Chile Expels Raul Castro Advance Party
Chile expelled a Cuban advance party including 21 newsmen and 21 bearded soldiers who landed in Santiago without authorization aboard a Cuban air force transport. Chilean officials cited missing visas and proper landing permission. The party, escorted by Chilean warplanes, flew to Lima after the incident as Caribbean peace talks concluded with new temporary powers for the Inter-American Peace Committee.
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Santiago
Chile
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro
Lima
Peru
Raul
Latin America
United States
Caribbean
Raul Roa
Antiqu rifle match draws shooters from several states
Shooters from Virginia, Washington DC, and Gettysburg plan to compete at the annual Antique Rifle Shooting Match on the New Market Battlefield August 29 at 10 30 AM on the site of the Civil War V M I cadet charge. Spectators welcome no charge.
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Virginia
Washington, D.C
Gettysburg
New Market Battlefield
V.M.I
Eerie Spectacle as Power Failure Hits Manhattan
A sudden power outage affected a 500 block area of upper Manhattan leaving around a half million people without elevators, air conditioning, and traffic signals. The outage began mid afternoon and restoration stretched into the next morning as hospitals, subways, and apartment buildings scrambled to cope.
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New York
Manhattan
Upper Manhattan
Mount Sinai Hospital
Slight Relief From Heat Is Forecast
A cooler trend appears with 88 degrees at 12:45 PM six degrees below yesterday. Tonight should be generally fair with 65 to 70 degree low. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and cooler in the northern state. Rain last night and today gave relief from six hot days, with 0.97 inch at the Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory and August total 1.80 inches. The year’s rainfall reads 23.96 inches.
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Winchester Fruit Rsearch Laboratory
Eisenhower to Release Facts on Steel Strike
President Eisenhower and Secretary James P. Mitchell announced they will publish basic steel strike facts gathered from industrial and government sources. The report covers wages prices productivity profits and related matters and is not a call to action.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
White House
Gettysburg
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Bureau of Labor Statistics
George Aiken
R-Vi
Jacob K. Javits
R-Ny
Senate
Aiken-Javits
Chrisman to Head Feature Parade of 1960 Fete
Ralph A. Chrisman a Winchester fruit broker was named director of the Grand Feature Parade for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival 1960 by the Lions Club of Winchester. He succeeds Bernard Groves Jr and has 30 years in packing supply and fruit brokerage.
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Ralph A. Chrisman
Lions Club of
Winchester
Shenandoah
Burton B. Mercer
Lions Club
Chrisman
George Washington Hotel
Lions
The
Bernard F. Groves, Jr
Wyck St
Berkeley County
W. Va
Darkesville
Evelyn Lockhart
Chrismans
Brucetown
Apple
George Garber
Robert Huntsberry
Stonewall Ruritan Club
First Baptist Church
Hagerstown
Washington, D. C
Private School Signups Steady in Warren County
Warren County reports steady private school registrations with 650 to 700 students expected for today and tomorrow. Three days of Warren High registration closed with 298 white and 18 Negro pupils. officials hope to operate with 1,000 capacity and 33 teachers.
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Warren County Educational Couvcation
Rose Barnett
Union Hall
Warren County High School
Q. D. Gasque
Warren High
Foundation
Hugh D. McCormick
Board of Directors
Laura Virginia Hale
A. C. Slonaker & Son
Edith Strengthens Aims For Lesser Antilles
The season's fifth tropical storm Edith increased in strength and moved toward the Lesser Antilles, about 100 miles east of Martinique as it bore down on the region, more than 1,700 miles southeast of Miami, Florida.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Lesser Antilles
Miami
Fla
Edith
Martinique
French West Indies
Rockefeller silent on 1960 presidential bid amid NH primary talk
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller kept silent on a GOP bid for the 1960 nomination while in Washington for talks with President Eisenhower. He planned to seek an assessment from Sen. Styles Bridges on New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary and to meet with Republicans weighing Nixon as the nominee.
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Washington
Nelson A.ockefeler
Eise’’ Wer
Rockefeller
New York
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Richard M. Nig
Gettysburg
White House
Eisenhower
Rockefellera
Sen
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate Republican Policy Committee
River Town Is Almost Isolated By Cloudburst
Needles California ED: A desert cloudburst isolated the town near the Colorado River. About 200 motorists stranded. three Santa Fe railroad workers missing, later two found injured. Highways 66 and 95 washed out. town sealed on three sides. search for the remaining workers ongoing.
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Needles
Calif
Colorado
U.S
U.S. 66
Santa Fe Railway
George Ashmore
Geronimo Rodriguez
Ashmore
Rodriguez
Robert Ford
Colorado River
California
Arizona
New Fish Troubles In Shenandoah Report
Investigators from the State Water Control Board probe reports of sick fish in the Shenandoah River near Front Royal. About 500000 fish died last winter. the board blamed the American Viscose Corp plant at Front Royal and fined 154000 dollars. The company denies responsibility and contests the suit to collect the fine. Special counsel R A Wright says current fish troubles may not be linked to the Vis cose plant.
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Richmond
State Water Control Board
Shenandoah River
Front Royal
American Viscose Corp
R. A. Wright
David Lawrence Starts Daily Column in The Star
The Star begins publishing David Lawrence's daily public affairs column on the editorial page. Lawrence, longtime Washington editor and author, is a respected national commentator and publisher of U S News and World Report.
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David Lawrence
Star Today
Mr. Lawrence
Washington
Nation Today
U.S. News & World Report
Uniforms issued for Harrisonburg marching unit event
Uniforms issued Tuesday and Wednesday from 7 to 9 pm for the Harrisonburg marching unit. The notice targets rehearsals around Saturday August 22 with the reference identifier ipeB-17-2t.
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Harrisonburg
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Strasburg
Woodstock
Stephens City
Highway Department
Howard L
Bucky) Gardner
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Ike
Ralph A, Chrisman
Warren
Southern Tire
S. Braddock St
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Jay's Boys’ & Girls
Grove Furniture CO
Sweet Corn Walker Bond Farm
Whittier Ave
Helena
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Alex B. Stephenson
Civil Defense
Hugh Potter
Donald J. Skerritt
al Newby
Hebgen
Hebgen Lake
West Yellowstone
Madison Canyon
Skerritt
Yellowstone National Park
Dean Stone
Maryville - Alcoa (Tenn.) Times
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West Side
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