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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1963
Page
2
Lakonia survivors arriving in Funchal charged that Greek Line crew panicked and discipline cracked, forcing passengers to take charge of lifeboats. Salta rescued 475 aboard, with 24 dead among 1036 aboard. Reports on total survivors and missing vary, with Admiralty listings and Stratheden updates cited.
Eyewitnesses recount a chaotic lifeboat deployment on a liner during a public lounge fire scare. Passengers blame crew mismanagement as lifeboats failed and no drills were held. Salvage ships led to Madeira with 77 survivors aboard Rio Grande. Stratheden and Charlesville later brought rescuers and bodies.
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI outlined his forthcoming Holy Land pilgrimage as a religious journey of prayer and unity. He urged peace through arms race reduction and negotiations, stressing openness to Arabs, Jews, Catholics, and non Christians, and possible meetings with Jordan's king and Israel's president.
NORTH ADAMS MASS AP A couple who complained about the Greek liner La konia crew after rescue hail from New England. Ivan Buchanan of North Adams is the son of Mrs James B. Buchanan. His wife Dorothy is from Readsboro Vermont, daughter of Philip E Barry of Bennington Vermont. Buchanan a Norwich University graduate, formerly worked for Metcalfe Eddy and Stone Webster, and partnered in Haydon Harding and Buchanan. He served with the Army Corps of Engineers in World War II, mainly on construction in Puerto Rico.
The Lakonia burned off Madeira when a fire broke out just before midnight on Christmas. 51 passengers and 385 crew were aboard as three tugs, British Centaur and other planes pursued salvage and search. No survivors remained in the water as the ship drifted, adrift and burning, to a ghostly outline.
In Nicosia Turkish Cypriots fired on the presidential palace near Archbishop Makarios's residence as Greek and Turkish Cypriots fight for fourth day. No immediate casualties reported though fourteen killed and about 50 wounded overall. Makarios appeals for end to bloodshed.
Greek Premier George Papandreou resigns to avoid reliance on pro Communist support. He submitted the resignation to King Paul after a narrow confidence vote and requests dissolution of Parliament and new elections. The king accepted the resignation and will begin consultations to determine next steps.
An American, Larry Brayton of Fairbanks Alaska, arrived in Amsterdam after defying Soviet officials to stay for his wedding to Rosita Schifman. With a tourist visa extension granted just before the Dec 17 ceremony, he was questioned by customs for nearly an hour and admitted to being penniless. Brayton hopes to work his passage home aboard a ship.
A pre Christmas storm, winds, and freezing rain disrupted air and road travel across the East. Up to 18 inches in western Virginia and up to 15 inches in Tennessee and Kentucky. The system caused at least 15 deaths mostly from traffic and exposure. Snow followed by sleet and freezing rain left icy highways. temperatures hit record lows in Memphis. Highway restrictions limited travel in parts of the South. A white Christmas was forecast for much of the East as the storm moved north.
South Vietnamese armored units smashed into an area south of Saigon long controlled by communist guerrillas after the November coup and uncovered an estimated seven tons of river mines grenades and gunpowder. The large haul boosts government efforts to regain the offensive from the Viet Cong.
Indonesia asked the United States to shelve its plan to send units of the 7th Fleet to the Indian Ocean, arguing the move could heighten tensions in the region and complicate regional security dynamics.
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