Grissom Cleared for Space Flight as Weather Improves
NASA and project officials gave Virgil I. Grissom the go ahead for an 8 a.m. EST launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a Redstone rocket destined for a 116 mile high Atlantic flight after a midnigh t meeting of scientists and technicians. Weather outlook showed partly cloudy skies with scattered showers in the launch area and forecast cloud breaks down range.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Virgil I. Grissom
Grissom
Walter Williams
Air Force
Redstone
Atlantic
Project Mercury
Allies warn Khrushchev on Berlin crisis resolution
The United States Britain and France warned the Soviet Premier that his Berlin plan endangers world peace while leaving room for negotiation. They urged a freely negotiated settlement of Germany's unresolved problems but rejected plans to hand over West Berlin access to East Germany.
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Washington
Kremlin
Germany
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Khrushchev
London
Paris
West Berlin
East Germany
U.S
Two Cave Explorers Found Dead in Indiana Cavern
In Orleans Indiana two student cave explorers Ralph Moreland 23 of Knox and Tom Arnold 25 of Peru were found dead early Wednesday after more than three days of searching. Volunteers located the bodies two-thirds of a mile inside a cavern in a narrow side passage.
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Orleans
Ind
Ralph Moreland
Knox
Tom. Arnold
Peru
Butte Woman 103 Celebrates Sailboat Journey to U S
Mrs Barbara LeSage 103 marks 100 years since sailing from Germany to the United States in a month long voyage. She resides with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Oren Ozburn at 1010 Nevada and will observe a quiet family gathering Wednesday.
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Barbara LeSage
Germany
United States
LeSage
Oren Ozburn
Nevada
Kennedy School Plan Dealt Stunning Blow
The House Rules Committee voted 8 to 7 to kill three education bills, delivering a major setback to President Kennedy’s plan to fund public schools. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell signaled possible action through Calendar Wednesday to bring the main bill to the floor, though hurdles and scheduling delays loom.
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Washington
Kennedy
House Rules Committee
House
Rules Com
Mittee
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
House Education and Labor Committee
Rules Committee
Powell
State Department Official's Wife Killed in Crash
Mrs Angier Biddle Duke wife of the State Department’s chief of protocol was killed in a light plane crash near Queens while en route from Park Avenue to her Long Island estate for her daughter’s seventh birthday party. Also perished were two other prominent women and the pilot.
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New York
Angier Biddle Duke
State Department
Long Island
Duke
Park Avenue
Southampton
Maria Luisa
Laguardia Field
Queens
Arthur Altschul
Wall Street
Stanley Warren Metcalf
Auburn
N.Y
Paul Dubuke
East Hampton
Weather Preview Across Montana and Butte
Butte expects fair skies and a warmup through Thursday with today’s high near 83 and low around 58. Montana east sees partly cloudy Wednesday with a mild rise by Thursday, while Montana west remains fair with highs in the mid 80s to 90s and cooler nights.
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Butte
Montana
Railroad Insurance Dispute Hearing Continued In Court
Federal court proceedings over BA&P railroad employees insurance were continued indefinitely after Monday and Tuesday testimony. Plaintiffs are nonoperating brotherhoods. defendants include the railroad Anaconda Co and Metropolitan Life. Briefs are due for late October. restraining orders on insurance changes and strikes stay in effect.
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Ba&p Railroad
Ba&p
Anaconda Co
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Page & Col, Ly
Council Tonight May Act On Wage Scales
Butte City Council is expected to approve new wage scales for three unions the Carpenters Teamsters and Machinists at a regular meeting. The Machinists schedule shows a $1 per day raise per worker. Preliminary departmental expense estimates for the new fiscal year will be submitted and the city must adopt its preliminary budget by July 25.
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Butte City
Carpenters
Mayor Griffith proposes special districts to fund fire hydrants
Mayor Vern Griffith announced plans to create special maintenance districts in Butte to cover fire hydrants and street lighting, replacing about 3 mills in general taxes. He said the move responds to State Examiner criticism and will fund services by equalized assessments based on property benefit, excluding ornamental lighting.
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Vern Griffith
Butte
State Board of Examiners
Griffith
Butte School Board Reschedules Junior High to Meet Law
School Superintendent Charles C. Davis released a statement saying the Board corrected the State Board of Education’s July 11 press release. The District No. 1 plan keeps elementary and senior high on six hours daily and adjusts the junior high schedule by 25 minutes to avoid busing costs while meeting the 1961 statute.
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Charles C. Davis
Board of Trustees
State Board of Education
Butte Public Schools
State Board
District No. 1
Butte
Whisky and money taken in breakin at South Side Club
Twenty two fifths of whisky and vodka, beer, merchandise and coins were stolen from the South Side Athletic Club at 2051 Harrison in a nighttime breakin. Police were told by Al Forgette and George Gentry that burglars entered through a second story window, then left by the rear door.
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Butte
South Side Athletic Club
al Forgette
George Gentry
Harrison
Three year old girl beaten by neighborhood children
In Race Track district a 3 year old girl was beaten with a tennis racket by a 6 year old girl and 8 year old boy. The child suffered cuts welts and bruises and was returned home after medical treatment. Deputies and juvenile authorities opened inquiries.
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Butte
Idaho Youth Drowns in Walton Lake West of Missoula
Lae Mar Kingsford a 17 year old from Pocatello Idaho drowned Tuesday while paddling behind an inner tube on Walton Lake about 70 miles west of Missoula Authorities said a skin diver would arrive Wednesday to recover the body The wind blew the tube from him and he disappeared under the water Kingsford is Montana 40th drowning fatality of the year.
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Missoula
Mont
Mar Kingsford
Pocatello
Idaho
Walton Lake
John Buckett
Kingsford
Montana
Four Philadelphia Houses Collapse Into Sewer Trench Trapping Residents
In West Philadelphia a 91 year old sewer line caused four brick two story houses to collapse at 11:15 p.m. A boy and a woman were found dead. another child, Kenneth 11, and Cheryl 6 survived. Wayne 9 was killed and Mrs. Robinsonson 55 died. Jesse Robinsonson 70 remains missing. Red Cross set up aid at a junior high school. The city may condemn 40 houses.
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West Philadelphia
Col
Russell
Robinson
Jesse
Red Cross
Samuel Baxter
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Great Falls
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