U Thant Leads Cris is Negotiations at UN Over Congo Costs
United Nations talks reach a critical stage as Secretary General U Thant returns from hospital to press negotiations on peacekeeping assessments. Key delegates including Soviet Ambassador Fedorenko and U.S. Ambassador Stevenson participate while Ghana’s Alex Quaison-Lackey seeks to resolve Security Council seat contests amid stalled voting.
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Soviet Union
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Saragat Wins Italian Post With Red Help
Italian Foreign Minister Giuseppe Saragat was elected president on the 21st ballot amid Communist support and Christian Democrat backing. The Socialist founder of the Italian Democratic Socialist party secured a major leftist coalition gain as the Parliament ended a 13 day deadlock.
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Italy
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Antonio _“gni
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Parish Tax Take Reaches 3 Million With Days Left
Ouachita Parish has collected 3,198,767.94 in state and parish taxes as of today with three days left before the December 31 deadline. C D Meredith urges payment to avoid a 10 percent penalty and notes two thirds of homestead exemptions are still due from the state.
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Holiday Toll 571: National Christmas Weekend Traffic Deaths
The Associated Press reports at least 571 people died in U S traffic accidents over the 78 hour Christmas weekend, with California leading at 59 deaths and New York 39. Several states set new annual records while conditions included fog rain and snow. Wisconsin Illinois and Oklahoma reported notable fatalities and year marks.
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Twin City Chit Chat
Holiday visitors stay with Mr and Mrs W D Kleppinger at 4308 Bon Aire Drive from Toledo Ohio. Their son Edward and wife Mary plus children Billy Kathryn and Ogden join the family. Billy marks a double celebration as Christmas and his sixth birthday are observed.
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Toledo
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Mary
Billy
Kathryn
Ogden
Louisiana Roundup Holiday Traffic Claims 18 Lives
Louisiana reported 18 traffic deaths during the Christmas holiday, including two three fatality crashes near New Orleans on Airline Highway and U S 51. Victims include Julian Frohn 55 and Johnny Simmons 17, plus Milton Cryer 46. Other victims span Livonia Thiobodaux and various incidents statewide.
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Food Airdrops Aid Flood Victims In California
Military airlift delivers food heating and medical supplies to flood isolated residents while a separate crash near the Eel River claims four lives and a second disaster north of Eureka leaves seven dead. Pilot Captain Richard Gleason survived a grueling river swim.
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Weather Forecast Notes Rising Temperatures Then Cooler Nights
The weather bureau reports slowly rising temperatures through Tuesday with partly cloudy skies and variable 5 to 15 mph winds. Daytime highs range from 52 to 58 today and 58 to 64 tomorrow, with overnight lows 38 to 42. In Monroe, Sunday high reached 40 with a 32 degree low.
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Nearest star far surpasses Pluto distance, Almanac says
The World Almanac reports the nearest star is more than 7,000 times as far from us as Pluto, highlighting vast cosmic scales.
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Senate probes NASA patent waivers over taxpayer rights
Senate and House members charge NASA is giving away patent rights developed with public funds. Critics say new policy lets contract officers waive rights when signing contracts, countered by NASA and President Kennedy guidance. Congress to open investigations on Baker, F111 contracts, and other issues.
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Charles Bird Dies Prominent State Attorney at 79
Charles Cecil Bird Jr. 79 a leading Louisiana attorney and sixth in his family to enter law died Sunday night in Baton Rouge Our Lady of the Lake Hospital after emergency surgery on Christmas Day Funeral arrangements awaited the arrival of his niece Miss Mary Bird Perkins Bird served as vice president of the Louisiana Law Institute and was a past president of the Louisiana Bar Association He was also active in local clubs and held memberships in Phi Delta Phi and Order of the Coif Bird born in Baton Rouge earned a LSU degree in 1904 and a UVA law degree in 1906 remaining a noted expert on the Louisiana Code in his Baton Rouge practice
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Customers urged to see manager over rude waiters chipd
A lighthearted menu note jokes that patrons who encounter rude waiters should ask to speak with the manager. No real incident is described and the line appears as a humorous aside on today’s menu.
Navy Hazard Pay Probed For Shore Based Submarine Staff
Government auditors tell Congress the Navy may illegally give about 1 million dollars yearly in submarine hazard pay to personnel serving mainly on shore or on surface ships. The General Accounting Office will not challenge payments before March 1 to allow adjustments.
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General Accounting Office
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Ife
Submarine Force Command
Charleston
S.C
San Diego
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Highway Plans To Tear Up Missouri Farm
Edgar N. Petty fears Interstate 35 will bisect his Liberty, Missouri farm, taking 17 acres of 160 and 22 acres of pasture. The highway department will take possession of a 295 foot wide right of way Tuesday, leaving his barn 400 feet from his house and turning his farm into a dead end lane. He says the project destroys country living and its costs may force court action.
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Edgar N. Petty
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Petty
Jewelry theft targets royal cousins in Tiverton
Thieves stole about 2800 dollars worth of jewelry and cash Sunday night from Mrs Denys Rhodes a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and from the Maharani of Sikkim a New Delhi area incident reported by UPI and AP notes.
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England
UPI
Queen Elizabeth II
Denys Rhodes
Maharani
Sikkins
Major Viet Cong position overrun in Dai Ngai battle
Government forces stormed a Viet Cong base 75 miles southwest of Saigon, killing at least 67 guerrillas and capturing 10 with a large stock of weapons. The operation, near Dai Ngai, involved 650 troops and 36 helicopters, marking a significant government success amid ongoing Mekong delta fighting. Casualties included 11 government dead and 42 wounded, with seven U.S. helicopter crewmen hit by small arms fire.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
Mekong Delta
Robert W. Butler
Frederick, Md
Mekong River
Plantation Fire Claims 3 Lives
A house fire on a plantation near Louisa, 15 miles south of New Iberia, La, killed three people. The deceased were Ellen Nora Robinson and her two young grandchildren.
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Ellen Nora Robinson
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