Puzzling clues in Morrell disaster haunt inquiry
Investigators press Coast Guard search for missing crew of the Morrell as a five member board of inquiry studies puzzling points. No distress signal was sent before the 603 foot ship sank in Lake Huron after a gale. One survivor, Hale, endured exposure after a life raft capsize.
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Gene Schroeder
Cea Senira
Coast Guard
Buttrell
Daniel J. Morrell
Board of Inquiry
Great Lakes
Hope
Wentling
Lake Huron
Aztires
George
den Winstein
Hale
Mackinaw
Ashtabula
Ohio
Willard J. Smith
Washington
Charles Tighe
Coast Guard Sun District
Cleveland
Morrell
E.Z. Townend
Kenneth Cutler
Weather satellites to photograph patterns over North America
New York AP Three satellites Essa 2 and 3 and Nimbus 2 will orbit 600 to 800 miles high at 18000 mph to capture weather pictures for flight planning. A computer will assemble a composite of cloud patterns over eastern North America and the North Atlantic, with meteorologists providing analysis. Images will reach crews within one to one and a half hours after capture.
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New York
U.S. Weather Bureau
Nimbus 2
North America
North Atlantic
Weather Bureau
John F. Kenne
Indy International
GOP state treasurer resigns amid party leadership shuffle
ALBANY N Y AP William L Pfeiffer 59 who managed Gov Nelson A Rockefeller s re election Sal has resigned as treasurer of the Republican State Committee Pfeiffer will be succeeded by James G Hellmuth 43 a vice president of Empire Trust Co Hellmuth previously treasurer for the Rockefeller campaign and aided fund raising in the governor s campaigns and John V Lindsay s 1965 mayoral bid
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Albany
N.Y
William L. Pfeiffer
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Sal
Republican State Committee
Pfeiffer
James G. Hellmuth
Manhattan
Empire Trust Co
New York City
GOP
Carl Spad
Hellmuth
Albany Savings Bank
Rockefeller
John V. Lindsay
Amvets to mark 25th Pearl Harbor anniversary
Observance in Washington includes A Leo Anderson national commander of Amvets placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns Arlington Cemetery. Ceremony set for Saturday commemorates the Pearl Harbor attack with a national veterans group honoring the fallen.
Unemployment Rate Drops to 18-Year Low in November
The unemployment rate fell from 3.9 percent in October to 3.7 percent in November, the third time this year at that level and the lowest in 18 years. Unemployed numbered 2,650,000, while total employment rose by 300,000, aided by temporary hiring and a strong job market.
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Washington
Abot Department
Harold Goldstein
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Goldstein
Suits Seek Halt to U S Aid for Nonpublic Schools
Legal actions in New York challenge a federal program under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Plaintiffs argue provisions benefiting disadvantaged students attending both public and nonpublic schools violate constitutional guarantees. Plaintiffs are backed by the American Jewish Congress, the NYCLU, the United Parents Association, and the United Federation of Teachers.
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New York
Church
Tate
Eugene
J Mo. Noy
New York City
American Jewish Con Egress
The
New York Civil Liberties Union
United Parents, Association
United Federation of Teachers
Leo Pfeffer
Alaska town battered by fierce storm after quake relief
In Valdez Alaska high winds up to 100 miles per hour battered a town rebuilding from a 1964 earthquake. A 22 unit motel was destroyed and 21 homes two churches and 10 businesses were damaged. Harborview Hospital sustained minor damage as new constructions at Prince William Sound head faced ruin. The 1000 resident town had relocated five miles after the quake. The Nile River fact appears as an unrelated note.
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Juneau
Alaska
Valdez
Harborview
Prince William Sound
Defiant tailor fatally stabbed in Brooklyn crime
Hyman Gitnick, 78, who survived an earlier robbery at his East Flatbush tailor shop, was stabbed to death by two youths who fled with $4 and change from his pockets and $6 from a neighbor. His son urged retirement, but Gitnick refused saying he’d have no one to talk to.
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New York
Hyman Gitnick
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Gitnick
India to enter Miss International Air Hostess pageant
Miss Mangala Muta, a 22 year old from Bombay, has been selected to represent India at the fifth annual Miss International Air Hostess contest in Queensland, Australia, November 8 to 11. Kosygin criticizes threat of war and urges European unity. He met De Gaulle after a two hour Paris meeting, noting Franco Soviet rapprochement to ease continental danger. De Gaulle hosts state dinner and advocates a united Europe including the USSR and its bloc allies. Kosygin compliments French Soviet closeness but avoids commenting on Western ties.
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India
Muta
Queensland
Australia
Kosygin
de Gaulle
France
Soviet Union
Europe
Viet Nam
French Republic
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