Meany Reelected As AFL-CIO Leader With New Disputes Plan
George Meany, 67, won a new two year term as head of the AFL CIO at the convention in Bal Harbour Florida. The summit approved a tough new disputes settlement system combining mediation and arbitration to resolve interunion conflicts while Meany solidified control over the 12.5 million member federation and fostered a civil rights department to tackle race bias in labor groups.
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Norman Walker
Bal Harbour
Fla
George Meany
Organized Labor
Meany
Afl-Cio
America
A. Philip Randolph
Sleeping Car Porters Brotherhood
Randolph
Aflcio
Teamsters
Teamster
James R. Hoffa
Shelter Incentive Funds In New Civil Defense Proposal
Washington AP reports a new federal Civil Defense plan costing about 700 million dollars proposes incentive payments to build fallout shelters in schools hospitals and public welfare institutions. It offers federal guidance with no home shelter funding and targets 20 million people in the next fiscal year starting July 1.
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Washington
Congress
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Gilpatric
Civil Defense Committee
The
American Municipal Association
America
Moisture Is Due In State
A cloudy Texas day forecast with light precipitation across the state. Low temperatures ranged from 18 degrees at Dalhart to the upper 40s near Corpus Christi while showers were expected in West Texas spreading to the South Plains later.
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Associated Press
Texas
el Paso
Lufkin
San Antonio
Laredo
Waco-Comanche
Dalhart
Amarillo
Lubbock
San Angelo
Wichita Falls
Corpus Christi
South Plains
Weather forecast by region with scattered showers and cool lows
A regional forecast shows highs around mid thirties with varying lows. North winds rise to 29 knots this afternoon into Friday, while Central and South Texas expect cloudy conditions with occasional rain and milder temperatures tonight and Friday.
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Texas
Tshombe Urges War Tom Tom Call For Arrows On U.N.
President Tshombe in Elisabethville called for total war against the United Nations and vowed Katanga will never yield its soil. U.N. jets bombed southern Elisabethville suburbs as 700 Ethiopian troops joined Indian Irish and Swedish forces at the U.N. airport.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
the Congo
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Tshombe
U.N
Belgium
Plane passenger pulls cap pistol on flight
Ira Coles showed a toy cap pistol to a stewardess aboard American Airlines flight 627 from Dallas to El Paso. Minutes later FBI agents took him into custody but released him without charges. The stewardess alerted the captain, who relayed the report to the airline office and then to the FBI.
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EL Paso
Ira Coles
American Airlines
FBI
Coles
Dallas-El Paso
U Thant Pressing U.N. Action on Katanga Rift
Acting Secretary General U Thant, backed by the United States and the Asian African bloc, plans to press U.N. action against Katanga despite Britain's cease-fire push. Britain’s call spurs U.N. maneuver as U Thant defers to the Congo advisory committee while Washington seeks minimum objectives. The Asian African group lauds U.S. stand and urges unity among permanent Security Council members, even as disarmament moves gain momentum with a joint U.S.-Soviet resolution to form an 18 nation committee and report by June.
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United Nations, N.Y
United States
U Thant
U.N
Katanga
Britain
Patrick Dean
Congo
U.S
Thant
Mehdi Vakil
Iran
France
Vakil
Security Council
United Nations
Soviet Union
General Assembly
Tion
Burma
India
United Arab Republic
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Brazil
Mexico
Sweden
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Romania
Russia
Canada
Italy
Train Crash Kills At Least 20 Children Near Greeley
A Union Pacific streamliner hit a Greeley School District bus at a crossing two miles east of Evans Colorado. Twenty children were killed and many injured while the driver Duaine Harris survived and was jailed. The bus carried rural students for Greeley High School and two local schools.
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Greeley
Colo
Colorado
Ross Adamson
Adamson
Dua
Union Pacific Railroad
Evans
Denver
la Salle
Caroline Kennedy Interrupts White House Photo Moment
AP photographer Henry Burroughs recalls taking a portrait of President and Mrs. Kennedy by the White House Christmas tree when Caroline Kennedy wandered in and was swiftly escorted out by her aunt Mrs Stephen Smith. One exposure captured and then the moment ended.
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Washington
White House
Six Texas Colleges Share in Esso Education Grants
Six Texas institutions Rice University Baylor University Hardin Simmons University Southern Methodist University Texas Christian University and Howard Payne College will share 1.9 million dollars in Esso Education Foundation grants. The awards were announced by M. J. Rathbone foundation chairman and Standard Oil (NJ) president.
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Houston
Texas
Esso Education Foundation
M. J. Rathbone
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Rice University
Baylor University
Hardin-Simmons University
Southern Methodist University
Texas Christian University
Howard Payne College
Korth Quits Post on T and RP's Board
New Orleans AP reports Secretary of the Navy designate Fred Korth resigns as a Texas & Pacific Railroad director to avoid any conflict of interest. The Fort Worth lawyer, named to head the Navy earlier this week, submitted his resignation at a board meeting, saying he did not want even a suspicion of conflict.
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New Orleans
Secretary of the Navy
Fred Korth
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Fort Worth
Navy
Korth
Texas Draft Quota For January Down
Texas January draft quota set at 440 men, 121 fewer than December. State selective service director Morris Schwartz said about 4,000 men would undergo pre induction examinations in January, down from 6,155 in December. The quota targets men at least 22 years old.
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Austin
Texas
Selective Service
Morris Schwartz
New Arrests In Georgia Prompt Massive Desegregation Protests
In Albany Georgia police under Chief Laurie Pritchett arrested 10 Negro youths at the Trailways bus terminal cafe while hundreds of whites watched. The arrests followed mass demonstrations testing desegregation of intrastate facilities. Over 555 Negroes and 5 whites have been jailed since Sunday with more arrests expected as trials resume.
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Albany
Trailways
R. B. Hamtontree
Laurie Pritchett
Pritchett
Hamtontree
Trailway
Freedom Riders
City Hall
Georgia
Recorder's Court
Page
Abner Israel
Slater King
King
Albany Movement
Freedom Rider
Goodfellows Seek Help and List Donations in Snyder
Scurry County families are urged to visit the former Snyder Drugs building to file applications for aid. Donations to the Goodfellows come from many local groups and individuals including banks, churches, and civic clubs, totaling 254.00 with prior receipts noted.
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Ed Taylor
J. Mark McLaughlin
Raymond Williams
Funiee Weathersbee
Melville Jarnigen i
First Methodist Church
J. A. Sellers
Jackie Nell Wiley
K. G. Blalock
J. B. Patterson
Snyder Jaycees
Snyder Jayceeettes
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Ine
Sheriff's Office
Goodfellow
Jerry Jackson
Goodfellow Campaign
Doug McGlain
Jaycees
Betty Jo Brown
Jaycee-ettes
George Hale
Goodfellows
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