Pennsylvania Readies Program to Revive Coal Industry
Pennsylvania launches a broad research program to revive coal, backed by 75 000 dollars from the 1963 legislature. The plan includes liquefaction studies turning coal into gasoline, development of foreign markets, new uses in utilities and processing, better transport, mine safety, and improving conditions in coal regions.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Coal Research Board
Department of Mines and Mineral Industries
Mines
H. Beecher Charmbury
U.S. Office of Coal Research
Department of Interior
Charmbury
Polar Air Causes Unseasonally Cool Weather Across East
Washington officials explain Thursday unseasonably cool conditions across the eastern two thirds of the nation result from a polar air influx from Canada and rapid heat radiation under clear skies. Doctor Helmut Landsberg of the Weather Bureau says the pattern is not a winter warning and could indicate an early fall if repeated. The narrow band most affected runs from northern Maryland to southern New England.
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Washington
Canada
Helmut Landsberg
U.S. Weather Bureau
Landsberg
South Dakota
Maryland
New England
House Group for Stiffer Rules on Dividends Tax
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 13 12 to back a bill reducing income tax via across the board rate cuts while doubling the dividend exclusion and phasing out the 4 percent credit, reducing corporate taxes after seven years. Republicans reportedly opposed any change in the dividend provision.
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Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Treasury
Youlou Resigns as Congo Republic President in Crisis
President Fulbert Youlou quit under mass protests as the army took control awaiting a new government. Captains Mouttabakany and Moutsaka assumed joint command while labor leaders and the military negotiate a path forward. The resignation was framed to prevent bloodshed on the third anniversary of independence.
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Brazzaville
Congo Republic
Fulbert Youlou
Mouttabakany
Moutsaka
Belgian Congo
Youlou
France
Bank examiners locked inside after Middletown picnic
Middletown Savings Bank employees planned a post day picnic but inadvertently locked 20 bank examiners inside the building. One examiner escaped through a window to inform the bank president.
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Middlefield. Conn
Middletown Savings Bank
Drummond Receives Life Sentence for Cold War Spying
Navy yeoman Nelson C. Drummond, the first American Negro convicted as a cold war spy for the Soviet Union, was sentenced to life imprisonment by U.S. Dist. Judge Thomas F. Murphy. He sold naval secrets for $24,000 to Moscow operatives and was arrested in Newport, Rhode Island, after being caught passing data to two Soviet UN aides.
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New York
Navy
Nelson C. Drummond
Soviet Union
Moscow
United Nations
U.S
Lucille
Drummond
London
Newport
R.I
FBI
Mine Rescue Operation Stalls as Families Oppose Slope Fill
In Hazleton Pennsylvania an emergency mine rescue halted Thursday night after families of three trapped miners objected to filling the slope to flood the shaft. They clung to hope the men might still be alive despite the standstill.
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Hazleton
Taylor Says Pact Studied Long, Hard
Gen Maxwell D Taylor testified that the Joint Chiefs of Staff debated the nuclear test ban treaty at length and unanimously supported it in final form without pressure from Pentagon leaders. He said chiefs were consulted, had access to Moscow Washington communications, and could intervene if needed. Wheeler echoed cautious support amid safeguards like readiness for underground tests and monitoring of the Soviet Union.
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Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joints Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Taylor
Joint Chiefs
Moscow
Soviet Union
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Services and
Atomic Energy Committees
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee
Earle G. Wheeler
Army
Wheeler
Subcommittee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
Sen
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
R-Iowa
U.S
Monessen Man Drowns at Yough Dam Near Addison
The body of 20 year old Douglas Tonini of Monessen was recovered near the Youghiogheny Dam in Addison Two after he waded into the water carrying his 9 year old nephew Danny Tonini on his back and disappeared. Witnesses and bystanders aided the nephew while rescue squads attempted revival for the swimmer.
