Roosa Named No 3 in Kennedy Treasury Team
Palm Beach AP President elect Kennedy selects Robert Roosa a New York banker as undersecretary for monetary affairs in the Treasury. Roosa 42 will oversee the national debt and advise on policy while Dillon approves. Archibald Cox is named solicitor general and Fulbright weighs domestic and foreign policy.
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Archibald Cox
Harvard
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ocean Front
Pierre Salinger
Washington
Congress
Roosa
Treasury Department
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Dillon
Treasury
University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rickover To Be Honored On Nautilus Ceremony In Groton
Secretary of the Navy William Franke will award Vice-Admiral Hyman Rickover the Distinguished Service Medal aboard the submarine Nautilus in Groton Connecticut on January 1. The event marks the sixth anniversary of nuclear naval power and includes laying the keel of the Marquis de La Fayette with Nautilus reactor power assisting. Rickover praised for rapid nuclear propulsion progress as 15 nuclear submarines are in service and more under construction. Admiral Rickover leads naval nuclear propulsion and heads the AEC naval reactors branch.
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Groton, Conn
Secretary of the Navy
William Franke
Hyman Rickover
Navy
General Dynamics Corp
Electric Boat Division
Franke
Rickover
Marquis de la Fayette
LaFayette
Cmdr
Eugene Wilkinson
Wilkinson
William Anderson
North Pole
Lando Zech, Jr
Bureau of Ships For Nuclear Propulsion
Atomic Energy Commission
Naval Reactors
Republicans Plan Party for Nixon Birthday
Capitol Hill Republicans plan a large party for Vice President Nixon on January 9 to mark his 48th birthday and boost Republican morale, with Rep. Auchincloss of New Jersey signaling solidarity.
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Nixon
Washington
Capitol Hill
Rep. Auchincloss
Matskevich Receives New Post in Virgin Lands Territory
Moscow reports Comrade Matskevich, previously criticized over farm problems, named chairman of the executive council in the newly created Virgin Lands territory. The radio omitted his agriculture minister title, suggesting a demotion but still a significant appointment linked to Khrushchev's grand project.
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Moscow
UPI
Vladimir Matskevich
Virgin Lands
Matskevich
Wreckage May Be That of Bounty Mutineers Vessel
An ancient wreck found 200 miles north of Cairns is suspected to be the Pandora, the British ship sent to recapture Bounty mutineers. Historian Colin Roderick cites the bell inscription and vessel size as clues while divers retrieved the ship's bell from the coralline seabed.
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Sydney
Australia
Pandora
Colin Roderick
Herbert
John Knatchbull
Mearchim
Hatch
Kent
Kingdom of England
Cairns
Donald Smith
Bligh
The
England
Eisenhower seeks $150 million overseas loan fund boost
Administration sources say President Eisenhower will ask Congress for an additional 150 million dollars for overseas loans after the next session opens. The request would add to the development loan fund for the current fiscal year ending June 30.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Baudouin Returns to Homeland After Spanish Honeymoon
King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola flew home from a Spanish honeymoon as Brussels faced violent protests over austerity. About 15,000 demonstrators clashed with police, with 2,000 Belgian soldiers recalled from NATO, and Antwerp seeing spreading strikes.
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Brussels
Baudouin
Fabiola
General Workers Federation
Spain
Pierre Harmel
NATO
West Germany
Mother and 11 Children Die in Quebec Fire
AP report from Noyan Quebec details Marjorie Vosburgh 43 and 11 of her 15 children killed in a single house fire near the village 35 miles south of Montreal. Abel Vosburgh escaped with burns while firemen found the mother and most of the children among the ruins after an early morning explosion believed caused by an oil stove.
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Noyan
Que
Marjorie Vosburgh
Quebec Province
Montreal
Abel
Vosburgh
Daredevil drives car along railroad tracks near train
An 18 year old Theron Luther George Jr. zigzagged a car five miles down Seaboard Air Line tracks in DeKalb County at dawn, crossing three trestles and a bridge ahead of a moving train. He pled guilty to drunkenness on private property as police intervened. The engineer recalled the near miss and the judge gave six months in jail.
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Decatur, Ga
J. B. Broom
Theron Luther George, Jr
Daredevil
Broom
DeKalb County
Oscar Mitchell
George
Nixon declines participation in Patriot tribute TV show
President Eisenhower tribute invitation rejected by Nixon. Herbert Klein cites timing out of town and a temporary policy against television appearances to avoid public events during the Kennedy transition. Nixon has also turned down other shows.
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Washington
Nixon
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Estranged Couple Crash Kills Girl in Indiana Collision
In Tipton Indiana a 1 year old girl Vicki Lynn Hamilton died after a head on crash on a snow packed county road 6 miles northeast of Tipton. Her mother Eleanor Hamilton 31 and Vickis father Phillip Hamilton 33 were injured as was Joyce Long 24 of Windfall. The family said they were en route to a neighbor to pick up the husbands son.
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Tipton
Ind
Vicki Lynn Hamilton
Windfall
Eleanor Jane Hamilton
Phillip Hamilton
Joyce Long
Hamilton
Steve McQueen becomes father again with newborn son
Hollywood AP reports actor Steve McQueen welcomed a second child as Neile McQueen gave birth to a son on Wednesday. The family home in Hollywood confirmed the arrival and shared the happy news.
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Hollywood
Steve McQueen
Neile
West Germany and East Germany renew trade pact
West Germany and East Germany reach a renewed trade pact ending a Berlin crisis threat. The agreement cancels a Sept 30 cancellation and takes effect Jan 1, amid Soviet-West German talks and Berlin rights disputes. Chancellor Adenauer and Soviet envoy Smirnov discussed settlement with no details released.
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West East Germany
Berlin
West Germany
East Germany
West Berlin
Bonn
Russia
Adenauer
Smirnov
Erich Mende
Free Democratic Party
Evicted sharecropper shot in Somerville tent city
A wounded Negro sharecropper asleep in a tent in Somerville Tennessee was hit by a stray shot from a passing car. Negro leaders said the incident occurred in a racially tense county tent city amid ongoing unrest.
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Somerville
Tenn
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