U S forces begin autobahn run toward West Berlin
Units of the 19th Infantry Division's 1st Battle Group move from Helmstedt through the Soviet border toward West Berlin in a staged convoy. The operation reasserts Allied access as Soviet and East German authorities protest and increase patrols along the autobahn. Col. Ira Palm leads the 1500-man group, relieving the 18th Infantry Battle Group whose move toward Berlin continues.
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Helmstedt
Germany
West Berlin
Iron Curtain
East Germany
U.S
Leg
19Th Infantry Division
Ira Palm
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Relievlng
18Th Infantry
Berlin
Kassel
West Germany
Shoplifters Drive Holiday Losses Across Midwest
Chicago AP reports Norman Industries estimates Christmas shoplifting will cost merchants over $500 million nationally. Most thieves are ordinary people, about 90 percent women, with only 10 percent professionals. Middle and higher income shoppers cause greater losses, often going unpunished when not caught. Some stores even employ lie tests for staff.
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Chicago
America
Mullon Auring
Norman Industries, Inc
Norman Kiven
Midwest
Kiven
Detroit
Chuckle on parents and lights in the home
A quip about parents who stop wondering why children fail to turn off lights and then question why they themselves do. The joke plays on reverse reasoning and household habits.
Army cannot draft Jimmie Farnam in Little Rock
In Little Rock Arkansas an AP report says the Army issued its call but James Jimmie Farnam refused induction. Farnam, wife of Richard L. Farnam, explained the name confusion arose from her father’s death shortly before her birth and her mother named her in his memory.
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Little Rock, Ark
Army
James F. Farnam
James
Jimmie
Richard L. Farnam
Almost got bit extra in bargain at Detroit plant
Edward Land leading a buyer group nearly secured a $300,000 bonus on the Chrysler Imperial plant in Detroit. The contract planned to hand all machinery to the buyers but a Chrysler official found 52 brand new Imperial cars stored in the building and the deal was quickly amended.
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Detroit
Edward Land
Chrysler Imperial
Land
Chrysler Corp
UN Jets Strike At Ammunition Piles In Katanga Plan
Acting Secretary-General U Thant seeks wider approval to bring Katanga under UN control with force if needed. The plan targets expelling about 200 foreign mercenaries serving with Tshombe's forces, aiming to end fighting and restore Congo peace. US delegation backs the plan and discusses its implementation with Thant at the UN.
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U.S
U Thant
Congo
Katanga
United Nations
U.N
Thant
Security Council
Moise Tshombe
Williams
Washington
State Department
Lon Thant
Gullion
Leopoldville
Kolwezi
Elisabethville
Paris
Tshombe
Manono
Goofed On News Muzzle FAA Says
FAA officials say a flight news clampdown was a mistake. The order, published without White House approval, blocked FAA staff from releasing Kennedy and Johnson flight details. The White House had continued providing reporters with arrival and departure times. The gag was revoked hours after becoming known.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Agency
Secret Service
White House
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Italian missile troops launch Jupiter rocket success
CAPE CANAVERAL Florida AP reports a third group of Italian missile troops launched an American Jupiter rocket on a successful 1, 0 mile flight as part of deployments in Italy. They man Jupiter sites in Italy where two 15 missile squadrons are deployed.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Italy
No More Investigations Into Pearl Harbor Matter
Washington AP Pentagon says no further official probes into why the United States was caught off guard at Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941. The 20th anniversary of the attack is marked as authors debate the events while Defense Department plans no new investigations. The Senate House joint inquiry and earlier inquiries examined officials from Roosevelt Hull Knox Marshall Stark Kimmell Short and others, finding no evidence that top leaders pressured Japan into war.
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Pentagon
United States
Pearl Harbor
High Command
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Navy
Army
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Senate
House
Kennedy Seeks Public Works Powers to Fight Recession
President Kennedy told AFL-CIO leaders he would ask Congress for standby public works authority to put unemployed men to work during a recession. He cited November payrolls at 67,349,000 and unemployment at 6.1 percent, and urged measures to aid communities hurt by imports while rejecting permanent government paternalism. He warned against inflationary use of the plan and urged labor to support wage movement in line with productivity.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Organized Labor Today
Congress
Afl-Cio
Labor Federation
America
U.S
Public Works Authority
The
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Hold On To Your Money State Told
Columbus Ohio AP James H Maloon state Finance Director urged a series of money hoarding moves as a lag in sales tax collections threatens a cash shortfall next year He directed agencies to postpone equipment purchases leave vacant positions unfilled spend non general funds for replacements curb travel to conferences and deposit all on hand funds immediately in the state treasury
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Columbus
Ohio
James H. Maloon
Maloon
State halts new construction and shifts sales tax timing
Maloon directs agencies to stop new building projects. Beginning Jan 1 the state will collect sales tax without tax stamps as receipts. Retailers must pay collected taxes within 30 days after each month, ending the era of prepaid December stamps.
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Maloon
Weather forecast reports cold, clear tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for fair skies and colder temperatures tonight and tomorrow. A low around 23 0 is expected tonight. Friday daytime high near 35. Yesterday's high reached 47 at 3 55 p.m. Overnight low was 28 at 8 a.m. today.
Katangan Fire Upon U S Plane Amid Congo Tension
Conflicting reports from Elisabethville and Leopoldville as Katanga and U.N. forces clash over aerial attacks. Katanga fighters strike near the capital while U S transports receive conditional protection, with consular and diplomatic tensions rising over security and possible ceasefire efforts.
Katangans launch counterattack near railway tunnel
Katangans pressed a counterattack today against a railway tunnel near Elisabeth ville, recaptured by the U.N. on Wednesday night, while a U.N. spokesman said mopping up operations were ongoing this morning.
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Elisabeth
Ville
U.N
Prison inmates may watch crime films under new NC rule
Raleigh AP report says the North Carolina Prison Commission voted to allow inmates to view crime related movies and remove prison officials from censoring nighttime TV. Lee Bounds of the Institute of Government notes lawmen always catch criminals in these stories may offer a moral benefit.
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Raleigh, N.C
North Carolina Prison Commission
Lee Bounds
The
Institute of Government
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