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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1962
Page
10
In a hand from Otober, South overcomes West's vulnerable overcall by ducking West's jack of clubs. South then wins the clubs, draws trump, and leads a diamond. West takes the ace but cannot prevent South from discarding a spade and limiting losers to one. If West held king clubs and East ace diamonds, the hand would fail, but the actual layout favored success.
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Charleston police urged holiday safety with slogans like Dont take a Christmas stay ride and Dont give your life for Christmas. Keep speed wrapped up and Let death take a holiday but not yours. Dont be a Yule fool. In Sheffield England two rugby teams used broomsticks as goalposts to treat play as recreation not a game after a local official allowed it.
Middlesbrough England John McWilliams 51 pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle though police found no report of a missing bike. The judge credited his honesty and sentenced him to one month in jail.
Birmingham, Alabama. James B. Hubka, 20, was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial on a charge of threatening the life of President Kennedy. Federal Judge C. W. Allgood ordered Hubka committed to a federal mental hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Secret Service agents had arrested him after he mailed a letter to the Justice Department threatening the President and Attorney General Robert Kennedy citing concern over the University of Mississippi integration crisis.
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