Kennedy selects Kennedy as Attorney General and Dillon as Treasury
President elect John F. Kennedy names Robert Kennedy as attorney general and Douglas Dillon as secretary of the treasury during a busy Washington day. Kennedy flies to Palm Beach with brother Robert and two Kennedy sons aboard the Caroline. Temperatures in Palm Beach plunge into the low 40s as the president contemplates remaining cabinet decisions.
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Palm Beach
Fla
John F. Kennedy
Washington
Florida
Caroline
West Palm Beach International Airport
Robert
Douglas Dillon
the Treasury
Georgetown
Kennedy
23 Men from 12 States End Stage of Work
A 23-man panel from 12 states finished three days of work drafting emergency measures to aid regions with chronic joblessness. Led by Sen. Paul Douglas, the group aims to attract private industry to these areas, not just create relief jobs. They plan quick road building, more surplus food, federal contracts, cleaner natural resources to boost tourism, a low interest loan fund, and expanded coal research budgets.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Paul Douglas
D-Ill
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Illinois
Haile Selassie Returns to Reclaim Ethiopian Realm
Emperor Haile Selassie landed in Eritrea to confront a revolt that toppled his regime two days earlier. Crown Prince Asa Wassan reportedly acted under duress for rebels who claimed to pursue social reforms. Selassie questioned whether the uprising was provoked domestically or abroad.
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Abdel Karim EL Mahdi
Asmara
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Lion of Judah
Selassie
Asa Wassan
Eritrea
Addis Ababa
Brazil
Wassan
Neigh
Maize Safety Council Re-elects Old Officers
The Richard Maize Safety Council re-elected C. H. Maize as president and kept Omar Elkins John Lease, John J. Baughman and Robert D. Baker in their posts. The Friday program featured an accident clinic with six cases. Speakers included S. A. Andrejko Jr. and John Lease. Winners in November safety contests were Saxman Coal and Coke Luce and Kowaleski and ES C Coal Co. A total of 30 858 hours exposure 26920 tonnage and a frequency rate of 97.22 were reported with three lost time accidents. The next meeting scheduled for Friday Jan 20 in the Somerset American region home will be a joint meeting with the Somerset County Mining Institute.
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Richard Maize
John Lease
Boswell
Saxman Coal and Coke
Luce and Kowaleski
Es&c Coal Co
Somerset County Mining Institute
Eisenhower Cuts to Zero Cuba's Sugar
President Eisenhower says Cuba will receive no sugar sales to the United States for the first quarter of 1961 due to hostility by Fidel Castro. He also seeks authority to curb Dominican Republic purchases as Congress failed to act.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Fidel Castro
Cuba
United States
Congress
Caribbean
Dominican Republic
White House
Agriculture Department
Castro
Rafael Trujillo
Latin America
San Domingo
Hunter Lost in Dense Woods Near Franklin Borough
Sheriff’s posse ended a Friday search at dusk for John Bango 29 missing since Thursday afternoon after entering the woods with his brother George. Volunteers and Windber Central City firemen expanded the hunt as winds create drifting and road blockages. Temperature stood around 11 degrees with stars visible. Bango employed by Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown was last seen wearing an army jacket and red cap. The search resumes today with Franklin borough fire department directing the operation.
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Franklin Borough
Central City
Windser
Norman Walker
John Bango
Hazel Street
Bango
George
Windber
Walker
Highway Department
Somerset
Johnstown
Bethlehem Steel Company
Franklin Borough Fire Department
Yoder Christmas Fund Tops Five Hundred Amid Fire Loss
One week after a house fire on Somerset Road destroyed most possessions of the Dave Yoder family, a community fund begins with a $10 gift from William Z. Baker and quickly reaches $650. Friday contributors include Sipesville Ladies Auxiliary $10 Brooks Miller $25 B Jeanne Berkey $10 Anonymous $2 Eli Yoder $15 Russell Weaner $5 Mrs Odessa Lebo $1 Maurice Brant $2 Dr Albert H Zarefoss $11 and another Anonymous $5.
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Somerset
Eli Yoder
Russell Weaner
Odessa Lebo
Maurice Brant
Albert H. Zarefoss
Rotarians Hear Mrs Ruth Egolf On Early Education
Mrs Ruth Egolf, primary school teacher, spoke to the Somerset Rotary Club at Somerset Country Club at noon Friday. She discussed early reading writing and arithmetic challenges for young learners and stressed starting and maintaining correct basics as children progress.
