Fate of Skybolt Missile Hangs on Parley and Funds
The Skybolt missile program faces a defining week as President Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan plan talks in the Bahamas December 19 20. The U.S. reviews its budget and presses toward possible withdrawal with Britain’s nuclear strategy in mind. U.S. has invested about half a billion dollars with as much as 2.5 billion more needed to complete. five tests failed. Britain sees value in Skybolt and warns against dropping it. talks between Kennedy and McNamara and British defense ministers have stalled.
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Washington
Kennedy
Harold Macmil
Britain
Macmillan
Bahamas
United States
Robert S. McNamara
McNamara
Peter Thorneycroft
London
U.S
Golightly Retires After 38 Years at Fostoria Firm
R Bruce Golightly of Route 1 retires from Baugh and Sons Fertilizer Co. in Fostoria Ohio after 38 years of service. He will farm the Golightly homeplace five miles east of Winchester on Opequon Creek. A Virginia native he studied at Boyce High School and Virginia Tech and taught in Clarke County before joining Baugh and Sons in Philadelphia.
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R. Bruce Golightly
Route 1
Baugh and Sons Fertilizer Co
Fostoria
Ohio
Golightly
Winchester
Opequon Creek
Robert B. Golightly
Mr. Golightly
Virginia
Boyce High School
Wright Speaks as Boyce Fire Co. Officers Installed
Carl Pope was installed as president of the Boyce Volunteer Fire Dept. He has served as superintendent at plants in Portsmouth Rushville and Fostoria. Rev Melton Wright delivered the principal address Men Who Count to about 60 firefighters and wives as officers and auxiliary officers were announced and a captain-elect vacancy noted.
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Boyce Fire Co
Pope
BOYCE
Carl Pope
Boyce Volunteer Fire Dept
Melton Wright
Frederick County
Lynwood Lanham
Robert McDonald
George Rosier
Bill Royston
Frank Cayce
Tom Iden
Steve Birmingham
Marvin Ashby
James Sipe
Ralph Shiley
C. W. Shepherd
Albert Garrett
Sidney Johnson
Clifford Hall
Bill Yowell
Roland Mitchell
Boyce Fire Dept
Four Young Men Die in Mathews County Car Crash
The Associated Press reports four youths died when two cars collided on Virginia Route 198 near Hudgins. A five passenger car attempted to pass Rowe’s vehicle and cut back in front causing a crash that killed four and injured two others, with one injury resulting in the amputation of a foot. The toll raises Virginia’s 1962 highway deaths to 899.
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Associated Press
Mathews County
Newport News
Virginia
Hudgins
Gerald Howard Rowe
Mathews
George Pierce Ashe Jr
Achilles
Kenneth Sadler Forrest
Onemo
George Welford Deal Jr
Rt. 2
Hayes
Ashe
Forrest
Deal
Raymond Shackleford
Foster
Vernon Haywood
Perrin
G. A. George
Shackleford
Rowe
James Cabell Holley
Rt. 6
Chatham
Virginia 41
Danville
Pittsylvania County
Elite Club Accepts First Negro Member
The Cosmos Club in Washington has elected its first Black member, John Hope Franklin of Brooklyn College. The 1963 admission followed previous rejection of Carl Rowan, deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs, triggering protests and resignations by officials including John Kenneth Galbraith and President Kennedy.
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Washington
Cosmos Club
White House
John Hope Franklin
Department of History
Brooklyn College
N.Y
Admissons
Carl Rowan
John Kenneth Galbraith
India
Kennedy
New Coalition Government Ends Bonn crisis
West Germany forms a new coalition to end the worst political crisis. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 86, will lead in a lame duck role while agreeing to retire next year. The Free Democrats retain five posts after their earlier withdrawal from the coalition.
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Bonn
Germany
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Free Democrats
Students Take Sleeping Pills to Avoid Test
In Verona Italy three fifth grade girls were found asleep in class by their teacher. An ambulance transported them to a hospital after they admitted taking sleeping pills to evade an exam they feared failing.
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Verona
Italy
Penalties Revised On Trade With Cuba
President Kennedy moved to raise penalties on non Communist shipping traders in Cuba and to tighten the US embargo. The plan, revived from before the October crisis, aims to squeeze Castro and raise the cost of Soviet support while awaiting nuclear weapons verification and ongoing New York talks with the Soviet Union.
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Kennedy
Cuba
United States
U.S
New York
Khrushchev
Moscow
United
Soviet ‘Union
U.N. Am
Soviet Union
Britain
Norway
Maritime Administration of the Commerce Department
Well Reasoned Opinion Sought on Virginia Redistricting
Virginia Governor Harrison urges the U S Supreme Court to issue a well reasoned opinion in the Virginia redistricting case and consolidate it with other states. The state seeks a stay of a federal court order revoking 1962 reapportionment acts and a ruling on appeal.
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Richmond
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
U.S. Supreme Court
Virginia
Supreme Court
Harrison
High Court
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen carol note
An old English carol known as God Rest You Merry Gentlemen is sometimes misread with a misplaced comma. The phrase more accurately means God keep you merry, gentlemen, rather than rest you merry.
Daily Crossword Across 22 Regrets 26 Corner 28Sleeping
Across clues shown form a crossword grid with entries including Morty and Impudent. The puzzle lists several numbered hints such as 22 26 28 29 and 35 across with varying word lengths and wordplay. The clues reference verbs adjectives and celestial signs suggesting a themed fill.
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Portsmouth
Rushville
Ind
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Winchester Memorial Hospital
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Aerojet Co
Pomona
Calif
Carl Golightly
Fort Jackson Army Hospital
Columbia, S.C
Warren Golightly
Ford Spark Plug
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green
Gayle
James Wood High School
John A. Boyd
Winchester Firemen’s Executive Committee
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Virginia Lanham
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Dorothy Brown
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Dorothy Fulton
Ellen Michelson
Virginia Mitchell
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White Post
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