Blizzard Buries Southwest Stranding Iowans for Pasadena Trip
A fierce blizzard snarled the Southwest with up to 60 mph winds and six foot drifts. About 400 motorists bound for Pasadena and the Rose Bowl were stranded at Tucumcari and housed in armories and homes. Albuquerque suffered 11 inches of snow with widespread outages. roughly 1000 cars were marooned on an 18 mile stretch of Route 66 east of the city. Snow threatened to continue in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and western Oklahoma with several deaths attributed to icy roads and storm conditions.
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Dumas
Tex
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Panhandle
Texas
Oklahoma
Pasadena
Calif
Iowa
California
Tucumcari
National Guard
Conchos Dam
Tucumca i
Texas Panhandle
U. S Weather Bureau
Colorado
Denver
Deficit Warning Given Cabinet Deficit Warning
Ohio faces a possible zero or negative cash balance by June as Gov elect DiSalle's cabinet hears from finance director designate James Maloon. He warns departments to cut spending to last year’s levels and notes pending 45 million dollar school foundation fund payments in February and May.
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Toledo
Ohio
Michael V. DiSalle
James Maloon
Maloon
DiSalle
Maroon
Argentina Enacts Austerity To Restore Economy
President Arturo Frondizi announced a two year hardship plan including higher prices fewer government jobs and more free enterprise in a nationwide broadcast. He freed the peso from exchange controls devaluing it from 18 to unofficially 68 per dollar as IMF and U S agencies fund a 329 million dollar aid package to support recovery.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Arturo Frondizi
Frondizi
Washington
International Monetary Fund
U. S
Union To Picket Police Stations In City Drive
The Teamsters Union will begin picketing city police headquarters on January 12 to pressure police into joining the union. Leader Henry Feinstein says the action will expand to 80 precinct stations and targets Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy who opposes police unionization. Feinstein calls the move a response to firing threats and notes Hoffa’s nationwide campaign to enlist more public workers.
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New York
Teamsters Union
Henry Feinstein
Teamsters
Feinstein
Stephen P. Kennedy
Teamster Union
Teamster
Team Sters
James R. Hoffa
Woman to Run Again for Columbus Mayor Nomination
Vivienne L. Suarez, a mother of five who polled about 7000 votes in the May Democratic gubernatorial bid, announced on Monday she will seek the Democratic nomination for mayor of Columbus.
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Columbus
Vivienne L. Suarez
Sheba the guide dog fades as Ray Myer faces loss
In Los Angeles a guide dog named Sheba, once trained by Ray Myers, weakens daily from cancer and willpower keeps her guiding her blind owner. Neighbors note her suffering and hope a new dog soon replaces her motion in the crowded city streets.
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Los Angeles
Sheba
Ray Myers
Myers
Air Strife Settlement Sought as Airlines Face Walkouts
The Federal Mediation Board works to resolve labor disputes at three major airlines with two grounded by strikes and a third facing a potential walkout. A mediator was assigned in the National Air Lines case over a New York ticket agent dismissal. Eastern Air Lines flight engineers rejected mediator recommendations, prolonging the deadlock. Pilots groups review a government settlement proposal amid the American Airlines strike.
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Federal Mediation Board
Eastern Air Lines
American Airlines
National Air Lines
Air Line
Assn
New York
Eastern
Warren Lane
Air Line Pilots Assn
Chicago
Boy Dies of Starvation in Texas Child Malnutrition Case
In Austin Texas a four year old boy Wilburn Rowe Battise died weighing 24 pounds after a malnutrition period. Detectives quoted his mother Laverne Sylestine 24 saying he subsisted on beans and bread for breakfast and supper with no lunch. The sisters ages 6 and 2 were reported nearly starved and both mother and her male companion were jailed on vagrancy charges.
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Austin
Tex
Wilburn Rowe Battise
Laverne Sylestine
Union Appeal Rejected Over Holiday Pay During Walkout
CHICAGO The International Harvester Co rejected a United Auto Workers request to pay strikers for two holidays during a seven week walkout by 38 000 Harvester workers.
