorkel type fire engine and pumping equipment after a single bid. cost would use most of $38 000 set aside and require alterations to central station housing. Also rejected bids on a altitude valve for the water plant and approved a Texas Electric Service Co franchise with a revised 2 percent gross revenue payment.
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Board of Tax Equalization
Calvin O. Lange
Donald Ray Scott
L. A. McClanahan
Tex
As Electric Service Co
TESCO
Winter storm wallops region from Alabama to New England
The storm, the worst of the waning winter, lashed the area with winds up to 58 mph and up to 23 inches of snow. Travel and tides disrupted coastal towns, power lines fell, windows broke, schools closed, and Atlantic City's Steel Pier suffered partial collapse.
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Associated Press
Alabama
New England
Atlantic City
Steel Pier
Atlantic
Storm Wrecks Ventnor Pier and Snowbound Virginia
Storms wrecked the Ventnor New Jersey municipal pier section used for a water circus with a diving horse. Northern Virginia saw the heaviest snowfall in early hours with 22 to 23 inches in Culpeper Manassas and Winchester and totals reaching 30 inches in central and western Virginia. Forecasters expected continued heavy snowfall along the northeastern seaboard with at least 30 000 homes affected.
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Ventnor
Virginia
Culpepper
Manassas
Winchester
Seaboard
Snow disrupts power and transit from D C to New York
Snow and winds cause power outages in Maryland Virginia and D C area. Authorities impose travel restrictions on main roads for nonessential trips and lack of chains or snow tires. Travel chaos spans trains ferries buses and subways with delays and cancellations from Philadelphia to New York and Washington to Richmond.
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Virginia
Washington, D.C
District of Columbia
New York
New York City
Motorist Nabbed Coming And Going
In Lebanon Indiana Mechanic Justice of the Peace Joe F Cooper fined motorist James C Darnall 16 75 for speeding after Darnall returned with a speeding ticket. Darnall had first complained his car was sluggish and lacked get up and go. Cooper tuned it up possibly too well.
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Lebanon
Ind
Justice of the Peace
Joe F. Cooper
James C. Darnall
Darnall
Cooper
Weather Snyder and Texas Region Outlook
Readings show variable temperatures across Texas with a warming trend into Wednesday. North Central to Northeast Texas expect clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer afternoons. lows tonight around 30s to 40s and highs near 60 to mid 60s. Southwest and Extreme Southwest Texas stay cloudy and hot with highs mid 60s to mid 70s. Louisiana forecast calls for frost tonight with generally cold conditions inland and partly cloudy to warmer by Wednesday.
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Snyder
Texas
Solar Observatory Launch Delayed Again at Cape Canaveral
Technical problems forced postponement of the Thor-Delta booster launch to orbit to study earth sun relations. The countdown had reached within seconds of liftoff when the issue arose and no new date was announced.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Khrushchev Outlines Farm Drive In Soviet Broadcast
Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s six hour radio address warns of food shortages and urges rapid agricultural reform. He blames past methods, cites Vasili Williams and Stalin era rotation, and proposes plowing grassland into corn and beets while boosting machinery, fertilizer, and rural labor.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Communist Party Central Committee
Vasily Williams
Williams
Stalin
Prac
Central Committee
Gennady Voronov
Voronov
Presidium
Siberia
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