Jet age woes hit airlines as tail, front clash in profits
Washington reports the air line industry bleeds money amid design flaws in transcontinental jets. Rear compartments travel with front, forcing tourists to pay less for speed. Rep Frank Thompson proposes reciprocal fines for no shows and delays, joking about jet age travel from London to Buenos Aires.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Frank Thompson Jr
Dn.j
Thompson
London
New York
San Francisco
Buenos Aires
Opposition grows to U S aid for United Nations
UPI report from Washington notes rising congressional GOP opposition to U S financial support for the United Nations amid Congo fighting and India's action. Rep Judd denounces Congo, questions UN bonds aid, while Hays challenges both UN and India aid. Democratic leaders defend policy with Dean Rusk backing Congo efforts and no clear shift on India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Eleazer
Washington
UPI
U.S
United Nations
Congo
India
Gon
Walter H. Judd
R-Minn
House Foreign Affairs Committee
GOP
U.N
Katanga
Wayne L. Hays
D-Ohio
World Organization
Congress
Tshombe Agrees To End Katanga Seccession
Katanga President Moise Tshombe has agreed to end the secession and return control to the central government following 17 hours of talks with Premier Cyrille Adoula at Kitona base. The deal, announced by Joseph Tleo, leaves a loophole as Tshombe did not bind his entire government. U.S. Ambassador Gullion backed the step, hoping for peace by Christmas and a stronger Congo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Anderson
Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Joseph Tleo
Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
Kitona
Ndola
Elisabethville
U.S
United Nations
Edmund A. Gullion
Republic of the Congo
United States
Big Two talks in Bermuda to map Berlin crisis strategy
President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met in Bermuda for urgent talks to close Allied ranks and plan diplomatic moves against the Soviet Union over Berlin. They aimed to discuss possible summit with Nikita Khrushchev while Charles de Gaulle’s stance loomed. The visit followed Kennedy’s hospital call on his ailing father as he prepared for two days of discussions at Government House.
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Merriman Smith Hamilton
Bermuda
UPI
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Russia
Berlin
Air Force
Palm Beach
Fla
Macmillan
Sir Julian Gascoigne
Dean Rusk
Kindley Field
U.S. Air Force Base
Government House
Nikita Khrushchev
Charles de Gaulle
West Palm Beach
Joseph P. Kennedy
White House
U N recess ends as Assembly wraps Hungary Tibet rebukes
The General Assembly censured the Soviet Union and Communist China for suppressing Hungary and Tibet and then began a three week Christmas recess. It authorized a 200 million dollar bond issue and moved to emergency financing for Congo and U N peacekeeping in the Middle East. The body urged renewed peace talks between France and Algerian nationalists and backed Israel in expanding the Palestine conciliation commission to handle the Arab refugee problem. The session adjourned at 12 51 a.m. EST and will reconvene January 15.
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Bruce W. Mann
United Nations
N.Y
UPI
General Assembly
Soviet Union
China
Hungary
Tibet
India
Goa
Assembly
Mongi Slim
Tunisia
U.N
Martinsburg Ordered To Halt Pollution
The West Virginia Water Resources Board ordered Martinsburg to stop polluting Tuscarora Creek. Executive Secretary Bern Wright said the city must report within 30 days a step by step plan detailing actions to comply with the order.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Water Resources Board
Martinsburg
Tuscarora Creek
Bern Wright
Jackson Battles Rampaging Pearl River
In Jackson Mississippi the Pearl River nears Flowood as sandbags crowd the levee. Mayor Chastaine Flynt evacuates the area while Gov. Ross Barnett orders 500 National Guardsmen and 200 convicts to assist. Floods have already left over 2,000 people homeless in Hinds Rankin counties. A Flowood levee breach could displace 300 to 500 more residents.
