Mrs. Kennedy May Delay India Pakistan Trip
Mrs. John F. Kennedy may postpone her January journey to India and Pakistan due to her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy's ill health. White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said a decision would be made in days and noted the elder Kennedy's stroke and pneumonia as a definite factor. Mrs. Kennedy has stayed by his bedside at St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach and would likely delay travel while he remains seriously ill. The planned visit included India's Republic Day in New Delhi on January 26.
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Pat.i Beach
Fla.m
John F. Kennedy
India
Pakistan
White House
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
Goa
Joseph P. Kennedy
Kennedy
St. Mary’s Hospital
West Palm Beach
Joseph Kennedy
Body Pulled From Icy River Waters
The body of Alton Sherrill Wilkerson 30 of Fayetteville was recovered from the Cullasaja River 11 miles southeast of Franklin North Carolina near the place where his car plunged from U S 64 Thursday. He had been en route to a temporary six week assignment in Reno Nevada and was assigned to Pope Air Force Base near Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Reno
Nev
Wilkerson
Pope Air Force Base
Higher Insurance Rates Sought in North Carolina
The North Carolina Automobile Rate Administrative Office filed proposed liability insurance rate increases with Insurance Commissioner Charles F. Gold. The rating bureau expects average 25 percent rises for trucks and commercial garages, costing policyholders about 365 thousand dollars and 1.32 million dollars respectively, varying by region.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Automobile Rate Administrative Office
Charles F. Gold
Pravda Claims Americans Show Interest in Communism
Pravda says thousands of Americans display interest in communism. It cites pregnant women at the United Nations in New York protesting the arms race and hunger strikes by students against West German rearmament. Dozens of universities invite Communists to discuss ideas. many groups seek material on the Soviet Union and communism.
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Ioscov
Pravda
United Nations
New York
Soviet Union
Washington
U.S.S.R
Propaganda Outbursts Stepped Up By PRESTON GROVER
A report notes an escalation of propaganda outbursts attributed to PRESTON GROVER. The article details methods, locations, and potential motives behind the intensified activity. Community leaders call for restraint and verification of sources.
Soviet Propaganda Push Targets Heusinger War Crimes Trial
Moscow diplomats report a intensified Soviet propaganda campaign aimed at frightening the West. The peak claim demanded the trial of Gen. Adolf Heusinger the West German chairman of NATO military committee in Moscow.
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Moscow
United States
West Germany
Adolf Heusinger
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
State Prepares for Warmer Weekend After Cold Spell
A mass of cold Canadian air chills North Carolina with temperatures dropping to near five to fifteen degrees in the mountains and around twenty in the coast region. A high from Texas moves east to bring a warming trend for the New Year weekend amid weather and travel advisories and one or two deaths linked to the cold.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Piedmont
Asheville
Charlotte
Greensboro
Raleigh
Wilmington
Great Lakes
United States
Texas
Senator Ervin asks Pentagon probe of forced D Day film involvement
Senator Sam J. Ervin said he requested a Defense Department investigation into complaints that U S troops were threatened with reprisals to participate in filming the D Day movie The Longest Day. Aides noted complaints came from Rochefort France of soldiers in a supply group assisting the operation.
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Washington (Ap
Sam J. Ervin
D-N.c
Defense Department
Normandy
Ervin
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
Darryl F. Zanuck
Congress
United States
Rochefort
France
Mrs Woodrow Wilson Dies in Washington at 89
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson widow of the former president who helped shape the League of Nations died in Washington at her brick town house. She was 89 and had been in failing health for more than a month. Services are set for New Year’s Day at 11 a.m. at the Washington Cathedral with interment there. The Very Rev Francis Sayre Jr. will lead the service assisted by Rev Malcolm Marshall. She fell ill with a respiratory ailment Thanksgiving night and never recovered.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
Washington Cathedral
Francis B. Sayre Jr
Malcolm Marshall
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church
Wilson
Paroled convict admits leaving minister to burn to death
Lynn E. Houck, 28, confessed after a lie detector test to tying retired minister Rev. Roy R. Decker and leaving him to die in a burning farm home near Brooklyn Michigan on December 26. He claimed the fire started after he plugged in a heater. police say Decker was bound and unconscious. Houck fled in Decker’s car after taking the pastor’s key and $40. Grace and Roy Decker had moved to Tecumseh from Meadville Pennsylvania. Houck, parolee with prior burglary sentence, was arrested near his stepfather’s home.
