United States Breaks With Cuba Keep Guantanamo Base
The United States breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba and evacuates Havana embassy while pledging to keep the Guantanamo Bay base. The State Department urged Americans in Cuba to depart and Cuba ordered diplomat expulsions as Kennedy and Congress react.
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U.S
Cuba
Guantanamo Naval Base
Washington
UPI
United States
Havana
Guantanamo Bay
State Department
James Hagerty
Kennedy To Be Briefed In New York On Cuban Crisis
President elect John F Kennedy would move his headquarters to New York to be briefed on the severance of Cuban American diplomatic relations. Dean Rusk, named secretary of state, radioed Kennedy with updates as Kennedy planned a late Friday Washington meeting with Rusk. Kennedy traveled from Florida to Idlewild Airport and would meet with Robert S McNamara in New York before commenting further.
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Palm Beach, Fla
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Florida
New York
State Department
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Palm Beach
Washington
Eastern Airlines
Idlewild
Carlyle Hotel
Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of Defense
Obituary Notices for Five Individuals
Obituary notices list Ralph B. Craig 90 of West Palm Beach Florida Edward Christie 86 of Ellwood City Clayde H George New Wilmington RD 1 and Howard E Gerwig 47 of Harmony. The terse listing records ages and hometowns for these individuals dated January 4 1961.
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Ralph B. Craig
West Palm Beach
Fla
Belgian Capital March Looms As Socialist Strikers Rally
Belgian protesters massed in provinces with trucks seized by socialist leaders for a capital march. Parliament debated the austerity program as violence rose, with 75 000 to 100 000 strikers in 15 cities and 15 000 in Brussels blocked near the Parliament by mounted guards.
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Brussels
Belgium
UPI
Gaston Eysken
Daily Weather Report Western Pennsylvania Mostly cloudy with snow flurries
Western Pennsylvania reports mostly cloudy skies with snow flurries and continued cold. Highs 20 to 24, tonight lows 8 to 12, with mountain valleys near zero. Thursday partly cloudy with a few snow flurries north and warmer afternoon. 24 hour statistics: max 32, min 14, precip .06 inch, snow about 1 inch, river stage 4.0 feet.
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Pennsylvania
New Taxes Predicted By City Council School Panel
A Highland PTA panel discusses finance and taxes for the city and school board. Members predict new taxes due to school construction costs and maintenance backlogs, noting voters approve school bonds but resist city tax increases.
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Highland Pta
Robert W. Rainey
Howard L. Reynolds
William E. Thompson
Lester F. Johns
Joseph F. Friedheim
Rainey
Hershey Named Reference Head In Harrisburg
Harrisburg UPI General Assembly elected Harry Hershey a Philadelphia lawyer as director of the Legislative Reference Bureau earning $15 000 a year. Hershey 62 former assistant director and ex deputy attorney general also served as legislative analyst for the Joint States Government Commission.
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Harrisburg
UPI
General Assembly
Harry Hershey
Philadelphia
Legislative Reference Bureau
Hershey
House
Senate
Joint States Government Commission
Hiram G. Andrews
D. Cambria
Anthony J. DiSilvestro
SEATO Blames Soviet Airlift as Outside Intervention
SEATO brands the airlift of war supplies to Laotian leftists by Soviet aircraft as outside Communist intervention that could threaten world peace. The communiqué after an eight-nation SEATO meeting did not name any Communist nation or propose direct action. Police officer Herman Richards, 63, was injured on duty on S Mill St and treated at New Castle Hospital.
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Andrew Powell
Lester Kuiken
Charles Radermacher
Guy Aromatorio
Jacob Ippolito
Henry Pelloni
Harry “Lou” Fry
Council On
Radermacher
Fry
Pelloni
Frank M. Miles
Ippolito
Anthony
Tony
Torsello
Wilson Ave
Ext
New Castle
Bangkok
Thailand
UPI
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Seato Council of Representatives
SEATO
Laos
Herman Richards
Maryland Ave
S. Mill St
New Castle Hospital
New Pulaski Post Office Opening Set
The Pulaski Post Office will be formally dedicated Saturday at 2 p.m. Congressman Frank M. Clark will present Postmaster Guy D Eletto with a Capitol Flag. Harold Miller of the Postal Dept will be main speaker.