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Barnett
Mississippi
Hinds- Rankin County
Jackson
Winter Arrives Amid Cold East Floods for 2000 Homeless
United Press International reports light snow and falling temperatures across the east as winter begins at 9:20 p.m. EST. Flooding in the Mississippi basin leaves about 2,000 homeless, while the West sees milder autumn remnants. Conditions reach south to Georgia and Alabama with central Florida at 40 degrees.
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United Press International
U.S. Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Iowa
New England
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
West Virginia Weather Update Tonight Through Friday
Cloudy and cold with occasional light snow or flurries tonight and Friday. Low temperatures 24 to 30. Beckley high 31 yesterday and 26 at Oak Hill. Greenbrier River conditions normal and muddy. Lake muddy with 15 gates open. New gauge 5.8 feet at Hinton.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill High
Greenbrier
Hinton
Arson Confession Ties Circus Fire To Beating
Brazilian arsonist Adilson M Alves confessed starting the Niteroi circus fire that killed 323. He said revenge for a beating by an employee named Maciel Felizardo motivated him. Walter Rosa was named as an alleged accomplice who sprinkled gasoline. The site was surrounded by troops to prevent lynching. 2,500 present, including 1,250 children, with 600 injured.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Niteroi
Teodoro Gouveia de Abreu
Adilson M. Alves
Alves
Gouveia
Walter Rosa
Rosa
Maciel Felizardo
Big Top
Fayette County Sets Date For 2 Murder Trials
Fayetteville reports two murder trial dates in January. Willard E. Graham, charged in the beating death of Rev. Julius Keaton, pleads innocent as his attorney is named. Separately, Grace Morris and Robert Massie face abortion death charges in the 1960 case. a Belpre man remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard E. Graham
Patrick S. C
Julius Keaton
Pat R. Hamilton
Oak Hill
Graham
Keaton
Zane Summersfield
Grace Morris
Ansted
Robert Massie
Charleston
Freda Bullard
Belpre
Ohio
Lindsay files for Democratic Senate nomination in 10th District
CHARLESTON UPI L C Lindsay of Hinton has filed for the Democratic nomination to the State Senate from the 10th District. Lindsay aims for the seat currently held by Sen. O Roy Parker of Union Monroe County, according to Secretary of State Joe Burdetta today.
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Charleston
UPI
L. C. Lindsay
Hinton
Senate
Joe Burdett
Lindsay
O. Roy Parker
Union
Monroe County
Santa Claus and the spirit of Christmas hope
A Christmas message urges looking past hardship to hope. The piece celebrates Santa as a symbol of cheer and resilience, urged by the belief that life should be judged by hopeful outcomes, not only by struggle. It closes with a cheerful Merry Christmas and high hopes.
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Khrushchev
Santa Claus
Santa
Notable Figures in Brief Christmas News Roundup
Joseph P Kennedy improves slightly as family gathers in Palm Beach for a Christmas amid health concerns. Nehru to oversee Indian enclaves in new Delhi. Faulkner to leave UVA Hospital after virus lung infection. Fairless granted final divorce in Greensburg. Salk Institute clearance approved in San Diego. Electrical executives freed from probation. Eisenhower couples arrival in California for Christmas. Canadian airliner makes emergency New Orleans landing. Two hunters from Reno hospital transfer to Elyria for Christmas. Two Black men die in Mississippi gas chamber for rape, per Shortening page.
