Cold Keeps Grip On Most Of Nation
A near blizzard and cold wave pummeled wide sections of the midwest and southwestern states. Subzero readings across the northern plains and Rockies, with heavy snow in Iowa Kansas and Oklahoma. California Rio Grande Valley and southern Texas face frost risks while central regions brace for more cold and travel hazards.
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California
Mercury
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Rockies
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New Mexico
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Iowa
Chicago Weather Bureau
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Butte
Hibbing
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Rawlins
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Neb
Akron
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Goodland
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Marquette
Mich
Dalhart
Texas Panhandle
Chicago
Gallup
Flagstaff
Ariz
Oklahoma
Bomb Attack Targets Saigon Officers Hotel in S Vietnam
In Saigon a grenade struck an American officers hotel injuring no one, as Viet Cong attacks escalated. Guerrillas raided Tan Thong, killing seven civil guards and seizing weapons before Gen. Wheeler's inspection tour. Helicopter clashes wounded a pilot. several Viet Cong bases and tunnels were reported destroyed in Tay Ninh.
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Saigon
South
Viet Nam
U.S
Erle G. Wheeler
Tan Thong
Wheeler
South Viet Nam National Liberation Front
Trang Bang
Tay Ninh
Legislative Preview Fires Up In Elfers Olson Hearing
The opening week of Wisconsin's 1963 legislative session features a high profile hearing on seating Kenosha County's 2nd District representative with Earl Elfers facing Republican incumbent Russell Olson amid expected political contention. Additional hearings cover anti discrimination, highway signage, teacher college consolidation, degree requirements, real estate broker definitions, and a taxation records audit bill.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Assembly Elections Committee
Kenosha County
Earl Elfers
Trevor
Russell Olson
Bassett
Olson
Elfers
Havana
East Berlin
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Senate
Judiciary and
Governmental and Veterans Affairs Committees
Judiciary
Assembly State Affairs Committee
Department of Taxation
Paintings Recovered After Caracas Gun Battle
Five stolen paintings valued at 650000 dollars were recovered in Caracas after a gun battle with two university students aged 20 and 23 and a girl companion who were transporting them in furniture boxes. The works by Picasso Van Gogh Cauguin Braque and Cezanne were loaned by France for display. The two men were wounded and hospitalized while the girl escaped during the struggle.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Picasso
van Gogh
Cauguin
Braque
Cezanne
Kendall 9 Year Old Killed by Car
Nine year old Michael Beaver son of Mr and Mrs Wilford Beaver of Kendall was struck and killed at 11 20 a m on a Kendall street that is also State Highway 71 He darted in front of a car driven by Linda M Spurgeon 32 of Hillsboro Sheriff noted the milk truck driver Lyle Von Ruden saw the boy while honking his horn and the boy waited then darted into the path of Spurgeon’s westbound car Coroner Dr Paul Albrecht said the boy was killed instantly and the body dragged 110 feet The family survives include his parents two sisters Loretta Mary and Anna Mae and a brother Wilford Jr Services set for 10 a m Tuesday at St Joseph s Catholic Church with burial in the church cemetery Friends may call at Smith Nelson Funeral Home after 1 p m Monday and Rosary will be said at 8 p m
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Kendall
Wis
Michael Beaver
Wilford Beaver
Kendall Street
Michael
Linda M. Spurgeon
Hillsboro
Donald Goodman
Arden Oss
Lyle von Ruden
von Ruden
Spurgeon
Loretta Mary Beaver
Milwaukee
Anna Mae
Wilford Jr
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
George Nelson
Smith-Nelson Funeral Home
Kennedy to appoint Rowan and Withers as ambassadors
President Kennedy announced plans to name Carl T. Rowan to Finland and Charles D. Withers to Rwanda. Rowan, 37, will become the first Black U.S. ambassador in Europe and is then deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Withers is a career foreign service officer from Greenville, South Carolina.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S
Carl T. Rowan
Finland
Charles D. Withers
Rwanda
Rowan
Europe
Withers
Foreign Service
Greenville
S.C
Moise Tshombe
Congo
U.N
Adlai E. Stevenson
Chester Bowles
G. Mennen Williams
Williams
J. Wayne Fredericks
China nuclear device count sparks Tokyo debate
Tokyo reports the Defense Agency chief received word that Red China may possess two to four nuclear devices but has not tested them. He warned a test could occur within the year and that arming would take at least a decade, a view echoed in US Japan talks.
