Belgium Strikes Prompt Army Aid to Run Essentials
The seven day general strike in Belgium crippled rail, utilities, and postal services as socialist unions protest austerity. Army soldiers and reservists are deployed to guard stations and vital installations while authorities arrange technicians to operate basic utilities. Clashes risk widening between socialist and Christian socialist unions as Parliament debates economic responses to Congo independence and related costs.
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Brussels
UPI
Gaston Eyskens
Belgium
Lonia
NATO
Congo
Mobutu To Keep Complete Control In Congo Crisis
In Leopoldville UPI reports a rift between Parliament backers and Mobutu supporters over plans to retain the college of commissioners. Marcel Lihau hinted Mobutu will use force if needed to hold power, while discussions sought a path back to parliamentary rule and a replacement government.
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Congo
UPI
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Marcel Lihau
Joseph Mobutu
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Lihau
Mobutu Neo
Joseph Lleo
Senate
Joseph Kasavubu
Lan
Lee
France conducts third nuclear test in Sahara
Paris reports France detonated a small force nuclear device at Reganne in the Sahara Desert, 7 30 am local time, the third test since joining the atomic club. Authorities say fallout precautions were taken and data will be published. it was not a weapon yet a stage toward a military atomic program.
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UPI
France
Sahara Desert
Charles de Gaulle
French Atomic Test Center
Reggane
Sahara
Algeria
African
United States
Russia
Britain
Federal agencies to be reformed under Kennedy plan
President elect John F Kennedy will push ethics reforms and end backdoor contacts in federal regulatory bodies. James M Landis's 87 page report to Kennedy urges creation of a White House regulatory czar to oversee agencies and provide creative direction.
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Washington
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Landis
White House
Policemen Ordered to Patrol in Pairs
The Childress Police Department will pair night patrols and require sawed off shotguns in cars at all times, announced Chief Alvis Maddox. Two officers will ride together at night whenever possible. Maddox cited a Tulsa assistant chief’s killing as a reason for the policy.
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Childress
Alvis Maddox
Watch For Dakil's Biggest Surprise Of The Year
Local feature previews upcoming surprises from Dakil in tomorrow's edition index.
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Dakil
Dahil
Texas Highway Toll Tops Nation Death Count
United Press International tallies 635 highway deaths in the Christmas weekend national total versus NSC’s 510 estimate. Texas reports 33 traffic fatalities and a deadly stretch includes Reed Calvin Pemberton, 45, of Nocona, in a multiple vehicle crash on U S 83. Teen gang violence adds four Texas fatalities. four children die in a Hubbard County blaze.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
Texas
Reed Calvin Pemberton
Nocona
U.S. 83
Pemberton
San Antonio
Juan Lopez
Lopez
Juan Orosco Jr
Loma
Orosco
Department of Public Safety
General MacArthur Leaves Papers to City of Norfolk
Gen Douglas MacArthur will leave his personal papers and other war reminders to Norfolk Virginia chosen as the perpetual resting place for records of his Pacific victory in World War II and his Korea service. He asks that he and his wife be buried in Norfolk with a courthouse block landscaped and renamed MacArthur Square.
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UPI
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Korea
MacArthur
MacArthur Square
John Arthur Carter Charged With DWI and Released
John Arthur Carter of Childress was jailed three days as part of his DWI sentence after plead guilty to a Saturday arrest by the Highway Patrol. He received a $125 fine plus costs and a six month license suspension.
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John Arthur Carter
Childress
Carter
Highway Patrol
Kennedy Faces House Rules Battle as Liberal Drive Opens
In Washington Democratic liberals push President-elect Kennedy to leverage patronage persuasion and public pressure to wrest control of the powerful 12 member House Rules Committee from conservatives. A key week awaits as liberals aim to break the panel's control to advance a five point domestic program including housing slum clearance Social Security expansion medical care minimum wage increase education aid and unemployment relief. Kennedy backers expect smoother passage in the Senate than in the House.
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Washington
UPI
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House
Kennedy
Congress
House Rules Committee
Rules Committee
Mgkennedy
Senate
Fire Department Answers Four Calls Over Christmas
The Fire Department handled four calls during the Christmas holidays. Two were on Christmas Eve including a small storage house fire at 56th Street Northwest and a stove fire at 900 Avenue D Northwest. Oil Creek fire between Fifth and Sixth on Avenue D was contained and no spread. A trash fire at 405 Third Street Southeast at 1:30 a.m. was extinguished before spreading.
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Avenue D Nw
Fifth
Sixth
Avenue D
Third Street
Mrs Cochran Dies in Childress Services Held Today
Minnie Jane Cochran 73 longtime Childress County resident died at Childress General Hospital after years of ill health. Funeral services were at First Baptist Church with Rev. Joe Allen officiating. Interment in Childress cemetery. survivors include multiple step children and siblings.
