Law Specialist Sees U2 Flight Upheld by Court
Charles S. Rhyne, former ABA president, told the American Law Student Assn. that an impartial court would justify the U2 overflight as defensive. He argued the flight is not an aggressive act under the UN Charter amid Powers’s Soviet espionage conviction in a Soviet court.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Charles S. Rhyne
The
American Bar Assn
ABA
Assn
Russia
Rhyne
Broadcasting Bill Sent To President
A U S House approval on a broadcasting reform bill to curb payola and quiz show rigging passed by voice vote and was sent to President Eisenhower. The article notes accompanying social notices about local family gatherings and visits in West Virginia and Virginia.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Hamden Police Seek Stolen 600-Pound Fireplace
Hamden police hunt a thief who took a 600 pound fireplace from a neighborhood yard between midnight and 7 30 am. A number of deck chairs were also reported missing in the same incident.
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Hamden
ABA urged to study communism in all secondary schools
Washington AP A simmering proposal from Powell of Richmond asks the American Bar Association to endorse adding a course on communism to every secondary school curriculum. The plan seeks to contrast freedom and capitalism with dictatorship and repression, beyond the committee's assembly speaker idea.
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Washington
American Bar Ass
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Richmond
ABA
Powell
House of Delegates
Six Die In Head-On Crash On Busy New Jersey Highway
A Monday head-on collision on a busy highway in Berlin New Jersey killed six people and injured two. Victims include Lorraine Zimmerman 31 and Rita Sklaroff 33 mothers from Cheltenham Philadelphia and their children Andrew eight Sharon two and Eileen two along with Cataldo Scarantino 61 of Waterford sole occupant of the other car. The article notes 1 439 life insurance companies in the United States as of June 30 1960, up 28 from the previous year.
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Berlin
N.J
Cheltenham
Philadelphia
Lorraine Zimmerman
Rita Sklaroff
United States
Bus Firm Is Sold to Trailways Affiliates
The Tennessee Coach Co., operating 1100 miles across four states, was sold for 2.4 million dollars to Continental Tennessee Lines Inc., Virginia Stage Lines Inc., and Smoky Mountain Stages Inc., affiliates of Trailways. The deal, involving 3000 shares held by 24 stockholders, awaits Interstate Commerce Commission approval. Existing Tennessee Coach personnel and name will remain.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Coach Co
Tennessee Coach
James E. Burke
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Continental Tennessee Lines Inc
Virginia Stage Lines Inc
Smoky Mountain Stages Inc
Trailways System
Knoxville
Roanoke
Bluefield
W. Va
Nashville
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Burke
Famed Airman Taffy Jones Dies After Ladder Fall
Swansea Wales reports that Ira Taffy Jones a famed World War I airman with 40 victories and 28 crashes survived died in hospital from injuries from a ladder fall at his home six weeks earlier. Jones was 65 and had been celebrated for his wartime feats.
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Swansea
Wales
Ira
Taffy) Jones
Legion Carnival Grosses $900
The annual fund raising carnival by Conrad Hoover Post 21 American Legion last week grossed 900 for legion projects. Net proceeds go to the Junior League Baseball Team and a student nurse scholarship. Kenneth Kremer of 16 W Pall Mall St won the grand prize hi fi stereo. The next meeting moved to Sept 8 with 7th District Commander Chest Foster of Woodstock as guest speaker.
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Conrad Hoover
American Legion
Legion
Kenneth Kremer
W. Pall Mall St
Chest Foster
Woodstock
GOP Leaders See Session Aiding Nixon
Senate nominee gains from summer session claims by Dirksen and Halleck after White House talks. Dirksen targets Kennedy for lacking leadership on a farm bill as Congress nears adjournment. Halleck notes Democrats hold near two to one majority and questions the size of the majority needed to govern. In Des Moines a street sign mentions patients of Dr Gustafson and his meat-market brother Emery Gustafson.
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Washington
Congress
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Eier
Dirksen
John F. Ken
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Cannon
White House
Halleck
Des Moines
Iowa
Walter
Gustafson
John P. Gustafson
Emery Gustafson
Governor Almond Urges Caution for Labor Day Travel
Richmond AP Gov J Lindsay Almond Jr calls Virginians to drive and walk with strict observance of the Golden Rule to keep Labor Day weekend free of highway deaths. He notes fourteen people died on Virginia highways last Labor Day, urging safer travel.
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Richmond
J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Mrs Mast Joins Stonewall School Staff
Mrs Mast Teaches at Stonewall as a replacement for Geraldine Osborne who returned home ill. She is the wife of Rev Jacob Mast, pastor at Braddock Street Methodist Church, and has previously taught elementary classes in Page County and Portsmouth under Frederick County Schools.
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Judy Boyd
Susan Boyd
Jordon
Bel Air
Inlaw
James Jordon
George Suanson
John Lowe
Rey Bly
Galax
Mt. Airy
N. C
Gertie Long Mast
Jacob Mast
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Stonewall School
Robert E. Ayler
Frederick County
Mast
Geraldine Osborne
Independence
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Mamie Funk
Strasburg
Bessie Boyd
Iva Boyd
Winchester
Ross Boyd
Charles
Susan
Allen
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Johnny
Jesse Matheney
Gary
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Diane Rose Finchman
M. F. Unger
Berryville
Charles and
Allen Boyd
Arrost
Lee Messick
Barbara Ann Funk
Cora Hershman
Kennysville
Jimmy Boyd
Jeanette Harley
Massie
Senseng Park
Charlie Herbaugh
Lester Burkhart
Bessie Newhouse
Moorefield
Kathy Lauck
Stephenson
Alfred Rinker
Middle Road
James Williams
Arlington
Loyd Womldorph
Leesburg
Colon Lowe
Will Branner
Robert Branner
Dexie
Debbie
Mr. Branner
RCA Victor
RADIO
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Anderson Electrical Company, Inc
N. Braddock St
Legion Carnival
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Nixon
Almond
Stonewall
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