Navy Launches Sixteenth Polaris Submarine Cesimir Pulaski Keel
The Navy announced the launch of its sixteenth Polaris submarine, Cesimir Pulaski, with keel plate set to be laid promptly on a vacant Hale yard. General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton is building three other nuclear subs, while the Hale’s naming honors Casimir Pulaski, the 21 year old Connecticut born schoolmaster executed by the British in 1776.
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U.S
Abraham Ribicoff
Polaris
Cesimir Pulaski
General Dynamic Corp. Electric Boat Division
Navy
Largest Bank Holding Firm In Business In Virginia
United Virginia Bankshares Inc the largest bank holding firm in Virginia announced Friday names include First and Citizens National Bank of Alexandria First National Trust and Savings of Lynchburg Citizens Marine Jefferson Bank of Newport News Vienna Trust Co of Vienna and Merchants and Farmers Bank of Franklin Also notes Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison experimented with rotary wing flight.
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Richmond
United Virginia Bankshares ,Inc
He Harvie Wilkinson Jr
Richmondma
Macmillan acts as godfather at royal christening
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan marked his seventh anniversary as Britain's leader by serving as godfather to Katharine Amelia Hailsham, three months old, at a London christening. Jean Schweppe Armour, wife of A Watson Armour III, left an estate over 2 million dollars in a will filed in Waukegan Illinois. she died New Year's Day at 48. Dr Hyrum M Smith, health education official, faced a travel mix up when a speech in Menomonie Wisconsin required a flight from Menominee Michigan and a private plane.
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Associated Press
Harold Macmillen
Britain
Viscount Hailsham
Katharine Amelia
London
Jean Schweppe Armour
A. Watson Armour TI
Waukegan, Ill
Hyrum M
Smith
Theartment of Health, Education Welfare
Menomonie
Wis
Menominee
Mich
Loggers Killed By Earth Slide Near Eugene Oregon
An earth slide in a canyon 50 miles southeast of Eugene buried four loggers under 30 to 40 feet of dirt. A. J. Irwin, 41, Springfield, was rescued when an air trapped behind a stump saved his life. He survived with a broken leg, bruises and a facial cut and is expected to recover.
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Eugene
Ore
A. J. Irwin
Springfield
Irwin
Early Start Planned on Virginia 200th Anniversary
Virginia travel groups push early planning for the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The Virginia Travel Coordinating Committee urged members to begin preparations and sought endorsement from its board and three member organizations.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Travel Coordinating Committee
Accidental Thaw Blamed For School Food Illness
In Versailles Indiana the illness outbreak at Holton affected 250 students and 13 teachers after turkey salad sandwiches at lunch. A freezer disconnection last weekend is blamed for thawing that likely led to contamination with most patients recovering and two still hospitalized. Principal Ira Whitaker notes the issue.
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Versailles
Ind
Holton
Ira Whitaker
UVa's Shannon Named to Naval Academy Board
President Kennedy appoints three new members to the board of visitors of the U S Naval Academy. Edgar Finley Shannon Jr. of the University of Virginia will serve a term ending December 30 1964 joining Stanley M Stafford of Beverly Hills California and William H Vanderbilt of Chestnut Hill Massachusetts with terms ending 1965 and 1964 respectively.
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Kennedy
Board of Visitors
U.S
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White House
Stanley M. Stafford
Beverley Hills
Calif
Joseph Rush
Maryland
William H. Vanderbilt
Chestnut Hill
Mass
Milton Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State University
Edgar Finley Shannon Jr
University of Virginia
Edmund P. Joyce
University of Notre Dame
Romney Bets Big on American Motors Stock Boost
Gov. George Romney bought 13,494 shares of American Motors for 99000 below market price the day before resigning from the company last November. The purchase raised his holdings to about 118000 shares, the largest for any individual, amid 40 months as AMC chairman and president. He earned 73608 in salary and bonus and 149211 for the previous year, disclosed in AMC proxy filings for a February 6 shareholders meeting in Detroit.
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Detroit
George Romney
Michigan
American Motors
Auto Company
Romney
Individu
Romey
AMC
Milk Dating Ordinance Is Invalid
The State Supreme Court refused to review Richmond’s milk dating case, effectively invalidating the local ordinance. Judge M. Ray Doubles had ruled the law contrary to a new state statute that set up milk inspection regulations and omitted dating references.
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Richmond
State Supreme Court
M. Ray Doubles
Hastings Court Part II
Aerial Exodus of Refugees Halts as 89 Return to Miami
In Miami 89 Cuban refugees arrive after an abortive aerial exodus halted by policy. Red Cross reports no resumption of flights for ransom supplies to Cuba and Pan Am suspends Miami Havana service. The group includes 68 American citizens and 21 with US ties.
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Cuba
Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Red Cross
Pan. American World Airways
Havana
Miami International
U.S. Immigration Service
United States
America
Fredericksburg Seeks Hearing on Desegregation Order
Fredericksburg asks for a hearing January 28 in Richmond U S District Court on a motion related to a school desegregation order. Judge John D. Butcher Jr. had ordered the admission of six Negro students to James Monroe High and Maury Elementary, with proposed assignments to balance overcrowding.
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Fredericksburg
Richmond
U. S
U.S
John D. Butcher Jr
James Monroe High School
Maury
DuVal Q. Hicks Jr
City School Board
Lafayette
Speech Hearing Survey Locates 219 Problems
Winchester Rehabilitation Center screened 599 second graders and select pupils for speech and hearing issues from January 7 to 10. The survey found 219 students, about 36.5 percent, with problems and recommendations will be made to parents.
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Ick County
Winchester Rehabilitation Center
Girlhood Home Of First Lady Sells For 650000
Fairfax AP The 46.6 acre Merrywood Estate on the Potomac Palisades, once the girlhood home of the nation’s first lady, was sold for 650000 to a two attorney led apartment syndicate. Deed filed transfers title from Hugh Auchincloss to Laton Gibson and Joseph Luria. The group includes Fairfax officials Sheriff John Taylor and auto dealer William Taylor.
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Fairfax County
Merrywood
Potomac Palisades
Hugh D. Auchincloss
John F. Kennedy
Lytton H. Gibson
Joseph Luria
John Taylor
William Taylor
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