31 Dec 1962
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1962
Page
1
An official railroad union paper argues court rulings allow rule changes to cut thousands of jobs. It cites a 75 percent productivity rise per man hour since 1937, driven by new equipment and automation, not worker effort, and contends wage costs rose with automation while jobs decline.
Castro says no plan to meet U N officials to free 21 American prisoners in Cuba. Havana radio denounces Kennedy. calls him Yankee aristocrat and accuses him of anti Cuban policy. Pan Am reports losses on Havana flights and peso payments, with 20 000 waiting to depart if flights resume.
Government spokesman announced that the Palma Sola rebellion by a backwoods cult was crushed. About 400 guerrillas fled toward mountains near the Haitian border with remaining pursuers, while thousands of peasants seized Palma Sola briefly. They killed Gen. Miguel Rodriguez Reyes and several federal troops. around 30 rebels died as the revolt burned the town.
The Navy still searches 250 miles southwest of San Diego for a seaplane from the USS John A. Bole after a Wednesday night crash. Articles from the plane have been recovered but no bodies found and the duration of the hunt remains undetermined.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned New Delhi that cease-fire terms are unstable and accused Indian forces of provocative actions. Observers call it a clear message to Prime Minister Nehru to negotiate border terms or risk renewed large scale offensives by Chinese troops.
State police warned many could freeze as a blizzard stranded 65 on two Greyhound buses near Hermon and Holden. Roads north of Augusta were impassable and officials lacked crews. About 500 were stranded on Route 2 near Bangor, and 200 trapped on Interstate 95 in the Bangor area. The Bangor Daily News did not publish for the first time in 125 years due to the storm. In New York City, temperatures dropped to six degrees with 50 mph winds toppling lines.
UN forces push Katangese troops from Kipushz and Kamina near Elisabethville, seizing rail points and the Katangese radio transmitter at Kilodelable. Tshombe, fleeing Elisabethville, denounces the UN as creating another Algeria while officials report mixed casualty figures and confirm air strikes against Katanga fortifications.
Western guards at the Berlin Wall heard blasts in East Berlin early today. Anonymous calls claimed an anti communist group triggered three explosions at the polo headquarters and the German soviet Friendship Society on Neue Koenigstrasse. AP checked the area 234 minutes later finding no damage or visible police activity.
Damaged text fragment from a legal public notice mentions County and decree references with unclear names and dates. Reading does not yield a complete action, deadline, or authoritative party. Further readable details required for a precise summary.
Betty Jean Giery 34 confesses to stealing keys from her husband’s Dairy Barn stores and burgling multiple locations. She says the roughly $3,000 taken will fund care for her eight children and a heart operation for her four month old daughter. Police arrested her as she acted inside Mineola ice cream parlor.
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