United States expands missile early warning system
Clear Alaska BMEWS station becomes second warning site against Soviet missile attack. The site follows Thule Greenland, with a third station under construction at Fylingdales Moor England planned to operate by year end 1962.
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Clear, Alaska
Uncle 3Ain
Soviet Union
Alaska
United States
Air Force
Thule
Greenland
Fylingdales Moor
Yorkshire
England
Tiny Edinburgh Premature Baby Clings to Life
A seven inch long baby girl, weighing four ounces, born Saturday night to Frances Hoy, 19, wife of a British army corporal, remains in a hospital incubator in Edinburgh. The infant is three and a half months premature and clings to life.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Frances Hoy
Eddie Fisher to Produce Four Movies for Warner Bros
Eddie Fisher plans to produce four motion pictures for Warner Bros with his wife Elizabeth Taylor starring in two. The studio announced its association with Fisher's New Frontier Pictures, Inc., calling it the biggest four picture deal Warner Bros. has concluded.
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Hollywood
Eddie Fisher
Warner Bros. Studio
Elizabeth Taylor
Fisher
New Frontier Pictures, Inc
Warner Bros
Tragic Garage Accident Claims 16 Month Boy
George M. Ladd died when a station wagon backed into the Benson home garage. Police said his 14 year old brother Allen was practicing driving in the driveway at the time. The car ran over George as he played on the garage floor.
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Benson, Vt
George M. Ladd
Allen
Plans to raise dam height abandoned near Adel
Lt Gov Byrd said the highway department will instead excavate high spots in the Little River Lake to allow boating and skiing. He noted increasing the dam from four to eight feet would raise flood risk and require buffer dams, so excavation was chosen. Snow falls on Mt Etna and hail hits villages at its base in Sicily.
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Garland Byrd
State Highway Department
Byrd
Adel
Buffer Dama
Highway Department
City to offer traffic and travel info by phone
New York will begin a one minute recorded phone briefing service for traffic subway and airport conditions starting Tuesday at a monthly cost of 1500 dollars to ease congestion on information channels during emergencies. Vice Admiral Rickover urged Congress to consider abolishing service academies if reforms are not immediate blasting at practices in secret testimony to the House Appropriations Committee. He focused on Annapolis and its graduates while noting other services also withheld information.
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New York
Washington
Hyman G. Rickover
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Rickover
Annapolis
Odessa
Texas
Forma
Saw Mountain
Mississippi
Blue
Keanesary Bgiox National Park
Atlanta
Discoverer Capsule Recovered By AF
The Air Force recovered a Discoverer XXV data capsule after 1,000 foot skindiver parachute descent near Hawaii. Three divers towed the capsule to a raft and were picked up by the destroyer Radford for transport to Pearl Harbor. Gold and other metal samples aboard will be analyzed at Sunnyvale California for space exposure effects.
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Hickam Air Force Base
Hawaii
U. S. Air Force
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Sunnyvale
Calif
Radford
Pacific Missile Range
Outer
Space
Air Force
Two Fatal Georgia Weekend Crashes Reported
The Associated Press notes two fatal Georgia highway crashes over the weekend along with fatalities in a plane crash and out of state incidents. Victims include 18 year old Nancy Fair near Lawrenceville and 8 year old Dianne Panter at Blue Ridge Lake, plus Theron Fennel in a Screven area plane crash and Robert Leroy Daniel in Tennessee, with Martha Janss dying in Alabama near Atmore.
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Associated Press
Georgia
Lawrenceville
Nancy Fair
Dianne Panter
Wayne Panter
McCaynville
Blue Ridge Lake
Theron Fennel
Jesup
J. P. Harris
Screven
Tennessee
Robert Leroy Daniel
Thomasville
Martha Janss
Atlanta
Atmore
Ala
Seamen Strike Lengthy Amid Bribery Charges
Negotiators in the maritime strike remain far apart as accusations of bribery and diversive tactics surface. The walkout began last Thursday midnight, immobilizing more than 100 ships, with unions demanding crew rights on American and foreign flag vessels and higher wages to compete with foreign crews.
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NEW York
Jesse M. Calhoon
National Committee For Maritime Bargaining
Calhoon
American Merchant Marine Institute
Ralph E. Casey
The
Merchant Marine Institute
Ten Hurt In Pipeline Blast At Laurel Mississippi
An explosion on a 36 inch gas pipeline in Laurel Mississippi injured ten people. The blast hurled pipe fragments 200 yards, ripped a 30 by 20 foot ground crater, and sent flames 1,000 feet high. Fire destroyed a home and an auto and damaged another car as crews worked to restore service.
