Strike closes 48 trucking firms in New Hampshire and Vermont
A federal mediator seeks to end a three month deadlock in a contract dispute between New Hampshire Carriers Council and Teamsters Local 63. The strike and lockout affect 1,600 union drivers in NH and 435 in Vermont, with a 5 year contract fight over 40 hour weeks and wage raises. Officials warn milk and food shipments may be unaffected. payroll losses approach $208,000 weekly.
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Manchester
N.H
New Hampshire
Vermont
John J. O’reilly
New Hampshire Carriers Council
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Basil French
Teamsters Local 633
James Hoffa
Carriers Council
Mothers Protest Block Traffic After Tragic Bus Crash
In Boston a blockade of about 250 mothers and children halted Mount Vernon Street near the Columbia Point Housing Project following the death of 6 year old Laura Ann Ewing. Parents demand slower traffic and safer crossings with more street lights.
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Boston
Laura Ann Ewing
Columbia Point
Mount Vernon
Vermont joblessness declines across all regions
Vermont’s unemployment figures continued to drop last week with all 11 areas showing decreases. Claims have fallen by more than 800 in two weeks as the state remains in its 11th week of high joblessness at just over seven percent of the insured workforce. Initial claims totaled 580.
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Vermont
Department of Employment Security
Ranger 4 Moon probe doomed after telemetry failure
NASA reports Ranger 4, launched Monday by Atlas Agena B, is tumbling toward the moon’s far side after a telemetry system malfunction. Ground teams struggle to wake the 730 pound craft as it nears an expected impact around 8:55 a.m. on Thursday.
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Moon
Ranger 4
Ranger
Earth
Sun
Cape Canaveral
Fla
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Jetulsion Laboratory
William H. Pickering
Pickering
Soviet Cosmos III satellite launched amid Ranger 4 timing
Tass announced Cosmos III, a unmanned Soviet space probe with scientific instruments and a multichannel radio telemetric system, launched March 16 with Cosmos I and II to study radiation belts and meteorites. It orbits Earth every 93.8 minutes at 48 59 inclination, 448 miles apogee and 142 miles perigee. The Supreme Soviet recessed to hear the proclamation as Tass relayed the Ranger 4 moon shot shortly after.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
America
Moon
Earth
Tass
Globe
Supreme Soviet
New York
Donors Fund Train Plan To Move Negroes North
In New Orleans officials of segregationist groups say unnamed donors will underwrite a $20,000 train to relocate about 1,000 African Americans northward. NAACP officials warn against accepting one way tickets from segregationists and urge caution about leaving the South.
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New Orleans
Citizens Council
George Singelmann
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
South
Singelmann
Citizens Council of Greater
Berlin Deadlock Talks Resume In Mid May
Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin plan a slow return to Berlin talks after Rusk's world trip. The Monday session yielded only procedural progress with no new ground. Rusk faces England Greece Turkey and New Zealand trips returning around May 12, while U.S. tests and Khrushchev speech may shape timelines.
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Berlin
Washington
Dean Rusk
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Rusk
U.S
Kremlin
Khrushchev
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
State Department
Dobrynin
England
Greece
Turkey
New Zealand
US S
Pacific
Supreme Soviet
Bass Charges Kennedy Ignores Missile Base Strikes
Concord New Hampshire Rep Perkins Bass assails President Kennedy for not using executive power to halt labor strikes at missile bases. He cites 2,400 lost days in January and similar losses in February and March while urging swift completion of missile launch sites.
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Concord
N.H
Perkins Bass
R-Nh
House Space Committee
Kennedy
Bass
Senate
U S Steel Profit Report Described as Satisfactory
United States Steel Corp reports January March profits are far from satisfactory as chairman Roger M Blough comments on the result in New York. No dollar figures were disclosed yet, following a clash with the president over a price boost.
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New York
United States Steel Corp
Kenned
Roger M. Blough
Arsenal To Be Gauged In U S Nuclear Tests
The United States plans a two to three month Pacific test series starting with research devices to study electromagnetic and other effects on defense. Later tests will include full nuclear weapons and missiles with high altitude and balloon launched devices to gauge yields, heat effects, and radar interference.
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Washington
U.S
Pacific
U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Arsenal
Christmas
Johnston Islands
New Elections Called In Argentina After Guido Reversal
President Jose Maria Guido will call new presidential elections before the weekend after withdrawing his bid to stay in office to 1964. Navy pressure pushed him to bar Peronists as he faced a federal takeover push across Argentina 22 provinces and dissolution of provincial legislatures.
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Guido
Navy
Argentina
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Calif
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N.J
Capitol
Baton Rouge
FeAi
Ares
Rummel
J.F.K
U.S. Steel Corp
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