Flaming Truck Hits Rest Home Killing Three In Electra
A runaway heating gas truck bursting into flames crashed into Hillcrest Haven rest home in Electra Texas. Three elderly residents died as fire swept the one story building while about 35 patients were rescued and one person injured. Driver Dan Craighead of Electra escaped, was later taken to a hospital after collapse near the home. The crash caused about $100000 in damage and occurred two miles from Electra as sheriff Ham Vance reported.
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Electra
Tex
Hillcrest Haven Rest
Wichita Falls
Texas
Dan Craighead
Ham Vance
Jay R. Thomas
Craighead
Town Crier Watches Traffic and Mysterious Watering
The Town Crier noted parked traffic along Martinsburg Pike and counted 25 trucks in 20 minutes. Observed Wendell Seldon watering the police station area daily, while lawns elsewhere brown in heat. The odd sprinkler case seemed to have a life of its own.
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Martinsburg Pike
Waterer
Wendell Seldon
Farm Bureau Head Blasts 93 Billion Budget Power
Berryville Virginia coverage shows American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman rallying about a 93 billion federal budget. He warns that money buys influence in allocations and policy. Senator Harry F. Byrd hosts the orchard picnic with Gov. Albertis S. Harrison Jr. in attendance. Byrd vows to push a Byrd Budget and notes ongoing tax and spending talks.
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Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
Ben Mossman
Wrigley Supermarkets
Senator Byrd
Mossman
Charles B. Shuman
American Farm Bureau Federation
Shuman
Byrd Orchards
Berryville
Federation
Harry Glaize
Cedar Creek Grade
Winchester
Mr. Shuman
Kennedy
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillion
David Bell
Judge Approves Winchester School Integration Plan
U S District Judge Thomas J. Michie formally approved Winchester's plan to integrate elementary and high schools in Charlottesville. The plan divides the city into four zones with about 35 white students transferring to previously all Negro Douglas High, and requires annual integration of at least one grade in both levels.
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Winchester School Board
U.S. District Court
Thomas J. Michie
Charlottesville
J. Randolph Larrick
Garland Quarles
Douglas High
Quarles
Judge Michie
Larrick
Dr. Quarles
Winchester
Michie
Ben Bella Ousted by Guerrilla Revolt in Algeria
Guerrilla leaders forced Ahmed Ben Bella's political bureau from power in Algiers as unrest spreads. The bureau said it could not function amid the anarchy created by rebellious officers and postponed Sept. 2 elections meant to set Algeria on the path to self government.
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Algiers
Ahmed Ben Bella
Algeria
County Board Chief Vows Open Meetings for Frederick County
Frederick County Board of Supervisors chairman Byron C. Brumback states all future meetings will be open and not in executive session. He cites Attorney General Button’s ruling that such closed doors are unlawful and says the Aug. 13 session with State Highway Commission representatives was improper. Brumback insists the board will abide by the law and did not intend to break it.
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Byron C. Brumback
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Brumback
Atty
Gen. Button
State Highway Commission
Roads Department
Roads
Atty. Gen. Button
Atty Gen. Button
Board of Supervisors
U S Venus Shot Set for Tomorrow
American scientists prepare to launch Mariner 2 from Cape Canaveral to Venus in a three hour window after midnight aboard an Atlas Agena B rocket. The 447 pound payload aims for an 182 million mile voyage as NASA outlines a busy sequence of satellite flights through October and beyond.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Venus
NASA
Mercury
Walter M. Schirra
Telstar
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Radio Corp. of America
Tiros
Warren Board Seeks Opinion on Transporting Pupils to Mosby Academy
Warren County supervisors asked the attorney general for a ruling on whether public school buses may transport students to the private segregated John S. Mosby Academy. They also urged the school board to reconsider its decision not to transport rural district elementary pupils to Mosby. The board has long prohibited transporting students across districts.
