29 States Will Gain Or Lose Seats In House
The Commerce Department announced the 1960 census shows 25 states will gain or lose seats in the House. California gains eight seats to 38, Florida four to 12. Pennsylvania biggest loser with three drops. Final 50-state population 179,323,175. California leads gains numeric, Florida strongest percentage rise.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Commerce Department
House
Eisenhower
Augusta
Frederick H. Mueller
California
Florida
Arizona
Hawaii
Maryland
Michigan
New Jersey
Ohio
Texas
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts
Arkansas
Alabama
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
West Virginia
District of Columbia
Nevada
Alaska
Ruble’s Value Tops Dollar Revaluation in Soviet Union
The Soviet Union announced a currency overhaul to make the heavy ruble worth more than the dollar starting January 1. The official rate drops from four rubles per dollar to one ruble per 1.11 dollars, with a ten old rubles to one new ruble exchange. Vasily Garbuzov, Pravda, and Tass described alignment with purchasing power as Western experts cited prestige as a motive.
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Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Khrushchev
Vasily Garbuzov
Pravda
United States
Garbuzovi
Greensboro School Plan Is Rejected
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Greensboro North Carolina Board of Education decision to keep Caldwell Elementary all white. It sent the case back with orders to reassign four Negro children to schools aligning with their constitutional rights and NC pupil placement statutes.
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Baltimore
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Greensboro
N.C
Board of Education
US District Court For
Middle District
North Carolina
Morris A. Soper
Supreme Court
Caldwell
Pearson Street
Soper
Teens Repulsed At McDonogh 19 School Integration Scene
In New Orleans police held back about 100 teens trying to breach McDonogh No. 19 as three Negro first graders arrived with marshals. At nearby Frantz school white protesters urged segregation while mothers reclaimed books amid tense scenes and a bomb threat was dismissed.
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New Orleans
McDonogh No. 19
William Frantz
Frantz
McDonogh
Crash at Steblova Line Kills 110 in Bohemia
AP reports a collision at Steblova railway station in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Two local trains crowded with passengers collided on a siding, killing 110 and injuring 106, according to Radio Prague. Steblova lies about 75 miles east of Prague.
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Vienna
Austria
Steblova
Czechoslovakia
Radio Prague
Bohemia
Prague
Polaris Sub Heads For Open Seas
The George Washington, armed with hydrogen bomb warheads, sailed from Charleston Harbor for the open sea on a Polaris missile deterrent mission. The crew received the Navy Unit Citation and the skipper the Legion of Merit as tugs guided the submarine down the Cooper River.
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Bob McHugh
Charleston
S.C
George Washington
Charleston Harbor
Atlantic Ocean
Cooper River
Adm
K. M. MacManes
Polaris
Admiral and 9 others die in double crash near Subic Bay
Two Navy plane crashes near Subic Bay kill Rear Admiral Arthur F. Spring and nine others including the admiral’s wife. Also lost were Lt. Karl Ziegenhagen, Lt. Cmdr. Wade K. Smith, Lt. Kenneth Cowles, Airman Cecil Johnson, and four more aboard a hovering helicopter. No survivors. The Albatross wreck lay on Mount Mariveles above Subic Bay. Spring, from Laconia New Hampshire, had helped turn over Olongapo to the Philippines and was named outstanding American of 1960 in the region.
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Carl Zimmerman
Manila
Subic Bay
Arthur F. Spring
Clare
J.g
Karl Ziegenhagen
Gary
Ind
Wade K. Smith
Clinton, Tenn
Hornet
U.S
U.S. Air Force
Mount Mariveles
Bataan Peninsula
Spring
Olongapo
US Navy
Central Luzon
Philippines
Offender Recognized As Former Red Slave Laborer
Miami judge recalls wartime memories as Arthur Schindler 39 of North Miami Beach is fined ten dollars for a one way street violation. The judge, Frederick Barad a Czechoslovakian native who served with Czech guerrillas, says he once saw Schindler in a slave labor camp during a WW II mission to blow up a railroad bridge.