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Laurel
Miss
U S and Soviet Officials Hold Meeting on Disarmament Talks
U S and Soviet representatives met in Washington to resume general disarmament talks after a yearlong break. John J. McCloy expects Zorin to press for broader issues beyond procedure, possibly linking Geneva nuclear test ban discussions to general disarmament. A diplomatic note calls Khrushchev's merging proposal unacceptable.
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Washington
U. S
U.S
John J. McCloy
Valerian Orin
Zorin
Khrushchev
Geneva
United States
Kremlin
Moscow
U.N
Adlai E. Stevenson
Andrei Gromyko
Adlai Encounters Tough Talks in Ecuador Mission
Adlai E Stevenson meets President Velasco Ibarra in Quito amid U S aid requests and Ecuador's border dispute with Peru. Velasco Ibarra questions the 1942 headwaters treaty and pledges opposition to foreign intervention while Stevenson receives large pro American crowds in Guayaquil and Quito.
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Quito
Ecuador
Adlai E. Stevenson
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
United States
U.S
Velasco Ibarra
Peru
Amazon
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Stevenson
Carlos Julio Aresmena
Soviet Union
Guayaquil
Polio Epidemic Averted By Sabin Vaccine Plan
In Atlanta Dr Albert Sabin forecast rapid cure by oral polio vaccine saying epidemic threat can be curbed in weeks if enough people take it. About 300000 doses for Atlanta area children were to arrive by air, with distribution delayed until vaccine may be melted and prepared.
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Atlanta
Albert Sabin
Health Department
Sabin
United States
Poultry Ranch Lease Approved For Sunnyland Packing
City and county officials approved leasing 200 acres at the old Army Airport near Pavo Road to Sunnyland Packing Co. Inc. and allied industries. The $500,000 project will be financed by revenue certificates repaid via lease payments, creating about 150 local jobs and a market for county-grown corn soybeans oats and other crops.
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Thomasville
Thomas County
Old Army Airport
Pavo Rd
Sunnyland Packing Co. Inc
Allied Industries
Thomasville Payroll Development Authority
Sunnyland
Frank Neel
Houterg Farm
Roy M. Lilly
Frank H. Neel
Benson B. Earle Jr
Henry P. Russell
Woodrow W. Maddox
Herschel D. Dodson
Kennedy to skip women's press dinner tonight
President Kennedy will not attend the Women’s National Press Club dinner in Washington to avoid straining his back as he recovers. He walked with crutches and showed improved motion after returning from Middleburg, while Mrs Kennedy will join the event.
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Washington
Kennedy
Middleburg
White House
Kenney
Women’s
National Press Club
Pierre Salinger
Ensenada arrests of two Americans in yacht sabotage case
Bernard Je rome Brous 51 and Dale Chris Jensen 23 both U.S. citizens were arrested aboard Brous yacht near Ensenada and turned over at the border to the FBI. They faced $100000 bail on charges tied to blowing up microwave towers and a relay station.
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Ensenada
Mexico
Here
Bernard Jerome Brous
Handsome Dale Chris Jensen
U.S
Brous
Tijuana
FBI
San Diego U.S
Curry
John Birch Society
Three Laotian Princes Open Coalition Talks in Zurich
In Zurich the three rival Laotian princes began coalition negotiations but immediately clashed. Souvanna Phouma pushes neutralist line and rejects Gen Phoumi and army integration, while Boun Oum denies retirement and Souphanouvong backs Pathet Lao influence as talks run three days.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Souvanna Phoums
Phoumi Nosayan
Vientiane
Souvanna
Phoum
Laos
Souphanovvong
Pathet Lao
Geneva
Ban Namone
Political Pageantry and Plans at Atlanta Jaycee Convention
Jaycees from all states and several foreign countries gather in Atlanta for the 41st national convention to elect a new president and debate a proposed plan to slash the 263 member national board. State leaders honor retiring President Morgan J. Coughton as campaigns begin and stunts unfold, including a simulated bank robbery by Las Vegas New Mexico and a Texas barbecue.
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Atlanta
Jaycee
Morgan J. Coughton
Allentown
National Board of Directors
William D. Johnson
Stroudsburg
Las Vegas
N.M
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