New Year Roundup Celebrates 1960 Hope and Festive Spirit
A buoyant start to 1960 pervades the world as leaders predict economic health and peace prospects. Citizens fill Times Square, Paris streets, and German cities with revelry while Moscow and Havana mark the year with official and festive displays. Leaders like Macmillan, Herter, Eisenhower, and Adenauer project optimism amid ongoing tensions and the looming spring summit.
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Associated Press
Terry
New York
Times Square
Rome
Paris
Wick
Todd Macmillan
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Augusta
Soviet Union
Pcow
Verier
Nikita Khrushchev
Kremlin
Moscow
North America
Monrad Adenauer
Berlin
Charles de Gaulle
Taipei
Formosa
Wealthiest DJ Miller, Eigen Fired by NBC Chicago
Howard Miller and Jack Eigen, longtime NBC Chicago personnel, were dismissed by NBC for new programming plans. Miller, 43, hosted disc jockey shows on WIND and previously worked at WNBQ and WMAQ. Eigen, 46, specialized in night-club interviews and had stints at WMAQ and WNBQ-LV.
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Chicago
Howard Miller
Jack Eigen
Yauvaday
National Broad Ling Co
Miller
Wind Fell
WNBQ
NBC
Ince
Igen
WMAQ
New York City
Feht Cla
Oy Yoror
View
Alger June Valli
Lxxn
Stork Fails To Deliver New Year Baby In Flagstaff
The Stork bypassed Flagstaff on New Year's Day with no babies born at Flagstaff Hospital. Only Winslow Hospital reported a birth a 7 pound 2 ounce girl to Mr and Mrs Bence De Marse at 4 51 a m. No New Year's babies at Wilkuns Page hospitals. The SUN’s annual New Year’s Baby Derby record remains unsettled. The first winners of 1940 and 195? feature names Raul?
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Flagstaff
Te Sun
Atill J
The
SUN
G. F. Raudebaugh
Bob Traudebaugh
Arizona Stile Collnge
Raudebaugh
Taudebaugh
Flagstan High School
USC
Lumberjarks
Stork
Arizona
Wilkuns
Page
Mike Flagstaff
Winslow Hospital
Bence de Marse
U. S. Traffic Toll Climbs Slowly as Weekend Begins
Traffic deaths over the New Year holiday weekend were projected to total near 320, with 493 killed during the Christmastime period and 224 deaths in nonholiday times. Police planned intensive patrols to prevent accidents as the long holiday period started Thursday evening and extended through Sunday night. The figure compares with 377 deaths during the 1959 four day changeover and sets a grim context for New Year travel safety.
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Associated Press
Barly Te Pons
Council
Cardinal Blesses Chapel in Spain During New Year Visit
Cardinal Spellman of New York blessed a new chapel in Seville Spain during a New Year visit to identify US servicemen. He heard confessions officiated Mass and then visited patients in the busy hospital followed by a tour of the facilities.
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Sevilla
Spain
Braneis
Spellman
New York
Mur von de Is Frontera
Northlands New Year Quiet Winds Drive Storm East
A late New Year storm battered Northern Arizona with gale winds and up to 18 inches of snow. Chief Meteorologist Paul Sorenson warned of a deep freeze with subzero temperatures and widespread slick roads as the system moved toward the Plains, with Grand Canyon and Snow Bowl reporting heavy snow and skiing conditions improving as roads reopened with chains required.
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Arizona
Paul Sorenson
Northland
Nevada
Utah
Plains States
Arizons
Sutelison
Sorename
Aretis
Lastig
Sorenson
Grand Canyon
Villars
Payson
Snow Bowl
al Grismoen
Sitie
Phoenix
Glendale
J Brief Storfaire
Santa Catalina Mountains
Tucson
Kingman
Presscott
Verde Valley
Quiet New Year Eve Sees No Fatalities in Northland
Northern Arizonans reported one of the quietest New Year’s Eves with no deaths or serious violence. Law enforcement noted few drunken driving arrests, and despite a northern storm, highways saw no fatal accidents. One serious injury occurred near Cornville on Route 79 when Michael Behmdit, 18, of Cottonwood, swerved off the road and is hospitalized in Cottonwood.
