Reds threaten retaliation in East Berlin politics escalate
In Washington the State Department rejects recognizing East Germany and signals a unified Western stance. In Berlin Soviet moves replace the East Berlin commander with Gen Yakovbsky as U S and Western officials deem it a salami slice tactic. U S military patrols test access with East Berlin and Checkpoint Charlie passings amid warnings of possible future harassment.
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East Berlin
Moscow
U.S
West Berlin
Charlie
Berlin Wall
Ivan Yakubovsky
East Germany
Potsdam
Benin
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Watering the grass turns head turning scene downtown
The article notes Joe Crier and assistant Endell Seldon watering a lawn before the City Police station as a hose scene unfolds. A greener patch of grass is observed, while George Lutz reports a separate oddity at home with ten cows in the yard on Front Royal Road, Armel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Crier
Endell Seldon
Lee Grant
George Lutz
the Star
Armel
Front Royal Road
Appalachian Apple Service to Close After 26 Years
The Appalachian Apple Service will close at month’s end after 26 years in Martinsburg West Virginia. The board cited lack of financial support from growers in Pennsylvania West Virginia and Virginia’s withdrawal from the organization in 1960.
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Appalachian
Appalachian Apple Service
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
West
State Supreme Court
Appalachian Belt
Martinsburg
W. Va
Carroll R. Miller
Labor Dept
Congress
Dept. of Agriculture
Missing Youth Found Dead in Madison County Woods
The body of 17 year old Charles Corbin, missing a week, was found by an Army search party from Ft Belvoir in the Syria area. He appears to have been shot with a makeshift 12 gauge shotgun found nearby, held with a rubber band and tape. An autopsy will be performed at the University of Virginia Hospital Charlottesville.
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Madison
Madison County
Ft. Belvoir
Charles Corbin
University of Virginia Hospital
Charlottesville
Syria
Corbin
George Corbin
Virginia Gaining New Industry Every Other Day
Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. announced that Virginia added an average of one new industrial plant or major expansion every other day in the first six months of 1962. He spoke at Cantrell & Cochrane Ltd. Inc. dedication as the firm opens a new canned soft drinks plant in Colonial Heights.
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Colonial Heights
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Virginia
Harrison
Cantrell & Cochrane
California
Massachusetts
Florida
Alert Corporation
Fifteen Red Ships Headed for Cuba with Technicians
Reports from Washington indicate fifteen Communist ships are en route to Cuba with large numbers of technicians and extensive arms and equipment. President Kennedy said U S authorities have incomplete details on the cargoes and the nationality of arriving personnel while noting no Russian soldiers have been reported in Cuba.
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Washington
Cuba
Kennedy
U.S
Red
Caribbean
Fidel Castro
Moscow
Bids on Rt. 81 Projects Near Clearbrook and Winchester
The State Highway Department accepted a low bid of 1.39 million dollars by J F Allen for 3.26 miles of trading and draining from south of Rt 672 to the West Virginia line. Moore Brothers posted 562 134 for seven bridges including Rt 11 interchange and two rail overpasses. Other bids for grading and draining near Winchester were rejected as too high and will be re advertised.
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State Highway Department
Clearbrook
West Virginia Line
Winchester
J. F. Allen Co
Clarksburg
W. Va
Rt. 672
Rt. 11
State Highway Commission
Highway Department
Paris Bombardment by Secret Army Targets De Gaulle Car
Police hunted for a Secret Army group after gunfire shattered De Gaulle’s motorcade in Clamart. Six bullets struck the car as a passing motorist was wounded, while the president remained calm and reached Colombey after a near miss. Authorities blamed the underground group with links to Algeria’s refugees and leaders abroad.
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Paris
de Gaulle
Secret Army
Algeria
Georges Bidault
Belgium
Austria
Switzerland
Kennedy Talks Space Race Boost and Cuba Tensions
President Kennedy says the United States will surpass the Soviet space program this decade and notes a wide range of issues from Cuba shipments to Berlin to a Senate probe of stockpiled strategic materials. He described the Arctic rendezvous of the Skate and Seadragon as historic and technical progress.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Russia
U.S
Skate
Atlantic
Pacific
Arctic
North Pole
Court Lectures Strikers and Orders Return to Work
Federal Judge Clarence W. Allgood ordered striking electricians at Redstone Arsenal to resume work citing the nuclear age urgency. About 70 percent of construction workers had returned. union leaders and NLRB officials faced questions as the nine day stoppage threatened delay on space projects including the C5 Saturn booster.
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Huntsville
Ala
Redstone Arsenal
Space Research Center
National Labor Relations Board
United States
U.S
Jules Serot
Marshall Space Flight Center
Allgood
Baroco Electrical Construction Co
Presidential Guns Primed For Elections This Fall
President Kennedy sharpens political arrows in September and October campaigning against Republicans and critics of social security health care. He targets Eisenhower Humphrey Keating Javits and delays on Thurgood Marshall nomination while defending space program efforts and claiming U.S. lag behind the Soviets. He warned the Senate will confirm Marshall before adjournment.
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Washington
Kennedy
Edward M
Ted) Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Humphrey
GOP
Kenneth B. Keating
Jacob K. Javits
New York
Keating
Thurgood Marshall
Javits
Eisenhower
Marshall
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
U.S
Senate
Congress
Sen
Soviet Union
London
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Reds
State Department
Joseph W. Reap
U. S
By Lewis Gulick
Dragnet
Secret Army Group
Clamart
Roger Frey
Frey
Gordon Walsh
E. Piccadilly St
National Ave
Kern Motor CO
Hale Harrison
Paul Rhodes
Cedar Creek
LANZ
Wender
Ing
By Douglas B. Cornell
Awrag
Khrushchev
United Nations
America
Hanna Mining Company
Humphrey
John F. Kennedy
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