Goodman Satisfied With Soviet Jazz Tour Success
Benny Goodman says his six week tour of the Soviet Union was a success despite internal band tensions and a pay delay. The tour reached Moscow Kiev Leningrad Sochi and Tashkent with about 180000 listeners. The U S Embassy and officials viewed it as a positive step in Soviet American cultural exchange.
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Benny Good
America
Goodman
Moscow
Sochi
Kiev
Leningrad
Tashkent
Communist Party
U.S
Eugene Staples
Kennedy urges schools to require more exercise nationwide
President Kennedy cites alarming statistics that one quarter of U S schoolchildren cannot pass a simple fitness test. He urges fall plans include vigorous daily exercise programs and notes some improvement in schools with organized physical education. The call is based on Bud Wilkinson led studies from several states and youth fitness surveys.
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Mass
Kennedy
Cape Cod
Bud Wilkinson
Oklahoma
Wilkinson
North Dakota
Missouri
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Youth Fitness Council
Markets Report Mixed Cattle Hogs and Stocks Slip
Baltimore price shows steers and heifers mostly steady with varied demand while Chicago hogs and cattle markets remain range bound. Stocks drift lower at noon with the Dow off about three points and the S and P index down slightly as trading slows.
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Chicago
USDA
Everal
New York
Motors
American Telephone
IBM
du Pont
Union Carbide
Allied Chemical
Liggett & Myers
Radio Corp
Trapped Fishermen Rescued After River Flood Event
Danville Lifesaving crew rescued three fishermen stuck on a rock in the Dan River after a water gate release at School Field Dam. Ricky High and his son aided others, while rescuers later found James Woods, 15, drowned in an irrigation pond near Yanceyville at 3:15 p.m. EDT.
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Dan River
Yancyville
N.C
Schoolfield Dam
Ricky High
Ricky Jr
James Widener
James Jr
Va Escapee Captured in Chicago After Larceny Attempt
Claude Elmer Rambo 40, of Davy West Virginia, identified as an escapee from the Virginia State Penitentiary, was arrested in Chicago after attempting to leave a novelty store with two baseball caps valued at one dollar each. He fled from a Prince William County road camp in May while serving a 10 year burglary sentence. Bond set at 10000 in Holiday Court.
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Chicago
Claude Elmer Rambo
Virginia
Rambo
Davy
W. Va
Prince William County
Firemen Gross $2,385 at Middletown Festival
Middletown Fire Co reports a gross of $2,385 for last week at the monthly meeting attended by 12 members. Members voted to join parades on July 27 at New Market and August 3 at Berryville. A gas motor and pulley for a kiddy ride will be purchased. Two new members Gaylon Miller and Robert Renner were welcomed.
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Middletown Fire Co
Fiemen
New Market
Berryville
Gaylon Miller
Robert Renner
Clarke 4-Hers Plan Big Picnic Wednesday Night
More than 100 Clarke county 4-H club members are expected to attend a cook-out Wednesday at 6 30 p m at the Horse Show Grounds in Berryville. Each of the six clubs will provide food and the All-Stars will run activities including a grand march candle light ceremony charades a scavenger hunt and group singing led by Miss Mary Helen Ramsburg.
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Berryville
Mary Helen Ramsburg
16 New Assistant Coaches Assigned Across NFL Clubs
The league plans to add 16 assistant coaches across 114 NFL clubs this season, expanding coaching staffs and support roles to bolster team operations and player development.
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National Football League
Call Sparks police after Alexandria double shooting
Six year old Clancy Cottman spoke to an operator as he saw his mother Beatrice wounded and father Clarence Cottman dead from a two shot incident in their Alexandria bedroom. Beatrice Cottman was hospitalized with a slug lodged near her head.
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Alexandria
Ely East
Nina Shaw
Cottman
Broker
Alexandria Hospital
Kennedy Returns to Washington From Cape Cod Visit
President John F. Kennedy flies back to Washington after a weekend at Cape Cod. Mrs. Kennedy and the children stay at the seaside summer White House through July as she plans to join him for a Brazil trip later.
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John F. Kennedy
Washington
Cape Cod
White House
Veteran Actor Edward G Robinson Feels Fine After Attack
London AP reports veteran actor Edward G Robinson arriving from Nairobi saying he is feeling fine after a recent heart attack suffered during filming Sally Goes South on Kilimanjaro. He appeared bearded, tanned, and fit and was assisted from the plane in a wheelchair.
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London
Edward G. Robinson
Nairobi
Kenya
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Robinson
U.S. Newspapers Use More Than Seven Million Tons Newsprint
The report notes U S newspapers consume over seven million tons of newsprint annually reflecting industry scale and material demand across the sector.
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U. S
Two Brush Fires Unchecked in Angeles National Forest
Two brush fires burn unchecked in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles. They are 40 miles apart with Acton fire covering 1800 acres and another north of Azusa at 700 acres. The larger fire lies 25 miles north of Los Angeles and the other about 20 miles east.
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Los Angeles
Angeles Na Forest
Acton
Azusa
Bronze cannons on Worcester Common cast from Macon bells
Two bronze cannons mounted on Worcester Common Massachusetts were cast in 1864 from church bells that had rung in Macon Georgia, linking the cities through a Civil War era act of repurposing metal.
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Worcester
Mass
Macon
Mt Etna Sends Vapor Streams High in the Air
Mt Etna in Sicily, Europe’s most active volcano, sent red vapor streams hundreds of feet into the air as the northeast crater rumbled with explosions at about two per minute. Lava flowed slowly down the slopes to about 1800 feet with no danger to nearby villages or farms.
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Mt. Etna
Catania
Sicily
Etna
Europe
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