Soviet Requests Security Council Meet on Congo
The Soviet Union asked for an urgent 8:30 p.m. U.N. Security Council session to discuss the Congo crisis. Valerian Zorin demanded Lumumba's arrest and detention be fully aired and called for his immediate release, army disarmament, and expulsion of Belgian personnel.
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United Nations, N.Y
Soviet Union
U.N. Security Council
Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
Valerian A. Zorin
Patrice Lumumba
Zorin
U.N
Lumumba
Col
Joseph Mobutu
United Arab Republic
U.N. Congo
General Assembly
Joseph Kasavubu
Mobutu Denies Lumumba Torture Claim in Prison
Mobutu rejected reports that ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba was tortured and disfigured. He refused to release a doctors’ report noting Lumumba’s general health as satisfactory while admitting a sprained foot and swollen left eye from a beating during arrest. Dag Hammarskjold urged Congo’s Kasavubu to allow Red Cross examination amid safety fears.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Mobutu
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Congo
Joseph Kasavubu
International Red Cross
Turnip grower Ed Shirley yields 21 inch bulb at Edsal Hill
Local barber Ed Shirley reports a garden carrot like turnip measuring 21% inches around and weighing 52 units at Edsal Hill. Astronomers note Mars rises at 7 19 this night with Venus setting. Saturn visible between Venus and Jupiter. Weatherman warns of cloudy mild conditions with rain in West Virginia then spreading.
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Ed Shirley
Edsal Hill
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
West Virginia
Clarke Board Again Rejects County Armory Plan
The Clarke Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to reject a proposed county armory, citing the need for tax increases to fund the project. Attending were Dr. D Blanton Allen Thomas Jones and Col. Graham Dougherty. A state Adjutant General letter noted existing funds remain available. The board also passed four ordinances establishing a five cent county recording tax on deeds and mortgages and a one third of state tax on wills, plus a $50 annual license tax on county house trailers, with exemptions for trailer owners who own the land. A license is required and must be shown on request. A third ordinance requires licensing for trailer parks and a $5 annual trailer court tax.
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D. Blanton Allen
Thomas Jones
Col
Graham Dougherty
National Guard
Negro Named San Francisco Municipal Court Judge
John Wesley Bussey, 56, becomes the first Black judge elevated to San Francisco's Municipal Court bench. A California and Harvard graduate, he was elected unanimously by the city's municipal judges, with service since 1958. He is the new presiding judge.
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San Francisco
John Wesley Bussey
California
Harvard
Mrs Boyd Denies Charge In Child Welfare Case
Mrs Hilda Boyd denied in Municipal Court that she ran a child placing agency without a license. She testified the children were kept as an accommodation, not for profit, as testimony covered April 10 and October 19 charges brought by the Winchester Welfare Department.
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Hilda Boyd
Boyd
Millwood Ave
Commonwealth
Winchester Welfare Department
Dorothy Herring
Rebecca Smith
S. Cameron St
Mixed Church Merger Proposal Draws Local Reaction
Local ministers in San Francisco expressed mixed views on a proposed merger of Episcopal Methodist United Church of Christ and other denominations led by Rev. Eugene Carzon Blake. Some favor uniting four churches with a later invitation to others, while others warn against impracticality and focus on shared aims and dangers from Catholic influence.
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San Francisco
Winchester
Episcopal
Methodist
United Church of Christ
United Presbyterian
Eugene Carzon Blake
D. D
California
United States of America
Ronald S. Clark
Montague Avenue Methodist Church
Fingerprints Sought to ID Woman Found Dead in Dinwiddie County
Police and FBI pursue fingerprint analysis to identify a middle aged woman found near a Dinwiddie County lover's lane. Autopsy shows two gunshot wounds to the back of the head and a brutal beating. body dumped, autopsy performed, victim possibly dead two weeks. The deceased woman, about 45 to 50, 5'7", 140 to 145 pounds with black hair, was found by two hunters beside a road.
