Saturday Society items and club meeting notices
The Friday Music Club hosts a luncheon at Mrs Has kell Jones home at 12 30 p m with a covered dish. An Opera Listening Program follows at Klipseh and Associates in Oakhaven. Circle 4 WSCS will not meet as planned. Brownie Troop 63 cancels Monday meeting, resumes Jan 13. Various WSCS circles meet Jan 6 at specified times and locations. DAR John Cain Chapter meets Jan 8 at Heritage House with listed hostesses.
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Haskell Jones
Klipseh and Associates
Oakhaven
Circle 4
WSCS
First Methodist Church
Earl O'Neal
Raymond Franks
Johnny Green
Ross Moore
M. L. Fox
John Cain
DAR
Heritage House
J. G. Martindale
J. M. Houston
Wilbur Jones
Charles. Locke
Crank Family Return From Holiday Visit
Mr and Mrs Jack Crank and David of Haynesville La and Mr and Mrs Darrel Crank Mark and Karl from Alice Texas have all returned home after a holiday visit with Mr and Mrs Floyd Crank of Hope.
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Jack Crank
David
Haynesville
Darrel Crank
Mark
Karl
Alice Texas
Floyd Crank
Hope
Blackface in Parade Still Is Disputed
Philadelphia leaders civil rights groups and the city seek to resolve a controversy over blackface makeup in the New Year parade. Snow postponed the march to Saturday and the Second Streeters wore blackface briefly with no incidents. Magistrate Elias Myers banned then rescinded the ban after club protests. The NAACP and CORE protested as the city said prizes would not be awarded.
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Philadelphia
Second Streeters
Elias Myers
Rade
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress of Racial Equality
Bookmobile Schedule for Next Week
Bookmobile routes listed by time and place for January including Allen Flame Cale School Edward Home Patmos School Patmos and community stops. January 8 schedule covers Bluff City Meador Home Liat Cagle Grocery Williams Home Pleasant Hill Treas Home Willisville School Simpson Home Willisville Community Fore Home Waterloo Kelly Home Everett Home.
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Allen Flame
Cale
Edward
Patmos
Bluff City
Meador
Johnson Digs Into Housing Problem Too
President Johnson and aides discussed postwar housing and cuts in postal service payrolls at LBJ Ranch Texas. Gronouski promised a six month 5 000 job reduction saving 30 million yearly, while 1965 may see small employment rises. Parcel post rate boost of 77 million pending ICC approval. deficit may drop to 550 million next year if approved.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Parcel Post
Interstate Commerce Commission
John A. Gronouski
Robert C. Weaver
Washington
LBJ
Texas
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
State Department
Khrushchev
Europe
Weaver
Gronouski
Austin
Congress
Core alliance threatens parade block over blackface marchers
CORE and the Committee for Freedom Now warned they would physically block the parade unless participants wearing blackface are banned. The confrontation centers on protest tactics and race representation in the event.
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CORE
Committee For Freedom
Big Push for Peace Seen This Year
President Johnson plans an unrelenting peace offensive in 1964 seeking breakthroughs before the November election. A White House source cites his aim for civil rights action and an $11 billion tax cut plus elder medical insurance, with Congress to act in 1965.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
White House
United States
Robert C. Weaver
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Congress
Robert S. McNamara
Maxwell Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Khrushchev Seeks Cold War Halt in 1964 New Year Toasts
Soviet Premier Khrushchev toasted in the Kremlin with 13 toasts for 1964 and urged further easing of tensions with the United States. He noted a difference only with China over capitalism and warned African students about demonstrations while pledging support to Cuba against U S aggression. He also referenced the Cuban revolution’s fifth anniversary and called for continued aid to Cuba.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Kremlin
China
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Johnson
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Benedict Arnold Defies Orders at Bemis Heights Battle
A narrative recounts Benedict Arnold’s furious ride from his tent to the Bemis Heights confrontation on Burgoyne’s 1777 defense, his clash with Gates, and his reckless surge to rally American center as Morgan and Dearborn pressed forward, aided by Learneds brigade amid fogbound cabins and von Heidels forces.
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Noch Poor
New Hampshire
Benedict
Benjamin Lincoln
Gates
New York
New England
Confederate War Echoes in a Backfield Assault
The scene shows Benedict leading a brigade with Learned and Patterson as supporting flanks. Glover’s veterans join in a fierce bayonet rush over earth breastworks, slashing at a mounted German colonel until a decisive opening enables Benedict to topple his foe. The New Englanders press the charge as the line advances.
