Will Allow Release Of Texas Washington NG Divisions
President Kennedy ordered activation of two new permanent Army divisions, enabling release of two National Guard divisions later this year. The 32nd from Wisconsin and the 49th from Texas will be freed when new regular divisions reach readiness. The move raises regular Army divisions to 16, reflecting a Berlin crisis mobilization and strategic reserves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Washington
Merriman Smith
Palm Beach, Fla
UPI
Kennedy
National Guard
White House
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wisconsin
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Camp Polk
Berlin
Army
McNamara
Lyndor, B. Johnson
Roswell L. Gilpatric
New York Mayor Demands Settlement in Bus Strike
New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner urged Fifth Avenue Coach Lines to settle a new contract with the Transport Workers Union or lose franchised routes. The city offered aid to cover costs while TWU President Michael Quill warned of possible action against the NYC Transit Authority over alleged strikebreaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
API
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Fifth Avenue Coach Lines
Transport Workers Union
TWU
Westchester County
Michael Quill
New York City Transit Authority
Quill
Local 100
Transit Authority
Joseph O’grady
Murder Charge Filed After Husband Confesses
Jesse James Hall 41 confessed to strangling his 26 year old wife in their Logan home last Friday. State Police in Charleston reported he lied about natural death and weather delays before admitting the domestic killing. Mrs Hall's body was found the following Saturday.
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Logan
API
Jesse James Hall
Charleston
Hall
West Virginia Five Day Weather Outlook
West Virginia forecast shows fair conditions with highs in the 40s this afternoon and clearing tonight. Temperatures near average with a 42-22 north and 47-27 south spread, warmer Thursday and Friday, then colder weekend with light precipitation possible as showers or snow flurries. River gauges remain normal with Greenbrier and Lake conditions clear. Hinton gauge at 2.9 ft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Beckley
Greenbrier
Hinton
Kennedy Accepts Mexico Invitation Amid Cuba Shift
President Kennedy has reinstated plans to visit Mexico and accepted an invitation from President Adelina Lopez Mateos, with no date set. The move signals a possible shift in Mexican stance toward Cuba and the OAS meeting in Uruguay. Text notes prior plans were shelved and Cuba opposition at Punta Del Este is cited.
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Mexico City
Kennedy
Adelo Lopez Mateos
United States
Mexico
Lopez Imateos
OAS
Uruguay
Washington
Cuba
Punta del Este
Rio Grande
Lebanese Mop-Up Clears Beirut Revolt After Coup
Lebanese troops sealed off east and north Beirut with tanks to finish wiping out Sunday's right wing revolutionaries. Government says 2,000 arrests since the coup failed, though unofficial sources claim higher. One teen, Ahmoud Shaiti, was killed outside the British Embassy during identification checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Ahmoud Shaiti
Social Nationalist
PPS
Britons size up coins and decimal switch urge
A Barclays Bank chairman urges government to cut English small change weight as decimal coinage comes closer. In Houston, Mayor Cutter plans to break ground for Colt 45s stadium with pistols. In Ohio a bloodhound trainer seeks help locating a lost puppy. Iowa governor to discuss farming finance after a girl asks how to earn money for a pony. In Leeds a circus fire-eater announces engagement to her safety adviser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Julian Crossley
Barclays Bank Co
Houston, Tex
Lewis Cutter
Colt 45’S
Houston
House Leadership Appears Decided
Washington UP I reports the House leadership race leaning to Carl Albert of Oklahoma to succeed John McCormack with McCormack slated for speaker. Richard Bolling denied final decision though backing could shift if gains strong. Kennedy proposals likely to pass with support. Leadership whip choice remains unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Congress
McCormack
Sam Rayburn
Kennedy
Bolling
Rayburn
Albert
White House
House
Department of Urban Affairs
Pet Chickens Stolen and Bones Left on Porch
In Richmond California Robert Shaw woke New Year to two frightened pet chickens on the porch and later found a paper sack with gnawed bones of Muff and Mule Train, a penny, and a taunting note from the thief saying the chickens did aplenty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Calif
UPI
Robert Shaw
Shaw
Atty Gen Kennedy Seeks New Weapons in Racketeers Fight
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said he would ask Congress for new tools to combat gamblers and racketeers. He plans to push a law banning interstate shipment of slot and pinball machines and seek immunity for witnesses to help investigations of extortion and payoffs in labor management.
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Washington
UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
Congress
Reds Reject U.S. Protest Over Berlin Border Checks
Berlin report says East German and Russian authorities refused to halt border checks on official U.S. traffic. Col. Solovyev told Maj. Gen. Watson that civilian aides must show ID and accept checks at Friedrichstrasse. Neues Deutschland cited informed sources in detailing the dispute over entry procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
UPI
U.S
Neues Deutschland
A. V. Solovyev
Albert Watson II
Watson
East Berlin
Friedrichstrasse
West Berlin
Sukarno Proclaims West Irian Autonomy Under Papuan Governor
President Sukarno issues decree effective Jan 1 making West Irian a province of Indonesia. A native Papuan governor and elected councils will lead, with internal self determination emphasized over Dutch plans. Subandrio reiterates full autonomy within the Indonesian constitution.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
UPI
Sukarno
West Irian
Dutch New Guinea
Subandrio
Netherlands
Jan E. de Quay
West New Guinea
de Quay
Commission On Aging Not In Barron's Call
West Virginia's Commission on Aging will wait until the 1963 legislative session for permanent status and a budget. It was not included in the 1962 governor's call and will seek funding next year along with an executive director. Thompson Fulton heads the panel which will push home and community based aging services using federal funds to pilot programs and avoid institutional care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
UPI
West Virginia Commission — of
West Virginia
Thompson R. Fulton
West Virginia University
Commission
Community Health Services
Immortalized by the Mailing List Philosophy
A UPI column notes a magazine view that immortality comes by having your name on a commercial mailing list. The piece recounts a Webster Groves resident flood of solicitations and Congressman's response, praising address-list inefficiency while the author envies such print immortality.
