Presidential Protection to Be Expanded
The Secret Service will expand presidential protection in the next months adding 75 agents clerks and technical personnel at a cost around 650000. Secretary Douglas Dillon cites stronger advance work and more sophisticated equipment with data processing to track suspects and travel. The plan, approved by the Warren Commission framework, aims to strengthen protection within 20 months.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Secret Service
Treasury Department
Dillon
John F. Kennedy
Earl Warren
Johnson
Warren Commission
FBI
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Dallas
Thanksgiving Service Draws Hundreds at First Baptist
Rev William Lyons of Braddock St Methodist spoke at the annual Union Thanksgiving Service in a crowd-filled First Baptist Church. He framed three questions about freedom responsibility and the founding fathers urging attendees to examine their own commitments as the heritage remains a work in progress. The sunlit day drew standing room only as worshippers gathered for the Thanksgiving event.
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First Baptist Church
William Lyons
Lyons
Braddock St. Methodist Church
Child Killed As Father Cleans Gun
In Castleton Virginia an 8 year old boy Kenneth Allen Settle died after his father Charles Russell Settle cleaned a rifle on the second floor. A bullet pierced the floor and ceiling and struck the child in Charlottesville hospital.
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Castleton
Rappahannock County
Kenneth Allen Settle
Charlottesville
Charles Russell Settle
Christmas Shopping Opens With Decor and Cheer
The Christmas shopping season begins after Thanksgiving with stores full of decorations and merchandise. The Boy Scout Team led by Phil Colclough of Jamison & Goré has raised nearly $10 000 for the Community Chest in their division serving agricultural and allied industries garages and service stations. Members include Bill Pittock Vern La Barre John Booth Paul Strawderman Henry Bush Ben Dutton Henry Lowry Doug Cather and Bill Campbell.
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Phil Colclough
Jamison & Goré
Community Chest
Bill Pitcock
Vern la Barre
John Booth
Paul Strawderman
Henry Bush
Ben Dutton
Henry Lowry
Doug Cather
Bill Campbell
U S Protest After Cairo Mob Attacks Embassy Library
The United States protests Egypt after a mob of Congolese students attacks the U S Embassy complex in Cairo. The John F Kennedy Memorial Library and a Marine barracks are set ablaze and damaged, with the library valued at $250 000 and no injuries reported despite broken windows.
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Cairo
U.S
Lucius Battle
Congo
Thebrary
United States
Marine Barracks
Huong Wins First Round in Firm Stance Against Riots in Saigon
Premier Tran Van Huong tightened control after declaring martial law as protests faltered. Police dispersed gatherings while Buddhist leaders sealed sites with barbed wire and martial law supporters claimed military backing to crush antigovernment factions.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Tran van Huong
National Buddhist Institute
Nguyen Xuan Chu
National High Council
Huong
Phan Khac Suu
Viet Cong
China
Viet Nam
Tass
Moscow
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Washington
North
Snipers' Bullets Still Whistle in Stanleyville
AP dispatch from Leopoldville reports government troops crossed the Congo River toward Stanleyville after rebels retreated. City is described as nearly empty with active snipers. 59 foreigners and three Americans killed since the air borne operation began. Refugees evacuated by U.S. and Belgian forces, with hundreds more moved from Paulis and Stanelyville areas.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
Stanleyville
Congo River
Paulis
U.S
America
A. Chansler
Egbita
W. Mee Chesney
Wamba
F. J. Cunningham
Titule
Heart of Africa
Fort Washington
Congo
Grafton Woman Dies After Thanksgiving Holiday Crash
Ethel Preston 63 of Grafton West Virginia died in Winchester Memorial Hospital after a Thanksgiving Day crash on Route 50 five and a half miles east of Winchester. The Fatality list for the region rose with eight dead in Virginia highway crashes during the holiday weekend.
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West Virginia
Winchester
Ethel Preston
Grafton
W. Vas
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Virginia
Frederick County
Thanksgiving holiday road toll climbs to 207 deaths
The Associated Press reports a sharp rise in holiday traffic fatalities with multiple deadly crashes since Wednesday 6 p m local time. The 102 hour weekend tally neared record levels as wet and wintry conditions spurred hazardous driving nationwide. A mother and three children died on the Kansas Turnpike near Wellington in one crash, with other fatalities across several states.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Midwest
Kansas Turnpike
Wellington
Kan
Rusk Taylor Reappraise Viet Nam Strategy
Secretary of State Rusk and Ambassador Taylor opened a wide reappraisal of U.S. anti Communist strategy in Viet Nam. They discuss expanding the war beyond South Vietnam and possible air strikes on North Viet Nam through Laos to pressure Hanoi toward negotiations.
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Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor
Washington
Viet Nam
Andrews Air Force Base
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Ethel
Dean Rusk
Maxwell
D. Taylor
U.S
Johnson
Rusk
White House
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Kingdom
Laos
Hanoi
Fallout from nuclear tests tops 1963 record
United Nations report shows 1963 radioactive fallout exceeded all prior years with long lived fallout three times 1960 61 levels. With atmospheric tests ending in 1963, 1964 fallout expected to fall to two thirds of 1963 as short lived fission products decayed. Underground testing conclusions not reached.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N. Scientific Committee On Atomic Radiation
Districting Changes Have Little Local Effect
The Privileges and Elections Committee recommends no change in Winchester Freder ick and Clarke House district represented by E Blackburn Moore. District population 44 993 slightly above 40 000 ideal. Senate Committee proposes adding Loudoun to Winchester Frederick Clarke Shenandoah district represented by Senator Harry F Byrd Jr. total population 91 367 just below 99 000 ideal. There are 40 Senate seats and 100 House members.
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Winchester
Frederick and
Clarke
E. Blackburn Moore
Senate
Loudoun County
Frederick, Clarke
Shenandoah
Harry F. Byrd, Jr
House of Delegates
Weather in Virginia Turns Colder With Fair Skies
A cold front crosses Virginia bringing lower temperatures and fair skies. Few showers are possible by Sunday. Miller's Hardware promotes cast iron fruit-cake moulds with stock limited.
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Richmond
Virginia
Miller’s Hardware
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Capitoain Campbell
Clarksburg
Preston
Linda ,Reed
Carol Burns
Mier
Avner Freudenberg
Shalom
Kristian Bendersen
Stolt Dagali
Newmen
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Privileges and Elections Committee
House
Wire Story
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Methodist
Frank B. McCarty
George Snarr, Jr
Toyland
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