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Tokyo
Japan
Defense Agency
Red China
Yomiuri
Red Chinese
Kenjiro Shiga
U.S
Japan Security Consultative Committee
Shiga
Washington
Soviet Union
Satomi Hakamada
Peking
Hakamada
21 Year Old Murder Charge Dismissed
Gordon King, 44, Chippewa Indian, freed on a 21 year old murder charge over the 1941 slaying of Emma B Jing on the Red Lake Reservation. Declared insane, he was confined to St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Psychiatrists ruled recovered enough to stand trial and the case was dismissed by Judge Earl Larson.
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Minneapolis
Gordon King
Emma B. Jing
Red Lake
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington, D.C
King
Federal District Attorney
Earl Larson
Truman Resting Comfortably After Hernia Operation
Former President Harry S. Truman, 78, was reported in good condition and resting comfortably after being operated on for a hernia Friday morning at Research Hospital. He had entered Monday for a physical checkup.
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Kansas City, Mo
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Research Hospital
Khrushchev touts 80 or 120 rockets elsewhere in world
Premier Khrushchev told East German workers that although 40 missiles were withdrawn from Cuba he had placed 80 or 120 rockets somewhere else, likely inside the Soviet Union. He claimed a powerful Soviet club stopped imperialist plans, criticized China, and predicted a future unified socialist Germany while urging East German workers to boost production.
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Khrushchev
Cuba
Soviet Union
Germany
East Germany
Communist Party
East Berlin
Iron Workers
Eisenhuettenstadt
U. S
United States
Early Aide To Castro Found Shot
Ramon Padilla a former prison warden and early Castro ally was found dead with a single gunshot in the Brazilian embassy compound where he lived as a refugee for two years. Brazilian officials said suicide is suspected though no gun was found. Funeral services were held on embassy grounds as Cubans in asylum gathered, with authorities blocked from investigating under diplomatic immunity. Padilla, around 30, helped overthrow Batista.
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Havana
Cap
Ramon Padilla
Fidel Castro
Padilla
Fulgencio Batista
Navy Says It Needs More Ships Than Budget Calls
Washington AP report says the Navy seeks more than the 41 ships in the defense budget but cannot state this openly until asked by Congress. Navy notes most new ships would be replacements to counter obsolescence, with destroyers most aged and essential for antisubmarine warfare amid Soviet missile submarine threats.
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Washington
Navy
Congress
Defense Department
White House
Congressional
Defense
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
House
Armed Services Subcommittee
Two East Berlin Border Guards Defect Under Fire
Two border guards fled Red East Berlin in uniform on Saturday, one under fire, escaping about 48 hours after Khrushchev’s visit to the Communist wall. The incident followed Khrushchev’s approval for the wall and marks a rare defection from the East.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Khrushchev
Communist Wall
Katanga Moves Toward Reunion With Congo
Elisabethville and Leopoldville face hard times as Katanga nears rejoining the Congo. Inflation worsens the outlook while a dispatch from Richard K. O Malley describes a society where Europeans cling to a dwindling dominance and fear rises over central government troops.
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Leopoldville
Katanga
Reunion
Congo
Richard K. O'Malley
Paris
U.S. Officials Not Surprised At Tshombe Fall
U.N. forces to move into Kolwezi Monday as Katanga troops lay down arms. Elisabethville endures rationing inflation and curfews amid UN presence, with Tshombe’s secessionist government collapsing and Zimbabwe–style tension easing. Communal strains and economic hardship mark the dual Congo capitals.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Kolwezi
U.N
Congo
U.S
Tshombe
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