First Big Snow Storm Sweeps Out Of Southwest Ohio
The season’s first major Ohio snowstorm brought up to six inches on ground with more in the south. Traffic snarls and accidents, at least three deaths, and widespread school closures followed as airlines and buses faced delays and cancellations.
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Southwest
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Highway Patrol
Port Columbus
Columbus
Greyhound Bus Line
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Midlands
Atlantic
Maryland
West Virginia
Panhandle
New York
New Jersey
Washington
Dynamite Blast Damages Negro School in Atlanta
A dynamite blast at a Negro school in Atlanta damaged the auditorium and three classrooms. FBI agents investigated if the act violated the 1960 Civil Rights Act as demonstrations pro and anti desegregation continued in the city.
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Atlanta
FBI
Airman Search Underway In Adirondack Rescue Effort
Forest rangers battled snow and freezing temperatures to locate the final eight airmen missing since Friday. Staff Sgt. Pierre Maheux, 27, of Auburn, Maine, is believed to have parachuted into rugged terrain near North Hudson, New York, as a snowstorm closed in.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Forest Rangers
Adirondack Mountains
Pierre Maheux
Auburn
Maine
North Hudson
Maheux
Ohio Five Day Forecast Temperatures Dip Then Moderate
Ohio forecast shows temperatures 3-6 degrees below normal in the north with near normal in the south. Normal highs range 36 to 41 and lows 23 to 26, with a cold Tuesday and gradual warming by midweek. Rain chances on Friday and Saturday, mainly in the south.
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Ohio
House and farm sold by Athens advertiser
Clark Williams of Route 4 Athens found buyers for a 5 room house with bath furnace full basement on 54 acres including stock equipment and hay four miles from Athens. Calls from several interested buyers followed and more inquiries continue for similar property. Contact LY 3-1242 to place an ad.
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Clark Williams
Route 4
Athens
Bath
Secretary Sees NATO Readiness for Coming Decade
Secretary of State Christian A Herter voiced confidence in NATO meeting changing conditions of the coming decade. He avoided committing to a separate NATO nuclear rocket force but discussed options including U S supplied Polaris missiles for NATO command. Decisions on policy await President-elect Kennedy after January 20.
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Washington
Christian A Herter
North Atlantic Alliance
Herter
Paris
U. S
NATO Council
John F. Kennedy
Rusk Picked as Secretary of State in Kennedy Cabinet
President elect John F Kennedy selects Dean Rusk head of the Rockefeller Foundation as secretary of state. Adlai Stevenson named ambassador to the United Nations and Rep Chester Bowles chosen as undersecretary of state. Kennedy announced the trio at his Atlantic City area news conference.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
United Nations
Chester Bowles
D-Conn
Atlantic Shore
Rusk
Truman
Stevenson
Bowles
Georgia
Secretary of the Treasury
Defense
No Break Predicted In Orleans White Boycotts
Public school integration nears four weeks in New Orleans as Superintendent James F. Redmond expects a near complete white boycott at two elementary schools to hold. Governor Jimmie Davis moves into a third straight special session while proposing a one cent sales tax hike to fund private segregated schools and state needs. The House cancels pay for teachers at Frantz and McDonogh 19 unless they quit, but the school board says pay will align with other teachers. An anonymous donor had previously contributed 16000 to cover the Frantz McDonogh salaries.
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New Orleans
James F. Redmond
Jimmie H. Davis
Louisiana
Davis
HOUSE
Frantz and
McDon
Cuba Unions Ordered To Close Ranks
In Havana Fidel Castro faces pressure as the Sugar Workers Union seeks to unify labor by demanding the Electrical Union condemn anti-revolutionary organizers of a palace march. The electricians protested with Cuba si Russia no, challenging Communist influence.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Sugar Workers Union
Electrical
Electrical Union
Electricians
Cuba
Russia
Sugar Workers
Cuban Confederation of Workers
Eisenhower Returns Home From Augusta Vacation
President Eisenhower left Augusta National Golf Club and headed to Washington at 8 27 a m after a weather delay caused by a blizzard extending his vacation by a day.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Augusta National Golf Club
Washington
Capital
Vandals Damage Holland High School Interior
Vandals smashed the interior of Holland High School over the weekend causing about 1000 dollars in damage. No injuries were reported and police are investigating the incident.
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Toledo
Holland High School
Fire kills 35 hogs at Wauseon area farm blaze
A Sunday fire at the W. H. Johns farm southwest of Swanton destroyed a barn and killed 35 hogs. The estimated damage reached $10,000. Local authorities investigated the scene.
