British Train Wreck Kills 18 Amid Blizzard
In a London bound collision near Coppenhall Junction, 18 people died and 12 were reported injured as a Scot Express rear collided with a local train during a blizzard. Survivors described utter carnage while rescue teams moved victims by headlamps to await ambulances. The storm swept across Europe from the Far North to the Mediterranean causing widespread frost and snow disruption.
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London
Europe
Coppenhall Junc
Tion
Manchester
Harold Schiff
Cheshire
Mediterranean
Siberia
Portu
Spain
Barcelona
Valencia
Kennedy Briefed On U S Armed Strength And Tax Plan
In Palm Beach Kennedy hears a Pentagon briefing on U S armed strength and defense spending. He later meets five Bay of Pigs veterans amid mixed feelings about their release and weighs details of a 1963 tax cut package with Treasury officials.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Pentagon
Kennedy
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
The
Treasury
Stevedores Cancel Seed Potato Unloading in Charleston
Charleston ILA local canceled plans to unload a cargo of seed potatoes today under pressure from top union officials amid a broader East and Gulf Coast strike. The banana unloadings in Charleston continued briefly, drawing scrutiny from ILA President Captain William V. Bradley who warned the local could lose its charter. About 100 dockworkers in Galveston crossed picket lines to unload a Swedish banana boat under police supervision with no violence reported. The nationwide strike largely halts East and Gulf Coast ports except for military and emergency cargoes.
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Charleston
S.C
Gulf Coast
International Longshoremen’s Association
Afl-Cio
South Carolina
William V. Bradley
ILA
Galveston
Tex
East
Sheppard Loses Right to Lie Detector Tests
Ohio Supreme Court rules Dr Samuel H Sheppard forfeits any right to lie detector tests in murder investigation as his mandamus suit proceeds. Assistant AG Aubrey Wendt argues relator kept secrets the trial did not expose. Carroll Dies at 70 Composer Harry Carroll, famed for Always Chasing Rainbows, dies in Santa Barbara after heart attack.
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Columbus
Samuel H. Sheppard
Ohio Supreme Court
Aubrey A. Wendt
Bay Village
Carroll
Santa Barbara
Calif
Harry Carroll
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Japan Rejects NATO Pipe Export Halt to Soviet Union
Tokyo foreign minister Masayoshi Ohira said Japan cannot block private exporters from sending oil pipes to the Soviet Union. He stated the government lacks power to stop private enterprise and that the issue rests with private sector judgment, not law.
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Tokyo
Masayoshi Ohira
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soviet Union
NATO
Ohira
Kazakhstan premier fired for displaying nationalism
Pravda reports the Kazakh Virgin Lands regional premier was dismissed for showing nationalism, a sign of seeking greater autonomy from Moscow. Canada records a five day Christmas weekend with 129 accidental deaths including 85 on highways and 21 in fires.
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Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Virgin Lands
Kazakhstan
Toronto
Canada
East German Escapees total 14 in Christmas drive to West Berlin
Four young men crossed to West Berlin during the night raising Christmas holidays total to 14 escapes. A 26 year old climbed an 8 foot wall in Neukoelin. Three men forced through British sector barbed wire. A bus rammed barriers at Babelsberg with four children aided by Hans Weidner a 40 year old war cripple. A border guard in uniform fled with a tommy gun on Christmas.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Neukoelin
Babelsberg
West
Hans Weidner
Agriculture Secretary Seeks Change to Department Name
Secretary Orville Freeman says the department’s name should reflect broader duties beyond farming. He cites food programs and rural affairs as expanding roles in the agency and notes shifts as agriculture requires less land and labor.
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Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Department of Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Congress
White House
America
Freeman
Freeman’s Department
Editorial ruling clears editor on election day poll story
In Birmingham, judge voided charges against James E. Mills of the Birmingham Post-Herald for violating Alabama corrupt practices law by publishing an election day editorial. Judge Francis Thompson struck down the constitutional section used to file the case. Separately in Cleveland, six striking Cleveland newspaper Guild members prepared a four page tabloid to publish daily.
