Scranton Signs Major Coaltion Unemployment Bill
Gov William W Scranton signed the major part of his unemployment compensation revision program in Harrisburg amid fierce Democratic labor opposition It requires an increased employer tax retroactive to July 1 1 and aims to rebuild the unemployment fund attract new industry and raise benefits for eligible workers Scranton said the measure is not a personal victory and plans a vacation after signing leaving for Hobe Sound Fla
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Harrisburg
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Scranton
U.S
House
Hobe Sound
Fila
Carr files ten more penalty suits over slant oil wells
Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr filed ten civil penalty suits in East Texas alleging slant oil drilling. The actions target wells in Rusk Upshur Wood and Gregg Counties bringing total suits to 91 since 1962. Judgments of 689435 in state revenue have been entered across the suits so far.
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Austin
Waggoner Carr
Texas
Rusk County
Upshur
Wood County
Gregg County
B. F. Phillips Jr
Sam Krasner
Dallas
J. D. Laird
Pete Davis
G. A. Yoachum
United. Drilling Drilling Co
John George
Gibson Drilling Co
R. L. Gibson
M. Fisk
J. K. Maxwell
W. T. Maxwell
H. ©. Jones
Carter
Jones Drilling Co
Harry Harrington Jr
C.S. Starr
W. R. Henderson, Aall
Leon Gibson
Charles Snider
Harrison County
Firm Disagrees On Wheat Prices
Washington AP reports that an investment firm clashes with Secretary Freeman over wheat prices. Freeman predicts a drop to about 1.25 to 1.30 dollars per bushel with or without new legislation, while the Taxter International Economic Research Bureau of New York forecasts a real boom in grain and food prices due to drought prospects.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Freeman
Taxter International Economic Research Bureau of
New York
Negro Woman Wins In First Name Court Case
The Supreme Court reversed an Alabama contempt conviction of a Negro woman who refused to answer unless addressed as Miss Hamilton rather than Mary. The field secretary for the Congress of Racial Equality had been summoned with many others facing charges from racial demonstrations in Etowah County in June 1963. The NAACP appealed to strike down such practice in Southern courts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Alabama
Hamilton
Mary
Congress of Racial Equality
Etowah County
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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Sears
Jamaica
Children's
P. J.s
Megular
Ave
Baytown
Own, Texas
Cranton
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