Castro Press Fans Invasion Flame A New Year
Ottawa police will temper strict law enforcement with broad mindedness this New Year’s weekend as Auxiliary officers raise on duty strength to two per car. Police chief Eugene Flaherty urged caution against driving drunk and said cooperation would aid those who don’t drive. In Baltimore a shoplifting arrest led to $19,583 in cash and bonds found in a pocketbook. charges were dropped. Fort Worth reports two youths found a rope from jail fifth floor with a note promising fishing line and liquor. Havana government claimed U S Marines will invade Cuba before Jan 18 under Eisenhower, Kennedy transition. Cuban cabinet suspended tourist rules and several Latin American nations broke or threatened ties with Havana amid accusations of Cuban propaganda and agent activity.
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Ottawa
Eugene Flaherty
Flaherty
Baltimore
Fort Worth
Tex
Tarrant County
Cuba
U.S
iPrime
Fidel Castro
Eisenhower
Revolucion
el Mundo
Central Intelligence Agency
Pentagon
John F. Kennedy
Boy’s hand harmed in accidental shotgun discharge
Webster Massachusetts report states 15 year old Neil Larini was shot when a dog startled a 1 gauge shotgun leaning against a tree. His left hand suffered loss of a fingertip and part of the palm as a result of the misfire.
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Webster
Mass
Neil Larini
Larini
Car Off Track At High Speed On Santa Fe Train
A passenger car on the Super Chief ran off the track at 90 mph near Newton Kansas. It miraculously re railed itself with no injuries. The car third from the end stayed on the rails for 4000 feet. A broken switch point was blamed and the car was cut out at Dodge City. The all sleeper train traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles.
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Newton
Kan
Santa Fe Railroad
L. HH. Arthur
J. P. Spears
Dodge City
Chicago
Los Angeles
Traffic Toll Topeka AP Log January 1960
Kansas traffic death log reports 24 hours to 9 am with figures for December 1960 and comparable 1959 period. Records show 45 for December and 509 for 1960 year to date, 567 for the 1959 period.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather county forecast shows fair afternoon and colder night
Fair this afternoon with increasing clouds and a chance of light snow. It turns colder tonight with a low near 20. Sunday will be around 30. Notable figures include yesterday's high 82 and today's low 25. Historical records indicate a high of 70 in 151 and a low of 6 below zero in 1927.
Elderly Topeka Woman Is Killed
A 91 year old Topeka woman Mary Steinwedel was fatally struck by a car on the near west side. The incident occurred before 6 p.m. on Friday and was Topeka’s fifth traffic death of 1960. The driver Jerome A. McDaniel, 28, of rural Topeka, was charged with failure to grant right of way.
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Topeka
Near West Side
Mary Steinwedel
Jerome A. McDaniel
U S Satellite Discoverer 17 Burns Up Over Earth
The National Space Surveillance Center says the Air Force satellite Discoverer 17 burned up in the atmosphere on Wednesday during its 720th to 725th orbit range. Three man made objects now remain in orbit including one Soviet satellite and 16 U S satellites. Discoverer 17 launched November 12 from Vandenberg AFB in California.
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National Space Surveillance Control Center
Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Odd Design For FDR Memorial
Eight concrete slabs shaped like towering bookends form a rough circle for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial chosen by a panel led by Francis Biddle. Architects Pedersen and Tilney designed it, pending approvals from federal commissions and Congress. slabs vary in height to 156 feet, inscribed with Roosevelt’s words, at an estimated cost of 4,254.36 dollars and a one year construction.
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Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Francis Biddle
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission
New York
William F. Pedersen
Bradford S. Tilney
Pietro Belluschi
School of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Capital Planning Commission
The
Fine Arts Commission
National Capital Parks Commission
Congress
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Weaver Named Negro Chief Of Housing Agency
President elect John F Kennedy picks Robert C Weaver 51 to head the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency becoming the first Black to hold a top federal post. Weaver will take a pay cut and move from New York City to Washington as administrator of the agency overseeing FHA and other programs. He previously served as vice chairman of New York Citys Housing and Redevelopment Board and led NAACP national efforts.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency
Kennedy
Robert C. Weaver
New York City
Housing and Redevelopment Board
Harvard
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Weaver
W. Averell Harriman
Soviet Union
New York
Harriman
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
Harold IL. Ickes
Works Progress Administration
National Defense Advisory Commission
The
War Production Board
War Manpower Commission
Church Estate Suit Challenges Church Fund Joint Ownership
Olive Lucille Brenner as administrator of Nora N. Smith’s estate filed in District Court a suit against Anchor Savings Association of Ottawa and the First Baptist Church board of trustees. The petition argues a 1958 building fund agreement granting survivorship rights to the church fund is invalid because a fund is not a person.
