14 Dec 1963
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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1963
Page
1
In Boston AP reports Attorney General Edward W. Brooke ruled Christmas trees and displays may be shown in Massachusetts schools as educational, not religious, emphasizing understanding and tolerance. Nativity scenes may also be displayed under guidelines that avoid promotion of religion.
Washington AP The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters ends talks with railroads and will strike next Friday Involving about 4000 porters employed by the Pullman Car Co and other lines The AFL CIO Executive Council supports the porters calling a 4 hour work week while seeking a 25 cent hourly raise from an existing 430 per hour.
Washington AP says Congress approved a compromise measure expanding vocational training as part of a Kennedy education program. The Senate backed the expansion 2-4 and sent it to President Johnson after House passage 300-65. Debate cited concerns over private schools and church-run institutions sharing funds.
Carleton Ingerson 19 of Union Maine fell from the aircraft carrier Saratoga about 35 miles east of Daytona Beach while near a waist catapult during pilot landing tests He, unable to swim and without a life jacket, survived after a 85 minute sea ordeal aided by a destroyer search and a whaleboat rescue He later said he learned to swim and hoped to rejoin the Saratoga next week
Washington President Johnson agreed to serve as honorary chairman for a Harvard Kennedy Memorial Library drive in Cambridge Massachusetts. Contributions may be payable to the President John F Kennedy Memorial Library Fund and sent to Boston. The library will house official papers and serve as a center for advanced study of political science.
In a set of regional games Chicopee defeated by Pittefield 53 to 34 Adams scored 6 points Greenfield totaled 45 Wabewast Regional 4 beat Wi Mawes 77 to 62 Lenex 3% Lee 75 over St. Joe's Na 4 Ceester 77 over McCune 44 Below 121 Paitedeiptia implied in scoreline
MOSCOW AP Premier Khrushchev's supporters pressed his new economic program amid a bitter cold day dipping below zero. The Central Committee met to discuss organizational questions and replaced Vladimir Shcherbitsky with Pyotr Shelest, signaling shifts in internal opposition while Shelest backed the Khrushchev program amid budget ties.
President Johnson urged industrialists and labor leaders to restrain wages and prices to curb a wage price spiral. He told the Consumer Advisory Council that the government should not be a meddlesome busy body yet must act to prevent domestic expansion and balance of payments problems. He cited unused capacity and unemployment as buffers, noted rising profits, and said tax cuts would support earnings, while emphasizing renewed U S ties with Italy and a broader push toward peace. He spoke to diplomats about historic world changes and interdependence after Kennedy’s death, urging candor and cooperation and pledging the United States will do its part toward peace and progress.
Harmony North Carolina UPI report on the annual Legionnaires rabbit hunt on W B Norris Olin farm. Rabbits are flushed by hounds while hunters use sticks or stones. no guns. Rabbits are skinned dressed and frozen for a charity barbecue benefiting children who cannot afford school lunches. Humane Society calls it barbaric and cruel and has lobbied up to the state Supreme Court to stop it, with public opinion briefly forcing a cancellation in 1961. Despite pressure from the society and national leaders, the hunt continued last year and is planned again this year. State official James Yandel and others press for cancellation to end the event.
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