Peabody Pushes Massachusetts Equal Employment Plan
Gov Endicott Peabody announced the Massachusetts Plan for Equal Employment Opportunities at a news conference. The voluntary program asks employers to review personnel practices and adopt written policies to broaden opportunities for Negroes and minority groups, with support from the Governor’s Advisory Committee and endorsements from President Johnson and regional chambers of commerce.
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Boston
UPI
Gov. Endicott Peabody Today
Massachusetts Plan For
Peabody
Committee On Industry, Finance and Commerce
Malcolm E. Peabody Jr
Johnson
Gov. Peabody
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Associated Industries of
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Living Cost Edged Up in October Across U.S.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported October living costs rose to a record high, with the consumer price index at 107.2. Food prices fell 0.5 percent but transportation rose 1.0 percent, housing 0.1 percent, and clothing 0.6 percent, offsetting the gain. A spokesman said the rise is seasonal and does not signal inflationary trend. the average Thanksgiving turkey dinner cost $6.40, 40 cents less than 1962.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Auto Kills Reporter of German Surrender
Edward Kennedy longtime AP correspondent who first reported the German surrender in 1945 died at 58 from injuries after being struck by a car in Monterey California. The driver, Alice Tornell 24, was not cited. Kennedy lived in Monterey and left AP after the war to join the Santa Barbara News Press then the Monterey Peninsula Herald. He is survived by daughter Julia Kennedy.
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Monterey
Calif
Edward Kennedy
Associated Press
Kennedy
Monterey Peninsula
James Costello
Monterey Herald
Europe
Santa Barbara News- Press
Santa Barbara
Monterey Peninsula Herald
Julia Kennedy
Washington, D.C
Flensburg
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Allied
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Six American Prelates Get Key Council Posts
Six American bishops were elected to newly created Vatican council commissions by Pope Paul VI to speed action. The U.S. nominees include Gerard McDevitt, John Camber, Loras Lane, Allen Babcock, Charles Helmsing, and Ernest Primeau, with John Taylor also named to the sacrament commission. The council set Sept 14 to Nov 20, 1964 for its third session, while debates on Jewish and religious tolerance documents stalled.
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Vatican City
Ecumenical Council
Council Commission
Paul VI
Pericle Felici
Council
Secretariat For Promoting Christian Unity
Pope Paul
U.S
Gerard McDevitt
Philadelphia
Commission For
John Camber
The
Maryknoll Foreign Missionaries
Missions Commission
Loras i Lane
Rockford, Ill
Allen Babcock
Grand Rapids
Mich
Commission On the Laity and
Press
Charles Helmsing
Kansas City
Ernest Primeau
Manchester
N.W
John Taylor
Scandinavia
Kansas City-St. Joseph
Helmsing
Churchill at 89 Birthday Marked by Quiet Family Gathering
Sir Winston Churchill, aging but in good health, turns 89 with a family celebration at his London home. He remains fond of food and cigars, recently dining with The Other Club. relatives note his hip fracture in 1962 has reduced activity though flashes of recall remain.
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London
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Lord Sickenhead
Diana
Sarah
First Mass at Berkshire County Jail Opens New Chapel
Sheriff John D. Courtney Jr. announced a Sunday 10 a.m. Roman Catholic service at the Berkshire County Jail and House of Correction. The event marks the jail’s first religious service and the opening of a new nondenominational chapel funded entirely by private donations. Three chaplains were named: Rabbi Harold Salzmann, Rev. E. Roy Burchell, and Rev. John D. McNamara, with Burchell previously at Maine State Prison and McNamara a former Youth Center counselor in Springfield.
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Sherif John D. Courtney Jr
Berkshire County
House of Correction
Second Street
Courtney
Harold I. Salzmann
Temple Anshe! Amonim
E. Roy Burchell
First Congregational Church
John D. McNamara
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Joseph's Parish
Burchell
Maine State Prison
Pittsfield
Father McNamara
Springfield
J. Bruce
Five Day Forecast With Below Normal Temperatures
The forecast calls for temperatures through Wednesday averaging 3 degrees below normal. Colder conditions continue Monday with a rise in temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday. Rain and snow are expected late Monday into the period.
Congress Hurries Agenda With Johnson Push After Assassination
Congress, slowed by the Kennedy assassination and a holiday, plans a speedup under President Johnson. Senate and House adjourned shortly, with Byrd promising to finish the $11 billion tax cut hearings and move toward a vote next year. Civil rights action remains uncertain as Johnson pressures rapid passage.
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Washington
UPS
Congress
Kennedy
Johnson
Senate
House
Senor
Lee Metcalf
D-Mont
Olin D. Johnston
Ds.c
Roman L. Hrus
Harry F. Byrd
Finance Committee
Soul of
House moves seek to bypass Rules Committee on civil rights
Washington (RP) House leaders move to sidestep Chairman Howard W. Smith and push civil rights action after Johnson urges action. A discharge rule would force four days of debate and, if Smith blocks, a discharge petition would take the bill out of his hands.
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House Rules Committee
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Johnson
Washington
House
Rules Committee
Smith
Mr. Bolling
Johnson presses economy pledge at first joint chiefs meeting
President Johnson told the Joint Chiefs of Staff to uphold his economy pledge to Congress, vowing a dollar's value for a dollar spent. The White House said he did not seek changes in the military's operating procedures and began a day of briefings with Bundy, Taylor, McNamara, McCone, Rusk, O'Brien, and Fedman as he faces possible new Communist pressures.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Andrew T. Hatcher
Maxwell D. Taylor
Joint Chiefs
Mce
George Bundy
Bundy
John F. Kennedy
Defense
Robert §. McNamara
Central International Agency
John A. McCone
Dean Rusk
Lawrence O’brien
Myer Fedman
West Berlin
President Johnson vows new American greatness after Kennedy death
President Johnson used a Thanksgiving address to pledge a new American greatness and to move beyond Kennedy's death. He renamed Cape Canaveral's rocket complex Cape Kennedy and the moon program pads John F. Kennedy Space Center, while urging an end to hatred and fanaticism.
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Washington
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Cape Kennedy
Space Center
Worldwide Kennedy Memorials Spark Global Tributes
The death of President Kennedy inspires memorials worldwide from a Paris street to Cape Canaveral renamed Cape Kennedy. West Virginia mulls renaming, potential Kennedy stamp, Paris street committee, Lincoln street rename to Kennedy Drive, and plans for parks, schools, scholarships, and a Dallas memorial push by the city park board.
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Ken
Nedy
Paris
Cape Canaveral
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Beckley
W. Va
Post Herald
West Virginia
Kennedy
Kennediana
Johnson
Post Office Department
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lincoln
Neb
LaVerne Halscher
Bethpage
N.Y
Dallas
Traffic toll steadies through Thanksgiving weekend
Traffic fatalities remained near normal levels during the Thanksgiving period, with 168 deaths counted from Wednesday 5 p.m. local time to Sunday midnight, close to the nonholiday weekend average of 100 deaths per day.
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Rusk
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