Marines Invite 32 Buddies to Mrs Ransford Home
In Park Forest near Chicago, Marine corporal Donald Ransford invited 32 Okinawa buddies to his mother’s five bedroom home for after Christmas. Five Marines arrived Wednesday, with more expected from Cincinnati and the Chicago area. Mrs Ransford prepared frantically with food, a turkey, coffee gear, and extra bedding as neighbors helped. Butch says most will want to be home for New Year’s Eve. his mother calls him a nice boy who lacks full sense.
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Okinaa
Siasods
Suburban Park Forest
John G. Ransford
Ransd
Donald
Butch) Ransford
Okinawa
Jerry
Cincinnati
Ransford
Butch
Biddeford Lass Eyes Career Of Barbering
In Lewiston feature on Hanson Barber School three new students join the program. Mrs. Dorothy Mack of Portland age 30, Miss Bernice Vadnais 18 of Biddeford, and Miss Jeanne Fortin 18 of Holllower plan barbering careers. Mack already shaves her husband and hopes to open a shop. Vadnais will take a chair in Biddeford. Fortin, soon wed, will service her husband.
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Lewiston
Hanson Barber School
Dorothy Mack
Portland
Bernice Vadnais
Biddeford
Jeanne Fortin
Hallower
Mack
Augusta Company
Joseph Small
Malcolm Jewett
Norman W. Thurston
Ruth Littlefield
Martin H. Johnson
Sanford
Kennedy Schedules Evening News Conferences Prompt GOP Probe
Washington Republicans, led by Sen. Kuchel of California, say Kennedy's planned live evening news conferences could be propaganda and may require equal air time if used for political aims. Salinger says networks may choose live presidential meetings but are free to carry others. Kennedy risks immediate public quotes, altering the current system where direct quotes appear only from a checked transcript.
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Washington
Thomas H. Kuche
R-Calif
John F. Kennedy
White House
Kuche
Senate
Kennedy
Kuchel
Congress
Pierre Salinger
Palm Beach
Financial genius pays Christmas bills in January
A humorous definition notes that a financial genius is someone who can settle his family’s Christmas expenses in January, illustrating the strain of postholiday finances. The quip reflects common debt humor from midcentury style cartoons.
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Copr Genfen Corp
Widows Elect New State Officers for 1961
Widows of World War I Chapter 9 in Saco elected new officers for 1961 at Mrs. Elaine Dubois home. Named are Eva Desautels president Rose Frechette senior VP Emelia Bolduc junior VP Ella Luman recording secretary Frances Lewis treasurer Exila Romeo chaplain Elizabeth Dubois historian and Marie Roussel sergeant at arms. Installation will be by Hazel Small in January. A letter from national president Edith Fletcher noted the national meeting in Washington and a bill to Congress seeking a separate widows law and liberal pensions. Christmas greetings were received from national and department leaders. The treasurer's books continued.
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Elaine Dubois
Beach Street
Saco
Eva Desautels
Rose Frechette
Emelia Bolduc
Ella Luman
Frances Lewis
Exila Romeo
Elizabeth Dubois
Marie Rousselle
Hazel Small
National
Edith M. Fletcher
National Executive
Washington
D.C
Congress
National Headquarters
Department
Martha Whittier
Belgian King Flies Home As Demonstrators Riot
Belgian King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola cut short their honeymoon as 15,000 striking workers filled Brussels. Rioters pelted buildings and a movie theater, while police and soldiers guarded government sites. Leaders vowed the strike would continue until goals were met amid mounting urban unrest.
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Belgium
Baudouin
Fabiola
Seville
General Workers Federation
Spain
Brussel
Brussels Place
Pierre Harmel
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
West Germany
Harmer
Antwerp
Leo Collard
Socialist Party
Gaston Eyskens
Judge Beane Sr. Dies at 77. longtime Maine probate judge
Emery C. Beane Sr. 77, of Kennebec County, a former football coach and a judge of probate, died Wednesday. He served as municipal judge in Hallowell and Augusta, coached at Bowdoin and Otterbein College of Ohio and at Bridgton Academy.
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Emery C. Beane Sr
Kennebec County
Beane
Hallowell
Bowdoin and Otterbein College of
Ohio
Bridgton Academy
Reed Seeks More DED Funds for Economic Promotion
Governor Reed announces recommendations for increased Department of Economic Development funding to expand its promotional program to lure new industries. He cited the DED as rated second to North Carolina by the Society of Industrial Realtors and vowed to push for first place in the next year.
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Augusta
Reed
Department of Economic Development
North Carolina
Society of Industrial Realtors
Kennedy Circle of Far East Posts Names Top Candidates
Spencer Davis reports that President-elect Kennedy may appoint Arthur H. D. Denafor, Alexis Johnson, Arthur Burns, Richard P. Conlon, and Robert A. Scalapino to the post of assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs. Johnson and Scalapino favor gradual policy shifts toward Red China with talks and trade. Denafor advocates recognizing a UN backed Formosan state. Johnson previously negotiated with Wang Ping-nan on prisoner releases.
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Associated Press
State Department
Washington
Red China
China
John F. Kennedy
J. Graham Parsons
Arthur H. Dena
Law
John Foster Dulles
Korea
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Formosa
United Nations
U. N. General Assembly
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U. S
Thailand
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Johnson
Arthur H. Burns
Congress
Hawaii
Richard P. Conlon
Conlon Associates, Ltd
San Francisco
Robert A. Scalapino
University of California At Berkeley
Geneva
Wang Ping-nan
Scalapino
Ben-Gurion May Quit Over Lavon Inquiry
Jerusalem AP report says Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion hinted at resignation to push for a full legal probe into the Lavon affair. Lavon, ousted in 1955 over a “security mishap,” is linked to a forged document and a 1954 inquiry. Meir reportedly threatened to resign but was persuaded to stay.
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Lavon
Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Pinchas Lavon
Moshe Sharett
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Soviet Union
Ben-Gurion
Social Democratic
Mapai
Golda Meir
Aad
Levi Eshkol
Supreme Court
Itzhak Olshan
Army
Yacov Dori
Histandrut
Israeli Federation of Labor
Kennedy Names Roosa to Treasury Post and Cox to Solicitor General
President elect John F Kennedy names Robert V Roosa as under secretary of the Treasury for monetary affairs and Archibald Cox as solicitor general. He plans a joint review of foreign policy with Senator J William Fulbright and may hold a news conference at his Palm Beach home. Roosa, 42, a New York Federal Reserve Bank vice president, will oversee national debt management. Cox, 48, Harvard law professor and aide, brings broad government experience to the solicitor general role.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
New York
Robert V. Roosa
The
Treasury
Kennedy
Archibald Cox
Harvard
the United States
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Fulbright
Dean Rusk
Rockefeller Foundation
Roosa
Treasury Department
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Eisenhower
Cox
University of Michigan
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Psychology Aids Dieters With Structured Habits
A psychology based approach helps dieting by lengthening the eating chain and introducing ritual. Researchers from Indiana University advise three meals daily, rigid meal times, and avoidance of accessible snacks, plus activity alternatives when hunger hits.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Science
NEW York (Ap
Charles B. Forster
John I. Nurnberger
Eugene E. Levitt
Indiana University School of Medicine
American Association For the Advancement of Science
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