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Patterson
Glover
Benedict
Philip Wait
Assi
Two Nations Hope for Progress and Peace in Coming Year
The speaker expresses hope that the coming year will bring substantial progress in addressing global problems and in improving relations between the Soviet Union and the United States for the sake of both peoples and a more lasting world peace.
Goldwater to announce 1964 bid plans today in Phoenix
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater plans a 11 am Mountain Standard Time news conference at his Paradise Valley home to declare whether he will seek the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. He will read a two page statement for TV and radio then take questions. The 55 year old former city councilman will meet with Arizona GOP leaders and may walk without crutches after foot surgery. A leading conservative, Goldwater trails Rockefeller in some polls but remains the front runner among county chairmen.
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Robwoop
Phoenix
Ariz
Barry Goldwater
Nation
Arizona
Paradise Valley
Senate
Washington
Goldwater
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
John F. Kennedy
The
Borgnine and Merman plan July TV wedding
Hollywood reports Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman will marry in July. Borgnine says the McHale's Navy cast planned the wedding with Joe Flynn to give the bride away and Gavin MacLeod as ring bearer. He notes Katy Jurado divorce not yet final and both are waiting for the right time. They plan to live in Hollywood.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Ernest Borgnine
Ernie
Katy Jurado
Ethel
London
Mer
Joe Shribman
Miss Merman
New York
Greeks and Turks to Seek Peace in London Conference
In Nicosia Cyprus Greek and Turkish Cypriots will meet with Britain Greece and Turkey in London late this month to end bloodshed and preserve the island republic Archibishop Makarios and Dr Faail Kutchuk agreed to send representatives Britain’s Duncan Sandys reported there will be problems and fighting could rise as irregulars are not controlled the exact date was not announced after the opening session a joint Greek TurkishCypriot committee will convene
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Alex Efty
Nicosia
Cyprus
Britain
Greece
Turkey
London
Makarios
Faail Kutchuk
Commonwealth
Duncan Sandys
Sandys
Alec Douglas-Home
Goldwater Won Senate Seat in 1952 Victory Details
The text notes Goldwater won and by 1952 was capturing a U S Senate seat from incumbent Democrat Ernest McFarland. It mentions his second six year term ends in 1984 and under Arizona law he could be listed for president and senator, but Goldwater stated he would not run for two major offices simultaneously.
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Ernest McFarland
Goldwater
Arizona
Dear Helen and Dorothy Dix advice page excerpt
An advice column segment features Dorothy Dix guidance addressing a wife worried about inheritance and family finances, plus reader questions on meeting a mystery woman, neighbor noise disruption, and a request to learn a woman's identity. The page notes a British Cypriot constitutional proposal linked to a Mediterranean peace conference after Greek Turkish riots.
Cyprus asks UN for urgent Security Council meeting
Cyprus representative Ambassador Zenon Rosides requested an urgent Security Council meeting for Friday morning to address the ongoing crisis on the island republic. The appeal was made at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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United Nations, N.Y
Cyprus
Zenon Rossides
U.N. Security Council
Republic
Rangers Ambushed by Viet Cong in South Vietnam
BEN SUC reports South Vietnamese rangers on a New Year’s Eve cross river operation encountered a Viet Cong battalion in Binh Duong Province. Though the rangers attacked and held positions, the guerrillas trapped them with mortars and heavy fire, leaving 4 dead, 17 wounded, and 30 missing as the jungle warfare in its fifth year continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Suc
Viet Nam
Saigon
U.S
Binh Duong
Two Boys Rescue Themselves From Frozen Lake
At Little Rock Air Force Base Edwin H. Simon Jr. 5 chased a ball onto a frozen lake and fell through. Steven Sullivan 18 pulled him from the water and crawled to shore. The ice broke and Sullivan spent 20 minutes in the water before escaping. Both boys escaped unharmed. Sullivan is the son of Col. Charles Sullivan and Simon the son of Lt. Col. Edwin H. Sullivan.
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Little Rock
Edwin H. Simon Jr
Little Rock Air Force Base
Steven Sullivan
Simon
Sullivan
Col
Charles Sullivan
308Th Strategic Missile Wing
Edwin H. Sullivan
825Th
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