Burma Man May Be Named by UN
United Nations officials and diplomats report Thant of Burma near selection as acting secretary general after Kennedy and Gromyko talks. The final agreement hinges on post details and support, amid East West disputes over disarmament and a nuclear test ban at the current assembly.
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Burma
United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Thant
United Nations
Hammarskjold
Russia
United States
Assembly
Valerian A. Zorin
U.S
Food fads boom into big racket warns Harvard professor
Harvard nutrition chair Dr. Fredrick J. Stare told the National Congress on Medical Quackery that health food fads have grown into a nationwide racket with firms employing thousands to push vitamin products from parsley and alfalfa bases. He urged stronger federal action and stricter FCC license reviews for stations promoting nutritional quackery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Harvard University
Fredrick J. Stare
Harvard
Department of Nutrition
Stare
National Congress
Federal Communications Commission
Junction Man Hurt In Highway Accident
Louis Rathjen of Columbus Junction was injured when the tractor he rode was struck by a car driven by a Rock Island man. Rathjen was doing highway work. the tractor was demolished and he was thrown 20 feet to land by a concrete waterway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Louis Rathjen
Muscatine General Hospital
Rock Island
Rathjen
Kennedy plans home fallout shelters under $150 each
President Kennedy told New Jersey newspaper publishers a plan to supply individual homeowners with fallout shelters for no more than 100 to 150 dollars each. He said details would be released soon and urged families to take advantage of the plan. Rockefeller and civil defense officials were briefed as the administration moves to extend shelter access.
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Washington
UPI
Kennedy
New Jersey
Friday Association
Joseph M Cadone
Montclair
Nelson Rockefeller
Rockefeller
America
Rayburn May Be Moved to Bonham
House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, with incurable cancer, contemplates going home to Bonham Texas to die. Doctors say his life could be numbered in days and emphasize comfort over treatment as Johnson and Kennedy urge prayer.
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Rayburn
Bonham
Dallas, Tex
UPI
Sam Rayburn
Tex
Dallas
Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson
Lyndon
Kennedy
Baylor University Medical Center
Ralph Tompsett
Baylor
Local Firms Back Christmas Decorations Drive in Washington
The Magic features the first 100 business, professional, and industrial firms supporting a three year Christmas decorations program in Washington. Donors include Dr M L Smith, Joe Falk Co, Brown Shoe Fit, Evening Journal & Wash. Federal Savings & Loan, National Bank of Washington, and others like Osincup Drugs, Farmers Mutual Insurance, Jones Funeral Home, Wolf Floral Co, McDaniel Drugs, Washington State Bank, and Phillip's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Southeastern
M L Smith
Joe Falk
R. Q Eastland
Tom Duncan
Evening Journal & Wash
Federal Savings & Loan
National Bank of Washington
George Breitenbach
Riots Erupt in Alhambra Suburb as 3000 Teens Clash
Police battled teens in Alhambra California with CHP and LA sheriff units assisting. Riots began after midnight near a drive in. hundreds of officers blocked main roads, detained juveniles for booking on various charges. Separate reports say about 50 youths staged in East Los Angeles near William Mead homes.
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Alhambra
Calif
UPI
Los Angeles
California Highway Patrol
Monrovia-Alhambra
City Housing Authority
William Mead
San Gabriel
South San Gabriel
Pasadena
South Pasadena
Monterey Park
TWA Navigators End Short Strike Over Auto Navigation
Local navigators halted a brief walkout blamed on a crew makeup misunderstanding. An Idlewild departure to Paris was delayed about 30 minutes as FAA inspector testing caused a temporary disruption. President Kennedy appointed fact finders to resolve the dispute between TWA and the National Transport Workers Union led by Michael Quill.
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New York
UPS
Trans World Airlines
TWA
Idlewild International
Paris
Geneva
Kennedy
Federal Aviation Agency
Europe
FAA
National Transport Workers Union
Michael Quill
Fred Sommers
Navigators Union
Idlewild
Sommers
Brandt Sees Optimism From U S Berlin Talks
West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt said President Kennedy telephoned to congratulate him on the speech supporting Berlin’s freedom. Brandt, before returning to Germany, said he felt reassured by U.S Soviet talks and believed Berlin’s fate was in capable hands, adding there would be no Munich over Berlin.
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New York
UPI
Willy Brandt
West Berlin
Kennedy
East
Brandt
Germany
Kernedy
Ardrei Gromyko
Soviet Union
United States
Govass
Munich
Berlin
Wreckage Found in Pyrenees Killing 34 on British Liner
Searchers locate the chartered British DC3 wreckage high in the Canigou massif after a London to Perpignan flight vanishes with 31 passengers and 3 crew. Officials warn of probable survivors. authorities mobilize ground and air units across the Pyrenees.
