Community Christmas Tree Drive Seeks $6000 Goal
Bluefield’s Community Christmas Tree Association and the Daily Telegraph report a slow start with $18.50 raised Saturday toward a $6,000 target to fund gifts for about 2,000 needy Bluefield children. Donations support toys nuts and candy, with Santa distributing gifts at the annual party. send contributions to Box 208 or deliver to 412 Bland Street.
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Bluefield
Jimmie
Santa
Community Christmas Tree Association
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
C-O Daily Telegraph
Box 208
Bland St
Pearl Harbor Remembrance at Arizona Memorial Ceremony
The flag over the Arizona was at half mast for the 22nd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Veterans groups laid wreaths near the wall listing 1,102 Navy men entombed aboard the sunken battleship as ceremonies took place at Pearl Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor
Arizona
Pearl Harbor Navy Base
John F. Kennedy
Navy
Pacific
Lodge Not Interested in 1964 Republican Nomination
Philadelphia Bulletin quotes Henry Cabot Lodge from Saigon saying he has no intention of running for president in 1964. He notes no request from Eisenhower and says his main contribution is the work he is doing in Saigon. He expresses satisfaction with his current role.
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Philadelphia
Bassador
Henry Cabot Lodge
Philadelphia Bulletin
Saigon
The
Bulletin
Lodge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Heemhe
Khrushchev preps pivotal debates on chemical drive
Premier Khrushchev readies a Central Committee session to approve a bold seven year chemical industry plan worth about 22 billion dollars. He argues for higher fertilizer, plastics, and fiber output to boost agriculture and living standards while facing party doubts and Sino pressure.
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Khrushchev
United States
U.S.S.R
Moscow
Council of Ministers
Bolivian miners seize U.S. officials and volunteers
Three U.S. government officials and a Peace Corps volunteer are held hostage by antigovernment miners at Siglo Veinte mine 150 miles south of La Paz. The captors demand release of three Communist labor leaders, with the hostages reported safe and well treated.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
U.S
Peace Corps
Washington
State Department
Richard I. Phillips
Comibol
Minera de Bolivia Technicans
Thomas M. Martin
United States Information Service
Decatur Ave
N.Y
Michael A. Kristula
USIS
Cadillac
Mich
Bernard Rifkin
Agency For International Development
Robert Fergerstrom
Phillips
Federico Escobar
Irineo Pimentel
Zaral
Siglo Veinte
Youth Killed in Bike Collision in Duncanville
In Duncanville a rain slicked street saw an 11 year old boy struck head on by another bicycle. Larry Glenn Allen died from a broken neck and fractured skull after the crash, while the other rider survived.
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Dallas
Larry Glenn Allen
Duncanville
Eleven Family Members Die In Train Car Crash
A railroad collision in Midland City Alabama killed eleven members of the Langford family and injured one survivor, Margaret Ann Langford, a one year old. The Atlantic Coast Line freight struck the family's station wagon as it crossed the tracks, demolishing the car and fatally wounding multiple relatives. Margaret Ann, held for observation, survived with minor bruises.
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Midland City
Ala
Margaret Ann Langford
Dothan
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Alabama
Rufus Riley
Henry Langford
Ray Allen
Johnson Signals Budget Cuts and Vietnam Briefing
President Johnson announced plans to cut the defense budget and Pentagon payroll in the next fiscal year with a target not to fall below 102 billion dollars. He said he will address the U N General Assembly in New York on December 17 and will send Secretary McNamara to Saigon next week to assess South Vietnam. The announcements came at an unannounced White House news conference lasting about 25 minutes.
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Johnson
Pentagon
U.N. General Assembly
New York
Defense
Robert S. Mc
Namara
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Congress
Defense Department
U. N. General Assembly
John J. Kennedy
Kennedy
Adolfo Lopez Ma‘cos
Mexico
United States
Charles de Gaulle
Johnson City
Tex
Torso Found Along Wyoming Road Mystery Deepens
A dismembered torso of an unidentified adult male was found near State Route 16 Pineville Welch Road in Wyoming County. Head and limbs were missing and autopsy in Pineville to determine time and cause of death. Three local teens found the gruesome remains and the torso was moved to a Pineville funeral home awaiting autopsy results.
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Wyoming County
Leland Phillips
Pineville
Pineville-Welch Road
Thomas and
Leonard Sizemore
Charles Day
Phillips
Robertson-Foglesong Funeral Home
Thompson Starts His Prison Career
Thompson, a former Minnesota Bar Association crime law chair, is jailed at Stillwater Prison after a first degree murder conviction for arranging his wife Carol Thompson’s death. Judge Fosseen sentenced him to life. parole possible after about 17 years with good behavior. Court move followed a 36 year old St. Paul lawyer’s arrest in Hebhepin County jail transfer.
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T. Eugene Thompson
Minnesota
Stillwater
Thompson
Carol
St. Paul
Stillwater, Minn
Minnesota Bar Association
Committee On Criminal Law
Rolf Fosseen
Hebhepin
Minneapolis
Carol Thompson
Morrison In Louisiana Lead In Democratic Governor Race
Morrison led in early returns from Louisiana’s Democratic governor race with 56 of 2,219 precincts reporting. He counted 9,907 votes while Kennedy ally and former ambassador to the OAS, leading rivals Kennon 2,149 Long 2,938 McKeithen 2,224.
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New Orleans
South Louisiana
deLesseps S. Morrison
Kennedy
Organization of American States
Robert F. Kennon
U.S
Gillis Long
Public Service
John J. McKeithen
Claude Kirkpatrick
Louis J. Michot Jr
Morrison
Rep
Long
Africans Plan Security Council Moves on Colonialism and apartheid
African states led by Ghana and Guinea move to push decolonization and end racial segregation at the United Nations. The 11 nation Security Council may urge Portugal to grant independence and free political prisoners, while the General Assembly could demand South Africa end apartheid and aid families of imprisoned opponents. The proposals were expected to be introduced Monday.
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United Nations
N. Y
Ghana
Security Council
Portugal
Guinea
General Assembly
South Africa
Cal
Christmas wall talks fade as East Germany rejects passes
West Berliners hoped for a Christmas wall breach through East German passes for visits to relatives in the East. East Germany insisted talks only with West Berlin authorities and kept conditions that West Berlin offices issue passes, dashing Bonn optimism and Willy Brandt warned hopes remained groundless.
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Alexander Abusch
Brandt
Bonn
East Germany
West Berlin
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