New Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Open to All Nations
The new nuclear test ban treaty opens to all states from Thursday with 26 nations led by Australia expected to sign in Washington as President Kennedy sends the pact to the Senate for ratification. Britain the Soviet Union and the United States frame the accord aiming for broad participation.
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Lewis Gulick
Associated Press
Washington
Australia
Kennedy
Senate
White House
Asst
Andrew Hatcher
Otis Air Force Base
Massachusetts
State Department
U.S
France
Red China
Britain
Soviet Union
United States
London
Moscow
U.S. Senate
Russia
Bank Resources In State Reach All Time High
Pennsylvania state banks posted a record 10.2 billion dollars in resources for the year ended June 30. Banking Secretary G A Patterson credited higher deposits and rate boosts to keep corporate money in state banks and noted the federal 3.5 percent discount rate rise may lift future rates for deposits and loans.
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Richard Graves
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Banking Department
Commonwealth
G. A. Patterson
Patterson
Federal
Treasury
Gov. Scranton
State Banking Department
U. S
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve
Ford For Sale Ad Reflects Cash Crunch On Campus
Columbus Ohio. Ohio State University students face end of term funds squeeze as the campus newspaper highlights a classified note: 52 Ford for sale either whole vehicle or any part. The ad captures student humor over money tightness.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
FORD
Reeder Urges Clear Church Communications In Modern World
Marvin H Reeder of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists told the 60th West Pennsylvania Conference at Edgewood Grove that the church must use all avenues of communication. He warned against propaganda and urged living the message daily to be heard.
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Marvin H Reeder
General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists
West Pennsylvania
Seveth-day Adventists
Edgewood Grove
Reeder
Father Daughter Crushed to Death in Escalator
A father Patrick J. Sweeney 56 and his daughter Peggy 10 were crushed at Garden State Park race track Cherry Hill N J after a repairman removed a protective plate. They were pulled into a 35 foot open ing at the escalator top as it moved. Ronald Haines of Maple Shade was seen earlier with them.
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Cherry Hill
N. J
Garden State Park
Patrick J. Sweeney
Peggy
Frank G. Jones
Sweeny
Ronald Haines
Maple Shade
Jones
Sweeney
Haines
Johnson and Coleman Face Runoff in Mississippi Governor Race
In Mississippi, Lt. Gov. Paul Johnson and former Gov. J. P. Coleman lead a four man field as first primary results roll in. Race remains central as each man framed a segregation stance amid broader desegregation clashes and ongoing federal contempt charges against Johnson.
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Associated Press
Jackson, Miss
Paul Johnson
J. P. Coleman
Johnson
Coleman
Charles Sullivan
Robert Mason
University of Mississippi
Hattiesburg
James Meredith
Ackerman
Clennon King
King
Meredith
Memorial unveiled for 114 Indian soldiers in Ladakh clash
In New Delhi the memorial at Chushul honors 114 soldiers who died fighting Chinese forces in Ladakh last November. Of 120 guards, six survived after rescue teams found them unconscious.
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New Delhi
India
Ladakh
Chushul
Haiti Says Rebels Defeated In North By Duvalier Forces
President Duvalier’s regime announced that Haitian troops crushed a rebel invading force and pushed it across the border into the Dominican Republic after hours of fighting in north Haiti. Competing accounts from rebels and exile sources claimed advances and continued hostilities near Cap Haitien, Meillac, and Fort Liberte.
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Robert Berrellez
Associated Press
Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Dominican Republic
Leon Cantave
Duvalier
Santo Domingo
Cap Haitien
Gonaives
George J. Figaro
Figaro
Meillac
Ft. Liberte
Moves to Prevent Violence at Capital March
A. Philip Randolph announced heightened precautions for the August 28 civil rights march in Washington. He told congressmen that leaders prepared a counter filibuster plan involving 1000 people in Washington churches if Civil rights legislation falters. Randolph and others met with Police Chief Robert V. Murray to plan security and requested a White House conference the morning of the march.
