Kennedy Plans to Eliminate Assistant to the President Role
President elect John F. Kennedy signals severe White House staff cuts and a reduced top echelon. Theodore Sorensen is eyed as a near‑top aide though the office of assistant to the president may be abolished. Clark Clifford announced the plan after meeting with Republicans.
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Fla
John F. Kennedy
White House
Theodore C. Sorensen
Kennedy
Clark M. Clifford
Clifford
Eisenhower
Truman
Wilton B. Persons
Army
Clark Clifford
US Attache McDonald Faces Soviet Expulsion Report
The US Embassy learns Major Irving T. McDonald Jr. must leave the USSR within 48 hours after Tass reports him photographed at military targets in Kurgan. Washington notes the move follows a prior Soviet warning and links to Igor Melekh’s arrest in New York.
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Tass
Kurgan
Washington
State Department
Igor Y. Melekh
United Nations
Melekh
New York
United States
Fire destroys building in Kent with $100000 damage
A blaze in Kent on North Water Street Monday night tore through a two story brick and frame building sending flames about 100 feet high. Fire officials estimated the loss roughly at $100000 as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Kent
Ohio
North Water Street
President Eisenhower Birds Georgia Quail Hunt
President Eisenhower arrived in Albany aboard Columbine I after a 50 minute flight from Augusta to spend a day hunting quail. The trip caps a two week Deep South vacation.
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Eisenhower
Georgia
Albany
Columbine Sti
Augusta
Research rocket fires to study starlight over Virginia coast
A research rocket was launched today reaching 105 miles altitude over Virginia coastal waters to examine the ultraviolet light emitted by stars.
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Washington
Virginia
UN Officials Fear Shooting Could Spread To Major War
Ghana envoy Nathaniel Welbeck quit his besieged Leopoldville residence after an all night battle between UN defenders and Congo army aiming to oust him. Deaths on both sides reported. Maj. Gen. Alexander arranged Welbeck’s departure as Congo forces tightened their grip and traffic was halted.
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Ghana
Nathaniel Welbeck
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Alexander
Johnson and De Gaulle hold 45 minute world issues talk
In Paris vice president elect Lyndon B. Johnson met French President Charles de Gaulle for 45 minutes in De Gaulle’s private office. Johnson called their discussion about the wide range of problems confronting the world and said the meeting was cordial.
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Norway
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Paris
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U.S
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U. S
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Amory Houghton
France
United States
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Congressman Takes Oath for 43 Day Ohio Term
Ward M. Miller Republican of Portsmouth arrives in Washington to swear in as interim congressman from Ohio 6th District for a 43 day term. He will be succeeded January 4 by William Harsha Jr. a Portsmouth Republican elected to a full term last November 8. Miller was elected to complete the late Democrat James G. Polk’s term who died 17 months ago.
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U.S
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Provincetown
Mass
Columbus
Ward M. Miller
Portsmouth
Washington
Ohio
Miller
William Harsha Jr
James G. Polk
Nixon Wins California By 21 657 Margin In Vote Totals
In California final statewide totals Richard M. Nixon led John F. Kennedy by 21 657 votes with Nixon at 3 240 005 and Kennedy at 3 218 348.
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San Francisco
Nixon
Kennedy
Ghana Pushes Congo Debate Pause at UN
Ghana urged the UN General Assembly to adjourn the Congo debate until a full on scene report is available after clashes in Leopoldville between UN troops and Congolese army forces led by Mobutu. President Kasavubu appeared favored to win the Congo seat but conflict clouded the proceedings.
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Front Left
Leopoldville
United Nations
N. Y
Ghana
UN General Assembly
Congo
U. N
Air Force tests ballute system for 500 pound capsule
The Air Force safely returned a 500-pound space capsule using a 9-foot balloon and parachute at Santa Rosa Island Florida. The capsule was released at 170000 feet after a 32 mile ascent and 1100 mph coasting, then slowed for recovery in the Gulf of Mexico test range. Surface crews recovered the capsule.
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Washington
Air Force
Earth
Santa Rosa Island
Fla
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
Gulf of Mexico
Five Die in Turkish Plane Crash Near Kayseri
Rescue crews in rugged terrain retrieved the bodies of three Americans and two Turks from a light Army plane crash Monday near Kayseri Turkey. Victims include Robert M. Carman 44 a communications engineer from Defiance Ohio and Levi W. Boyce 57 a civilian from Waupaca Wisconsin. The American pilot’s name was withheld pending kin notification. Also killed were a Turkish army master sergeant and a civilian interpreter.