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Toulouse
France
UPI
Pyrenees
Perignan
Prades
Derby Aviation Co
London
Perpignan
Spain
Mediterranean
Constellation
Bam
Canigou
Bordeaux
Lon
Girl 15 Dies After Sioux City Car Crash
SIOUX CITY A 15 year-old girl died from injuries after a head-on collision Friday night that left two dead and seven hurt. Roland Edward Kamm 23 and Jur al Hornick were killed. Barbara Trostheim 15 died early today. Gary Clark 18 remained in critical condition. Police say one car veered into the wrong lane at high speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
UPI
Roland Edward Kamm
Jural Hornick
Barbara Trostheim
Gary Clark
Mikoyan Calls for German Peace Treaty in East Berlin
In East Berlin, Anastas Mikoyan says the Soviet Union does not seek war and offers guarantees for a free city in West Berlin while urging a German peace treaty. East German leaders warn rockets and nuclear weapons could be used if the West blocks any treaty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
UPT
Anastas Mikoyan
Russia
West Berlin
Mikoyan
East Berlin
East Germany
Nikita Khrushchev
Four Washington men survive Toledo field plane crash
Robert Koehler piloted a light plane bound for refueling at Toledo Iowa. Passengers Rev. Lloyd Latta Keith Vetter and William Hammer escaped unharmed from the wrecked craft after it struck telephone wires on approach to the Toledo airport damaging poles and landing near parked planes. The CAVU club owned the plane and families were notified.
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Washington
Toledo
Iowa
Robert Koehler
Lloyd Latta
Methodist Church
Keith Vetter
Culligan Soft Water Service
William Hammer
American Pearl Button Co
Koehler
Humboldt
Fort Dodge
Paul Shearer
Cavu Club
Auto Union and Ford Make Cautious Strike Progress
UAW President Walter Reuther and Ford VP Malcolm Denise report limited progress on five strike issues after four hours of talks. While 49 plants have local settlements, about 36 plants remain in bargaining. Neither leader set a deadline for end. a Sunday settlement is not ruled out.
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Detroit
UPI
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Ford
Malcolm L. Denise
Reuther
Denise
Berlin deadlock holds as Kennedy and Gromyko meet
Kennedy and Gromyko conferred two hours at the White House but produced no change in the East West Berlin stalemate. Officials said Kennedy urged Allied unity and access rights. Gromyko restated Russia’s peace treaty demand, tying negotiations to Khrushchev’s terms.
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Washington
UPI
Berlin
Kennedy
Andre Gromyko
White House
West
Gromyko
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Russia
East Germany
United States
Camp Fire Girls Share Chest Funds in Washington
Funds from the Washington Community Chest support the local Camp Fire Girls program. The council reports two groups: the Blue Birds for ages 7 to 10 and Camp Fire Girls for ages 10 to 15, focusing on crafts, homemaking, arts, outdoors, Frontiers, business, sports, citizenship, and social development. Activities include tray favors for rest homes, the Mitten Tree for the needy, Christmas caroling for shut ins, poppy sales, and a recent nature study project planting three tree seedlings. the group totals 200 girls with a sixteen-member active board and multiple leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Community Chest
Camp Fire
Washington
Merritt Canady
Canady
Blue Birds
Leaders Named for CROP Campaign in Washington County
The Washington County CROP Committee met at West Chester Methodist Church to finalize plans for the 1961 CROP appeal. Emphasis will rise on corn gifts, complementing cash gifts, with area and township chairmen named across Northwest, South East, Southwest, and Central regions.
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Washington County
West Chester Methodist
America
Ralph Wedeking
Northwest Area
Wallace Swartzendruber
Lime Creek East
Sam Weaver
Lime Creek West
C. T. Johnson
English River
Thomas Miller
Seventy Six
Richard Huber
Cedar
William L. Andre
South East
Erwen Graber
Crawford
Merle Twinam
Marion
Henry Leichty
Oregon
William Simbro
Max Waterhouse
Clay
William Day
Brighton
Harlan Neuhart
Dutch Creek
Iowa Weather: Cloudy Skies Turn Colder With Rain Likely
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday across Iowa. Colder conditions with occasional rain in the northwest tonight and over the north and west on Sunday. Lows tonight 45 to 50 northwest to near 60 southeast. Highs Sunday 50s northwest to upper 70s southeast. Outlook shows rain or showers and colder Sunday night into Monday.
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Iowa
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Arthur H. Dean
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American Forest Products Industries
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Goodwin J. Knight
J. Howard Edgerton
L. A
Richard Nixon
Supreme Court
Knight
Paul Mason
Carlittle Mountain
Fond Romeu
Don
Derby Aviation
Glasgow
Toledo Field
Llewelyn KE. Thompson
Khrushchey
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Dean Rusk
New
Camp Fire Girls
Richard Weeks
United Press International
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