10 Dec 1964
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1964
Page
1
A U S district judge in Chicago is poised to issue a temporary injunction to halt a December 15 rail strike after unions and railroads failed to reach a new agreement in Washington. Judge Perry said the restraining order would take effect Tuesday and run through Christmas Eve as arguments proceed.
Santa rides the Retail Merchants Association float in Winchester tonight for the annual Christmas parade on Loudoun Street at 6 p.m. Parking bans apply after 5 p.m. Forecast calls for rain and cooler temperatures Saturday after a cold start this morning with a low near 20.
Dawn’s Cold reports a man and a girl about 11 with a cardboard box containing three puppies near City Hall. The warden explains the county dog wardens handle stray animals and cannot take in dogs found in the city. The pair left, the scene noted in a frigid December morning.
Former U S ambassador to Paraguay Harry F Stimpson Jr urged against any Cuban settlement. Speaking to Winchester Rotary at the George Washington Hotel he cited rumors of a one year deal with Fidel Castro and warned it would be tragic. He urged pressure through the Organization of American States to close the communist base 90 miles from U S shores amid signs of Russian troop buildup.
The Security Council votes to hear Tshombe's charges that Moscow aids Congo rebels and to discuss US Belgian paratroop actions. Russia denounces the talks while the council 7-4 approves hearing both sides amid African opposition to foreign intervention.
Martin Luther King Jr., the American civil rights leader, accepted the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize calling nonviolence the answer to oppression and violence. In Stockholm, Nobel prizes in physics chemistry and medicine were to be awarded to two Americans an Englishwoman a German and two Russians.
Congolese leader Tshombe met Pope Paul VI in Vatican City during a Rome stop on his way to the United Nations. Heavy security guarded the visit after earlier demonstrations, as the Pope urged Congo’s people to cease fighting and pursue peace for the common good.
Six Americans have died in two days of battles in South Viet Nam as Viet Cong attacks surge in central Viet Nam near Tam Ky. An American enlisted man and an Australian officer were wounded in the same engagement, raising US combat deaths since December 1961.
Nineteen of 21 men charged in the slaying of three civil rights workers face possible grand jury action after a preliminary hearing in Meridian. Sheriff Lawrence Rainey and Deputy Cecil Price are among the accused. two are charged only as accessories. The FBI alleges a Ku Klux Klan plot and outlines may prompt state murder actions. The workers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman were killed near Philadelphia after a traffic stop.
Secretary of State Rusk asked Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko during talks with President Johnson for Moscow to use influence to stop Communist operations from North Viet Nam against the South. Rusk urged Soviet effort toward Southeast Asia peace as Gromyko met with Johnson and White House aides.
Virginia's sunny cold day is expected to give way to cloudiness and rain by Friday as a new low pressure system replaces the current high. Local retailers run pre Christmas sales with coats skirts suits and hats offering 20 to 33 percent discounts and free cartons with club signups.
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