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Ruth Egolf
Somerset Rotary Club
Somerset Country Club
Snow and Cold Grip Pa as Storm Lingers
Snow and cold weather continue to hammer most of Pennsylvania with flurries in the west and lighter totals in the southeast. The five day forecast calls for more snow and below normal temperatures, with the worst December storm in memory cited and roadways improving except a stretch on the Turnpike.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Weather Bureau
The
Mercury
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Turnpike
New Stanton
Allegheny Tunnel
Snow Adds To Somerset County Accumulations
Snow fell Friday in Somerset County adding one to four inches to the prior total. The highway department reported covered roads and a full crew at work with chains advised for travel. One accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike sent two Berlin residents to Somerset Community Hospital in fair condition.
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Somerset County
Highway Department
Meyersdale-Salisbury
Meyersdale
Somerset Community Hospital
Olive Baughman
Berlin
Ada M. Baughman
Turnpike Division
Laurel Hill Tunnel
Bedford
Bradley ordered to stand trial in March
Sydney AP report: Stephen L. Bradley, 34, accused in the July kidnapping and murder of schoolboy Graeme Thorne, has been ordered to stand trial possibly in March. Bradley was extradited last month from Colombo, Ceylon.
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Bradley
Sydney
Australia
Stephen L
Graeme Thorne
Colombo
Ceylon
Someone Died in My Place Says Coed
Two college freshmen, Leslie Picker of UC and Catherine Post of Northwestern, faced fate on a plane. Picker survived after switching reservations. Post died in the vacated seat, sparking feelings of guilt and bewilderment.
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Lynbrook
N.Y
Leslie Picker
Miss Picker
University of California
Catherine Post
Northwestern University
Lawmakers consider 1800 dollar annual expense account
Harrisburg reports House Speaker H G Andrews favored an 1800 yearly expense account for each legislator though he warned there has been no consensus. The proposal would cost 468000 annually for 210 representatives and 50 senators, with broader pay-raise considerations tied to other state employees.
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Harrisburg
H. G. Andrews
Cambria County
Commonwealth
Andrews
Lawrence
Red Cross appeals for Hampes fire victims aid
The Somerset Red Cross asks residents to donate furniture and clothing to the Hampes family of Salisbury RD 1 after an early morning fire destroyed their home. Harvey M Hampe is 74 and sizes are noted. four family members need clothing and a three year old boy requires items.
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The
Red Cross
Somerset
Harvey M. Hampe
Salisbury
Meyersdale
Eleanor Vincent
Somerset Red Cross
Dean Yoder
Somerset Fire
Pennsylvania corn and wheat crop estimates released
The agriculture department's year end report puts Pennsylvania's corn crop at 79,360,000 bushels and wheat at 15,782,000. Apples total 5.7 million bushels and peaches 3 million. potatoes at 87,000 hundredweight and oats 28,858,000 bushels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Pennsylvania
Airliner collision kills 134 in New York City
Two air liners, one a jet, collided in mid air over New York Saturday morning killing 132 or more people and leaving one small boy as the sole survivor. The jet struck a Brooklyn street and a Staten Island field was struck by the propeller craft.
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New York
New York City
Wright Brothers
Brooklyn
Staten Island
New York Harbor
Lone Survivor In Hospital in New York Plane Crash
Stephen Baltz 11, the lone survivor of Friday's United Airlines and Trans World Airlines collision, lies in critical condition at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital with serious burns and multiple fractures. A passerby found him unconscious on a Brooklyn street, and he muttered that his mother awaited him at Idlewild Airport as his family rushed to be with him.
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New York
Mothershe
Stephen Baltz
Brooklyn
Methodist Hospital
United Air Lines
Chicago
Trans World Airlines
Louis Wiericki
Idlewild
Edith Roberts
Two of Dead Were Close Kin of Penna. Couple
Two of the 133 victims in New York airliner crashes were close relatives of a Pennsylvania couple. Garry C. Myers Jr. and his wife Mary, son and daughter-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. Garry C. Myers Sr. near Honesdale, were aboard the Trans World plane. The elder Myers is editor of Highlights for Children. Cyril G. Ewart, vice president of the publishing company, also died.
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Honesdale
New York
Pennsylvania
Garry C. Myers Jr
Mary
Columbus
Ohio
Garry C. Myers Sr
Meyers
Cyril G. Ewart
Families Await Flight 826 Victims at Idlewild
At Idlewild Airport relatives waited for United Flight 826 from Chicago due at 10 45 am Friday. The plane collided with another in snowy New York air and crashed into a Brooklyn area. only one passenger survived. Families clung to hope some kin were not aboard.
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Idlewild
United Air Lines
Florence Crapanzano
Upper Montclair
N.J
Dileo
Milton la Riviere
Greenwich
Conn
Peggy
Barat College
Lake Forest
Ill
Chicago
la Riviere
George Loughran
Little Neck
Queens
Thomas
Standard & Poor
Loughran
Richard B. Gordon
Susan
University of Wisconsin
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Linden
Fom
Tokyo
Edward P. Cavanagh Jr
Grand Canyon
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