Year end honor roll of 1962 local contributors
A nostalgic listing honors 1962 community figures for outstanding qualities. It names Jim Sloan and others, with humorous descriptions, including a note about discarded Christmas trees and a tour ticket for the city drainage ditch. The column also comments on newspaper delivery by a family carrier pulling evocative memories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Sloan
Stevens Park
Dale Saffels
Mitch Geisler
Chamber of Commerce
Leroy Hood
Telegram
Helen Harp
Chuck Reel
King
Kings
Beth Lilley
Tragic canyon hike claims three Utah children
In Waterfall Canyon Ogden Utah three children Shauna Southwick 9 Mark Way 9 and Bonnie Ross 8 ran out after school with parental permission. Searchers found their bodies at the canyon base after temperatures near freezing. Shauna died on the way to a hospital while Mark and Bonnie perished at the site. The cliff remains iced from seepage despite little water at the summit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden, Utah
Waterfall Canyon
Utah City
Paul Southwick
Shauna
Mark Way
Bonnie Ross
Southwick
Mark
Bonnie
Holiday Death Toll at 646
CHICAGO AP The four day Christmas holiday traffic deaths totaled 646 with 107 fires and 85 other accidents raising the total to 838. Weather blamed for many fatalities as the National Safety Council projects 420 to 480 more deaths during the New Year weekend.
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Chicago
The
National Safety Council
Kennedy Reviews U S Strength and Budget Choices
President Kennedy assesses U S military strength with civilian and military leaders in Palm Beach Florida. He also meets Cuban Bay of Pigs veterans released from prison and weighs details of the 1963 tax cut while defense chiefs debate the Skybolt missile and the $51 billion defense budget heading to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palm Beach
Fla
Pentagon
Kennedy
Congress
Two Trains Crash in Britain Kill at Least 18
Two British trains collided near Coppendale Junction 25 miles southwest of Manchester in a blizzard. At least 18 people died including six children and an American serviceman. 33 were injured as travelers rode on Boxing Day. Rescue workers used head lamps to reach the injured in icy conditions. Europewide cold persisted from the Far North to the Mediterranean with heavy snow and freezing temps reported in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Norway.
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London
Europe
Coppendall Junction
Manchester
Harold Schiff
Cheshire
Mediterranean
Liberia
Portugal
Spain
Barcelona
Valencia
Algeciras
Bay
Gibraltar
Italy
Alps
Sicily
Italian Alps
Trapelle
Copenhagen
Denmark
Paris
Germany
Oslo
Norway
Hammerfest
Nome
Alaska
Premier Salken Daulenov Ousted in Kazakhstan
Pravda reports Salken Daulenov, premier of the Kazakh virgin lands territory, was fired for nationalism and expelled from the Kazakhistan central committee. The move follows harsh critique of agricultural output under Khrushchev era targets.
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Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Virgin Lands
Kazakhstan
Salken Daulenov
Communist Party
Saing
Party
West Central Asia
Khrushchev
Garden Sass Gas Garden Receives Christmas Additions
Garden Sass Gas Garden received many new items for Christmas along with an improved financial balance.
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Gas Garden
Freed Bay of Pigs relatives sail to US aboard African Pilot
The African Pilot docked at Port Everglades with 922 Bay of Pigs relatives now free in the United States. Passengers, mostly emotional families,were welcomed by observers as Red Cross nurses assisted. The ship carried limited life safety gear and aboard, 11 stretcher cases, while guards blocked additional refugees. President Kennedy prepared for Palm Beach talks with five freed invasion leaders.
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Miami
Fla
Port Everglades
Fort Lauderdale
Fidel Castro
United States
Red Cross
Joe McGowan
Associated Press
Four Escape East Berlin During Christmas Holiday Break
Four young men and a large group escaped East Germany to West Berlin amid Christmas holidays. A 28 year old climbed the border wall at Neukoelln crossing. Three men breached British sector barbed wire as a guard fired a flare. A bus with four adults and four children rammed barriers at Babelsberg Bahn checkpoint, guided by Hans Weidner, 40. The group rested in a West Berlin refugee center. Also one border guard crossed in uniform with a tommy gun. Clifford Hope Jr., Garden City attorney and former state senator, fell ill at his office and was hospitalized at St Catherine.
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Babelsberg
West Berlin
Hans Weidner
Clifford Hope Jr
Garden City
St. Catherine Hospital
St. Catherine
Hope to Bring More Relatives Relocate From Cuba Load One
The freighter African Pilot brought 922 relatives of Bay of Pigs invasion prisoners to Port Everglades near Miami. Cuban Families Committee head Mrs. Berta Barreto de los Heros said another ship is planned in two to three weeks to evacuate more relatives and even sweethearts. James B. Donovan will coordinate the next voyage. Refugees helped tidy the ship while awaiting processing and several were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Uchitelle
Miami
Fla
Florida
Berta Barreto de Los Heros
Red Cross
Kennedy
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Medical History at Stake in Boston Arm Reconnect
Everett Knowles Jr a 13 year old from Somerville awaits another operation at Massachusetts General Hospital to attempt rejoining his completely severed right arm. Doctors led by Dr. Ronald Malt fear only partial recovery remains possible but report nerves are already connected two inches below the armpit. The procedure could mark a historic first if full life function can be restored.
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Boston
Everett Knowles, Jr
Ronald Malt
Massachusetts General Hospital
Everett
Knowles
Somerville
Malt
Urbophrenia: City Living Linked to Health Decline
Physicians warn urban crowding and indoor climates create urbophrenia. The condition, described by Dr Igho Hart Kornblueh of the University of Pennsylvania, links city life to physical and mental strain from a sheltered, indoor existence. Arthritis studies show weather shifts worsen joint pain, with controlled chamber tests revealing rapid pain increases when air pressure and humidity rise together.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Igho Hart Kornblueh
University of Pennsylvania
Kornblueh
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Graduate Hospital
Joseph Lee Hollander
Slightly Warmer Weather Seen Across Kansas
VOPEKA AP forecast expects mostly fair skies with westerly winds as storm tracks shift north of Kansas. Daytime highs in the 30s east and low 40s west, with tonight’s lows 5 to 15 degrees above zero. Readings rise 10 to 20 degrees from Wednesday. minimums 6 to 20. Snow cover to melt as warmer air moves in.
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Vopeka
Kansas
Richard Garrett
Wichita
Pittsburg
Garden City
Garrett
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Blihu Allman
U.S
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Douglas Dillon
Henry Fowler
Joint Chiefs
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
Harold Macmilan
Red Party
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Rockies
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Maine
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Cole
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Ind
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St. Mary’s
Washington
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Virginia
Vana Harbor
Banning Lary
U.S. Coast Guard
Iavana
Angla Ceballos de Marero
C van
Cuba
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Morro Castle
Havana Harbor
East Berlin
Chiff Hope Jr
Akron
Trece LaJanta Broporia Dodge
Garden
Goodland
Till City
Lamar
Trace Russell
Salina
Topel rWichity
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