U Thant to Name U N Cabinet Deputies Today
U Thant of Burma planned to announce his deputy selections for the U N secretary general cabinet. The United States and Britain favored Thant choosing assistant secretaries general, ending a six week deadlock on Hammarskjold's succession after his Rhodesia crash death.
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United Nations, N. Y
UPI
U Thant
Burma
United Nations
U. N
Thant
United States
Britain
Valerin A. Zorin
Dag Hammarskjold
Rhodesia
Hatties Death Toll Mounts After Devastating Hattie
Belize reels from Hurricane Hattie with 162 dead along a 30 mile coast and Belize City’s ruin rising as martial law is imposed. Gov Thornley warns 10,000 to 15,000 homeless as 75 to 85 percent of buildings are damaged or destroyed.
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Belize
British Honduras
UPI
Hattie
London
Colonial Office
Caulker Cay
Stann Creek
Collin Thornley
Thornely
Women Protest Nuclear Tests Nationwide Strike for Peace
A nationwide women led protest against nuclear testing and the arms race swept across major cities and federal sites. Teenagers, housewives, and elderly women carried signs, some with infants, urging leaders to halt bomb tests for humanity’s survival. Chicago drew about 1000 participants while Winnetka hosted two meetings. Harvard and Brandeis students joined 400 demonstrators in Watertown Massachusetts.
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Weanessay
White House
Washington
United Nations
U.N
New York City
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Chicago
Winnetka
Edgar Siskin
Watertown
Mass
Harvard
Brandeis
Moscow Molly in East Berlin Radio Broadcast to U S Troops
A Berlin East Radio program airs nightly 11 45 featuring Moscow Molly a German speaking announcer and Jerry Randall reading news for American forces in Berlin The show interrupts regular Berlin radio with 30 minutes of music news and propaganda urging U S troops to resist Communist control amid African Detroit and Berlin items and a chorus of questions about Randall’s true identity.
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Berlin
UPS
Moscow
Molly
East Berlin
U.S
West Berlin
Ops
Berliner Undfunk
Jerry Randall
Randall
East Germany
Africa
Detroit
Names Rename Stalin Ties to Geography Across Soviet Maps
Washington fans of geography note that posthumous Stalin disgrace promises widespread name changes across the Soviet sphere. Cities, rivers, and towns once bearing Stalin, Crasul Stalin, and Stalingrad will revert or be replaced with Varna Brasov and Tsaritsyn variants as cartographers anticipate inserting Khrushchev era names. The National Geographic Society cites about 62 Stalinskis and related forms, with Molotov names phased out since 1945.
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Washington
UPI
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Stalin
Bulgaria
Black Sea
Varna
Gulf of Stalin
Gulf of Varna
Crasul Stalin
Romania
Brasov
National Geographic Society
Josef Stalin
Khrushchev
Russia
Europe
Stalingrad
Tsaritsyn
Stalinos
Stalinsks
Stalinskoes
Stalinabadski
Stalinskoye
Stalinirska
Stalinka
Stalino-Zavodski
Stalingradski
Staliniki
National Geographic
American wins chemistry Nobel for carbon dioxide research
UPI reports in Stockholm that Dr. Melvin Calvin of the University of California Berkeley won the 1961 chemistry prize for work on carbon dioxide assimilation. The physics prizes were split between American Robert Hofstadter of Stanford and German Rudolf Moessbauer.
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Stockholm
Sweden
UPI
Melvin Calvin
University of California At Berkeley
T Is
Chemistry
Robert Hofstadter
Stanford University
Palo Alto
Calif
Rudolf Moessbauer
Speechless Dr Calvin Wins 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dr Melvin Calvin said he was speechless after learning he had won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At a National Radio Center meeting in Green Bank West Virginia he declined to comment until formal notice from the Swedish Academy. The UC Berkeley scientist, 50, said he did not know he was under consideration.
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Green Bank
UPI
Melvin Calvin
Calvin
National Radio Center
West Virginia
Swedish Academy of Science
University of California At Berkeley
Nobel winners split prizes for physics and chemistry
The Nobel Committee cited Dr. Hofstadter for studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and nucleon structure, and Dr. Moessbauer for gamma ray resonance absorption and the Moessbauer effect. The chemistry prize is valued at $48,300, with Hofstadter and Moessbauer sharing a similar amount. Hofstadter, 46, was born in New York.
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Munich
Germany
Swedish Academy of Science
Hofstadter
Moessbauer
Calvin
New
Kennedy weighs resuming air tests and meets NSC
President Kennedy calls NSC to discuss resuming air nuclear tests with UN Ambassador Stevenson invited. He will confer in New York with Arthur Dean, then motorcade support for Mayor Wagner, and speak for Governor Hughes in Trenton. Fresh Berlin garrison replacements arrive without incident. The US charges Castro regime seeks to subvert Americas. A new seawater-to-freshwater facility is planned.
