02 Dec 1960
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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1960
Page
1
Worry Wart and his pal headline a Christmas coloring contest open to youths 18 or under. Entrants must neatly color or draw six images, submit by clipping and sending to the Daily News Middlesboro Kentucky, with name and address, to win prizes like a National STAR Guide set and other art and toy items.
Washington expects a formal request to Cuba to return satellite rocket fragments found in eastern Cuba after a non military science mission. State Department officials say the aim is identification of the failure and to determine what went wrong with the shot. The Cuba regime may use the incident for propaganda.
Washington reports on National Labor Relations Board findings that miners and workers faced coercive tactics to support a local union. Witnesses described threats, armed intimidation, and demands for Southern Union endorsement, prompting orders to halt unfair labor practices and enforce reporting procedures.
The Ohio Attorney General's office states the Merit System does not bar slate workers from attending precinct meetings or helping elect precinct committeemen or participating in campaigns. Asst. Atty. Gen. Walter Herdman clarified that the statute aims to prevent patronage and political office seeking by merit workers, not a classified employee attending meetings of their own accord. The quadrennial precinct committee reorganization occurs Saturday at 2 p.m. local time across the state, signaling a routine shift of local party machinery to the new year.
Visiting hours listed as 24 and 6 30 to 8 41 with dismissals and admissions names including Fritts Duncai Pratt Cross etc. The text records admissions for Ponakt Pratt William Cross and others with doctors Patsy Johosen enia Webb Caenea Gladys Morley and a Mary K. McDaniel. A second Middleshora Hospital and Clinic entry notes visiting hours 12 and 7 3 with dismissals Frances White Matt Webb John Leonard Wilkin Sherman Brooks Ken Colirahame Tieuee A. Thompson among listed names.
A deputy commissioner floated a plan for a Department of Non-Production in which a commissioner directors and staff exist but with no duties or real authority. The aim is to reduce political favoritism by replacing active roles with nonfunctional positions while compensating favorites with payroll funding.
Obituaries list Ed Powell 78 of Avtar Tenn and Ernest Stanley Brooks of Pineville with funeral services at Ca wood Funeral Home Chapel. Burial at Hooper Cemetery and Yellow Hill Deme. Other notices reference services at Gawacon Funeral Home and Fire Mane Chapel with multiple survivors and pallbearers named.
Mrs Sara Ellen Crawford of Meldrum Middleboro Route 2 died yesterday at Middlesboro Memorial Hospital. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Sunday at Meldrum Baptist Church with Rev W W Nails and Rev Carl Givens officiating. Burial at Furst Cemetery. The body to be taken to the house late tomorrow afternoon. Fulton Funeral Home of Narge. SAM ROSE Cumberland Gap died yesterday morning while visiting his daughter Mrs Austin Williams in Scajeland California. He was years of age at the time of his death.
A theatrical script shows a drought plagued family desperate to pay Starbuck who claims he can summon rain. Lissie, the only daughter, faces a marriage plot as rehearsals continue amid reports of nightly practice and ticket sales. Nearly 200 seats were sold with expectations of more. Tickets available through December 10.
Washington UPI report says Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia denied any formal exsistence of a Southern Democrat Republican bloc to help Smith, a powerful member of the House Rules Committee. He said there is no continuing alliance between conservatives in the two parties and warned against such speculation.
At Clear Creek a Southern Baptist Convention mission program challenged students to send missionaries to Liberia. Rev. and Mrs. William Muriter of Three Forks Bible Church Harrodsburg Ky plan to accept the invitation. Liberia, founded in 1822 by freed American slaves, sits on Africa’s west coast with Monrovia as capital. its economy relies on rubber exports from Firestone and Goodyear plantations.
Violent clashes spread across Caracas as security forces and rioters fought in Catia and Lidice. Two more people died bringing weekly toll to fifteen. several others wounded. A 16 year old girl Guillermina Echenique was killed by a stray bullet while watching clashes from her doorway.
New York social pages announce the engagement of Tunney's son-in-law to Lynn Carter, daughter of former boxing champion Gene Tunney, with details from Stimtond and a Friday briefing. The Army also reports plans to increase active duty personnel by 2,589,030, a rise tied to postwar strength.
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