Contract Probe Climax Ties Callahan Norton Contact
In Miami Beach on March 23, 1951, William F. Callahan and Francis C. Norton were described as meeting by Norton's widow as the Worcester investigation neared a climax. Norton, a contact man for a Worcester firm, faced public contracts totaling 2.75 million. Norton’s wife read a letter noting a “very full day” of business. Callahan, then Massachusetts public works commissioner, avoided questioning as lawyers pressed motions to block his appearance. The probe broadened from alleged payoffs and tax evasion to potential bribery in public official dealings.
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Boston
UPI
Miami Beach
Fla
William F. Callahan
Francis C. Norton
Norton
Thomas Worcester
Callahan
Public Works
Massachusetts
Worcester Engineering
Atty
Calvin P. Barnlett
Worcester
del Ray
Paul T. Smith
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
Go Carts Banned in Homewood Streets
Police in suburban Birmingham Homewood announce they will prosecute youths who drive gasoline powered go carts on public streets. Principal John R Slaughter received a fractured skull Tuesday when hit from behind by a low-slung car driven by a 15 year old girl using a mower engine.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Homewood
John R. Slaughter
Ready For Bad Weather Ad Appears For Mrs Hugabone
A humorous notice states that on the first night AD van Mrs. Hugabone received three talls and sold all seven windows. Readers are invited to place ads by dialing HI 7 7311 and asking for a friendly admairer.
Sentenced For Jordanian Time Bombing
Eleven men including two Syrian officials were sentenced to death by Jordan’s state security court for plotting the Aug 29 time bomb attack on the Prime Ministry building that killed Prime Minister Waz za Majali and 11 others. Five men were acquitted. Four convicted men in custody are named. seven others were sentenced in absentia including the two Syrians.
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Amman
Jordan
API
Wazza Majali
Salah Safadi
Mohammad Hindawai
Karim Shakra
Hisham Abbas
Secret Police
Burham Adham
Bahjat Massouti
Gov elect Volpe names Agawam man to admin post
Gov elect John A. Volpe announced Vincent R. Carotea 38 of Agawam as assistant secretary for administration in his office. Carotea is Agawam selectman publisher of the Agawam Independent and head of a fence and iron works firm in Agawam and a fence corporation in Connecticut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
John A. Volpe
Vincent R. Carotea
Agawam
Carotea
Agawam Independent
Fence and Iron Works
Fence Corporation
Connecticut
New England Manufacturing Faces Slow 1960 Recovery
New England's manufacturing sector lagged in 1960 with 1,000 fewer workers than a year earlier while non manufacturing jobs rose. Wages increased modestly, but weekly factory earnings lag national levels. three major work stoppages occurred in shipbuilding, aircraft, and GE plants. Retail prices rose sharply and the report compares 1960 to 1957 and 1959 benchmarks, noting regional trends align with national patterns.
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Boston
OPB
New England
Wendell D. Macdonald
UD & Bureau of Labor Statistics
Boston Area
Quincey
Airscraft
Connecticut
General Electric Co
Massachusetts
Vermont
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Maine
106 year old insists on birthday date change
Mrs Harriette Fletcher of Swainswick England defies records showing her birth on December 28 insisting she has always celebrated on the 2nd and is set to mark another birthday today. She is 106.
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Swainswick
Eng
Harriette Fletcher
Fletcher
Regional Klan Leader Resigns Over Integration
OLDSMAR Fla. Bill Hendrix, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's Southern Northern Knights, says he accepts racial integration and resigns his office. He cites no lawful path to preserve segregation and criticizes potential illegal actions like bombings or burning schools.
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Oldsmar
Bill Hendrix
Ku Klux Klan
Knights
Toome
Please Don't Point At the Snakes Leaflet Advises Polite Move
London report notes a colonial leaflet for Sarawak tourists advising not to startle snakes. Stand aside politely and give the snake room to move. Do not point or jab. Snakes dislike being gestured at and will retreat if left undisturbed.
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London
UPS
Sarawak
Borneo
Alleghany Buys Over 100000 B and O Shares
Allan P. Kirby of Alleghany Corp announces that Alleghany, which controls New York Central, purchased more than 100000 shares of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad stock for investment and to protect Alleghany interests in the NYC. He gave no details on further actions.
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NEW York
UPI
Allan P. Kirby
Alleghany Corp
New York Central Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Kirby
Alleghany
New York Central
Mienhaone
New ‘York
The
Central
C&o
Party Caucus Seen Evading House Rules
A House Democrats caucus planned for Monday aims to shelve or modify rules to press liberal demands. Officers and candidates for speaker and committees will be discussed, but a rule change is unlikely to be proposed before other business is finished.
