Weather Delays JFKs Tax Policy Conference at Sea
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield reached Kennedy aboard the Honey Fitz for a two hour cruise to discuss year end tax policy. The meeting included Douglas Dillon Henry Fowler Walter Heller Kermit Gordon and Theodore Sorensen during a Florida vacation session heated by weather delays and fog. The session ended with Fowler noting progress but unfinished work on the tax cut package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Lewine
Palm Beach
Fla
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Kennedy
Mansfield
Florida
White House
Kennedys
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Henry Fowler
Stanley S Surrey
Walter Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
Kermit Gordon
Budget Bureau
Theodore C. Sorensen
the Treasury
Honey Fitz
Lake Worth
Caroline
Washington
Scientists Report on Mariner II Venus Data
AP reporting from Philadelphia notes Mariner II data suggest Venus has longer days and nights than Earth. Early analyses from Dec. 14 fly by indicate Venus lacks a strong magnetic field, possibly due to slow rotation.
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Mariner II
Venus
John Barbour
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Earth
Budget Discussion May Signal Skybolt Demise
Washington AP reports a Palm Beach budget review with President Kennedy, McNamara, Gil Patric, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff signals final fate for the Skybolt missile. LeMay seeks last-ditch backing as civilian officials weigh ending Skybolt amid a $750 million investment and six prior tests. The defense package may rise over $2 billion above the current year due to Minuteman missiles, Polaris submarines, and pay boosts.
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Washington
Kennedy
Pentagon
Defense
Robert $. McNamara
Roswell Gilpatric
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Palm Beach
Fla
Harold Macmillan
Nassau
Holiday Haven
White House
Pierre Salinger
Curtis E. LeMay
Air Force
Skybolt
Defense Department
Kenne
McNamara
Administration
Army
County Delegates To Attend State Education Meeting
Somerset County will be represented at the 110th Pennsylvania State Education Association convention at the Penn Harris Hotel in Harrisburg from today through Saturday. Delegates include Dorsey Bush and Nellie Lank with local associations Harold Thomas Janet Fike Hazel Mishler William Webreck Carl Waugaman Mrs William Lloyd and Robert Hoover. Governor David L. Lawrence is the featured speaker on Friday.
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Somerset County
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Penn-Harris
Harrisburg
Dorsey Bush
Conemaugh Township Union
Nellie Lank
Forbes Joint
Hgh
Harold Thomas
Conemaugh Township
William Lloyd
Shanksville
Stony- Creek-Shade
Central City
Robert Hoover
Mt. Davis Educaton Association
David L. Lawrence
Hope Ends Korea Christmas Tour With Osan Show
Bob Hope wrapped up a four day Christmas visit to Korea with a comedy show for about 7500 American troops at Osan Air Base.
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Osan
South Korea
Bob Hope
Korea
Scranton Names Arlin Adams to Welfare Secretary Post
Governor elect William Scranton appointed Philadelphia attorney Arlin V. Adams 41 to be secretary of public welfare. Adams will earn 20000 dollars annually and will juggle private law practice with welfare duties, overseeing aid programs and mental health services in the Commonwealth.
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Harrisburg
William W. Scranton
Philadelphia
Arlin V. Adams
Citizens Committee
Department of Public Welfare
Ee Adams
Adams
Scranton
Labor and Industry
Welfare Department
Couple From Viet Nam Spend Vacation Here
The Rev and Mrs Robert McNeel recently returned to Somerset after five years as missionaries in Viet Nam affiliated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. They worked with a leprosarium hospital serving about 3 000 people in surrounding villages and lived in South Viet Nam among Vietnamese, tribal groups and Chinese. They studied six hours daily six days a week to learn the language, facing primitive roads and bicycles as main transport, and plan to return before long after Nyack Missionary College training.
