Remembering Pearl Harbor Twenty Years Later
Austinites recall December 7 1941 with mixed clarity and strong impressions. Roy Roach and fellow guards recall rapid mobilization at Camp Claiborne and Pensacola while Chris Winters watched radio reports in a Rochester bowling alley. Mrs. Douglas Brigham roller skated in Tulsa when word finally reached her. Fireman E R Phifer describes shock and thoughts of a possible hoax during the onset of war.
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County Civil Defense
Roy Roach
Co. D
National Guard
135Th Infantry
Camp Claiborne
Roach
Rochester
Main St
Winters
Douglass Brigham
Mower County
Newsman recalls duty at Pearl on big day
John Matheson recalls his crew aboard the West Virginia on December 7 1941 at Pearl Harbor. He describes the alarm a routine fire and rescue drill turning into a battle as torpedoes and bombs struck the ship and the attack unfolded.
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Pearl Harbor
Matheson
West Virginia
Pearl
John Matheson
Sault Ste. Marie
Pearl Harbor 20th anniversary ceremony marks attack moment
At Pearl Harbor ceremonies Adm. John H. Sides warns that surprise attack remains a threat as the exact 7:55 a.m. moment is observed. The Arizona memorial platform overlooks Ford Island where 1,102 crew died and the old battleship row lies silent. Survivors recall rapid actions and drills that saved others as the attack unfolded.
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Naval Base
Ford Island
U.S. Arizona
Arizona
United States
Ford ‘Island
U Thant seeks broader approval for Katanga plan
Acting Secretary-General U Thant, backed by the United States, seeks wider endorsement for a plan to bring Katanga under U.N. control. He will present the plan to the Congo advisory committee and has authorized force to expel about 200 foreign mercenaries aiding Moise Tshombe.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.S
U Thant
Congo
Katanga
U.N
Thant
Security Council
Moise Tshombe
Adlai E. Stevenson
G. Mennen Williams
Edmund A. Gullion
United States
Stevenson
Katanga Launches New Attack as U.N. Jets Hit Elisabethville
Katanga forces attacked U.N. HQ near Elisabethville at daybreak after U.N. jet fighters hit Katangan ammunition dumps six miles outside the city. An American Globemaster was fired on during landing, prompting a suspended airlift. U.S. officials promised expanded air support while seeking protection for transports.
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Elizabethville
Katanaga
the Congo
U.N
Elisabethville
U.S
Leopoldville
United States
Kolwezi
Katanga
Unemployment Drops for November Amid Record Employment
President Kennedy announced the November unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent from 6.8 percent, the first decline in a year. Officials later planned to release a full job picture, while he cited a record 67,349,000 employed during November.
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Washington
Kennedy
Afl-Cio
Miami
Fla
Labor Department
U S Battle Group Moves on Autobahn Through East Germany
First units of a U S battle group bound for West Berlin pass the Soviet checkpoint at Helmstedt on the Autobahn. The 1 500 man unit completes the crossing in 89 minutes and proceeds toward Berlin as Soviet protests mount.
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Helmstedt
Germany
U.S
West Berlin
Iron Curtain
East Germany
Leg
19Th Infantry Division
Ira Palm
Mount Vernon
N.Y
18Th Infantry
Berlin
Kassel
West Germany
Approval On Redistricting Plan Comes From Two State Officials
State Auditor Stafford King and Attorney General Walter Mondale voiced approval of the congressional redistricting proposal as fair. Gov. Andersen withheld comment pending the 2 p.m. Saturday Senate panel vote. If a special session occurs, three seats may remain empty and timing could prevent special elections.
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Mondale
Senate
House
Spe
Kennedy urges Young Democrats to lead in risky era
President Kennedy addressed a cheering crowd of Young Democrats in Miami Beach during a national convention. He urged their help not for upcoming elections but to prove the United States leads the free world during "the most hazardous period in the human race."
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Miami Beach
Fla
Kennedy
United States
Young Democratic Clubs of America
Bacon Receives 40 Year Term For double homicide
Rodney Bacon 23 of Spring Valley began an up to 40 year sentence in Stillwater Prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder. He admitted slaying Dorothy Day 23 and, in a separate case, the earlier killing of roommate Thomas Rogers 22 in a Minneapolis apartment. The judge suspended Rogers’ sentence and Bacon stated he returned from a party, found Rogers and Day in the bed, and became angry.
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Minneapolis
Rodney Bacon
Spring Valley
Stillwater
Bacon
Thomas A. Rogers
Dorothy Day
John A. Weeks
Miss Day
Rogers
St James Workers Reject Union Representation
Workers at Tony Downs frozen food plants in St James and Madeira voted 189 to 145 against United Packinghouse Workers becoming their bargaining agent. This marked a second rejection of the same union in about 18 months.
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ST. James, Minn
Tony Downs
Madeira
United Packinghouse Workers
Hatfield May Clarify Tax Declaration Penalty
Minnesota taxpayers facing a December fifteenth declaration for $200 or more in nonwithheld income may be in error by treating it as an income tax return. State Tax Commissioner Rolland Hatfield may clarify the rule at a St Paul meeting this afternoon and seek a waiver or modification of penalties in some cases.
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Harold Butler
Corey
Minnesota
P. J. Holand
Austin
Herald
Hatfield
St. Paul
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Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Scottfield, Til
Chris Winters
Mars
Orson Wells
Mercury Radio Theater
Mickelson
Phifer
Mrs. Thompson
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
News
Honolulu
Sides
U.S. State Department
Evariste Kimba
Lewis Hoffacker
Jadotville
U.N. Command
Hoffacker
Hormel
Geo. A. Horme! & Co
Elmer L. Andersen
H. H. Corey
Hormel Company Board
Andersen
Cial
Fred Schwanke
Deerwood
Joseph Wadheim
Tyler
Burnett Bergeson
Twin Valley
Young Dems
St. James
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