Khrushchev Promises Peace Amid Talk of 50 Megaton Bomb
Moscow reported Premier Khrushchev announced at the 22nd Communist Party Congress that the Soviet Union would cap its atomic tests with a 50 megaton explosion this month, claiming it would be the largest man made blast. He noted a rumored 100 megaton device but said he hopes it will never be exploded. The U.S. noted the current record is a 15 megaton device, with over 20 Soviet blasts since resumption of tests and underground U.S. tests in the low yield range.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Washington
United States
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Brinks And Dimes Heist Though Shown As Lame Yet Newsworthy
In New York on FDR Drive two 14 year old sophomores Marvin Sussman and David Heimowitz helped hoard thousands of dimes after a bag marked Brink's Inc. spilled from an armored car. Police recovered 3795 dollars and 30 cents. Brinks personnel later reclaimed the coins at the station. The youths teased by photographers and hint of reward.
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John G. Rogers
New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marvin Sussman
David Heimowitz
Samuel Scheinberg
Mervin
David
Brink’s Inc
Leonard Saloman
Vincent Mariucci
Brinks’s
Yeshiva University High School
Marvin
OAS Vote On Cuba Due For Foreign Ministers’ Meet
The Organization of American States plans a vote next week to call an American foreign ministers conference to consider collective action against Cuba. The council approved Peru’s request 20 to 1, with Cuba the lone dissent. Peruvian Ambassador Juan A Lavalle labeled Castro’s Cuba a beachhead of international communism in Latin America.
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Washington
UPI
Organization of American States
OAS
Cuba
OAS Council
Peru
Hemisphere
Juan A Lavalle
Fidel Castro
Stricken Woman Found In Home In Elyria
Acting on a neighbor’s call deputies found Elizabeth Wright, 70, of Chestnut Ridge, in serious condition from a heart attack, possibly two days old, in her home. She was taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital and listed in serious condition. Wright lived alone. relatives are cousins Carl Lecht, Roy Smith, and Sophia Welton.
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Elizabeth Wright
Chestnut Ridge
Bender
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Berserk carpenter kills woman in Virginia shooting
In Norfolk, 61-year-old David Harris Burkhardt opened fire with a shotgun after a dispute, killing a woman and wounding another before being shot by patrolmen and later dying from his injuries. Police say he claimed persecution as motive while barricaded, with his mother escaping to a neighbor’s home.
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Norfolk
UPI
Martin Fitzing
Burkhardt
Fitzinger
Lauilla Burks
David Harris Burkhardt
Tohardt
L. L. Jones
Shield
Burkhardt Ralky
Mary
A. Lee Brown
David Blair
Burkhan
Brown
Jed
Unconscious For 6 Years At Mobile Bedridden since a 195? accident
Richard L. Havens of Mobile enters his seventh year as an unconscious bed ridden patient. He was 23 when a joy ride with friends went wrong six years ago, killing one youth and injuring Havens and two others. Doctors say no recovery is hoped. his mother tends him daily and believes he senses visitors though no reaction has appeared.
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Mobile
Ala
UPI
Richard L. Havens
Havens
Joseph Havens
U S Maps A Red Bypass
United States weighs bypassing the Security Council for direct General Assembly action on selecting an acting United Nations secretary general if Russia does not agree. Washington seeks a one week window as negotiations run, with U Thant’s advisers and Russia at loggerheads over who can be chosen and how much veto power he may wield.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPI
United States
Security Council
General Assembly
Russia
Washington
Soviet Union
U.S
Dermar
Thant
Europe
United Aid
Burma
U Thant
Age Eensene Ae Ey Nee
Berlin
Dag Hammarskjold
Th Assembly
Camel Driver Receives Gift Pickup Truck From LBJ
Vice President Lyndon Johnson plans to present Bashir Ahmad a pickup truck from Foard Motor Co in Dallas at a State Fair ceremony. Ahmad, 48, chose the color and will tour Six Flags over Texas before visiting the American Royal Stock Show in Kansas City. He later meets former President Truman, tours the ranch, and praises American friendliness while noting his first English words.
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LBJ Ranch
Tex
UPD
Lyndon Johnson
Bashir Ahmad
Pakistan
Foard Motor Co
Ahmad
Johnson
Eair
Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
Six Nations
Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Washington
Pedernales
Three Ride 4 Ton Truck To Freedom
East German youths aged 18 to 22 escaped into West Berlin by crashing a four ton truck through the blocked East West border. West Berlin police reported the three refugees faced gunfire as they rammed past border barricades seeking freedom.
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Freedom
Temperatures Rise as Northeastern Ohio Goes Sunny
The weather report for Northeastern Ohio states sunny skies and warmer conditions with a high around 68. Tonight will be fair and not as cool with a low near 50. Wednesday remains fair and warm with continued high temperatures and no significant precipitation noted.
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Ohio
Rvange
Refugee clashes at Berlin border and escapes thwarted
Police report Red border guards fired 15 rounds at the border. A truck carrying refugees was struck twice but none were hit. Survivors were escorted to Marienfelde in West Berlin. Communists began sealing sewers used as escape routes. Four more refugees fled west overnight, including a 21 year old Communist policeman.
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Warus Mmalvule
Marienfelde Center
West Berlin
East
Polite Red Cop Bows His Way To Freedom
West German police say a 21 year old communist policeman bowed to an East German woman and helped her reach West Berlin on Monday. He discarded his machine gun, followed her across the barrier, and sought political asylum.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
Skindiver Fined for Spearfishing in Reservoir
In Southam England UP I Gordon Sharples fined 14 dollars for spearfishing in a reservoir while his maid was accused of carrying a trident. He quipped that what was good for Father Neptune is good enough for him.
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Southam
England
UPI
Gordon Sharples
Father Neptune
Where To Turn Contract Talks Start
Lorain news brief outlines Bendix Westinghouse contract talks beginning with Elyria shift. Utility rate expert hired for Ohio Edison, fair housing ordinance passed by Oberlin Council, and a Griswold Road water line sale to an Elyria resident for eight dollars detailed in the page 18 items.
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Bendix-Westinghouse
Elyria
Lorain
Ohio Edison
Oberlin Council
Municipal Court
Amherst
Avon Lake
North Ridgeville
Birmingham
Oberlin
Carlisle
Red Smith
Columbia
Contract Bridge
Rochester
Sheffield
Sheffield Lake
Dear Abby
Hospital News
Kipton
Loraine
Hilties
Wellington
Khrushchev Offers Berlin Talks Pause at Congress
Premier Khrushchev signaled he might drop his year end demand for a Berlin peace treaty if the West shows willingness to negotiate. He announced Russia will end its current nuclear test series by month end after a massive 50 megaton detonation and warned that a war would end the capitalist system. He stressed mutual concessions to settle the German problem and insisted West Berlin remain a free demilitarized city within any peace treaty.
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Moscow
UPI
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Soviet Communist Party
Russia
Kremilin
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko
Washington
Kennedy
Dean Rusk
London
Harold Macmillan
West Berlin
Security Cloaks Big Reds At Soviet Congress
ALINE MOSBY reports the 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress opens under heavy security at the Kremlin in Moscow. Delegates and invited guests arrive by limos as police guard checkpoints, while Khrushchev chairs a formal session in a grand hall watched by foreign diplomats and reporters. The scene features a diverse crowd of Bolshevik veterans, peasants, army officers, and women, with Khrushchev speaking calmly and offerings of multilingual translation to the press corps.
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Aline Mosby
Moscow
UPI
Soviet Communist Party
Kremlin
Red Square
Trotsky Gate
Henry Shapiro
United Press International
Ghana
Presidium
The
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