Lippi Acquitted as Two Coal Firms Convicted in Tax Evasion
federal jury acquitted August J. Lippi president of United Mine Workers District 1 and three aides while two Luzerne County mining firms Avon and Peeley Mining Co were convicted on tax evasion charges after more than 25 hours of deliberation. sentencing for the corporations was deferred pending appeal.
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Robert L. Dougherty Sr
Frank Cardoni
Leonard Statkewicz
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Wyoming
Dave Leherr
August J. Lippi
Luzerne County
American Wife Completes Flight To Australia
Betty Miller 37, of Santa Monica, becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific from California, landing in Brisbane after 7,100 miles in 13 days. The trip included a stop in Noumea due to a cyclone threat. she planned to fly home in a week in a airliner.
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California
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Noumea
New Caledonia
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Honolulu
Honlulu
Red China Leader Attacks Khrushchev Tone in Hanoi Speech
Liu Shao chi, president of Red China, condemned Khrushchev's policy of peaceful coexistence in a mass rally of about 200,000 in Hanoi. He pledged full North Vietnamese support for guerrilla warfare against the South Vietnamese government and emphasized socialist solidarity against U.S. imperialist aggression.
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Liu Shao-chi
Red China Sunday
Khrushchev
North Viet Nam
Liu
Hanoi
Viet Nam
New China
Peking
Moscow
Moscow-Peking
South Viet Nam
U.S
Game Commission Would Help Stock Somerset County Zoo
The Pennsylvania Game Commission would cooperate in supplying specimens to stock a Somerset County zoo, says former executive director M. K. Golden. Len Kiser of Central City offers to donate his large wild animal collection to a responsible organization for a recreational and tourist attraction zoo.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania Game Commission
M. K. Golden
Golden
The
Game Commission
Len Kiser
Central City
Beer poured into police car gasoline outside cafe
Police Chief Al Buckman said beer was poured into the gasoline tank of a police car while it was parked outside a city cafe. The incident highlights risks when alcohol is involved in public safety operations.
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al Buckman
Attempted Berlin Wall breach ends in volley of gunfire
A bus carrying 12 East Germans tried to cross the Sandkrug bridge border at Berlin and was halted by four border guards firing at point blank range. West Berlin police reported one apparent death and four injuries among the escapees, with armed East German and Soviet troops arriving to help seal the scene.
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East Berlia
West Berlin
Sandkrug Bridge
U S May Resume Hungary Ties
The State Department seeks congressional backing to reopen full diplomatic relations with Communist Hungary. A circulated memorandum praises gradual reforms since 1956 and presents the Kadar regime as improving compared with Stalinist era conditions, while noting Capitol Hill protests.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
State Department
Hungary
U.S
Senate
House
Jan
Kadar
Kennedy
Matyas Rakosi
State economy shows broad improvement in March
The Bureau of Business Research at Penn State reports widespread March gains across most sectors for the first time since the 1960 61 recession end. Steel industry strength helped lift activity with production expected to stay high through midsummer and total state employment up about 22 000 from February. Unemployment fell to 386 000 amid mixed contract construction. The Somerset YMCA directors meet after a 6 p.m. recognition dinner at St Pauls Presbyterian Somerset.
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University Park
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Business Research
Pennsylvania State University
Bureau
Kennedy Dispatches Troops To Bases Near Birmingham
Rioting negroes clogged Birmingham streets after bombings targeting MLK and a motel. nearly 50 hospitalized as Gov. Wallace vows to restore order. President Kennedy returns to Washington as King hopes for racial peace despite violence.
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Birmingham
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Atlanta
Maryland
Washington
Alabama
Joseph Dolan
Justice Department
George Wallace
Route 160 project starts in Larimer area
The New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. begins an 877943 dollar Route 160 widening project between Wellersburg and Berlin in Larimer and Southampton Townships. The four point seven one mile work includes a new bridge over Laurel Run and improved alignment. A 13.5 mile detour via routes 55014 55028 and 55020 is in effect during construction.
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Pennsylvania Department of Highways
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Southampton
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Berlin
Laurel Run
Bowery Death Toll From Alcohol Poisoning Shocks City
A 10 day wave of wood alcohol poisoning on the Bowery killed forty of its 3,000 residents, with authorities and residents noting the area’s blue Sundays and desperate searches for scavenged booze as the police and health workers tried to save others.
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Lower East Side
Bowery
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Hearings to Be Called on Plan For New Taxes
House minority leader Anthony J. Petrosky says public hearings will be held on Gov. Scranton's plan for 139 million in new tax funding. Republicans aim to amend sales tax to 5 percent and raise cigarette tax from 6 to 8 cents. The measures seek to balance a 1963 64 budget. timing calls for June 1 start. Petrosky questions salary concessions tied to Van Zandt and Doran comparisons.
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House
Anthony J. Petrosky
D-Westmoreland
GOP
Scranton
David L. Lawrence
Pennsylvania
Washington
Andrew Doran
Gov. Scranton
Wage Tax Issue Faces School Board Tonight
The Somerset Area School Board will decide on a one percent payroll tax at a public meeting tonight at 8 oclock, held at the junior high school. The issue concerns funding and will be subject to board vote.
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Somerset Area School Board
Kennedy Pledges Federal Aid to Birmingham Disorder
President Kennedy pledged federal power to preserve order and lives in Birmingham Alabama and disclosed Army troops moved into Maxwell Air Force Base Montgomery and Ft McClellan Anniston to deter rioting. The Defense Department did not identify units moved.
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Kennedy
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Defense Department
Army
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Montgomery
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Anniston
Pentagon
White House
Robert S. McNamara
Cyrus R. Vance
Earle Wheeler
Alabama National Guard
Justice Department
Fish Room
Cabinet resignations spark Argentine political crisis
President Jose Maria Guido faced a new crisis as his cabinet quit en masse in Buenos Aires. Interior Minister Enrique Rauch’s push for a shakeup sparked the walkout, threatening July elections and the plan to hand power to new authorities in October amid Peronist fears.
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Jose Maria Guido
Argentina
Enrique Rauch
the Nations New Strongman
Guido
Arturo Frondizi
Juan D. Peron
Spain
Peronists
Armed Forces
Frondizi
Livos
Rauch
Government House
Cooper Is Very Up for Flight Says Doctor
Cape Canaveral AP reports astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. is in top shape for a two orbit flight after a final medical check. Dr Charles Berry described him as relaxed and in high humor, ready for a full dress simulation Monday and a preflight rest.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Cooper
Charles Berry
Manned Space Flight
Church
Donald K
Deke) Slayton
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