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Childress County
Childress General Hospital
First Baptist Church
Joe Allen
Shelton Nunnelly
Harry Fletcher
J. B. Goodson
Gene Dill
Charles Fitzgerald
Franklin Moore
Childress Cemetery
Newberry Funeral Home
Cochran
Brown County
Childress General
Tom P. Cochran
Childress
Diphtheria Claims First Child Victim in Plainview
In Plainview Texas the diphtheria outbreak that began in early November claimed its first victim Mary Diane Sandefur a 3 year old girl daughter of Mr and Mrs Tommy R Sandefur died in a local hospital Health officials report more than 65 people infected in two months but until now all had survived
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Plainview
Tex
UPI
Mary Diane Sandefur
Tommy R Sandefur
Connally Named Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy Choice
A congressional source reports John B. Connally is Kennedy's pick for secretary of the Navy. Connally, a former secretary to Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson and Johnson campaign manager, now serves as a trustee for Sid Richardson's estate.
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Washington
UPS
Texas
John B. Connally
John F. Kennedy
Connally
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Sid Richardson
Burglary arrest follows quick county case
Leon Hayes aged 28, released from state penitentiary on December 6, is jailed again and to be charged with burglary in Justice of the Peace court this afternoon. He admitted stealing $325 from the Katherine and Vaughn Cotton office between 8 and 9 p m Sunday, with money recovered within two hours. Sheriff and Police Department praised rapid cooperation.
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Leon Hayes
Justice of the Peace Court
Hayes
Fay Eatherly
Eatherly
Alvis Maddox
Maddox
Sheriff's Department
DWI Charges To Be Filed Against Gray
Virgo Roy Gray of Midkiff Texas is jailed awaiting DWI charging by the County Attorney. Gray was arrested yesterday by the Highway Patrol.
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Gray
Virgo
Roy Gray
Midkiff
Texas
Highway Patrol
Emma Wygal Dies Monday at 90 in Tell
Mrs. Emma Leona Wygal 90 wife of Tom Wygal of Tell died at 10 15 a m Monday in a Chil dress rest home from a sudden heart attack Her services are set for 2 pm Wednesday at Southside Baptist Church Tell with Rev Calvin Nevells Eastern Star rites and burial in Tell Baptist cemetery Interment by Newberrys She was born February 22 1880 in Arkansas and married in Greenville July 10 1901 The family moved to Tell in 1906 Survivors include her husband five sons four daughters one sister and four brothers and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Tom Wygal
Tell
Childress Rest
Southside Baptist Church
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Newberrys
Arkansas
Greenville
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Order of Eastern Star
The
Baptist Church
Roy
J. D
Clyde
Ropesville
Lord
Balls and
Grady
Childress
J. D. Atkisson
Guy Mosley
O. R. Morris
Amarillo
W. J. DeZonia
Dallas
O. L. Bain
A. P. Cardwell
Lakeview
Lonnie Cardwell
Phoenix, Ariz
Aron Cardwell
Frederick, Okla
Tom Cardwell
Grand Prairie
Three Tickets Issued After Christmas Eve City Crash
At 3 50 p m on Christmas Eve three autos collided at Avenue F and Main Street. Mrs Lula Huddleston Route Two Childress was southbound on Main, Jones Route Two Childress eastbound on Avenue F, and Johnny Longbine Route One Childress eastbound. Huddleston received a failure to grant right of way ticket while Longbine and Jones faced speed contest tickets. Huddleston bruised but in good condition. others uninjured. Damages were substantial.
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Avenue F
Main Street
Lula Huddleston
Childress
Main
Charles Jones
Johnny Longbine
Route
Jones
Longbine
Accident ticket issued after Second Street collision
One ticket was issued in a head on collision between a pick up and an automobile at Second Street and Avenue A Southeast at 8 45 a m yesterday morning according to the Police Department Jess Wheeler of 104 Second Street Southeast was driving north and started to turn west when his pick up crashed into an automobile driven by Wayne Proffitt Wheeler was given a of way No one was injured Damage to the two vehicles was considerable
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Second Street
Avenue A
Jess Wheeler
Wayne Proffitt
Wheeler
W T Gillam Dies Rites Held Today
Long time Kirkland resident William Thomas Gillam 83 died Sunday at Childress General Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral 4 p m today at Newberry Chapel with Elder E A Sanders officiating. Interment Kirkland cemetery. Survivors include two daughters Mrs J V Dial and Mrs Adam Reinhardt and four sons E H R C Gillam A L Gillam and R Gillam.
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Kirkland
William Thomas Gillam
Childress General Hospital
Newberry Chapel
E. A. Sanders
Childress
Cold air to surge into Texas with Panhandle snow likely
Frigid air moves toward Texas promising colder conditions for northern regions by Wednesday with possible snow in the Panhandle. Wet fog delays in South Texas ease as a warming trend returns by New Year’s weekend.
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Panhandle
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
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