Propane Gas Truck Explodes On Highway Tragedy Strikes Schuylkill Haven
A propane gas truck exploded on a heavily traveled highway near Schuylkill Haven Pennsylvania killing at least 11 people. Eyewitnesses described flames shooting across the road as debris and body parts were scattered for yards. State police identified driver Joe Wharton and noted the truck carried 7000 gallons of propane under pressure.
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Schuylkill Haven
Pennsylvania
Melvin Clouser
Earl Klinger
Burgess H.B. Shhoener
Orwigsburg
Philadelphia
Shhoener
Klinger
Sungas Products Co
Pennsylvania, Inc
Joe Wharton
Peckville
Scranton
Ron Kramer
Vincent Ney
Pottsville Republican
Clarke Budget to Go on a Monthly Basis
Clarke County board adopts 30 day appropriation for next year in a six hour meeting with no public attendance. The tax levy remains 2.65 per 100 and school officials push for security of funds and a unit levy to simplify budgeting.
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Berryville
County Board of Supervisors
George W. Burton
Burton
A. Garland Williams
Hobson McGehee
Edward B. Lee
Mr. Lee
Williams
Clarke County
Lee
Home From School Column Opens Tomorrow
The social page invites area youths who have returned from school to call or have their parents call to enter names in the Home-From-School column. A service station oil can spout was reported missing and turned up as a collector’s find after a gas stop. Weather notes report 2.5 inches of rain in Berryville and 1.16 inches at the mercy experiment station with more rain forecast. Three Ohio cars and a New York car followed a left-turning leader through the Cameron Gerrard Street intersection as traffic rules allowed.
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Pucci
Frank Toohey
Pottsville
Vince Ney
Star Office
W. N. Rutherford, Sr
Berryville
FagPlearmercy Experiment Station
Ohio
New York
Cameron and
Gerrard St
Gerrard
Cameron
Macmillan Denies Talk of Replacing Lloyd in UK
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons he hopes to work with Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd for a long time. He denied any inspired statements about Lloyd's replacement and said he and Lloyd intend to continue their work together. A London Times report had suggested Lloyd might soon be moved, prompting Macmillan to reassure the Geneva talks and British government confidence.
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London
Harold Macmillan
House of Commons
Selwyn Lloyd
Macmillan
Shinwell
Lloyd
London Times
Geneva
Britain
the Times
Foreign Office
Bean Speaker At Sixth of June Ceremony Here
Ralph J. Bean of Moorefield West Virginia State Senator from the 16th District will be speaker at the annual Sixth of June exercises Saturday at 11 a.m. in Stonewall Cemetery. The program by Turner Ashby Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy opens with music by the Reuss Drum and Bugle Corps. The invocation and benediction are by Rev. Carl Hiser. State Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr will introduce the speaker.
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Ralph J. Bean
Moorefield
West Virginia
Stonewall Cemetery
Turner Ashby
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Reuss
Carl Hiser
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
Harry F. Byrd
Bean
Hardy County
Potomac State College
June Stays Wet After Warmest May in Six Years
Weather notes show June remained wet with showers and reported rainfall totals. May posted its warmest month in six years at 1.12 inches for a single day and 12.19 inches for 1959 so far in Winchester area. A May 19 wind and rain storm likely boosted totals north of the city.
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Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Winchester
Space Monkey Able Dies Under Surgery
Able, a seven pound Rhesus monkey aboard a Jupiter rocket space flight, died at Ft. Knox during removal of a recording electrode after the mission. The Army said the death was due to rapid convulsive heart action under anesthesia and not related to the flight. The body was sent to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology for study. Baker the other monkey survived.
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Washington
Able
Army
Army Medical Research Laboratory
Ft. Knox
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Baker
Two Sailors Die In Paris Mountain Car Crash
Two sailors aboard the USS Newport News were killed when their car left the road on Paris Mountain and overturned. The incident near Clarke County added to the 1959 highway toll as three other occupants were injured.
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Paris
Clarke County
Friendship
Florida
Rt. 50
Roger Swain Goss
School St
Belleville
Garden City
Mich
t . _Melvin
F. Hamman
Albert C. Usher
Memorial Hospital
Newport News
Norfolk
Goss
Edmund Horgan
John H. Enders
Berryville
Omps
Winchester
Beleville
Naval Base
Quincy
Ill
Click
D. A. Sheetz
G. T. Griffith, Jr
C. D. Taylor
H. K. Malbon
Ambu
West Berlin Powderkeg says East German spokesman at Geneva
At the Geneva conference East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz calls West Berlin a powderkeg capable of igniting a world atomic conflagration. He accuses Western powers of subversion and espionage in the city as part of the cold war, while Gromyko presses for a full conference session and a Minsk style settlement.
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Geneva
West Berlin
Lothar Bolz
Wilhelm Grewe
West Germany
Palace of Nations
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
East Germany
Berlin
Bolz
Soviet Union
Gromyko
Herter
East Berlin
United States
RIAS
Radio
Secre
Seven Virginia Polio Cases All Paralytic
All seven polio cases reported in Virginia this year are paralytic. The latest victim is a 6 year old girl from Russell County who had received no Salk vaccine inoculations. By this time last year four paralytic polio cases had been reported in the state.
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Richmond
Virginia
Russell County
Quarles Seeks Relief From Pageant After 30 Years
The Star notes Dr. Garland R. Quarles has led the Pageant of Springtime during the Apple Blossom Festival for thirty years and now asks to be relieved. A review on page 4 outlines factors behind the pageant's success and longevity.
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Garland R. Quarles
The
Star
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