British Move To Block New Threat To Kuwait
Britain readies a show of force in the Persian Gulf amid unrest around Kuwait. Royal Navy ships Centaur Plymouth Loch Alvie Striker and three supply vessels deploy with 150 RAF and 30 army advance parties bound for secret destinations. Army navy and air force units in Kenya the Middle East and Britain stand by for swift movement as England signals defense pledges if Kuwait seeks aid.
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Persian Gulf
Airceraft Rier Centaur
Plymouth
Loch Alvie
Striker
Royal Air Force
England
Kenya
Midsie East
Britain
Larceny Case Details Fraud Scheme and Forgery
The article recounts Rubin’s long fraud, forging notes to cover losses totaling over 1 million dollars. Victims included Chemical Bank New York Co. branch at Ising and Sun Street and Pam & Co. and fanheimer Co. He built a cover bank account, lived with a wife and two children, and financed a $90,000 home and a Cadillac. He confessed during a bank dinner but officials pursued the case with the district attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stle
Rubin
E Chemical Bank New York Co
Ising
Sun Street
Pam & Co
Fanheimer Co
Sion
Sannein
Chemical
Sis T9
District Attorney's Office
Bitter Cold Grips Midwest With Subzero Readings
Extreme temperatures linger across Minnesota and neighboring states with Duluth and International Falls reporting subzero lows while Wisconsin Iowa and the Dakotas stay frozen. Snow and rain mix in Michigan New York and Pennsylvania as a cold front pushes south toward Florida with wind driven chills and scattered thunderstorms along the Gulf states.
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Michigan
New York
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Dakotas
Minnesota
Wednesda
Florida
USA
Everglades
Bank Embezzler Expresses Sorrow After Release
A bank embezzler who claimed to be humbly sorry after being released Wednesday faces scrutiny over misused funds. The case centers on alleged theft at the bank involving substantial sums and questioned duties of the official who handled the matter.
Man Killed in Seagraves. Pax Theatre Fire Victim Feared Dead
Sources in Halls report a man killed in Seagraves during a fire at the Pax Theatre early Wednesday. The victim, identified as Flynn formerly of Barta, survived the blaze with injuries to a number of children and other relatives. Neighbors say he had lived on Ralls for months.
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Seagraves
Bate
Pax Theatre
Norton Rain Dane Esbreatidl
Carter da Nerid
Ells
Flynn
Barta Ah
Hey
Ralls Laut
W. S. Butler
State Highway Patrol
Texas
Department of Public Safety
DPS
Lt Butler
AP Witephoto
Hob Caspersn Improves After Hospital Stay
A garbled report states Hob Caspersn from 2300 dit Bt returned home after ten days in hospital. Casperson, a sailor, was said to have improved following a Denver trip. Other details note a critical condition at West Tec Hospital and a gunshot injury to Looney from an antique rifle during a Friday incident.
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Caspersn
Casperson
Slua
Denver
Tnsk Ductor
West Tec Hospital
Kate Wed
Looney
Cold Weather Grips Much Of Texas Statewide
A cold high pressure system and front brought frigid air to Texas on Wednesday with below freezing readings in many areas. Beaufort reports and sparse sunshine gave way to clear to partly cloudy skies in the Panhandle and North Texas while temperatures fell into the upper 20s in some southern counties. The forecast warned of continuing cold conditions across the northern states with nighttime lows staying below normal statewide.
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Brospsville
Browns
Beaumont
Texas
Panhandle
North
SeTexas
Sam Ceara
Stretetough Thur
Colter
Mestad
Record High Texas Holiday Toll Forecast
The Texas holiday toll nears a new record with at least 15 deaths since 6 p m December 22 from traffic, fires and homicides. Foreman Daniel J Vandeventer dies in a wreck near Liberty while others include W H Stranbe crushed, Archie Willingham shot, and a Bolivar Peninsula fire victim identified as Home Wade Laughlin. DP and UPI tally extend to midnight January 1.
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Press Interna
Texas
United Press International
Daniel
Imer J. Vandeventer
Sherty
Price Daniel
Niles
Liberty
Department of Public Safety
Department of Public Safes
UPI
Dee
W.H. Stranbe
Houston
Archie Willingham
Sweetwaiter
Bolivar Peninsula
Wade Laughlin
Illegal Divorce Mill Smashed In Mexico Raid
Mexico raid targets a divorce mill alleged to have issued fake decrees to tens of thousands of couples across continents including California. Police seized papers and arrested four men with a fifth expected, uncovering a network extending to northern Mexico and U S southwestern states.
