Christmas Tree Quality Slips Amid Steady Supply
Americans will face similar selection and price for Christmas trees as last year but with somewhat lower quality. A 5 to 6 foot balsam fir may cost 3 to 5 dollars and Scotch pines could fetch higher prices as demand grows. Heavy cutting began in November across Northwestern New England and Great Lakes regions with mild weather aiding harvest.
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Great Lakes
Washington
American Forrest Product Industries Inc
Canada
Carlton Hodges
Albion
Maine
Maine Christmas Tree Association
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Catholics Deny Castro Bribe Charge In Cuba
Catholic officials rebut Fidel Castro's charge that priests took bribes to preach counterrevolution. A letter by Manuel Cardinal Arteaga and other bishops denounces communism while Archbishop Perez Serantes reports being jailed briefly en route from a Havana conference.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Manuel Cardinal Arteaga
Enrique Perez Serantes
Santiago
Camaguey
Castro
Reds Building A Modern 12 Story Hotel Near Kremlin
Tass reports a 12 story hotel under construction near the Kremlin designed to house 5 890 people and to include a 3 000 seat concert hall according to Tass.
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Tass
Reds
Moscow
Kremlin
Executives Hold First Meeting of Season
Carl Goerch, Raleigh editor and humorist, will be guest speaker at the Decatur Executives Club meeting at Decatur Country Club. He publishes The State, started in 1933. Born in Terrview, Leee Goerch came to North Carolina in 1913 for Washington Daily News assignments. He later ran Sun Journal and Wilson Mirror before returning to NC to launch The State. He says he plans retirement after about 45 years in journalism.
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Raleigh
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Decatur Executives Club
Decatur Country Club
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Terrview
Leee Goerch
North Carolina
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Sun Journal
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Wilson Mirror
Wilson
Satchmo Invited To Acapulco Jazz Festival
Mexico City AP reports six nations invite Louis Armstrong to Acapulco for the Pacific resort citys first International Jazz Festival early in 1961.
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Satchmo
Acapulco
Mexico City
Pacific
Amer
Bishops Defend Priests in Sugar Strike Critique
Archbishop Perez Serantes led Catholic circles in defending chaplains against Castro who accused them of exploitation. The bishops called the charge unjust and noted priests had defended workers' rights, countering claims of big checks to priests from nationalized sugar firms.
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Perez Serantes
Castro
Sugar Hill
Patterson Seeks Bond for New State Office Building
Gov. John Patterson asks Alabama’s 1961 legislature to approve a bond issue likely totaling $3 million for a new state office building. He cites space shortages for the State Highway Department and says the structure would meet needs for the next 20 years.
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Montgomery
John Patterson
Patterson
State Highway Department
Capitol
Laos Receives Soviet Pilots Amid Aid Promises
The first Soviet airlift to Laos landed in Vientiane with 16 pilots aboard but no aid payload. Officials expect later flights to deliver 5,000 tons of petroleum products and civilian goods while U S deliveries face delays amid Laos civil war. An American unloading team and vehicles stood by as locals observed a quiet welcome.
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Vientiane, Laos
Laos
Vientiane
Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
America
United States
Foreign Ministry
Kennedy to discuss Defense reorganization with Symington
President elect John F Kennedy plans a Monday meeting in Palm Beach with Sen Stuart Symington who prepared a Defense Department reorganization study. They may hold a joint news conference before returning to Washington and Kennedy then meets Eisenhower at the White House.
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John F. Kennedy
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Defense Department
Washington
Kennedy
Symington
Kennedy plans Washington return then Palm Beach Christmas visit
The report notes Kennedy intends to return to Washington on December 12 and fly to Palm Beach for December 16 to 19, with a possible extension through Christmas. He will spend Christmas with his wife and two children despite the prior police and local detail.
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Eisenhower
Kennedy
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Washington
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Jacqueline
John Fitzgerald Jr
Palm Beach
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