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Nora N. Smith
First Baptist Church
Olive Lucille Brenner
Anchor Savings Association of
Ottawa
So First Baptist Church
Coffeyville Workers Get Pay Increases
Coffeyville city employees will receive pay raises starting Monday. Non union workers gain ten dollars per month, part time staff including the police matron and school crossing guards gain five dollars, and union employees receive seven cents an hour under last year’s contracts. Supervisors with union agreements receive twenty five dollars monthly.
One Cited After Three Car Crash
Gary Dean Maxwell 21 of RFD 1 was cited after a three car collision in the 300 block on South Main shortly after 10 30 p m yesterday. Investigating officers said Maxwell struck the rear of Frank N Foltz 21 Garnett pushing it into Clarence D Mc Fadden 3 of 735 Cleveland. All three northbound cars sustained major damage. Maxwell is to appear in Police Court here Tuesday.
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Gary Dean Maxwell
RFD 1
South Main
Maxwell
Frank N. Foltz
Garnett
Clarence D. McFadden
Cleveland
Conductor Stokowski Recovers From Hip Surgery
Leopold Stokowski, 79, the famed conductor, is recovering well after surgery for a fracture of his right hip at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He fell in his apartment while playing ball with his sons and was admitted Friday.
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New York
Leopold Stokowski
Stokowski
New Year Holiday Traffic Toll Rises With 31 Fatalities
A grim New Year weekend toll includes seven deaths in a two car crash near Alamogordo New Mexico another fatal crash in Wisconsin two sisters killed near Bethesda Maryland and multiple other fatalities. In total 24 highway deaths since Friday 6 p m. A 78 hour period ends Monday at midnight with an estimated 340 more possible deaths risk awareness urged as police offer coffee to motorists and direct intoxicated revelers home.
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Alamogordo
N. M
Bethesda
National Safety Council
Strikers March In Brussels Amid Mourning Demonstration
About 2,000 striking workers paraded through central Brussels flags in a mourners march for Francois van der Strapen killed in Friday clashes. No incidents occurred as police say a demonstrator aided a mauled officer. the Socialist blames premier Bryskens.
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Brussels
Belgium
Francois van der Strapen
van der Strappen
Pemier Gaston Bryskens
van der Strapen
Eyskens
Emporia State Grant Announcement
Emporia State College President Dr John E King announced a National Science Foundation grant totaling 297700 dollars for campus research programs and related science initiatives in Emporia Kansas. The grant will fund projects across departments and expand scholarship opportunities for students.
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Emporia, Kan
John E. King
Emporia State College
National Science Foun
Radio announcer arrested in hit-and-run case
Ronald Greene a 26 year old WMRC radio announcer was broadcasting when he urged listeners to contact police about a fatal hit and run. He was arrested on a manslaughter charge for the Route 109 crash that killed Domenick de Fazio a 12 year old wheeling a bicycle. A fender ornament matching a missing piece from Greene's car was found near the scene and led to his arrest.
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Medway, Mass
Ronald Greene
WMRC
Medway
William Giallonardo
Greene
Domenick de Fazio
Giallonardo
Pro Western Regime Claims Laos Invasion By North Vietnamese
Premier Boun Oum says northeast Laos has been invaded by seven North Vietnamese battalions with artillery, and Nonget town is under attack. Tass denies invasion and accuses U S and allies of intervention. Reinforcements rushed, U S aid cited at 300 million over five years. Kong Le leftist leader warned of volunteer troops if outside forces persist.
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Vientiane, Laos
Boun Oum
Laos
Nonget
Tass
Hanoi
North Viet Nam
Kong le
United States
South Viet Nam
Thailand
Prince Boun
Soviet Union
Boun
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Red North Viet Nam
Kansans Arrive For Rose Bowl Parade
Dodge City high school band of 239 members arrived in Los Angeles by special train for the Tournament of Roses parade plans sightseeing and rehearsal. The group includes band members sponsors nurses doctors police and an undertaker. Funding came to about 20100 with support from rival Dodge City schools and the Kansas Centennial Commission. Members logged 389 nine hour farm and business labors to raise funds and will return home soon.
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Los Angeles
Dodge City
Kan
Pasadena
Cpelcial
Kansas State
Nnott
Bee Farm
Disneyland
Mat Dillon
Claire W. Munger
James Arness
Dodge City Frontier
Munger
California
Harold Swaim
Ashland
Spearville
Ketmore
St. Mary of the Plains
Hugoton
Kansas Centennial Commission
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Pittsburg State College
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Publc Housing Administration
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