Ocean Hunt Renewed Girl's Rescue Spurs Search
Miami reports renewed search efforts after the sinking of the ketch Blue Belle in the Atlantic. Captain Julian Harvey killed himself in a Miami motel room. his wife Mary was among the five presumed lost. Terry Jo Duperrault, 11, drifted 3% days on a cork raft, now in critical but hopeful condition in Mercy Hospital. The Coast Guard intensified the hunt for remaining survivors as authorities piece together the crash and rescue timeline.
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Miami
Julian Harvey
Atlantic
Harvey
Mary
Fla
Terry Jo Duperrault
Mercy Hospital
Terry Jo
Green Bay
Wis
Coast Guard
Nassau
Bahamas
Theo
Canthodontis
Texas
Cmdr
Robert Pope
Franklyn Verdon
Renee
Arthur Duperrault
Brian
Mary Dene Harvey
Nike Zeus missile test shows boost to outrun liquid fuels
The Nike Zeus rocket completed a test at Point Mugu California, proving its solid fuel system and first two stages function. It soared to cloud level before deliberate destruction to avoid sea danger, proving outrun capability over Atlas missiles and signaling future deployments from Kwajalein to Vandenberg.
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Point Mugu
Calif
Pacific Missile Range
Kwajalein Island
Vandenberg Air Force Base
U.S
Russia
Milwaukee 32nd Man Dies in Training Run
Pfc. George W. Kenkkila 25 of Milwaukee and Tripoli Oneida County, member of Wisconsin’s 32nd Infantry Division, collapsed during double time training at Fort Lewis Washington. He fell ill near 4 30 p m and was pronounced dead.
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FT. Lewis
Wash
George W. Kenkkila
Wisconsin
32Nd Infantry
Kenkkila
Milwaukee
127Th Infantry
Tripoli
Oneida County
George A
Air Force Hercules Snags Space Capsule In Routine Mission
In Honolulu Hawaii a crew of airmen using four engine C130 Hercules recovers Discoverer 35 a space capsule with gold plate nose cone. Captain James F McCullough of Wyncote Pennsylvania piloting one of the aircraft spotted the descending capsule and coordinated the snag near 500 miles northwest of Honolulu. The retrieval involved radar guided Constellation support and a first try snag as the parachute drifted toward Kodiak Alaska.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
James F. McCullough
Wyncote
McCullough
Air Force Constellation
Kodiak
Alaska
Castro claims U.S. plot to invade Cuba risks hundreds of thousands
In Key West Cuba's Prime Minister Castro on Thursday night accused the United States of planning a new invasion that could cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Cubans. He leveled the charge during a bitter attack on Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt.
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Key West
Fla. 3
Castro
United States
Romulo Betancourt
Venezuela
First Success for Silo Minuteman Missile Launch
CAPE CANAVERAL Fila a Minuteman missile scored its first underground silo launch today. The 58-foot rocket vaulted from a 90-foot pit and reached a target area about 3,000 miles away in two seconds. The test advances the plan to place hundreds of missiles in hardened silos.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Air Force
Bull’seye
Atlantic
Minuteman
Defense Department
Montana
United States
Madison's 32nd Band Joins in Salute to JFK
Seattle ceremonies mark the 100th anniversary of the University of Washington as the headquarters band of Wisconsin's 32nd infantry division salutes President Kennedy. A Madison unit joined the salute during a review preceding the anniversary events.
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Madison
Seattle
Wash
Wisconsin
32Nd Infantry Division
Kennedy
University of Washington
Postmaster Urges Early Yule Mail Plan for 1961
Acting Postmaster R. J. Myers launches the 1961 Mail Early for Christmas campaign urging residents to plan card and gift mailings now. He advises complete addresses, strong packaging materials, and stockpiling stamps to speed delivery and reduce lines. Local cards should ship by December 15 with distant mail by December 10 or earlier, and area cards a week before Christmas.
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R. J. Myers
Myers
Army extends Christmas leave to many troops in December
Washington reports the Army will grant Christmas leave to as many soldiers as possible including reservists and guardsmen called to duty and 16 000 draftees within the first 15 days of December. The Marine Corps offers 10 day leaves in two waves starting December 17 18 and 28 29 for some personnel while boat training recruits miss leave. Navy declines a general policy leaving decisions to fleet and district commands. Air Force policy not announced.
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Washington
Army
Marine Corps
Navy
Air Force
Christmas Decorations Go Up Early in Monroe
Monroe begins pre Christmas decorations in the central business district and expanded area including Smoky Row and highway entrances. Vernon Schillinger of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce says Dewey Dwyer and crew will finish in about a week if weather cooperates.
