Brewster Found Guilty on 31 Counts in Contempt Case
U S District Judge John J Sirica convicts Frank W Brewster 60 vice president of the Teamsters Union on all 31 counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to produce records and answer Senate Investigations subcommittee questions. Brewster waived a jury trial and remained free on bond while awaiting sentencing.
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Washington
Frank W. Brewster
Teamsters Union
U. S
West Coast
Sirica
Brewster
Congress
Supreme Court
Five Trapped In Coal Mine near Fernwood Powhatan No. 2
Five miners were trapped when a hillside slope mine collapsed at Powhatan No. 2 in Fernwood, Steubenville area. The 75 foot fall left escapees reporting lights burning on caps and air in the mine as crews drill with an auger to reach the trapped men. Identified are Fred Sabol Harrisonville Hank Horvath Tiltonsville Kenny Hamilton Adena Joseph Supinski and Martin.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Powhatan No
Fernwood
Here
Fred Sabol
Harrisonville
Hank Horvath
Tiltonsville
Kenny Hamilton
Adena
Joseph Supinski
Martin
Floyd Pennhardt
Cadiz
Charles Herron
Hopedale
Don Davis
Local History: Winchester Society Promotes Home Woolen Goods
Depicts the Winchester and Frederick communities forming a society to encourage domestic manufactures after Embargo and Non-Intercourse Acts. 1811 president Philip Nelson, secretary Lawrence Augustine Washington. premiums offered for home produced woolen goods. 1813 third annual meeting at Friendly Grove factory with Mary Dorcas Wood awarded for cotton cloth.
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Winchester
United States
Congress
Jefferson
Madison
Frederick
Philip Nelson
Clarke County
Gov. Nelson
Lawrence Augustine Washington
Col
Samuel Washington
Mary Dorcas Wood
Hawthorn
Glen Burnie
Friendly Grove
Joseph C. Baldwin
Edward McGuire
Percy D Miller Water Plant Dedication Near Winchester
The Percy D Miller Water Treatment Plant near Middletown is formally dedicated after a nine year effort. State Senator H F Byrd Jr lauds Miller as a fine citizen and leader in the city’s water system development. The ceremony drew city officials, engineers from Alexander Potter Associates and Water Control Board chair E Blackburn Moore, with remarks tracing Winchester’s long publicly owned water history from wells and springs to modern pipelines and a near billion gallon annual use.
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Percy D. Miller
Middletown
Miller
Common Council
Yburn Moore
State Water Control Board
M. H. Klegerman
Alexander Potter Associates
New York City
Carlson
Rothman
Klegerman
Winchester
Exchange Club
Byrd
Chamberlin
United States
Fort Loudoun
Apple
Chou En-lais Speech Praises Communist Bloc Unity
Premier Chou En-lai told the Hong Kong parliament the Communist bloc is stronger and more united after the Hungarian revolt. He warned the United States leads war preparations, but said world peace remains broadly favorable. He cited Japanese anti US occupation, neutrality trends in US controlled states, and Formosa missile moves as peace factors. He credited Soviet proposals on arms reduction and bases withdrawal and praised regional anti colonial gains.
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Hong Kong
Chou En-lai
Red China
Communist Bloc
United States
Chou
Peiping
Mao Tze-tung
Red
Formosa
America
Middle
Near East
North Africa
World
Russia
Soviet Union
Middle East
India
Burma
Ceylon
Egypt
Syria
Neighbor Boy 15 Arrested After 10YearOld Girl Found
In Kansas City a 10 year old girl Shirley Kyle was found dead near her home after a nightlong search. A 15 year old neighbor boy, Salvatore Falbo, with a history of sex offenses, was arrested following an intensive manhunt.
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Kansas City
Shirley the Kyle
Salvatore Joseph Falbo
Shirley
Robert J. Kyle
John Pitts
Carol Clark
Carol
Falbo
Kyle
Columbus
Ind
Carter Wing
Israeli Border Villages Guarded Amid Border Fears
Reinforcements manned trenches around Gadot and Mishmar Hayarden as Syria reportedly moved troops to the frontier. Families hid children in bunkers after a half hour shooting exchange. U N observers arrived in Gadot to probe the killing of a woman settler amid machine gun fire from the Syrian shore.
