Liquid Bomb Threat Shocks Lake Michigan Port City
In East Chicago Indiana a surface-quicked exchange of a toluene laden barge created a toxic plume in the Calumet district. Fire crews blocked canals and halted traffic while divers were injured by fumes. the incident later eased with an all clear at 3 pm. Meanwhile in Utah a methane gas coal dust explosion at Carbon Fuel Co No 2 mine killed nine and left ten survivors, prompting state and federal probes and an overnight vigil by families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ind
UPI
Lake Michigan
Calumet District
Indiana Harbor Ship Canal
American Oil Co
Coast Guard
Ship Canal
Jack Downey
Nick Palla
Martin
Utah
Carbon Fuel Co
Jesus Nunez
Price
George Clyde
Andy Juvan
Spring Glen
John Senechal Jr
Kenilworth
Victor Fossat
Ben Valdez
Ben Montoya
Helper
Gerald Nielson
Fairview
Mike Ardohain
Archie Larsen
Heino Linn
Steve Diamanti
Diamanti
Johnson outlines peace aims at United Nations address
President Johnson told UN delegates that the bereaved United States seeks world peace civil rights and human welfare. He urged a end to cold war and a global push to defeat hunger poverty ignorance and disease while honoring Kennedy and reaffirming US commitment to peace and security.
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United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Johnson
America
United States
U.N. General Assembly
United Nations
John F. Kennedy
U.S
Kennedy
John Kennedy
General Assembly
U Thant
U.N
Adlai Stevenson
World Organization
Ruby's Lawyers Seek Psychiatry for Ruby Admission
Dallas defense argues Jack Ruby requires psychiatric evaluation to prove temporary insanity at the time he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. They file a habeas corpus asking removal to a psychiatric facility. Dist Atty Wade vows to pursue the death penalty on the murder with malice charge. Brown bars cameras for the hearing.
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Dallas
UPI
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Lee Harvey Oswald
Joe B. Brown
Atty
Henry Wade
Brown
Kennedy
Negroes Resume Protest Parades After Kennedy Death
United Press International reports racial demonstrations intensified in three Southern cities after President Kennedy's assassination. In Columbia South Carolina a long line of Black college students marched downtown chanting, police clashed with protesters and 126 people were arrested.
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United Press International
Soom
Military budget cuts in U S and Soviet spend levels eyed
Washington estimates show the United States and Soviet Union moving toward similar reductions in military outlays. Soviet spending is put at 34 billion dollars with a 1.6 percent real cut after adjustments, while the United States faces about 50 billion dollars with a roughly 2 percent cut. President Johnson seeks about 2.5 billion less than Kennedy.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Russia
Johnson
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Congress
Pentagon
Kennedy
Borough awards exclusive garbage contract to Gresick
Bessemer council awarded Stanley J. Gresick an exclusive borough garbage and trash collection contract. The bid covers two cans per home weekly at 1.40 dollars per month, with business rates based on trash volume. Gresick will collect from streets and manage two annual cleanups. containers must be within 40 feet of the road.
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Gresick
Cunningham
State Sees Unseasonably Cold Weather Across Pennsylvania
Warren logged the coldest PA reading at five degrees as the U S Weather Bureau noted 10 to 15 degrees below normal. Philadelphia reported 15 degrees while Meadville Bradford and Philipsburg were at eight. Central and southeast regions faced sunshine with 25 to 30 degree readings and western areas expected intermittent snow after midnight.
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United Press International
Warren
Pennsylvania
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Greater Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Meadville
Bradford
Philipsburg
DuBois
Blairsville
Four Americans Released In Bolivia Hopeful For Christmas
Four Americans who had been held hostage for 10 days by rebellious tin miners in Catavi were released and flown toward home for Christmas. The group, including three officials and a Peace Corpsman, left a mine union library where they had been confined since December 6 and spent the night at government headquarters in Oruro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LA Paz
Bolivia
UPI
Catavi
Mine-Union
Oruro
National Mining Corporation
Cuban Refugee Reports Soviet Missile Movements in Cuba
Ignacio Bladeres, a 21 year old Cuban refugee, says he saw a Russian convoy transporting cylindrical objects covered with canvas on a Cuban highway. He believes they were rockets. He fled Cuba with friends and was picked up by an American tanker after their boat sank off Florida.
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Miami
UPI
Cuba
Ignacio Bladeres
Bladeres
Florida
Fidel Castro
Pomona Grange Opposes Racing Funds For 4-H
The 2000-member Lawrence County Pomona Grange rejects horseracing tax money for county 4-H and Farm Show programs. The resolutions committee told Lewis Dayton and John Hoye that the group opposed accepting the $2000 available, urging funds come from other sources and rescinding the 4H Development Fund push.
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Lawrence County
Pomona Grange
Lewis C. Dayton
John Hoye
Pomona Resolutions Committee
Grange
Pleasant Hill Grange Hall
Resolutions Committee
Ray Marshall
Pleasant Hill
John Turner
Liberty
Frances Currie
East New Castle
Pomona
Pennsylvania Grange
New Castle
Ellwood
Weather Report for Western Pennsylvania
Partly cloudy today with occasional snow flurries over higher terrain and little temperature change. Highs 15 to 20, then increasing clouds with intermittent snow after midnight. lows 0 to 8 above. Wednesday cloudy with intermittent snow turning to flurries. similar temperatures. 24 hour stats to 7 am show max 23 and min 5 with trace of snow.
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Pennsylvania
Council Sets Family of the Year Search in New Castle
New Castle Council of Churches seeks the family of the year from 23 member churches for honors during Christian Family Week in May 1964. A judging panel will be named and nomination blanks distributed next year. the family must be active in church and community life.
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New Castle
First Presbyterian Church
First Christian Church
F. Dickson Marshall
City Mission
Olive Webb
Croton Methodist Church
Christmas Visits Granted Berliners
West Berlin and East Germany signed an agreement allowing West Berliners to cross the Berlin Wall for Christmas visits in East Berlin. The pact ends long negotiations and marks the first permitted cross border visits since the wall’s erection in August 1961.
NATO Urges Allies to Match U S Military Effort in Europe
Defense Secretary McNamara told the NATO council that Western allies must raise non nuclear forces to parallel U S strength in Europe. He warned that failure to share the burden could leave the United States politically restless and pressed for a strategic pause to resist Soviet attack with conventional forces first.
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Paris
UPS
United States
NATO
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
Europe
Atlantic Alliance
McNamara
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin
America
West
Council
Pierre Messmer
Deaths reported in Ellwood City and New Wilmington area
Anton Kerner aged 84 of Ellwood City Harriett Merelda Roda Walt aged 97 of New Wilmington RD 2 Samuel Chill aged 65 of 1604 Cameron Ave listed in death records for December 17 1963 with local residences.
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Anton Kerner
Ellwood City
Harriett Merelda Rodawalt
New Wilmington
Samuel Chill
Cameron Ave
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Council of Churches Project
Samuel Fleming
Holtin
Church Council
Fleming
Fort Wayne
Frances Rodgers
Richard Hawke
King’s Chapel Church
Walter Ma
Atomic Force
Inside Today
Esse
Ellwood Eee
Etree
Etacigds
Secieic
Society
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