Tractors-for-Freedom Mission Reaches Cuba
The American mission to trade tractors for prisoners arrived in Havana and met mid level officials of Fidel Castro's government. The four member technical team aims to exchange 500 tractors for 1,200 captives, with hopes of swift agreement, while Castro travels to Oriente Province. Demonstrations at Miami International Airport failed to materialize.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Luis Crespo
Institute of Agrarian Reform
En Otero
Osvaldo Corticos
Havana Riviera
Castro
Oriente
Miami
U.S
Miami International
Douglas R. Voorhees
Cuba
Voorhees
Dade County
Voodees
Kennedy
Weather notes and local visits during Apple Blossom Festival
The Gown Crier reports a 92 degree high with high humidity and scattered thundershowers tonight. A cooler morning low of 68 followed, with last year’s top 80 and low 66. Tomorrow stays hot and humid with more possible storms amid a festival visit by Billy Walker and Jolin' Jim McCoy. Complete shipments of fans and air coolers promoted by Schowel Furniture Co.
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Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Billy Walker
Jolin
Jim McCoy
Mr. Walker
Nashby Pienne
Cana
Schowel Furniture Co
West Cork St
West Cork &T
State Department Employee Arrested for Spying
Irvin Chambers Scarbeck, a foreign service officer, was arrested in Washington on charges of passing classified information to Poland from January through May this year. FBI and Justice Department reported the case, with arraignment planned before U.S. Commissioner Sam Wertleb. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison or a $10,000 fine.
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Washington
Irvin Chambers Scarbeck
Poland
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Scarbeck
Bate Departmant
Brooklyn
N.Y
College of the City of New York
New York University
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
United States
Peoples Republic of Poland
Hoover
Warsaw
Justice Department
U.S
Sam Wertleb
Searbeck
State Department
San Francisco
Foreign Service
Strong pickup in May employment in autos and steel
The May Labor Department report shows a robust rise in working hours and nonfarm payrolls, with durable goods adding 150 000 jobs and overall manufacturing up. Factory weekly earnings rose to 92 66, while unemployment fell but remains higher than a year ago.
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Washington
Labor Department
Coe
Ray Larson
Council Won’t Receive Ordinance On Dogs Tonight
The City Council will not receive a dog ordinance at tonight’s meeting. The proposal remains in the Safety Committee. Committee chair H. W. Butler Jr. is out of town and unavailable.
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Council
B. M. Porrero
H. W. Butler, Jr
President asks overhaul of jobless pay program
President Kennedy proposed a broad expansion of unemployment compensation to raise benefits and payroll taxes. The plan envisions a long range overhaul with changes not taking effect for years, potentially 1968, and would extend 13 weeks of benefits and allow broader eligibility during recess.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
President Cancels Speech Engagement Over Back Ailment
President Kennedy cancels a downtown Washington luncheon address to speed his back recovery. White House aide Pierre Salinger says the decision is to allow the injury to improve and not to delay it. Kennedy may discard crutches in a few days, with Vice President Johnson ready to substitute at the U.S. Conference of Mayors event.
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Washington
AFP
Pierre Salinger
White House
Kennedy
House
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
Dem
Ocratic
Presgt
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rayburn
Johnson
Conference of Mayors
Salinger
Janet Travell
Senate approves 64 25 housing bill amid House fight risk
The Senate passed a 6.14 billion housing bill 64 to 25 with 52 Democrats and 12 Republicans backing. The House Rules Committee will meet Thursday to clear debate next week. Democrats hope the vote signals momentum despite anticipated House opposition on public housing and funding methods.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
House Rules Committee
Homer E. Capehart
Erneit
Clarke County High School graduation awards and bells donation
Clarke County High School held its graduation for the Class of 1961 with 76 seniors receiving diplomas. The class donated large bells from Boyce and Berryville Schools to be mounted on the grounds behind the building, presented by Bill Gosnell. Awards honored include Oberlin College scholarship to Lloyd Lee Loope Jr. and University of the South scholarship to Bill Gosness, with several other local scholarships and the Evening Star Leadership Award to Donald Brill. Dr Forrest Racey spoke, and Rev Frank Cayce delivered invocations and benedictions.
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Clarke County High School
Boyce
Berryville
Bill Gosnell
C. E. Miley
Lloyd Lee Loope, Jr
Oberlin College
Ohio
Bill Gosness
Forrest Racey
Shenandoah Colleg
Frank Q. Cayce
Christ Church
Millwood
Evening Star
Donald Brill
Winchester Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
Shirley Hough
Fred Sturm
Barbara Thompson
Tom Wood
Clarke County Raritan
Gussie White
John Gerken
Jesse Longerbeam
Lloyd Williams
William Boyce
Jane Anita Lasley
Fai
Lara Ayy
Freedom Riders Transferred to Mississippi Prison Farm
Hinds County will move jailed Freedom Riders to the 16 000 acre Parchman prison farm after overcrowding. Arrests began May 24 linked to SNCC action. 26 others have posted bond or paid fines. Barracks for 600 riders are being prepared at the state facility 150 miles northwest of Jackson.
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Jackson
Miss
Hinds County
J. R. Gilroy
Freedom Riders
Seindos
Nashville
Montgomery
Ala
Board of Supervisors
Parchman
Covington Found By Colleagues Leaves NSA Job
William H. Covington a 28 year old NSA clerk was located by colleagues at Delaware Park Race Track near Wilmington and resigned for personal reasons The Pentagon said he had access to limited classified material and was not under arrest His wife reported him missing last Wednesday He previously lived in Winchester and later was seen at Charles Town and Arlington race tracks Two NSA clerks fled to the Soviet Union last year Covington worked five years for the NSA and had been off work for months after an operation
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William H. Covington
National Security Agency
Pentagon
Washington
Winchester
Associated Press
Covington
Delaware Park
Wilmington
NSA
Charles Town
W. Va
Arlington
Bernon F. Mitchell
William H. Martin
Soviet Union
Moscow
Defense Department
Myrtle Covington
S. Braddock St
Jean Steele
Shenar Lea
Leggett’s Dept. Store
Frederick County Approves School Budget and Health District
The Frederick County Board approved a 447000 school budget for July to Sept 30 and a 29600 first quarter fiscal appropriation. It also adopted a 364011 Secondary Road Budget and formed Clarke Frederick Warren Health District to start July 1, with Dr L O Fears remaining director.
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Clarke - Frederick - Ha Warren
State Health Dept
Northwest
Virginia
Stephns City
Frederick County
Dinner-Redi Will Suspend Operations
Dinner-Redi Corp of the area will suspend operations this weekend after laying off about 150 workers five weeks ago. Only maintenance and office staff remained, and operations will halt indefinitely starting Sunday. The firm packages frozen foods and is owned by Lever Bros, with plans to improve products and possibly add a new line, though no reopening date was given.
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Redi Corp
Lever Bros
Mrad Sore
Trains Collide Near Esslingen. At Least 20 Dead
A head on collision between two trains at Esslingen near Stuttgart killed at least twenty people. Rescue teams and police reported many more injured as the wreckage was examined and confirmed in the early evening.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Esslingen
Ere
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