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Tiberias
Israel
Gadot
Mishmar Hayarden
U.N
Jordan
Nixon Maintains Midwest GOP Support For 1960 Bid
Vice President Nixon drew solid support from Midwest Republicans at a governors conference in Williamsburg. Governors debated Eisenhower’s plan for a task force to study shifting some federal programs to the states. Knight and Knowland appeared positioned for the 1960 race, while some governors signaled cautious approval of the study and possible tax shifts.
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Williamsburg
Nixon
Eisenhower
Goodwin J. Knight
William Knowland
California
Senate
Knight
Knowland
Republican Party Organization
GOP
Willam G. Stratton
Ilinois
Harold. Handley
Indiana
Joe Foss
South Dakota
Washington
Yard and community notices publish weekend events
Yard party at Welltown Methodist Church on Wednesday July 10 at 5 p m. Yard party at Centenary Reformed Church Friday night at 5 p m in the E Cork Street parking lot. Capon Bridge Ruritan hosts ham and chicken dinner June 29 at 5 p m at Capon Bridge School. Handley Council No 634 U C T holds a meeting at Lions Shelter City Park June 28 with stag picnic and initiation to follow on June 29 starting 6 p m.
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Welltown Methodist Church
Centenary Reformed Church
E. Cork St
Capon Bridge
Handley Council No
Lions Shelter
City Park
J. R. Brandon
E T Weir Dies Founder of National Steel Passes Away in Philadelphia
E T Weir one of America's great steelmasters died at 2 15 am in a Philadelphia hospital after a heart attack. He founded National Steel Corp and led it to become a top producer through bold moves including merging Weirton Steel with Iron and Coal concerns and contracting with Ford. He survived by his widow and several children with funeral plans pending.
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Philadelphia
E. T. Weir
America
Weir
National Steel Corp
Pittsburg
National Steel Board of Directors
National Steel
Pittsburgh
Secretary of the Treasury
George Humphrey
Humphrey
Mary Hayward Weir
David Manson
Henry Kline Wier
Napa
Calif
Ernest Tener Weir Jr
Evans
Detroit
Henry Ford
National
The
Oliver
Eisenhower Pushes for Soviet Suspension Pact Despite Clean Bomb Talk
President Eisenhower said scientific advances could yield a truly clean bomb in four to five years but he still hopes for a U S Soviet suspension pact. He described administration debates on disarmament steps including halted production of new fissionable material and limited aerial inspections.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
senanAim
United States
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
White House
University of California
Ernest C. Lawrence
Mark M. Mills
Edward Teller
Teller
Dulles
Hoffa Tried To Pay Lawyer And Publicist For Inside Info
Witness John Dye Cheasty testified Hoffa sought payments to his lawyer publicist and a plan to obtain inside Senate Rackets Committee material. Cheasty said Hoffa offered 18000 to hire him as a staff investigator and to report on Edward Cheyfitz Robert Kennedy and other figures, with Hoffa arranging cover on the committee’s inner workings.
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Washington
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
John Dye Cheasty
Brooklyn
Hayman I. Fischbach
Miami
Cheasty
Senate
Teamsters Union
Fischbach
Detroit
Senate Committee
Edward Cheyfitz
Cheyfitz
Edward Bennett Williams
Dave Beck
Bob Kennedy
Ed Williams
House
Robert F. Kennedy
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Capitol Hill
New York
Senate Rackets Committee
Kennedy
Sen. McClellan
Committee
FBI
Hurricane Audrey Threatens Texas and Louisiana Coasts
Churning winds of the season's first hurricane moved toward the Louisiana and Texas coasts. The Weather Bureau placed the center about 350 miles south of Lake Charles and estimated sustained winds near 100 miles per hour as Audrey knits northward, veering to north-northeast tonight.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Weather Bureau
Audrey
Lake Charles
U S Disarmament Position Explained by Analyst
In London a disarmament conference leaves the United States position confusing. James Marlow, a news analyst, untangles the sequence and explains what is happening on today’s editorial page.
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United States
London
James Marlow
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Everard K. Meade
Norfolk Naval Supply Depot
H. F. Byrd, Jr
U.S
Montmorency Cherries
L. O. Dick Estate
Clearbrook
Midwest
Boyd
E.T. Weir
Stuart C. Hamilton
Yosemite Valley
Young Hamilton
Charles and
Sandra Hamilton
San Bruno
Papa
Associated Press
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