Tornado Toll Rises In Oklahoma and Arkansas Tolling Families
A ten second tornado slammed Reichert and Howe Oklahoma injuring and killing multiple family members during a reunion. The storm, the area’s worst in days, damaged hundreds of homes and disrupted nearby Wilburton and Lake Hamilton as rescuers and relatives searched amid driving rain.
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Reichert
Howe
Winding Stair Mountain
Charles Lewallen
Oklahoma
Wilburton
Arkansas
Dover
Lake Hamilton
Lewallen
Inlaw
Wally Lloyd
Jack Brown
Weather and time clues from local notes mix in chatter
A reader asks about daylight saving time history in Winchester. A wrecking incident shows a tow with a car involved, observed by Ernie Nesselrodt. The weatherman forecasts mostly cloudy skies with showers tomorrow, plus wind and rising temperatures.
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Winchester
Khrushchev urges U S Cuba talks to settle differences
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told Erevan listeners that the United States should open negotiations with Cuba on a live and let live basis. He criticized U S intervention and urged a proper conclusion by American leaders while noting Cuba’s desire to normalize relations. He also commented on Laos and UN reforms.
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Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Cuba
Moscow Radio
Erevan
Khrushchev
U. S
America
Laos
Laos Cease Fire Commission Deploys For Talks
The International Control Commission plans to leave for Laos to supervise the cease fire and aid negotiations. India, Poland, and Canada lead the mission, with troops to be sent if planes can be found. Rebels meet in Hin Heup but fail to set a site for permanent talks.
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New Delhi
India
International Control Commission
Laos
Southeast Asia
Commission
Pathet Lao
Hin Heup
Control Commission
Poland
Canada
Britain
Soviet Union
Indian Foreign Sea
Samar Sen
Jaha
Shepard Returns Home After Mercury Flight
The astronaut Peter Shepard in excellent health and high spirits spoke at a hospital home here. He described the flight, praised the Grand Bahama Island support, and expected interviews with engineers and psychiatrists as fellow astronauts Grissom Slayton Carpenter Schirra Cooper Glenn arrived to hear his experiences and discuss future space missions.
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Ogg
Shepard
Project Mercury
George Ruff
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Voas
Charles Jackson
Phillip Cox
Mercury
John Powers
Grand Bahama Island
Virgil I. Grissom
Grissom
Donald Slayton
Scott Carpenter
Walter Schirra
Leroy Cooper
John Glenn
William K. Douglas
Douglas
Yuri Gagarin
Space
Grand Bahama
Washington
Kennedy
Kennedy vows vigorous civil rights enforcement at Georgia address
U S attorney general Robert F. Kennedy told a Deep South crowd at the University of Georgia Law School that civil rights laws will be enforced vigorously. He asserted the administration will not threaten but will prosecute and will apply statutes without regional bias as part of his first major tenure address.
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Athens
U.S
Robert F. Kennedy
University of Georgia Law School
Kennedy
Divergent Views Shape Virginia Governor Race
Charlottesville speech by A E S Stephens contrasts with Harrison Jr in Richmond. Harrison pledges to maintain sound government and attract new industry, while Stephens Boothe push for higher state spending and new revenue sources. Opponents Mills Godwin Jr and Robert Button rally behind Harrison.
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Charlottesville
A. E. S. Stephens
Albertis
Harrison, Jr
Richmond
Harrison
Virginia
Godwin
Kennedy Seeks Inter American Action in Cuba
President Kennedy shifts from invasion training to seeking multilateral action with American republics to counter Communist influence in the hemisphere. He considers attending an Inter American Economic and Social Council meeting set for July 15 to advance the alliance for progress through OAS efforts.
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Washington
Kennedy
U. S
Cuba
Peru
James Loeb
White House
United States
Uruguay
Alliance For Progress
Organization of American States
Arkansas Seceded as Congress Passed War Act Questioned
A 100 years ago today report notes Arkansas seceded from the Confederacy as Congress passed acts marking the start of hostilities between the United States and the Confederate States.
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Arkansas
Congress
United States
Confederate States
Frederick County Air Traffic Death Details Fourth Fatality This Year
Mrs. Leah Kelsey aged 71 of Erie Pennsylvania died at Memorial Hospital after injuries from an April 19 crash on Route 522 near the Opequon Bridge four miles south of Winchester. She was a passenger in a 1955 Plymouth driven by Mabel Bromley 82 of Erie who survived. The crash caused a steel girder to pierce the car as it hit a bridge abutment. State trooper L A Estep reported the earlier incident. The driver and other details are being investigated.
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Leah Kelsey
Erie
Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
Thomas Dodson
Mabel
Bromley
Kelsey
Port
Huron, Mich
Melvin A
Martha Dee Budd
Jame Kelsey
Shepard Receives Hero's Welcome After Space Flight
John Barbour reports from Cape Canaveral on Alan Shepard earning a hero's welcome despite Soviet dismissiveness. The Derry, New Hampshire native faces celebrations at home and ticker tape parades rumored in New York and Los Angeles as he prepares for future space missions.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Shepard
Grand Bahama Island
New York City
Los Angeles
U. S
Tass
Gagarin
Vostok
Soviet Union
Derry
N. H
Atlantic
Florida
Alan B. Shepard
Pauline
Spacetown
Washington
Louise
Virginia Beach
Mrs. Shepard
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Doc Dean
Ernie ‘Nesselrodt
Nikita
Dag Hammarskjold
Job Khrushchev
United Nations Organization
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S. L. Lee
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