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Robert McNeel
Somerset
Viet Nam
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Vie Nam
McNeel
Ple
McNeels
South
North
Crippled War Veteran Flees East Germany in Bus Escape
Hans Weidner a handicapped veteran and eight refugees blasted through three East German barriers in a 10 ton 40 seat bus to reach West Berlin. The crew included his wife two children and Wagner his driver plus family members. The bus was bullet scarred and missing headlights after a night chase by border guards.
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Berlin
Hans Weidner
Germany
West Berlin
Weidner
Juergen Wagner
Wagner
Neugersdorf
East Germany
Red
Refugees Reach United States After Havana Mercy Ship Voyage
The African Pilot carried 923 Cuban relatives of Bay of Pigs prisoners, sailing from Havana and due to dock at Port Everglades near Miami. Coast Guard escorts met the ship as crowds endured heat and emotion at Havana checkpoints. The voyage followed a separate Soviet departure from Havana with hundreds of Russians.
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Miami
Fla
Havana
Florida
United States
Port Everglades
Coast Guard
Fidel Castro
Cuba
African Pilot Sails From Cuba With 923 Emigrants
The freighter African Pilot carried 923 Cuban emigrants to Florida in a Christmas bonus release tied to the Bay of Pigs prisoner exchange. The group includes healthy travelers and the sick, many abandoning possessions to reunite with relatives and Bay of Pigs prisoners freed for $53 million in aid.
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Cuba
New York
James F. Donovan
Homestead Air Force Base
Florida
Donovan
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Carrbbean Island
Miami
George Arfeld
Havana
Florida Straits
Red Cross
Trinity Church Wins Prize with Nativity Scene
Trinity Lutheran Church won first in the Nativity scene category of the Christmas Outdoor Lighting Contest by the Somerset Garden Club for the living tableau at the church entrance. Grace EUB Church and J Ralph Berkey received second and third prizes respectively, with several churches and residents earning honorable mention. Robert Glessner Jr. won first prize in artistic see Trinity on Page Two.
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SARA R_ GETTY
Trinity Lutheran Church
Somerset Garden Club
Grace Eub Church
W. Church Street
J. Ralph Berkey
W. Garrett Street
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Calvary Methodist Church
Church Street
Harry Wolfersberger
W. Union Street
Kenneth Saylor
John Mardis
N. Main Street
James Knepper
W. Patriot Street
Carl Friedhofer Jr
Felgar Road
Jack Walters Jr
Glessner
Robert Glessner Jr
Walnut Street
Deputy Premier Ignatov Removed from Office
Soviet Tass reports Nikolai Ignatov, 61, removed from the deputy premiership to which he was appointed last April. The farming expert had a mixed career in Soviet government and party affairs, with a recent move to an honorary post as president of the Russian Federated Republic. The leadership shakeup also touched the virgin lands of Kazakhstan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Syvertsen
Moscow
Nikolai G. Ignatov
Virgin
Kazakhstan
Tass
Ignatov
Khrushchev
Communist Party
Soviet Union
U S Embassy Denies Russian Spy Charges
The U S Embassy rejected renewed Soviet spying allegations and accused Moscow of an anti American media campaign. The Soviet Foreign Ministry summoned a U S official and demanded an end to alleged embassy espionage while officials noted a coordinated anti American push and a screened film depicting U S diplomats.
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Robert Tuckman
Moscow
US S
U.S
Foy D. Kohler
Kohler
Accusig
Soviet Union
Amercan
Air Force
Alexis Davison
Atlanta
Robert German
Dallas
Tex
Hugh Montgomery
Springield
Mass
Olegenkovsky
Greville Wynn
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Secret Service Protective Detail
John XXIII
Vatican
Vatican Radio
By Elton C. Fay
Vulcan
Royal Air Force
LeMay
JCS
A. M. Adams
Horace Stern
Stern
Lee Scranton
Brink’s, Inc
Des Plaines
Illinois
E. Germany
By Jim Becker
Trinity Church
Reds
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