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Miami
Fla
Frederick Barad
Barad
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Arthur Schindler
North
Miami Beach
Schindler
Underground Still Costing $50 000 Found Near Lenoir
Sheriff officers raided a farm near Lenoir North Carolina uncovering a hidden 100 foot tunnel and a 900 gallon still plus a 500 gallon still in a 10 by 12 foot cavern. Two men were arrested Andrew Parsons and Paul Brown with bonds set at 2500 each. The operation included vast quantities of equipment and materials and data showed mash capacity of 13 500 gallons producing about 1 350 gallons of moonshine.
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Lenoir
N. C
Here
Andrew Parsons
Parsons
Paul Brown
Taylorsville
J. B. Myers
Parsons and
Brown
Myers
U.N. Forces Begin Pullout From Katanga Danger Areas
U.N. troops retreat from northern Katanga amid rising tribal hostilities. Irish and Ethiopian units return to Albertville while the Katanga government reports Baluba bands of up to 5,000 massing for a possible offensive. A U.N. spokesman says operational revisions are required.
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Erroll Friedmann
Elisabethville
Katanga
U.N
Albertville
United Nations
Niemba
Balubakat Party
Moise Tshombe
Nixon Questions GOP Service Under Kennedy
President elect John F Kennedy reportedly learned that Vice President Nixon has reservations about Republicans taking key posts in a Kennedy administration. The two men discussed Republican involvement, especially in foreign policy and national security, during a 63 minute Key Biscayne meeting. Nixon did not oppose the idea outright but questioned party futures, with further talks planned. Kennedy called the conference cordial and beneficial and said they would meet again next month.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Connecticut
Abraham Ribicoff
Bnt
Secur
Frank
North Carolina Baptists hear division warnings at 130th meeting
C B Deane warned that Christian religion cannot combat communism if divided as 2,800 delegates attend the Baptist State Convention's first general session. A $45 million program for 1964 includes 476,000 baptisms and state projects funded by a $4.4 million budget.
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Asheville
C. B. Deane
Baptist State Convention
Deane
North Carolina Baptist
T. IL. Cashwell
Lenoir
Christian Life Committee
General Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Convention
World Baptists
North Baptists
Syria theater fire kills 151 children in Amude
A devastating fire at a movie theater in Amude near the Turkish border killed 151 children and a man who died rescuing others. The blaze began in the projection room and spread through a wooden roof, with most victims under 14. Theater owners and the projectionist were arrested for investigation.
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Damascus
Syria
Amude
Here
Mohammed
Eldakoury
Priests Demand Sin Confession for Munoz Marin Vote
In San Juan and other churches, Catholic leaders urged parishioners who voted for Gov. Luis Munoz Marin and the Popular Democrats to confess their sin before receiving Holy Communion. The cathedral pastor said disobedience to bishops’ orders barred communion until confession.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Luis Munoz Marin
Thomas Maisonet
Maisonet
Unoz Marin
Popular Democrats
Munoz Marin
Southern Governors Back Hodges For U S Post
Virginia Governor J Lindsay Almond says most Southern governors authorized support for Luther Hodges of North Carolina as secretary of commerce in the Kennedy administration. Kennedy reportedly gave no commitments and Hodges was unaware of any official notification while in Buenos Aires. The Times and Sun-Times had reported Hodges' appointment.
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J. Lindsay Almond Jr
Virginia
Luther H. Hodges
North Carolina
Kennedy
Almond
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
U.S
Supreme Court
Ribicoff
Raleigh
Gov
Hodges
Harold Makepeace
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Makepeace
New York Times
The
Chicago Sun-Times
Commerce
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Berlin
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Poland
Krakow
Miles
Belgrade
Admiral
7Th Fleet
South ‘China Sea
Laconia
N. H
Annapolis
Louisville
Guadal‘canal
Helena
Subic
the Springs
Arthur T. Spring
Navy Nuclear Power Plant
Ischool
Windsor
Conn
Germany
West Germany
Coburg
Baptist Division
U.S. Post
Richmond, Va
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