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Martha Cole
Associated Press
Washington
A. Philip Randolph
The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Randolph
Capitol
Senate
Kennedy
White House
Robert V. Murray
Red China and USSR pause feud at Hiroshima conference
Delegates from Red China and the Soviet Union momentarily shelved ideological clashes to back a series of resolutions at the Hiroshima ban the bomb conference. The mood shifted after a Moscow Peiping display of unity, though tensions remain over the nuclear test ban pact and Chinese objections.
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John Roderick Hiroshima
Japan
Red China
Soviet Union
Communist Party
NAACP delegates face mixed responses from lobbyists
NAACP leaders at a strategy conference learned that lobbying for civil rights faces varied reaction on Capitol Hill. Portsmouth delegate Thomas P. Cobbs reported Senator Norris Cotton of New Hampshire did not vote as Cobbs hoped after their session.
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Capitol Hill
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Thomas P. Cobbs
Portsmouth
N.H
Norris Cotton
N.H. Cobbs
Cotton
Tas
Cobbs
Second flood in two weeks swamps Buffalo area
Torrential rain hit Buffalo New York causing widespread flooding with four feet in parts and 300 people evacuated by boat in Cheektowaga. Mayor Kowal declared a state of emergency as utilities failed and schools and businesses closed. Federal aid possible.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Chester Kowal
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Milk Commission to Hold Public Hearing on Prices
The State Milk Control Commission will hold a public hearing after 20 days on petitions from the Keystone Milk Producers Association and the Western Pennsylvania Milk Producers Association plus two Saegertown residents. The petitions seek study of out of state milk shipments, removal of seasonal pricing, higher minimums for manufacturing milk, and probes into alleged refunds and kickbacks. The hearing is expected in Pittsburgh.
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Harrisburig
State Milk Control Commission
Western Pennsylvania Milk
Keystone Milk Producers Association
Western Pennsylvania Milk Producers Association
Morris Shelenberger
David G. Thomas
Saegertown
R.C
Pittsburgh
Western
Western Pennsylvania
Commission
Rockwood Water Line Break Delays Supply
A main water supply line in Rockwood ruptured around 11 a.m. Tuesday, cutting water to Rockwood Water Co. customers until Wednesday morning. Workers from Sweeney Construction Co. were digging on West Main Street near the W. F. Sembower residence when the break occurred.
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Rockwood
Rockwood Water Co
Sweeney Construction Co
W. Main Street
W. F. Sembower
Homeowners Refuse to Pay Water Bills in Brampton
One hundred homeowners declare they will not pay water bills until Brampton water is fit for drinking. Peggy Gardner reports her family uses ginger ale for brushing teeth due to bad taste and odor. Mayor Russell Prouse cites iron dissolved from deep wells as the cause of the trouble.
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Brampton, Ont
Peggy Gardner
a_ taxpayers
Russell Prouse
Kennedy Visits Ill Newborn at Boston Hospital
President Kennedy visited his premature son Patrick at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston after birth by Caesarean at Otis Air Force Base. The infant suffers idio pathic respiratory distress syndrome and is in an incubator with X rays and breathing support. The baby was baptized and the First Lady remains at Otis while the President plans multiple daily visits.
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Boston
Kennedy
Otis Air Force Base
James E. Drorbaugh
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
White House
Pierre Salinger
Tam
Salinger
Otis
John Scahill
Otis Afb
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Key Figures in Railroad Feud Told to Gather Here
Washington AP report notes labor secretary Wirtz calls for the alliance of top union chairmen to be present if talks produce an agreement on the four year feud over work rules. The AFL CIO group plans to meet as negotiations continue with railroad spokesmen and Congress weighs Kennedy backed legislation to keep trains running.
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Jerry T. Baulch
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Congress
J. L. Shattuck
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Union
Shattuck
Kennedy
Senate
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
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