Finns Question U S Aid As Moscow Presses Finland
United Nations dispatch reports a Finnish diplomat humorously yet grimly doubts American military intervention. He warns of Berlin Laos and Vietnam style U S policy shaping Finnish choices and fears senators touring Helsinki may push terms or U N mediation. Finns prefer resolving with Russia on their own terms and await limited economic help if needed.
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U. S
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Laos
Viet Nam
Russia
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Walter Lippman
United States
Helsinki
U. N
Washington
Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
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Arosemena Wins Ecuador Power Struggle and Cabinet
Ex leftist President Carlos J. Arosemena appears to control Ecuador after a clash with ex-President Jose Velasco Ibarra and Chief Justice Camilo Gallagos Toledo. The army backed Velasco’s ouster, curfews ended, and Guayaquil officials were replaced. Arosemena freed from prison called Congress to reconvene as he forms a new cabinet.
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Ecuador
UPI
Carlos J. Arosemena
Arosemena
Jose M. Velasco Ibarra
Camilo Gallegos Toledo
Velasco
Havana
Fidel Castro
Yankee State Department
Guayaquil
U.S
Pacific
Nicolas Valdano Raffo
Congress
Arosemena Arosemena
West Virginians endure record cold across border state
The West Virginia region faced its coldest weather of the season with lows reaching 19 degrees at Flat Top in Mercer County and single digits in other northern areas. readings ranged from 21 at Bluefield to 32 at Martinsburg while Morgantown saw about an inch of ground cover from light snow. Highs today in the mountains hover in the upper 30s to low 40s with more cold air tonight into Friday, when a slight warming trend is expected.
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Charleston
UPI
West
West Virginia
West Virginia Weather Report Snapshot
Partly cloudy and cold with possible snow flurries in mountains. Daytime highs 35 to 43, tonight lows in the 20s, Friday fair and warming. Beckley and Oak Hill highs yesterday around 40s to 42, lows near 26 to 24. River and lake levels normal and clear. Greenbrier gauge about 2.5 feet.
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Beckley
Oak Hill
Supermarket Slayer Pleads Guilty in Wheeling Slaying
Robert C. Satterfield, 25, pleaded guilty to murder and armed robbery for a July Wheeling area supermarket slaying. Sentencing date not set as judge Spillers may defer until after accomplice Patrick L. Muldrew’s trial on December 4.
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Wheeling
UPI
Robert C. Satterfield
Ohio County Intermediate Court
C. Lee Spillers
Benwood
Marshall County
Man
Satterfield
Patrick L. Muldrew
Tiltonsville
Ohio
Thomas P. O'Brien
Muldrew
Army Recruits Die In Richmond Air Crash
A chartered four engine Imperial Airlines plane carrying 79 people including 74 Army recruits crashed near Byrd Airport in Richmond Virginia during a perilous approach after engine trouble. 77 perished and two crew members survived. FBI and FAA sent agents to identify victims and aid investigations while recruits from Pennsylvania New Jersey and Maryland were en route to Fort Jackson South Carolina.
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UPI
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
Imperial Airlines
Miami Springs
Fla
Byrd Airport
Newark
N.J
Ft. Jackson
Columbia
S.C
Carl G. Pierce
Imperial
United Press International
Kennedy to Seek $50 Billion for Defense Next Year
Washington reports that the Kennedy administration plans to push defense spending toward a $50 billion annual level for the coming year as advisers urge a broader nuclear testing study. Kennedy said he would request added defense funds and outlined steps including expanding the Polaris program, speeding bomber readiness, adding Minuteman facilities, and boosting conventional forces.
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UPI
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U.S
Soviet Union
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Eisenhower
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NLRB moves to block firings in union drive
NLRB adopts new tactic under Taft Hartley to seek injunctions against employers accused of anti union activity. It applied in aid of a South Carolina textile mill case to re hire three workers fired for leading a union drive at Wellings ton mill of West Point Manufacturing. TWUA charges the firings and demotions were meant to terrify the workforce of 500.
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William J. Eaton
Washington
UPI
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
South Carolina
Southern
Frank W. McCulloch
Anderson, S.C
Wellington Mill
West Point
Cemetery Delays Interstate 64 Work Near Cere Do
In Huntington the I-64 route through Cere Do Wayne County faces delay as a 300 grave Civil War era cemetery lies in the path. A Road Commission spokesman cites dead records gaps and reluctant relatives but says condemnation will proceed to move the cemetery and clear the way for the project.
Coal’s Fight To Stem Oil Imports Explained
New York article reports a group of leading coal executives meeting with newsmen to argue against more imports of residual oil. They warn a pending quota decision by the Office of Emergency Planning, subject to presidential approval, could affect the coal industry’s health. The oil by product fuels heavy markets, especially on the Eastern Seaboard, enabling imports at sea. George H. Love of NCPC and Chrysler and Joseph E. Moody lead the briefing.
