West Agreed On Ways to Deal With Threats
The Western Big Four foreign ministers closed a three day strategy conference in Washington with reports they agreed on approaches to counter threats. Details remained undisclosed as ministers outlined broad security measures and promised rapid follow up.
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West
Washington
West Berlin
U.S
Dean Rusk
Rusk
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Berlin
Andrei Gromyko
France
Maurice Couve de Murville
West Germany
Heinrich von Brentano
Lord Home
Britain
United States
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Winchester Airport Improvement Program Awaited Tomorrow
Sunny weather is forecast for tomorrow as ceremonies mark phases one and two of Winchester Municipal Airport improvements. Shen Valley Sky Divers will perform jumps from 2 to 12 PM and 3 to 5 PM using smoke markers. The dedication begins at 2 PM with Col Allan C. Perkison and a morning program by Handley High School Band.
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Wincheser Municipal
Shen Valley
Allan C. Perkinson
Handley
Gaylen Strance
J. E. McAboy
Chamber of Commerce Aviation and Transporation Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Commuters praise local help as Route 81 work moves a house
The Chamber of Commerce received two letters from out of town readers praising local citizens for kindness. Frankin Street crews relocated a house on a moving job ahead of Route 81 exposure. A 2-foot snake was spotted and killed on Loudoun Street. Barbara Bachrach appeared on the Ranger Harrow Show. Harry Strech reports a mysterious sky circle seen at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
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Chamber of Commerce
F. L. Hopkins, Jr
Texas
Theat Blair Combs
New Haven
Conn
Hoppers Auto ‘Club
Eddie Zirkle
Chamber
Barbara Bachrach
Mrs
Louis Bachrach
Ranger Harry
Washington
Harry Strech
Confederate and Federal skirmish at Magruder's Ferry
A brief report notes a skirmish between Confederate and Federal forces at Magruder's Ferry on the Potomac River, marking a clash in the ongoing Civil War era.
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Magruder’s Ferry
Potomac River
Six Executed By Castro's Firing Squads
Six people were executed by firing squads in three Cuban cities Havana La Cabana Fortress Santiago de Cuba and Pinar del Rio for hijacking plotting against Raul Castro and counter revolutionary activity. Prison terms were handed to two others.
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Key West
Fila
Fidel Castro
Havana Radio
la Cabana
Havana
Santiago de Cuba
Raul Castro
Pinar del Rio
Frost Likely in Mountain Valleys With Record Cold
The weatherman warns scattered frost in mountain valleys tonight with sunny weather tomorrow. A killing frost could set an earliest on record. current earliest is Sept. 19. Temperatures fell to 46 last night, 45 in Winchester, the coldest for Sept. 16 since 1902.
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Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Winchester
Walter S. Hough
West Virginia
Associated Press
Turkish Officials Hanged After Trial
Istanbul AP reports Turkey's former Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu and former Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan were executed after a revolutionary court sentenced 15 former Menderes era officials to death. The National Unity Committee upheld the sentences, commuting 12 to life imprisonment. Celal Bayar was spared. A doctor report noted a stomach pump and sleeping pill traces on Menderes.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Fatin Zorlu
Hassan Polatkan
National Unity Committee
Menderes
Zorlu
Polatkan
Fover
Celal Bayar
Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits Kepi Region
An AP report from Hollandia Dutch Guinea says a whooping cough epidemic on Kepi in southern New Guinea has killed 125 people, with 34 additional children dying from stomach and intestinal troubles.
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Hollandia
Dutch Guinea
Kepi
New Guinea
United States Opens Underground Test Series With Low Yield Blast
President Kennedy announced a low yield underground Nevada blast with no fallout said to be 1,000 tons of TNT equivalent. He noted no city audible effects and contrasted U S testing with Soviet atmospheric tests as talks on a broad test ban continue.
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Washington
United States
Kennedy
Nevada
Las Vegas
Soviet Union
U.S
White House
University of California
Senate House Atomic Committee
California
Rep Brooks dies at 63 in Maryland hospital
Rep Quyerton Brooks of Louisiana and chair of the House Space Committee died at Naval Hospital in Maryland at age 63 from a heart attack after entering for pneumonia treatment. He served in Congress since 1936, was a WWII veteran, and survived by his widow and daughter Laura Anne.
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Washington
Quyerton Brooks
D-La
House Space Committee
Naval Hospital
Maryland
Brooks
Congress
House Committee On Science and Astronautics
House
W. F. Norrell
D-Ark
Walter M. Mumma
R-Pa
B. Carroll Reece
Rtenn
George P. Miller
D-Calif
The
Space Committee
East Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Shreveport
Law School
Louisiana State University
Laura Anne
Chest seeks $49,945 goal for Red Feathers Services fund drive
The Chest outlines materials to urge public support for a fund drive aimed at sustaining Red Feathers Services operations. The campaign targets a goal of 49,945 dollars to secure ongoing service provision.
Opening of Artmobile Exhibit Draws Large Crowd in Blue Ridge
The Blue Ridge Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts opened its 1961 62 season with a preview of the Artmobile new pre Columbian art exhibit. About 200 people attended at the Plaza near Penney s Store. The event also launched the chapter s membership drive and featured a film on the museum in Richmond.
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Virginia Museum of Fine
Blue Ridge
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Penney’s
Richmond
Cheek
Dave. Satterfield
W. Holt Louder
Charles Schutte
Michaelangelo
Lerner and Loewe
U N Troops Reeling Under Katanga Assault at Kamina
In Leopoldville Congo AP report says U N troops at Kamina center under Katanga assault by Baluba tribesmen and Katanga soldiers. Irish Swedish garrison weakened with Mafan battle lasting days. Jadotville siege prompts food drops and Irish missing and captured tallies. Belgian civilians arrested amid Katanga mineral control tensions.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
U.N
Kamina
Katanga
Usumbura
Ruanda- Urundi
Congo
Elisabethville
Jadotville
Dublin
Tually
Tshombe
Sweden
Jadotsville
Senate Restores Most House Cuts in Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate approved 4.20 billion dollars for foreign aid restoring all but 63 million of the House cuts. Conferees will seek a compromise on the 533 million dollars difference amid broader aid provisions including 1.2 billion for economic loans and 1.7 billion in military aid.
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Senate
House
Washington
Kennedy
Senate House
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Senate Appropriations Committee
Sen
Soviet Union
Keating
Poland
U.S
Inter-American Development Association
Carpenters Die As Scaffold Falls at Marina City
Three carpenters were killed when a wooden scaffold toppled inside a partly built circular Chicago skyscraper. The platform buckled as a crew of ten tried to reach the 44th floor of the Marina City project along the Chicago River north bank while they set concrete forms in the east tower.
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Chicago
Marina City
Mansfield Defends Timing Of Antifilibuster Fight
In Washington a Senate clash over Kennedy administration responsibility erupts as Mansfield moves to take up a rules change to cut off filibuster debate by a three fifths vote. Javits says delaying the fight loads the deck while Mansfield insists the issue is Senate internal. A petition to limit debate gains support and a Tuesday vote could trigger each senator’s one hour speaking limit if approved.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Javits
New Yorker
Executive
Everett “M. Dirksen
Illinois
Noa Anyvil
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