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Chicago
International Harvester Co
United Auto Workers
Harvester
Bob Hope Returns From Eighth Christmas Tour
Bob Hope ends an 18,000 mile Christmas tour entertaining about 50,000 U S servicemen. It was his eighth Christmas tour.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
U. S
Dr Sam Sheppard’s lawyers claim withheld evidence in murder trial
Ohio Supreme Court was told by Dr Samuel H Sheppard’s counsel that key material evidence including a forced door mystery auto missing photographs and conflicting blood factors was withheld during his Cleveland osteopath wife murder trial. Attorney Fred W Garmone said evidence was in authorities hands and available to prosecutors prior to trial. The warden at Ohio Penitentiary will be given time to answer. The high court had denied Sheppard’s appeal and the habeas corpus action aims to bolster a potential federal appeal.
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Columbus
Samuel H. Sheppard
Cleveland Osteopath
Fred W. Garmone
Ohio Supreme Court
Sheppard
Ohio
Supreme Court
Dee
Garmone
Ralph W. Alvis
Billing process wastes money on tiny levies
Wayne County loses money each time it bills Boleslaw Gawel whose home is valued at $2010. He has a $80000$ homestead exemption and the tax on the remaining amount is seven cents. Officials say mailing the bill costs 50 cents.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Boleslaw Gawel
Gawel
Four New Republics Unite to Pool Economic Assets
Senegal French Sudan Upper Volta and Dahomey formed an economic federation to pool resources for faster development. The four newly autonomous republics cover 682,610 square miles and have about 11 million people.
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French Sudan
French West Africa
Senegal
Upper Volta
Dahomey
France
Columbus Trio Die in Route 35 Wreck Near Chillicothe
Three Columbus residents were killed when their car crashed into a stationary moving van on U. S. 35 six miles east of Chillicothe. Victims were Joseph Holbrook, 42, wife Lolita Holbrook, 42, and Harry Chrysinger, 48.
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Chillicothe
Columbus
U. S. 35
Here
Joseph Holbrook
Leola
Harry Chrysinger
Rebels wage open battle as Cuba hungers for change
Guerrilla forces led by Fidel Castro clash with Batista troops in Santa Clara and threaten to split Cuba from Havana. Bombers tanks and artillery pound streets while civilians flee Las Villas as rebels aim for Santiago and a provisional government.
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Santa Clara
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Las Villas
Santiago
Oriente
Castro
Delta seeks U S probe over Havana plane detention
Delta Airlines asks the State Department to investigate the detention and removal of two American passengers, Louis F. Brantley and James W. Reid, by Cuban police after a Havana incident tied to remarks about Cuba. The jet originated in Montego Bay and was en route to New Orleans.
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Delta Airlines
State Department
Delta
Havana
Louis F. Brantley
James W. Reid
Reid
Dunmore
Brantley
Cuba
Montego Bay
Jamaica
Mother Charged in Oxford Baby's Death
A 21 year old Oxford woman faces manslaughter charges after the body of her newborn girl was found along a creek bank near Oxford on November 12. The case is ongoing as authorities pursue the legal process.
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Hamilton
Oxford
Chaplin Reports Satisfactory Condition After Dental Operation
Charlie Chaplin remains in satisfactory condition following a minor dental operation at the London Clinic. The incident was treated as routine with no complications reported by doctors.
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London
Charlie Chaplin
Syrians Defeat Locusts Victory Claim in Damascus
The Syrian province of the United Arab Republic says it has secured a complete victory against a locust invasion in the region. Local officials report widespread control with no lasting infestations.
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Damascus
United Arab Republic
Iroquois Theater Fire 99 Years Ago Killed 600 Plus
Chicago memory marks the Iroquois Theater disaster on Randolph Street. More than 600 died in 15 minutes as a fire swept a matinee of Mr Bluebeard. Eddie Foy tried to calm patrons while locked inward doors and jammed curtains worsened the panic.