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Youghiogheny Dam
Addison
Douglas Tonini
Monessen
Robert Halverson
Tonini
Danny Tonini
Jack Kuhn
Pittsburgh
Confluence
Unions Accept Wirtz Bargaining Procedure Proposals
Railroad unions announced acceptance of W. Willard Wirtz bargaining procedure suggestions in the deadlocked work rules dispute. Firemen and engineers and three train crew groups accepted the proposals in separate actions, aiming to guide talks on Manning and train crew makeup. A voluntary arbitration option was mentioned as a possible path to settlement, potentially avoiding Congress action on the Kennedy proposal to send the case to the ICC. The current truce lasts until Aug. 29 when new work rules are to be unveiled, with a walkout risk if posted.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Congress
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
Death of Father Clark Ends Aid to Ex-Convicts at Dismas House
The Rev. Charles Dismas Clark, 62, founder of Dismas House in St. Louis, died of a heart attack leaving about 3 500 ex convicts without his rehabilitation guidance. Funeral plans were set for St Joseph's Church.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Charles Dismas Clark
Dismas
Father Clark
Christ
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Dismas House
St. Louis
Irving Shiffrin
Shiffrin
Loot Found From Great Train Robbery Continues
Police say new loot tied to the Glasgow London mail train heist was found at Moordown near Bournemouth. Five suspects, including Roger Cowdery and William Boal, face charges for involvement with others in the pre dawn raid. Police report seizures in Bournemouth and London totaling around 280000 dollars.
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Richard Kasischke
London
Britain
Moordown
Bournemouth
Roger John Cowdery
William Boal
Rene Boal
Mary
Severe Quakes Hit Opposite Ends of the Earth
Two major earthquakes struck opposite sides of the globe. One quake swayed Tokyo towers for 20 seconds, with center estimated offshore Fukushima. Hours later a stronger quake near the Peru Ecuador border was felt in Guayaquil, Ecuador, rated 7.0 by Swedish institutes and later 8.25 by Berkeley seismologists, matching the 1906 San Francisco quake in intensity.
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Associated Press
Skopje
Yugoslavia
North Pacific
South America
Tokyo
Japan
Central Meteorological Agency
Pacific
Fukushima Prefecture
Guayquil
Ecuador
Swedish Seismology Institute
Berkeley
Calif
San Francisco
Bell Telephone Averts Strike With Agreement
Philadelphia AP report says Bell Telephone Co of Pennsylvania reached a tentative deal with the Federation of Telephone Workers avoiding a strike. Two 38 month contracts cover 9,700 plant workers and 2,000 accounting staff with higher wages plus improved vacation pension life and medical plans. The union notes no leaves for union business and estimates total costs around 3 million dollars with wage reopeners at 14 and 26 months.
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Philadelphia
Bell Telephone Co. of Pennsylvania
Federation of Telephone Workers of Pennsylvania
Bell
REA Loans Help Build Blue Knob Ski Resort
The Rural Electrification Administration approved a 110000 loan to Valley Rural Electric Cooperative of Huntington to relend to Blue Knob Development Corp of Altoona for a ski resort in Bedford County Pennsylvania. The project includes seven slopes a snow making machine and lifts with 58 initial jobs rising to 88 seasonally and about 5000 in annual revenue to the cooperative.
1 214 Pennsylvanians Drafted in October Call
Harrisburg AP state selective service headquarters reports Pennsylvania supplied 1,214 men for the national draft call of 17,000 in October.
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Harrisburg
Selective Service
Pennsylvania
U S Rejects Red China Nuclear Propaganda Claim
U S officials dismissed a Peking broadcast alleging Khrushchev pledged to stop China from making atomic weapons. They view the claim as propaganda aimed at the limited test ban pact and deny any Soviet intent to aid China’s nuclear program. Former officials say the 1957 atomic data pledge was never discussed with Eisenhower.
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John M. Hightower
A.P
Washington
Red China
Soviet Union
Peking
Khrushchev
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S
Red
Eisenhower
Christian Herter
Associated Press
United States
Britain
Russia
China
China-Soviet rift centers on nuclear aid promise
The Chinese charge Premier Khrushchev broke a 1959 pledge to supply China with nuclear weapons know-how and a bomb sample. Beijing says Moscow scrapped the 1957 defense tech accord, revealing a publicly unacknowledged Soviet pledge to help China become a nuclear power. The issue marks a key flare in Sino-Soviet tensions.
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George Syvertsen
Moscow
China
Soviet Union
Khruschev
U.S. State Department
Peking
New China News Agency
Kremlin
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REA
Co-operative
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