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Kayseri
Turkey
USS
Robert M. Carman
Defiance
Ohio
Levi W. Boyce
Waupaca
Wis
Outpost Established at Brownsville for I-70 Maintenance
The Ohio Department of Highways set up a maintenance outpost in Brownsville Licking County to service Interstate 70, improving roadway upkeep and response times.
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Newark
Ohio
Ohio Department of Highways
Brownsville
Licking County
Ohio considers study commission for redistricting
Gov. Michael V. DiSalle says a commission to study congressional redistricting in Ohio is under consideration.
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Columbus
Michael V. DiSalle
Ohio
Actors May Stage Strike Over TV Spot Ads
BEVERLY HILLS Calif The Screen Actors Guild authorized a strike against spot television advertisers with a 4369 to 549 mail vote announced after a mass meeting The union and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have joint negotiations with producers TV networks and ad agencies Contracts expired last Tuesday A SAG spokesman warned a walkout would halt live performances on networks and stop filming of new commercials and pretaped programs
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Calif
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
SAG
GUILD
Never Too Old Oklahoma City Couple Wed
In Oklahoma City Charles N. Stewart aged 104 and Ida Dymes aged 59 were wed on Monday marking the pair’s second marriages for both.
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Oklahoma City
Charles N. Stewart
Ida Dymes
Dymes
Stewart
Medina Hospital Opens New Wing Doubling Capacity
Medina Ohio. An $856000 wing more than doubles the capacity of Medina Community Hospital and was opened officially Sunday with ceremony.
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Medina
Ohio
Medina Community Hospital
Labor editor dies in Toledo at paper’s longtime leader
Charles J. Lamb Sr., managing editor of the Labor Union Newspaper in Toledo, died Monday. He led the paper and was a prominent figure in the local labor movement, with decades of service to the union press.
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P-4
Charles J. Lamb Sr
Labor Union
Here
Republicans Push Recount as Kennedy Lead Shrinks
Republicans seek recounts in Illinois New Jersey and Texas as Kennedy’s popular lead narrows to about 174 627 votes. Electoral tally still favors Kennedy 300 to 223 with 269 needed. some states push final tallies over weeks while 11 have finished canvass and 11 more aim to finish this week.
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John F. Kennedy
Illinois
New Jersey
Texas
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Alabama
Mississippi
Electoral College
Reapportion Suit Starts with Supreme Court Hearing
In Nashville Tennessee voices say the Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit by 10 voters seeking legislative seat redistribution to reflect population shifts from farms to cities. The case questions federal court authority to compel redistricting of state legislatures.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Tennessee
Supreme Court
Harris Gilbert
Germany Pressured BON on Aid and Defense Costs
An American financial team resumed efforts to ease dollar pressure by persuading West Germany to shoulder a larger burden of foreign aid and Western defense expenses.
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Bon, Germany
West Germany
Innocent Plea Entered in First Degree Murder Case
Marion H. Pickett 41 of Kimberly enters innocent plea in Athens Municipal Court for the shooting death of his half brother Clifford Pickett 53. Bound over to Athens County grand jury without bail by J Parker Walker. Sheriff Harold Shields and prosecutors say premeditation exists.
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Marion H. Pickett
Kimberly
Nelsonville
Athens County
J. Parker Walker
John F. Newcomb
Pickett
Samuel B. Erskins
Clifford Pickett
Marion
Harold E. Shields
Joseph B. Vanity
Homer Gall
Hartman Recount Extends Vote Edge in Logan County
In the Logan County sheriff recount Democrat Paul Hartman leads Republican Edward Dawley by 11 votes after an eight vote gain from the official count. The recount began 7 30 p m Monday, with 11 precincts counted and remaining 22 to be processed at 5 p m today.
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Edward Dawley
Hartman
Dawley
Hocking
Wasp Sets Sail for Caribbean Waters
Boston reports the carrier Wasp with crew trained in anti submarine tactics weighed anchor, entered the channel, and set course toward troubled Caribbean waters amid rising tensions and naval activity.
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Boston
Wasp
Caribbean
Lethal new submarine Ethan Allen slides into Groton
The Ethan Allen, the heaviest atom powered missile submarine, slid down the ways in Groton Connecticut as part of the Navy’s growing submarine fleet.
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Groton
Conn
Ethan Allen
New Orleans Schools Face Payroll as Integration Debate Rages
New Orleans School Superintendent James F. Redmond remains hopeful for a bank loan to cover 1.9 million dollars in salaries due midweek amid financial and integration woes. Gov. Jimmie Davis aides fly to seek Kennedy views on federal court action blocking state interference with integration. A three judge decision on suspending racial mixing could come this week as Southern governors plan a Baton Rouge conference.
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New Orleans
Redmond
Louisiana
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gov. Davis
Baton Rouge
U.S. House of Representatives
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