Nuclear bomber crashes near Goldsboro killing three crew
A SAC B52G eight-jet bomber carrying two unarmed nuclear weapons crashed near Goldsboro North Carolina. Three men died and five crew members survived. One device parachuted to ground, the other found in wreckage. The plane originated from Seymour Johnson AFB and carried no nuclear detonation risk.
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Goldsboro
N.C
Here
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Air Force
Thomas Coleman
Sweeney
Walter F. Tultoch
San Diego
Calif
Bitter Cold Grips Eastern U S As Arctic Chill Expands
The eastern half of the United States endures a bitter cold wave as Arctic air moves in from the Great Plains toward the Atlantic. Readings hit 32 below in International Falls and 27 below in Concord New Hampshire with widespread subzero temperatures from Minnesota to Maine.
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Associated Press
Weather Bureau
Great Plains
Atlantic
Minnesota
Ohio Valley
International Falls
Minn
Anchorage
Alaska
North Atlantic States
Central Plains
Central
Appalachians
Kentucky
Tennessee
Satellite Burns In Atmosphere over Pacific after 525 orbits
BEDFORD Mass AP Discoverer XIX satellite burned up in the atmosphere after roughly 524 or 525 Earth orbits. The Air Force Space Surveillance Control Center says the event occurred Sunday night possibly over the Pacific. Seventeen satellites remain in orbit, all American except one Soviet craft.
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Bedford
Mass
Air Force Space Surveillance Control Center
Pacific
Pirates Hijack Santa Maria Triggers Global Navy Hunt
Pirates seize the Santa Maria with 870 aboard as warships from the United States and Britain pursue across the Caribbean. Henrique Galvao leads the hijackers, while crew and passengers face risk of forceful scuttling and potential refueling maneuvers near Trinidad.
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Santa Maria
Caribbean
Blackbeard
Henrique Maria Galvao
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Joao Jose de Nascimento Costa
Mario Simoes Mai
U.S
Wilson
Damato
Rothesay
Ulster
U.S. Navy
St. Lucia
Martinique
Trinidad
Increased Rules Group Is Approved
The House Rules Committee approved a plan to expand membership from 12 to 15 to counter claims of liberal bills being blocked. Six Democrats supported. two Republicans did not vote due to illness or late arrival, with two GOP vacancies. The measure, backed by Speaker Sam Rayburn, would have 10 Democrats and five Republicans and faces a Thursday House vote with an uncertain outcome.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Howard W . Smith
D-Va
William M. Colmer
B. Carroll Reece
Tenn
Clarence J. Brown
Ohio
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Ike Drives Car First Time In Over 20 Years
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower drives a car for the first time in more than two decades at W. Alton Jones’s Blue Springs plantation. He jokes about golf carts while a hunting party tours the area with mule wagons and a 20 gauge shotgun.
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Ike
Albany, Ga
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Blue Springs
W. Alton Jones
Coca Cola
William E. Robinson
Piedmont Flight Okayed to Replace Capital on Norfolk Knoxville Route
The Civil Aeronautics Board authorized Piedmont Airlines to replace Capital Airlines on the Norfolk Virginia to Knoxville Tennessee segment with stops at Elizabeth City Rocky Mount Raleigh Durham Greensboro High Point Winston Salem Charlotte Southern Pines Pinehurst Aberdeen Hickory and Asheville. Capital may discontinue service at most intermediate points though Southern Pines remains seasonal and the board requires Piedmont to carry an average of five passengers daily over 18 months under its use it or lose it policy.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Piedmont Airlines
Capital Airlines
Norfolk
Knoxville
Southern Pines
Piedmont
Capital
Chattanooga
Tenn
Huntsville
Ala
Memphis
Beauties' Mother Sentenced To A Year For Sleep Drugging
Lillian Fratantonio, mother of the Fratantonio sisters, received the maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $500 fine plus costs for secretly giving sleep inducing drugs to her children Bernadette, 3, and Venita, 6. Judge Albert Waldman condemned her conduct and warned she should not be trusted with children. She was convicted December 6 after a two week trial.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Bernadette
Venita
Kennedy to deliver first State of the Union Monday
President Kennedy will deliver his first State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress Monday at 12 30 p m EST House Speaker Sam Rayburn said date was agreed at a meeting of Democratic leaders with the President Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield indicated separate legislative proposals would follow within a week or two Goldwater Kuchel urge clarity on cost of the New Frontier and party support Mansfield said Democrats will back the President while preserving some independence as Senate leader
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Barry Gold
Water
R-Ariz
Goldwater
Kuchel
Los Angeles
Mansfield
Lyndon B. Johnson
William F. Knowland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Knowland
Eisenhower
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Soviet magazine says airmen were captured near Turkish border
New York Times reports from Moscow that Ogonek reprint claims 11 of 17 air force crewmen from a 1958 U S reconnaissance plane survived the crash and were captured after parachuting to Soviet territory near Yerevan. Six of 17 bodies delivered to Turkish border officials. State Department seeking clarification.
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NEW York
U. S
New York Times
Moscow
State Department
the Times
Foreign Ministry
Times Dispatch
Ogonek
East Berlin
Neueberlin Ilustrierte
United States
Hitler
Soviet Union
Pravda
Communist Party
Yerevan
Armenia
Soviets Publish Kennedy Message to Khrushchev
Izvestia printed Kennedy's message to Premier Khrushchev stressing American desire for peace and cooperation. Moscow radio said the message followed Khrushchev's inauguration congratulation and was printed in Izvestia's evening edition. Pravda and Izvestia also ran Kennedy's inauguration address.
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London
Izvestia
Kennedy
Khrushchev
America
Moscow Radio
Communist Party
Pravda
Germany Offers 1.2 Billion Aid Package to U S
West Germany plans a 1.2 billion dollar package to help balance U S payments. It includes prepaying debts, purchasing arms in the United States, and taking on some U S aid burdens. Bonn would settle 187 million in seized assets with Washington and expect congressional approval.
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New York
U.S
New York Times
Bonn
United States
Washington
the Times
West Germany
Turkey
Greece
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Somerville
N.J
Ricard W. Bardin
San Antonio
Tex
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Maysville
Paul E. Brown
Beardstown
Ill
Eugene Shelton
Eugene Richards
Toccoa
Francis R. Barnish
Greenfield
Buck Tyndall
Add Edmundson
4241St Wing
North Carolina
Raleigh
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Brazil
Galvao
Lisbon
Carib
Cuba
Curacao
Puerto
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Lucia
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Cross
William F. Arbogast
George E. Allen
Allen
Gettysburg
Piedmont Flight
State OF Union
Red Magazine
Germany
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