East Germans Rename Stalin Monuments in Blitz De Stalinization
East Germany conducted a swift de Stalinization night after night removing memorials and renaming Stalin era streets. Stalinallee became Karl Marx Allee for half its length and Frankfurter Allee for the rest. Stalinstadt was renamed Eisenhuettenstadt and the Neues Deutschland front page noted Ulbricht denouncing Stalin without a personality cult.
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Gene Kramer
Berlin
East Germany
East Berlin
Stalin
Stalinallee
Frankfurter Allee
Stalinstadt
Oder River
Eisenhuettenstadt
Neues Deutschland
East German
Communist Party
Walter Ulbricht
Ulbricht
Shawnee Fire Damages Main Street Stores and Home
Early morning blaze in Shawnee heavily damaged the Main Street brick building housing the Lewis Sarvis residence the Royal Blue Grocery and Hannah Bros furniture store. Officials cite faulty wiring in a freezer as probable cause. no injuries reported and an insurance firm investigates while damage runs in thousands.
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Shawnee Fire Dept
Lewis Sarvis
Royal Blue Grocery
Hannah Bros
Sarvis
Congo Premier Lumumba Executed in January Witnessed by Officials
A U N investigating commission says Patrice Lumumba, former Congo prime minister, was executed last January in the presence of high Katanga officials led by Premier Moise Tshombe.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Patrice Lumumba
Congo
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Lucille Ball Announces Engagement To Gary Morton
New York reports comedienne Lucille Ball will marry Gary Morton after meeting on a blind date. The couple confirmed plans to wed in coming months, marking a new chapter in Ball's personal life.
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New York
Lucille Ball
Gary Morton
Philippines selects García versus Macapagal in peaceful vote
The Philippines held a quiet presidential election between Carlos P. Garcia and Diosdado Macapagal. As polls closed, one confirmed shooting and two unconfirmed violence reports were recorded, a notably low level for a 15 year republic with at least 22 political slayings in the campaign.
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Manila
Philippines
Carlos P. Garcia
Diosdado Macapagal
Rough Sledding Ahead for JFK Legislation
In the 1962 House session Baldwin Johnson draft, Howard W. Smith and Charles A. Halleck loom as power brokers steering major bills. Sam Rayburn’s influence kept southern defectors in line, while McCormack and Albert face uncertain ability to break southern unity. The Kennedy program outlook remains challenging.
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Washington
House
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Smith
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
McCormack
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Albert
Rayburn
Kennedy
United States Proposes 50 Increase in Atlantic Economic Output
Washington plans to urge the 20 nations of the Atlantic Community to raise their combined output from about 900 billion to 1.35 trillion dollars by 1970. George W. Ball will present the plan at the OECD meeting in Paris, arguing Western economies must grow to ensure survival.
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Washington
United States
U. S
George W. Ball
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
Paris
Europe
Skipper Survives Fire After Yacht Sinks Off Bahamas
Captain Julian Harvey, 44, skipper of the ketch Blue Belle, was the sole survivor of seven Americans when the 60 foot yacht caught fire and sank about 50 miles northwest of Nassau. He said a child in a lifejacket was found floating and died in his lifeboat after drifting 14 hours with the body beside him before rescue by the tanker Gulf Lyon. He received treatment for exposure and shock.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Julian Harvey
Harvey
Gulf Lyon
Bus Crash Near Plattsburgh Injures 23
A Greyhound bus slid on a rain slick highway three miles north of Plattsburgh New York and crashed into a tree. Twenty three people were injured and one seriously.
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Plattsburgh
N.Y
Sam Rayburn's mental clarity declines noted in report
Bonham Texas reports Sam Rayburn's periods of mental clarity are growing shorter as observers describe his condition.
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Bonham, Tex
Sam Rayburn
South Africa Weathered UN Moves to Expel It
United Nations actions sought to eject South Africa and boycott its economy over apartheid. A 72 to 2 rebuke condemned white supremacist policies, while a 47 to 32 vote by the 103-nation committee urged the Security Council to consider ousting. The General Assembly fell short of two-thirds needed. Portugal and South Africa voted against the censures, with 27 abstentions including the United States Britain and France.
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United Nations
N. Y
South Africa
Special
Cuba
Security Council
General Assembly
India
Portugal
United States
Britain
France
Integration Advances in Southern School Districts
Ninety new districts in 17 states have desegregated this fall, pushing total desegregated districts to 829 of 6599. The trend extends to universities colleges and teachers with reduced violence versus prior years since the 1954 ruling.
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Nashville
Tenn
Supreme Court
Southern Schools News
Korean General Seeks U S Aid From Kennedy
Lt Gen Chung Hee Park heads South Korea's military junta and begins talks with President Kennedy seeking strong U S economic backing and extra military aid. Officials expect a principle pledge and a plan to modernize Korea's 600,000-man armed forces during Park's White House visit and subsequent discussions with Dean Rusk and U S aid administrator Fowler Hamilton.
