Weaver Likely Senate OK for HUD Secretary Nomination
President Johnson nominated Robert C. Weaver to head the new Department of Housing and Urban Development with MIT professor Robert Wood as undersecretary. Weaver, 58, has led the department’s forerunner agencies since November. hearings were set for Monday with broad support from Southern and civil rights leaders.
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Washington
Robert C. Weaver
Senate
Johnson
Weaver
Housing and Urban Development
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Cabinet Department
Robert C. Wood
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wood
Federal Housing Administration
Public Housing Administration
Urban Renewal Administration
Community Facilities Administration
Office of Economic Opportunity
Wired Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Adancement of Colored People
Whitney Young Jr
National Urban League
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
Senate Banking Committee
Robertson
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Reduced Viet Cong Activity Amid Frontline Skirmishes
Viet Cong actions stayed on a diminished scale with several clashes and U.S. and South Vietnamese losses. Government militiamen killed 40 Viet Cong near Quang Ngai. U.S. planes collided near Qui Nhon killing seven. Marines reported casualties from mortar training and ambushes while seizing mortars and rice. Diplomatic moves awaited Secretary Rusk and Ambassador Harriman as Da Nang airstrikes and convoys pressed Route 19 operations.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Quang Ngai
U.S
Qui Nhon
da Nang
Dean Rusk
W. Averell Harriman
Johnson
Thin Yen
Quang Tri City
Qui Nhon-Pleiku
Central Highlands
1St Cavalry
Waterway traffic in 1965 tops charts despite winter limits
Chicago district reports 1965 Illinois Waterway traffic likely to be among the highest on record. Peoria Lock and Dam led with 25,906,382 tons, followed by Starved Rock and Dresden Island. Decembers totals show Dresden Island second at 2,172,870 tons amid heavier year end movement.
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Illinois Water Way
Chicago Army Engineer District
Peoria Lock and Dam
Starved Rock
Dresden Island
Morris
Chicago
Dresden
Marseilles
Lockport
New LaGrange
Thomas J
Brandon Road Lock
Peoria
Lockport Lock
Dresden Island Lock
Seoul fishing boat capsizes in Yellow Sea storm
Police reported 25 Koreans drowned when their fishing boat capsized off Sosan on the west coast about 50 miles southwest of Seoul during a Thursday storm in the Yellow Sea. Eleven persons were rescued.
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Seoul
Korea
Sosan
Community Chest Drive Exceeds Goal in Grundy County
The Grundy County Community Chest tallied pledges and cash over 25,000 dollars surpassing its 20,500 dollar goal. An upcoming Jan 26 meeting in Farm Bureau Auditorium will consider expanding the board to 15 members and distributing 1,414 dollars to agencies to cover a budget deficit.
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Grundy County
Earl Kay
The
Chest
Farm Bureau
Kay
Community Chest
Addional
William F. A. Palmer
Jack Strobel
Karl Linnemann
Skip Wagoner
Strobel
May Scrap Plan For Build Atom Smasher
The Atomic Energy Commission may scrap its $348 million atom smasher plan as three cheaper alternatives are studied. AEC will meet with leading high energy physicists in late January to gauge views while 85 communities in 43 states seek the project.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Craig Hosmer
Calif
Joint
Senate
House Atomic Committee
AEC
Light Snow Forecast With Warmer Weekend Ahead
The Weather Bureau predicts a modest warm up next week end with a chance of snow or rain on Sunday. Daytime highs stay in the 30s and nights near 20, with Collins Station reporting highs of 28 and lows of 21 degrees.
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U. S
Sea Scouts Seek Navy Uniforms for New Crew
Sea Scout Ship 473 expands to three crews with five vacancies in the third crew under Rev. David Zimmerman. They ask ex Navy personnel to donate discarded blues and whites, sending them to the American Legion Hall or St Thomas Church. Meetings run 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at St Thomas Parish Hall while the Hall is remodeled. The group aims to achieve apprentice rating before charter presentation with water safety and seamanship training under Skip Wagoner.
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David Zimmerman
U. S. Navy
American Legion Hall
W. Washington St
St. Thomas _ Episcopal Church
Goold Park Drive
American Legion
Legion Hall
Sea Scout
St. Thomas Parish Hall
Sea Scouts
Skip Wagoner
Two Injured In Morris And Grundy County Crashes
Two people remain under observation at Morris Hospital after separate Thursday night crashes in Morris and Grundy counties. Owen Carroll suffered head injuries from a windshield impact on Northern Ave Gould Park. Marlon Schwarz and driver George Babcock Jr. were treated for bruises and minor injuries after sliding on ice into a bridge. Robert Abernathy was also hospitalized for facial lacerations from a one car I-80 crash west of Illinois 47.
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Morris
Grundy County
Morris Hospital
Owen Carroll
E. North St
Northern Ave
Gould Park
Paul Ostrom
Gordon Gregg
Carroll
Lisbon St
Finland
Marlon Schwarz
Joliet
Dan Pyatt
George Hendrickson
Beech Ave
Olson Wrecker
Robert Hall Abernathy
Tinley Park
Interstate 80
Illinois 47
John E. G. Olson
Hendrickson
Olson
Davis
Abernathy
Gunmen Firestone Kidnap Plot Ends in Beverly Hills
In Beverly Hills two armed men crashed Firestone home on Alpine Drive aiming to abduct Leonard Firestone 58. Police killed both after a standoff, one thug Cal Bailey 40 died instantly and George Scalia 28 died later. Police say ransom may have been the plan. Firestone praised officers and left the city.
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Beverly
Hells. Catt
Leonard K. Firestone
Cal Bailey
George Scalia
General Hospital
Firestone
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Calif
San Francisco
Barbara Ezell
Mr. Firestone
Ezell
Nore
Bailey
Scalla
Miss Ezell
Beverly Hills
B. L. Cork
Jack Egger
Jack Mourning
Egger
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Transport Workers’ Union
Tam Ky
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Potter Stewart
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Tom Clark
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Earl Warren
George Ball
United Nations
Arthur Goldberg
Treasury
Henry Fowler
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Robert McNamara
Nicholas Katzenbach
Trung Lap
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Harvey S. Firestone
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