Teens Up Jobless Figures
The Department of Labor reports 150000 extra teen jobseekers in November raising unemployment to 5.8 percent, a 1962 high. Overall unemployment rose 507000 to 3.8 million as colder weather and seasonal shifts kept adults out of work. The agency investigates whether teens left school or sought after class jobs, while noting the rate remains seasonally adjusted.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Weymour Wolfbein
Labor Department
Wolfbein
Midtown Group Plans for Area Beautification and Signage
Midtown News highlights Scovill's Jewelry and Griffin Pharmacy for storefront improvements. The Midtown group schedules its next Tuesday quarterly meeting to review Warren Kane's proposed ideas to enhance Midtown beauty and convenience. City Council Utilities Board and staff praised for new lighting and attractive off street signs.
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Scovill’s Jewelry
Griffin Pharmacy
Midtown News
Midtown Group
Warren Kane
Midtown
City Council
Utilities Board
JFK Cheers Adlai Letter to End Rumors on U N Ambassadorship
President Kennedy releases a Dear Adlai letter to Adlai Stevenson at the United Nations stating the fullest confidence in him and his continued ambassador role. The White House says Stevenson’s future is secure and cites the Cuba missile removal as proof of prudent policy.
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Washington
Kennedy
Adlai Stevenson
U.N
Adlai
Stevenson
White House
Saturday Evening Post
Stewart Alsop
Charles Bartlett
Cuba
United Nations
Soviet Union
U.S
Security Council
John J. McCloy
Cuban Rebels Strike Twice in Central Cuba
Cuba accused the United States of backing two attacks this week in Matanzas and Las Villas. A militiaman was killed in Jaguey Grande and a officer wounded in the same area, while fishermen near Caibarien were shot at but suffered no casualties. Havana denounced the raids to the UN as proof Fidel Castro’s five-point plan is needed to resolve the Caribbean crisis.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Jaguey Grande
Matanzas
Caibarien
San Francisco Beach
Las Villas
United Nations
Fidel Castro
Caribbean
Castro
U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base
Revolucion
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Lazaro Gonzalez
Bay of Pigs
Gonzalez
Phi Beta Kappa Truck Driver Sally Bison of Millis
Sally Bison of Millis Massachusetts a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College sits in her truck smoking a cigar in preparation for a trip through central Massachusetts. She prefers cigars to cigarettes and sometimes smokes a pipe at home. She drives to support her husband in his bulk oil distributor business.
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Sally Bison
Millis
Mass
Massachusetts
Sally
Wellesley College
AP Photofax
Quie Sees School Program Passage
Rep. Albert H. Quie of Minnesota says the new Congress may back a bill creating a general aid and grant program for college and university construction. He doubts federal aid to elementary and secondary schools will pass due to church state tensions and disputes over aid to private and parochial schools.
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Washington
Albert H.quie
R-Minn
Congress
Quie
North Minnesota Freezing Temperatures Record Cold Start
Temperatures plunged below zero across Northern Minnesota with a low of one below in Bemidji. Other readings included Minneapolis Saint Paul 12 and International Falls 12, while 300 Amory students enjoyed a day off due to boiler trouble at an area school. A high pressure ridge with fair skies dominated the five state region as two low pressures approached from the west.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Bemidji
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Alexandria
Minn
International Falls
St. Cloud
Fargo
N. D
Minot
Mason City
Town
LaCrosse
Wis
Amboy
Sylvester Gaw
U N Sees Agreement as Signal of East West Harmony
United Nations delegates welcomed two U S Soviet accords on space cooperation and disarmament benefits. The space pact covers earth satellite use for weather, mapping and communications with joint launches planned in 1964 65. A second declaration says global disarmament would aid poorer nations without harming any economy.
