Coin Show Attracts 30 Dealers From 20 States
Thirty dealers from 20 states exhibited rare coins valued around a half million dollars over a weekend at Winchester. The show at the Lee Jackson Restaurant drew entrants from California and other towns, with single bills valued at 200 to 300 dollars and items including 1856 Flying Eagle pennies and horse blankets. Society leaders Massey and Coulson praised the event and announced plans for a second show in September 1963.
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Uftematic Society
Winchester
William P. Massey
Society
H. V. Coulson
Berryville
Plan to Create Federal Education Commission
Dr. Harold C. Hunt urged AFL-CIO educators to ask President Kennedy to name a commission of lay people and educators to map a national education future. He warned current policy lacks a cohesive plan as enrollment and population rise toward the year 2000, with 85 million students and adults to educate.
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Harold C. Hunt
Harvard University
Eliot
American Federation of Teachers
Afl-Cio
WW I Flying Heroes Honor Departed Frederick Zinn
American WW I flying heroes gathered at Battle Creek Kellogg Field to honor Col. Frederick W. Zinn, first American aerial combat photographer. A Lafayette Flying Corps veteran and French Legion participant, Zinn had died two years earlier. A wreath ceremony included Baron Hans Georg von der Osten and Capt. Berhard Zeigler as survivors recalled grim losses and the thinning ranks of the veterans.
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Battle Creek
Mich
France
American Legion
Frederick W. Zinn
French Foreign Legion
Lafayette Flying Corps
United States
Zinn
Memorial Park
Kellogg Field
Howard Wilson
Chicago
David W. King
Chester
Conn
Baron Hans Georg von der Osten
Cologne
Germany
Baron von Richthofen
Imperial Air Force
Lafayette Escadrille
Berhard Zeigler
Zeigler
Frank Tall
Baron von der Osten
Fokker
Nathaniel Duffy
Buffalo
N.Y
Soviet Syria cultural pact signed in Damascus
The Soviet Union and Syria signed a cultural agreement in Damascus to foster artistic scientific and educational exchanges based on mutual respect for sovereignty and noninterference. The joint communique notes program details include cultural exchanges and cooperation.
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Damascus
Syria
Soviet Union
Tokyo Typhoon Ruth Bows Out With Light Damage Expected
Ruth, packing 98 mph winds, moved offshore on a northeasterly path that should spare Tokyo and the Kanto plain from major destruction. Officials cautioned of high waves and fringe winds along coastal areas as the storm tracked parallel to shore at about six miles per hour.
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Ruth
Tokyo
Kanto
Helicopter Rescues Fisherman Near Key West
Navy helicopter pilot spots drifting fisherman Horace Crawford after his oar breaks. Helicopter blades churn up waves to keep boat from rocks until a crash boat reaches him and tow to safety.
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Key West
Fla
Horace Crawford
Crawford
Labor Union Accused of Discrimination
The NLRB authorizes a formal complaint against Local 1 Independent Metal Workers Union for racial discrimination in refusing to process Ivory M. Davis's grievance at Hughes Tool Co. Davis, a Negro treasurer of Local 2, seeks apprenticeship to advance to machinist and tool maker roles. Local 1 is white, Local 2 is Black. they jointly bargain for Hughes Tool Co. employees.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Act
Stuart Rothman
National Labor Relations Board
Houston, Tex
NLRB
Hughes Tool Co
Houston
Rothman
Independent Metal Workers Union
Local 1
Ivory M. Davis
Hughes
Local No. 2
Davis
Prints Found in Plymouth Mail Robbery Probe Expands
Boston officials report new fingerprints on road signs used to divert traffic during the Plymouth mail truck heist that netted 1.55 million dollars. Investigators sent prints to FBI in Washington and probe teams search Route 3 woods for hidden money bags.
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Boston
Plymouth
William F. White
New England
FBI
Washington
Route 3
White
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Hearst Remarries Sixth Wife in U.S. Ceremony
George R. Hearst age 58, heir to William Randolph Hearst, wed Rosalie for the second time in Las Vegas after an earlier July 16 1960 Juarez ceremony. The couple, residents of Palm Springs, Calif., desired a remarriage in the United States.
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Las Vegas, Nev
George R. Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Rosalie
Juarez
Mexico
United States
Palm Springs
Calif
Stubborn Robber Gets Konked On Head
In Richmond Virginia an unarmed customer at a restaurant confronted a thief who rifled the cash register. Queenie Jones retrieved a pistol and struck the robber on the head. George Franklin Spears, 45, was arrested for petty larceny and held on $5,000 bond.
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Richmond, Va
Queenie Jones
George Franklin Spears
Teenager shoots after demand for money in Pearisburg
In Pearisburg Virginia a 16 year old Narrows High School pupil Nelson was angered when his step father Johnny Perkins refused his demand for money. He grabbed a double barreled shotgun and fired as Perkins ran away. His blasts killed Doris Marie Reynolds 2 and Barbara Ann Reynolds 8, daughters of Mr and Mrs Herbert Reynolds. A murder charge was filed against Carl Sherman Nelson. sheriff Hop kins said the youth fired after his demand was refused.
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Pearisburg
Carl Sherman Nelson
Narrows High School
Giles County
Joan Hopkins
Nelson
Johnny Perkins
Perkins
Doris Marie Reynolds
Barbara Ann Reynolds
Herbert S. Reynolds
Police Seek Deserting Legionnaires in Corsica
Police from Paris aid Corsican search for 63 Foreign Legionnaires who deserted in the last month. The desertions threaten security as authorities mount nationwide manhunt efforts.
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Ajaccio
Corsica
Paris
Foreign Legionnaires
National Po
France sends police aide amid wave of shootings in Algeria era
A detective note says police units were reinforced with a force brought from France to help the local gendarmerie. The push aims to counter a surge in shootings and robberies blamed on Foreign Legion deserters after the corps shifted its headquarters from Algeria.
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Foreign Legion
Algeria
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Front Royal
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Dr. Hunt
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By Gene Schroeder
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Santa Ana, Calif
Cole Palen
Rhinebeck, N.Y
Piedmont Pool & Gunite Co., Inc
Middleburg
New York City
Fred W. Zinn
Ussr
Cape Cod
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation
Winchester Savings & Loan Association
W. Boscawen St
Fred L. Glaize, JR
Robert B. Dale, JR
Mrs. Jones
Northside
Citizens League
Bill Thompson, Sr
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