Fire damages at 113 Union St. total $25,000
A two alarm blaze at 113 Union St. destroyed the upper section of a 2 1/2 story building leaving one man hospitalized in fair condition for smoke inhalation and 11 people homeless. Fire officials estimated losses at 25 000 with faulty wiring suspected and crews from Bennington fought the fire overnight.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital
Robert Morris
Morris
Flora Parker
Odna Coe
Zita Noyes
Mickey Mausert
Mona Ferson
Parker
Fire Department
Mausert
Union Street
Bennington
Henry White
Arnold Knapp
James Foster
White
Eva Antonio
William E. Plante
Carol
Slattery
Hagerman
Air Force KC97 crash sparks search across Adirondacks
A huge KC97 refueling plane crashed after a fire in flight. Ten crew members bailed out. one, S. Sgt. Huston Childress, was killed. Four survivors had minor injuries, others reached Finger Lakes area under emergency care and were taken to Griffiss AFB. The wreckage and exact site were still being sought as planes and police pursued leads.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Adirondacks
Air Force
Finger Lakes
Watkins Glen
Odessa
Vermont
National Civil Defense Network
Canada
Plattsburgh Afb
Rome
Adirondack
Huston Childress
Rissy
Maryville
Norman H. Wissing
Chicago
Robert M. Robideau
Malone
Arthur K. Renfroe
Macon
Thomas A. Douherty
Norristown
Elmira
Godfrey
Childress
Schuyler Hospital
Montour Falls
Griffiss Air Force Base
Unemployment Rises in Vermont Week End
Vermont unemployment climbed 2.6 percent for the week ended December from the prior week. The Department of Employment Security reported 4,520 people filed unemployment insurance claims, down from 4,633 the week before.
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Montpelier, Vt
Department of Employment Security
Vermont
Department
Communist Party Trial Opens Over Refusal to Register
Washington AP The Communist Party faces trial for refusing to register as an agent of the Soviet Union in a 12 year federal battle. Gus Hall says the case violates the Constitution while Atty. Gen. Kennedy argues the 1950 internal security law requires registration of a party controlled by the Soviet Union. If convicted the party faces fines and disclosure of officers members and finances. Hall and Benjamin J. Davis are charged with failure to register. Trial date not set. indicted December 1, 1961 on 12 counts.
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Soviet Union
Gus Hall
Justice Department
American Communist Party
Robert F. Kennedy
Department of Justice
Hall
Benjamin J. Davis
India's War Outlook as Nehru Rejects Chinese Terms
Indians await China's response after Nehru rejects Peking terms for the Himalayan border conflict. Beijing accuses India of sabotaging the one sided cease fire and creating border tension. Nehru tells troops the fight could be long but India will regain its territory.
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New Delhi
India
China
Nehru
Peking
ICC Refuses to Review Rutland Railroad Abandonment
The ICC rejected a union bid to reconsider the Rutland Railway abandonment order. An appeal is likely, delaying final abandonment to December 26. The RLEA sought new evidence and worker protections. Gov Keyser indicated stays are possible and service resumption remains Vermont policy.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Rutland
ICC
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
RLEA
Francis J. Esposito
Vermont
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Brotherhoods
Gov. Keyser
Norwood
Malone Junction
N.Y
New York Central
Withdrawals from Cuba Slow. U S Presses on Troop Removal
U S officials say Soviet troops in Cuba are leaving at a very slow rate. Dean Rusk says Moscow’s force level, estimated at 9 000 to 15 000, is modest but well armed and will be watched closely. U S will press if withdrawals don’t speed up.
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Soviet Union
Cuba
Washington
United States
Russia
Dean Rusk
Caribbean
Rusk
Paris
North Atlantic Council
Guevara Claims Castro Planned Nuclear Attacks on U.S.
Ernesto Guevara told a London Daily Worker reporter that Fidel Castro planned nuclear strikes on U.S. cities, including New York, if rockets remained. The interview followed by two weeks the Soviet withdrawal of 42 missiles from Cuba, with U.S. Secretary of State Rusk dismissing it as talk.
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UPI
Ernesto
Che) Guevara
Havana
Fidel Castro
U.S
London
Daily Worker
United Press International
Guevara
United States
New York City
Cuba
Dean Rusk
Kennedy forms nine member committee on foreign aid goals
President Kennedy names retiring General Lucius D. Clay to head a nine member bipartisan panel to review military and economic assistance totaling about 4 billion dollars yearly. The committee, titled The Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, includes Lovett Meany Mason Black Anderson McCollum Phleger Harden and others to assess effectiveness aimed at concrete security and stability goals.
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Washington
Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
White House
U.S
Congress
Free World
United States
David E. Bell
Agency For International Development
Bell
Fowler Hamilton
Robert A. Lovett
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Edward S. Mason
Harvard
Eugene Black
The
World Bank
Robert B. Anderson
the Treasury
Dwight D. Eisenhower
L. F. McCollum
Houston
Tex
Continental Oil
Herman
Phleger
San Francisco
State Department
Clifford Harden
University of Nebraska
Hamilton
Chester Bowles
Controversy over Adlai's Cuba views widens in press
CBS says McGeorge Bundy fed Saturday Evening Post writers information on Adlai E. Stevenson and Cuban crisis deliberations. Time Newsweek and Life questioned the Post account while the White House denied foundation of Life's claims. Bundy faced comment but denied detailing Stevenson's stance. he is described as an Eisenhower supporter and Republican ally.
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NEW York
McGeorge Bundy
Adlai E. Stevenson
Columbia Broadcasting System
Bundy
Saturday Evening Post
Kennedy
Charles Bartlett
Stewart Alsop
National Security Council
Ing
U.N
Stevenson
Time
Newsweek
Life Magazine
Life
White House
Pierre Salinger
Washington
CBS
U.N. Ambassa
Dor
Post
U.S
Robert Pierpont
CBS Washington
Eisenhower
All 37 Men Found Dead In Mine Pit
Rescue workers conclude mass effort at Robena mine after sighting the last of 37 bodies from the explosion on November third. Officials say all died instantly from the blast force. bodies stretched 4 000 feet along the mine face as relatives react in grief.
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Carmichaels
Robena
U.S. Steel
Greene County
Frank Behm
James Girod
Wirtz Seeks End to New York Newspaper Strike
Secretary of Labor Wirtz meets with New York publishers and striking printers to urge resumption of work at nine major dailies as the city endures a third day of blackout.
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Wirtz
New York News Strike
NEW York
W. Willard Wirtz
Williams Play Draws Mixed Boston Reviews
Boston critics split on Tennessee Williams Milk Train Does Not Stop Here Anymore at Wilbur Theater. Elliot Norton praised its musical structure but faulted some performances while Mildred Dunnock earned strong praise. Cyrus Durgin found the symbolism vague and less compelling.
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Boston
Tennessee Williams
Wilbur Theater
Elliot Norton
Boston Record American
Williams
Norton
Hermione Baddeley
Flora Goforth
Paul Roebling
Chris Flanders
Mildred Dunnock
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