Neanderthals may have been more cultured than once thought
A UPI report cites National Geographic findings that Neanderthals lived with higher material culture than some modern groups and cared for the sick and aged. Dr. Carleton S. Coon notes some contemporary people resemble Neanderthals, hinting at social nuances. The column laments potential bias, while joking that Neanderthals might have been hen-pecked.
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Washington
UPI
National Geographic Society
Geographic
Carleton S. Coon
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Coon
Capsule Trouble Dims Hopes For '61 Space Shot
CAPE CANAVERAL UP S The Mercury program faces fresh setbacks as capsule No 13 linked to John H Glenn Jr. shows wiring and control system problems. Officials warn the chances of a 1961 orbital flight are shrinking while a potential December window at the Atlantic Missile Range remains reserved.
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Cape Canaveral
America
John H. Glenn Jr
Free World
Mercury
Atlantic Missile Range
West Virginia Weather Brief for Beckley and Nearby Areas
Mostly cloudy and windy with a turn to colder conditions and showers ending, possible snow flurries in northern mountains this afternoon. Clearing tonight with low around 25 to 30, Wednesday fair but cold. Forecast notes rainfall totals and river conditions with lake and gate statuses.
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Beckley
Smith Tackles Hospital Cutbacks Critics in West Virginia
West Virginia Welfare Commissioner W Bernard Smith asserts hospitals can exit the aged care program if they object to new cuts. The State Hospital Association calls the edict illegal and says lawyers will review it. Smith insists participation is voluntary and warns, if hospitals pursue patient balances, payment will be halted. New rules cap department payments at 90 percent of the daily cost up to $20 per day. Okey says the program is financially unstable from broad certification and lack of oversight. he notes no prior warning of the cutbacks.
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Carlo J. Salzano
Charleston
UPI
W. Bernard Smith
West Virginia
The
State Hospital Association
Smith
Association
Charles Okey
Weirton
Okey
Hungary regime still relies on Soviet troops says UN report
United Nations special representative Sir Leslie Munro told the General Assembly that Hungary remains unstable five years after the Budapest revolt. He cited lack of rule of law and self government, and noted Soviet troops still stationed in the country. A Hungarian move to open talks with the United States was reported, with Mindszenty’s asylum in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest a potential bargaining point.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPD
Hungary
Budapest
Leslie Munro
New Zealand
Munro
General Assembly
United States
Gyula Kallai
Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty
Washington
Mindszenty
U.S
U.N
Soviet Union
Kennedy White House Announces Dec Visit to Caribbean South America
President and Mrs. Kennedy will depart December 15 for Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Colombia, arriving in San Juan the same day and staying in Caracas December 16 and Bogota December 17 before returning to Washington December 18. The trip highlights alliance for progress projects and aims to showcase U.S. cooperation with Latin American nations. The White House noted future Latin American travel may occur but schedules limit expansion, and they will spend the night of December 15 with Gov. Luis Munoz Marin.
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Venezuela
Colombia
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Caracas
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United States
South America
Latin America
Luis Munoz Marin
Kennedy to Announce Latin Trip Aid Plan in Venezuela Colombia
President Kennedy will dedicate Latin Trip projects with the help of the President including low-cost housing primary schools and rural community facilities in Venezuela and Colombia. He will speak at the National Football Hall of Fame banquet in New York tonight and address the NAM at a Waldorf lunch Wednesday. He will urge foreign trade policy to Congress next year and then fly to Palm Beach Florida for a speech at the AFL CIO convention in Miami Beach Thursday after spending Wednesday night with his father in Palm Beach.
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Colombia
Kennedy
New York
National Football Hall of Fame
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
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Palm Beach
Fla
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Miami Beach
Afl-Cio
Nehru vows to resist Red China invasion threat
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament Communist China threatened to send troops into Indian territory and vowed India would resist and repel them. He defended recognizing Tibet's rights, saying Howard world could not stop it but India would fight to halt aggression. Opposition urged cutting diplomatic ties with China.
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India
UPI
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China
Indian
Nehru
Peiping
Dia
Tibet
Red China
United Nations
Permanent Summer White House Urged
Retired Secret Service Chief A E Baughman proposed a permanent seaside summer residence for U S presidents with a large security ring of radar towers and a private first family area. The plan includes an 18 hole golf course, lake, riding paths, beaches, 50 guest houses and one entrance road. He said donors should fund the project, not Congress.
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Baughman
White House
Presidential Grounds
Harriman Sees Laos Pact as Workable and Sound
W Averell Harriman, sworn in as assistant secretary of state for the Far East, called the 14 nation Laos agreement workable and aligned with U.S. aims. The Geneva accord assigns Russia and Britain responsibility for Laos neutrality, with inspection teams and a revised ICC to oversee peace efforts dating back to 1954.
