Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills 21 Salt Miners
Twenty one miners died in a salt mine near Calumet Louisiana from carbon monoxide poisoning after a fire trapped workers in shaft three thousand feet from the main tunnel. Rescue teams worked days as company officials coordinated with federal inspectors and mine safety experts while families waited in sorrow.
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Indianapolis
Ind
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Dallas
Minneapolis
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Cargill
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Raymond R. Ashby
Kentucky
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Tide
Mite
Clayton Townemaker
Calumet
Prison Chief Criticized In Digging Up Skeletons
Lincoln County grand jury criticized Thomas C. Murton after unearthing three human skeletons at Cummins Prison Farm. Murton, fired by the Board of Correction, called the report a travesty of justice as the panel found no indictments and noted a 1923 cemetery site map. Governor Winthrop Rockefeller had appointed Murton a year earlier to reform the prison system.
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Ark
Lincoln County Grand Jury
Cummins
Thomas C. Murton
Murton
Winthrop Rockefeller
Arkansas
Board of Correction
John Haley
Suaber Menneay
Lets Westone
Mi Jand Havins
U.S
Negro Studies Seen Becoming Big Industry
Whitney Young of the Urban League warned at a University of Texas conference that studies of Negroes are evolving into a major industry in the United States. He questioned the value of numerous PhD led inquiries and urged focus on the effects of welfare laws on Black families rather than on alleged Negro pathology.
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Tex
Cap
Whitney Young
The
Urban League
United States
Congress
Conference On Human Relations
University of Texas
Four Die In Maryland Fires Including Two Sisters
Four people perished in Maryland fires late Friday into early Saturday. In Baltimore a three story row house on McCulloh Street burned killing Joanne Morton age 4 and her month old sister, Taven Trefrey, of Havre de Grace. A 8 year old girl in an apartment also died as flames swept the building. Police could not identify the third victim.
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Maryland
McCulloh Street
Joanne Morton
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Havre de Grace
Wiqi
Explorer 37 Now Orbiting In Earth Space
NASA reports Explorer 37 satellite in orbit after repeated launch delays from Wallops Island. The 19 pound craft will measure solar X rays and UV emissions to forecast ionospheric conditions affecting short wave radio and warn of major sun flares risky to manned flights. The satellite stands 27 inches high and 30 inches across.
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Washington
Wallops Island
National Aeronautics Space Administration
Capital Footnotes By The Associated Press
Quote from Pat Nugent, president, explains decision to seek Vietnam assignment with Air Force Reserve unit. Mentions self respect and duty in context of military service.
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Associated Press
Pat Nugent
John
Vietnam
Secretaries Keep Powell Office Open for Harlem Constituents
The House preserves two holdover secretaries for Rep. Adam Clayton Powell as he remains effectively out of Congress. Miss Lewis and Mrs. Gillespie continue assisting Harlem Harlettes and other constituents from a small office after Powell’s exile. The official three-room workspace remains unused by Powell and is held for potential return.
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Washington
James G. Fulton
R-Pa
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Ell
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Adam Clayton Powell
Dolores Gillespie
John J. Johansen
Davenport
Cleomine Lewisimen
Bertram Podil
D-In
Dak
Canaan
Barnard Affirms Doctors Should Pick Sickest Heart Patient
Dr Christisan N Barnard the South African heart transplant pioneer told a Senate subcommittee that only doctors should decide who receives a new heart based on the patient’s illness. He dismissed a proposed ethics commission and argued the public is not qualified to decide who should be saved.
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Washington
Christisan N. Barnard
South Africa
Congress
Barnard
Senate
Abraham A. Ribicoff
D. Conn
Ribicoff
Commission
Walter F. Mandale
D-Minn
Cape Town
Louis Washkansky
Philip Blaiberg
Production And Sales Of Automobiles Booming
New York AP reports strong steel and automobile activity with steel output reaching a weekly record of 2,862,000 tons and auto production rising 13.6 percent to 179,900 cars. February totals show 624,000 U.S. car sales and 76,000 foreign cars, while factory orders fell in January.
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Jack Lefles
New York
Wheeling Steel Corp. Foine al
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
Pittsburgh Steel
U.S
Gold Speculation Surges as Devaluation Sparks Panic
European buyers rush to gold while U S officials defend the fixed $35 an ounce price. Treasury and Federal Reserve reiterate commitment to convert dollars to gold, deeming devaluation unlikely to shift the price.
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Joseph &. Coyne
Washington
Brittain
Europe
Aera
United States
United Kingdom
London
Treasury
Dorsing
U.S
Bank For Taterna
Switzerland
Willam McChesney Martin Jr
Federal Reserve Board
Martin
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
France
Man Sentenced To Die In Gas Chamber
William Dale Archerd, first US convict in insulin murder, is sentenced to death in California’s gas chamber. Judge Adolph Alexander imposed the sentence after a nonjury trial for Archerd, 55, who killed Zea Winders Archerd, 48, in 1956, Marz Brinker Post Arden, 60, in 1966, and Burney Kirk Archerd, 15, in 1961.
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Los Angeles
William Dale Archerd
United States
California
Superior Court
Adolph Alexander
Archerd
Joseph Marx
Irwin Hoffman
Zea Winders Archerd
Marz Brinker Post Arden
Burney Kirk Archerd
Frank Sinatra's Wife Ends Meditation Trip Separates Again
Frank Sinatra's estranged wife Mia Farrow arrived in Miami where Sinatra is working but offered no comments on possible reconciliation. Farrow, who cut short a six week India meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, plans to travel to London for the film Secret Ceremony with Elizabeth Taylor.
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Miami
Fla
Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Sinatra
Miss Farrow
India
James Mahoney
London
Elizabeth Taylor
Prince Charles Complains Of Night Noise At Cambridge
Cambridge University freshman Prince Charles writes in Varsity about nightly disturbances outside his room. He notes the national anthem, bottle clinks, and garbage truck noises interrupting his sleep before 7 am. He recalls arriving in a minicab and guards closing the Great Court gates like a French Revolution scene.
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England
Prince Charles
Britain
Cambridge University
Varsity
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Montanous
Lola
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