Winter Storm Snows Ground West Coast Docks
A major Pacific Northwest storm dumped heavy snow and floodwaters across Oregon Washington and northern California causing evacuations road closures and travel delays. The system also disrupted rail and highway traffic hampering search efforts and prompting chain requirements on Sierra passes. In Texas Labor officials prepared to meet union leaders as a threatened Gulf Coast dock strike neared possible shutdowns from Houston to New Orleans.
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Port of
James M. Holaren
Port
Ether
New Orleans
Maine
U S protest over Soviet linked shootdown of American plane
Cairo officials and American sources clash over the causes of a C82 cargo plane's downing near Alexandria. The Mecom Oil Co. plane carried Williams and Grupp, raising U.S. concern amid frayed UAR ties and debates on aid and intervention. Williams, a veteran pilot, left a pregnant widow.
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API
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United Arab Republic
How Williams
Muberry
Tex
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Sweden
Saturda
Alexandria
Mecom Oil Co
Houston
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Jordan
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Libya
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Middle East
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Kennedy Memorial Library
Belgium
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Plumbers Union Members Receive Early Christmas Pension
Christmas comes early for 77 members of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 525 as pension payments start Dec. 23 retroactive to July 1. The plan, negotiated with plumbers contractors in 1982, pays $8 to $125 monthly, with craftsman options of $19 monthly at year end or $200 after years.
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Plumbers and Pipefitters Union
David McGainty
McGinty
Cabinet members brief LBJ on budget at ranch powwow
President Johnson held budget talks at his Texas ranch with Interior Secretary Udall Labor Secretary Wirtz and others to discuss funds for desalting water camouflaging junkyards and other projects. Final defense budget decisions due with McNamara.
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John T. Connor
Robert S. McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Wirtz
Hodges
Connor
White House
Austin
Lenny Bruce Sentenced to Four Months in Workhouse
New York UP I report states comedian Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscene performances at Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village and sentenced to three concurrent four month workhouse terms. Judges delayed execution for a possible appeal while Bruce remains free on bail.
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Greenwich Village
Criminal Court
Bruce
Howard L. Solomon
Cafe Au Go Go
Jel
Solomon
John M. Murtagh
Kenneth M. Phipps
J. Randall Creel
Banano Kidnapping Saga Leaves Grand Jury Hunches
Joseph Bonanno known as Joe Bananas failed to appear at his lawyer William Maloney's office for a scheduled grand jury session. FBI describe him as a feared Mafia chieftain and investigators seek to determine if the alleged abduction was genuine or a staged plot for a class B film.
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Bonanno
FBI
William P. Maloney
Wee
Jayne's Ex Now a Hero in Seine Rescue
Mickey Hargitay, former husband of Jayne Mansfield, reportedly jumped into the Seine near the Bir Hakeim bridge at dawn to pull an 18-year-old girl from icy waters. The rescued girl was brought to a police station then a hospital for exposure treatment.
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Paris
UPI
Mickey Hargitay
Jayne Mansfield
Seine River
Banks Tighten Security After Drive-In Heists
National Bank officials say armed guards will escort all money transfers from drive-in windows to main buildings to deter future robberies after a lone gunman stole 17,900 dollars at Las Vegas Boulevard South. Police suspect the same two-man gang carried out earlier 6,024 dollar thefts, with one member acting while a partner waits in a stolen car nearby.
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Las Vegas Boulevard
With
East Charleston
Nevada Supreme Court Refuses Appeals in Two Clark County Cases
The court denied change of venue requests for Horace Tucker and Andrew Hanley in a murder and burglary case. Justice Gordon Thompson criticized prosecutors and police for pretrial publicity and comments on evidence, urging restraint to avoid press-driven trials.
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Las Vegas
Polie
Clark County
North Las Vegas
Horace Tucker
Omar Even
Andrew Gramby Hanley
High Court
Gordon Thompson
Thompson
Britain moves toward abolition of capital punishment
Parliament gave overwhelming approval to a bill to abolish capital punishment in Britain, leaving the measure one step from final approval by the House of Commons. The vote crossed party lines as MPs voted individually.
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London
UPI
Britain
House of Com
Plane Bound for Las Vegas Vanishes Over California
A single engine plane with two aboard disappeared Sunday on a flight from San Jose to Las Vegas. The pilot was P. D. Murphy of Greenbrae California and the passenger remained unidentified. The Civil Air Patrol centered search in the Santa Clara valley after loss of radio contact.
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Calif
UPD
Las Vegas
P. D. Murphy
Greenbrae, Calf
Civil Air Patrol
Santa Clara Valley
Grand Jury Reopens Deliberations on Sanitation District 1
Clark County grand jurors resume new deliberations on the affairs of Sanitation District 1 after a brief recess. Foreman Walter Ceary indicated the panel is nearing an end to its investigation as proceedings continue today.
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Clark County
Walter ‘Ceary
Regional air clashes raise tensions over Dead Sea
Reports from Amman say Jordanian fighters fired on four Israeli jets after accusing them of entering Jordanian airspace. In Jerusalem defense circles the exchange followed similar accusations from Israel.
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Dead Sea
Amman
Jordan
Spokseman
CIA spies executed in Cuba and MLF attack on West Germany
Three Central Intelligence Agency operatives were executed in Pinar del Rio Cuba the Revolution newspaper reported. The victims Ricardo Ulloa Olivera Daniel Montero Camallieri and Desideria Lourdes Valladares were linked to Batista era forces and a CIA spy front. In Helsinki Finland Anastas Mikoyan condemned the United States MLF plan as obstructing German reunification and world peace saying only Bonn backs the proposal.
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Helsinki
Finland
UPI
Anastas Mikoyan
Mikavan
Ilrho Kekonen
West Germany
Bonn
Alleged Spy Returns to London En Route to Washington
Col. George Aubrey the U S military attaché in Moscow arrived in London with his wife and two daughters en route to Washington. He was allegedly intercepted by Russian soldiers at Kharkovsk in September while traveling from Moscow to Tokyo with two Americans and a Briton.
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London
George Aubrey
Annapolis Md
Moscow
Washington
Aubrey
Kharkarovsk
Tokyo
Nationwide boycott urged after merger wage clash
Civil rights leaders and Dr Martin Luther King Jr call for a global boycott of Scripto pens pencils and cigarette brands after union workers rejected the proposed wage plan. Leaders urged Negroes and others to abstain from patronage as protests spread internationally.
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API
Martin Luther King Jr
Scripto Company
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