President Kennedy Visited Ailing Speaker Rayburn
President Kennedy flew 3000 miles for a 14 minute visit with 79 year old Sam Rayburn at Baylor Medical Center amid Rayburns cancer diagnosis. Rayburn told aides the leaders discussed politics and world events while the President praised his vitality.
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Dallas
Tex
Ling Sam Rayburn
Sen Raytorn
Bee Seid
United States
Kennedy
Washington
Newport
R.C
John Holton
Holton
Rayburn
Pierre Salinger
Caert
Love Field
Baylor University Medical Center
Ralph Tompsett
Baylor
Sam Rayburn
Down Crier notes hunting success and garden bloom
The item reports Melvin Nail of Hayfield killed an 18 pound bobcat with a shotgun on the east side of North Mountain. It also mentions a Washington couple with a 10 3 inch tall orchid edged yellow dahlia in their yard showing three blossoms and several buds.
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Melvin Nail
Hayfield
North Mountain
Washington
Austin Thompson
34Th Street
N. W
Ruth Powell
Clarke Negro Couple Shot to Death in Millwood
Two Millwood residents Ola Florine Jackson and Robert Nelson William were found shot dead yesterday evening near the river on the Ferry bridge east of Millwood. Jackson died en route to Winchester Memorial Hospital. William was found dead on the ground. Police and state troopers investigated a possible murder suicide as autopsies were not scheduled. Jackson survived by several relatives. funeral set for Shiloh Baptist Church Millwood with burial at Living Charity Cemetery. William’s funeral arrangements were incomplete with his body at Enders Funeral Home Berryville.
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Millwood
John Emerick
Ola Florine Jackson
Robert Nelson William
Ry 8
Winchester
Rial Hospital
William
L. M. Bauserman
Bismark Walker
M. H. Moore
Ola Florien Jackson
Willie Barber
Kevin Dennis
Denise Angela
William Douglas Jackson
Mamie Jackson
Florence White
Washington,d. C
Shiloh Baptist Church
Bilbert L. Branch
Living Charity
Cembe Cartwright Funer
Enders Funeral Home
Berryville
Portrait and Rail Crossing Plans Approved by Frederick County Board
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors approved a permit for W. S. Frey Co. to construct an access rail line across Brucetown Road Rt. 672 after a highway department review. The board also accepted an oil painting of Judge Richard Parker, to hang in the Frederick County Court, and authorized nameplates for courthouse pictures. They passed resolutions on plaza use, subdivision study, and final plots in Shawnee Land.
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Brucetown Road
W. S. Frey Co
Clearbrook
Frederick County
F. M. Reeder
Newbury
Elizabeth
Stoddart Reeder
Baltimore& Ohio Railroad
Stephenson
Commonwealth
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Planning Commission
Back Creek
Gainesboro
Berserk Worker Kills Four Before He Is Shot Down
Arch ie Davis a 29 year old Gary steel worker opened fire during a job reprimand at U.S. Steel Co. sheet and tin mill killing four and wounding four others before a plant guard fatally shot him. The victims named include Joe Guydon Donald Moran Royal Butt Neal Wolfrath. The rampage spanned multiple mill buildings as Davis fired after being confronted for loafing.
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Gary
Ind
Archie Davis
U.S. Steel Co
Joe Guydon
Donald Moran
Royal’ Butt
Neal Wolfrath
Lous Massa
Venagya
Ben Prost
Gerald Myers
David Shaefer
Guydon
Davis
Massa
Moran
Proft
Myers
Wolfrath
Rutt
Ruft
Chester Merida
Davis Lim
Middletown Adopts EST For 1962
Middletown Town Council voted unanimously to observe standard time next year ending confusion from this summer when the county used standard time and towns used daylight saving. Mayor Gene T. Dicks directed town clerk Esther Kline to inform Rep Burr P. Harrison Rep E Blackburn Moore Sen Harry F Byrd Frederick County Supervisors Winchester City Council and the Retail Merchants Association.
