UMW District Elections Targeted by Federal Suit
The U.S. files suit to force elections in six UMW districts under trusteeship for over 20 years. Acting Attorney General Katzenbach says action enforces union autonomy under Landrum-Griffin law, naming twelve provisional district officers and districts 4 6 7 23 30 and 31 with their provisional leaders. The districts, formed from local unions, are placed under provisional status as the suit seeks restoration of constitutional autonomy.
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Landrum-Griffin
Justice Department
W. Willard Wirtz
UMW
Uniontown
John L. Mayo
John P. Cassidy
Treasur
Matt Combs
Fairmont
W. Va
Cecil J. Urbaniak
Lewis C. Riley
U.S. and Canada Near Auto Tariff Accord
United States and Canada approach an agreement to abolish tariffs on cars and auto parts, aiming for a common market. Talks in Ottawa and Washington center on U.S. duties of 6.5 and 8.5 percent and Canadian duties of 17.5 and 25 percent, with consumer prices and industry competitiveness at stake.
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Canada
Washington
UPI
United States
Tony
Congress
U. S
Ottawa
Treasury
Booming Auto Sales Reported in Early December
Detroit AP reports the auto industry shows booming sales in the first ten days of December with normal shipments after labor issues. Ford divisions claim surging car truck totals, posting a daily rate of 5,726 and year to date rise to 2,051,653. Lincoln Mercury and Pontiac divisions also report higher sales, marking continued year over year gains.
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API
General Motors
Ford
Sion
Lincoln-Mercury
Pontiac
William Bendix Dies at 58 Amid Hollywood Tragedy
Hollywood reports the death of actor William Bendix aged 58 after a week since Percy Kilbride of Ma and Pa Kettle fame passed. Bendix led The Life of Riley on radio and TV for 13 years and died Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital, with lobar pneumonia and complications listed as tentative causes.
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UPI
William Bendix
Movietown
Riley
Good Samaritan Hospital
Percy Kilbride
Kilbride
Cold 30 Days Ahead For Most Of Nation
Weather bureau forecasts colder than normal temperatures across most of the United States for the next month with heavier snow in northern areas. Temperatures likely near normal in the far Southwest and near to above normal in the Southeast. The coldest period expected in the Northern Plains with above normal precipitation east of the Continental Divide. West of the divide precipitation above normal on the Central Pacific coast while the southern plateau sees below normal totals.
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Washington
UPI
United States
U.S. Weather Bureau
Pacific Coast
Fair And Cold In Beckley And Vicinity
Beckley area forecast fair and cold with a high around 26 this afternoon. Tonight low near 8 with increasing cloudiness late Wednesday and a high in the low 30s. Last 24 hours temperatures peaked at 39 at 3:30 pm and low at 17 at 8 am. Precipitation none. Wind NW about 20 mph. River Greenbrier normal and clear. Lake 6 ft below normal with 5 gates open. New gauge at Hinton 3.1 ft.
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Beckley
S. Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Historic EU farm policy ends crisis in Common Market
In Brussels the European Common Market reached a historic farm policy agreement, projecting a single price roof over 8 percent of member production and easing tension with France over grain pricing. It averts a potential multi million dollar hit to U S farm sales and beats De Gaulle's midnight deadline by over 18 hours.
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UPI
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Bonn
Ludwig Erhard
Uncle Fred dies a wartime Britain's food hero
Lord Woolton 81 famed as Churchill’s minister of food who kept Britain fed during WWII. He became a national figure, beloved as “Uncle Fred,” known for humor and leadership and for the Woolton pie meatless dish.
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UPI
Lord Woolton
Winston Churchill
British Isles
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Churchill
War Administration
Fred
Buddhist Leader Threatens Self Immolation Over Saigon War
In a letter to President Johnson, Thich Tam Chau warned continued U S support for South Vietnam's government could bring permanent instability. He implied Buddhist followers are prepared to burn themselves to death if necessary to defend democracy, echoing the Diem era crisis.
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South Viet Nam
UPI
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Thich Tam Chau
Tran van Huong
South
Viet Nam
Chau
Steel firms urge unions to curb demands in talks
Pittsburgh reports negotiations open on a new steel contract as USW president David McDonald leads for the union and U.S. Steel VP R Conrad Cooper for management. The industry’s Big 11 pushback cites a 15 cent hourly wage lift and broader benefits, with talks through Friday and a holiday break to Jan 5 1965. The union may reopen contracts Jan 1, with a potential strike May 1, amid internal leadership tensions and a Feb 9 election.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel
Steel Companies Coordinating Committee
Forth
McDonald
I. W. Abel
Texas Doctors Learn How To Address Duke
Texas doctors and aides finish tests on the ailing Duke of Windsor in Houston Methodist Hospital for an abdominal aneurysm. The 70 year old Duke, who gave up the throne to marry Wall Street divorcee, faces surgery in a few days. he remains in excellent physical condition per a hospital spokesman.
