Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway backers seek funding push
Editorial notes congressional backing for the 253 mile Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway linking Pickwick Landing to the Gulf, criticizing the President for a lack of planning money while contrasting Florida cross state projects and flagging political implications in Alabama Mississippi and Florida.
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Milton Britten
Washington Bureau
Memphis Press-Scimitar
Britten
Tennessee River
Pickwick Landing
Gulf of Mexico
Tombigbee River
Florida
George Smathers
Mississippi
Alabama
Nixon
Kennedy
T-T
cross-Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
Congress
Corps of Engineers and Rivers and Harbor Boards
Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority
Butts Denies Georgia Game Rigging Ties
Former Georgia Coach Wallace Butts testifies in a $10 million libel suit that he never betrayed team secrets or discussed plans with Paul Bear Bryant about the 1962 Georgia Alabama game. He denies gambling allegations tied to friends and insists innocence amid a tense courtroom setting.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Wallace Butts
Butts
Curtis Publishing Co
Curtis
Saturday Evening Post
Paul
Bear) Bryant
Alabama
Bryant
University of Georgia
University of Alabama
Hart announces birth in Highwood and Lake Forest
Announcement: Virginia Ann Hart was born to Mr and Mrs Larry Baxter Hart of Highwood Illinois on Monday at Lake Forest Hospital. Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs James E Hart of Decatur. A three vehicle crash on 16th Ave SE Friday at 426 PM investigated by the Decatur Police yielded no injuries.
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Virginia Ann
Larry Baxter Hart
Highwood
Ill
Lake Forest Hospital
Lake Forest
James E. Hart
Decatur
Decatur Police Department
16Th Ave
Buick
W. M. Gulley, Jr
Chestnut St
Chevrolet
Lester Jenkins
E. Moulton St
Nash
Burton Coley
North St
Sympathy Flows Worldwide Over Kennedy's Infant Son
Expressions of condolence poured in from diverse leaders including Pope Paul VI, Richard Cardinal Cushing, and Prime Ministers and presidents from Rome to Helsinki and London. Indiana Governor Welsh ordered state flags lowered, while Kennedy family supporters recall the infant Patrick Bouvier Kennedy who died after a brief premature birth.
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Associated Press
Kennedy
Patrick Bouvier
Jacqueline
Vatican
Boston
Senate
Washington
Atic
House of Representatives
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Indiana
Matthew E. Welsh
Statehouse
Indianapolis
Welsh
Helsinki
Harold Macmillan
Dorothy Macmillan
France
Charles de Gaulle
Madame de Gaulle
London
Britain
Evening News
Jackie
Fatal Hyaline Membrane Disease Claims Premature Baby
In Boston an infant named Patrick Kennedy died in his first two days from hyaline membrane disease a subtle thief that smothers premature babies lungs. Survival odds are about fifty percent and shrink with smaller births.
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Boston
Patrick Kennedy
Chlorine Gas Forces Hospitalizations in Philadelphia
Chlorine gas leaking from a railroad tank car blanketed a six block area of northeast Philadelphia. More than 275 people sought hospital treatment and 43 were admitted, including 24 police and firemen. Fire crews sealed the leak before danger increased.
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Philadelphia
Fire Department
Loss Mounts In Train Robbery Stuns London Banks
British accountants report losses surpassing seven million dollars from the Glasgow to London mail train robbery near London. Rewards totaling 728000 are offered for capture, with insurance expected to cover much of the loss as Scotland Yard intensifies the manhunt.
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London
Britain
London Stock Exchange
Scotland Yard
Priest Murder in Upper Manhattan Stuns City
Police probe the killing of Rev. Francis J. McShane 42 found stabbed in a closet in his sister’s apartment. An unidentified man possibly disguised as a priest fled in a blue 1960 sedan with the victim’s missing clerical garb. The weapon a bloody five inch steak knife, with two chest wounds and a back wound.
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Arthur Everett
NEW York
Francis J. McShane
Vincent McShane
Upper Manhattan
Father McShane
Complete Service for Frigidaire and All Make Appliances
Local repair crew advertises comprehensive service for Frigidaire and other major brands. Offers in home diagnostics, part replacement, and appliance maintenance with skilled technicians and prompt response. Household and commercial inquiries welcome.
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Robinson's
Alabama Senate teeters on filibuster over Wallace program
Quarreling Alabama lawmakers near another filibuster as Governor Wallace pushes key measures. The Senate recessed, then adjourned for the weekend amid stalled work on workmen compensation, old age pensions funding, and the general appropriation bill. Wallace decried constant harassment from a small group of senators while administration leaders pressed a priority calendar to advance eight major measures.
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Montgomery
Ala
George Wallace
Senate
Wallace
Polio Concern Prompts Lawrence County Schools Closure
In Lawrence County a health department spokesman said 200 to 250 people received shots on Friday with about 50 to 75 percent getting polio boosters. The County Board of Education voted to close the remaining two weeks of August due to health concerns after two Mt Hope girls Linda Randolph and Rebecca Crumpton were diagnosed with polio. The decision follows pleas from parents and the Infantile Paralysis chapter and was finalized after an executive session with Superintendent Silas Cross and local doctors.
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James Overall
Moulton
Lawrence County Health Department
Lawrence County
Chapter of Infantile Paralysis
Board of Education
Silas Cross
Cross
Montgomery
Kefauver Suffers Mild Heart Attack in Bethesda
Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee has had a mild heart attack and is hospitalized at the U S Naval Hospital in Bethesda Maryland. Doctors ordered at least three weeks of complete rest and Kefauver’s condition is described as not serious by his administrative assistant Charles Caldwell.
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Washington
Ways and Means Advances Final JFK Tax Cut Plan
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a major easing of the capital gains tax as part of Kennedy's $10 billion tax cut plan. Gains on assets held over two years would face a maximum 21 percent rate or 40 percent inclusion, with shorter holdings taxed per existing rules. Treasury estimates show long term relief near $120 million annually, but a $310 million revenue rise is forecast for the first year under the new rules.
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Edmond Lebreton
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
House
Ways and Means Committee
Kennedy
Treasury
Moon Race Plan Bypassed as Senate Advances Space Funding
The Senate narrowly defeated a delay tactic on a moon program goal and backed a $5.51 billion space bill aimed largely at funding the plan to land a man on the moon by 1970. A conference panel will reconcile differences with a House bill lighter by over $300 million.
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Washington
Senate
New Communications Satellite Corporation
House
Kennedy
Clinton P. Anderson
Dn.m
Senate Space Committee
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Anderson
NASA
Congress
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
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