State Colleges Get Fiscal Self Rule
The nine Massachusetts state colleges will gain fiscal self rule through their boards of trustees, with funds moved from the Department of Education to the new board. Gov Peabody signed the bill as he prepared to send a message urging passage of a measure to allocate already appropriated funds to the nine-college board.
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Department of Education
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State Board of Relocation
Peabody
Massachusetts
Registrar of Motor Vehicles
Tribune Rejoins White House Press List After Year
Washington UPI reports the New York Herald Tribune is back on the White House subscription list after a year in exile by President Kennedy. Subscriptions were taken by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and special counsel Theodore C. Sorenson.
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Washington
New York Herald Tribune
White House
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
Theodore C. Sorenson
Senate and House Pay Tribute to Sen Kefauver
Senators and representatives honored Estes Kefauver, 60, who died of a heart attack. His body to be flown to Madisonville Tennessee for funeral and burial on the family farm. The Senate approved a resolution of sorrow after Gore announced the passing. Kefauver served in the Senate since 1948 and was the 1956 Democratic vice presidential candidate. House members eulogized him, led by Clifford Davis of Tennessee.
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Madisonville
Tenn
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Gore
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Tennessee
Clifford Davis
Actress Sentenced To Jail For Alabama Rights March
Gadsden Alabama AP reports actress Madeleine Sherwood of New York City was sentenced to six months hard labor after a breach of peace conviction tied to a racially integrated freedom march near Atlanta on May 1. Her appeal was paused while others in the group await outcomes. the case may test a state law banning unlawful assembly that could lead to a riot.
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Ala
Madeleine Sherwood
New York City
Miss Sherwood
Atlanta
William L. Moore
Baltimore
Attalla
Etowah County
Cyril L. Smith
Circcuit
Smith
State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court of the Law
Meredith Graduation Blocked by Mississippi Governor
In Jackson Mississippi UPI reports Gay Ross Barnett seeks to postpone James H Merediths Sunday University of Mississippi degree citing alleged anti segregation statements. Meredith calls the move political and says it could affect campaigning as Barnett backs Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson in the governors race.
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Ole Miss
Barnett
Paul B. Johnson
J. P. Coleman
Mississippi
John D. Williams
Road risk prompts Pottstown supervisors action
In North Coventry Township Pennsylvania Rus Sell urged the Board of Supervisors to repair a steep rocky road to his home, warning they could be liable for injuries. The supervisors quickly closed the road, taking immediate action on the hazard. Pete can still teach his homie but he has to take a different toad.
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Pottstown
Russell Pyle
North Coventry Township
Board of Supervisors
Pete
Boston Council Backs City Hall Plan Yet Withholds Tower
The Boston City Council approved the City Hall in Government Center project while withholding approval for the private Statel Street office tower. The plan moves closer to reality but federal consent awaits Boston proving a citywide renewal, code enforcement, and neighborhood improvement program.
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Boston
UPI
Government Center
Statel Street
Wildlife report cited to back pesticide study
Washington AP Interior Secretary Udair urged lifting the 2.565 million dollar cap on pesticide research funding after a department report found pesticide residues in wildlife far from any application. Ducks eggs and other samples showed contamination, with 75 percent of a sample series containing residues and young birds potentially passing residues to progeny. The report contrasts with the Entomological Society finding that most of the United States has had little or no insecticide treatment.
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Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udair
Congress
Interior Department
DOE
Edin
Cig
Manma
Canada
Entomological Society of America T
United States
Taft Seeks New States From Old Boundaries
Rep Robert Taft Jr of Ohio proposes redrawing state borders to strengthen the federal system and constitutional practice. He criticizes a Supreme Court ruling allowing federal courts in reapportionment and urges breaking up large multi state metro areas into new states to match economic realities.
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Chicago
Robert Tait Jin
Ohio
Taft
U.S. Supreme Court
American Bar Association
Bass Said Offered Day's Former Post
Washington source says Rep Bass of Tennessee has been asked by Attorney General Kennedy to serve as postmaster general, taking over the cabinet post vacated by J Edward Day's resignation.
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UPI
Bass Bass
Tenn
Robert F. Kennedy
Bass
J. Edward Day
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