BUFFALO, Dec. 29 &#8212;Two armed holdup men strolled into City Hall this morning, slugged the City Treasurer with a pistol and fled with a canvas bag containing $289,130 in tax receipts.

Buffalo Bandits Roh City Hall Tax Office

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 29&#8212;A deadlock developed today in the race between Jordan and Mali for a seat on the Security Council. This threatened to upset arrangements for adjourning the General Assembly without a showdown over unpaid assessments.

New U. N. Deadlock Perils Move to Delay Debt Issue

A little&#8208;known means of preserving open space in the suburbs without actual land acquisition is being tried by Eugene H. Nickerson, Nassau County Executive.

OPEN‐SPAGE PLAN TRIED BY NASSAU County Offers to Cut Taxes on Property Entered in Preservation Program

LAGOS, Nigeria, Dec. 29&#8212;The Federal Republic of Nigeria moved to the brink of dissolution tonight, the eve of the first national elections since the country became independent of Britain four years ago.

NIGERIA APPEARS NEAR A BREAK‐UP; Secession of East Is Feared in Wake of Election Fight

A New York City patrolman who doubles as a National Guard helicopter pilot on his days off rescued two men yesterday from the roof of a burning building in Long Island City, Queens.

Part‐Time Copter Pilot Rescues 2 From Burning Roof in Queens

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Wednesday, Dec. 30&#8212;Government troops clashed with guerrillas for the third straight day today in an effort to recapture the Communist&#8208;held village of Binh Gia, 40 miles southeast of Saigon.

FIGHT IN VIETNAM RAGES FOR 3D DAYl U.S. Loses 3 Helicopters in Ambush—Seoul Reported Sending 1,200 Advisers

The country's latest space rocket motor is the size of a small pea. It weighs less than three&#8208;hundredths of an ounce, and 100 of the tiny motors can. easily he held in one hand. Military propulsion ex&#8208;

Pea‐Size Rocket Motors Will Stabilize Tiros Satellite

LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo, Dec. 29&#8212;Congolese rebels were reported today to have killed 25 to 30 white hostages at the town of Wamba in the northeast.

GONGOLESE REBELS KILL MORE WHITES; Bishop Believed Among 25 Reported Dead at Wamba Mercenaries Save 121

Seven persons said to be of &#8220;extremist background&#8221; were named yesterday by the chairman of a state investigating committee as having infiltrated Mobilization for Youth, the Lower East Side experimental project in the antipoverty campaign.

7 IN YOUTH AGENCY HELD ‘EXTREMISTS’; Marchi Releases M.F.Y. Data After 4‐Month Inquiry

ALBANY, Dec. 29 &#8212; The Legislature has been told by a special consultant that it should free the State University from &#8220;governmental procedures now hampering its operations.&#8221;

STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND HAMPERED IN ITS OPERATIONS; Special Study Group Tells the Legislature to Remove Government Restraints; BUILDING REFORM URGED; Sharing of Facilities With Private Colleges Asked—Enrollment Rise Seen

AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 29 &#8212;Secretary of State Dean Rusk told President Johnson today that South Vietnamese generals were having second thoughts about the wisdom of their defying American political advice.

RUSK SEES EASING OF ARMY'S STAND IN SAIGON CRISIS; Tells Johnson That Generals Have Second Thoughts on Rejecting U.S. Advice; SIGNS OF UNITY AWAITED; American Advisers May Urge Buddhist Representation in Huong Cabinet

HONG KONG, Dec. 29 &#8212;Communist China has expanded its military air power, informed sources reported here today. It is believed that Peking has begun to manufacture modem Soviet&#8208;type jet fighters.

NEW JET FIGHTERS DETECTED IN CHINA; Build‐Up Includes MIG‐21's—Peking Assails Patrol of U.S. Nuclear Submarine

The Democratic squabble over the leadership of the Legislature has delayed discussions over the division of the legislative patronage to which the party will be entitled.

Democratic Battle Delays Action on Albany Spoils 500 Legislative Posts Are Available—Technicians May Be Held Over to Help Process Bills

The Proceedings In the U. N.

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Dec. 29&#8212;The last act of the General Assembly in 1964 is expected to be the establishment tomorrow of United Nations machinery to promote trade and development.

