Inauguration Day Nears With Star-Studded Show
Kennedy's inauguration day brings a high profile lineup including Truman Eisenhower Hoover spectators and a star cast led by Frank Sinatra. A frigid forecast looms as governors reception private events and a National Symphony concert fill the schedule ahead of the oath.
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Cuban Students Join To Halt Executions
In Havana two anti government student groups called for a national school strike to stop a second round of firing squad executions. The Revolutionary Student Directorate urged indefinite action if six deaths this week and two more on trial prompt the death penalty. Three union members were executed and another sentenced to 30 years for the transformer bombing that blacked out central Havana on November 30.
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Fidel Holds 6 Americans As Revolutionaries Detained
Cuban government newspapers report six U.S. citizens were arrested on arrival in Pinar del Rio while trying to join alleged counter-revolutionaries. Names include Alford Gibson and Leonard Schmidt among others. media says they trained under Rolando Masferrer with alleged CIA backing.
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Red China Famine Alarming Amidst Aid Doubts
London reports from diplomatic sources say Communist China faces a severe famine with millions near starvation. No large scale Soviet aid is evident as Peiping withholds requests and Moscow cites its own agricultural woes. Chen Yi acknowledges the biggest natural calamity since the republic’s founding.
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Bayshore Gardens Homes On New US 41 Opening
Real estate ad announces Bayshore Gardens development on US 41 with a nine AM opening. Homes priced from 10 790 to 16 50 dollars in a new shopping center setting.
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New Insurance Rates For Cars Begin March 1
In Tallahassee UPI reports new automobile insurance rates set to take effect March 1 for NAUA and NB CU members. Edwin Larson state insurance commissioner approved the dual proposal a 5.9 percent premium rise paired with a safe driver plan offering reductions for drivers with no moving violations in three years. The insurers cite recent losses and say about 79.5 percent of motorists will qualify for the safe driver plan with collision savings of 15 percent and liability reductions from 1.2 to 20 percent.
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Kennedy For Preps For New Job Friday
President elect John F. Kennedy visited the White House for a second meeting with President Eisenhower as he prepares to take office Friday. He arrived hatless in a dark coat, carried a looseleaf notebook, and kept a calm, busy pace through a day filled with routine consultations.
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Parade salutes Kennedy with space frontier theme
A 32,000 person parade will honor John F. Kennedy after he takes the oath at the Capitol. The theme World Peace Through New Frontiers features space exploration, the X15, bathyscaph, Virgin Islands ship of Columbus, and westward expansion. Military displays include the B70 bomber model, Minuteman missile, Thor booster, and Hound Dog.
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Billy Graham Easter Rites at Peace River Park
Evangelist Billy Graham will likely conduct Easter sunrise services at Peace River Park near Bartow due to a dispute over Bok Singing Tower use. A tower official called it a misunderstanding and said Graham’s Crusade for Christ was not scheduled at the sanctuary after the Polk County Centennial Association invited the event.
280 Acre Sarasota College Site Offers Near Clark Road
landowners offered two contiguous tracts totaling 280 acres south of Clark Road east of the South Trail for a proposed four year Sarasota College. Offers expire in 90 days with a reverter clause if the college is not erected. The site options include Cy Bispham and H H Herron Jr. proposals near Old Clark Road, about seven to eight miles from Sarasota courthouse.
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Schedule For Jack
Washington schedule lists major inaugural events including a morning breakfast for Medal of Honor recipients a 3 p m reception for governors a 7 30 p m dinner hosted by Frank Sinatra an 815 p m inaugural concert at Constitution Hall and a 845 p m gala to fund Democrats Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy attend Friday Kennedy escorts Eisenhower to the ceremony at noon the Capitol inaugural and parade to the White House fireworks at 7 15 p m and five inaugural balls
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Obscene Girly Magazines Barred by Circuit Judge Ruling
In Tampa a circuit judge ruled certain issues of six girly magazines obscene and ordered sheriff deputies to seize all copies. The action targets the March 1961 Caper, June 1960 Ace, 1960 Ca per annual, March 1960 Jest, May 1960 Gee Whiz, and May 1960 Vuc es. Affected copies were found ready for conveyance to scrap paper.
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Mike Weldon's Weather Eye Colder Front Forecast Florida
The forecast calls for a cooler Florida with Friday lows 35 to 40 in the Tallahassee area after sunny conditions. Expect increasing cloudiness in extreme north Florida this afternoon, with widely scattered showers in the north tonight and central to south Friday.
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Inaugural Weather Clouds Kennedy's Capitol Ceremony
Washington reports a winter forecast as snow threatens Friday inaugural events for President elect John F Kennedy. The Weather Bureau predicted one to several inches of snow possibly continuing into morning. Forecasters said snow would move fast enough to end before noon Friday when ceremonies start at the Capitol.
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Editors Rank Live News From Surveys Across Nation
A recent unofficial survey of newspaper editors across the United States indicates that 85 percent of the live news detected comes from field reporting and on scene coverage. It highlights the editor’s emphasis on timely dispatches and direct eyewitness accounts.
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