Eisenhower budget requests $80.9 billion for 1962
President Eisenhower sends Congress a farewell budget totaling 80.9 billion dollars for fiscal 1962 and forecasts 1.468 billion dollar surplus. He proposes higher postal rates gasoline tax jet fuel tax and aviation fare adjustments to finance the surplus while urging Kennedy and Congress to consider Cabinet level reforms including a potential first secretary of the government and a new cabinet department of transportation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Cone
John F. Kennedy
White House
Department of Transportation
Kennedy
Public Hearings Set On Maine Legislation This Week
Thirteen legislative committees open hearings this week in Augusta five days earlier than normal. The Appropriations and Financial Affairs panel begins its long series on operating and capital requests for two fiscal years starting July 1. Election Laws considers bills ending straight party voting and rescheduling the statewide primary date.
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Augusta
Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee
Emselves
Election Laws Committee
Benjamin Turner
Auburn
Louis Jalbert
Lewiston
Jalbert
Biddeford Man Missing In Radar Tower Disaster
Raymond J. Martel of Biddeford and 27 others were missing after an Air Force Texas Tower radar installation 80 miles southeast of New York City collapsed in a storm. Rescue efforts by the carrier Wasp and Coast Guard cutters were ongoing as bodies and wreckage were recovered, with Martel among the civilian workers aboard. The Texas Tower, a six story offshore radar structure, had recently been under repair after hurricane Donna damage.
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Biddeford
Raymond J. Martel
Westland Avenue
Air Force
New York City
Martel
Donald
Robert
David
St. Joseph School
Laurence Simoneau
Texas Tower
Wasp
Coast Guard
Berry
Texas Towers
Gulf of Mexico
Donna
Barnegat Light
Two Negroes Back At Georgia University
Charlayne A. Hunter and Hamilton E. Holmes, the first Black students admitted to the University of Georgia, returned to classes under a federal court order. They faced monitored entries into dorms and classrooms as authorities pledged to prevent further suspensions amid campus riots last week. Their return occurred in drizzle with white escorts, without renewed demonstrations reported.
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Athens, Ga
University of Georgia
Charlayne A. Hunter
Hamilton E. Holmes
Atlanta
Mir Hunter
Holmes
Miss Hunter
Castro Opens Offensive Against Bands Of Rebels
Havana reports 10000 to 15000 militiamen launched by Prime Minister Fidel Castro attacked rebel bands in the Escambray Mountains. The bulk of the reports suggest a broad drive to crush rebel activity, with civilians evacuated and shells landing near suspected rebel concentrations. In Havana the regime pursued counterrevolutionaries while two American journalists were briefly detained and later allowed to stay.
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Castro
Havana
Fidel Castro
Escambray
Cuba
Las Villas
Cienfuegos
Chuckle Quote on Making Things Happen
A humorous saying notes the world splits into three groups the doers the observers and the unaware. The quip credits Copr Gen Fea Corp as its source.
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Fea. Corp
Capital Embarks On Party Kick
Washington shifts into celebratory mode as Kennedy is to be inaugurated. Republicans host a Transition Ball for the outgoing Eisenhower era with plans for 1500 dancers and a 13 piece orchestra. The inaugural gala features Broadway and Hollywood stars produced by Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford with Jean Kennedy Smith hosting for the cast. Governors from 44 states and territories join a Friday luncheon after the swearing in.
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Washington
Joan F. Kennedy
House
Sam Rayburn
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Jean Kennedy Smith
Frank Sinatra
Peter Lawford
Broadway
Hollywood
Smiths
Georgetown
American Samoa
Guam
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Hood & Sons deny FTC milk price fixing charges
The Federal Trade Commission accuses H P Hood & Sons and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of unfair methods of competition in New England dairy sales. Hood, in business over 115 years, rejects the charges as baseless, blaming embittered competitors and insisting it will prove its innocence. FTC details include price fixing, in-store and out-of-store price manipulation, and coercive payments to suppress competition.
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Ing
FTC
Hood
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc
New England
Federal Trade Commission
A&p
Trouble Flares In Congo Battle Near Katanga Town
U N reports Baluba warriors attacked a Luena hospital wounding a Belgian doctor and opening fire on Moroccan U N troops in Katanga. Moroccans returned fire with no casualties. Separately white refugees flood Goma asylum amid Lumumbist violence. six American missionaries and 11 others seized crossing river into Ruanda Urundi. Tribesmen attack near Bukama as Swedish guards repel assault. three Swedes wounded.
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Leopoldville
Congo
Luena
United Nations
U.N
Katanga
Kivu
Goma
U. N
Waite
Ruzizi River
Ill
Kenneth Handyside
Webster
N.Y
Bothwell
James Kruettner
U.S
E. J. Kile
Grenada
Minn
William Battishill
Warren
Mich
Ruth Uhlinger
Mentone
Calif
Baluba
Bukama
Elisabethville
Kamina
Kasai
Angry crowd rips swastika from Rockwell at Boston film
In Boston a 10 000 strong crowd hurled eggs and tomatoes at American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and four followers as they attempted to picket a downtown theater showing Exodus. Rockwell and companions were taken to a police station and later boarded a New York bound plane without charges.
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Boston
George Lincoln Rockwell
Chicago
Israel
Atena Harbor
Maine
George R
Doc) Rockwell
Fred Allen
Rockwell
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Roger Gobeil
Donald Jarry
Ike
Wonderbar
Philip N. Pruneau
National Association of Letter
Willie Laverriere
Raymond Pepin
Laverriere
Philip Pruneau
Robert Collette
Leo Paul Nadeau
Georgia University
Robert John Gentile
Osvaldo Dorticos
Ame Gin
Richard Valeriani
Associated Press
James Wallace
Wall Street Journal
Valeriani
Wallace
Cuoa
Kesslen Shoe Co
Kennebunk, Maine
Capital
H.P. Hood & Sons
Guenther Kilsheimer
Washington, D. C
Nation
U. S. Capitol Building
Ruanda Urundi
Ruanda
Snangugu
Bukavu
Patrice Lumumba
Boreen Mission
St. Louis
C. Reuben Lindquist
Berean
Ruanda-Urundi
Wheaton
Baptist Foreign Missions Board
R. H. Bothwell
Paul Hurlburt
Wheat
Maine Marine
Arlington, Va
Huntsville
Ala
Thiokol Chemical Corp
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Edward
Swift
Porkers
Tangerines
Ty, Florida
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