Rescue Drilling Continues To Reach Trapped Miners
Hazleton Pennsylvania rescue teams drill toward three men buried 400 feet underground since last Tuesday. One trapped miner David Fellin 58 spoke by surface hole saying he is cold but all right. Louis Bova 42 remains unseen as crews work a second hole to establish contact and lifeline.
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Hazleton
David Fellin
Louis Bova
Bova
Pattersonville
Anna Fellin
Fellin
Steve Horan
Henry Throne
Horan
Pettersonville
H. B. Charmbury
State Secretary of Mines
Charmbury
Sheppton
Cottom Named Principal at Gerstmeyer High School
Vigo County School Corp. trustees appoint C. Kenneth Cottom principal of Gerstmeyer Technical High School to replace Noel B. Douglass who resigned. Cottom has 14 years on the staff and formerly ran buildings and grounds.
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Vigo County School Corporation
C. Kenneth Cottom
Civil Defense
Cottom
Alex Menestrina
Weather Map Page Report and River Stage Update
The 6 am map notes a noon reading of 69 and 78 at 9 am with sunrise at 6 07 and sunset at 7 39. River stage is 2.3 feet and rising.
Terre Haute Area Weather Forecast
Forecast shows fair and cool tonight with a low in the mid fifties. Wednesday brings mostly sunny and warmer conditions with highs around the mid eighties. Indiana and Illinois expect fair and warmer weather with similar temperatures and nightly lows 54 to 64 and 60s respectively.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Tito Welcomes Khrushchev In Belgrade Arm-in-arm Greeting
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Belgrade and embraced Yugoslav President Josip Tito at the airport. The two leaders, flanked by their wives, greeted each other warmly signaling a thaw in postwar tensions. Tito praised Khrushchev’s role in securing a limited nuclear test ban with the United States and Britain.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Khrushchev
Tito
United States
Britain
Premier Khrushchev
President Tito
Governors Drop Racial Issue at Southern Conference
Governors from eleven states agreed to a unanimity rule at the Southern Governors Conference in White Sulphur Springs. The change blocks anti civil rights resolutions unless all members vote yes, aiming to prevent a split over civil rights proposals led by Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Wallace
Donald Russell
South Carolina
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
Maple Ave Fire Station Contract Bid Announced
City Controller Ray Thomas announced that the bid from Frank L. Johnson Development Co. for a new firehouse at 2601 Maple Avenue was $34 434 10 the lowest of four bids. The project adds fire protection for northeast Terre Haute and the Terre Town area with about 4 000 to 4 500 of a 5 500 remaining from a 40 000 allocation.
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Maple Avenue
Frank L. Johnson Development Company, Inc
South Seventeenth Street
Ray Thomas
Board of Public Works and Safety
Thomas
Terre Haute
Terre Town
Nationalists Send Raiders to China
In Formosa an official Taipei agency said fifteen groups of Chinese Nationalist guerrillas landed in Communist China between May 17 and late July. The troops reportedly formed secret bases and likely averaged about 14 men per group.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Tear Gas Quell March in Plaquemine Louisiana
State troopers fired tear gas to break up a 400 person Negro rights march in Plaquemine near Baton Rouge. Seventeen demonstrators were jailed, with one boy reportedly toppled by a gas bomb. CORE leaders including James Farmer faced riot incitement charges as voter registration drives were planned.
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Plaquemine
Louisiana
Donaldsville
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Dennis Longy
Gordon Carey
CORE
Plymouth Rock Baptist Church
Farmer
Bertrand Tyson
Ronnie Moore
J. W. Davis
Birmingham Moves Toward School Integration in 15 Days
Birmingham, Alabama, announced it will integrate its high schools in 15 days, signaling the end of public grade school segregation in the Deep South. The action follows recent moves in the state and affects other Alabama cities.
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United Press International
Birmingham
Ala
Deep South
Alabama
Ceylon's High Living Standard Tied to Plantations
National Geographic Atlas of the World credits Ceylon with one of Asia’s highest living standards due to its large tea rubber and coconut plantations. The atlas highlights the country’s agricultural economy and export strength shaping prosperity.
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United Press International
Ceylon
Asia
National Geographic Atlas of
Teller Warns Treaty Step Toward War
Dr Edward Teller urged senators that the proposed nuclear test ban is not a path to peace but a step toward war. The UC physicist warned of rapid, unpredictable atomic progress and said the US would lose essential knowledge for missile defense under the ban. He testified amid Senate Foreign Relations hearings as other military leaders expressed mixed views on ratification.
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Washington
Edward Teller
University of California
Teller
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Armed Services and Atomic Energy Committees
Thomas S. Power
Strategic Air Command
Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee
Armed Services Committee
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
Foreign Relation Committee
United States
Rescue Efforts Continue for Miners Trapped 400 Feet Deep
Anxious rescue workers push ahead with two drilling operations to reach three miners trapped nearly 400 feet underground for seven days. The incident draws national attention as authorities coordinate equipment and safety protocols.
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George C. Wallace
Alabama
Plaquemine
James Farmer
CORE
Allied garrison moves to defensive positions in Berlin practice alert
West Berlin's 11,000-man Allied garrison shifts to defensive positions across the Western half of the city during a practice alert. A U S Army spokesman says the drill tests mobility and reaction to varied scenarios.
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Berlin
West Berlin
U. S. Army
Kiwanis Club Convention Elects Indiana Governor
Dr. Leo Hauptman registrar of Ball State Teachers College at Muncie was chosen governor of the Indiana District Kiwanis International at the convention closing session in Terre Haute. The 46th annual gathering drew over 825 attendees with 260 wives. James C. Shopmeyer becomes immediate past governor and George Leist is re-elected district treasurer.
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Indiana
Kiwanians
Ball State Teachers College
Leo M. Hauptman
Muncie
Leo Hauptman
Kiwanis International
Terre Haute House
Indiana State College
Dr. Hauptman
James C. Shopmeyer
Terre Haute
Shopmeyer
George Leist
Columbus
Robert L. Mason
Willis A. Long
Michigan City
C. E. Robinson
Plymouth
Russell M. Tague
Auburn
Glen Beery
North Manchester
Frederick E. Rakestraw
Rochester
Bryan O. Blair
West Lafayette
Leslie I. Neher
Gas City
Russell B. Johnson
Anderson
Thomas H. Mattingly
Indianapolis
Earl W. Cassady
New Castle
Eugene R. Kipple
Robert D. Eagleston
Greenfield
William B. Jones Sr
Lawrenceburg
Cecil C. Callahan
Jeffersonville
Roscoe Sims
Petersburg
Ray Clements
Orleans
Walter C. DeWitt Sr
Evansville
Thomas B. Shackelford
Chandler
ISC
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Kfalief Ara
Gerstmeyer
U. S. Weather Bureau
Hails
Maple Ave
AP News Digest
SAC
Massachusetts
Peru
Leonard Uebelhor
Jasper
Marilyn
Margaret Uebelhor
David McKenna
Dorothy Uebelhor
John Langenberg
William Fehribach
Kiwanis Club
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