Killer to Get Pardon for Medical Aid
Jackson Mississippi June 26 A convicted murderer John Richard Russell 58 who agreed to help medical science by undergoing a historic lung transplant looked to his freedom. Gov Ross Barnett said Russell would be rewarded with a pardon. The transplant would alleviate human misery and suffering years to come. Russell is serving life for a 1957 stay in Attala county. A spokesman at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said Russell’s transplanted lung was functioning satisfactorily. His abdomen is used as an artificial kidney to filter wastes from liquids to aid a kidney problem that followed the operation. Surgeons disclosed the transplant had been from an unrelated donor after years of animal studies.
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Jackson
Miss
Ross Barnett
John Richard Russell
Barnett
Russell
Attala
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Medical
Wabash Valley Stamp Club Meets Friday at YMCA
The regular meeting occurs Friday at 7 30 p m in the McFall Room YMCA. Program chairman Al Traversy will show a color film Malaya Our Story in Stamps after a discussion of club business. Stamp collectors and interested individuals are welcome.
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Wabash Valley Stamp Club
McFall
YMCA
al Traversy
Malaya
Aden State chief minister dies in London
London report says Has san Ali Bayoomi aged 47, chief minister of Aden State, died in London on Monday from a heart attack. Bayoomi became chief minister after Aden merged with the South Arabian Federation last January.
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London
Hassan Ali Bayoomi
Aden
Bayoomi
People of Asia House Majority of World’s Population
About 56 percent of the global population is concentrated in Asia. The statement highlights Asia as the most populous continent, underscoring demographic distribution across regions.
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Asia
Titan 2 Silo Missile Faces Vibration Hurdle
At Norton Air Force Base Calif June 26 Air Force and NASA researchers seek to cut harmful vibration during Titan 2 first stage burn to protect Gemini astronauts. Despite jolt risks pilots must decide eject with no automatic failure protection. Titan 2 to meet NASA schedule despite cost notes.
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U. S
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Norton Air Force Base
John L. McCoy
Titan
Blassific Systems Division
McCoy
Air Force
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Grand Falls of Hamilton River Seen by Few Explorers
The Labrador wilderness hides North America’s second largest waterfall, the Grand Falls on the Hamilton River, with only a small number of visitors venturing into the remote woods to view it.
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Woods
Labrador
North America
Hamilton River
Kennedy to name emergency board in porters strike
The National Mediation Board certified the walkout would cause an emergency and disrupt interstate commerce. President Kennedy is expected to appoint a three man emergency board to study the dispute and seek a settlement, delaying the strike at least 60 days.
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Washington
UPD
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
National Mediation Board
Railway Labor Act
Kennedy
Navy halves recruit flow to San Diego base over meningitis outbreak
The Navy sharply reduced new arrivals to the San Diego Naval Training Center to curb a meningitis surge. About 4,000 recruits were sent to Great Lakes, with 25 cases and three deaths reported. no new cases in a month. Barracks capacity cut by half to limit spread.
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Washington
UPD
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Two Auto Fires Extinguished by Quick Thinking Citizens
Quick-thinking passersby saved a man and two autos when they dumped gravel onto a burning car at Sixth and One-half Street near the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing about 9 p.m. Tuesday. Damage estimated at 50 dollars. owner Donald E. Simmons, 1105 Poplar Street. Fire trucks from Company No. 5 and earlier Company No. 4 responded to separate fires. Another car owned by Charlotte Brown at 308 Swan Street burned. damage about 300 dollars. Cause not discovered.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Donald E. Simmons
Poplar Street
Swan Street
Charlotte Brown
Crane Operator Burns in No. 1 Tin Mill Fire
East Chicago Indiana June 26 A crane operator John Watson 55 Whiting remained in serious condition with third degree burns after a flash fire swept the No 1 tin mill of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Tubular building near a sulphuric acid pickling vat in a 300 foot long corrugated iron structure Watson high in the crane cab was blinded by smoke and delayed exit McCallech 32 Gary treated for chest and back burns and escaped without hospitalization during the blaze in the vat area Police noted the flames forced him to run through the fire to flee the building
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Chicago
Ind
APM
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
John Watson
Whiting
Robert McCallech
Gary
Watson
Fred Lander
McCallech
Shaw Attending 10 Conference at Indiana University
Gregory Shaw of Honey Creek High School attends the first of three two week sessions of the 17th annual High School Journalism Institute at Indiana University. Fifty three high school students participate in the News Conference workshop with later sessions for business managers editors and yearbook staff members.
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Gregory Shaw
Royce Avenue
Honey Creek High School
Journalism Institute
Indiana University
Progress in Racial Talks With Boston Strikes
United Press International reports some progress in racial talks as Boston activists call a one day Negro strike over segregation amid Medgar Evers memorial services on the Common. Gov Peabody declares Evers Memorial Day and urges recognition. In the South a first state level meeting between a governor and Negro leaders shows tentative progress.
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Boston
Medgar Evers
Massachusetts
Endicott Peabody
Evers
South
Terry Sanford
North
Goodbye Guatemala suicide leap near Belice bridge
Jose Lucas Camey leaped 150 feet to his death from the Belice bridge outside the Guatemalan capital. The unemployed handyman left a note delaying the act from June 22 to today due to rain.
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Guatemala
Jose Lucas Camey
Belice
Guatemalayan
Camey
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Shaw
United Press International
Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
Kelly Alexander
North Carolina
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
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Floyd
Savannah
Georgia
Hosea Williams
Denver
Charleston
A&i!” Furniture CO
Wabash Valley
Wabash Ave
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