Smathers Accused of Florida Land Venture Ties
Senate testimony links Sen George Smathers with former Secretary Robert Baker in a Florida land deal with Baker earning about 4000 annually from 1961 and 1962. Smathers claims he offered Baker a chance to invest due to financial strain and a growing family. Baker's other income included payments from Capital Vending and a Puerto Rico meat firm, with Hills Capitol Vending suing for 300000.
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Bobby) Baker
Florida
Smathers
Baker
Millan J. Haupt
Senate Rules Committee
Haupt
Scott I. Peck
Peck
Carl T. Curtis
R - Neb
Maupt
Peek
Ralph L. Hill
Hill
Capital Vending Co
Capitol
Melpar, Inc
Virginia
Borquein
Puerto Rico
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Co
Capital Vending Co., ,Inc
Falls Church
Carole Tyler
Capitol Vending
Rebuilding OF Attleboro Plant Fought
Attleboro Mass AP reports efforts to block rebuilding of the Thompson Chemical Co plant after a Sunday night explosion and fire that killed at least six workers and injured more than 40. Firefighters battled smoldering flames as residents feared further blasts and hundreds were evacuated. Damage estimated at about 3 million dollars. Authorities urged residents to discard tainted food from smoke exposure. The plant, opened seven years ago, produced chemicals for plastics.
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Attleboro
Mass
Raymond A. Macomber
Macomber
Thompson Chemical Co
$2 Million Opens Drive For Library
The Kennedy Library fundraising drive opens with the Kennedy family urging $8 million in public gifts. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation starts a $10 million appeal with a $1 million gift, while $1 million from other sources is pledged. Eugene Black to chair trustees. library ground donated by Harvard. The library will be a memorial room plus museum archives and an institute, later run by the federal government.
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Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Atty
Robert Kennedy
Eugene Black
World Bank
Black
Washington
John F. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
The
Boston Post Office
Kennedy Library
Boston
Mass
Harvard University
John Kennedy
Charles River
Cambridge, Mass
North Brookfield to press prayers fight in schools
North Brookfield Massachusetts school board votes 2 to continue appeal to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court after a three hour hearing. Board aims to overturn a Dec 26 ruling halting compulsory prayers citing 600 letters in support and a town with 3500 residents. One member warns of possible injunction while others defend action.
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North Brookfield
Mass
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Paul C. Reardon
U.S. Supreme Court
Aime Morin
Morin
Joseph E. Durkin
Supreme Court
Durkin
Atty
Paul Langevin
Boston police query over 5000 in strangling case
More than 5,000 people have been questioned in the hunt for the Boston strangler since the first of eight unsolved killings 19 months ago. A three hour conference of police and medical experts from Boston and four nearby cities failed to yield new clues. Mary Ellen Sullivan, 19, Hyannis, was the latest victim found in her Beacon Street apartment.
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Boston
Lynn
Salem
Lawrence
Edmund L. McNamara
McNamara
Mary Ellen Sullivan
Hyannis
Beacon Will
Nationwide Pact Near as Teamsters Reach Tentative Deal
CHICAGO AP A nationwide contract between the Teamsters Union and the trucking industry moves toward final negotiation stages. Hoffa and C G Zwingle said a tentative three year settlement on money matters is likely to be signed by Wednesday. The union had threatened a strike if talks failed with six trucking firms. Hoffa plans to speak at a later event in Tennessee amid ongoing charges.
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Chicago
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
Hiethreen
Truckers Employers, Inc
Hoffa
C. G. Zwingle
Oakland
Calif
Teamsters
Hoffa Ia
Etegan
Caerneas
Tenn
Soviet Wheat Deals Seen as Beginning Not End
Washington AP Under secretary of Commerce Frank Yin D Roosevelt Jr. said the Soviet Union could buy far more than the 150 million bushels of U S wheat it is negotiating for and may remain in the market for a year or longer. He cited fundamental defects in Soviet agriculture rather than a single bad crop. He spoke on ABC radio From the Capitol.
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Washington
Frank Yin D. Roosevelt Jr
Soviet Union
U.S
Roosevelt
Russia
ABC
Capitol
Smoker on Panel Finishes His Pack Will Smoke No More
MINNEAPOLIS UPI Dr Leonard Schuman one of ten scientists on the surgeon general committee that reported on smoking said Monday that as of yesterday he has stopped smoking He formerly smoked a pack and a half daily and delayed quitting after the report due to remaining cigarettes
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Minneapolis
UPI
Leonard Schuman
Surgeon General
Top Men Named In State DPW
Boston and Winthrop men were appointed to top posts in the reorganized state Department of Public Works. Domenico J. Alfano of Winthrop became hearings examiner, joining Gay Peabody's legal staff. Edward H. O'Brien of Boston was named director of the division of administrative services, a senior budget examiner in the Bureau of Personnel and Standardization. Both appointments await gubernatorial approval.
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Boston
UPI
Winthrop
Reorganized
State Department of Public Works
DPW
Department
Domenico J. Alfano
Gay, Peabody
Edward H. O’brien
Division of Administrative Services
Bureau of Personnel and Standardization
Race Labels on Ballots Struck Down by Court
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down Louisiana's ballot race designation for all elective offices. In a unanimous decision led by Justice Clark, the court held that placing a racial label near the vote fosters prejudice. Plaintiffs Dupuy I. Anderson and Acie J. Belton argued the law unconstitutionally discriminates. Louisiana argued it informs electors.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
Justice Clark
Clark
Dupuy I. Anderson
Acie J. Belton
Justice Department
High Tribunal
Baton Rouge
Chapel Hill vetoes public accommodations law vote
Chapel Hill North Carolina aldermen rejected a public accommodations law, 4-2, and approved a substitute creating a new committee to seeking voluntary desegregation of still segregated housing. CORE leader James Farmer warned of renewed demonstrations if no law is passed. Alderman Roland Guidez said he would not be intimidated by protest pressure.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
University of North Carolina
Roland Guidez
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George D. Smathers
N. Brookfield School Board
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