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Birmingham
Ala
Francis Thompson
James E. Mills
Birmingham Post-Herald
Cleveland
Cleveland Newspaper Guild
African Pilot brings 922 Cuban relatives to Port Everglades
The freighter African Pilot docked at Port Everglades at 9 01 a m delivering 922 relatives of Bay of Pigs invaders to freedom in the United States. Observers numbered about 200 as the port kept to newsmen and officials only. The Red Cross logged nine contagious disease cases aboard and 11 stretcher cases were taken by ambulances. an American flag flew from the stern.
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Miami
Fla
Port Everglades
Fort Lauderdale
Fidel Castro
United States
Red Cross
Castro Sets High Price on Prisoner Ransom
Exiled Cuban reporters say Fidel Castro has demanded five million dollars worth of food as ransom for six prominent Cuban newsmen. The Syndicate of Free Newsmen of Cuba says agents were sent to the exile community to present the offer.
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Mexico City
Fidel Castro
Syndicate of
Free Newsmen of
Cuba
Castro
New Highway Director Names First Assistant
COLUMBUS Ma sheter named C H Makeever of Dover today as first assistant highway director and chief engineer. Makeever, a self employed consultant, served as deputy highway director in 1957 and 1958. Born in Morrow County, he is 61. He graduated from Mount Gilead public schools and Ohio State University. MOSCOW Tass report said Soviet geologists are prospecting in Cuba for oil and also iron nickel manganese copper and peat.
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P. E. Masheter
C. H. Makeever
Dover
Makeever
Morrow County
Mount Gilead Public Schools
Ohio State University
Moscow
Pi— Tass
Cuba
Urbophrenia Cited As New Menace
Dr Igho Hart Kornblueh of the University of Pennsylvania warns that urban crowding creates a greenhouse existence. The new urbophrenia may cause physical and mental health problems from indoor living and limited outdoor activity. Ralph Lazarus of Federated Department Stores elected to GE board of directors in New York.
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Philadelphia
Igho Hart Kornblueh
University of Pennsylvania
Kornblueh
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Graduate Hospital
Lazarus
New York
Ralph Lazarus
Federated Department Stores, Inc
Cincinnati
General Electric Co
Athens Man Named Ohio Welfare Chief in Rhodes Cabinet
Denver L. White of Athens was named Ohio welfare director by Governor-elect James A. Rhodes becoming the fourth cabinet member from Athens County. White has led Athens County welfare for 15 years and will assume the post January 14. The appointment, with a $15 000 annual salary, follows Rhodes’ plan to return welfare to professionals. White is a Navy veteran and Ohio University graduate with a long history in welfare work and community service. He is married with two sons and will continue to reside in Athens.
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Denver L. White
Athens
Ohio
James A. Rhodes
White
Athens County
Rhodes
Wayne Ward
Gorman
State Welfare Department
Ohio Welfare Conference
Ohio Welfare Directors’ Association
Cabinet Post
Ohio University
The
Presbyterian Church
American Legion
Crippled Children’s Association
Ohio Citizens’ Council
Sanford White
Carbondale
Clea Dusz
Albert Dusz
Ohio Supreme Court to review cinema morality ruling
The Ohio Supreme Court agreed to hear Leroy C. Griffith's appeal after a Columbus theater operator was fined $500 for showing the film A Girl Rhapsody. A city court had confiscated the movie at the Parsons Follies Theater on January 20, 1961, under a statute banning immoral films.
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Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Leroy C. Griffith
Supreme Court
Parsons Follies
Hoover Reports Bank Theft Increase and FBI Advances
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover reported a 25 percent rise in bank robberies and thefts for the year in an annual briefing to Attorney General Robert F Kennedy. He also noted stronger FBI activity against organized crime and racketeering and warned of continued subversive threats including the Communist party. In Los Angeles researchers suggested a possible indirect link between measles and multiple sclerosis, and Philip S Donnell, 73, former Oklahoma State University dean and vice president, died in Maine.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Robert F. Kennedy
Communist Party
United States
Hoover
Los Angeles
University of California, Los Angeles
John M. Adams
David T. Imagawa
Sheepscot, Maine
Philip S. Donnell
Oklahoma State University
Tuesiday
Ohio Education Problems Loom Over Legislature
Ohio faces a looming fight over funding for education as the 105th General Assembly convenes. The state already spends about 88 percent of non highway funds on education welfare mental health and corrections. Governors Rhodes and DiSalle proposals strain the budget with calls to raise state education shares and cover rising university costs as enrollments grow.
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105Th General Assembly
General Fund
Ohio
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