Commanders Lose Hike Bid as Defense Budget Trimmed
Johnson City AP McNamara announced a defense budget cut of about $1 billion reducing totals from $52 billion to $51 billion for the next year. The Joint Chiefs of Staff had sought roughly $90 billion, but the final plan trims $9 billion across services and allows chiefs to appeal.
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Tex
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Defense Department
Budget Bureau
White House
Congress
Cypriots Accept British Plan For Buffer Zone
Greek and Turkish Cypriots accept a British plan creating a neutral buffer zone in Nicosia. British troops pour in to enforce the truce as front lines disengage and daily meetings are set under Sandys supervision to return refugees, restore communications, and reopen broadcasts. The Turkish Cypriots fear minority rights erode amid constitutional concerns.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicosia
British Commonwealth
Duncan Sandys
Makarios
Fazil Kutchuk
Cyprus
Greece
Sandys
Cyprus Radio
Show Boat Rhododendron Faces Funding Vote in West Virginia
The centennial showboat Rhododendron may survive on a $91,800 appropriation to the State Centennial Commission. Executive director Carl Sullivan says the vessel could become self supporting through statewide vaudeville programs and needs about $28,500 for a tug and calliope. The boat sits on the Kanawha River in Charleston and after lawmakers’ performance it will move to Montgomery for a future decision.
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Charleston
State Centennial Commission
Carl Sullivan
Kanawha
Sullivan
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Montgomery
Behan Found Lying in Street in Dublin
Irish playwright Brendan Behan, 40, was found unconscious in a street in Dublin and taken to a hospital with a head wound and pneumonia. Doctors said his condition remained fair and an ambulance was called by a taxi driver and two passengers. Police said the cause of the fall or injury was not yet known, with possibilities including an attack, hit-and-run, or simple accident. Behan recently left a Dublin hospital after treatment for diabetes. He is known for The Quare Fellow and The Hostage.
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Dublin
Ireland
Brendan Behan
Behan
Irish Republican Army
Defense budget cut signals shifts in 1963 priorities
The defense budget will be cut by a billion dollars, McNamara said Monday, signaling reduced chances for major spending increases for military commanders. Congress adjourned after the Senate backed a compromise foreign aid bill. Barry Goldwater plans a Friday news conference on a possible GOP run.
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McNamara
Congress
Senate
Rape Slaying Still Unsolved In Newport News Case
Newport News police report no new leads in the murder of 23 year old Karin Hanchey of Accomack County. Autopsy in Norfolk cites strangulation and sexual assault as the cause of death. Hanchey’s husband identified the body, found in a wooded area near Lucas Creek, after she visited a sister in the city.
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Newport News
Eastern Shore
Norfolk Crime Laboratory
Karin Ursula Hanchey
Melfa
Accomack County
Lucas Creek
Creek
Norfolk
Hanchey
W. B. Weaver
Senate OKs $3 Billion Foreign Aid Bill After Staging Study Push
The 1963 session closes with the Senate passing a $3 billion foreign aid bill authorizing Johnson to extend credit guarantees on sales to Soviet bloc nations. Republicans pressed for an independent study of the program as Mansfield urges swift action to honor the president’s wishes. The vote was 56 to 14 in the roll call.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
White House
Johnson
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Singleton Announces Candidacy for West Virginia Governor
Morgantown lawyer Julius W. Singleton Jr. announced his bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in the May West Virginia primary. He will file in Charleston next week as the filing window runs Jan 6 to Feb 1. Singleton, 42, serves as House speaker from Monongalia County and has a long record in state politics, with four daughters and a West Virginia University education.
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West Virginia
William W. Singleton Jr
Morgantown
Julius W. Singleton Jr
House of Delegates
Charleston
Singleton
W. W. Barron
Hulett C. Smith
Beckley
Barron
Elkins
Bonn Brown
Harold G. Outright
Upshur County
Better
Monongalia County
House
West Virginia University
Army Infantry
Europe
Marjorie Garlow
Democratic Executive Committee
Virginia highway toll hits 980 as year-to-date deaths climb
The Associated Press reports 980 people have died on Virginia roads to date, with two recent fatalities. Portsmouth resident David McNeil Jr., five, died after being struck near his home on November 26. Clar ence Harris, 16, a bicycle rider delivering newspapers on U. S. 60 near Richmond, was killed in a crash involving two autos. The toll positions 1963 as the third deadliest year on Virginia highways, behind 1941 and 1951.
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Associated Press
Portsmouth
David McNeil
Chesterfield County
Clarence Junior Harris
U. S. 60
Richmond
Virginia
Johnson Weighs Veto of $4.4 Billion Public Works Bill
President Johnson is seriously considering vetoing the $4.4 billion public works appropriations bill over provisions striking at executive rights. He reportedly voiced doubts about requests for appropriations routed to a congressional committee rather than to the President in talks with Rep. Carl Albert and Sen. Clinton Anderson.
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Austin
Tex
Johnson
Panama Canal
Executive Department
Congressional
Carl Albert
Dokla
House
Clinton B. Anderson
D-N.m
Goldwater to reveal 1964 decision Friday in Phoenix
Sen. Barry Goldwater will hold a Friday conference at his Phoenix home to announce his decision on 1964 whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination or seek reelection to the Senate. Republicans nationwide expect a White House bid and note his recent heel surgery.
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Barry Goldwater
Washington
Phoenix
Goldwater
Arizona
Senate
White House
World Christian leaders plan historic meeting in Holy Land
Vatican and Constantinople leaders agreed to meet in Palestine with talks between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I. They discussed a possible world conference of Orthodox Catholic Protestant and Anglican leaders to counter atheism and tyranny. The plan awaits Ecumenical Council progress and a likely yearlong wait.
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Pope Paul
Vatican City
Holy Land
Athenagoras I
Constantinople
Istanbul
Palestine
Paul VI
Mount of Olives
Christ
Vatican
Paul
Jerusalem
City to hear opinion on appeal in Lindamood case
Bluefield city officials will hear an attorney prepared opinion on whether the Fireman Civil Service Commission erred in suspending Fireman Jim Lindamood after he struck Fire Chief E L McClure. The Board may pursue Circuit Court action or drop the matter.
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Bluefield
Civil Service Commission
Jim Lindamood
Bluefield Board of Directors
Phil Lilly
Mercer County Circuit Court
Randolph G. Whittle
Lindamood
E. L. McClure
Whittle
Board of Directors
Circuit Court
Lilly
Probable Cause Hearing Set In Carolina Slaying
A probable cause hearing is set for Tuesday for UNC graduate student Frank Joseph Rinaldi charged with murdering his wife Lucille Rinaldi 32. An autopsy listed suffocation as the cause of death. Rinaldi found his wife dead in their Chapel Hill apartment after returning from a shopping trip with a friend John Sipp. The couple married July 31 in Waterbury Connecticut.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Lucille Rinaldi
Frank Joseph Rinaldi
Recorder’s Court
W. S. Stewart
Rinaldi
Durham
John Sipp
Rinaldis
Waterbury
Conn
West Virginia Forecast Temperatures Dip Below Normal
Charleston area temperatures through Saturday will average about 10 degrees below normal with lows near 22 in the north and 27 in the south and highs around 43 north 47 south, according to the Weather Bureau.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
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