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William Hoyt
Northland
Coconina County
U's Office
Sheriff's Office
State Highway Patrol
Flagelalt Police Department
Cornville
Michael J. Behmidt
Cottonwood
Cottonwood Hospital
Flagstaff Ends Year Weather Wise With Record Precipitation
Flagstaff reports 2146 inches of precipitation in 1959, 22 inches above average, the wettest year since 1857. December alone contributed 3.68 inches, lifting the month above normal with an average temperature of 31.4 degrees. Temperature highs reached 89 on May 9 and 11.
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Pal Soretson
Flagstaff
Flagstall
Decemsbur
Bloodiest Year on Arizonas Highways in 1959
Phoenix AP report details 1959 as the deadliest year on Arizona roads, with six fatalities including a Phoenix grandmother and a child. A runaway car at a Phoenix intersection killed Perry Lee Maloney and his grandmother Juanita Matonry. Otis Fuller and Delia Fuller were injured. Ramona Dolores Olsen and Hulen Daly Beck faced injuries. Olsen's car was pushed by a station attendant, started by the motion, and sped through stop signs at about 60 mph before colliding with Maloney family vehicles. Clara frozen at the wheel apparently did not realize the car was moving.
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Phoenix
Arianna
Ayenold
Holli
Thoenix
Perry Lee Miloney
Juanita Mr. Matonry
Malonry
Otis Fuller
Delia
Ramona Dalores Olsen
Auendalyal Reek
Patrolimat James
Starks
Maloney
Beck
Olsen
30 Killed as Cameroon Declares New Independent Nation
In Cameroon’s wake of violence 30 are reported dead including several Europeans as UPC rebels probe to hills. Premier Amin Alddin’s elections are contested with exiled UPC leader Felix Maune alleging rigging. International figures attend independence celebrations led by Dag Hammarskjold and Louis Tacquinat, marking eight million people on the Allaitin Coast achieving sovereignty.
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Yaqunde
Cameroon
Atlantin
Dourla
Iosthin
Cimiistling Union of Cameroon People
UPC
Felix Maune
Amadon Alddin
U.N
Dag Hammarski
Dewey Cabot Lodge
U.S
United National
Louis Tacquinat
Central Africa
Allaitin
Traslensip
France
League of Nations
United Nations
ICCOK Plea to Abandon Arizona Line Picked for New Route
The Santa Fe Railway seeks to abandon 225 miles of track between Prescott and Skull Valley Arizona and substitute a new line from Arch Siding to Skull Valley. An ICC examiner says approval would cut costs by replacing the route crossing the Sierra Prieta Mountains. Robert Ramona Thursday recommended approval noting substantial savings.
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Washington
APY
Santa Fe
Hina
Prescott
Biwi
Valley
Arizona
Interstate Comerce Commission
Arch Siding
Skull Valley
Prascott
Sierra Prieta Mountains
Robert Ramona
Reromma
Pair Waited Kept Snug On N H Peak
Two young climbers survived a four day marooning in a Brount Madison area cabin after a snowstorm buried the hut with two feet of snow. Rienard Bouler and Harold Karagezian, graduate students at Michigan State University, were rescued near Franconia New Hampshire by a search party led by Robert Prescott.
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Rienard Bouler
Wirlertown
Mass
Harold Karagezian
Widge
Michigan State University
Thurainy
Robert Prescott
Lexington
Maes
Two Flag Men Missing After Snow Storm Near Fort Valley
Flagstaff residents Lewis Black, 34, and companion Busion Olaavieh, 38, are reported missing after failing to arrive in Flagstaff from the Grand Canyon by noon yesterday. Coconino County sheriff's deputies sweep State Highway 64 and local hotels and posts, while authorities plan a noon flight to locate the men amid a heavy snowstorm.
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Flagstaff
Coconing
Fort Valley
Lewis Black
Plagstaff
Lewis
Busion Olaavieh
Grand Canyon
Deeil Richardson
Williams
Ronla
Williiames
Route 64
Amit Wiester
Hye
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