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January 5, 1961

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Crash Hearing Told Jet Overshot Jersey; CRASH PANEL TOLD DC-8 JET OVERSHOT C.A.B. Hears Testimony on Cause of Air Collision

By Richard Witkin

CAB opens hearing; illus; eyewitnesses testify

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KENNEDY SELECTS EISENHOWER AIDE FOR NEW POSITION; Names Civil Service Chief to State Department Post After Arrival in City Kennedy Keeps Eisenhower Aide As a State Department Official

By W.h. Lawrence

Named US Civil Service Comm Chmn by Pres-elect Kennedy

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3 KILLED BY BLAST IN ATOM REACTOR; A.E.C. Isolates Idaho Site in a Move to Allay Fears of Radiation Danger Scene of Explosion at A.E.C. Station in Idaho 3 KILLED BY BLAST IN ATOM REACTOR

By the Associated Press

3 dead as explosion shatters core of reactor, 1st deaths from reactor accident in US and 1st fatalities in nuclear work in station's 11 yrs of operation; illus; map; diagram of reactor; blast unexplained; AEC moves to isolate area, dispel fear of radiation danger; Chmn McCone comments

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U.S. AIDES START LEAVING HAVANA; 63 Embassy Staff Members Depart -- 9 Closing Office U.S. Officials Closing Embassy In Preparing to Leave Havana

By R. Hart Phillips Special To the New York Times

HAVANA, Jan. 4 -- Officials and personnel of the United States Embassy left Cuba by ferry today. Sixty-three persons went aboard the West Indies Fruit and Steamship Company's City of New Orleans for the trip to West Palm Beach, Fla.

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A 40 MILLION PLAN; 10% Tax Rebate Also Asked in Message to Legislature Governor Calls for Wider Medical Aid for the Aged $40,000,000 RISE IN FUNDS SOUGHT Rockefeller Also Asks 10% Tax Rebate and Levy Cut for Nonresidents

By Leo Egan Special To the New York Times

Gov Rockefeller proposes raising NYS aid to aged by $40 million, annual message to Legis; plan would raise number aided from 78,000 to 170,000; would increase payments to those on pub relief and grant aid to those 'medically indigent' but not on pub relief; hinges on larger Fed grants available under '60 law; would reduce share paid by localities including NYC; Rockefeller stresses plan can fit easily into legis planned by Kennedy Adm; again backs aid through Soc Security; plan detailed; is part of soc welfare 'pkg' stressed in message

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1961Iris DeMent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Iris Luella DeMent is an American singer-songwriter and musician. DeMent's musical style includes elements of folk, country and gospel. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award twice.

Historical Context for January 5, 1961

In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people^[†]

Headlines from January 5, 1961

Crash Hearing Told Jet Overshot Jersey; CRASH PANEL TOLD DC-8 JET OVERSHOT C.A.B. Hears Testimony on Cause of Air Collision

KENNEDY SELECTS EISENHOWER AIDE FOR NEW POSITION; Names Civil Service Chief to State Department Post After Arrival in City Kennedy Keeps Eisenhower Aide As a State Department Official

3 KILLED BY BLAST IN ATOM REACTOR; A.E.C. Isolates Idaho Site in a Move to Allay Fears of Radiation Danger Scene of Explosion at A.E.C. Station in Idaho 3 KILLED BY BLAST IN ATOM REACTOR

U.S. AIDES START LEAVING HAVANA; 63 Embassy Staff Members Depart -- 9 Closing Office U.S. Officials Closing Embassy In Preparing to Leave Havana

A 40 MILLION PLAN; 10% Tax Rebate Also Asked in Message to Legislature Governor Calls for Wider Medical Aid for the Aged $40,000,000 RISE IN FUNDS SOUGHT Rockefeller Also Asks 10% Tax Rebate and Levy Cut for Nonresidents

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