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Joseph P. Kennedy
Palm Beach
Fla
Britain
Jawaharlal Nehru
India
Defense Ministry
New Delhi
William Faulkner
University of Virginia Hospital
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Hazel Hatfield Sproul
Huntington
W. Va
Greensburg
San Diego
Jonas Salk
Institute For Biological Studies
Pacific Ocean
Torrey Pines Mesa
J. Cullen Ganey
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Philadelphia
Eisenhower
California
Ike
Pennsylvania
New Orleans
Renovo
Niagara Falls Teens Read Bible Non Stop in Marathon
A group of 40 Niagara Falls high school students began a three day non stop Bible reading. Led by Ross M Finch of Youth for Christ the devotions resume midweek and are aired via public address system on the streets and portions broadcast on radio.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
UPI
Ross M. Finch
Youth For Christ Organization
Ross
Adventures On Ice booked for Raleigh Armory
Beckley to host the nationally known Adventures On Ice at the Raleigh County Armory March 16 to 18 with 50 professional performers. The domed venue will stage four shows, including Friday and Saturday matinees, featuring an ice tank act lineup from Arabian Nights to a horse costume jumper and a western bar room scene. International Artists Inc. will promote the event, with plans to move the show to Huntington and other cities after Beckley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Minter
Raleigh County Armory
Beckley
Armory
International Artists Inc
Elks Club
James T. Hetzer
Adventures On Ice
Huntington
Ashland
Portsmouth
Ohio
Las Vegas
Nev
Houston
Texas
West Virginia
Hetzer
By-Pass Armory
Minter
Cuban Guerrillas Opposing Castro On Three Fronts
Miami based UPI reports anti-Castro guerrillas fighting on three fronts in Cuba. Maj Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo leader of the Escambray Front says a guerrilla army has engaged in Las Villas Province since Nov 10 and that Raul Castro commands 25,000 militiamen in the Banao Saniti Spiritus area to crush rebels. Menoyo cites combat in the Organ and Crystal Mountains and notes guerrillas using Czech stommy and U S rifles. Prisoner parades of peasants and defections among militiamen are reported.
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Miami
UPI
Cuba
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo
Castro
Second National Escambray Front
Las Villas
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Banao-Sancti Spiritus
Menoyo
Fulgencio Batista
Organ Mountains
Pinar del Rio
Crystal Mountains
Oriente
U.S
New York
United Press International
Caribbean
Sancti Spiritus
Rusk touts Dominican coalition path toward restored status
Secretary of State Dean Rusk says the move toward a coalition government in the Dominican Republic opens the way for the nation to regain its full role in the inter American system. Jackson Mississippi mayor ChaSta ine Flynt comments on sand stacking to save Flowood’s industrial area from the Pearl River. Ed Van Kam describes Goa moments before and during the Indian attack with the governor general seen crying and embracing Goans. Rep Wayne Hays notes the US may buy United Nations bonds.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Congress
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Dean Rusk
Congo
U.S
United Press International
Washington
Dominican Republic
Jackson
Miss
Chastaine Flynt
Flowood
Pearl River
Pangim
Upi-Movietone
Ed van Kam
Goa
Hart dies at 57 leaving unfinished greatest play
Moss Hart, Pulitzer winning writer director of My Fair Lady and The Man Who Came To Dinner, died in Palm Springs after a second heart attack. He had just finished act two of a play publishers called possibly better than Lady In The Dark and The Man Who Came To Dinner. Hart slumped beside his car after emergency resuscitation attempts. His wife Kitty Carlisle and children Christopher and Kathy were present. Hart had moved to the desert for rest after a prior heart attack in 1960.
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Palm Springs
Calif
UPI
Broadway
Moss Hart
Hart
Kitty Carlisle
Christopher
Kathy
George Kaplan
Byron
Brooklyn
Trading stamps bring Marine home for Christmas
Mrs Phyllis Stephens of Scotia New York used 80 books of Triple S Blue trading stamps to secure a Christmas flight home for her husband Corporal Luther C Stephens from the Marine training school at Memphis Tennessee The stamp firm Hackensack New Jersey provided air travel meals and gifts for their infant Randy and promised to keep the stamps until Christmas next year ensuring the family would be together for the holiday despite the distance.
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Dick Remmel
Scotia
N.Y
UPI
Phyllis Stephens
Schenectady
Cpl
Luther C. Stephens
U.S. Marine Training School
Memphis
Tenn
Triple-S Blue Stamps Co
Hackensack
N.J
Stephens
Santa ‘Claus
Marine
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