44 Killed In Jet Tanker Crash Near Spokane Mount Kit Carson
A Strategic Air Command KC135 tanker with 44 aboard crashes in fog on Mt Kit Carson near Spokane. 39 airmen from Ellsworth SD plus civilian and four crew die. searchers recover 33 bodies as night halts work. Pilot likely tried to pull up before impact.
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Spokane
Wash
Strategic Air Command
Mt. Kit Carson
Here
Air Force
28Th
Ellsworth Air Force Base
S.D
Ellsworth
Fairchild Air Force Base
Floyd R. Cressman
Fairchild
Bert Smith
Irving Hamann
Wayne
Spokene
Mt. Spokane-Mt. Kit Carson
Smith
Hamanns
Barbera Rainwater
Lions Club broom sale kickoff by city officials
City Sgt Gibson Baker and Police Chief J Thomas Boyd sold 672 industrial brooms to area firms raising 1176 for sight conservation. The heavy up market brooms will be offered to residents when the sale begins September 18.
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Lions’ Club
Gibson Baker
J. Thomas Boyd
Custom Cleaning and Harvest Help Wanted Ad
Barley and wheat cleaning job listing seeks callers or letters for appointments. Winchester seed CG seeks apple pickers. Contact Alfred L. Snapp at 662-9393 or Stephens City 338-1-2.
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Winchester
Alfred L. Snapp
Stephens City
Red China Accuses U S of Airspace Violations
Tokyo AP report says Red China charged two U S planes violated its territory with brief intrusions into Chengssu Islands and Yunghsing Island. It cites 213th warning and notes no official halt to Nationalist U2 flights.
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Tokyo
Red_ China
U.S
New China News Agency
China
Red China
Chengssu Islands
Chekiang Province
Yunghsing
Kwangtung Province
United States
East China
Russia warns of nuclear war as Cuba attacked
Havana radio reports a Cuban freighter and a British cargo ship attacked by a pirate vessel. The broadcast monitored in Key West gave no details on casualties or damage.
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Russia
Cuba
Key West, Fla
Havana Radio
Key West
New Land
Havana
Trafalgar Steamship Co. Suger
London
Trafalgar
Caribbean
Trafalgar Steamship Co
Newlane
Manuel Installed As New Mayor In Middletown
Archie Manuel former James Wood High School athletic director was installed as mayor of Middletown with Gene Jenkins as the only new council member. The council kept taxes and licenses, set monthly meetings, and appointed officers including Fred Larrick as Police Justice and Esther Kline as clerk and treasurer.
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Middletown
Archie Manuel
Gene Dicks
Manuel
Gene A. Jenkins
F. C. Gum
James Wood
Gene Jenkins
C. F. Gum
Alma L. Coffelt
Carl Baker
David Muntzing
Russell McCauley
Gum
Muntzing
Baker
Jenkins
Fire Department
Coffelt
Health and Sanitation
McCauley and
Gunn
Fred Larrick
Winchester
Joe White
F. G. McFarland
Esther Kline
Council Withholds Police Report Until Labor Sees It
Front Royal officials delayed releasing an investigation into alleged police partiality in the Old Virginia Packing Co. strike. Labor leaders, led by Chuck Leachman, will review theHamner report before any public or press disclosure. The next council meeting is set for Sept 21 with a special labor meeting planned.
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Front Royal Council
Labor
Front Royal — Town Council
Old Virginia Packing Co
Chuck Leachman
Northern Virginia Central Labor Council
Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 504
Leadman
Charles Menegee
Police Department
William A. Lilliard Jr
Blanton
Labor Council
Old Virginia
Virginia Municipal League
Bernard Stokes
Lilliard
Robinson Hits Kennedy's Attitude Toward Cuba
J Kenneth Robinson pitched a double header yesterday and spoke to about 35 professionals at a luncheon and a pay as you go dinner hours later. He explained why he delayed declaring as GOP nominee until after the Democratic primary chose John Marsh Jr. He praised Jim Largent as his best friend and said he plans a clean campaign while urging both sides to uphold a code of fair practices.
