Army Secretary Elvis Stehr Receives Farewell at Ft Myer
A 19 gun salute and four ruffles marked the farewell ceremony for Army Secretary Elvis J. Stehr at Ft Myer Virginia. Cyrus Vance, Gen Lyman Lemniger, Gen George Decker and other officials attended as the 3rd Infantry battlegroup paraded in review.
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Washington
Army Band
The
Army
Elvis J. Stehr
Ft. Myer
3Rd Infantry
Stahr
Cyrus Vance
Lyman Lemniger
Joint Chiefs of Staff
George Decker
Army Chief of Staff
Grateful veteran dies leaving $14,000 bequest
A Spanish American War veteran was found dead in his Miami trailer. The 92 year old Marc Antony said the government had been good to him and he planned to give his nearly 14 thousand dollar pension savings back. He willed the funds to the federal government earlier this year.
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Miami, Fla
Marc Antony
Antony
Life Begins at 80 Arrest on Bus Pockets in Genoa
Genoa Italy AP Giovanni Torre age 80 was arrested on a charge of picking pockets on a bus. His victim was Carlo Toso age 93 according to police.
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Genoa
Italy
Giovanni Torre
Polce
Carlo Toso
World disarmament conference ends with permit controls call
The Accra Ghana AP report notes the week-long conference concluding with calls for strict cheating controls in any disarmament treaty. About 190 delegates from the United States Europe Asia Africa and the Western Hemisphere attended the gathering.
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Accra
Ghana
United States
Europe
Asia
Africa
Western Hemisphere
Vandalia Firefighters Aid Circus Rescue In Heat
In Dayton Ohio the Vandalia volunteer fire department helped rescue a traveling circus on a 91 degree day with low water pressure. Firemen rolled out tank trucks to provide water for the hippopotamus, and the show continued.
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Dayton, Ohio
Vandalia
Senator Talmadge cites Navy trainer contract for Glynco GA
Senator Herman Talmadge said the Navy Training Device Center issued a fixed-installation tactics trainer contract. Goodyear Aircraft Corp of Akron Ohio received the $2,584,062 fixed-price incentive contract for a unit at Glynco Naval Air Station near Brunswick Georgia.
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Goodyear Aircraft Corporation of
Akron Ohio
Model A Ford Club Convenes After Westbound Trip
Twenty two Model A Fords arrived in San Francisco after a ten day run from New York. The Model A Ford Club of America holds its convention from today through Sunday with twenty five cars started and three absent. cars are 1928 to 1931 vintage.
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San Francisco
New York
Ford Club of America
Nevada underground nuke fired in 40th test
Washington AP reports another underground nuclear blast in Nevada as the 40th in the current series. The Thursday test produced an estimated yield of less than 20 000 tons of TNT and was described as a relatively small device.
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Washington
Nevada
Teen misreads spray can. drives car spray paint incident
In Wilmington a youth at a drive in theater mistook an insect spray can for spray paint. Green paint coated the car interior and several teenagers as the error unfolded.
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Wilmington, N.C
Freeman Seeks Safeguards Against Billie Sols Scandals
Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman testified in Washington that he has taken adequate steps to guard against any further scandals of the Billie Sol Estes type in his agency.
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Washington (Ap
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Billie Sol Estes
Trade Victory Bolsters Demos
President Kennedy and his Democratic allies won House passage of the trade expansion bill 298 to 125. The measure would keep tariff cuts in effect despite hurt from imports and provide loans tax relief and retraining aid for workers. The Senate may approve soon as Democrats tout a broad Bipartisan support.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Western
Europe
Stocks Rally in Moderate New York Trading
The stock market extended its rally in heavy afternoon trading in New York. Most key stocks gained a few cents to about a dollar, with glamour issues performing better than the broader screen.
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New York
Oil Executive's Slayer Indicted In Sister Case
New York oil executive Taylor Gay was shot to death on June 11. James Mullooly, 41, indicted for first degree murder by the New York County Grand Jury. He pleaded innocent and was held without bail for a July 30 hearing.
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Taylor
Gay
Mullooly
Mary
Miss Mullooly
New York County Grand Jury
General Sessions
Mitchell Schweitzer
Phillips Petroleum Co
Hudson Tubes
Church and Cortlandt Streets
Soblen Fate Seen as Israel Moves to Expel
Soblen, a bail-jumping U.S. life prisoner and alleged Soviet spy, faces expulsion from Israel. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's government reportedly backs returning him to the United States to begin his sentence, despite no extradition treaty.
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Jerusalem
Robert A. Soblen
United States
David Ben- Gurion
Soblen
Israel
U.S. State Department
Ben-Gurion
Interior Ministry
Foreign
Justice
Justice Ministry
Washington
Circle Manhattan Medical Group
Association of
Doctors
Churchill to undergo surgery for fractured thigh
Sir Winston Churchill will be operated on tonight at Middlesex Hospital for a fractured left thigh after a fall in his Monte Carlo hotel room. The 87 year old wartime leader, in good humor, returned to London by jet with his leg in a cast and was transported to the hospital.
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Winston Churchill
Middlesex Hospital
Churchill
Monte Carlo
Sir Winston
Battler
Royal Air Force
Princess Grace Hospital
Jekyll Bridge Tolls Remain, Officials Say
Georgia State Toll Bridge Authority refuses Gov. Van diver plan to free the Sidney Lanier Bridge at Brunswick from tolls without Supreme Court approval. The three members cite statutory and constitutional questions, bond obligations, and the need to protect taxpayers and bondholders.
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Jekyll Bridge
Atlanta
State Toll Bridge Authority
Ernest Vandiver
Brunswick
State Supreme Court
Kenneth W. Dunnody
Macon
Robert B. Lee
Leesburg
J. J. McLanahan
State Highway Department
Herman Talmadge
Authority Through Legislative Act
Sidney Lanier
Turtle River
Tennessee Youth Survives 15 Minutes Under Water
Sixteen-year-old Bill Townsend survived an estimated fifteen minutes underwater after a car left a rain flooded road and overturned in the Ocoee River near McCaysville Georgia. Rescuers and bystanders performed artificial respiration until he revived.
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Tennessee
Bill Townsend
Ocoee River
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Townsend
Buddy Finch
Passmore
Emil Green
Copper Hill
Robert Lucey
Southeastern
Ares Red Cross
Atlanta
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