Guatemala Defends U S As Advisers To Troop Training
Guatemala confirms U S military officers advising troops at a secret Retalhuleu base. Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia denies plans to attack Cuba and cites routine assistance from American missions. The Times and Miami Herald reports describe covert recruitment and potential commando action.
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U.S
Retalhuleu
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Miami
Fidel Castro to claim fear of United States invasion
In Havana the government pressed warnings of a looming invasion as Eisenhower prepares to leave office. Castro may address Cubans Friday night claiming the army’s strength deterred U.S. aggression, while regulars replace militiamen and demonstrations promise to grow near the presidential palace.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Eisenhower
White House
John F. Kennedy
U .S. Navy
Caribbean
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Guantanamo Bay
Castro
United States
Presidential
Cuba Loves Our People Tour Returns From Cuba
A group of 17 Antioch College students returned from a Cuban government sponsored trip that visited three provinces. Stan Boyd, a California junior, joined the group after five days on his own and said Americans should be friends with the Cuban people despite political tensions.
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Yellow Springs
Antioch College
Cuba
Stan Boyd
California
Antioch Group
Miami Plans Training Course for High School biology Teachers
Miami University will run a summer training course for selected high school biology teachers funded by an 11965 dollar National Science Foundation grant. The project aims to enhance research skills and biology instruction.
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Oxford
Miami University
Miami
National Science Foundation
Greyhound Eastern Division contract ratified
A two year agreement covering 4000 Greyhound Eastern Division employees was approved 2804 to 1089. The contract secures terms for the next two years, marking a labor settlement for the carrier.
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Cleveland
Greyhound Corp
Dillon First In Cabinet To Get Test
Kennedy picks to Treasury Dillon faces Senate Finance Committee for confirmation. Reports say Republican unease exists among some GOP members and liberals. A second top figure Dean Rusk will have a Senate Foreign Relations hearing Thursday. Freeman's agricultural appointment appears before the Senate Friday.
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Washington
Douglas Dillon
John F. Kennedy
Senate
Finance Committee
Dillon
Kennedy
Leopold Seeks Parole Cut to Marry and Work
Springfield reports Nathan Leopold, life plus 99 years for a 1924 thrill killing, asks to shorten parole so he may marry and pursue work as a medical social worker and teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. He has served 33 years and was released on five years parole in March 1958, with an extension possible if granted.
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Springfield
Nathan Leopold
Leopold
Stateville
Joliet
Kinney
University of Puerto Rico
JFK Names Couple To High Posts In New Administration
President elect John F Kennedy named George W Ball as undersecretary of state for economic affairs and Henry H Fowler as undersecretary of the treasury. Ball, 51, a Democrat and former government servant now in private international law practice, was chosen as Kennedy returns to Palm Beach after talks in New York, Boston and Washington. Fowler, a Washington lawyer with prior government service, was added to the Treasury leadership as Kennedy fills the top posts.
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John F. Kennedy
State Department
High Command
Adlai E. Stevenson
Kennedy
New York
Boston
Washington
George W. Ball
Palm Beach
Treasury Department
Henry H. Fowler
the Treasury
Laos Warns Soviet Union Over Aid to Pathet Lao
Laos warns the Soviet Union to stop air shipments aiding Pathet Lao rebels. The Laotian government announced the note to the Soviet ambassador in London after U S arms deliveries to Laos, including four armed observation planes.
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Laos
Soviet Union
London
United States
Pathet Lao
Central Plaine Des Jarres
U. S
Kong le
England on Guard for Spies in Warsaw Ring Probe
British counter intelligence heightened alert after a Scotland Yard raid on a Polish freighter in London. Five suspects face spying charges at a top secret navy base, and warnings to Commonwealth nations about Warsaw spies circulate amid immigration concerns.
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Scotland Yard
Warsaw
Jaroslaw Dabrowski
Pavel Kuznetsov
William Marshall
Commonwealth
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Haiti Expels Bishop in Growing Church Clash
In Port au Prince the government expelled Bishop Remy Augustin and ordered four priests deported while closing the church paper. The moves target the church over alleged interference with anti communist student efforts at the University of Haiti. Augustin was deported to Puerto Rico after arrest. Archbishop Francois Poirier had been deported earlier to France amid similar charges. The Vatican protested the episode.
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Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Vatican
Duvalier
University of
Remy Augustin
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Augustin
Francois Poirier
France
Teenager Hangs Self in Accident at Home
In Zanesville area 13 year old William Shaffer Jr of Dresden apparently hanged himself with a rope while playing in an outbuilding on his family property. Sheriff Uffner reports an accidental death while County Coroner S. S. Daw withholds verdict.
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Zanesville
William Shaffer Jr
Dresden
Fred Uffner
S. S. Daw
Fine Indicted in Scranton Tax Evasion Case
John S. Fine former Pennsylvania governor was indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges he evaded 45 554 dollars in income taxes after leaving office.