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Kennedy
National Security Council
White House
United States
U.N
Adlai Stevenson
New York
Arthur H. Dean
U.S
Robert F. Wagner
Carlyle
Trenton
N.J
Richard J. Hughes
U.S. Army
West Berlin
West Germany
East Germany
Berlin
Organization of American States
Delesseps S. Morrison
Fidel Castro
Americas
Kennedy says U.S. to resume atmospheric nuclear tests
President Kennedy announced in Washington that the United States is prepared to resume atmospheric nuclear testing if an evaluation shows Russian shots necessitate such action. The statement followed an extended National Security Council meeting at 12:35 p.m.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
United States
National Security Council
Alabama Funds Study On Negro Inferiority
Alabama officials push a new legal tactic to defend segregation by financing a study to prove Negroes are inferior to whites. Attorney Ralph Smith said $3,000 from the governor’s emergency fund funds Dr. Wesley C. George of UNC to conduct the three month anthropological study during summer vacation.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Alabama
Ralph Smith
Patterson
Smith
Wesley C. George
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
George
Oil Tycoon Fondren Dies After Steak Choke at Club
Walter W. Fondren Jr., 53, president of Fondren Oil Co., died after choking on a piece of steak while dining with friends at the International Club in the Shamrock Hilton Hotel Houston. He was taken to Hermann Hospital where physicians failed to revive him. His father helped found Humble Oil and Refining Co. in 1917.
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Houston, Tex
UPI
Walter W. Fondren Jr
Fondren Oil Co
Fondren
International Club
Shamrock Hilton Hotel
Hermann Hospital
C. M. Ashmore
Walter W. Fondren
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Colleges Budget Proposed For West Virginia State Schools
West Virginia eight state colleges and Marshall University present a 1962 63 operating budget proposal totaling 10.5 million dollars to the state finance department. The plan, while below the 11.7 million dollar request by the State Council, marks a 1.47 million increase over the current year. Marshall would receive 3.1 million, with others listed against 2.6 million for the current year. governors and legislature actions may adjust allocations.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia
Marshall University
State Finance Department
State Council of College and University
State Board of Education
Board of Public Works
W. W. Barron
Colleges
Marshall
General Van Fleet apologizes to Adlai Stevenson
General James A. Van Fleet telegraphed Adlai Stevenson to retract and apologize for remarks about the United Nations ambassador’s role in the abortive Cuban invasion. He said his Monday statements in Florida were based on erroneous information and that he would have fired Stevenson.
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FT. Monroe
UPI
James A. van Fleet
Adlai Stevens
United Nations
van Fleet
Florida
Stevenson
Eyewitness Belize After Hurricane Hattie Destruction
UPI correspondent Lee Winfrey recalls Belize devastated by Hattie with block after block of roofless homes fallen walls uprooted trees and seaweed mud. Water pipelines cut salt water in cisterns. a water truck from Corozal arrives as relief starts.
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Belize
British Honduras
UPI
Corazal
Belize Aftermath Described by UPI Photographer
Frank Beatty, United Press International, recalls Belize catastrophe from Hurricane Hattie airlift and rubble strewn streets. He describes bodies marked by flags, coffins left roadside, and scenes of devastation far beyond prior storms.
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Frank Beatty
United Press International Pictures
Miami
Belize
British Honduras
Hattie
UPI
Coastal Airways
Beckley Yule Lighting Fund Tops $2000 Planed Growth
Beckley Business Bureau members hear the Christmas lighting fund nears $2000 with pledges and an early tally of $2100 needed to set up and dismantle the usual displays. The group forecasts $2600+, contemplates a BBB nursery for shoppers, and adds Dec 2 9 15 16 18 22 23 hours.
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Beckley
Beckley Business Bureau
Clarence Bibb
Bibb
H. C. Sheets
Eric Rosenbaum
BBB
Cancer Breakthrough Forecast Within a Year
Dr. I S Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania told a national cancer conference that a major breakthrough in cancer treatment is highly likely within the coming year. He heads a National Cancer Institute panel and said progress in two years has yielded effective agents for certain cancer types. The conference drew over 1,000 physicians and researchers as Ravdin stated cancer will come under control, possibly soon.
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Washington
UPI
I. S. Ravdin
University of Pennsylvania
National Cancer Institute
Ravdin
West Virginia Teams May Advertise State Attractions
West Virginia University football and basketball squads may become walking ads for the state's tourist attractions. The Mountain State Tourist Bureau offered free uniform emblems showing a bear with vacation gear such as a camera, fishing rod, water skis, tennis racket and golf club.
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Charleston
UPI
West Virginia University
Mountain State Tourist Bureau
WVU
West Virginia
West Virginia Weather Long Range Forecast
The Weather Bureau predicts wintry conditions across the Western half of the United States for the next 30 days with temperatures well below normal. The East should be warmer than normal, except near normal in the Northeast, while storms and above normal precipitation are expected nationwide. The Southeast and Pacific Northwest may see below normal precipitation. the West, Northern Plains, and western Great Lakes anticipate snow.
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Washington
UPI
Weather Bureau
United States
Southeast
Pacific Northwest
Northern Plains
Western Great Lakes
Future Investment Push for Fayette-Raleigh Area Industry
Editorial notes Harrison O Ash of Fayette County and Cincinnati outlining Industrial Development. It urges regional buyers to invest in a promising area enterprise to enable Area Redevelopment Administration aid, stressing self-help and long term benefits for residents and families in Southern West Virginia.
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Harrison O. Ash
Fayette County
Cincinnati
Fayette-Raleigh
Prise
Ash
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