Bad Weather Grips Central U S With Snow Freezing Rain
Snow sleet and freezing rain plowed through the central United States slowing traffic and closing schools from Michigan to Wisconsin and Iowa. North winds drove temperatures below zero in many areas while storms dropped up to 10 inches of snow in parts of Wisconsin and blizzards hit the Texas Panhandle near Vernon and Chillicothe.
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Wisconsin Legislature set to finish longest session
The 1961 Wisconsin Legislature returns Monday to a crowded agenda after tax revision. Key items include public funding for parochial school bus transport, a study of school texts, tax on banks, a pay raise for legislators, and Kerr Mills medical aid. Reapportionment chances look dim as committees study 1960 census data.
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Wisconsin
Senate
Assembly
Weather Forecast Calls for Snow, Flurries This Weekend
Snow is expected to melt by spring with possible four inches of new snowfall and temperatures between 5 and 15 degrees tonight. Expect a drop on Saturday with snow turning to flurries as readings fall from 37 to 34. Yesterday’s precipitation reached .20 percent, leaving slushy streets. Friday morning low was 34, noon was 35 downtown, with AMC reporting freezing. Sunrise 7:22, sunset 4:32.
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Southport
AMC
U S and S Viet Nam launch broad development program
The United States and South Viet Nam announced a wide plan to raise living standards and rally support for President Ngo Dinh Diem. The 11 point program covers village training, rural health, education, roads, farm credit, pest control, and flood reconstruction in the Mekong delta, with expanded aid and public works.
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Washington
United States
South Viet Nam
State Department
Saigon
Ngo Dinh Diem
U.S
Mekong River
Katanga Assembly Starts Secret Sessions on Pact
Elisabethville Katanga Assembly opens closed talks to study Moise Tshombe's pledge to end secession. Debates split into foreign affairs and political commissions with secret discussions after Tshombe objected to two provisions of the Kitona pact with Cyrille Adoula. Only 35 of 72 members attend.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
The
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Assembly
Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Kitona
United Nations
Leopoldville
Los Angeles Examiner and Mirror Face Suspension
The Hearst owned Examiner and the Chandler owned Mirror are reportedly about to cease publication in Los Angeles. Sources say the morning Examiner may suspend after Sunday and the afternoon Mirror could end with today’s editions. family owners offered no comment.
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Hearst
Examiner
Chandler
Mirror
Morning Examiner
Afternoon Mirror
Bank Call Issued By U. S. Comptroller Of Currency
The Comptroller of the Currency issued a bank call for national banks as of December 30. The notice specifies required reporting and capital standards for member institutions under federal supervision.
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Washington
Comptroller of Currency
Councilman Twists But Fails To Lift Ban On Twist
Tampa city council balked at overturning the recreation department ban on the twist dance. Councilman Bill Myers demonstrated the move and argued it was harmless as four members voted to keep the ban while three opposed it. TV crews filmed Myers and colleagues in the chamber after the vote.
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Tampa
Fla
Bill Myers
Recreation Department
Myers
Fletcher Stribling
Sam Mirabella
Army Slashes March Draft Amid Berlin Buildup
The Army sharply reduced February and March draft calls to 8000 and 6000 respectively, with Kennedy adding two regular divisions but not increasing drafts. The move follows increased volunteer flow and the Berlin crisis, signaling a forthcoming cut in overall strength goals while total draftees since 1950 rises to 2,725,950.
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UPI
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Kennedy
Berlin
National Guard
Congress
Defense Department
Five Bandits Rob Milwaukee Housing Office with Theft
Five armed men robbed a Milwaukee housing project office late Thursday, binding and gagging five people and fleeing with about 1357 dollars. The men escaped after the audacious hold up.
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Milwaukee
OAS votes to lift sanctions on Dominican Republic
A 20 to 0 OAS vote with Cuba abstaining ends sanctions on the Dominican Republic. The decision paves the way for higher US sugar purchases and rapid revival of diplomacy and trade with Latin American nations. President Balaguer says the move opens economic possibilities as he plans to resign as head of government before next month.
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Dominican Republic
Caribbean
Council of the Organization of American States
United States
Cuba
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OAS
Joaquin Balaguer
Hoot Gibson Hospitalized For Possible Surgery
Former cowboy star Hoot Gibson, 69, is hospitalized at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley. Officials say he is not acutely ill and may undergo abdominal surgery.
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Space Progress Report Under Kennedy Prompts Headlines
Palm Beach Florida bulletin reports President Kennedy announced the United States achieved greater progress in the space race against Russia in the past year than any previous year. The message emphasizes national achievement and ongoing efforts in space exploration.
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Fla
Kennedy
United States
Russia
Cu ban news agency chief pleads innocent in FARA case
Washington reports Prensa La Tina and chief American correspondent Francisco V Portela pleaded innocent to day to charges of violating the foreign agents registration law.
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Prensa Latina
Francisco V. Portela
Helicopter Crashes on Lindenhurst Street
A New York Air National Guard helicopter crashed on a residential street in Lindenhurst Long Island narrowly missing homes. Two crewmen were injured but no civilians were harmed and homes sustained no damage.
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Lindenhurst
N. Y
UPD
New York Air National Guard
Long Island
United States Accused Over Heusinger Extradition Move
At the United Nations the Soviet Union charged the United States with violating the 1946 UN resolution by refusing to hand over West German General Adolf Heusinger to the Soviets for trial.
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United Nations
tPi
Russia
United States
Adolf Heusinger
Plan Moon Spacecraft Discoveries Revealed by NASA Drawings
NASA released drawings of the Apollo spacecraft showing a three man crew seated in the nose cone and early models aimed at selecting lunar landing areas. The images depict launching into Earth orbit, a booster and supply vehicle in orbit, and docking in space before the moon mission.
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Washington
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Welfare raid targets multipurpose households in Santa Clara County
Deputies and investigators hit 23 homes at 2 to 6 am and arrested 21 women on welfare fraud charges for the needy children program. Two men, Henry Martinez and Ernest Barton, booked on non support, while 16 warrants are issued for similar cases as DA Berge na pledges more raids. One man, Leerie Joe Maxey, quipped about breakfast chickens during the raid.
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San Jose
Calif
Upi
Santa Clara County
Henry Martinez
Santa Clara
Ernest A. Barton
Sunnyvale
Louis Bergna
Professional burglars hit downtown stores in Kenosha
Detectives reported a crime wave as professional safe crackers drilled the Montgomery Ward office safe and stole between 10 000 and 12 000 dollars. J C Penney and Randall Delicatessen also looted with modest cash losses while items like dresses and a manager’s attache case were found abandoned.
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J. C. Penney
Gordon Elsen
Mike Bruno
Kenosha
J. C. Penney Co
Randall Delicatessen
87Th St
Arthur J. Riley
Louis Bashford
Ward
58Th St
Riley
J.C. Penney
Louis Hamilton
Barn Destroyed in Oostburg Wisconsin Fire
A large barn on the Harold Heinen farm in Oostburg was leveled by a blaze Thursday night. Sixteen head of cattle, 3500 bales of hay, and several farm implements including a tractor were destroyed. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.
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Wis
Harold Heinen
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