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Scranton
John S. Fine
Pennsylvania
Fire Hits Huntington Stamp Store and Nearby Firms
A blaze at 1100 block of Third Ave Huntington West Virginia destroyed the three story Family Stamp Discount Store and damaged adjacent properties. The Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 521 occupied the third floor. Ohio Valley Janitors Supply and Tri State Fixture Co. were smoke damaged. Residents were evacuated as 75 firefighters battled the flames. cause and total damages were not yet determined.
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Huntington
W. Va
Family Stamp Discourt
Third Ave
Ohio Valley Janitors Supply Co
Tri-State Fixture Co
John Gallagher
Ham Linked To Air Crash
A CAB inquiry explores whether a ham radio operator near Colts Neck New Jersey interfered with signals amid the December 16 New York airliner disaster that killed 134 people. The board plans to seek FCC assistance in the investigation.
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New York
New York City
Civil Aeronautics Board
Edward Lowe
CAB
Colts Neck
N. J
Federal Communications Commission
Eisenhower to Speak at June Republican Fund Dinner
President Eisenhower agrees to be the principal and only speaker at a June GOP fundraising dinner in Washington. The move shifts Republican outreach and signals a high profile effort to drum up support ahead of statewide or national campaigns.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Dashiell Hammett Dies at 66 Returns to Shadows
New York police report the life of Dashiell Hammett a famed private eye and founder of the hard boiled school of detective fiction ended Tuesday after a long lung illness.
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New York
Dashiell Hammett
Integration Begins At University Of Georgia
Two teens, CHARLAYNE A. HUNTER and Hamilton F. Holmes, attend psychology and zoology classes as integration starts at the University of Georgia. Crowds are absent, with mixed reactions from white students while Georgia officials threaten funding cuts and the Supreme Court denies further delay.
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Athens
University of Georgia
Charlayne A. Hunter
Hamilton F. Holmes
U. S. Supreme Court
Georgia
Ernest Vandiver
High Court
Vandiver
University
U. S. Dist
W. A. Bootle
Whites Offered Help Georgia's First Negro Student Feels No Fear
Hamilton Holmes one of two Negro students chosen to end the University of Georgia's segregation speaks of courage amid crowding students and hostile chants. He notes support from some peers while predicting most trouble will come from outsiders as Charley Hunter accompanies him during registration.
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Georgia
Hamilton Holmes
University of Georgia
Hamilton
Atlanta
Liberals Fight Down Senate Move To Sidetrack Filibuster Battle
Senate Democrats led by Mansfield blocked a bid to send the antifilibuster dispute to the Rules Committee delaying a Friday vote. The move aimed to ease early session tensions and speed Kennedy's legislative program while promising later action to curb filibusters.
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Washington
Senate Rules Committee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Mansfield
Rules Committee
Procter & Gamble considers two for one stock split
Cincinnati based Proctor and Gamble Co announces a plan to split shares two for one with total common shares rising to 50 million. Directors set March 14 as the shareholder vote date and reserve first quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share on the split stock if business conditions permit.
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Cincinnati
Proctor & Gamble Co
Budget OK'd for Muskingum County 1961 general fund
Zanesville Muskingum County commissioners approved a record $1,092,811.29 for the 1961 general fund operating budget, higher than the 1960 record of $1,004,372.50.
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Zanesville
Muskingum
Fair Managers Meet Columbus Convention Opens
The Ohio Fair Managers Association convention opened in Columbus with about 1500 county and independent fair managers and officials registered for the conclave.
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Columbus
Ohio Fair Managers Association
Ohio five day forecast shows mild period then a cold turn
Temperatures will average about five degrees above normal in the north and five to eight above normal in the central and southern regions. Normal highs are 35 in the north and 39 in the south with lows around 20 to 23. A milder stretch continues until a colder change arrives Sunday followed by rain or snow around that day.
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Ohio
Japs Who Hit Kennedy Offer Congratulations
Seventeen Japanese survivors of the Amagiri gather in Tokyo to draft a cable congratulating John F. Kennedy on his January 20 inauguration as U S president. The destroyer rammed Kennedy’s torpedo boat in the Solomons, leaving him with a severe back injury from which he swam to safety.
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Kennedy
Tokyo
John F. Kennedy
Amagiri
Solomons
Ohio Senate approves funded trip to Kennedy inauguration
The Ohio Senate authorized a legislative committee of seven senators and seven representatives to attend the January 20 inauguration of President-elect John F. Kennedy at state expense.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
John F. Kennedy
Stock Broker Dies in Morris After Long Illness
Winthrop Hiram Smith, 67, board chairman of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, died Tuesday at his Morris home following a lengthy illness.
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Morris, Conn
Winthrop Hiram Smith
Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith
Republican Run Legislature Goes in Orbit
The 1961 Ohio House begins introducing nineteen bills as Democratic Gov. Di Salle opens with a mild state of the state message. Proposals include extending unemployment benefits to 39 weeks via automatic triggers, emergency extensions, or permanent expansion, plus raises in local government subsidies and looser Water Pollution Control Act oversight.
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Michael V. di Salle
Ohio House
Big City
House
DiSalle
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