India Bans Newsmen From Goa and Varied Enclaves
India announces a press ban as forces capture Belgaum and other Portuguese enclaves in Goa. Defense Minister Menon travels to the United Nations to present India's case while U.N. diplomats weigh the swift change in colonial control and resulting international reactions.
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New Delhi
India
Belgaum
Damao
Diu
Bombay
V. K. Krishna Menon
United Nations
New York
Menon
Cairo
U.N
General Assembly
Security Council
Council
Assembly
Nehru
United States
Britain
Portugal
Goose Tomblin earns All-America nomination in national college picture
Clarke County High star Leon Goose Tomblin is listed as an All-America potential on the Yearbook of The American Peoples Encyclopedia Academic team. Eighteen ends nationwide are nominated for excellence in class and on the field with selections due next month.
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Leon “Goose” Tomblin
Clarke County High
Goose
Balloon drops east of Winchester with unknown origin
A large sausage shaped balloon about 200 feet long and 75 feet in diameter collapsed near Senseny Road east of Frederick Heights. Dr. Walter S. Hough of the Winchester laboratory identified no markings and Weather Bureau officials could not confirm its origin. The craft appeared to come from the west and pieces were recovered at the scene.
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Dick Bond
Senseny Road
Don Hough
Winchester
Walter S. Hough
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Esti
Frederick
U N General Assembly backs disarmament and space plans
In a rare show of unanimity the United Nations General Assembly approved plans to restart disarmament negotiations and to pursue peaceful exploration of outer space. A 18 nation committee will carry the negotiations, with a broader space committee to include Communist and nonaligned nations. The body also condemned Portugal over overseas territories and noted a Soviet veto on India related action.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Assembly
U.S
Adlai E. Stevenson
Valerian A. Zorin
Geneva
Outer Space
Outer Space Committee
Mongolia
Portugal
U.N
Security Council
India
Colonial Art
Winchester Post Office
Indonesia pressures Dutch to seek peaceful West New Guinea settlement
Indonesia signals it may seize West New Guinea if negotiations fail. Foreign Minister Subandrio states only a settlement giving Indonesia control of the western half will be accepted. Sukarno orders mobilization while offering a door to peaceful talks. Netherlands and UN handling in flux amid Kennedy and U Thant calls for peaceful solutions.
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K. R. Ramanath
Jakarta
Indonesia
Subandrio
West New Guinea
Netherlands
Netherlands East Indies
T Sukarno
Sukarno
Pare
West Trian
West Papua
Jogjakarta
Java
Sukrno
Holland
United Nations
Labor Party
Roman Catholic Church
Synod of the
Dutch Reformed Church
Washington
State Department
Kennedy
U Thant
Jan E. de Quay
New Guinea
Katanga Leader and Congo Premier Open Talks in Kinshasa
Katanga President Tshombe and Congo Premier Adoula began negotiations to end Katanga's secession in a UN base conference room near the Congo River. The meeting followed weeks of tension and a temporary UN ceasefire as fighting flared in Elisabethville amid UN mediation.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Katanga
Mos Tshombe
Cyrille Adoula
U.N
Kitona
Congo River
Tshombe
Congo
Adoula
Rusk Briefs Senators Over Congo Policy Debate
Secretary of State Dean Rusk met with members of the Foreign Relations Committee in Washington amid criticism of United Nations action in the Congo. The briefing covered almost everything, with questions on Goa and Western New Guinea alongside Congo. Senators urged Nixon to propose an alternative to Kennedy's Congo policy. Charles R Hook Jr., 47, Kudner advertising president and former deputy postmaster general, died suddenly in New York.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
United Nations
Congo
United States
Rusk
Foreign Relations Committee
J. William. Fulbright
D-Ark
Fulbright
Goa
New Guinea
Denny
Richard M. Nixon
Kennedy
U.N
Katanga
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Senate
Nixon
GOP
NEW York
Charles R. Hook Jr
Kudner’ Advertising Agency
Murder Trial In Warren Is Continued
The Warren County murder case against Evelyn Fay Deavers is delayed to January 2. The 24 year old woman faces charges of burning her newborn son to death on September 28. A psychiatrist testified about her mental state while Dr. Edwin Eastham noted she did not appear to grasp the act's seriousness. Defense seeks continued psychiatric treatment for Deavers.
