White House urges USSR to reconsider 50 megaton test
The White House urged the Soviet Union to rethink its plan to explode a 50 megaton nuclear device. It stated such a test has no military necessity and serves political purposes only. Press secretary Pierre Salinger released a 130 word statement attributing it to the White House.
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Washington
White House
Soviet Union
United States
U.S
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Hiroshima
Kremlin
Moscow
Berlin
State Department
Dean Rusk
East Germany
Germany
Salinger
Red Cross Bloodmobile Visit Boosts Local Donation
A Red Cross Bloodmobile collected .65 pints of blood on a quota of 150 during yesterday's local visit. The Gown Crier also explains the Red Feather symbol of the Community Chest as a badge of honor worn by everyday citizens who give and share for the common good.
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Red Cross
the Chest
Knights of Old
Reconnaissances Toward Oc i River Fairfax County
100 years ago today a brief dispatch notes reconnaissance toward the Occoquan River near Fairfax County. The terse item records military activity in the region with a focus on movement and location. No further details are provided in the fragment.
JW Handley Given Green Light for Grid And Court Contests
Officials from Winchester and Frederick County approve interscholastic play between James Wood and John Handley High Schools for 1962-63 and 1963-64 as a trial. Games to be held on neutral courts until seating expands, with a two-year regional schedule to follow.
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James Wood
Garland R. Quarles
Frederick County
Robert E. Aylor
Evening Star
Aylor
Court House
Winchester
Frederck County
Winchester City
John Handley
Stat
Northwestern
Handley
Hope and dismay rise over Khrushchev speech in Europe
Western capitals weighed Khrushchev's remarks at the Soviet Party Congress with hope and fear. Some welcomed the Berlin deadline pause while others warned the proposed hydrogen bomb test could raise global peril. British pacifists staged a London embassy sit-in before being removed by police. Newspapers criticized the bomb plan as a political ploy to pressure concessions on Berlin and warned of dangerous fallout and limited strategic gain.
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London
Khrushchev
Communist _ party
Europe
Berlin
East Germany
Times of London
Manchester Guardian
Russia
Daily Mail
France to Expel 1500 Algerians Amid Curfew Riots
Paris reports the French government will deport 1500 Algerians swept up in Tuesday curfew riots as part of a wide cleanup. Thirteen police injured and two dead were noted as riot squads detained more than eleven thousand five hundred Algerians from about twenty thousand in the streets.
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Paris
Algeria
Town Council to Appeal Boundaries Ruling
Stephens City council votes to appeal Judge Elliott Marshall’s boundary ruling. Maurice Lemley confirms the decision. Frederick County Circuit Court ruled Friday that 14 plaintiffs’ land lies outside town boundaries.
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Stephens City
State Supreme Court
Elliott Marshall
Maurice Lemley
Marshall
Frederick County
Weather Bureau eyes tropical depression near Cuba
The Weather Bureau tracks a tropical low moving north from Cuba with signs of intensification. If it strengthens to a tropical storm it would be season's seventh named Gerda. heavy rains hit the Bahamas and tides rose along the east Florida coast. Closed Friday til 5 pm due to death in family. Bell Clothes sale and Garden Club event noted in other items.
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Fla
Weather Bureau
Cuba
Bahamas
Florida
Bell Clothes
Lord Fairfax Garden Club
Colonial Art & Craft Shop
Care Winchester Star
X15 Rockets to 3920 MPH Record Flight
The X15 rocket plane driven by Joe Walker soared to a speed of 3920 mph, about six times the speed of sound, with wings turning white hot. This tops the prior 3647 mph record set last week by Air Force Maj. Bob White in an X15.
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Joe Walker
Air Force
Bob White
Ervin Cleveland Marks Ten Years With SPCA Agent
Ervin Cleveland celebrates a decade as SPCA agent for the Winchester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He presented a $1,172 check and 110 new members to President Mrs. J. T. Clevenger at the October board meeting.
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Clevenger
Winchester Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Ervin Cleveland
SPCA
Winchester Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
J. T. Clevenger
George Washington Hotel
Cleveland
Society
Rosenbergers
Eisenhower Would Leave Fall-Out Shelter If Family Absent
Former President Eisenhower says he would walk out of a fall-out shelter during a nuclear attack if his family were not with him. He fears such a shelter would alarm people and notes Civil Defense measures may be inadequate. He hopes Americans shed unease and reassert freedom as a nation.
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Newark
N.J
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Isenhower
BELL
Denny's
Woman charged with murder in Shenandoah County killing
Edna Westfall Wampler 54 admitted shooting husband Hobart 63 at their Forestville home. Bond set at 10000, she held in Shenandoah County jail. Authorities say a love triangle with Granville Ryan sparked the crime. autopsy pending. Police say the body was found Sunday at a State Routes intersection.
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Shenandoah County
The
Woodstock
Edna
Westfall Wampler
Commonwealth
William Logan
MR. Logan
Star
Logan
Ville
PHILIP _CRISMAN
Wampler
Cosmetics Plant Blast Injures 70
A chemical explosion on Chicago’s West Side injured more than 65 people, with reports of 70+ casualties and one missing. The blast leveled a He lene Curtis Industries building at 4401 W North Ave and shattered windows across block areas, including Zenith Radio Corp. cars and a nursing home. sulfuric odor delayed rescue efforts. The most seriously hurt worked at Walther Memorial Hospital with facial burns.
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Chicago
West Side
Robert Quinn
Helene Curtis Industries
North Ave
Zenith
Walther Memorial Hospital
Ieaephe
I.alee
Foh
Helene
Curtis Industries
Gether Mesa
Khrushchev Sees Rich Era for Reds at Soviet Congress
Premier Khrushchev told the 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress that imperialism is doomed and socialism will dominate by 1980. He cited rising real wages and peasant incomes, outlined a program to provide free welfare services, and claimed the United States cannot block world socialist advance. He warned of capitalism's crisis and urged turning military spending toward development while maintaining peaceful coexistence.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Kremlin
Kremlin Palace of Congresses
Soviet Union
United States
Cana
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