Foreign Aid Bill Fight Blocks Adjournment Debate
Congress unlikely to adjourn today says Speaker McCormack as foreign aid appropriations clash. Senate and House differ on a grain sale ban to Russia and Export Import Bank guarantees to Communist nations, with conferees to reconvene amid multiple amendments and Johnson urging restraint.
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Washington
Congress
John W. MacCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
House
Senate
Russia
Johnson
Export Import Bank
Charles A. Halleck
Mike Mansfield
Thousands rush wall crossings for Christmas reunion in West Berlin
West Berliners pour through the wall to visit relatives in East Berlin for the first time in 28 months. More than 1,000 had passed in hours as East German guards lifted barriers early. Officials expect up to 800,000 visitors before midnight Jan 5, with permits valid for one day. East Berlin rescue service aids the old and infirm. New Year’s Eve extends permit to 5 a.m. Some visitors crossed on Thursday before official start.
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Berlin
ADN
East Berlin
Sonnenallee
Postpone Closing Brockport Plant
Brockport Up-Quaker Maid a cannery subsidiary of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co says it is postponing the closing of its division operation here. The local plant employs about 250 persons and was to close next September. Division manager Charles J. Hensley Jr noted the Teamster Cannery Local 94 contract was extended up to two years.
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Brockport
Quaker Maid
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co
Charles J. Hensley Jr
Teamster
Horseheads
Elmira
Bob Hope Delays Overseas Tour On Doctor’s Advice
Bob Hope rests at home after medical advice delays his 12th annual tour to entertain U S servicemen overseas. He had prepared to depart Thursday for Turkey Crete Greece Libya Cyprus and Italy but will stay a few days longer to recover before leaving.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
Turkey
Crete
Greece
Libya
Cyprus
Italy
Youth Insists Threat Against JFK Was Jake
Russell W. McLarry, 21, jailed on a charge of threatening President Kennedy, said he was joking. Investigators found no link to the assassination. US Atty. Barefoot Sanders said there is no connection to Lee Harvey Oswald. McLarry is held in $2,500 bond, charged with threatening the President near the Trade Mart in Dallas.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Kennedy
Russell W. McLarry
MecLarry
Secret Service
Barefoot Sanders
Dallas
McLarry
Sanders
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
Jack Ruby
Ruby
Teen-agers held beer party in church pulpit area
Police arrested teen-aged boys after a burglary at Pilgrim's Holiness Church in Johnson City. An empty beer bottle was found in the pulpit and another on the floor with cigarette butts scattered, discovered when the pastor arrived Sunday morning.
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Johnson City
Pilgrim’ Holiness Church
Christmas Star Satellite Reaches Orbit Over Australia Sighted
POINT ARGUELLO Calif The Christmas Star satellite has achieved orbit and will be visible at twilight over the holidays and beyond A U S Space Agency spokesman said the 12 foot balloon and its ejection cannister were sighted with binoculars at an optical tracking station in Australia The satellite was launched Thursday and prior to sighting it was uncertain whether it had achieved orbit or inflated as planned
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Calif
U.S. Space Agency
Australia
Commission urges dropping voting age to 18 nationwide
Washington report shows the Presidents Commission on Registration and Voting Participation urges states to set the voting age at 18 and to abolish poll taxes and literacy tests. It cites low participation among ages 21 to 30 and argues early voting builds lifelong habits. Georgia and Kentucky currently allow 18-year-olds to vote.
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Johnson
White House
John
President's Commission On Registration
Commission
Richard M. Secammon
Georgia
Kentucky
Alaska
Hawaii
Two-Primary Rockefeller Plan Abandons Defeat and Debate
In Albany the Rockefeller backers lose the two primary plan as GOP leaders clash over costs and strategy. Meanwhile in Tuscaloosa Alabama four National Guardsmen face charges for detonations near the University of Alabama dorms during federal desegregation duty, with arrests of Perkins, Daniel, Maxwell, and Roughton.
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Ala
Alabama National
Alabama Guard
George Wallace
James T. Perkins
Holt
Norman R. Daniel
Fairfield
Birmingham
James T. Maxwell
Maxwell
William Marable
William E. Roughton
Langdale
Perkins
Rovilla Lewis
Mary Burke Hall
Miss Malone
Daniel
Bond
Germany opens war crimes trial over Auschwitz deaths
In Frankfurt 21 defendants face charges of murder or complicity in gassings shootings hangings or fatal tortures at Auschwitz. Twenty are former SS members and one is a former prisoner turned trustee. Victims included Jewish men women children and others, many Poles and Soviet POWs. Trial opened in the Frankfurt City Parliament hall before about 160 spectators.