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UPI
Texas
Duke of Windsor
Duke
Methodist Hospital
Supreme Court upholds civil rights act in interstate commerce cases
In a unanimous ruling the Supreme Court said Congress can bar racial discrimination in motels hotels and restaurants engaged in interstate commerce. The decision, joined by Asst. Atty. Gen. Burke Marshall and President Johnson, urges voluntary compliance with the act though some owners like Ollie McClung Sr. and Moreton Rolleston signal ongoing resistance.
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UPI
Supreme Court
Moreton Rolleston
Heart of Atlanta
John Vonetes
Petersburg
Congress
Ollie McClung Sr
Ollie
Birmingham
Ala
McClung
Rolleston
Washington
Asst
Burke Marshall
Justice Department
United Press International
Johnson
White House
High Court
Marshall
FBI Readying New Charges In Rights Murders
In Shreveport Louisiana UPI reports the Justice Department dropped charges against Horace Doyle Barnette in the Mississippi civil rights workers killings. Twenty other suspects face possible new indictments as the case is prepared for a grand jury.
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UPI
Louisiana
FBI
Mississippi
Justice Department
Horace Doyle Barnette
Barnette
U. S
Meridian
Miss
Mercer Youth Killed In One-Car Crash Near Bluefield
James D. Proffitt Jr., 18, of near Bluefield was killed in a one car crash on the Bluefield Princeton road four miles from here. Two other boys were injured when the car lost control and hit a utility pole. The fatality toll for West Virginia in 1964 rose to 436, up from 406 last year.
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Bluefield
UPI
James D. Proffitt, Jr
Princeton
Woman Dies In Fire In Osage Home
Carrie Jefferson about 50 burned to death Monday night when fire broke out in her two story frame home at nearby Osage. Cause of the blaze was not immediately determined.
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Morgantown
UPI
Carrie Jefferson
Osage
US nudges NATO to curb nuclear spread
Paris UPI reporting that the United States will urge NATO to act urgently in meeting the perils of the nuclear age. Secretary of State Rusk is to press for Western nuclear power on a collective basis and for NATO to form a nuclear directorate with withdrawal options.
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UPI
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NATO Council of Ministers
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Rusk
France
Paul Henri Spaak
Spaak
Attack Fatal To Hazlewood
Albert F. Hazlewood 64 of 111 Harvey St died at his residence at 4 p.m. Monday of an apparent heart attack. A retired Memorial Building superintendent and World War I veteran who served on the Mexican border in 1916, he rose from private to second lieutenant in 1919. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge at White Sulphur.
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Albert F
Woman 103 Passes Insurance Policy Test
LANCASTER PA. Mrs Elizabeth Baab aged 103 passed a hospitalization insurance policy test and celebrated her birthday. She is believed to be the oldest woman in the nation to be granted such a policy after Metropolitan Life agent John M Byers approved it following a full medical review.
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Lancaster
UPI
Elizabeth Baab
Ben-Gurion May Return To Power In Israel
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol quit after a dispute over the Lavon affair, raising the prospect that David Ben-Gurion may return to Israel's corridors of power. Ben-Gurion, 78, pressed for a judicial inquiry into a decade-old security case tied to espionage and clashes with Arab neighbors.
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Jerusalem
UPI
Levi Eshkol
David Ben-Gurion
Israel
Eshakol
Israel Labor
Mapai
Eshkol
Federal Court Term Opens Here Tomorrow
A naturalization petition and the case of Opal M. Ripley versus Beckley Newspapers Corp will be heard in the incoming Federal Court term starting Wednesday. Ripley seeks 497 for unpaid overtime from Feb 1 1962 to Sept 12 1963 plus 497 in liquidated damages and attorney fees. Trials of White Sulphur Springs men George Francis Ziehms and Home Scott Neil for promoting gambling through the mails moved to U S District Court in Beckley. Assistant U S District Attorney George Bester notes several motions to dismiss indictments, to be heard in early spring.
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Opal M. Ripley
Beckley Newspaper Corporation
African Powers Lashed By Adlai
At the United Nations African and neutral states convened to condemn the Congo airlift actions and the United States and Belgium for aggression. Ambassador Stevenson blasted the African delegates for harsh language while affirming U.S. role in saving lives amid the Congo crisis and accusing Russia, China, Algeria, Ghana, Sudan and the UAR of aiding rebels.
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API
United Nations
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Congo
Security Council
United States
Belgium
Stevenson
Paul Henri
Council
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Russia
China
Algeria
Ghana
Sudan
United Arab Republic
Burnham Installed as Premier of Georgetown Colony
Forbes Burnham was sworn in as premier of British Guiana after a coalition gave his PNC and the United Forces a 53 member legislature. He succeeds Cheddi Jagan, a Communist-leaning East Indian dentist, amid post election bickering and a shift from a 35 member body.
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British Guiana
UPI
Forbes Burnham
Cheddi Jagan
Burnham
PNC
United Forces Party
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