Olin Sells Orcill Area Explosives Plants to Commercial Solvents
Commercial Solvents Corp of New York buys Olin Mathieson’s industrial explosives business including the Orill, Tada, Wash Ordill and Mount Braddock plants. The sale excludes the Ordill propellants division, which employs about 160 workers. the dynamite and other high explosive lines shift to Commercial Solvents as the U.S. Powder Company division. The deal, valued at about twelve million dollars, expands Commercial Solvents in mining, construction, and energy markets while preserving Olin’s other product lines and facilities in Ordill Easter ton Peru and Morgan Hill California.
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Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
Commercial Solvents
Olin
Ordill
Tada
Wash
Mount Braddock
Olin'g. Ce
Qrd
Aale
U. S
James Redington
Tacoma
United States
Collisson
Easterton
Peru
Ind
Morgan Hill
Calif
Kindergarten Antics Light Up First School Days
In Southern Illinois many schools begin sessions with lively kindergarteners setting the tone. Murphysboro pupils show both seriousness and humor from first-day pegs and coloring sheets to raincoat antics and playful misstatements about home addresses.
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Ilinois
Murphysboro
Gas Quells Prison Riot at Georgia State Prison
Riot at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville ends after guards and inmates clash with metal posts torn from beds. Tear gas deployed after an hour of fighting following a tower guard shotgun blast that halted an escape attempt.
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Reidsville
Georgia State Prison
49 Killed On Highways Across Nation
Labor Day holiday traffic deaths surged to a record 545 across the nation, with multivehicle crashes including six in Michigan. The worst was near Dayton Texas. Boating fatalities reached 159 with 46 drownings, and 23 highway deaths occurred in Illinois over the three-day period.
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Michigan
Dayton
Texas
Onsinois
Kennedy pressures Diem over Ngo Dinh Nhu power
President Kennedy warns Saigon that U S aid may be reviewed if Ngo Dinh Nhu remains powerful. He calls for greater Diem government reform to gain popular support and says changes in policy or personnel may be needed to win the Vietnam war. Saigon officials note the warning but say Washington cannot act for the Vietnamese. In a separate note, a Buddhist monk seeks asylum at the U S Embassy but is refused due to crowd limits.
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South
Viet
Ngo Dinh Die
Diem
Ngo Dinh’ Nhu
U. S
Hyannis
Port
Mass
Viet Nam
United States
Saigon
Himseles
Ton That Dinh
Yencoe
Skelton
State Department
Washington
W. R
Hayes
Standing Ovation for Red Skelton at Du Quoin Fair
A crowd of over 15,000 gave comedian Red Skelton a standing ovation as the Du Quoin State Fair wrapped up. The event capped the fair’s most successful run in decades, with entertainment drawing large crowds and positive reception.
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Red
Red’ Skelton
du Quoin
Taventies
Skelton Crowd Holds Star After Crossville Fair
Across Crossville Tennessee crowds roared as Skelton appeared at a county fair. Reported chaos followed while the crowd demanded more acts. Separate notes mention a separate ongoing homicide probe near a lake involving the Reed family and other fair records set by car races and attendance milestones.
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Hayes
Fairgrounds
Grandstad
J. Foyt
Foyt
Johinny Th Thompson
Wallace Orders Tuskegee School Closed by Force
Alabama governor George Wallace uses executive order to postpone Tuskegee Public School start. Troopers and mounted deputies seal the campus, denying entry to students and teachers despite a desegregation order from federal courts. Federal officials in Washington monitor but take no action. Separately, Louisiana, Maryland, and South Carolina districts begin staged desegregation with police presence and mixed results.
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Tuskegee
Ala
George “Wallace
Consolidated Elementary High School
Macon County Board of Education
al Lingo
E. W. Wadsworth
Macon County
Wallace
Dallas County
Ae Clark
Justice Department
Washington
Robpees Kennedy
University of Alabama
New Comet Discovered Near the Sun
Goddard Space Flight Center reported a faint comet found near the sun. Belgian astrophysicist Dr. Francois Dissin from Liege is credited with the discovery. Further details and observation timing were not provided.
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Greenbell
Goddard Space Flight Center
Francois
Dissin
Liege
Freed Pals Grieve Hope Missing Miner In Depths
In Nazleton Pennsylvania authorities pursue rescue after three miners are trapped more than 300 feet underground. Efforts include drilling multiple shafts and exploring different routes to reach Bova and Fellin as time runs into days with hopes fading.
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Nazleton
David Fellin
Fellin
Charmbury
Gordon” Smith
Weather outlook for southerly winds. cooler tonight
Partly cloudy and a little cooler tonight with lows in the mid to upper sixties. Wednesday turns mostly cloudy with scattered showers and possible thundershowers, highs in the lower eighties.
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