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Monroe
Vernon Schillinger
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Dewey Dwyer
Smoky Row
Central Business District
71 Passengers Injured In Rock Island Wreck Near Hartford
In Hartford Iowa the Rock Island Twin Star Rocket rear collided with a road grader injuring 71 people as about 120 passengers rode the train. Nine of the eleven cars derailed along the right-of-way in the late Thursday incident.
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Hartford
Iowa
Rock Island
U.N. Considers More Troops After Congo Airmen Slay
Secretary General Thant weighs rushing additional U.N. forces to the Congo as anger mounts over the killing of 13 Italian airmen by mutinous Congolese troops. Maj. Gen. McKeown and Conor Cruise O Brien brief Thant on efforts to punish those responsible amid a shrinking U.N. Congo command and international outrage.
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United Nations
N.Y
Thant
U.N
Congo
U Thant
Sean McKeown
U.N. Congo
Ghana
Guinea
Mali
Morocco
Tunisia
United Arab Republic
United States
Britain
France
Security Council
Katanga
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Antoine Gizenga
Zorin
Stevenson
Gizenga
Belgium
Paul-Henri Spaak
Cows Inc Leasing Firm To Lease Dairy Cattle
A Wisconsin venture Cows, Inc. plans to lease dairy cattle to farmers rather than buy equipment. The project aims to show Americans living and working in a European broadcast, with Herman J. Schmitz as a key cattle dealer and William J. Schmitz as secretary and vice president. The five minute VOA interview features William Patrick Madison recording the piece for Europe.
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Cows, Inc
Voice of America
Europe
William Patrick Madison
WIBA
Wisconsin
Herman J. Schmitz
Monroe
Patrick
United States
William J. Schmitz
Leaders To Join In Rayburn Rites
Bonham Texas prepares to bid farewell to Sam Rayburn senator and House speaker death from cancer. President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson headlined officials attending the funeral at First Baptist Church with John W. McCormack arranging a large congressional attendance. Kennedy to fly from Perrin Air Force Base for the service and return. Rayburn will lie in state from morning until Saturday in the Sam Rayburn library.
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Bonham
Tex
Texas
Sam Rayburn
Risser Hospital
Rayburn
Joe Risser
Kennedy
Johnson
First Baptist Church
John W. McCormack
Perrin
H. G. Ball
Primitive Baptist
Tioga
Bernard Braskamp
Stock List Settles During Active Trade
New York stock market closed generally lower in fairly active late trading. Volume was about 3.7 million shares. Major stocks fell from fractions to over a point as selling pressure increased, erasing earlier gains.
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New York
Kennedy says US will negotiate from strength in cold war
President Kennedy states the United States must be willing to negotiate cold war issues from a position of strength. He argues appeasement or surrender harms the nation and warns against forcing American solutions on world problems while stressing clear vital interests.
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Seattle
Wash
Kennedy
United States
West Germany
Soviet Union
West
Swiss and Cheddar Demand Varied at Wisconsin Markets
Madison reports Swiss and Cheddar markets steady with ample supplies and irregular demand from slow to good, averaging fair. American cheese production for the week ending Nov 9 fell 1 percent in Wisconsin and 7 percent nationally. Swiss demand ranged slow to good. wheel types ample. Cheddar unchanged on the Wisconsin Cheese Exchange in Green Bay with no sales and bids partly unfilled.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Market News Service
United States
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange
Green Bay
Malayan troops rush to Kindu amid Congo airmen killings
UN dispatched Malayans to Kindu to disarm Congolese mutineers blamed for the massacre of 13 Italian UN airmen. Reports describe brutal killings, severed limbs, and taunting by locals as the UN demanded swift punishment and a Congo commission to identify suspects. General Mobutu's reaction noted, with emphasis on accountability.
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Leopoldville
Congol
United Nations
Kindu
U.N
Lualaba
Kivu
Congo
Antoine Gizenga
Stare Linner
Sweden
World Health Organization
George Ivan Smith
Cyrille Adoula
Adoula
Mobutu
Gizenga
Fair Stockholders To Meet Tuesday
The Green County Agricultural Society and Mechanics Institute stockholders will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Circuit Courtroom of the Courthouse to review terms expiring for four officers and two directors including David Cunningham and Ernest Hayes. Hold-over directors are Russell Carter, L. E. Kirsch and Conrad Stauffacher. Officer terms expiring annually are Fred T. Burgy, O. L. Hare, Rolland E Karlen, and Lyle A. Rodger. Karlen will not seek re-election as secretary. The 1961 Fair financial report will be reviewed.
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Green County Agricultural Society and Mechanics Institute
David Cunningham
Ernest Hayes
Russell Carter
L. E. Kirsch
Conrad Stauffacher
Fred T. Burgy
Monticello
O. L. Hare
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Clair Bidlingmaier
John
Paul Young
Tad
Rosie Webster
Stella
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