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Middletown
Thelma Bowman
Gene T. Dicks
Esther Kline
Burr P. Harrison
E. Blackburn Moore
Harry F. Byrd
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Winchester City Council
Local
Retail Merchants Association
Man Admits Entry Here Last Night
A Boston man admitted breaking into the Twin Diner in Indiana Alley last night and stealing cigarettes. James Clyde Walsh, 22, told Hagerstown police he was selling cigarettes and waiving extradition to be sent for arraignment.
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Boston
Hagerstown
Indiana Alley
Winchester
James Clyde Walsh
J. Thomas Boyd
Soviet defector Golub sought asylum researching fallout effects
A Soviet chemist Alexei Golub defected in Amsterdam after a clash at the airport when Soviet Ambassador Ponomarenko and police confronted him and his wife. He says he researched removing strontium from bone marrow to mitigate nuclear fallout while his superiors barred the work. The incident sparked calls for the ambassador to be expelled.
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The
Netherlands
Alexei Golub
Panteleimon K. Ponomarenko
Moscow
Ponomarenko
Golub
J. G. de Zaaijer
Soviet Union
de Zaaijer
Khrushchev Offered Presidency by Baldheaded Societies
Soviet Premier Khrushchev has been offered the honorary presidency of the World Association of Baldheaded Societies, according to the president of the French Brotherhood of the Bald at a national convention in Orleans.
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Orleans
France
Khrushchev
World Association of
Wage-Salary Employment At New High
The Labor Department reports wage and salary workers reached 53,900,000 in September, the highest month on record. Total employment fell about 1.5 million from August to around 67,000,000 due mainly to students returning to school. Unemployment dropped to 4.1 million as seasonal factors accounted for most of the decline.
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Washington
United States
Labor Department
Secretary of Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg
Seymour Wolfbein
Labor de
Paris Germany May Back Talks On Berlin Settlement
Washington sources say France and West Germany are likely to approve further Washington Moscow talks at ambassadorial level on Berlin. They prefer delaying East West exploratory contacts until the Western ambassadorial steering group meets with Foy Kohler. Diplomatic envoys briefed allies on Rusk Gromyko talks and Kennedy Gromyko meeting.
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Washington
France
West Germany
Berlin
Foy D. Kohler
Ant
Kohler
State Department
Germany
London
Paris
Bonn
Herve Alphand
Dean Rusk
Alphard
Rusk
Andrei A. Gromyko
Kennedy
Gromyko
U.S
W. Ton
Kelm Grewe
Kennedy-Gromyko
United States Presses Soviet on UN Secretary General
The United States and the Soviet Union advance talks on an interim secretary general for the United Nations after Adlai Stevenson reported progress. Stevenson met Andrei Gromyko for 1 hour 40 minutes and expressed hope for a decision, while Gromyko returned to Moscow.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Soviet Union
Adlai E. Stevenson
Stevenson
Andrei A. Gromyko
Upper Park Avenue
Gromyko
Moscow
Valerian
Zorin
Dag Hammarskjold
U Thant
Burma
Ist
Raul Roa
Washington
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Nutty battle between man and squirrel over pecan tree
Tampa AP reports a man named Cling Peterson fights a determined female squirrel over a backyard pecan tree. He blocks the trunk with mesh, cuts down an orange tree used as a launching pad, trims a plum tree, and traps branches, claiming he’s won the moment though the squirrel may devise a new tactic.
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Tampa
Fla
Squir
Rel
Peterson
AFL CIO votes not to readmit Hoffa Teamsters union
The AFL CIO Executive Council voted 25 to 2 against allowing the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to rejoin the merged labor movement while it remains under present corrupt influences. Meany cited ongoing criminal and corrupt elements and noted no cleansing since the union was ousted four years ago.
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New York
Aflcio Executive Council
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Labor Movement
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Executive Council
Teamsters
Meany
James C. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Congress
Kennedy
Engagement Between U S and Daylight Battery at Lynnhaven Bay
A 100 years ago today report notes an engagement involving U S forces and a daylight battery at Lynnhaven Bay in Princess Anne County. Details remain sparse but position and location are named.
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U.S
Lynnhaven Bay
Princess Anne County
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