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Pulaski
Frank M. Clark
Guy D'Eletto
Capitol
Washington, D.C
Harold Miller
U.S. Postal Dept
Richard Schanck
Parent Teachers Assn
Brownie Scouts Troop 64
Pulaski Garden Club
D’eletto
Liberals Press for Senate Filibuster Change in Congress
In Washington liberals and conservatives clash over Kennedy agenda rules. The fight centers on a three fifths vote to curb debate and a broader bid for majority rule to end filibusters on civil rights and other bills. Leader Mike Mansfield hopes to end the dispute this week but main sponsors push for change while leadership holds.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
House
John F. Kennedy
87Th Congress
Sam Rayburn
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Rules Committee
William M. Colmer
D-Miss
Eisenhower
GOP
White House
Congress
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N.m
Thruston B. Morton
R-Ky
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Everett M. Dirksen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minn
Thomas H. Kuchel
Calif
More Township Boards Elect 1961 Chairmen
Lawrence County supervisors across 16 of 17 townships reorganized for 1961. Ten boards held elections yesterday. six more over holidays. North Beaver to elect today. Officers renamed include C. R. Martin as chairman and others. taxes reenacted, and depositories named. Meetings set for 8 p.m. first Monday each month. Sportmen's building in Pulaski Village becomes meeting place.
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Lawrence County
North Beaver
C. R. Martin
T. E. McConnell
R. J. Coloughan
Perry Reeder
Volant
Lawrence Savings and Trust Co
John Bartos
Zoning Board of Appeals
Richard Wallace
Elmer Gurtner
Esther Gurtner
Howard W. Lyon
Sportmen’s
Pulaski Village
Bessemer Council Sets Meeting To Plan Budget
Bessemer Council schedules an executive session for 7 30 p m January 17 to discuss the 1961 borough budget. Finance Chairman Steve Dmetryk cites a 1960 budget of 525,570 and notes items including a 51 500 police car and a water tank maintenance job estimated at 2 500 to 3 000. A labor hours guarantee debate follows with no final policy. Legality Committee to study and a special meeting planned.
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Bessemer Council
Steve Dmetryk
Dmetrak
Joseph Susany
Carletti
Dmetruk
John Davidson
Legality Committee
Penn State study flags Pennsylvania lag in chronic unemployment
A Penn State Bureau of Business Research report led by Dr. Jacob Kaufman and Helmut Golatz finds Pennsylvania’s chronic unemployment rose above national levels, with only Rhode Island and West Virginia faring worse. The study analyzes five counties Erie Fayette Blair Luzerne and Columbia, urging expansion of existing industries, stronger bank involvement, and broader federal and state support to reduce outmigration and raise incomes.
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University Park
Pennsylvania
Bureau of Business Research
Penn State University
Jacob J. Kaufman
Helmut J. Golatz
Penn State
United States
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Kaufman and Golatz
Kaufman
Golatz
Bechtel Named To Redevelopment Authority
John B. Bechtel of 801 Highland Ave was named by Mayor Herman F. Steinbrink to the city Redevelopment Authority. The retired secretary business manager of the New Castle School District will complete the term of the late Louis B. Round.
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John B. Bechtel
Highland Ave
Herman F. Steinbrink
Bechtel
New Castle
Louis B. Round
Inside Today's News Page Pare Classified
Classified page items and brief items from the edition list sections such as comics sports and obituaries. The page references contact numbers and section markers for ads and editorial material within the Ellwood area theaters and other local offerings.
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Beclety Presco Jt
Ellwood
Winter Blues Melt as Seed Catalogues Lead Spring Hopes
A poetic note on harsh winter streets and failed robins, contrasting with seed catalogs arriving from the mailman. The imagery highlights spuds, cabbage, tomatoes, brussels sprouts, and forecasts a shift toward spring as catalogs promise seasonable needs. The piece weaves weather, consumer temptations, and anticipation of warmer days.
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Island
Joseph Reap
Stewart H. Adams
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Uavenann
N.Y
Daily Weather Report
Reynolds
Wampum Council
Wampum—Boro Council
Joseph Karski
Grigsby St
Charles St
Don Bodnar
Scott Twp
Erie, Fayette, Blair, Luzerne
Columbia Counties
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