Weekend road toll in Virginia rises to six hundred twenty
The Virginia highway toll for the year climbs to 620 with 10 deaths over the past weekend. Included are two double fatality crashes. Victims include James Moyer and Jesse Hairston of Axton, a Richmond mother and her 2 month old daughter, Dessie Allan of Falls Church, and others in Wytheville Wythe County and Pound. Deaths also linked to a Sept. 24 U.S. 60 wreck and a U.S. 11 crash in Stephens City.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Henry County
James Thomas Moyer
Jesse James Hairston
Rt. 3
Bradford Curtis Stowers
Pulaski
U.S. 11
Wytheville
Falls Church
Dessie Allan
Hillsville
Wythe County
Teee
Richmond
U.S
Mantle
Paul Kenneth Smith
Strasburg
Winchester
Stephens City
Wise County
Oakley Collier
Pound
U.S. 23
Soviet Tests Exceed Safe Annual Fallout Limit Says Physicist
Washington AP physicist Ralph E. Lapp, who helped develop the atom bomb, says Soviet fallout tests exceed the safe annual limit. He notes the 19th Soviet explosion in their current series produced over 10 megatons and argues Russian tests raise radiation doses more than American Pacific tests, urging a lower limit near 3 megatons per year.
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Washington
Ralph E. Lapp
Soviet Union
Lapp
ABC
Atomic Energy Commission
Pacific
Arctic
Russia
Two Drown in Similar Atlantic Boating Accidents
Two men from Maryland and Virginia drown in near identical 16 foot boat accidents off Accomack County. Finney and Brown perished after their boats capsized in five foot Atlantic swells. Collier was rescued. Brown remains missing as dusk halted searches.
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Accomac (Ap
Maryland
Virginia
Coast Guard
Finley
John Boyd
Concord Wharf
Accomack County
Metomkin Inlet
Atlantic
Finney
Boyd
Metomkin Island
Cedar Island
New Inlet
Brown
Charles Collier
Salisbury
Collier
Rayburn Begins Experimental Cancer Drug Treatment
Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, has started injections of an experimental cancer drug called 5 Fluorouracil at Baylor University Medical Center. If tolerated, daily doses will continue for about two weeks. Doctors say the treatment may slow cancer spread, not cure it, with early signs on rest and appetite. Prominent visitors like Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Ralph Yarborough have stopped by, as a press room conducts twice daily news briefings.
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Dallas
Tex
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Ralph Tompsett
Baylor University Medical Center
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
G. LeRoy Collins
Florida
National Association of Broadcasters
UNC Students Die From Cyanide Poisoning in Dorm Room
Chapel Hill police probe two UNC students deaths listed as cyanide poisoning with autopsy confirming toxin. Investigators await analysis of two milkshake cups from the room shared by James Barham and William Johnson as they pursue possible murder, self harm pact, or dual action theories.
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Chapel Hill, N.C
W. D. Blake
University of North Carolina
James Michael Barham
Burlington
William Harrison Johnson Jr
Statesville
Blake
Barham
Johnson
Stiffer Penalties Proposed for Medical Fakers
Washington AP reports Milton Duffy chief of the California Bureau of Food and Drug inspections urged jail terms or stiff fines to curb medical quackery at a two day National Congress on Medical Quackery. About 500 medical men attended.
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Washington
Milton P. Duffy
California
Bureau of Food and Drug Inspections
National Congress
American Medical Association
The
Food and Drug Administration
Duffy
Harold E. Jeevey Jr
Federation of State Medical Boards
Frederick J. Stare
Boston
Thurber Remains Critical After Brain Surgery
Humorist James Thurber stayed on the critical list at Doctors Hospital with slight improvement reports. He had brain blood clot surgery after collapsing in his hotel room last Wednesday.
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New York
James Thurber
Doctors Hospital
Thurber
Postman Won’t Stop Walking in Sleep Divorce Sought
In Chicago a 36 year old letter carrier’s wife seeks divorce after he sleep walks nightly following his deliveries. She testified he rises, lights cigarettes and strikes at her when awakened. Judge Butler issued a restraining injunction to stop the walks. Physicians reportedly say no drug can halt the behavior.
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Chicago
Wis
Austead
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