Turbulent United Nations Session Recesses amid Congo Crisis
The U N General Assembly recessed after approving a plan to share Congo operation costs, with the Soviet Union opposing the $48.5 million funding and pledging to withhold payments. Dag Hammarskjold was authorized to spend up to $24 million in early 1961 as the session adjourned for an 11 week break.
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United Nations
N. Y.ap
U. N. General Assembly
U. N
Congo
Red China
Eisenhower
Africa
Tibet
United States
Korea
Khrushchev
Hammarskjold
U. S
A. A. Roshchin
Security Council
NATO
Valerian A. Zorin
James J. Wadsworth
Wadsworth
Soviet Union
Assembly
Election Set for Jan 31 in Snyder on City Charter Amendments
Snyder voters will go to the polls January 31 to decide proposed amendments to the city charter. The council approved funding for the election and publication costs totaling about 1,543.10, plus ballots and election judge fees. The amendments would replace the council manager form with a salaried mayor and council, elect city attorney, court judge, city marshal, and allow annexation without majority consent, with the marshal acting as ex officio police chief.
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Snyder
Winter Makes Frigid Debut Across Texas
Official winter began with a cold snap as Snyder recorded 20 degrees at 7 am and 19 earlier. Temperatures ranged from 15 in Dalhart to 39 in Brownsville, with winds easing from 48 mph in parts of West Texas to light northerly breezes elsewhere as skies stayed clear.
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Midwest
North Central
Snyder
Weather Bureau
Texas
Palacios
Victoria
del Rio
Dalhart
Panhandle
Brownsville
Lubbock
San Angelo
el Paso
Wichita Falls
Texarkana
Amarillo
Alpine
Midland
Waco
Dallas
Austin
San Antonio
Beaumont
Houston
Galveston
Laredo
Corpus Christi
West
Weather summary for Texas regions with cold snaps and highs
Cold across Texas with lows from 12 to 28 degrees and highs generally in the 30s to 50s. Northwest, Northeast, and Southeast areas report continued frigid conditions through Thursday with frost and hard freezes in extreme south and other zones. Small craft warnings and northerly winds 15 to 25 knots diminishing tonight and Thursday in coastal zones.
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Snyder
Texas
Southwest Texas
House Subcommittee Ends Criticism Of CAB And ICC
The House subcommittee on legislative oversight wraps up with a critical report deriding the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission for laxity and alleged favors. No names are given, but charges touch on airline accident findings and trucking regulation.
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Washington
House
Civil Aeronautics Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
House Subcommittee On
Legislative Oversight
Lan. 3
Steven B Derounian
RNY
Derounian
Nho Immediate
Ment
CAB
ICC
Interstate Dress Carriers, Inc
New York
Texas
Icab
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Federal Power Commission
Congress
Gilpatric Named Deputy Secretary of Defense
President Kennedy selected Roswell Gilpatric to be deputy secretary of defense, with McNamara as secretary. Gilpatric, 54, serves as a New York lawyer and former undersecretary of the Air Force, while Dillon of Massachusetts joins Palm Beach talks before taking over as Treasury secretary.
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Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Kennedy
Gilpatric
Air Force
Defense Establishment
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Joint Congressional
Defense Department
National Defense
Yale
New York
Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Peri
Pentagon
The
Aerospace Corp
Secretary of Defense
Thomas S. Gales Jr
Hobe Sound
Fla
Dillon
Palm Beach
David FE. Bell
Harvard
Ehmer B. Staats
Bell
Theodore Sorensen
Myer Feldman
Pierre Salinger
Senate
Foster Furcolo
Massachusetts
Benjamin A. Smith II
Gloucester
Salinger
Furcolo
Smith
Richard Baer Aces Charges In Auschwitz Murder Case
Richard Baer 49, former Auschwitz commandant, charged with murdering Jews at Auschwitz and during a January 1945 retreat. He was arrested near Hamburg after posing as a lumberman and transported to Frankfurt under guard for arraignment. Hoess was executed after the war for crimes at the camp.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Richard Baer
Auschwitz
Baer
Dassendrof
Hamburg
IL Am
Rudolf Hoess
Hoess
Heinz Wolf
Seal Funds Lag as Christmas Seals Aid TB Work in Snyder
Amid Christmas rush, Snyder residents neglect Christmas Seal letters from Scurry County Tuberculosis Association. Funds support TB clinics and rest homes with remaining money aiding county residents. TB can strike without symptoms. early detection relies on X rays and skin tests. a mobile X-ray unit travels the state funded by the association.
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Snyder
Scurry County
TB Assn
Three Theories Emerged On New York Jet Collision
Washington AP reports three possible causes for the New York jet collision. Ground radio navigation error, brief radar lapse, or a passenger using a transistor radio could have damaged cockpit equipment. ALPA disputes FAA head Quesada and cites uncited statements about the off course jet.
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Washington
New York
TWA
W. A. Patterson
United Air Lines
John R. McDonald
Air Line Pilots Association
ALPA
Bities
E.R. Quesada
Federal Aviation Agency
McDonald
Quesada
Eisenhower
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Adlai E. Stevenson
John F. Kennedy
U.S
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