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Wauseon
Ohio
W. H. Johns
Swanton
Glamorous Junior Reporter trip to Brazil planned for Athens area
The Messenger and Family Weekly offer a prize trip to Brazil with a stop in New York for a boy in the Athens Messenger area. The winner joins other “Most Popular Boy” finalists from across the country for activities in New York and Rio de Janeiro aboard Varig and TWA jets.
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Athens Messenger
New York City
Athens
Messenger
Messenger and Family Weekly
The
Rio de Janeiro
Varig Airlines
Varig
Port Columbus
New York
TWA
Brasilia
Rio
Sao Paulo
Europe
Michael King
Rutland
KLM
Amsterdam
Holland
Brussels
Versailles
Paris
U. S. Air Force
De Gaulle Cuts Algeria Visit Short Amid Rioting
General Charles de Gaulle cuts his peace tour of Algeria and returns to Paris a day early as rioting in Algiers enters a second day. The violence leaves 79 dead and hundreds wounded with more fatalities reported in Oran. Rebel leaders in exile condemn the plan and call for UN intervention. Police and mobile troops move into Algiers Casbah while clashes flare between Moslems and European settlers.
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Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Algeria
Paris
Oran
France
Tunis
de Gaulle
35 Killed In Air Mishaps In Argentina
Buenos Aires reports 35 dead in two air crashes on Sunday. An Argentine Air Ministry airliner with 31 aboard exploded and crashed 80 miles north of Buenos Aires on a Lima Peru flight. In a separate wreck near Concordia, three Americans and an Argentine died in stormy weather.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Argentine Air Ministry
Lima
Peru
Concordia
Fierce Fire Destroys Albers Market in Cincinnati
Fire investigators surveyed the rubble of the Albers market in north Cincinnati after a Sunday night blaze, aiming to determine the cause. Firefighters faced a hard night as they worked to control the fierce fire and assess damage.
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Cincinnati
Albers
Mill Opens Today at Lorain Works Capacity Boosts U S Steel
A continuous weld pipe mill at U S Steel Corp the Lorain Works National Tube Division has completed shakedown trials and enters full scale production today.
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Lorain
Lorain Works
U.S. Steel Corp
National Tube Division
Governor DiSalle Studies Statewide Election Spending
Columbus report notes Governor Michael V. DiSalle says Republicans outspend Democrats in campaigns and he is compiling what may be the first statewide tally of campaign outlays.
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Disalle
Columbus
Michael V. DiSalle
Meat Company Fire Damages Batavia Wholesale Plant
Fire in Nicholsville damaged the George Manning Wholesale Meat Co. early today with unofficial damage estimated at $30,000. No injuries were reported.
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Batavia
Ohio
George Manning Wholesale Meat Co
Nicholsville
Laos braces for crisis as regime change spreads
Laotian National Assembly members in exile vote to dissolve Quinim Pholsena's pro Communist government in Vientiane. Quinim vows defiance as leftist forces receive Soviet arms while right wing allies led by Gen. Phoumi Nosavan tighten siege around the capital. China and North Viet Nam pledge support for Quinim.
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Vientiane
Laos
Laotian National Assembly
Savannakhet
Quinim Pholsena
Quinim
Vatha
Soviet Union
Phoumi Nosavan
China
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Viet Nam
National Assembly
Souvanna Phouma
Ceylon Offers Congo Peace Plan At United Nations
United Nations Security Council expected to hear a Ceylonese compromise plan from Sir Claude Corea aimed at a joint Soviet Western approach to the Congo crisis. Delegates say the proposed resolution may be the only path to action as rival resolutions face likely votes.
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United Nations
N.Y
Ceylon
Congo
U.N. Security Council
Claude Corea
Corea
Patrice Lumumba
Col
Joseph Mobutu
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Italy
Argentina
State Vote Machines Seen for Ohio in Near Future
Secretary of State Ted W. Brown predicted at the Ohio Association of Election Officials convention that the 1961 General Assembly may be asked to consider legislation setting a target date for mandatory statewide use of mechanical voting and tabulating equipment.
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Columbus
Ted W. Brown
Ohio
Brown
Ohio Association of Election Officials
Ohio General Assembly
All Hands Safe After Lifeboat Sinks in Nantucket Harbor
A Coast Guard lifeboat was stove in and sank while rescuing six men from a grounded fishing vessel in Nantucket Harbor. All hands swam ashore safely.
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All Hands
Boston
Coast Guard
Nantucket Harbor
Discoverer XVIII Capsule Opens In San Antonio
Air Force scientists planned to open the gold plated capsule today to study radiation exposure from the Discoverer XVIII mission. A seven man panel reported heavy solar radiation but noted it could have carried a man safely through space with data from dosimeters and preserved tissue and organisms inside. The capsule, recovered after a Pacific Ocean descent near Hawaii, had orbited November 12 to 14.
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San Antonio
Tex
Air Force
Earth
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
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