06 Dec 1960
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Newspaper
Palladium Times
Location
Oswego, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1960
Page
1
Communist China and 80 parties endorse Khrushchev’s peaceful coexistence line in a 315 page Pravda manifesto. They urge unity with nonaligned groups, warn war with capitalism is avoidable, and promote taking state power through peaceful means without civil war.
The Snark, a swept wing guided missile that pioneered techniques for U. S. missile and space programs, has passed from the Cape Canaveral scene after eight years.
In New Orleans twenty three white children attend William Frantz school amid protests as police shield the campus. Legislators seek resignation of the Orleans Parish School Board while banks withhold funds to balance payroll amid legal clashes over board control.
A brutal two day snowstorm left the northern and central Rockies with ice coated highways and eight inch snow depth in Denver. Temperatures plunged with 31 degrees below zero at West Yellowstone and 17 below at Big Piney as two traffic deaths were blamed on slick roads and hundreds of crashes were reported. Victims included Ray R. McFarlin, 73, of Akron and Norma Mae Madewell, 32, of Durango.
Katanga President Moise Tshombe met King Baudoin in Brussels and presented a wedding gift on behalf of Katanga's people. The king is to wed Dona Fabiola de Moray Aragon of Spain on December 15.
A New York taxi struck a carriage carrying the infant son Theo Neal Dahl, four, in critical condition with possible skull fracture. Lenox Hill Hospital officials report the child’s condition remains serious as investigators review the crash.
United Nations in New York reports Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin failed to secure an urgent 8:30 p.m. Security Council session on Congo. Western delegates denounced the move as arbitrary while Zorin demanded Lumumba's arrest and detention be fully explained and Mobutu disarmed.
Paris reports that President Charles de Gaulle’s 1.2 billion atomic strike force bill passed the National Assembly after three indirect approvals amid censure motions. The measure, opposed over alliance costs, becomes France’s first law enacted after three negative votes.
The National Audubon Society said snowy owls from the arctic may invade southern New York and Long Island as part of their four year exodus. The two foot long birds, white with brown flecks, are harmless, protected by law, and hunt rats and mice in daylight.
President-elect Kennedy and President Eisenhower pledged to continue seeking peace with justice and freedom for all. Their White House talks covered major issues of peace security and the dollar crisis as they discussed the orderly transfer of power and the nation’s international responsibilities.
Most senior defense officials oppose the Amington Symington plan to abolish the Army Navy and Air Force departments and create a single chairman over three functional commands. They urge preserving the 1958 structure while testing its effectiveness before another shakeup.
A police force of 150 served court orders to freeze current issues of pornographic magazines including Adam Bedside Reader Sextet Sizzle Snap Boudoir Bare Black Garter Las Vegas Play Girl Tound Candid and Consort Mayor Wagner ordered the cleanup and said agencies were directed to rid the city of publications that foster juvenile delinquency and crime Defendants listed include six distributors 10 publishers and 124 distributing agents such as luncheonettes candy stores and news stands.
Two masked gunmen robbed the East Side First Federal Saving and Loan branch near closing time, one wielding a sawed off shotgun and forcing customers against a wall while the other gathered cash from tellers and a wall vault into a bag. Police said the second man had a pistol. The haul included cash and travelers checks. This was the bank’s second robbery in five years, the prior in May 1956 netting $1,024.
A series of earthquakes rattled a 500 mile stretch in northern Chile from Africa near the Peru border to Antofagasta. The Seismological Institute reported strongest shocks at Antofagasta Chuquicamata and Calama felt around 5 a.m. There were no reports of damage or casualties.
The State Department appealed to Congo authorities and Col. Joseph Mobutu for humane treatment and a fair trial for deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba. The request was announced in Leopoldville on Sunday by U.S. Ambassador Clare Fimberlake.
A fire at the Graham home on Long Island killed two infant boys, Robert aged 1 and Thomas aged 2, left in the care of an 11-year-old sister while their mother shopped. Barbara and the mother were treated for shock. the father was at work in New York. The blaze started in the kitchen with no immediate cause, and six other children survived.
The new presiding judge of San Francisco Municipal Court is John Wesley Bussey, 56, the first African American elevated to the bench in the city. He is a California and Harvard graduate and was elected unanimously by fellow municipal judges, with whom he has served since 1958.
Eight persons were killed and five injured in two raids by armed terrorists on three villages in West Java, according to reports. The attacks occurred in rebel infested areas drawing security forces to the towns of Jakarta.
Paris officials conducted trials to mask odors in four subway lines by spraying violet fragrances while another line used pine forest scents. Despite heavy perfume, stations still reeked like a football locker room at half time as officials feared shoppers avoided transit.
A crowd at the White House gates saw a large man lugging a carton of Nixon campaign buttons unsuccessfully offering them away. People waited to greet President Eisenhower and Democratic Sen. John F. Kennedy, who defeated Nixon for the presidency.
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