Action in U.N. Expected Today On Permanent Organ for Trade

Letter by Author Scores His Conviction in Poland

MADRID, Dec. 29&#8212;Five 35year&#8208;old 1,400&#8208;ton destroyers put up for auction today by the Spanish Navy found no buyer at the minimum price equivalent to $83,000 each.

5 Spanish Warships Unsold

SRINAGAR, Kashmir, Dec. 29&#8212;The Indian Government has warned Sheik Mohammed Abdullah that he faces serious consequences if he continues to press for self&#8208;determination for Kashmir, it was authoritatively reported today.

Abdullah Reported Silenced By a Warning From India

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 29 (AP)&#8212;Bolivia has returned to the Organization of American States, Foreign Minister Javier Zenteno announced today. Colonel Zenteno said the Bolivian Government took the decision after an exchange of notes between Jos&#233; Antonio Mora. Secretary General of the O.A.S.; and Gen. Ren&#233; Barri&#8208;, sentos Ortuno, president of Bolivia's military junta. Bolivia withdrew from the hemispheric organization two years ago because of what the Government called O.A.S. inattention to Bolivian demands in regard to Chile's diversion of the Lauca River.

Bolivia Returns to O.A.S. After a Two‐Year Lapse

BAXTERVILLE, Miss., Dec. 29 (AP)&#8212;Workmen will begin drilling Saturday a hole into a 60&#8208;foot underground cavity to permit scientists to study the effects of the nuclear blast that created it last Oct. 22.The underground detonation was touched off by the Atomic Energy Commission in tests to see whether America's detection devices could distinguish between earthquakes and nuclear tests.

Nuclear Cave to Be Studied

ALGIERS, Dec. 29 &#8212; President Ahmed Ben Bella asked Parliamentary approval tonight to run the Government for the first three months of 1965 without a formal new budget. The one&#8208;party Parliament was expected to approve the plan tomorrow.

Ben Bella Wants No Budget

LONDON, Dec. 29&#8212;Dr. Roberto Arias, former Panamanian Ambassador in London who was shot by an unidentified political adversary in Panama six months ago, returned to the hospital yesterday after having spent three days with his wife, Dame Margot Fonteyn, the Prima Ballerina, at her mother's house here. He had left the hospital for what was to have been a Christmas Day outing, but his physician let him stay out longer. Dr. Arias is paralyzed from the waist down.

Dr. Arias Back in Hospital

NEW DELHI, Wednesday, Dec. 30 (Reuters)&#8212;The police swooped down on the leftist faction of India's Communist party early today, making several hundred arrests througout the country under the Preventive Detention Acts.

India Jails Hundreds In Wing of Red Party

BERLIN, Dec. 29 (AP)&#8212;East Germany denied today that its border guards shot and killed a man trying to escape to West Germany yesterday. West German customs policemen at Brunswick reported yesterday that an unidentified man was shot and probably killed by East German guards near the border village of Offlebeh.

German Border Killing Denied

BERLIN, Dec. 29 &#8212; Mayor Willy Brandt said today that the year 1964 was seeing the end of the acute East&#8208;West crisis over Berlin that began in 1958 with the Soviet ultimatum for the Western powers to move out of the city.

BRANDT SAYS CRISIS IN BERLIN IS ENDED

Almir Izmailovich Kayumov was a Russian football player and referee.

Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee (died 2013)

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Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress and screenwriter

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George Newbern is an American actor, best known for his roles as Charlie in the ABC show Scandal (2012–2018) and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride (1991) and its sequels Father of the Bride Part II (1995) and Father of the Bride Part 3 (ish) (2020). He guest starred as Danny in Friends and had a recurring role as Julia's son Payne in Designing Women.

December 30, 1964

Headlines from December 30, 1964

Buffalo Bandits Roh City Hall Tax Office

New U. N. Deadlock Perils Move to Delay Debt Issue

OPEN‐SPAGE PLAN TRIED BY NASSAU County Offers to Cut Taxes on Property Entered in Preservation Program

NIGERIA APPEARS NEAR A BREAK‐UP; Secession of East Is Feared in Wake of Election Fight

Part‐Time Copter Pilot Rescues 2 From Burning Roof in Queens

Billboard 200

Roustabout (Soundtrack)

Beach Boys In Concert

12 x 5

Mary Poppins

Where Did Our Love Go

Notable Births

Historical Context for December 30, 1964