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Germany
West Germany
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Bennett Elevated to President of Union Theological Seminary
The Rev Dr John Coleman Bennett becomes president of Union Theological Seminary New York succeeding Dr Henry Pitt Van Dusen who retired in June Bennett, 61, is a 1927 graduate who taught at Auburn Theological Seminary and Pacific School of Theology before returning to Union in 1943.
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New York
John Coleman Bennett
Unnn Theological Seminary
Seminary Board of Trustees
Henry Pitt van Dusen
Bennett
Auburn
Mary
Pacific Egg Berkley
Calif
Union
Utica arrest of Brooklyn youth in $4330 payroll theft
An 18 year old John Birmele of Brooklyn was arrested at a YMCA room in Utica for stealing $4330 from a Manhattan employer. Police traced travel costs and cab fares, including a $775 NY cab ride and $200 tip, as they linked him to the Compton Advertising payroll theft. Birmele admitted the crime and awaits transfer to NYC police after a vagrancy plea in City Court.
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New York City
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New York
Albany
John Birmele
Brooklyn
Oneida County
Birmele
Upstate
Francis Gossin
Rocco Graziadei
Oight
Compton Advertising Co
Blinding Snowstorm Paralyzes Upstate Region
Western New Yorkers battled a blinding snowstorm that shut schools in Chautauqua and southern Erie counties. Temperatures plummeted well below zero as drifting snow, high drifts, and hazardous driving persisted along the Thruway and local routes. Snow caused multiple closures and convoys formed to move vehicles, with deadly incidents and widespread cold readings reported across the region.
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Erie Counties
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Weather Bureau
Kennedy Christmas in Palm Beach Opes Two Trees for Kennedy Family
Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her children will decorate two Christmas trees at Col. C. Michael Pauls Palm Beach mansion during their Florida stay. Paul says the Kennedys are guests of the community, with one tree set aside for their use though not yet decorated. The Kennedy party, including John Jr and Caroline, arrived from Washington as Palm Beach tradition holds a Christmas gathering for the family.
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Fla
John F. Kennedy
Col. C. Michael Paul
Florida
Col. Paul
Kennedy
Paul
Kennedys
Associated Press
Paul Mansion
John Jr
Caroline
Lee Radziwill
Washington
Two Asphyxiated In N. Tonawanda
Two people died in a fire that swept a one story home in North Tonawanda. Victims were Lisie Merner 60 and Claudette Van Norman 18 of Clyde. Lonnie Stiffler 19 engaged to Van Norman suffered burns. Wilfred Merner 47 husband of Lisie Merner had lacerations. Firemen said blaze started on the porch. body found with an arm through a broken window. Cause not yet learned.
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North Tonawanda
Lisie Merner
Claudette van Norman
Clyde
Lonnie Stiffler
Merners
Stiffler
Merner
Wilfred
Reds Lift Blockade of Ghana Embassy
Moscow police lifted their blockade of Ghana's embassy as Africana students reacted to the death of a fellow student. Ghana's ambassador John B. Elliot requested police protection to curb further damage amid anti Soviet demonstrations by students.
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Moscow
Ghana
John B. Elliot
Probe Decision To Close Bases
The House Armed Services Committee will study the Defense Department’s plan to close Rome Air Material Area and the Schenectady Army Depot. Rep. Samuel Stratton said the inquiry will begin early next year after a meeting with Chairman Rep. Carl Vinson. He questioned the claimed economies and urged committee consultation before any base closures.
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House
Armed Services Committee
Defense Department
Rome Air Material Area
RCAMA
Schenectady Army Depot
Samuels. Stratton
Amsterdam
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Stratton
Vinson
Department
Pentagon
Armed Service Committee
Greek Princess Gives Birth to Daughter in Madrid
Princess Sophie of Greece, 25, gave birth today to a daughter in Madrid. If a boy had been born, he would have been third in line after Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. The infant links to European royal houses and Charlemagne through distant bloodlines.
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Spain
Sophie
Greece
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Juan Carlos
Frederika
Europe
Charlemagne
Mary
Scotland
Peter the Great
Russia
Fischers Prepare for Christmas with Quintuplets in Aberdeen
Aberdeen news notes the Fischer family of ten will celebrate a busier Christmas. Quintuplets born Sept 14 alter routine. three of the quints at home, two to join soon. The family now lives in a nine room house, with fulltime help and gifts totaling under $10,000 plus $30,000 from story rights.
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Andrew Fischer
Fischer
Mary Ann Flacher
Quint
Quints
Schol
Fischers
Abema
Noathe
Gene Ganatree
U.S. 12
James Andrew
St. Lukes Hospital
Mary Magdalene
Serene
Mary
Mary Ann
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