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Menico City
UPD
Mindorder
Mexico
California
Rill
Oper
Resat
Chernavies
Beac
Argentina
Berl
Chile
France
Steid Sprain
Cuernagara
United States
Milk contamination from Soviet tests declines nationwide
U S Public Health Service reports iodine 131 levels in milk eased through November across 59 monitoring stations. Surgeon General Luther L Terry notes declines into early December with most stations below 20 microcuries per liter and several undetectable, following Soviet atmospheric tests that began Sept 1 and continued through early November.
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Washington
United States
U.S. Public Health Service
Urgeon
Luther L.terry
Terry
Soviet Union
Red Delegation Arrives at Chinese Reactor Meet
A Red delegation arrived in Ulm Biter Outer Mongolia this week to attend a dedication event centered on a $200 million power plant project. The New Chun News Agency reported Chinese influence linked to the visit as Western observers watched closely.
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Ulm
Outer Mongolia
Ius
Walt
New Chun News Agency
Montana sites ready underground Minuteman launch pads
The Air Force reports 10 underground launch pads for Minuteman missiles are ready at Malmstrom AFB Montana with completion of concrete silos and launch control centers. The initiative expands to 150 missiles, part of a yearlong program across Malmstrom and other bases including Minot Ellsworth Whiteman. The first flight of six thousand three hundred mile range missiles was eyed for late 1962.
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Washington
Minuteman
Man
Air Force
Avantic
Cape Ca
Naveral
Fla
Gram
West Malmstrom Afb
Montana
Solic
I Air Seaders
Malmstrom
Penalties arise in pleas before Judge Moore
The court heard penalties for three defendants including Robert Banks 20 days in jail plus costs for theft from Bobbie Nell Smith Steven Gowles and Kenneth Graves received five day penalties with costs for theft of items from Lew Bullock Desmond Blaylock and Carlos Champion faced weapons and desertion charges with bonds set and pleas of innocent entered amid a messy continuation from page one
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Moore
J. L. Moore
Sunnyside
Sunnyside Grain & Supply Co
Lew Bullock
Shidlow
Jimmy Blaylock
Birch
Carlos Champion
Chivis
Tow Trucks Kept Busy by Beacon Street Odd-Even Mix Up
Boston police and city officials released cars wrongly towed on Beacon Street after a misapplication of the odd-numbered side rule. Mayor John F. Collins ordered refunds for owners who already paid $5 tow fees and $1 overnight charges.
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Boston
Seine
Beacon
Beacon St
Siow
John F. Collins
Finalists Eye Maid Of Cotton Amid Cotton Belt Contests
Washington AP reports seven judges will select the Maid of Cotton winner and two alternates Friday night as 12 cottonbelt states send contestants to Dallas for a two day pageant. The winner receives an extensive wardrobe, a three month publicity tour for cotton and a new car. The finals occur at City Auditorium with the first appearance at Colton Bowl football game in Dallas on New Year’s Day. Miss Ethyl Glasscock of Texas Tech represents the South Plains.
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Frank Carey Washington
Memphis
East Africa
Venus
City Auditorium
Dallas
Ethyl Glasscock
Texa Tech
State Department flags pro Katanga propagandist funding
Philadelphia AP report cites State Department official Carl T. Rowan saying a pro Katanga propagandist in New York spent at least 140000 this year spreading myths about the Congo. Rowan, the deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, also criticized American critics of U.S. support for the UN operation against Tshombe.
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Philadelphia
New York
Congo
Carl ‘T. Rowan
U.S.I
Katan
Moise ‘Tshombe
Rowan
Phi Beta Sigma
Michel Strueens
Studens
State Department
Strudens
Katanga
Tshombe
Washington
Births and affiliations listed in hospital notices
Numerous birth announcements record newborns weighing from about seven to nine pounds born at Methodist Hospital and other local facilities. Each entry names parents, occupations, and relatives, with scattered remarks on father’s employer and mother’s maiden names, across multiple days and times.
