Post Office Undergoes Final Fitting Before Opening
Garden ing garden ing patrons tour the new post office noting space gains but warn that completion hinges on equipment delivery especially a battery of 800 inner wall boxes delayed past Dec 1 with $25 daily penalties. Large open counter replaces multiple windows while stationary clerks keep lines moving. Also includes weather note and Kennedy Christmas broadcast.
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Chamber of Commerce Coffee Club
Lester Harp
Lester
Leo van Dillie
Garden National Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph Gardiner
St Catherine Hospital Receives 3 Year Accreditation
St Catherine Hospital in Garden City today earned a three year Certificate of Accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals in Chicago. Sister Mary Pia, O.P., administrator, accepted the news after the facility completed a million dollar expansion and remodeling, with a survey conducted in November by commission inspectors.
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St. Catherine Hospital
Garden City
Mary Pia
O.P
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Chicago
St. Catherine
Joint Accreditation Commission
Commission On Accreditation
Commission
American College of Physicians
American College of Surgeons
American Hospital Assn
American Medical Assn
Civil Defense to Cost 700 Million for Shelter Incentives
Washington AP says the federal Civil Defense program slated for Congress costs about 700 million dollars and will provide incentive payments to construct fallout shelters in schools hospitals and welfare institutions. It notes no home shelter funding and outlines plans for shelter spaces for about 20 million people starting next July.
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Washington
Congress
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Gilpatric
Katanga Crisis Deepens as U.N. Forces Struck
Katanga leader Tshombe called for total war and poisoned arrows against U.N. forces in Elisabethville after Indian bombers and Swedish jets attacked Katanga troop positions. U.N. jets bombarded southern suburbs while reinforcements arrived at the U.N. airport as violence raged around Hotel Lido and the city.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
Prince Leopold Hospital
Kenya Township
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Ina
Tshombe
Ontce
U.N
Belgium
Grandma Moses Dies at 101 in New York State
Grandm a Moses, the famed primitive artist known for painting after aged 70, died 12 days before Christmas at Hoosick Falls Health Center. Born Anna Mary Robertson near Greenwich, she married Thomas Moses, raised ten children, and rose to worldwide fame on 100 million Christmas cards. Her health waned in a nursing home, and she passed away at 4:15 p.m. with nurses nearby.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Grandma Moses
Grandma
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Clayton Shaw
Anna Mary Robertson
Greenwich
Thomas Salmon Moses
Virginia
New York
Legislators Back to Class in January Budget Session
TOPEKA AP Legislators will return to classes for a one month budget session in January. House Speaker William L Miller Jr Hutchinson arranged informative sessions where department heads will discuss agency history jurisdiction organization and services. Mitchell urged heads to avoid defending budgets and political issues. Session opens January 9 and runs through the month.
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Topeka
William L. Miller
R Hutchinson
Mitchell
Flu Outbreaks Hit Alaska and Midwest Schools
The Associated Press reports flu strikes on an Alaska island community, and in Missouri and Illinois. Public Health Service warns of a larger winter rise. Hydaburg lacks a doctor as 100 of 250 residents are ill. vaccines are scarce. no deaths reported.
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Associated Press
Alaska
Missouri
Illinois
United States
Public Health
Washington
Potosi
George S. Cresswell
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Wolf Lake
Lutesville
Cape Girardeau
Thomas Burdon
Hydaburg
Ketchikan
Wolflake
More Snow May Be Coming To Pecka
AP reports Kansas remains cold with light snow or drizzle possible statewide tonight. Afternoon highs reach 20 to 30 degrees, with overnight lows from near zero in the northwest to about 25 in the southeast. Cold readings include Hill City below zero Abilene zero and Manhattan one degree. Highs Wednesday range from 18 to 30, with Garden City and Pittsburg at 30. A new front will limit warming, but not drop temperatures sharply.
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Peka
Kansas
Goodland
Pittsburg
Hill City
Abilene Zero
Wamego
Manhattan
Concordia
Lovewell Dam
Garden City
Weather Bureau
California Nears NY as Nation's Most Populous State
Census Bureau provisional estimates released Wednesday project California will overtake New York in 1963 as the nation's most populous state. New York is listed at 17 million, while California stands at 16.13 million as of July 1.
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Washington
California
New York
Census Bureau
Fatal Collision Near Greeley Colo Kills School Bus Children
A Union Pacific streamliner struck a school bus in northern Colorado near Greeley injuring many and killing at least 20 children. Coroner Ross Adamson said 20 bodies were taken to a Greeley morgue as parents and rescuers arrived in grief.
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Greeley
Colo
Colorado
Ross Adamson
Adamson
Duane Harris
Greeley Tribune
State Highway Patrol
Henry Kaufman
Union Pacific
Omaha
NATO Talks West Defense Review Berlin Issue
NATO defense chiefs meeting in Paris shifted focus from Berlin talks to Western defenses. Gen Lauris Norstad said 25 divisions will be ready by year end with possibly 23 fully equipped, urging more time and money to reach 30 divisions as urged by NATO strategists to deter a Soviet attack without nuclear options.
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Parisap
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin
U.S
Lauris Norstad
Europe
Western European Union Assembly
NATO
Norstad
Seward County Sheriff Resigns Amid Ouster Hearing
LIBERAL AP Sheriff Lyan Urwin announced his resignation today while testifying at a hearing on a motion to suspend him from office pending an ouster action. He denied charges except drinking on patrol duty, and said he would resign and mail it to the governor due to financial strain and the cost of a defense.
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Liberal (Ap
Lyan Urwin
Seward County
Maxine Wood
Charles Vance
Urwin
Thant Presses for U.N. Action on Katanga Policy
At the United Nations Acting Secretary-General U Thant moved to press for U.N. action against the Katanga government backed by the United States and the Asian African bloc. Britain urged a cease-fire, warning of escalating military actions, while the 49 nation group voiced support for Thant and concern over permanent Security Council members. Separately the United States and Soviet Union proposed a new 18 nation committee to begin urgent disarmament talks with a deadline of June 1.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
U Thant
U.N
Katanga
Britain
Thant
Patrick Dean
Congo
U.S
Mehdi Vakil
Iran
WU. N
France
Vakil
Security Council
United See
Egoieli
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Burma
India
United Arab Republic
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Brazil
Mexico
Sweden
Ellsworth seeks House probe into reserve callup issues
Rep. Robert F. Ellsworth asks the House Armed Services Committee for an inquiry into inequities and problems from the recent reserve and National Guard callup. He cites morale devastation, wasted manpower, and loss of public confidence. Reservists report arriving at camps unprepared with missing gear and, in some cases, receiving stations lacking orders.
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Washington
Robert F. Ellsworth
R - Kas
House Armed Services Committee
Ellsworth
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
British Aircraft Corp seals Vickers Viscount sale to China
In London the British Aircraft Corp confirmed a contract to sell Vickers Viscount prop-jet airliners to Communist China. Reports say China ordered six planes in the deal.
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London
British Aircraft Corp
China
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