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J. Kenneth Robinson
Congress
John O. Marsh, Jr
Jim Largent
F. L. Sargent, Jr
Winchester
Mr. Marsh
Robinson
Jim
Mr. Robinson
Front Royal to Consider Smoke Law
Front Royal officials ordered town attorney Duncan Gibb to draft a sample soot and smoke control ordinance. The move follows resident Lyle Henry of Royal Village again complaining about area soot. The attorney favors a specific law over nuisance statutes for enforcement.
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Front Royal
Duncan Gibb
Lyle Henry
Royal Village
Gibbs
William A. Lilliard, Jr
Bernard Stokes
Gibb
Fugitive Spy Robert Soblen Dies in London
Robert A. Soblen, a fugitive who faced a life sentence for wartime espionage for the Soviet Union, died in a London hospital after an overdose and subsequent brain damage. His wife, Dr Dina Soble, was at his bedside as doctors cited exhaustion from convulsions rather than the barbiturate.
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London
Robert A. Soblen
U.S
Soviet Union
Soblen
Hillingdon
Brixton
United States
Cyril Barres
Soviet warns US over Cuba attack could trigger world war
Moscow says US provocations may plunge world into universal war with thermonuclear force. Soviet leadership orders forces at high readiness as precaution while offering to aid peace loving states if war is unleashed. They insist Cuba supplies military aid without bases and call for Berlin settlement and end of occupation regime.
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Moscow
United States
Cuba
Foreign Office
Defense Ministry
Soviet Union
Berlin
U.S
United States of America
U S Clears Way For Resuming Nuclear Tests
The United States cleared the way to resume atmospheric nuclear tests over the Pacific with tests likely this month or October. AEC and Defense Dept said safety zones around Johnston Island would reactivate on September 22, after a Thor warhead test was destroyed July 25. The program may include high altitude detonation and air-dropped devices.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
Walter M. Schirra Jr
AEC
Defense Department
Johnston Island
Thor
Kennedy
Council to Elect City Officials This Evening
The City Council will elect a president and vice president for two-year terms, a vice-mayor for one year, and clerks, city manager, solicitor, fire chief, fire inspector, and four fire wardens for one year. Committee appointments follow.
Schirra's 6 Orbit Flight Delayed to Sept 28
Walter Schirra Jr aims for a six orbit Earth flight now postponed three days to Sept 28 to allow more prep. NASA sets a Cape Canaveral press center at Cape Colony Inn Cocoa Beach amid potential hotel-press center controversy.
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Schirra
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Globe
Project Mercury
Pacific
Rose Knot
Atlas
Washington
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Colony
Cocoa Beach
Life Magazine
NASA
Press
Rusk Says U S Not Frightened By Khrushchev Warning
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told reporters the United States is not frightened by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's Cuba warning. He spoke after a Senate Foreign Relations Committee briefing on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, as Congress debated possible firmer action against Cuba.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
Nikita Khrushchev
Cuba
Rusk
Senate Foreign Relation Committee
United Nations General Assembly
Two Robbers Get Large Haul in Berkeley Springs
In Berkeley Springs the Park View Inn was robbed between 1 and 2 am by two men who overpowered owner Mrs. Walter Harmison. One man held her while the other searched the room and they left tying her to the bed. Police say the loss totals between 3000 and 4000 dollars with cash checks bonds and jewelry stolen, though an auditor’s check is needed to finalize the amount.
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Berkeley Springs
Park View Inn
Walter G. Harmison
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Francis Gary Powers
Juan Manuel Salvat
Caracas
Venezuela
H. Douglas Hamner
W. Douglas Blanton
Robert Soblen
U. S
Khrushchev
Mike Mansfield
Monetena
Senate
Kremlin
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
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