Estes aide and farmer land deals under probe threaten Kennedy era program
The Senate subcommittee reviewed testimony on Estes and allies in the farm aid program amid allegations of improper influence in 1961 62 allotments and land transfers. Jacobs Miller and Bagwell described reports and appeals concerning canceled allotments and the handling of cotton acreage while Estes faced fraud charges tied to liquid fertilizer operations.
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Jacobs
John C. Bagwell
Gent Miller
Ed Shulman
Jot Moss
Estes
Possi
Charles S. Murphy
John Dennison
Texas
Department
Texan
Hiraj Oey
Espencer
Astead
Wilson Tucker
Department of Agriculture
Stie-Lo
Thomas H. Miller
Miller
Triculture
Bagwell
Drug licensing debate roils Kefauver bill impact on drugs
Senators spar over compulsory licensing of drug patents after three years if prices at pharmacists exceed 300 percent above factory costs. Eastland warns such a move could ruin drug research while Kefauver argues it would curb price gouging and improve safety.Kennedy backs push for stronger safeguards as committee and leaders weigh animal testing rules and antitrust tweaks.
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Iquires
James O
Eastland
D!miss
Kefanver
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kefavuer
Federal Trade Commission
Kefauver
Judiciary Committee
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Welfare Secretary
Kennedy
Congress
Three Die In Explosive Blast At Bacchus Fuel Plant
A rocket fuel explosion at Hercules Powder Co. Bacchus plant killed Eldon Reed Jacklin 21 Lehi Edwin G. Pease 25 Layton and Stanley Gale Page 22 Camas Utah and injured Calvin A. Peterson 24 Holladay Bennett Gunderson 22 Salt Lake City and Dick L. Sizemore 24 Kearns. The blast demolished a curing building where five small propellant charges were moved for test firing. Cause was not immediately determined.
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Bacchus
Utah
Hercules Powder Co
R. G. Sailer
Eldon Reed Jacklin
Lehi
Edwin G. Pease
Layton
Stanley Gale Page
Camas
Calvin A. Peterson
Holladay
Bennett Gunderson
Salt Lake City
Dick L. Sizemore
Kearns
Sailer
Eastern Air Lines resumes Charlotte service after strike
The first Eastern plane departed Charlotte for New York with 80 passengers, marking the end of a two month halt. Eastern outlined a widened schedule with 51 daily flights, involving Boeing 720 jets, propjets, DC7s and Corvairs. Mayor Brookshire welcomed the return as pilots and crew resumed duties amid earlier engineering disputes over cockpit staffing.
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Charlotte
Eastern Air Lines
New York
Air Engineers
Easterna
Greenville
D.C
Greensboro
Raleigh-Durham
North Carolina
South Carolina
Stan R. Brookshire
Atlanta
Steve Parkinson
EAL
Parkinson
Kenny Woodward
Wallace Balla
Doak Flinton
Agai
FDA Urges Safe Disposal of Leftover Thalidomide
The FDA urged the public to flush leftover thalidomide down the toilet and dispose of unidentified medicines after a recall, citing doctor recall records and limited tracking. Senator Dirksen commented on drug legislation complexities, noting media criticism and legal puzzles surrounding the bill.
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George P. Larrick
Food and Drugs
FDA
West Berlin tensions rise as talks touch Berlin wall
The article notes brief U S Soviet discussions on disarmament and Berlin, with Western officials viewing new Kremlin moves as expanding pressure to push the West from Berlin. It references a three power declaration denouncing East Berlin guards at the wall and reports an East German escapee mortally wounded by Red gunfire while fleeing to West Berlin.
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Berlin
Scretary
Dean Rusk
iSoviet
Anatoly F.doprynin
Dobrynin
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Rusk
Kremlin
Wall
East Berlin
Redi
West Berlin
Red
Algerian Demonstration Signals Turbulent Path Ahead
The forum near a government building drew thousands amid Ben Bella factional clashes with guerrilla leaders. Moslem police stopped an early attempt to storm the building as crowds waved green and white flags. The rally foreshadowed further power struggles as De Gaulle's return to power loomed and Algeria's political rift deepened.
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Ben Bella
Rdar
Political Bureau
Govvernment
Charles de Gaulle
Mohemmed Khider
Algiers
En the Political Bureau
Lois Planders
Gib
Ringe
Jessie Gasaway
Leon Gibson
Bride and groom struck by ranch hand after wedding scare
In Reno, Nevada, groom Jack A. Fostex, 23, died after being struck twice in the head and shoved from a car by ranch hand Lester Morford, 18, as bride Patrica Rector Foster, 23, was wounded. The couple, married in Reno, were later threatened at gunpoint near Lake Tahoe. Morford was arrested and charged, with possible kidnapping charges surfacing.
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Nev
Jack A. Fosstex
Medford
Ore
Jhorror
Patrica Rector
Carson City
Lester Morford
Santa Rosa
Calif
Silver Springs
Foster
Morford
Raggio
Fosters
Lake Tahoe Tanother
Repo
Fos
Widow Faces Conflict Over Narrow Mountain Road Traffic
Mrs. Hambleton and Mrs. May Shelnedy blocked a mountain road for an hour as a tractor-trailer tried to pass. Police arrested Hambleton after she refused to move her station wagon, citing fear of an accident. she plans to appeal and travel to Richmond and Washington.
Gibson star of western films brightened era and life
The account recalls Gibson's rise in Hollywood with a $14,500 weekly salary, marriage to Sally Eilers, and a lavish lifestyle before a near fatal 1933 Los Angeles air race crash. He fared poorly in later TV attempts, a Las Vegas ranch failure, and ended as a Las Vegas greeter before dying with funeral rites set at Pierce Bros. Hollywood mortuary.
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Gibson
Sally Eilers
Ken Maynard
Los Angeles Municipal
Las Vegas
Nev
Last Frontier Hotel
Pierce Bros. Hollywood Mortuary
Inglewood Park Cemetery
Berlin Wall Tense as Refugee Slaying Sparks Escort Feud
In Berlin amid a fresh clash over escorts to Soviet memorials, U S and Soviet armored cars faced long delays at Checkpoint Charlie. Police dispersed West Berlin crowds after a fatal shooting near the wall, while Maj Gen Helmut Poppe was named East Berlin commander.
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East Berlin
East Germany
Charlie
Monu Iment
Brandenburg S
Kreuzberg-Treptow
West Berlin
Wesar
Berlin
Willy Brandt
Helmut Poppe
United States
Mint Chartie
Fechter
Poppe
People’s Police
People’s Army
Pervsee Cate
Robert R. Sabolyk
Robert A. Paonessa
Henry C. Kiaput
Chicago
U.S. Army
Tan
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Hearing Planned on Merits of Missile Site Labor Dispute
In Washington officials scheduled a Monday hearing before a subcommittee of President Kennedy's Missile Sites Labor Commission to review the walkout by workers who had returned to work as part of the recent strike activity. Goldberg appealed for an end to the walkout as the government noted compliance with return-to-work orders.
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Washington
Kennedy
Missile Sites Labor Commission
Goldberg
Trade Bill Seeks Tariff Cuts to Strengthen Dollar
President Kennedy presses a trade bill to cut tariffs by up to five percent and to forge a firmer dollar and stronger economic ties with Western Europe, including a provision to cover Communist China alongside the Soviet Union.
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China
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Europe
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