Joyous Christmas Eve Airlift Ends Cuban Prisoner Return
A Christmas Eve airlift at Homestead Air Force Base completed the return of Cuban invasion prisoners. President Kennedy hailed the operation as the final step in the two day mission, with a brigade of about 2,000 released and flown to Miami amid the overcast night.
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Dockers Claim Walkout 100 Per Cent Effective
New York longshoremen said their coast to coast strike is 100 percent effective as ships idle from Maine to Texas. Shipowners called the stoppage senseless and paralyzing and claimed a late contract offer could have prevented the waterfront shutdown. The New York Shipping Association spoke of an extension with higher wages pensions and welfare benefits and a one year study to settle the featherbed issue.
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Prisoners Freed In Cuba Amid Christmas Hope
A Christmas release effort unites Jose Perez San Roman Aneido Oliva Manuel Ortime and others with their loved ones as Fidel Castro agrees to free invasion captives. James B. Donovan, New York lawyer representing American interests, signals U S support while Kennedy praises the move at the White House. In Cuba 1 000 émigrés may follow on a freighter bringing ransom goods as longshoremen exempt cargo aids Havana bound ships.
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Weather Factor In Lower Death Toll On Highways
Weather conditions during the 102 hour Christ bas period reduced traffic fatalities. Experts including Howard Pyle of the National Safety Council warned initial death toll estimates of 650 to 70 might have been high. Persistent cold rain snow and fog kept drivers cautious and many trips canceled.
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Pope Dedicates Mass To Persecuted On Christmas Eve
Vatican reports Pope John XXIII led a quiet Christmas Eve Mass dedicating prayers to persecuted, old, sick, and lonely people. He blessed all humanity and urged peace, with a focus on those unable to attend church during the holiday season. Across the globe, midnight services echoed the pope’s message of hope despite wartime anxieties.
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Castro clears way for Cuban relatives to join freed prisoners
Fidel Castro has cleared the way for more than 1,000 relatives of liberated Bay of Pigs prisoners to leave Cuba for the United States within 48 hours. Mothers, wives, and children will join inmates’ families as the African Pilot carries them to the U.S. in a humanitarian mercy mission tied to the prisoner swap. The operation accompanies food and medicines supplied by the American Red Cross and involves negotiations led by James B. Donovan. Castro will provide food for the relatives during the 12 hour voyage. See RELATIVES, Page 6-A.
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White Yule Indicated For Vicinity
The Associated Press reports a white Christmas is indicated for western North Carolina and possibly the Piedmont with sleet or rain elsewhere on Christmas Day. Two inches of snow were on the ground at West Jefferson as it still snowed Monday evening. temperatures were 24 degrees and roads passable at dusk.
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Bethlehem Nativity Celebrations Shine Across World
In Bethlehem and beyond faithful Christians mark Christmas with prayers and pageantry as rival churches share the grotto where Christ was born. A silver star and a giant electric beacon highlight ceremonies at Saint Catherine's while radio broadcasts connect worshippers from Rome to Jerusalem to the Bethlehem theme of peace and reverence.
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Christmas Day Reflections Across War Tied World
The Associated Press notes Christians worldwide marked Christmas with services feasting and family reunions while wars and tensions persisted in Vietnam Korea and the Middle East. Bethlehem held a quiet dawn ceremony led by Patriarch Alberto Gori as Arab Israeli divisions and Yemen’s revolution dampened Western pilgrim numbers. Mandelbaum Gate reopened to Christian Arabs visiting Jerusalem and Jordan areas.
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Kennedy Scales Sentence Appealed By Kennedy Pardon
Kennedy commutes sentence of Smith Act convict Junius Scales, 42, to parole next October after serving one third of a 15 year term. Scales, longtime Communist Party leader in the Carolinas, was convicted in 1958 and later granted a new trial after Supreme Court involvement. The Justice Department notes his six year term exceeds the normal allotment for the offense.
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Weather forecast for Virginia and North Carolina
Snow turns to feet and rain over the south with snow accumulating several inches in the north. Tuesday temperatures in the upper 20s. Wednesday is warmer with rain in central and east portions and sleet and rain in the mountains. In North Carolina hazardous driving conditions possible mainly west and north, with up to two more inches of snow in the northwest. Cloudy and cold through Tuesday. Temperature readings from the dial thermometer on the Register Building.
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