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UPI
W. Averell Harriman
Laos
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Harriman
Geneva
Far East
Russia
Britain
International Control Commission
ICC
Miss X Kicked Out as Oxford Blurs Gender Rules
Oxford expelled Miss X after hours with Mr Y in a female student’s home, rusticated Y. Petitions for punishment or leniency drew mixed support. Cambridge admitted a 20-year-old speaker, Jenni Daiches, who criticized gender equality, and was met with applause.
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UPI
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Cambridge
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Britain
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Lydia Howard
Rose Dugdale
Attorney Protests Plan to Put Motor Vehicle Bureau in Court
Evening Mail Bag letters oppose Senator Nuckols proposal to convert the motor vehicles office into a judicial bureau that would judge operators by infractions. The writer argues it violates the West Virginia Constitution and infringes the right to pursue happiness and earn a living. See Attorney Protests on Page 2.
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the Register
Nuckols
Justice of the Peace
Kennedy plan favors bigger regular army over reserves
The Kennedy administration aims to avoid mobilizing Army reservists in future crises by expanding the regular force to 16 divisions, up from Eisenhower and from earlier plans. Active duty strength would reach about 960,000, reflecting a switch in defense thinking influenced by recent mobilizations. Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr Jr. disclosed the shift at a news conference and said reserve morale is high despite concerns in some instances.
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API
Kennedy
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Army Reserve
Eisenhower
Elvis J. Stahr Jr
United Nations envoy warns of Western wall against China
United Nations ambassador Gunapala Piyasena Malaleseker accuses the US of building an iron curtain against Red China while noting China will likely obtain nuclear arms. In Philadelphia Sonny Liston KO’d Al Westphal in the first round. In San Diego Emilee White cites talkathon dating appeal. In Los Angeles Franklin Mills, 64, admits to 29 marriages amid divorce arrest.
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Philadelphia
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al Westphal
Floyd) Patterson
Los Angeles
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WCC pleads halt to arms race and stronger UN
The World Council of Churches assembly called for a verified halt to nuclear tests and an end to the arms race. The appeal urged strengthening the United Nations within its charter, addressed to all nations. Dr. Nathan Pusey read the statement at the wind-up session, noting war as an offense to humanity and the threat of holocaust from miscalculations.
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UPI
World Council of Churches Assembly
United Nations
Nathan Pusey
Harvard University
WCC
U.N
Area Schools to Eye Use of Classroom TV
Raleigh County schools plan a Friday 8 p m discussion at the Vocational and Technical Center on classroom television. Superintendent John W Saunders will lead with Harry Brawley of the State Department of Education directing. WOAY TV manager Robert Brown will offer technical advice as area school representatives explore television in classrooms.
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Raleigh County
Raleigh County Vocational and
Robert Brown
Woay-Tv
Oak Hill
Board of Education
Saunders
Katanga Plot Discovered Sparks UN Attack
Elisabethville battles erupt as United Nations forces clash with Katanga gendarmes after discovery of a secret Katanga plan to strike UN strongholds. UN spokesman says action began at midday with ongoing fighting. Katanga Foreign Minister Kimba claims UN fired first at 1 45 p m. local time and used heavy weapons. nine Katangese soldiers wounded.
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Neil Smith
Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
UPI
United Nations
U.N
Leopoldville
Evariste Kimba
Pray For Us Plea From Elisabethville Dispatch
A teletyped message from Elisabethville to London contained the plea Pray for us and love us amid fighting between United Nations and Katanga forces. The line appeared in a dispatch received by the London Times office for distribution to news agencies. The author was Times correspondent David Halberstam. the typist’s identity was not disclosed.
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London
UPI
Elisabethville
United Nations
New York Times
United Press International
Times
David Halberstam
Katanga Declares Itself to Fight as U.N. Clashes Reported
Reports from Elisabethville say fighting erupted between U.N. forces and Katanga's forces around the city and airport. Katanga ministers pledged defense while Tshombe was abroad in Paris. Panic swept natives as thousands fled, with no confirmed U.N. casualties or European deaths.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Kimba
Moise Tshombe
Paris
Brussels
Earhart remains ruled out by anthropologist on Saipan
Anthropologist Theodore McCown of the University of California ruled out Amelia Earhart and her navigator as the Saipan bone fragments and teeth belong to more than two persons and to Orientals rather than Caucasians.
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University of California
Pacific
Saipan
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McCown
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Dominican Republic
Council of State
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