Flag is raised over Trinidad and Tobago independence
In a midnight ceremony at Red House Port of Spain 35 000 gathered as Trinidad and Tobago became independent ending 165 years of British rule The prime minister Dr Eric Williams pledged a West of the Iron Curtain future with 830 000 citizens and 1 864 square miles joining 35 other nations including the United States Soviet Union and Cuba as observers
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad-Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Americas
West Indies
Red House
British Commonwealth
Caribbean Islands
United States
Soviet Union
Cuba
Eric Wilian
Farmers Market List From Clarence Fletcher
The Farmer's Cub Market will offer potatoes tomatoes beans squash peppers cured meat dressed chicken rabbits baked goods and flowers. It opens from 6 to 9 a m tomorrow morning at the corner of Kent and Boscawen Streets.
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Clarence Fletcher
Kent and
Boscawen Sts
Thunderstorms Hit Scattered Areas in East
The Associated Press reports rain and thunderstorms spread across scattered sections in the East while the West stayed mostly clear. A Gulf front clashed with cooler air from the Rockies as storms formed from northern Kansas to the western Great Lakes and Wyoming to New Mexico. Ida Grove Iowa saw over nine inches of rain in 12 hours, causing flooding. Pocahontas Iowa received nearly seven inches.
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Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Great Lakes
Wyoming
New Mexico
Midwest
Central Plains
Ida Grove
Pocahontas
Middle
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes Region
Ohio Valley
Maine
Atlantic Coast
Rescue Squad Reaches 5017 Calls in Service
The Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad passed 5000 calls with 5017 total since 1958. The 5000th call came last Saturday for a boy with a broken arm after a baseball incident, and 17 calls followed. Most calls are ordinary accidents or emergencies.
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Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad
Integration Quiet in Augusta and Shenandoah Counties
Quiet integration occurred yesterday as several Negro children began attendance at Manor Elementary in Augusta County and at Strasburg High and Central High in Shenandoah County. In Waynesboro the Chamber of Commerce approved Swing Your Partner Week for Oct 21 to 27 to promote couples dining out with events including concerts outdoor dinners and theater.
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Staunton
Augusta County
Allery Sate Manor
Strasburg
Shenandoah County
Strasburg High
Central High
Woodstock
Waynesboro
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Chamber of Commerce
Charles McClung
Mistrial Declared In Pittsburgh Firm Fraud Case
A mistrial was declared in the government's fraud case against the Virginia Erection Corp of Pittsburgh after court reporter tapes were garbled. Judge Thomas Michie called the transcript unusable, delaying proceedings with a new trial set for January 8 1963. The indictments name president John P Shields and foremen Blaine E McGinnity and Arthur Houston over alleged Arsenal job irregularities.
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Roanoke
Pittsburgh
Virginia Erection Corp
Pain Radford Arsenal
Thomas Michie
Michie
John P. Shields
Blaine E. McGinnity
Arthur Houston
Front Royal drive sets community chest at 26000
The Front Royal Warren County community chest goal is 26000 dollars, about 11 percent above last year. Rev. Gordon F. Zirkle chairs the budget committee, Staige F. Miller is president, with co chairs Col. Edward V. Macatee and Wallace B. Thomason.
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Front Royal
Warren County
Gordon F. Zirkle
Staige F. Miller
Col
Edward V. Macatee
Wallace B. Thomason
Fishing ends at Waterlick Hatchery after Labor Day
The Virginia Fish Cultural Station says the hatchery will close after Labor Day ending public fishing for the season. Anglers may fish 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Labor Day and the hatchery will reopen for public fishing in May with an exact date to be announced.
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Waterlick
Virginia Fish Cultural Station
Warren County Education Foundation to run private buses
Mrs. Frank Barrett announced that John S. Mosby Academy will transport all high school and elementary students on its own private buses. The Warren County Educational Foundation sought county funding, but the board of supervisors said county policy forbids covering the costs.
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Front Royal
Frank Barrett
Warren County Educational Foundation
John S. Mosby Academy
Board of Supervisors
Enrollment Figures for Woodstock Shenandoah Schools
Woodstock Shenandoah County reports 4852 pupils with 3096 in elementary and 1756 in high school. Superintendent W W Robinson notes enrollment may reach 4900. Central High Woodstock houses 669 high school students and Strasburg Elementary leads with 697 pupils.
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Woodstock
Shenandoah County
W. W. Robinson
Savannah Destroyer Near Collision With Nuclear Ship
The nuclear merchant ship Savannah narrowly avoided a collision with the Navy destroyer Stickell in the Chesapeake Bay area near a bridge tunnel construction. Stickell reportedly backed away after signaling emergency. The Savannah, carrying 24 passengers, docked for ballast and plans a Seattle Worlds Fair visit in September.
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Norfolk AP
Savannah
Stickell
Navy
Gaston R. DeGroote
Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Army Terminal
Norfolk
Seattle
Wash
Cannons Presented at Manassas Centenary Ceremony
Two brass cannons and carriages were presented to the National Park Service in Manassas to mark the centennial of the Second Battle of Manassas. The Wisconsin Civil War Commission honored Campbell's Battery of Gibbons Iron Brigade, with a gun crew from the North South Skirmish Association firing the cannons three times.
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Manassas
National Park Service
Wisconsin Civil War Commission
Campbell
Gibbons Iron Brigade
North South Skirmish Association
Boston's 5th strangulation murder probes by police
Boston police list Jane Sullivan 67 as homicide by strangulation in Dorchester, the fifth in two months. Her body was found by nephew Dennis Mahoney, decomposed and face down in a partly filled bath, with ransacked apartment and no clear struggle. Authorities tie four prior cases to a killer targeting women living alone in area flats.
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Boston
Jane Sullivan
Dorchester
Dennis Mahoney
George W. Curtis
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