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Front Royal
Warren County
Board of Supervisors
Atty
Robert Y. Button
Commonwealth
Mosby
E. T. Shiner
Cuba Blames U S For Sea Barrage On Havana Suburb
Castro charged the United States with orchestrating a sea barrage that damaged a western Havana suburb including a hotel housing East European technicians and a theater. Cuban Student Directorate in Miami claimed two vessels fired over 60 shots, most tracer rounds, and that the ships escaped unharmed. The Havana Hoy reported nine hotel rooms damaged and the attack lasted six to seven minutes.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Florida
Miramar
Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil
Miami
Hoy
Scar
Rosita de Hornedo
Cuban Friendship Institute
Chaplin
Sierra Leone Ambassador Speaks at Virginia EUB Conference
Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States Dr Richard E Kelso Caulker addressed the 163rd Virginia EUB Conference at Shenandoah College. He spoke on culture politics and economics before about 400 delegates. Missionaries Rev Lloyd Bowman and Rev Leslie Shirley participated in the service as Dr J Paul Gruver presided.
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Richard E. Kelso- Caulker
United States
Sierra Leone
Africa
Evangelical
United Brethren Missions
EUB
Virginia
Shenandoah College
Kelso Caulker
Lloyd Bowman
Leslie Shirley
Conference Board of Missions
J. Paul Gruver
Shooting Keeps Berlin on Alert
Wild shooting along Berlin's wall kept the city on edge as U S officials in Washington expressed cautious confidence that the peak of tension had passed. About 100 shots were fired from the Communist side at four points overnight near West Berlin with incidents including East German patrols firing at a man swimming the Landwehr Canal and the arrest of another man on the East side. Moscow papers criticized Western powers for not heeding Khrushchev's demilitarization plan for West Berlin.
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Berlin
U.S
Washington
West Berlin
East German People’s Army
Landwehr Canal
East Berlin
Moscow
Khrushchev
Pravda
Cuban Charges Are Rejected
Washington AP State Department spokesman denied Cuban charges of U S naval shelling of a Havana suburb. He said there was no U S involvement or knowledge and pledged to act if attacks originated from U S soil while Castro claims U S threats to invade Cuba and cites Soviet arms shipments.
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University Stadium
Washington
U.S. State Department
Pentagon
Miami
State Department
United States
Cuba
Havanna
Robert J. McCloskey
U.S
Fidel Castro
Castro
Martinsburg Teenagers Die In Rt 11 Crash
Two Martinsburg teens died and three other locals were injured in a head on collision on U S 11 south of Martinsburg. Roger Bailey and Jackie MacCauley, both 17, died from injuries. Driver Haliburton Allen 38 and passenger C B Mann 23 were also injured. MacCauley tried to pass a tractor trailer on a hill crest when the crash occurred.
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Martinsburg
W. Want
U. S. 11
Roger L. Bailey
City Hospital
Jackie MacCauley
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Richard J. Jacobs
MacCauley
Shah of Iran and Johnson Discuss U S Aid Cuts
In Tehran the Shah accepted a U S aid cut reducing Iran's armed forces by at least 15 percent. He proposed using U S Peace Corps volunteers on development projects. Johnson promised sympathetic, expeditious review of Iran loan applications amid no new commitments.
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Tehran
Iran
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S
U.S. Peace Corps
Johnson
Julius €. Holmes
Assadullah Alam
Abbas
United States
Free World
Cantaloupe Ad Promises Delicious Produce
Local notice advertises fruit quality from a farm company on Millwood Avenue and mentions Welltown Meth Co and Ham and Pr Chickeri in a brief business blurb.
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YARP
Welltown Meth, Co
Ham & Pr. Chickeri
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Warren Board
Lebanon Valley College
United Theological Seminary
Quincy
L. L. Huffman
Richard E. Kelso-Caulker
Howard L. Falk
Conference Board of Evangelism
J. Gordon Howard
Carl Hartan
Shah
LBJ
U. S
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