Brooke Sets Speedup in Land Cases
Boston AP. Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke announces a plan to waive jury trials in private land damage suits for homes up to three units valued at 25 000 dollars and for non dwelling property up to 10 000 dollars. The measure aims to cut backlog and speed rightful reimbursements while checking potential effects on federal highway funds. Backlog down from 1900 to 1200 since January.
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Edward W. Brooke
Federal Bureau of Roads
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Boston Governor seeks tax raid pact with IRS
Gov. Endicott Peabody announced he asked IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin for a new agreement allowing mutual inspection of federal and state income tax returns. He also granted IRS officials authority to inspect state returns to aid in locating tax evaders and improving administration.
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Endicott Peabody
U.S. Interminal Revenue
Mortimer C. Caplin
IRS
MacArthur Receives 1963 Masonic Medal in New York
General Douglas MacArthur, aged 83, stood at attention for 15 minutes in a New York hotel Suite to receive the Masonic Distinguished Achievement Medal. The ceremony saw Ostrow, state grand master, and former Judge Froessel present the award.
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Harry Ostrow
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Charles W. Froessel
Toure Landslide Wins Guina Vote Report
Conakry radio reported 92.3 percent support for the single list of candidates from President Sekou Toure's Democratic party in Sunday's general election. Official results have not been announced.
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Guina
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Rockefeller to Tour Primary States in October
Gov. Rockefeller will visit Oregon New Hampshire California and Indiana as part of an undeclared bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He continues a Europe trip and plans to state his intentions this fall. He will speak at a Young Republican Club dinner in Durham New Hampshire on Oct 18 and attend the Dartmouth Holy Cross game in Hanover.
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Rockefeller Says Wall Must Go in Berlin Visit
In Berlin Gov Rockefeller and his wife climbed a wooden observation tower to view the communist barrier. He called the anti-refugee wall a relic that must come down if the Soviet Union seeks to ease cold war tensions.
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Telephone company halted alldigit dialing conversion
The California Public Utilities Commission ordered Pacific Telephone to stop converting any more numbers to all-digit dialing until further notice. Issued on a complaint from the Anti-Digit Dialing League, the move targets dehumanizing dialing while noting about 67 percent of California already converted, with San Francisco and parts of Los Angeles remaining under construction.
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Pacific Telephone &Telegraph Co
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Kennedy named to antitrust panel in judiciary subcommittee
Washington AP Ed Kennedy of Massachusetts is named a member of the antitrust division within the Senate judiciary constitutional amendments subcommittee. Birch Bayh of Indiana was named chairman, succeeding the late Estes Kefauver.
Death Penalty Ordered Under New York Law
A Supreme Court jury in New York ordered the death penalty for two convicted murderers, the first under a new law allowing juries to determine the penalty in first degree murder. Henry Dusablon, 21, of Winchester, Massachusetts, and Emanuel Sampers, 31, of New York were the defendants. The old law mandated death for first-degree murder.
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UPI
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Henry P. Dusablon
Winchester
Mass
Emanuel Sampers
Cape Mistaken for Buoy Blamed for Loss of Ship
A $1 million Navy minesweeper went aground near Cape Ann during a weekend reserve cruise after an officer misread Cape Ann as a buoy. The vessel grounded on Little Salvages Reef 2.3 miles north of the Cape, injuring crew and later burned to remove it as a navigation hazard. Lt Cmdr Allen McCarthy of Worcester led the inquiry with other Navy reserve officers testifying on the grounding and night orders.
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Berkshire Eagle Subscription Rates Notice
Berkshire Eagle outlines subscription rates including weekly 45 cents via carrier and mail options of one month two dollars, three months five dollars, six months seven dollars fifty, one year eighteen dollars fifty with post rate adjustments. It requests subscribers report address changes to local Post Office and the Berkshire Eagle to avoid interruption of service.
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Senate approves Vermont development bill and soil grants
In Washington the Conservation Service funding for rural development expands as an amendment by Senator George D. Aiken raises soil conservation and hydrology study budgets. The White River Valley economic development project spans 23 towns in Addison, Orange, Rutland, and Windsor counties, with $22,500 raised to $121,200 for Sleepers River and $25,000 boosts for two farm and hydrology studies.
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Street Renamed For Tshombe In Elizabethville Congo
Elizabethville renames its main Avenue de L Etoile to honor Moise Tshombe president of Katanga during its secession from the Central Congo government. Other major streets follow by being named after members of Tshombe's government.
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UPI
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Avenue de L'Etoile
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Katanga
Powers backs DPW reorganization plan in highway bill push
Senate President John E. Powers of Boston endorsed reorganizing the state Department of Public Works after a talk with Gov. Peabody. He linked passage of the highway construction plan and a possible one-cent gasoline tax increase to the DPW restructuring, and supported moving DPW Commissioner Jack P. Ricciardi to a different post outside the department.
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UPI
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State Department of Public Works
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Track Equality in California Opens Parimutuel Clerks to Negroes
The California Fair Employment Practices Commission announced that for the first time in the state Negroes will work as parimutuel clerks. The move marks an official step toward racial integration in horse racing operations in Los Angeles and across California.
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