Public Day of Glory for Pioneer Astronaut Shepard
NASA plans a subdued yet uplifting tribute to Alan B. Shepard Jr in Washington with a White House ceremony. He will meet Kennedy in the rose garden receive the Distinguished Service Medal and attend a Capitol reception before a news conference at the State Department. He and the six fellow astronauts will travel by open cars from the White House to the Capitol.
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Mouse
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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Kennedy
Sal Inger
Andrews Air Force Base
Suburban
Mary
Salinger
Supreme Court
Congress
State Department
Montana weather report shows mixed precipitation and temperature ranges
Montana east expects partly cloudy to cloudy with showers and warmer air. east highs 50 to 60, lows 28 to 38. Montana west turns cloudy with mountain snow and lower elevation showers. highs 45 to 60, lows 28 to 35. Tables list city highs and lows through Sunday 5 p.m. with several towns noted.
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Montana High
Belgrade
Broadus Pn
Butte
Dillon
Drummond
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
Lewistown
Anes
Les City
Missoula
Yellowstone
Whitehall Tl
Experts Say U S Could Put Man Into Orbit This Year
CAPE CANAVERAL FLA AP reports space officials believe the United States could place a man in orbit within 1961 if Atlas booster problems on the Mercury project are fixed. Officials say focus may shift from Redstone suborbital tests to the Atlas phase with pilots John H. Glenn Jr. or Virgil I. Grissom as candidates.
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Cape Canaveral
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Alan B. Shepard Jr
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Shepard
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Yuri Gagarin
Redstone
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John H. Glenn Jr
Virgil I. Grissom
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Philadelphia
Hammer
Sonny
Kennedy Farm Bill Faces House Opposition
In Washington the Kennedy administration's sweeping farm bill meets strong conservative resistance in the House. Critics argue Title 1 cedes too much legislative power to the secretary of agriculture and could let him stack advisory committees, while supporters contend the measure curbs executive control over price supports and crop programs. With 35 Agriculture Committee members, including 14 Republicans, passage remains in doubt.
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Kennedy
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House Agriculture Committee
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Congress
Orville L. Freeman
Harold D. Cooley
DN. C
Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
Fires claim lives of six children and man in two cities
A Pittsburgh suburb home fire killed Miles O’Brien Sr 34 and his three children ages 8 7 and 5 with the wife surviving in hospital. In Madison Wisconsin a two story blaze killed Susan Chute 3 Ann Thompson 15 and Patricia Pierce 14. Four others including parents and a sibling were hospitalized. Investigators have not yet determined causes.
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State
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Thomas
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Mary
Susan Chute
Ann Thompson
Patricia Pierce
Susan
William
Doris
Leon
Pearl Thompson
Ann
Chute
Leon Chute
One-legged convict Alley gets extra ten years
Bozeman reports Thomas Alley, a 31 year old Dillon convict, received an added decade to his term after a jury found him guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. The escape attempt occurred while officers were transporting him to Deer Lodge to begin a 25 year sentence for armed robbery.
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Thomas Alley
W. W. Lessley
Alley
Dillon
Deer Lodge
Area Redevelopment Conference Held For Unemployed
Area redevelopment program guidance arrives from Washington with Dave Hartley of the Office of Area Development. Hartley, a former Montana Planning Board official, will speak in Butte Monday meet tribal leaders in Helena Wednesday and in Flathead County Friday as Congress wraps up action on the redevelopment bill.
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Butte
Montana
Tshombe to Face Treason Trial in Congo Crisis
Katanga President Moise Tshombe will be prosecuted for high treason, with charges including the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko vows to use force if needed to regain Katanga, which seceded last summer, as Tshombe remains imprisoned at Coquilhatville riverside villa.
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Tshombe
Coquilhatville
Elisabethville
Congo
United Nations
Mobutu
Tornadoes Hit Four Arkansas Towns and Kansas City Area
Severe weekend storms pummeled the Plains to the Ohio Valley. Four Ark ansas communities faced deadly twisters injuring at least six and killing four. another death toll rose from Har rison flood woes. Wyandotte County near Kansas City suffered damage and injuries as more tornadoes this weekend killed several across Missouri Oklahoma and Texas with floods worry ing multiple states.
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Ohio Valley
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Harrison
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Midway
Oil Trough
Pindall
Yellville
Crooked Creek
Ark
Howe Sunday
Howe
Reichert
Dover
Wabash
Gary Cooper Turns 60 Amid Cancer Illness
Hollywood star Gary Cooper reached age 60 on Sunday while battling cancer. Messages of birthday wishes poured in from fans and colleagues as word of his illness spread.
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Hollywood
Gary Cooper
Breakout Breakins Spark Butte Bar Lockup Mystery
Butte police reported a man employed at a downtown bar was found climbing out through a transom early Sunday, after being locked inside the premises overnight. Authorities described the incident as a rare breakout amid numerous breakins in the area.
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Butte
Big 3 Foreign Ministers discuss Laos strategy in Geneva talks
In Oslo the American British and French foreign ministers met to align policies for the 14 nation Laos conference opening in Geneva Friday. They debated backing the Lao truce, steps at Geneva if Laos fails to form a government, and neutrality for Southeast Asia while Kennedy considers offering allies a share in policy shaping from Cuba to Laos and the China Seas.
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Atlantic
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China
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Saigon
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Austria
Rusk
United States
Angola
Algeria
Teen killers admit holdup murder in Philadelphia
A 14 year old and a 14 year old accomplice confessed to killing Adolph Krashesky, a 38 year old Bond Bakery driver, during a February holdup. The youths, Lincoln T. Tabb and Moses McDuffie, were captured after a stolen car crash in Upper Darby following a four mile police chase with gunfire. A third youth, Montanez Kelly, 18, was present. a .22 pistol was found in the car.
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Lincoln T. Tabb
Sonny
Moses McDuffie
Upper Darby
Montanez Kelly
Tabby
Adolph Krashesky
Bond Bakeries
Krashesky
Tabb
51St and Folsom
My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House serial
The Standard-Post begins serializing Lillian Rogers Parks memoir My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House detailing three decades as a maid and seamstress at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The veteran observer recalls history, intimate moments with Presidents and First Ladies, and a life of backstage secrets before retirement.
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Backstairs
White House
Pennsyyvania Avenue
Executive Mansion
Standard-Post
Pennslyvania Avenue
West Berlin cops arrest East German guards in cigarette machine break-ins
Berlin police arrest two Communist East German prison guards on charges of breaking into West Berlin cigarette vending machines. The arrests highlight tensions in the divided city as authorities investigate cross border crime and sabotage.
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