McElroy Targets Blue Law Merchants Across Ohio
Ohio Attorney General Mary Elroy filed civil suits in the Ohio Supreme Court against seven states accused of violating the Blue Laws. He said he would seek dissolution of charters if successful, targeting department stores and similar traders while excluding drug stores and small neighborhood shops. He warned a seven day commercial week could result if enforcement fails.
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Mary Elroy
Ohio Supreme Court
McElroy
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Democrats Seek Help At Dinner In Ohio Event
Ohio Democrats host a January 5 dinner at the Buckeye Building State Fairgrounds with Hoosier Governor Matthew E. Welsh as keynote speaker. Chairman William L. Coleman says Welsh will discuss Indiana's campaign victory led by Birch Bayh over Homer Capehart and party revival. Admission is 15 dollars and will reveal Michael V. DiSalle’s post office plans.
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Ohio
Indiana
Hoosier
Matthew E. Welsh
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Michael V. DiSalle
Crew Hopes To Smother Mine Fire
Emergency crews planned to bury earth down two air shafts to smother a coal mine fire at Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates federal No. 1 mine near Grant Town West Virginia The blaze started on Christmas morning and prompted no injuries as workers were not underground.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates
Fog Delays OU Port Athens Plane Circling Over Field
A Bridgwater Co. Beechcraft piloted by Robert Showalter with Earl Pommerville and Mike Zulick circled Athens Ohio University Airport for over an hour as thick fog prevented landing. Showalter said fog over the field is common and passes were to stir the air. fuel was ample.
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Athens
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Beechcraft
Robert Showalter
Akron
Earl Pommerville
Detroit
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
East Side
Showalter
Zanesville
East End
Donovan Says He Led Cuban Prisoner Exchange Alone
Attorney James B. Donovan asserts he alone directed the operation to bring 1113 Cuban invasion prisoners to the United States and that Robert F. Kennedy did not contribute to policy or negotiations. He says Kennedy’s involvement was avoided due to the October Cuban missile crisis and notes Castro negotiations were lengthy and delicate.
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James B. Donovan
Robert F. Kennedy
United States
Ton Star
Donovan
Kennedy
New York
Senate
Lake Placid
N. Y
Fidel Castro
the Star
Rhodes picks Don Cook as Ohio liquor director
Gov elect James A. Rhodes fills fifth cabinet post naming Don D. Cook 48 of Bexley to lead the Department of Liquor Control effective January 14. Cook has long service in law enforcement and previously served as Columbus safety director and FBI agent. Moon is named first deputy liquor director in charge of enforcement and permits.
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James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Don D. Cook
Bexley
Department of Liquor Control
GOP
Cook
Floyd C. Moon
Ohio Highway Patrol
Richard Lowell Krabach
Lima
Pearl E. Masketer
George E. Wilson
Akron
Denver L. White
Athens
Highway Patrol
FBI
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Ohio
Moon
Patrol
Liquor Department
Ohio Pension Costs Rise Half Million in First Half
Ohio's old age pension outlay reached 43.37 million dollars in the first half of the fiscal year, up 602 thousand from the prior year. Direct aid payments declined to 33.51 million, health care payments rose to 8.95 million, hospitals received 4.65 million of health care funds, the average pension in December was 68.90, with 84,158 recipients.
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James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Nelsonville native named to highway planning post
P. E. Masheter designates J. W. Dike Wilson 63 of Columbus as head of the Ohio highway department planning and programming division. Wilson, a Nelsonville native, has 18 years with the department and has lived in Columbus since 1939. In Washington a public outcry over Mona Lisa keeping gallery custody failed to release the painting.
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J. W. “Dike” Wilson
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Nelsonville
Athens County
Highway Department
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Leonardo da Vinci
Guard Plan Faces Budget Hit Delaying Training Expansion
Army plans to fund a sizable reserve force training expansion but money constraints may block full execution. Officials considered sending up to 100000 reservists to two week summer drills, with trimming to about 55000 possible. In a separate move, Dr Frances C Kelsey was named head of a new FDA office to review human drug testing requests.
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Army
Frances C. Kelsey
U. S
Athens Phone Firm Loses Tax Fight
Commonwealth Telephone of Ohio in Athens lost its Supreme Court challenge over excise taxes billed for the 1960 bookkeeping year. The Court upheld a Board of Tax Appeals ruling, confirming Lancaster v Fairfield County Budget Commission context and credit for local fund allocations.
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Commonwealth Telephone of Ohio
Athens
Supreme Court
General Telephone & Electronics Corp
Commonwealth
Ohio
Public Utilities Commission
Board of Tax Appeals
High Court
Budget Commission
Kennedy reviews welfare education proposals amid 1963 action
President Kennedy holds a midmorning meeting with Anthony Celebrezze Wilbur Cohen and Francis Keppel in Palm Beach to reexamine the administration health welfare and education plans. The talks focus on expanded aid to the mentally retarded vocational education and renewed federal support for schools colleges student loans and adult education.
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Fla
Kennedy
Welfare
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Oceanside
Welfare Department
Celebrezze
Wilbur J. Cohen
Francis Keppel
Keppel
Ohio faces cash crunch as new administration nears
The state spends months stalling creditors and managing a tight treasury. Finance Director Malon warns the budget gap could reach up to 60 million by June, with much of the strain in welfare matching funds. Tax and subsidy cuts loom as Republicans prepare for the January 7 session.
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Columbus
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Joe
Peter
Paul
James H. Malon
Treasury
Michael V. DiSalle
James A Rhodes
Maroon
105Th General Assembly
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Ex Prisoners in Miami Promise Homeland Return After Bay of Pigs
Cuban exile ex prisoners, numbering over 900, arrived aboard the African Pilot with relatives in Miami. Manuel Artime pledged an irrevocable vow to return with arms to liberate Cuba from Soviet rule. The Cuban Families Committee said another boatload of relatives would come, with medicines and food for Havana.
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Fla
Fidel Castro
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Bay Pigs
Manuel Artime
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Cuba
Russia
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
New York
James B. Donovan
U.S
Havana
Tax rules loosened but final word on deductions delayed
Washington report says the IRS trimmed back some expense account rules while final guidance on what qualifies for business travel entertainment and gifts will come in February. Caplin announced revised standards to raise more than 100 million by tightening receipts and records. The changes lift the per meal limit from 10 to 25 dollars for hosting clients. Questions remain on what counts as a business dinner and if a host can deduct a spouse's share.
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Internal Revenue
Mortimer M. Caplin
Caplin
Shooting Resumes Near Eli sabethville in Katanga
Reports from Kitwe Northern Rhodesia say heavy firing by UN forces and Katangan troops continued through Thursday night near Eli sabethville. Telegraph lines to Brussels were cut, and workers at Union Minere and another European plant were evacuated as shooting persisted at 8:30 a.m. local time.
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Belgium
Elisabethville
British Press Debates Duke of Windsor Hitler Deal
British papers clash over revived charge that the Duke of Windsor sought a personal deal with Hitler. Captured Nazi documents cited a German envoy, possibly the Duke of Coburg, claiming an urgent German Britain alliance and offering to discuss with Hitler, prompting questions of who leads Britain's foreign policy.
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