Motor Car Industry Retrenchments Grow
General Motors Holden plans to dismiss more than 2,600 employees in the next two weeks. ACT.U. President A. E. Monk says total motor industry retrenchments will approach 4,885. Unions and authorities warn further layoffs are likely due to government economic measures. Mr Holt notes large lay offs are common in other car producing nations.
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G.M.H
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GML
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National Service
McMahon
Sydney
Commonwealth Employment Service
Government Blamed For Major Auto Plant Layoffs
GMH announced 2600 job cuts across Australia due to government credit restrictions and higher motor tax. Rootes Melbourne and Brush Sydney plants also dismissed about 150 workers. Officials warn retrenchments will ripple through suppliers and related industries. Government and unions seek action as industry faces a sharp downturn.
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Rootes Australia Ltd
Melbourne
Brush Motor Corporation Pty, Ltd
Sydney
Great City Paralyzed as Blizzard Hits New York Area
A severe blizzard paralyzed New York City's core, halting private car use after a historic Saturday ban. The order was relaxed on Sunday as conditions eased.
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New York City
Soviet Leaders May Meet Kennedy In Russia Invite Likely
A Communist contact in London says Premier Krushchev is likely to invite President Kennedy to Russia if initial talks go well. The two leaders would meet perhaps during Krushchev’s visit to New York for the UN General Assembly resumption on March 7.
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P Reuter
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Kennedy
Russia
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Recession Worse Yet Warned by Panel of Economists
A panel of economists told the Senate and House Joint Economic Committee that the recession is worsening. A Labour Department official called the situation the worst since early World War I. The department added 48 areas to its list of communities with heavy unemployment as Secretary Goldberg prepared to tour trouble spots on President Kennedy’s orders. Detroit firms said layoffs would affect thousands, with American Motors cutting 4,100 jobs, Ford and Chrysler announcing new one week layoffs for 117,200 workers, on top of 46,500 layoffs already planned by General Motors.
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Chrysler
Addion
General Motors
Surveyor moon craft announced for 1963 landing plan
Caltech and Hughes Aircraft unveil the Surveyor, a lunar craft with four cameras to photograph the moon and sample soil. It will study earthquakes gravity atmosphere and magnetism. seven units planned to land between 1963 and 1965 with rockets to slow descent and four landing legs.
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Hughes Aircraft Co
Pasadena
Moon
Associated Press
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Plain
Earth
Assassin Hanged in West Pakistan Chief Minister Killing
Karachi report states Ala Mohammad, a revenue clerk who assassinated Chief Minister Doctor Khan Saheb in 1958, was hanged today at Bahawalpur jail. The execution marks a closure to a high profile political crime in West Pakistan.
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Karachi
Ala Mohammad
West Pakistan
Khan Saheb
Bahawalpur
Soviet Says No Man In Sputnik Mission
Soviet space scientist Leonid Sedov told Pravda that rumours of a man aboard the latest Sputnik are unfounded. He said the February 4, 1961 satellite launch carried no crew and had no equipment for manned spaceflight.
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Sputnik Moscow
Reuter
Sputnik
Leonid Sedov
Astronautics Commission
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Pravda Theseid
Sedov
Lumumba Escapes as Katanga Seeks Him
Katanga Interior Minister Monongo says Lumumba escaped in a car with a full petrol tank after guards were bribed. Two other prisoners, Mpolo and Colonel Okito, fled with Lumumba. A reward of 2100 pounds is offered for Lumumba’s recapture and 350 for the others.
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Katanga
Goderfroid Monongo
Lumumba
Ms. Lumumba— Mpolo
Okito
Mr. Monongo
Queen’s Cold Stops Expected Goat Shoot in Swat
A slight cold forced the Queen to abandon an informal hunting trip she was due to join with the Duke of Edinburgh in the mountains of Swat. She remained at the State guest house in North West Pakistan and rested the morning away.
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Karachi
Duke of Edinburgh
Swat
Pakistan
Five to be tried on spy charges in Britain
London court committed three men and two women for trial after a three day hearing on charges of passing British secrets to Russia. Defendants Gordon Lonsdale Peter Kroger Helen Kroger Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee pleaded not guilty. Evidence included photographs of Britain's first atomic submarine the Dreadnought and secret pages from a book on war vessels.
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A. A.p.reuter
Sia
Britain
Gordon Lonsdale
Peter Kroger
Cokseller
Helen
Ruislip
New Zealand
Harry Houghton
Ethel Gee
Admiralty
Portland
Dorset
Natives Held Over Helicopter Movement at Rabaul
Police report a village native was beaten after opposing the so called Helicopter Movement. Eighteen natives are in Rabaul Gaol awaiting charges as authorities struggle to break up gatherings said to prepare for an American helicopter to take them to America.
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Rabaul
America
Native Affairs
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