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Nation
Penivnaantebeh. VY
Randolph St
State
Mr. Bluebeard
Eddie Foy
Foy
Shotgun Ends Life Of Father Of 12 In Ohio Home
Nay Collins 4 died Monday morning at his Little Hocking home in Washington County. Coroner says a personal safety shotgun wound caused death. Body found by son James 18 at 8:30 a.m. He survived by wife Mildred and 12 children, with burial planned in Newbury Cemetery at Little Hocking after services at Coolville. Sheriff investigated.
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Nay Collins
Little Hocking
Washington County
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St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
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Newbury Cemetery
Dean Ellis
Mildred
Henry
Belpre
Harold
Dorsey
Charles
Wooster
Willem Mays
Joann
Akron
Kenneth
James Sue Sharon
Denver
Willie
C. W. Collins
Athens
James Collins
Wales Mills
Ohio
Kelly Collins
Ida Beatty
Virginia Smith
Alma W. Weible
Statehood Due By Weekend
Alaska will be proclaimed the 49th state and a new flag design announced by week’s end. Juneau reports the proclamation may come Saturday with an executive order redesigning the Stars and Stripes for the addition. The flag changes go into use next July 4.
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Washington
Alaska
Opposition Protests Persist in Seoul Over Security Law
Scattered demonstrations against the Syngman Rhee regime's controversial security law continued in Seoul. Police reinforced patrols and maintained a tight watch on the city as the opposition pressed its stance.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Balloon Still Lost Over London
Expedition organizers report no word on the four British adventurers or their plastic balloon still missing over London.
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London
Illinois Soldier Kills Korean At Officers Club
A U S Army statement says an Illinois soldier on guard at an officers club shot and killed a Korean national who did not halt when ordered. The incident occurred at the club in Seoul during duty hours.
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Seoul
Illinois
Liberals In GOP At Odds Over Leadership Slate
In Washington a small liberal faction of Republicans debates tactics and candidates to challenge conservative leaders for Senate control. With fewer than a dozen Republicans present, the group weighs backing John Sherman Cooper or aiming to supplant Everett Dirksen as whip, while Sen. George Aiken hosts a closed meeting.
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Senate
GOP
George Aiken
R-Vt
Prescott Bush
R-Conn
John Sherman Cooper
Everett Dirksen
Dirksen
Knowland
Congress
Atlas Life To Double Pass Due In Orbit Over 20 Days
The Atlas satellite is expected to stay in orbit more than twice as long as the initial 20 day forecast. The Defense Department says the 8000-pound Atlas may continue to orbit until about February. Smithsonian Observatory notes most watchers should see the Atlas in the coming days as it passes over the United States. Wednesday’s 6:47 am EST passage crosses Central America and should be visible from southwest Texas to the Great Lakes and western New York to western Florida.
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Ray
Sheba
Washington
America
Eisenhower
Defense Department
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge
Mass
United States
Central America
Texas
Great Lakes
New York State
Florida
Weather Outlook for West Virginia and Ohio
West Virginia remains cloudy and colder tonight with a low between 4 and 30. Wednesday stays cloudy and colder with some snow likely by afternoon. Ohio sees continued cloudiness tonight and Wednesday with a chance of occasional rain or snow. low tonight 22 to 26, high Wednesday 36 to 40. The weather elsewhere continues similarly.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Christmas Holiday Traffic Toll Reaches 594 Nationwide
The four day Christmas holiday period ended with 594 road fatalities across the United States. Police and safety officials urged caution as winter conditions and heavy travel persisted.
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Chicago
Physicist Proposes Meteor Trails Slow Planes
Seattle physicist Ira L. Karp of Boeing Airplane Co presents a plan to use meteor trails and satellite wakes as brakes for slowings of Earth landings. He suggests magnetic fields in these trails could guide charged particles into a long mass to act as a headwind for test aircraft.
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Seattle
Ira L. Karp
Boeing Airplane Co
Karp
American Physical Society
Earth
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