Kennedy says Khrushchev to withdraw Cuba bombers in 30 days
President Kennedy announced that Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed to remove all IL28 jet bombers from Cuba within 30 days, lifting the naval blockade immediately. U.S. surveillance will continue to verify removal and ensure Cuba does not pose an offensive threat, with authorities pressing Castro to accept inspections.
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Stewart Hensley Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Russia
Cuba
Caribbean
Nikita Khrushchev
Pope Supports Liberals On Theology Draft
At the Ecumenical Council in Vatican City Pope John XXIII backed the liberal faction and blocked debate on the sources of revelation draft. He ordered a special committee to re-study the measure, aiming to ease tensions with Protestant groups. The draft, seen as restating Catholic tradition, risked widening Catholic Protestant gaps if adopted.
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Vatican City
UPI
John XXIII
Ecumenical Council
Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
Ottaviani
Hippo Policy Change Aims At Family Reunion At Zoo
Bronx Zoo officials say Phoebe the hippo may allow Peter back into the family pool for Thanksgiving after weeks apart. A barrier kept the pair separated since Phoebe gave birth seven weeks ago, but she now appears calmer and may consent to reunite the family once bars are lowered. The baby’s sex remains unconfirmed as keepers never yet got close enough to name it.
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New York
UPI
Peter the Hippo
Mamma
Papa
Phoebe
Peter
Bronx
Zoo
Thanksgiving Proclamation by President Kennedy
Text of John F Kennedy Thanksgiving Day proclamation recalling Plymouth Pilgrims and the American harvest. He urges reverence humility and shared abundance with the less fortunate and calls for steadfast effort toward a more perfect community now and abroad.
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Kennedy
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
John F. Kennedy
United States of America
Congress
West Virginia Five Day Forecast and Weather Notes
The five day forecast calls for overcast and rain, mainly in the south tonight with lows in the upper 30s. Thursday brings variable clouds, mild temps in the 50s, and a warmer weekend ahead. Precipitation expected a half to one inch over the weekend. Beckley and Oak Hill show today’s temps in the 40s to 50s with river conditions normal and lakes clear. New river gauge at 3.3 ft.
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Oak Hill
Greenbrier
Nation Prepares for Thanksgiving Across United States
Americans at home and abroad ready last minute for Thanksgiving amid Kennedy proclamation urging reverence. Defense reports 112000 turkeys roasted for 2.6 million service members. turkey herd tops 92 million birds with 113500 tons in storage. cranberry crop projected at 70000 tons. Massachusetts to serve 47572 pounds of turkey to 50000 shut ins and state hospital patients. Des Moines dining gifts by Sargent family provide a complete meal for 1000 seniors and welfare recipients for 15th year.
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Kennedy
Defense Department
Bill Sargent
Des Moines
Iowa
Sargent
Register Won't Publish Tomorrow
The Raleigh Register will not be published tomorrow as employees observe Thanksgiving Day, one of three annual non publication holidays. Subscribers to The Register will receive a copy of the morning paper instead.
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Raleigh Register
The
Register
Adenauer postpones TV address on Bonn crisis
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer postponed a nationwide television speech on the Bonn crisis until Friday night without an explained reason. He had been expected to relate his stance on the Defense Minister Franz Joseph Strauss and the Spiegel affair amid coalition tensions.
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Bonn
Germany
UPI
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Franz Joseph Strauss
United Fund hits $38933 near Raleigh goal
The Raleigh County United Fund stood at 38933.59 at noon, closing in on its 49800 target. The Dr. Paul H. Loflin staff, Radio Station WJLS, and Beckley Glass Co. joined the 100 percent club as management matched employee pledges, per today’s tabulation.
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Raleigh County United Fund
Paul H. Loflin
WJLS
Beckley Glass Co
Pace
Laughing at Foreman's Jokes Signals Practical Sense
A brief item notes that a worker who laughs at the foreman’s jokes may lack humor but shows practical sense, implying understanding of workplace dynamics and social cues in a factory setting.
USSR cancels military readiness after Cuban crisis
Moscow says the military preparedness orders issued during the Cuban crisis are lifted as Kennedy ends the blockade. Intercontinental missiles were stated to have been on combat alert with some submarines at battle stations. Warsaw Pact forces status also rescinded amid Khrushchev party talks.