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Washington
Clarence Cannon
House Democrats
Ways and Means
Sam Rayburn
Texas
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
House
Cannon
Glennan resigns from NASA to return to Case Institute
Washington report says T Keith Glennan steps down as NASA chief effective January 20 as John F Kennedy takes office, returning to the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland. Eisenhower praises NASA's 27 months of achievement and anticipates a bright future in space exploration.
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Washington
UPI
T. Keith Glennan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States
Glennan
John F. Kennedy
Case Institute of Technology
Cleveland
Eisenhower
NASA
Kennedy Names Roosa as Treasury Undersecretary
President elect John F Kennedy selects Robert V Roosa vice president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank to be undersecretary for monetary affairs Roosa 42 Harvard educated economist will oversee the national debt with a $21000 annual pay and works with Douglas Dillon in shaping fiscal policy Kennedy meets with Senator Fulbright to discuss foreign relations and the international situation in Palm Beach Florida
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Palm Beach, Fla
John F. Kennedy
New York
Robert V. Roosa
Treasury
Kennedy
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Roosa
Treasury Department
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Robin
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Eisenhower
Archibald Cox
Solicitor
Harvard
University of Michigan
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dillon
Brussels Strikers Roll Through Capital as NATO Troops Back
In Brussels 15,000 demonstrators surged through the city smashing windows and overturning cars as King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola returned home. Police rioting squads guarded neutral zones while 2,000 to 2,400 Belgian soldiers recalled from NATO units joined riot police at government buildings. Premier Eyskens met a striker delegation after a petition delivery and signaled openness to parliamentary discussion of amendments to his austerity program.
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Brussels
Belgium
Baudouin
Fabiola
Brussel
Pierre Harmel
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
Harmel
Antwerp
Leo Collard
Socialist Party
Gaston Eyskens
Puta
Eyskens
Appeals Court Urged to Halt Tennessee Evictions
The Justice Department urged the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block evictions of Tennessee Negro sharecroppers who say landowners ousted them for voting. About 700 tenants live in a tent city in Haywood and Fayette counties as federal action seeks an injunction and trial on the voting rights claim.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
UPI
Justice Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
Circuit Court For Appeals
Federal Court
Memphis
Tent City
Tennessee
U.S
Marian Boyd
Tenn
Haywood
Fayette
John Doar
Harold H. Greene
Washington
John Martin
mid-South
FBI
Bult Boyd
Shepherd Towles
John MecFerren
McFerren
Sterling Stuckey
Chicago
Somerville
J. P. Yancy
Brother-in-law sought by Miss ing Persons Bureau
John B. Thomas of Montgomery asked the Missing Persons Bureau to locate his brother-in-law David Johnson who left town four years ago to avoid a $1 traffic ticket.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
John B. Thomas
Missing
David Johnson
Johnson
Nixon declines participation in Patriot salute TV show
President Nixon refuses to take part in a tribute to Eisenhower set for January 10 citing a scheduling conflict and a policy about TV appearances. Press secretary Herbert G. Klein says the decision is temporary and notes Nixon has saluted Kennedy and will continue to do so in the future.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Nixon
Herbert G. Klein
Kennedy
Klein
Furcola Names Aide Mahoney Special Judge
Gov. Furento nominated Charles F. Mahoney of Springfield as special justice of the Boston Municipal Court. The Executive Council took the nomination under advisement. Cronin of Watertown was named clerk of the Newton District Court, a lifelong post paying $10,000 annually, and the council confirmed him.
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Boston
API
Furento
Charles F. Mahoney
Springfield
Mahoney
Executive Council
Furcola
Edward J. Cronin
Watertown
Newton
Cronin
Princess Margaret To Fly Tourist Class To Ireland
Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones will travel tourist class on an Irish airline for their Ireland visit. The airline expects slightly better seating and meals for the couple. It marks the princess’s first flight on a regular commercial airliner, as she usually uses Royal Air Force planes.
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London
Margaret
Ireland
Antony Armstrong- Jones
Royal Air Force
Republic
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Associated Press
Mary P. Norton
Raymond Hugabone
Circular Ave
Eagle Family
Elect Volpe
Agawam Man
N.E
B&o
NYC
Space Program
N.Y. Reserve Bank
New Treasury
Robert VY
NATO
Sovereign
Seville
General Workers Federation
Crit
Isized
Spain
Gaston Eyskens cuiHe
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