Spring’s Reluctant All Over
The Associated Press report surveys a globe-wide mix of spring weather. Canada’s prairie provinces and the Maritimes were blanketed by up to 13 inches of snow, with blizzard conditions in places, as parts of the United States from Texas to Indiana faced more snow. Japan’s cemeteries saw crowds in overcast skies with rain, while cherry blossoms remained dormant. Europe showed varied conditions from Britain’s rain to Paris’s mild 18-degree day amid budding fruit trees, and snowfall and frosty highs persisted in northern Germany before warming in Bavaria.
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Toronto
New York
Canada
Prairie
Maritimes
United States
Texas Panhandle
Indiana
Japan
Europe
Baltic
Britain
London
Riviera
Paris
Champs Elysees
Latin Quarter
Britanny
Berlin
Germany
Bavaria
Lions Point to Cambodia Shooting Down Viet Plane
In Saigon sources say Cambodian fighter planes likely shot down a Viet Namese spotter plane and wounded a U.S. Army pilot during a strike observation near a frontier hamlet. The observer was killed and Cambodia protested that the village lies inside its borders. Talks with South Viet Nam were postponed.
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Cambodia
U.S
Lions Point
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Phnom Penh
Saltonstall Urges Wool Exemption in Tariff Talks
U S senator Len Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts urged the Tariff Commission to exempt wool textile products from tariff reduction negotiations. He pressed that no further duty reductions be considered and backed an international accord to limit imports by country of origin and Arabic categories.
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Washington
Len Leverett
Norway Backs Cyprus Peace Force Support
The Storting approved a Foreign Ministry proposal to contribute 50000 dollars to the United Nations peace force for Cyprus. The decision was unanimous.
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Oslo
Norway
Storting
Foreign Ministry
United Nations Peace Force
Cyprus
Pershing Missiles Assigned to U.S. 7th Army in Germany
The Army announced that 400 mile range Pershing ballistic missiles will be assigned to the U.S. 7th Army in West Germany. The solid fueled two stage missiles, launched from tracked vehicles, will provide nuclear support to the 7th Army.
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Washington
API
U.S
7Th Army
West Germany
New Jersey Woman Named U S Envoy to Denmark
Katharine E B White of New Jersey named the United States ambassador to Copenhagen succeeding William McCormick Blair Jr. Blair plans to return to the U S to work on President Johnsons campaign. White, 58, grandmother and former Red Bank mayor, is among Johnsons push to place 50 women in ambassador posts. The couple are on vacation in Spain and due home March 24.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
U.S
United States
Katharine EB. White
New Jersey
William McCormick Blair Jr
Blair
Johnson
Kennedy
Adlai E. Stevenson
Mrs. White
Mes. White
Red Bank
N.J
28 Perish In Indian Rioting
CALCUTTA India AP twenty eight persons perished and 58 were hurt in religious rioting in Orissa Friday government officials announced. Troops are being flown Saturday to Rourkela the steel town where the trouble started and to two other disturbed areas. Some reports said it stemmed from refugees from East Pakistan arriving there on their way to a rehabilitation center. Others described it as Hindu Muslim rioting.
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Calcutta
India
Orissa
Rourkela
Steel
Te Trainroad
East Pakistan
Bring Your Radio For Easter Service In Attleboro
Attleboro Mass AP sunrise service at the athletic field invites attendees to bring portable radios. No public address system exists, and WARA radio will broadcast the service from sunrise. The service is led by the youth council of the Attleboro Council of Churches.
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Attleboro, Mass
Attleboro
Youth Council of the
Attleboro Council of Churches
Stalin Wara
Letter From Mrs Kennedy Refusing Aid Brings $3 000
A letter from Mrs John F Kennedy rejecting resale for charity sold for 3000 dollars to Alvin J Slater of Boston after being auctioned in New York. The four page handwritten note dated January 13 1955 from Palm Beach Florida argues their wealth was exaggerated.
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New York
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Munro
Hamilton
Charles Hamilton
Alvin J. Slater
Boston
Ronald C. Munro
Birmingham
England
Kennedy
Swiss Objector Wins Citizenship On Court Appeal
Adolf Otto Fuchs a 35 year old Swiss national from Woon socket Rhode Island won an appeal in a higher federal court claiming he did not sign a formal appeal. He had been denied U S citizenship in 1961 after marrying an American and had previously been ruled a treaty alien waiving citizenship during a 1952 draft exemption appeal.
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Boston
U.S
Friday
Adolf Otto Fuchs
Woonsocket
U.S. District Court
Rhode Island
Providence
Fuchs
Brookline
Mass
Moscow Faces Service Woes and Tax Revenue Gap
The Moscow City Council reported over 5000 complaints from residents about dry cleaning laundry shoe repair and auto service last year contributing to a shortfall in 1963 revenue taxi income fell 4.99 million short of the goal. Night taxi access remains difficult for residents.
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Moscow
Caribou Respond In Maine Test Near Baxster Park
Maine Fish and Game says adopted caribou at Baxster State Park are thriving. Officials note Newfoundland caribou released in December in two areas are beginning to converge.
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Augusta
Maine
UPI
Maine Fish and Game Department
Baxster State Park
Khrushchev to Attend Aswan Nile Diversion Ceremony
The Egyptian government announced Khrushchev will attend a May ceremony marking the Nile's diversion into a new channel for the Aswan Dam. The project, aided by the Soviet Union, will see the Nile fully crossed by May 13 as rock filling forms the dam base and its generators are installed.
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CAIRC
Khrushchev
Nile
Aswan
Five Million Overpaid for Nuclear Frigate Bainbridge
Washington reports Comptroller General Joseph Campbell told Congress the government overpaid five million dollars for the USS Bainbridge, the nation’s only nuclear powered frigate. The Bethlehem Steel shipyard at Quincy built it under an 87 million dollar firm price contract approved by Assistant Navy Secretary Belieu on January 11, 1962. The report cites Navy officials opposing the price as too high. The Bainbridge, delivered September 28, 1962, was built after the Long Beach, also by Bethlehem, and Bethlehem later sold the Bainbridge on December 31, 1963.
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Washington
UPI
Joseph Campbell
Congress
Bainbridge
Campbell
Bethlehem Steel &Co
Quincy
Mass
Navy
Kenneth E. Belieu
Belieu
General Dynamics
New York
Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem
Springtime Blizzard Hits U S Midriff
A spring blizzard swept the central U S with heavy snow and high winds. Travel halted, schools closed, and phone lines failed as motorists stranded across the Great Plains and Midwest. Snow totals reached 10 inches at Winner South Dakota and 9 inches at Hull Iowa, with 5 inches at Sioux City and Superior Wisconsin. Ice and sleet disrupted highways, causing numerous accidents and widespread outages affecting seven Minnesota towns and 1500 rural phone subscribers.
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Great Plains
Midwest
Iest
Colorado
Winner
S.C
Hull
Iowa
Sioux City
Superior
Wis
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Chicago
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