Cash Shortage Threatens UN Congo Efforts
Dag Hammarskjold faces a looming cash deadline as the United Nations strains to fund the Congo operation. He has three months of borrowing authority while the General Assembly must arrange financing for the rest of 1961, settle last year’s Congo bill, and cover over twelve million dollars already borrowed. The United States has paid nearly 45 million dollars, with Britain and the Soviet bloc contributing little or nothing, leaving Cuba and others expected to follow Moscow’s stance.
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U.N
Hammarskjold
General Assembly
Congo
United States
U.S
Britain
Soviet Union
Soviet Bloc
Tornado Warning Hits North Carolina and Surrounding Area
The Weather Bureau issued a severe weather warning for a crescent area from the coast through the sandhills to Charlotte with a risk of one or two tornadoes and damaging winds. Rainfall varied across cities with Asheville reporting 1.47 inches and highs between 59 and 73 degrees as showers end.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
North Carolina
Columbus
Florence
S.C
Sandhills
Charlotte
Asheville
Wilmington
Raleigh
Greensboro
Khrushchev Urges Africans to Settle Congo Crisis
Soviet Premier Khrushchev called for the Congo crisis to be solved by African states alone and pressed for recognizing Antoine Gizenga’s rebel government as legitimate. He criticized U S policy and backed the use of force by U N troops, while Kennedy defended the U N operation and urged unity among nations.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Congo
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Antoine Genga
U. N. Security Council
Hammarskjold
Council
United States
Nehru
U. S
Theodore Roosevelt
West
Foreign Office
Security Council
Asia
Africa
Europe
Latin America
Ike's Lumbago Is Improving During Palm Springs Visit
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shows partial improvement in lumbago while on a two month Palm Springs vacation. An aide says he cannot play golf but remains active by shooting skeet and enjoying the retreat with Mamie in a rented home near a country club.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Exchief
Eisenhower
Mamie
Oldest bones found in east Africa rewrite human history
British anthropologist reports 600000 year old bones of a man and child in Olduvai Gorge Tanganyika. The child’s skull shows evidence of murder with a blunt instrument. Findings shift status away from Nutcracker man and hint at early prehistoric culture Chelsea man and Chellean tools noted.
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Washington
East Africa
L. S. B. Leakey
Leakey
Coryndon Museum
Nairobi
Kenya
Olduvai Gorge
Tanganyika
Zinjanthropus
Jonathan
National Geographic Society
Freshman Senator Van Landingham of North Carolina
The Sunday Enterprise previews Russell Van Landingham of Thomasville in his Raleigh seat, noting his rapid learning curve in state legislative work and his first term under the North Carolina General Assembly. Bonnie Moore reports on Davidson County’s freshman senator in Raleigh.
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Russell van Landingham
Thomasville
Raleigh
van Landingham
North Carolina
Bonnie Moore
Davidson County
Floods Sweep Central Alabama and Mississippi
Major floods hit central Alabama and Mississippi with widespread evacuations. Authorities report 6,000 displaced in Hattiesburg and 125 displaced in Cahaba area, while Tallapoosa and Cahaba rivers threaten Montgomery and Selma. Tornadoes and high winds cause damage. no serious injuries reported. Federal aid awaited as emergency conditions continue.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Mississippi
Deep South
A. R. Long
Montgomery
Cahaba River
Jim Clark
Cahaba
National Guard
Selma
Gadsden
Ala
Coosa
Demopolis
John Patterson
Auto Belts to Be Standard in 1962 Cars
Detroit AP report states major domestic manufacturers will install front seat belt attachments in all 1962 passenger autos. Attachments will be uniform and affixed to the frame, reducing prior costs. Belts cost about 3.50, with buyers paying only for the belt, not drilling or extra labor.
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Detroit
Four Die As Private Plane Crashes In Aiken
Four people die in a plane crash near Aiken South Carolina after leaving Palm Beach Florida en route to Knoxville Tennessee. The wreckage lay in mud after a thunderstorm with two white men and two Negroes aboard. Rescue work recovered the bodies by early morning. Earl Douglas Taylor of Jacksonville was thrown free, others identified as Harold Iveens Orlando John Fletcher and Clifford Bryant.
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Aiken
S.C
Palm Beach
Fla
Knoxville
Harold Iveens
Orlando, Fla
John Fletcher
Clifford Bryant
Iveens
Woman Sues Service Station Over Gas Milk Incident
Harriet Gilligan of Houston sues Boyce Holloway for 3500 dollars alleging a mixture of gasoline and water was pumped into her car at the service station on November 17 causing a stall, a demolishing explosion, a rain soaked return, illness and several days in bed.
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Houston, Tex
Harriet Gilligan
Houston
Boyce Holloway
Reluctant Mississippi flood victims evacuated in Hattiesburg
About 4,200 Negroes and 400 white residents were displaced as Bouie and Leaf rivers flooded Hattiesburg. Refugees found shelter in churches, schools, and centers while volunteers from Red Cross Salvation Army Girl Scouts Boy Scouts and colleges aided. Disposable diapers arrived easing shelter needs.
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Red Cross
Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
National Guard
Civil Defense
Hattiesburg
Miss
Leaf River
J. B. Walters
Walters
VFW
Salvation Army
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Police Raid Bookie Joints In Providence
Twenty six policemen and treasury agents raided four suspected bookie joints in Providence Rhode Island. At two sites they answered telephones from bettors and cited an off track horse called Police Call in the New Orleans Fairgrounds eighth race. He finished third and paid 4 40 for 2.
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Providence
R.I
Treasury
Fairgrounds
New Orleans
Bruised Witness Captured After Jail Escape
Robert L. Russell chief state witness in the Vincent Blaney murder was recaptured three hours after escaping a Absecon jail. He was found near a Northfield door with bruised face and wire bound hands and taken to Shore Memorial Hospital. Russell testified to the grand jury about Blaney and said he witnessed the murder. Authorities said Lillian Reis John Berkery and John Dillon were indicted for the slaying and burglary.
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Lillian Reis
Philadelphia
Clarence Ferguson
Federal
New Jersey
Miss Reis
Vincent Blaney
Pottsville
Ferguson
Atlantic City
N. J
Robert L. Russell
Absecon
Morgan Thomas
Atlantic County
Russell
Northfield
Shore Memorial Hospital
Somers Point
Blaney
Margate
Celebrity Room
John Berkery
Haddon Township
John Joseph Dillon
San Diego
Calif
Egg Harbor Township
Berkery
Dillon
Reis
Singer Cancels Puccini Opera Role in San Antonio
Prano Dorothy Kirsten ill with influenza cancels tonight's Manon Lescaut in San Antonio. She was confined to her hotel on Friday and will fly home to California for hospital care. Lucia Albanese from the Metropolitan Opera replaces her in the Puccini work opening the San Antonio opera festival.
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San Antonio
Tex
Dorothy Kirsten
Manon Lescaut
Kirsten
California
Lucia Albanese
Metropolitan Opera Company
Miss Kirsten
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A. I. Goldberg
United Nations
N.Y
Ukraine
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
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Cape May
N.J
Tar Heels
Kennedy
Ike
By Barry Schweid
Sunday Enterprise
High Point College
Harry Kotsionis
South Carolina
Tallapoosa
Aiken County
Rowan
Ollie Mae Cole
Mobile
Jackson
McComb
Atlantic County Grand Jury
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