Christmas Cheer Fund and local health questions column
Readers ask about handling a shortfall for the Christmas Cheer Fund with tips to cut expenses and coordinate toy donations with the YMCA. The column also reports on a doctors’ column name change, a juvenile gifts program, Hong Kong flu symptoms, snake sightings, and a Social Security tax increase for 1964, with specific figures.
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YMCA
Industrial Management Club
Christmas Cheer Fund
Santa
Matner
George C. Thosteson
Dr. Malner
Joseph G. Malner
Thosteson
Dr. Molnet
Gift list features bizarre high end holiday items
Chicago shoppers eye extravagant presents from $3,000 miniature silver pagodas to a $4,400 baby elephant and a $900 chess set. Catalog descriptions boast luxury centerpieces, rabbit fur tablecloths, exotic animals, and ornate accessories, among others, with prices ranging into the thousands.
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Chicago
Jet Plunges Into Caribbean Sea Near Caracas
A Pan American 707 on a New York Caracas nonstop ran into trouble near Venezuela. The jet exploded over the Caribbean Sea, plunging into the water with 51 aboard, including 42 passengers and nine crew members. Seven bodies were recovered before dawn. The pilot was Captain Sidney L. Stillwaugh of West Islip New York. Residency of several passengers varied with Americans, Canadians, an Italian, and a likely Irish national listed. Crewmembers recovered included interior fittings and life rafts. The plane lost contact with the Caracas airport control tower one minute before expected landing at 10 p.m. A guard at La Guaira Naval Base described witnessing a red ball sink toward the sea.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Caribbean Sea
Pan American
New York
United States
Canada
Italy
Ireland
Sidney L. Stillwaugh
West Islip
N.Y
la Guaira Naval Base
Bombers Strike Hard New Offensive Looms
American B52 bombers delivered their heaviest attack in two months, dropping about 3,000 tons of explosives over 48 hours north of Saigon. U.S. officials say North Vietnamese forces may be preparing a new winter offensive along the Cambodian border, with reports of troop movements toward Hue and Saigon and heightened security alerts in Saigon amid sporadic shelling and a grenade blast in Cholon.
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Saigon
U.S
Washington
Laos
Hue
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Cholon
Sa Dee
Mekong Delta
Diplomats Mull Two-Sided Vietnam Peace Table
High ranking U S and South Vietnamese diplomats met to offer a new plan aimed at breaking the stalemate at the expanded Vietnam peace conference. The United States favors a two-table setup, while North Vietnam demands four sided status for the Viet Cong National Liberation Front. Negotiators including Cyrus Vance and Ha Van Lau prepared to discuss the proposal as Hanoi protested renewed bombings inside North Vietnam.
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Paris
U.S
Vietnam
National Liberation Front
Cyrus R. Vance
Ha van Lau
Vance
Philip CM. Habib
South Vietnam
Nguyen Cao Ky
W. Averell Harriman
United States
Viet Cong
North Vietnam
NLF
Urban Coalition Pledges Cooperation With Nixon
New York reporters note that leaders of the Urban Coalition pledged full cooperation with President elect Nixon to tackle city problems. John W. Gardner said the group could collaborate on many areas as Moynihan joined the briefing. The meeting included John V. Lindsay David Rockefeller Wm Abel and Whitney Young Jr. and featured a luncheon with Scranton Kissinger Rogers and Walter Lippmann. Nixon plans early White House urban affairs talks after inauguration.
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New York
Nixon
John W. Gardner
Gardner
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
White House
Coalition
New Urban Affairs Council
John V. Lindsay
David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Middle East
Henry A. Kissinger
William P. Rogers
Walter Lippmann
Washington
Johnson
Most Of Cabinet Will Take Pay Cut
Washington AP reports that Nixon picks from banking law and construction will take pay cuts as they move to Washington. Cabinet secretary salaries run around 35 000 yearly while incoming leaders like John N Mitchell William Rogers and Richard Nixon himself earn far more in private practice. Governors such as George Romney and John Volpe see smaller raises than their current pay as they join the new administration.
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High Point
Domestic Relations Court
New Courts
District Court Juvenile Division
Aubrey Strother
Juvenile Division
DRC
Juvenile Fund
Washington
Nixon
New York
Michigan
George Romney
American Motors Corp
Housing and Urban Development
John A. Volpe
Massachusetts
Volpe
College Group Opposes Federal Student Aid
A Carnegie Commission proposal to expand direct federal student aid faces opposition from the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. They argue funds should go to the schools to lower costs for students rather than be channeled directly to individuals, warning of potential tuition increases at already financially stressed institutions.
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Washington
New York
Carnegie Commission On Higher Education
Port’s
Carnegie
Thackery
Norman Topping
University of Southern California
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N.C
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Gayle
Mt. Airy
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Urban Coalition
Abel
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United Steelworkers Union
Whitney Young Jr
National Urban League
Scranton
Israel
Fifth Avenue
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