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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1963
Page
1
The Sarasota News announces its last issue due to severe economic losses. It will suspend publication but enter an agreement with Lindsay Newspapers to continue providing readers with an uninterrupted paper and syndicated features.
Mrs. Marguerite Oswald told reporters her son Lee Harvey Oswald’s body will remain in a pine coffin at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth despite police concerns about vandalism. She said she faces the fact he is the accused assassin and defended her belief in his innocence.
A brief item recalls a mother arguing with a doctor over a measles bill and trips to visit a sick son. She counters that her child spread measles to the fourth grade, a quip reflecting social wit in Sarasota. Sophie comments on liking a man who teaches, noting Ash Wing.
The Sarasota Auto Dealers Association hosts the three day display at Payne Park featuring 150 cars with more than 15,900 visitors expected by closing. Cars ranged from $1,500 imports to $18,600 trucks as hundreds of buyers signed for new deals and a Jamaica trip giveaway was drawn.
An RB26 reconnaissance aircraft of the U S Air Force crashed Friday in Dinh Tuong Province about 35 miles south of Saigon. Four Americans and one Vietnamese likely killed with bodies recovered from a stream wreck. The cause is unconfirmed but shot down by Communists remains possible. The plane was on a photo reconnaissance mission carrying five crew and instructors.
The FBI probes whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the Dallas sniper who fired at Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker last April. Sources say Marina Oswald told agents he bragged of the Walker attempt, while authorities review ballistics and compare all three Kennedy bullets to the Walker bullet. The inquiry parallels the broader effort to trace Oswald’s background after Kennedy’s assassination.
Rear Adm. E. C. Parsons of Osprey will be featured on CBS The Twentieth Century Sunday night. The program discusses Verdun and World War I, tying to his book I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille. Parsons logged near 10,000 flight hours and has a storied career as aviator, rancher, and naval officer.
The Bulgarian Communist purge continues with officials being expelled for deviating from the line, aiming to mid February 1964. Rome and Lazio theaters will close December 17 and 18 to protest TV competition. G Mennen Williams visits Tanganyika for talks with President Nyerere. May Britt and 174 others gain naturalization in Los Angeles. Fifteen orphans to sit in the presidential box at the Army Navy game as arranged by the Kennedy family after his death.
President Johnson and his family relocate to the White House this weekend adding a touch of Texas to the historic mansion. A welcome bouquet and note greet them as they settle in while former First Lady departs to a Georgetown home lent by Undersecretary of State W Averell Harriman.
From Havana Castro denounced Romulo Betancourt and accused Latin American nations of plotting to invade Cuba. He vowed Cuba would defend itself with strong arms and insisted any attack would not last 24 hours, linking the issue to the October 1962 missile crisis context.
An off truck driver can now use a key punch card to load his tank truck with multiple fuels. Oil Facts says several new electronically controlled depots make this possible to meet varying orders.
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