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Washington
UPI
U.S. Marine
Tripoli
Webster Groves
Hepatitis Rate Still Up Dyer Says Epidemic Not Peaking
West Virginia Health Director N H Dyer warned there is no valid reason to believe infectious hepatitis is declining or peaking. Through last week 1,610 cases were reported, up from 906 a year earlier, with 13 new cases that week. He cited a critical gamma globulin supply and uncertain Red Cross allocations for the year. No new polio cases were reported last week as 1961 ended with 33 cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis
Charleston
UPI
N. H. Dyer
West Virginia
Dyer
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Envoys Hear Berlin Report
Moscow dispatch notes U S Ambassador Thompson to brief British and French envoys on talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko about Berlin. Roberts and de Jean plan to discuss Thompson’s two hour session. no details released. Khrushchev’s New Year toast favors peaceful co existence and disarmament while avoiding a time bound German peace pact.
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Moscow
UPI
U.S
Llewellyn Kk. Thompson
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Frank Roberts
Maurice de Jean
Thompson
Gromyko
Washington
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Roberts
Izvestia
Khrushchev
Hans Tirring
First To File From Area Porter Seeks Senate Post
Beckley Democrat G. C. Porter filed to run for state senator in the ninth district marking the area’s first candidacy for the off year primary. Porter, appointed in 1961 to fill a vacancy, seeks reelection as session opens Jan 10 amid debate on continued three percent sales tax and coal slurry reapportionment. He chairs local clubs, serves on city council, and is head of two theater firms. Porter, born 1903 in Glouster Ohio, is married with two daughters and four grandchildren.
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G. C. Porter
Beckley
Secretary of State
Porter
W. W. Barron
Senate
Jack Nuckols
Raleigh
Wyoming
Beckley Kiwanis Club
Beckley Shrine Club
The
Masons
the Shrine, Elks, Moose
Variety Club of
Cincinnati
First Baptist Church
C & P Amusement Co
New Lyric Theatre Co
Athens County
Ohio
Glouster
Thelma Burkett
Society Matron Slain In Home in Pacific Palisades
Police seek clues in the death of Doris G. Bowman 32, wife of a Los Angeles doctor, found beaten in a bloodstained $100,000 home bathtub. Autopsy pending. The assault appeared in the kitchen with teeth marks and a blood trail, the body moved to the tub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Palisades
Calif
UPI
Doris G. Bowman
Los Angeles
Private Hitches Ride On Presidential Plane
Pvt. Michael Lee Imperial, 17, of Columbus, on Christmas leave, hopped a non scheduled jet by mistake and found himself aboard President Kennedy's personal plane. After a two hour flight to West Palm Beach, he will ride north to Ft. Bragg. The trip coincided with Kennedy's Florida visit for a $100 a plate fundraiser.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
President Kennedy
Michael Lee Imperial
Columbus
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Imperial
82Nd Airborne Division
Federal Aviation Agency
Flight Service
Roger Graves
Air Force
Secret Service
West Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Florida
Fence Dispute Sparks Gunfire Between Neighbors
In Baileysville Wyoming County, Emmett Crouse and Vernon Short exchanged gunfire after a fence dispute over yard boundaries. Crouse was wounded in the left foot. Short faces felonious wounding and trespassing charges after waiving to a grand jury. Short posted a $1,000 bond and warrants were issued for Crouse with sheriffs deputies aiding the investigation.
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Baileysville
RNS
Wyoming
Lelan Phillips
Emmett Crouse
Vernon Short
Crouse
Short
Grand Jury
Bernard Morgan
Fred Deal
Gerald Meadows
Chaplin and Oona Expecting Eighth Child Next Summer
UPI reports Charlie Chaplin 72 and wife Oona 36 expect their eighth child next summer. Chaplin disclosed the news at a chalet gathering with close friends, and a family spokesman confirmed the happy expectation.
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Chiefs of Staff
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Paradise
West Vincinia
Oak Hill High
Withamsville
N.C. Ward
Clermont County
Des Moines
Iowa
Norman A. Erbe
Hearts ON Fire
Leeds
England
Priscilla Birt
George Maddocks
By Frank Eleazer
Atty. Gen
Reds
U. S
Sukarno Action
New Guinea
Commission On Aging
Barron’s Call
Thomas B. Curtis
U.S. Department of Commerce
Commerce
Luther Hodges
By Dick West
State Hygienic Laboratory
House of Delegates
A. David Abrams
Society
Chaplins
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