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Donald Mason
Methodist Hospital
Southwest Wheel
Gary Wells
Burr
Fyndall Jay Burleson
Tastor Hospital
Inez
Burleson Paint and
Katanga Leader Dampens Congo Unity Hopes
Katanga Province sent delegates to Kinshasa to modify Congo unity provisions, but Katanga President Moise Tshombe tempered expectations. He insisted the delegates’ role was to amend the fundamental law and not a move toward federation. He refused to comment on agreeing to a non federation Congo framework.
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Leopoldville
Katanga
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Mierely
Kilona
Tshombe
Elisabethville
Kivtona
The
Midland Man Takes Lead In Rodeo Finals Night
Eddie Akridge, Midland cowboy, led opening night of the National Finals Rodeo with 182 points aboard Centennial to earn 411 today and push season winnings to 14 310. Mike Isley, Salmon Idaho, was second with 180. Jim Shoulders was disqualified for spur violation. Tater Decker led steer wrestling with 7.5 seconds. Ward Combs was second, James Bynum third. Harry Tompkins won bull riding with 182 points aboard Charles. Shoulders was second, Del Hataway third, Don Adams fourth. Ronnie Rossen was knocked off Baldy as crowd of about 7 000 watched.
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Dallas
UPI
Eddie Akridge
Centennial
Mike Isley
Salmon
Idaho
Akridge
Jim
Henryetta
Okla
Shoulders
Tater Decker
Clayton
Ward Combs
Charles
Tompkins
del Hataway
Snyder
Tex
Don Adams
Corona
Calif
Ronnie Rossen
Broadus
Mont
NFR
Baldy
Talbots Promote Wild Game Over Cattle In Africa
Geographer Lee Talbot and wife Martha advocate wild game as better protein in East Africa, citing cattle overgrazing and environmental limits. They note natives oppose conservation for cultural reasons while praising game’s faster growth, lower water needs, and adaptability. Ankara opens a children only film theater.
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Lee Talbot
Martha
Talbots
Navy
National Academy of Sciences
Fast Africa
Berkeley
Calif
East Africa
Billy Rose Seeks Fortunes Amid Broadway Glamour
Billy Rose, a multimillionaire and chief investor, holds about 80,000 shares of A T & T common stock worth around 136 dollars each. He projects a fortune of 1 5 million before death and recounts marriages to Fanny Brice, Eleanor Holm, and others, with a history marked by high profile romances and public spectacles on Broadway and at the Worlds Fairs Aquacade.
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Diamond Horseshoe
Broadway
Rose
A-T.&7
Fanny Brice
Sway
Eleanor Holm
Ional
Miss Brice
Eleanor Shed
Dev Art Jarrett
Miss Holm
Kage
Wlin
Sukarno Opens Meeting With Military Over New Guinea
Sukarno holds first military staff meeting on liberation of Dutch New Guinea as UPI reports rising diplomatic efforts to avert war. U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Tones met Sukarno and Foreign Minister Subandrio at breakfast, signaling possible U.S. mediation amid a yearlong dispute and Sukarno’s threats to use force.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
UPI
Sukarno
Dutch West New Guinea
U.S
Howard P. Tones
Subandrio
Gorich
Pete Montigomery
Montgomery
Katy
Lubbock
Peter
Las Vegas
28Th St
Wayne D
Matthews
Rose
Waska
Calif
Bobby J
E. Baylor
Odessa
Roy A
Gonzales Gomez
Smith
Baylor
King
Leonard Jones
City of Field
Sixth Avenue
Joyce
Mexico
McDonald
Eleanor
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Tneus Briefs
Llegal
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Aid, Meadenrs
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Arculana Martine
Magnolia
Wendings
Bop
Pedro Martinee
Alvbock
Biel
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Mos
Keli
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Anaree
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Fang
Jesse
Stevenson
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Jerry
Vann Bien
Duster Weishina
Senteste Hosoi
Francison Acevedo
Lebrock
Bith
Robert Swain
American Beauly Co
Robert Mayne
Si Wongiing
Werersiay R'Weat
Texas Hospital
Ens
Lalor
Duane Whitaker
Turstay Nist Atarse Hospital
Simpson
Gregory Zehin
Sans St
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Parks Printing
Mind Afrasne Ware
B. Bisteen
Mary's Most
Hemoml Conteneting Co
Ankara
Key
Billy Rose
Danny
Elizabeth
Brandon
San Jose
Volunteers of America
Brandon Sewing Circle
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