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Jackson
Mich
Lynn E. Houck
Roy R. Decker
James MacDonald
MacDonald
Houck
Decker
Edwin Houck
Grace
Michigan
Grace Methodist Church
Meadville
Brooklyn
Tecumseh
Kennedy Ready To Launch New Farm Program For 1960s
President Kennedy prepares a modern farm program aimed at raising farm incomes. Secretary Freeman reports general approval and plans to reveal the policy in a special agriculture message to Congress and in the State of the Union. Freeman and advisers held three hour talks at the Palm Beach White House as Kennedy works with Heller Sorensen and other aides.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Orville L. Freeman
White House
Freeman
Congress
Washington
Air Force
Secretary of Agriculture
Kennedys
John F. Kennedy Jr
Council of Economic Advisers
Walter W. Heller
Heller
Theodore Sorensen
North Carolina Raises Minimum Wage for Small Firms
Raleigh AP reports about 19 000 of the state's lowest paid workers will see a higher pay as of January 2. The 75 cent hourly minimum will cover businesses employing four or more workers, reduced from six. The change stems from the 1961 General Assembly.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Frank Crane
General Assembly
Astronomer calls astrology doom predictions nonsense
Hayden Planetarium assistant astronomer James Pickering dismisses Hindu astrologers’ forecast of a February catastrophe as gobbledegook. He notes a rare planetary alignment will occur next month and recalls similar claims in 1285 with no disaster, while Hindu priests warn of world wars and plagues beginning in February.
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New York
Hayden Planetarium
James S. Pickering
Planetarium
Capricorn
Pickering
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Aquarius
India
Southern Belle Beauty Question Sparks Navy Star Romance
Navy quarterback Bob Hecht visits Jackson Mississippi to date Marguerite Richmond after a Mississippi midshipman claimed Southern women are prettier than Northern. The pair exchange letters and plan visits during the holiday social season amid speculation of romance. Marguerite's sister Sandra says Hecht "isn't lacking."
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Marguerite Richmond
Jackson
Miss
Navy
Bob Hecht
Clairton
John Quisenberry
Clinton
Bob
Hecht
Mississippi
Dix
Quisenberry
Marguerite
Navy Star
Miami
Florida
Miss Richmond
Sandra
Youth Killed For $143 In Charlotte
An 18 year old Kayo night attendant was shot and robbed of 143 dollars at Wilkinson Boulevard in Charlotte. Donald L. Burnette died from a head wound likely from a .25 caliber pistol. an empty shell was found at the scene. Truck drivers reported the slaying at about 3 56 a.m. as police noted the locked cash drawer had been pried open.
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Charlotte
N. C
Donald L. Burnette
Wilkinson Blvd
Burnette
George O. House
Gainesville
Earl T. Parker
Marietta
Donald Burnette
James Wood
Brunette
Wood
Arab League warns of Kuwait force withdrawal over British troops
Cairo AP report says the Arab League may pull its 2,500 Kuwait security forces if British troops return. Sayed Nafal notes Arab nations will not join joint action with Britain in Kuwait under any circumstances despite Britain sending seven warships and reinforcements.
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Cairo
Arab League
Kuwait
Britain
Middle East
Sayed Nafal
The
Arab Nations
League
Abdel Karim Kassem
Sheikdom
Nafal
Iraq
Persian Gulf
Mideast
London
Defense Ministry
Kassem
India
Goa
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