Explosion at Home Packing Co plant injures 55 and buries workers
An explosion at a meat packing plant in Terre Haute Indiana buried workers under debris amid ammonia gas. At least 55 injured, several critically, with 10 known dead as rescue crews battled collapsing walls and ongoing gas leaks. Names of some victims and plant owner relatives referenced.
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Terre Haute
Ind
UPT
Gas Company
Home Packing Co
Donald Scott
Joseph Callahan
Frank Riddle
Explosion injures workers at Aerojet General facility
An explosion at Aerojet General near Riverside California injured 17 people, two seriously. Hospital reports differed as to how many required treatment. The incident prompted strict security, six ambulances responded, and the site was described as a classified ordnance project.
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Riverside
Calif
UPI
Aerojet General
Here
Carl Brown
Arlington
Roy Hill
Riverside Community Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Hills
Las Vegas heads into 1963 with booming growth forecast
The writer predicts Las Vegas will exceed 150000 residents by year’s end, with Clark County near 300000. Aerojet plans 2700 plus hires and Westinghouse 400 to 500 more as five industries finish construction in 1963. The Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation reports 42 inquiries in December, while water shortages loom and officials must accelerate planning to match growth.
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Aerojet
Westinghouse Corporation
The
Southern Nevada Industrial Foundation
Reds down five American helicopters in Viet Nam battle
In the Plain of Reeds south of Saigon Communist guerrillas shot down five U S Army helicopters. Three American crew and four soldiers were wounded or killed the he licopters carried troops and equipment. The losses raise American fatalities to 49 since July 1959 with thirty killed in direct combat.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
UPI
Plain of Reeds
United States
Pacific
Progress Made In Strike Talks Exchange Hints of Settlement
New York UPI Under Secretary of Labor James Reynolds said real progress had been made to settle the 12 day East and Gulf Coast dock strike and he called in a Harvard professor to help. Reynolds met with shippers and dockworkers to halt the walkout that has idled thousands of workers ships and cargo.
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New York
UPI
James Reynolds
Gulf Coast
Harvard
Reynolds
W. W. Willard Wirtz
Louis Prima's Mother Rushed to Hospital After Heart Attack
Mrs Angelina Prima, 74, mother of bandleader Louis Prima, is in fair condition at Sunrise Hospital recovering from an apparent heart attack. Prima, who learned of his mother's illness on the day after returning home from work, found her struggling to breathe and she was placed in an oxygen tent in Las Vegas during holiday visit from New Orleans.
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Angelina Prima
Louis Prima
Sunrise Hospital
Prima
New Orleans
Las Vegas
Address Book Bares Strangler Suspect Names
Boston detectives said they have several good suspects in the strangling of Patricia Bissette, 23, whose half nude body was found in bed with a blouse and stocking around her throat. About 50 names were drawn from an address book found at the victim’s apartment as part of the inquiry into the eighth slaying in the area since June.
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Boston
UPI
John J. Donovan
Patricia Bissette
Water Reservoir Plan Disclosed in Southern Nevada
Five southern Nevada businessmen have bought the Three Kids mine pits with plans to convert them into a 45 million gallon water reservoir to replace a new Lake Mead pipeline. They seek a feasibility study to pump Winter Lake Mead water into the pits then convey it to Las Vegas in summer. Bureau of Reclamation officials doubt the plan due to gypsum pockets and earth faults causing leakage. The group includes Cliff Jones, Joe Wells, E Parry Thomas, Jerome D Mack, and K J Sullivan.
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Southern Nevada
Nevada
Lake Mead
Lak Mead
Las Vegas
Bureau of Reclamation
Boulder City
Cliff Jones
Joe Wells
Thunderbird Hotel
E. Parry Thomas
Bank of
Castro Attacks JFK Over Bay of Pigs Indemnification
Fidel Castro condemned President Kennedy and mocked U S policy as he denounced the payment of indemnification to Cuban prisoners of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. He spoke during Cuba's fourth anniversary of seizing power, after a display of military strength before 400 Communist world figures.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
United States
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Castro
Miami
Orange Bowl
New Year's Holiday Traffic Toll Reaches 389
The New Year's holiday traffic death toll rose to 389, though final figures fell below the National Safety Council’s preholiday estimate of 480 to 520 deaths. California led states with 47 highway fatalities. Texas 36. Illinois 20. New York and Oklahoma 19 each.
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United Press International
National Safety Council
The
Safety Council
California
Texas
Illinois
New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Florida
Ohio
Georgia
Michigan
North Carolina
City Judge Seeks Higher Pay and Full Time Post
The city commissioners plan to draft a resolution for a legislative delegation to boost pay for the municipal judge and city attorney. Richards, earning 10000, urged converting the roles to full time and adding court departments to handle a rising workload from 71000 to 98000 cases in 1962.
Astrological Forecast Highlights 1963 in SUN Horoscope
The SUN features Carroll Richter's optimistic 1963 forecast on page 7. The writer outlines yearly possibilities for each star sign while politicians and forecasters speculate on upcoming events as the year unfolds into 1964.
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America
SUN
Carroll Richter
Cloudy Weather With Light Rain Possible
A cloudy day with possible light rain and gentle winds. Highs close to 52 degrees and a low around 328 is likely. noontime humidity shows minimal moisture. Sunrise at 6:52 with inset at 4:38.
UN Troops Press Congo Drive Amid Bridge Blasts
UN armored columns push toward Kolwezi and Jadotville to end Tshombe secession. Bridges blown by Tshombe gendarmerie and mercenaries slow the advance as reports swirl about Jadotville falling. Tshombe remains unconfirmed in Kolwezi with fighting described as the heaviest since the prior weekend.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
UPT
United Nations
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Kolwezi
Jadotville
Lufira
Leopoldville
Tshombe
Miain
Elisabethvill
Colwezi
Elisabethville
Southern Rhodesia
Tshombbe
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