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United Nations, N.Y (Ap
U.N
Geneva
Adlai FE. Stevenson
U.S
United Nations
Space
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Anatoly A. Blagonravov
U Thant
Telstar
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Soviet Union
Two Minneapolitan Drivers Die in Weekday Crashes
Two Minneapolis area residents died in traffic accidents Wednesday. Harold R. Baldwin 64 Shorewood died when his car hit a parked auto on a service road beside Highway 7 at Christmas Lake. James Douglas Rowland Minneapolis was killed when he apparently fell under a semi trailer in North Minneapolis. Glen Hanson 22 Bingham Lake died in Windom hospital from injuries from a Windom area crash on October 19. Rowland and Hanson deaths raise the 1962 highway toll to 633, 64 below last year’s pace.
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Harold R. Baldwin
Shorewood
Highway 7
Christmas Lake
Baldwin
James Douglas Rowland
Minneapolis
Glen Hanson
Bingham Lake
Minn
Windom
Hanson
Gary Defries
Highway 62
Bus Strike Delayed by Last Minute Wage Offer
Twin City transit workers pause strike after a new wage proposal was made by the company. Transit Employes Division 1005 members will vote at two meetings in Minneapolis. Night shift voting at 10 a.m. and day shift at 8 p.m. at the Minneapolis Labor Temple. Details remain undisclosed pending union consideration.
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Minneapolis
Twin City
Richard Wanek
Transit
Wanke
IRS Will Not Block Legitimate Expense Deductions
IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin said new rules aim to curb abuses without hindering legitimate expense account deductions. He pledged a fair, sound approach consistent with Congress while hearings drew protests from businessmen and their groups.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Mortimer M. Caplin
Caplin
Internal Revenue Service
Congress
IRS
London Smog Toll Rises With 67 Killed and 738 Hospitalized
Dense lethal smog settles over London for a fourth night, killing 67 and sending 738 to hospitals. Air tests show sulfur dioxide seven times normal, transport grinds to a halt as power failures and icy roads compound disruption.
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London
L AP
Government Weather Bureau
Cuba Dispute Eases as Last IL28 Bombers Withdrawn
AP report notes a Russian ship with about 15 IL28 bombers seen leaving Cuba, raising the total removed to 18. U.S. officials expect more than 40 bombers to depart, potentially ending the Cuban crisis as NSC discussions continue in Washington and talks with Soviet negotiators in New York address inspections to keep Cuba free of atomic weapons.
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Washington
Cuba
U.S
United States
Defense Department
Okhotsk
Pentagon
U.S. Naval
U. S
Pierre Salinger
Kennedy
Salinger
New York
Fidel Castro
Fire destroys two Hope stores in North Dakota
Hope North Dakota two business places burned early today with no injuries reported. In Moorhead Minnesota a 20 year old Fargo man was arrested in connection with a fire at the Fargo Moorhead News. The United States accuses the Soviet Union of blocking nuclear test ban talks by a curtain of silence.
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Hope
N.D
Fargo
Moorhead
U.S
Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Polaris A3 Missile Fails Sixth Test Flight
The A3 model of the Polaris submarine missile failed during second-stage flight at Cape Canaveral. Range safety destroyed the weapon after losing control. this marked the sixth unsuccessful test of the program in as many flights.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Mound City Awaits Government Move Over Records
In Mound City South Dakota residents protest a federal plan to seize Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service records and move them to Herreid eight miles away. Marshals may enter if peaceful options fail as local officials seek to prevent loss of records.
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Mound City
S.D
Prairie
U.S. Marshals
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service Office
Herreid
Morris Myers
Aberdeen
Travis Lewin
U.S
Myers
Justice Department
Washington
ASC
Campbell County Asc
Campbell County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Archie Gubbrud
Sioux Falls
Windom School Bus Struck. One Child Examined
About 25 Windom students escaped serious injury when a pickup loaded with newspapers struck their stopped school bus near Windom on Highway 62. One pupil was taken to a Windom hospital. driver William Paschall was treated for face lacerations and released. Bus damage about 150 dollars.
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Windom
Minn
Jim Ryan
William Paschall
St. James
Carl Seben
Frank Steinberg
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