Kennedy Delivers Consultation Call for Russia Ambassador
President Kennedy summoned Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson for consultation on all aspects of Soviet American relations. Thompson is due in Washington by Feb six. The White House said the president and secretary of state want first hand observations and reports on the Soviet scene. Kennedy to address recovery from the recession and balance of payments in separate messages to Congress. Speaker Rayburn disclosed plans for seven to ten special messages in coming weeks.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
Russia
Llewellyn Thompson
White House
Pierre Salinger
Se FS Puri
Loyutdlcu
Washington, D.C
Thompson
Congress
Capitol
United States
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Rayburn
Madison Okays Monona Terrace Civic Center
The Madison city government won final approval for the Monona Terrace Civic Center after years of legal and legislative battles. Planned on Lake Monona between the State Office Building and the Madison Club, the Wright designed venue carries an estimated cost of 5 to 10 million dollars. Opposition from the Madison Club members and other residents focused on the lakefront site despite a prior public referendum approval.
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Madison
Monona Terrace
Frank Lloyd Wright
City Board of Public Works
Lake Monona
State Office
Madison Club
Two-alarm Milwaukee hotel fire kills truck driver
A two-alarm blaze at the Royal Hotel in downtown Milwaukee fatally injured Jerome Attletweed, 27, of Mitchell South Dakota, whose body was found near a fifth floor window. Fire officials cited a discarded cigarette as the ignition. two police and one firefighter were treated, and about 60 guests were evacuated as the fire damaged the top three floors. Estimated loss stood at 40 000 dollars.
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Milwaukee
P—A
South Dakota
Jerome Attletweed
Mitchell, S. D
Attletweed
Charles Roth
Royal Hotel
Wisconsin Ave
Fifth
Michigan
Roth
Telephone Lines Out Downtown Kenosha Disruption Hits 200-Pair Cable
A 200-pair telephone cable was severed during curb digging at 55th St and 8th Ave in Kenosha. The break knocked out 200 lines affecting the police station, bank, schools, and nearby businesses. Emergency crews began splicing to restore service, with 400 wires needing connection.
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Kenosha
56Th St
Sheridan Rd
Sixth Ave
First National Bank
Edward Ungemach
Sheriff's Department
55Th St
8Th Ave
Eugene Keck
Harry Petzold
Ralph Young
Art Cunningham
Neal Chapin
The
Telephone Company
Kennedy Shifts Time Of News Conference
President Kennedy moved his news conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CST on Wednesday. The change, announced by White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, allows Kennedy to attend a National Security Council meeting at 9 a.m. local time.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Pierre Salinger
National Security Council
Chimp Shot 155 Miles In Space Lands at Sea
President Kennedy’s State of the Union drew GOP ire as Sen Dirksen urged extensive hearings and warned against rushed, ill digested measures. Thruston Morton criticized the address as cynical and timid while Western European papers praised the speech. Moscow papers printed excerpts but offered no direct commentary.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate Gop
Kennedy
Congress
Dirksen
Peace Corps
Conservation Corps
Sen
Thruston B. Morton
Rky
Republican National
Morton
Europe
Moscow
Kenedy
Probation Given to Milwaukee Man in Post Office Embezzlement Case
Richard Core, 33, a former Post Office Department clerk at Waupun, was placed on two years probation by US District Court Judge Robert F. Tehan after pleading guilty to embezzling 180 dollars. Core had already made restitution, the judge was told.
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Milwaukee
Richard Core
Post Office Department
Waupun
US District Court
Robert FE. Tehan
Tehan
Core
Rebel Captain Wil Lands Santa Maria Passengers in Recife
Rebel commander Henrique Galvao promised to bring 620 captive passengers ashore in Recife tomorrow after a U S Navy command group boarded the liner and warned against freeing captives at sea. He cited guarantees from Brazil's new president Janio Quadros, while Quadros his inauguration. The status of asylum for the rebels and potential murder charges against Galvao cloud his plans.
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Recife
Brazil
Henrique Galvao
Santa Maria
U.S
Galvao
Nazil
Janio Quadros
Brasilia
Quadros
Rio de Janeiro
Afonso Arinos
United Press International
Portugal
Allen Smith, Jr
Smith
House Faces Showdown Over Rules Expansion Plan
The House teeters on a vote this afternoon over Speaker Sam Rayburn’s bid to enlarge the Rules Committee. Rayburn seeks a 10 Democrats 5 Republicans slate to tilt rulings toward Kennedy administration backed bills, risking a split in Democratic ranks. A compromise proposal by Rep. Francis E. Walter would let the full House decide what bills it will consider when the Rules Committee deadlocks.