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Fleet Headquarters
Norfolk
Kennedy
United States
Khrushchev
Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
Russia
Communist Party Central Committee
Nikita Khrushchev
Cuba
India
Spokesman Says Castro Sees Some Relief After Blockade Lift
Havana reported spokesman for Premier Fidel Castro on Tuesday night that President Kennedy’s lifting of the U S arms blockade eased tensions a little while warning the regime to stay vigilant as U S reconnaissance flights continue. Antiaircraft batteries on the Havana waterfront fired at an unidentified plane for about five minutes before it escaped northward. Gomez said Kennedy gave assurances against invasion, but the U S insists on a strict inspection system to ensure removal of Russian weapons from Cuba.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
U. S
Cuba
Luis Gomez Vanquermert
el Mundo
Castro
United States
Gomez
Kennedy signs housing desegregation order
Washington reports a new presidential order banning discrimination in federally assisted housing goes into effect. President Kennedy announced signing the long awaited directive aimed at ending bias in sales and rentals of new homes and apartments built with government support. The measure covers FHA and VA financing about 25 percent of non farm home building, with notable exemptions for private sales by individual homeowners and conventional loans.
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Washington
API
Kennedy
Kennedy Order on Housing Desegregation Draws Mixed Reactions
Senate figures and civil rights leaders split over President Kennedy’s executive order barring racial discrimination in federally aided housing. Senator John Stennis blasts the move as overreach, while Martin Luther King Jr. praises it as advancing the American dream. Senator A Willis Robertson also critiques the order.
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United Press International
Kennedy
South
John Stennis
D-Miss
Executive Branch
Friends of Constitutional Government
Congress
White House
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
A. Willis Robertson
D-Va
China orders cease fire and withdrawal on Indian border
Beijing demands India negotiate on Chinese terms and warns of consequences. Peking Radio broadcast a government statement calling India's minimum conditions unreasonable and reiterating three proposals for disengagement and a premiers' summit as the only path to avert further border clashes.
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Tokyo
UPI
China
India
Peking Radio
Censorship Eased by Kennedy on Cuban Crisis
President Kennedy lifted voluntary censorship on military information during the Cuban crisis. He warned premature disclosure of the Russian buildup could have been disastrous and said restraints were needed to ensure the government speaks with one voice.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Cuba
Stripped For Conventioning Teachers At Jockey Club Padlocked
Atlantic City's Jockey Club was ordered padlocked for 75 days after the ABC charged it allowed a nude dance show during a national convention of the American Association of School Administrators. The club pleaded innocence. six officials testified for the manager Harold Abrams. About 300 attendees, mostly male, witnessed the event on February 18. The license suspension takes effect November 28 and ends February 11 before the 1963 convention.
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Newark
N.J
UPI
Atlantic City
Swank Jockey Club
Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control
ABC
Atlantic City Police Department
Harold Abrams
American Association of School Administrators
Superin
Tendents
Board of Education
School Officials’ Association
Questions That Werent Asked By Kennedy
Washington UPI reports at Kennedy first press meeting since Sept 13 drew 381 reporters. An average of nine rose to speak each time a question appeared and Kennedy pointed to one while eight sat down disappointed. The sample questions show what readers didn’t hear.
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Harry Ferguson Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Oxford
Red China
India
Car Bus Crash Kills Pa Man
Joseph Starvaggi aged 23 of Hamlin Station Pennsylvania died when his car collided with a Pittsburgh Weirton Bus Co. bus in Weirton. Bus driver Fred J. Thompson, 44, was injured and treated at Weirton General Hospital. The crash pushed West Virginia’s 1962 traffic toll to 373, one higher than all of 1961.
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Weirton
UPI
Joseph Starvaggi
Hamlin Station
Pittsburgh-Weirton Bus Co
Fred J. Thompson
Weirton General Hospital
Starvaggi
West Virginia
Judge Orders Vote For 1100 Negroes
A federal judge ruled that over 1100 Negro voter applicants were unfairly disqualified by tricky tests and ordered them placed on permanent voting lists within 20 days. Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. also barred Montgomery County registrars from discrim inating and demanded names of three qualified federal referees if not obeyed.
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Montgomery
Ala
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Justice Department
Johnson
Montgomery County
George W. Benton
Sammavuella P. Willis
Nehru May Turn Down Red China Cease Fire Bid
Indian defense officials reported Chinese forces pushing toward the Assam plains with some breakthrough near Bomdila and Lohit River withdrawals totaling 64 miles. Nehru said India will not negotiate until Chinese troops pull back to last September positions, signaling possible rejection of Beijing' cease fire proposal once an official text is seen.
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Patrick J. Killen
New Delhi
UPI
Assam
Defense Ministry
Chusul
Ladakh
Lohit
Walong
Burma
Dighbor
North East Frontier Agency
NEFA
Nis
Bomdila
Himalayas
Tezpur
Peking
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Red China
India
China
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