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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1963
Page
2
Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda risks party strains as a July cabinet reshuffle nears amid rising living costs and a minister's barb about housewives. The episode adds to a string of foot in mouth remarks that dent public support and complicate governance.
The House Ways and Means Committee kept closed hearings on Kennedy tax plans and may postpone some costs until after the 1964 elections. Members weigh scaling back three step individual rate cuts to limit the deficit, with a two stage roll out possible in June 1963 and January 1965. Other notes cover Proxmire's bid to bar SBA loans to discriminating firms and Chamber of Commerce demands to chop Labor and Health budgets while opposing centralized education funding.
The Trenton city commission voted 3-2 to reject Southwestern States Telephone Co line rate increase. Company representatives cited recent plant improvements and need for return on investment. Council indicated readiness to negotiate a compromise later.
President Kennedy faces a domestic tax crisis as the Ways and Means Committee rejects key reform proposals, sinks the oil and gas depletion tax, and signals a tough fight ahead. Byrd’s Senate Finance Committee looms, while Heller argues against balanced-budget orthodoxy and urges tax relief with spending restraint.
NASA officials say the first American woman in space will qualify as an astronaut, engineer, or scientist through merit. Experts note gender is not the deciding factor. future spaceflight may welcome women as science professionals once endurance and psychomotor tests align, with male and female performance becoming comparable.
Maine Lance Corporal Jer oN Parrish, son of Mr and Mrs Sidney Parrish of Windom Texas, has returned to the Marine Corps Air Station at Beaufort South Carolina after several weeks of sea duty. He served with Marine Attack Squadron 331 aboard the USS Forrestal to qualify pilots in day and night carrier landings in the Skyhawk jet.
A garbled newspaper snippet mentions Precinct 4 and 7 officials, a joke about ham on a menu labeled Naked Ham, and a lighthearted exchange with a typist Mrs Bennie Loveluce as the cause of the confusion.
Boy Scouts in Troop 255 at First Christian church cleaned the Little League baseball field. Scout master Max Ulmer led the effort. They also finalized plans to depart Sunday for a week at Camp Glover. Local merchants contributed equipment for the trip including Babcocks Leatherwood's Hardware Smith-Moore-Williams Country Boy's Store and B T Wright Wrecking Yard.
David Ben Gurion 76 resigns as Israel's premier and defense minister, leaving the government and Knesset after 10 coalitions. He cites personal reasons and says he will step down from all government duties as regional tensions rise with neighboring Arab states.
Moscow reports Russia's fifth cosmonaut and the first cosmonette in twin orbits may attempt a space rendezvous on a scientific mission. The cosmonette is described as a dimpled single woman who wore lipstick into space.
The 1962 Philadelphia ruling found 10 verses of the Bible read aloud with the Lord's Prayer as part of daily school rituals unconstitutional. Justice Stewart dissented, urging recognition of religion and government interaction in a free society. Soviet space news followed with Valentina Tereshkova in orbit and Khrushchev praising the first woman in space.
Mrs Richards Sr. returned from Fort Worth where she visited her son F E Richards Jr and his wife. The latter is recuperating from surgery at All Saints hospital in Fort Worth.
Don Maness visited Bonham for a weekend staying with his parents Mr and Mrs John Maness. A former Bonham resident he now works with Alitalia Airlines in Denver.
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