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UPI
United States
Office of Emergency Planning
Seaboard
George H. Love
National Coal Policy Conference
NCPC
Chrysler Corp
Joseph E. Moody
Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
Queen Elizabeth II leaves London for an 11 day Ghana visit amid safety assurances. A Nor wegian tanker and a Chinese freighter collision in Houston channel raises death toll to 11 with 3 bodies found. Lord Morrison urges Cuba imports halt until Castro restores seized properties. U S Army plans routine Berlin training exercises as troops move from West Germany. U S Central Railroad may withdraw opposition to merger with C O and B O as Pennsylvanian merger proceeds. Funeral services planned for Anne Douglas Dillon in Far Hills New Jersey. North Carolina rejects 61.7 million in campus and hospital bonds. Navy searches for survivors of a Neptune plane crash east of Norfolk. eleven aboard, two bodies recovered. UN General Assembly approves renewal talks on nuclear test ban despite Soviet opposition. West German Ambassador Crewe to visit South Carolina Governor and Charleston Chamber of Commerce. Goldberg to speak at a Democratic rally in Morgantown January 18. Two injured by falling chimney bricks at a hotel. See Shortening Page 19. The biggest hazard in the kitchen used to be burns now it's frostbite mae.
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Fidel Castro
U. S. Army
West Germany
Berlin
East Germany
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Nickel Plate Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
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N. J
Anne Douglas Dillon
Treasury
C. Douglas Dillon
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Norfolk
U. N
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W. W. Barron
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Arthur J. Goldberg
Morgantown
Sen
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Nehru Impressed By Talks With Kennedy
India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru expressed deep respect for President Kennedy after talks on world crises. An Indian official said their close understanding could moderate policies between neutralist and Western blocs. Nehru to address National Press Club and meet Kennedy for a communique.
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UPI
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kennedy
Press Club
Taylor State's Champ Farmer Taylor State's Champ Farmer
I H Taylor of Petersburg Grant County West Virginia named champion conservation farmer of 1961 at the 20th annual conference of the State Soil Conservation District Supervisors Association. He operates a 688 acre livestock farm. R C Clay of Lewisburg won second place and Clay Tallman near Elkins took third.
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Jackson's Mill
UPI
West Virginia
I. H. Taylor
Petersburg
Grant County
Taylor
State Soil Conservation District Supervisors Association
R. C. Clay
Lewisburg
Clay Tallman
Elkins
Parole Sought for WV’s Largest Motor Vehicles Theft Craze
Earl Mathews, 33, jailed for $352,000 theft from the State Motor Vehicles Department in June 1960, seeks parole next week. He has completed one year of a 1 to 10 year sentence at Huttonsville Medium Security Prison. The parole board will review him along with 24 other inmates. the judge urged a minimum five year term.
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Huttonsville
UPI
West Virginia
Earl Mathews
State Motor Vehicles Department
Marmet
Kanawha County
State Probation and Parole Board
William J. Thompson
Mathews
Twin LA fires tamed as winds hold, millions at stake
Twin multimillion dollar blazes in Santa Monica Mountains were checked as crews cleared Topanga Canyon and Bel Air Brentwood. 447 homes burned and losses likely exceed 100 million with insured losses up to 24 million. Officials warned fires could flare if winds shift.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Santa Monica Mountains
Topanga Canyon
Bel Air-Brentwood
Topanga
Bel Air
Eisenhower To Lead Reorganized People To People Program
President Kennedy named Dwight D. Eisenhower to head a reorganized people-to-people program. The former president will chair a new board of trustees coordinating 26 committees and various activities begun in 1956 to foster US relations with the world. Kennedy expressed delight at Eisenhower's agreement to serve.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Cotton Sentenced Possible for Involuntary Manslaughter
Calvin Cotton, 30, of Beckley, accepted a plea of no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Ethel Harris, 30. Judge Harry L. McCreery set November 16 for sentencing. Harris died after a July 28 stabbing during an argument with Cotton. an autopsy cited the stab wound as contributing to death. Harris underwent surgery Aug 28 to remove a knife blade she received July 28. Police reported she did not press charges and that Cotton was in Raleigh County Jail since Aug 21. Jurors were excused until Friday morning.
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Beckleyan
Raleigh County
Cotton
Harris
Beckley Hospital
Raleigh General Hospital
Loneliest Islanders face a strange new world
About 262 Tristan Da Cunha residents, rescued after a volcanic eruption, have lived in Surrey farm camps for a week. They confront cars, TV, telephones, and traffic signals for the first time, learn the common cold, and fear homesickness as they adapt to modern Britain.
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Harry Ferguson London
UPI
Tristan da Cunha
Atlantic
Argentina
Africa
Britsh
Surrey
Britain
Families Protest Notification After Army Plane Crash
Families of recruits aboard an Army plane that crashed near Fort Jackson complained that officials failed to inform next of kin before news outlets. Relatives learned from broadcasts or calls, with some questioning how to verify lives or deaths. Army spokesmen cited regulations that allow disclosure to news media before notifying families.
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United Press International
John D. Schuler
Bethlehem
First Army
Governor's Island
Regs Ulations
Army
Earl F. Smith Jr
Baltimore
John F. Conway
Philadelphia
Summary of major U S air disasters and fatalities
The text lists several major air disasters with dates and death tolls, noting the Imperial Airlines crash that killed 77 with two survivors, and comparing it to prior crashes in New York 1960, Tokyo 1953, Grand Canyon 1956, off Ireland 1958, Larson AFB 1952, Cardiff 1950, Quebec 1957, Asbury Park 1956, and Brussels 1961, highlighting non military and international incidents.
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United States
Chicago
Imperial Airlines
New York
United Airlines
Trans World Airlines
Cardiff
Wales
Canada
Quebec
Asbury Park
N.J
Brussels
Belgium
Sabena Airlines
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