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Chung Hee Park
South Korea
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Park
Kennedy
Johnson
U.S
U. S
Parks
Dean Rusk
Fowler Hamilton
Nixon Sets Victory Strategy At $100 Plate Dinner
Richard Nixon urged a strategy of victory to counter Khrushchev during a California fund raising dinner. He warned against fear in the wake of the 50 megaton bomb and Berlin crises while targeting Kennedy and California Governor Brown for 1964. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a message from afar urging focus on 1962 challenges.
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San Francisco
Nikita Khrushchev
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cow Palace
Nixon
Kennedy
Edmund G. Brown
California
America
Berlin
U S Deficit May Brighten Next Spring
The U S deficit in international payments could worsen to an annual $3 billion next spring before improving. Officials expect no repeat of last year’s dollar crisis as current measures show early results. Rising U S prosperity may lift import outlays while a slowdown in Germany, England, and Japan could reduce their purchases.
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Washington
U. S
United States
Germany
England
Japan
Raid at ONU Girls Dorm Leads to Arrests in Kenton
Ohio Northern University students from Ada Pi Five are jailed in Hardin County Kenton after a dawn raid on a university girls dormitory around 1 a.m. The incident prompted investigations by campus and county authorities.
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Ada—Pi
Ohio Northern University
Hardin County
Kenton
Red Trawlers Pose Threat to U.S. Defenses
Bernard M. Kussell, a retired U.S. Navy commander who reads Russian, says the Soviet Union’s growing fishing fleet is an overt challenge to U.S. defenses and an economic threat by reducing Soviet imports from Western nations, per United States Naval Institute Proceedings.
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Washington
Soviet Union
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
Bernard M. Kussell
U.S. Navy
Korea's Park regime highlights U S dilemma in Asia
The Korean general Chung Hee Park heads a 28 man junta ruling Seoul after ousting Chang, with U S backing. Urban poverty graft and farm debt persist while anti-Communist aims strain democracy. The article asks if reform can keep Korea from civil conflict and falling to communism.
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Rhee
Chang
Park
North Korea
Improvements and Budget Bills Set By ART PARKS COLUMBUS
The Republican legislature returns to Columbus amid a looming cash shortage and a new budget push. Governor DiSalle vetoed second-year appropriations, while a new capital improvements bill aims for about 39 million in spending. An anticipated two month lag in sales tax receipts risks worsening the cash crunch.
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Columbus
Michael V. DiSalle
Senate
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
House
DiSalle
James H. Maloon
Ohio lawmaker opposes new tax plans as session opens
Rep Robert F Beckman of Cincinnati, chair of the House Taxation Committee, says no Democratic tax-raising proposal will be heard as the session begins. He notes fiscal difficulties but urges cutting state spending instead of raising taxes by Gov Michael V DiSalle.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
House Taxation Committee
Robert F. Beckman
Rcincinnati
Michael V. DiSalle
State Board urged study of Ohio county school boards
Robert A. Manchester former Ohio Board of Education president urged a state wide study and inspection of Ohio's 88 county boards noting weak links in integration and requesting E. E. Holt and Charlton Myers plan how to conduct the review while county boards receive about 3 million dollars annually for services and performance.
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Columbus
Ohio
Robert A. Manchester
Youngstown
Ohio Board of Education
Manchester
State Board
13 Year Old Abducted Girl To Undergo Medical Exam
Edna Marie Means, a 13 year old girl from Charleston, W V, was abducted and molested by a Kentucky ex convict. Police say she is scheduled for a medical examination today.
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Hugh C. Goff
Louisville
Charleston
W.va
Edna Marie Means
Goff
Kentucky
Escape From Crash Near Cincinnati Airport
A four engine DC-4 cargo plane crashed and burned near the Greater Cincinnati Airport. The pilot and co-pilot escaped without apparent serious injuries.
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Covington
Greater Cincinnati
New Flames Blaze Near Los Angeles
Smoke hung over Los Angeles as winds shifted firefighting efforts against a vast brush fire. The blaze destroyed 10 homes in Kagel Canyon, forced evacuations for over 300 residents, burned about 2300 acres, and remained out of control. It followed another destructive fire the prior week that razed 465 homes and scorched 14,000 acres.
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Los Angeles
Kagel Canyon
U.S. Forest Service
Kagel
Little Tujunga
High Morale Cited From Desire For Freedom
Gen Herbert Powell said reservists show high morale and determination to defend freedom after inspecting a base in Polk Louisiana. He spoke at a news conference stating the reserve units manning the base reflect American resolve.
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Ft, Polk
Continental Army Command
Herbert B. Powell
West Germany agrees to compensate 73 Polish women
Warsaw reports the Polish Red Cross says West Germany will pay compensation to 73 Polish women who were used as medical guinea pigs by the Nazis during World War I.
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Warsaw
Poland
Polish Red Cross
West Germany
Secretary Resigns From Public Utilities Commission
R. Martin Galvin resigns as secretary of the Public Utilities Commission. The commissioners said today the resignation was accepted with regret.
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Columbus
R. Martin Galvin
Public Utilities Commission
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