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Washington
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
House
Rules Committee
Rayburn
Howard W. Smith
Dva
Kennedy
Francis E. Walter
Walter
Jury selection continues in Esser murder trial Madison
The first degree murder trial of Gregory Esser, 30, of Madison, moved forward as jury selection continued. He is accused of shooting to death a 13 year old hunting companion more than four years ago.
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Madison
Gregory Esser
Kennedy wins House vote to expand rules committee
President Kennedy secures his first major congressional win as the House approves Speaker Rayburn’s plan to enlarge the rules committee from 12 to 15 members by a 217 to 212 vote. The move adds three liberal members and weakens conservative control. Tel Aviv reports Premier David Ben Gurion resigns, stepping down as both prime minister and defense minister at age 74.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Sam Rayburn
Tel Aviv
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Volpe Says Transit Strike Leaders Aim To Restore Service
Governor John Volpe announced union leaders agreed to attempt restoring service on the strikebound Metropolitan Transit Authority later today. All subways buses and trolley cars in the Boston metro area had been halted by a wildcat walkout.
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Boston
John Volpe
Metropolitan Transit Authority
Boston Metropolitan Area
Fire claims two children from Milwaukee flat blaze
Milwaukee firemen carried two children from a burning Milwaukee flat but both died within an hour at County Emergency Hospital. The victims were identified as James Lee Holts Jr., five, and his sister Janita, four.
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Milwaukee
James Lee Holts
Janita
Khrushchev to Attend U.N. Session in March
Soviet Premier Khrushchev plans to be in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly session in March, with a meeting with President Kennedy possible if agreed. Communist diplomats at the U.N. say Moscow confirms the trip, with Khrushchev to stay about one week as the Assembly reconvenes March 7.
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Washington
Khrushchev
United States
United Nations
Kennedy
Moscow
General Assembly
James Webb Named Space Chief by Kennedy
James Webb, 54, named by President Kennedy yesterday the new chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is an attorney with planning and organization skills, praised by Kerr-McGee president Dean McGee as very able and dynamic. Webb has held roles in industry, government, and education, including director at McDonnell Aircraft, trustee of Frontiers of Science Oklahoma, and president of Educational Services Inc. He served in the Marine Corps, worked in the Sperry Gyroscope Co., and held budget and state department posts under Truman before becoming NASA chief. He is married to Patsy Douglas and has two children.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
James Webb
Kennedy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Dean McGee
Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc
Webb
Granville County
North Carolina
Kerr McGee
Robert Kerr
D-Okla
Senate Space Committee
Kerr-McGee
McGee
Frontiers of Science Foundation of
Oklahoma
Washington
Educational
McDonnell Aircraft Co
St. Louis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
University of North Carolina
Marine Corps
Edward Poll
Sperry Gyroscope Co
the Treasury
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Spaak Resigns NATO Post to Lead Belgian Socialists
Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as NATO secretary-general to return to Belgium and lead the Socialist party in the next national election. The Belgian leader, 62, hoped to depart by March after Socialist pressure following a month-long strike that split the party. Relations within the Socialists had him seen as the best hope to heal divisions before elections possibly in April.
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Paris
Paul-Henri Spaak
NATO
Belgium
Socialist Party
Lord Ismay
Britain
Spaak
Chimp Flight Goes Wrong as Capsule Lands Off Target
A chimpanzee rode a 155 mile high Redstone rocket into space and landed 420 miles downrange in the Atlantic. NASA reported the animal performed tests satisfactorily during the 16 minute flight but recovery was uncertain. The booster overshoot may delay the plan to send a human astronaut within two months.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington
Space Agency
NASA
Space Chamber
Car Train Collision Claims Woman in Wisconsin Toll Rise
Sondra Hinz twenty two of rural Sheboygan died after a car and North Western Railway train collided at a crossing two miles north of Sheboygan. Her mother Mrs Paul Hinz was listed in fair condition. The Wisconsin 1961 highway death toll rose to sixty two compared with fifty eight a year earlier.
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Wisconsin
Sondra Hinz
Sheboygan
North Western Railway
Paul Hinz
Sondra
Weather warms slowly with cloudy to partly cloudy skies
Temperatures rise gradually tonight and Wednesday as a weather bureau forecast calls for continued cloudiness. Monday peaked at 21 with a morning low of one above and a trace of snow. Sewage plant readings reached 15 after midnight and 26 at noon with more snow in the forenoon. American Motors 25 downtown 26 at noon. Tonight low 12 to 20 and Wednesday high in the low 30s. Sunrise 7 05 set 5 05.
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Weather Bureau
American Motors
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Nikita
U.N
New Space
Patsy Douglas
Sarah and
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