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Front Royal
Evelyn Fay Deavers
Browntown
Edwin Eastham
Deavers
Eastham
Eeres
Oh P
Lynn Lucas
Miss Deavers
Snow Hits Northeast as Winter Weather Looms
Snow and rain hit the Northeast with 2 to 7 inches in New York and nearby states. Up to 10 inches fell across New Hampshire, Vermont, and southern Maine as cold encroached from the west. In Mississippi, floods forced hundreds from homes along the Pearl and Tombigbee rivers, while winter cold spread from Texas to Mississippi.
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Associated Press
New York State
Plattsburgh
Massena
Glenn Falls
Upstate
Portland
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio Valley
Appalachians
New England
Mississippi River
Texas
Mississippi
Jackson
Pearl River
Tombigbee
Luxos
Columbus
Aberdeen
Alabama
Tennessee
Five Hurt in Rt. 522 Crash Involving Navy Officer Family
Commander Kenneth Wilzer a Navy pilot and meteorologist from Bayside Va and his wife Mary Delores were among five injured in a two car collision at a rural intersection. The Wilzers were en route to Illinois for Christmas when the Cadillac and a Ford collided after the sedan ran a stop sign. Memorial Hospital treated and released all patients. Total damage estimated at $1,400 with $1,000 to the Cadillac and $400 to the Ford.
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U.S. Naval
Rts
Memorial Hospital
Kenneth Ray Wilzer
Bayside
Mary Delores Wilzer
Mary Kathleen Wilzer
Jennefer Lynn
Ann Karla
Lewis Albert Carter
Rt. 5
Winchester
Wilzer
Illinois
P. W. Foster
Area Schools Begin Yale Holidays Soon
Area students start Christmas holidays tomorrow as Winchester Schools close. Shenandoah College students return Jan 3 while others reopen Jan 2. Warren and Clarke districts end Thursday. Frederick County runs through Friday at regular times.
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Yale
Winchester
Shenandoah College
Warren
Clarke
Shenandoah
Frederick County Schools
Skirmish at Dranesville Highlighted 100 Years Ago Today
The entry notes the skirmish at Dranesville Virginia as a featured event and mentions the U.S. Congress forming a Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War a century ago.
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Dranesville
U.S
Kennedy to meet Macmillan despite Kennedy senior illness
President Kennedy will meet British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Thursday with a possible site shift from Bermuda to Palm Beach. Elder Kennedy's stroke left side paralysis shows slight improvement, and doctors expect 24 to 48 hours for more news as Macmillan arrives in Bermuda and the White House weighs the conference location.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Britain
White House
Pierre Salinger
Bermuda
Palm Beach
Macmillan
Joseph P. Kennedy
Jacqueline
Ca Uoananes
Oceanfront
Edward
Ann Gargan
St. Mary’s Hospital
Salinger
Lewis Family to Sell WLNH Radio in New Hampshire
Northern Broadcasting Corp announces sale of WLNH Laconia to the Richard F. Lewis Interests of Winchester. Arthur Rothafel says transfer of management awaits FCC approval. Mrs. Lewis notes WLNH is among the oldest stations, on air 40 years. New manager will be Kimberly Johnson of WELD Moorefield West Virginia. The Lewis Interests operate six stations in Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia.
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WLNH
Laconia
N. H
Richard F. Lewis
Winchester
Northern Broadcasting Corp
Arthur Rothafel
Northern Broadcasting
Federal Communications Commission
Lewis
WLENH
Kimberly Johnson
WELD
Moorefield
W. Va
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Max Harrelson
Winchester Seed Co
Miller’s Hardware
Miller & Anderson
NOTI
Wright
Episcopal Church
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Union
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Warren County
Elliott Marshall
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Rockland
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