24 Dec 1962
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1962
Page
1
A Mt. Snow chair lift cable jumped a wheel causing a 100 skiers on the lift to evacuate with ladders. One woman from Stamford Conn., Mrs Mario Sennino 40 hospitalized in Bennington with possible rib fractures and minor injuries. The lift was under repair today.
A flood of greetings pours into the White House from Americans and international senders, tallying 1500 a day. Messages praise Kennedy and his Cuban crisis handling, with some personal notes from youngsters and sailors alike.
The 453rd Quartermaster Company in Bennington faces continued Army Reserve activity after temporary approval of a training plan. Members may transfer to Battery B of the 5th Howitzer Battalion with split drills in Bennington and Brattleboro, and integrated Sundays sessions. FOE hall trustees donate use for remaining fiscal year.
Six planes join a Christmas Eve airlift to move 426 of 1,113 Cuban invasion survivors to Homestead Air Force Base. DCGs via Pan American World Airways shuttle detainees from Havana to Miami for freedom amid a $53 million relief effort. The arrival of the first 108 relief seekers marks a tense but hopeful turn as the mission continues.
Fidel Castro proclaimed a 24 hour state of peace with the United States as 1 113 invasion captives began being exchanged for food and medicine aboard the African Pilot. Relatives toasted with champagne while prisoners were moved from Principe Prison to a military airport and to the United States.
Report notes a hung jury in the Haffa conspiracy trial with jurors indicating deadlock on the charges. The article outlines prosecution and defense positions and next steps in the case.
Four American prisoners remain in Communist China on Christmas Day. Three face little hope of release, one has nine years left of a 20 year term. U.S. efforts to free them have stalled. Their routine mirrors years in jail with little contact home, and a monthly Red Cross package as their sole link.
A longshoremen strike tied up shipping from Searsport Maine to Brownsville Texas. 81,000 ILA members refused to work, despite Kennedy's 90 day plea, halting loading at New York Newark Houston Lake Charles and other ports. Pickets appeared and vessels remained docked as economic impact spread.
Washington reports suggest Kennedy Macmillan accord may alter the Minuteman ICBM program and the next military budget. Informed sources say the current plan funds another Minuteman wing, possibly 100 missiles instead of 150, with talk of adding two more wings up to 300 missiles.
Jordan grants 36 hour passes to 26,686 Israeli Arabs allowing them to cross into Jordan for Christmas family visits at the Mandelbaum Gate between Israel and Jordan. They bring cakes cheeses and wines for relatives who fled the Palestine war and now live in refugee camps.
Not in Russia Everyman III the ban the bomb vessel sailed to Leningrad on Sept 26 with 12 international nuclear disarmers. Soviet officials refused land access and the crew met only peace committee officials. After being asked to leave they scuttled the ketch, which was later refloated and headed to Stockholm for repairs.
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