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FBI
Washington
Thomas Daly
Donald Westmoreland
Westmoreland
W. A. Caudle
Dinwiddie County
Infant Son Of Actress Injured In Taxi Crash
New York AP report says a taxicab hit a carriage carrying Theo Neal Dahl, four months old, son of actress Patricia Neal and author Roald Dahl. Theo was listed in critical condition at Lenox Hill Hospital with a possible skull fracture.
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New York
Patricia Neal
Ronald Dahl
Lenox Hill Hospital
Theo
Army Lifts Marriage Ban on Japanese Spouses and Adoptions
TOKYO AP The U S Army lifted a two week old ban on soldiers marrying Japanese girls or adopting children. A spokesman said the pause was to obtain a true count of dependents overseas following President Eisenhower order to reduce dependents.
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Tokyo
U. S
Eisenhower
Gloomy Job Picture as Employers Expect Decline by January
The Labor Department reports a survey showing most employers foresee a net fall in job levels by mid January with unemployment rising through winter. November idle total likely four million and could top five million by January as Christmas hiring slows the downturn.
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Washington
Labor Department
Employment Security Bureau
John F. Kennedy
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
New Orleans School Integration Faces Legal and Vandal Attacks
Twenty three white children attended classes at William Frantz School as police cleared a one block zone. Legislators seek to force the school board to resign amid funding and payroll disputes, while vandalism targets the foreman's home. The boycott persists at McDonogh No. 19 with minimal black first graders in Frantz.
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New Orleans
William Frantz
Orleans Parish
Lloyd Foreman
Joseph Giarrusso
Board Today
Louisiana
McDonagh No
Thefts and Crashes Keep Winchester Police Busy
Winchester and Frederick County officers investigated three hit and run incidents and multiple thefts. Two juvenile suspects were arrested and confessed to several thefts including items from Hill's Toy and Novelty Store. A break in at Middletown and vandalism to police property were also noted with a hearing set for December 13.
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Winchester
Frederick County
QO. H. Renner
William Spiggle
Middletown
Hill
N. Loudoun St
Jonathan Augustus Hains
Rt. 3
Winchester Welfare Dept
Wolfe St
Kennedy Eisenhower meet on transition duties and peace
President-elect John F Kennedy and President Eisenhower held a lengthy 3% hour meeting on transition issues and national challenges. The leaders spoke in the White House about transfer of administration and broader policy, with Kennedy noting a cordial exchange and Eisenhower offering future assistance.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Eisenhower
United States
Kennedy
Defense
State
Treasury
White House
Pierre Salinger
Mercury Dips To Minus 31 In Montana And Wyoming
A bone chilling cold hit the northern and central Rockies as a two day snowstorm moved out. Temperatures fell to 31 degrees below zero at West Yellowstone Montana and 17 below at Big Piney Wyoming. Icy highways caused two deaths and hundreds of accidents. Snow depth reached eight inches in Denver. Victims blamed on the storm were Ray R. McFarlin and Norma Mae Madewell.
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Denver
Colo
Rockies
West Yellowstone
Mont
Big Piney
Wyo
Wyoming
New Mexico
Ray R. McFarlin
Akron
Norma Mae Madewell
Durango
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Kasavubu
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Clarke
Guard
Berryville
Clarke Board of Supervisors
Grove Furniture CO
Scotch Pine & Balsm
Winchester Seed Co
Sears .Roebuck & CO
Kenneth Metz
Charles Town
W. Va
Watts
W. Holt Souder
Christ Episcopal Church
Charles J. Bright
Market Street Methodist Church
Jacob W. Mast
Blake
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Henry W. Koriith
Centenary United Church of Christ
Ike
Kennedy Center
U.S Army
Taylor and Spaid
Amherst St
Winchester Evening Star
John W. Rosenberger & Co
Margaret Walter
N. Washington St
Bulletin
Montana
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