Kennedy Drives Federal Cleanup by Abolishing 41 Agencies
President Kennedy ordered the elimination of 41 interagency committees as part of a government efficiency push. The move follows a March 9 directive to department heads to prune outdated bodies, with 15 departments reporting the abolished groups and several notable panels named in the list.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
NATO Planning Board
Budget Bureau
Sugar Policy Committee
Interagency Nuclear Coordinating Committee
Lend Lease Settlement Committee
Far Eastern Economic Defense Problems Panel
Economic Defense Advisory Committee
Weapon Test Reports Committee
Federal Agency Population and Census Council
Federal Board
Inter Committee On Radiological Defense Agency
Facilities Protection Board
Sgt. York Tax Debt Fund Reaches Goal Of 25000
A campaign to clear Sgt. Alvin York of federal income tax debt surpassed its $25,000 goal, raising $27,000. The fund, chaired by Rep. Joe L. Evins, received large gifts including $1,000 from Robert F. Kennedy and Oveta Hobby and $500 from Henry Luce III. Receipts will be held in trust and used as needed by York, the World War I Medal of Honor recipient who faces income tax issues tied to book and film earnings.
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Washington
Alvin York
Joe L. Evins
D-Tenn
York
Evins
Robert F. Kennedy
Oveta Culp Hobby
Welfare
Henry Luce III
Time, Inc
Oakes Daughter Weds In Nassau
Miss Shirley Lewis Oakes daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and Lady Oakes wed Alan Churchill Butler in a simple Nassau ceremony. Butler 34 is vice president of Fairbanks Morse of Chicago. Canon E W G Holmes officiated at the small Church of the Holy Spirit near Nassau.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Shirley Lewis Oakes
Harry Oakes
Lady Oakes
Alan Churchill Butler
Butler
Fairbanks-Morse
Chicago
Discoverer 23 Orbits With Secret Payload Aboard
At Vandenberg California the 23rd Discoverer satellite entered orbit carrying a secret payload. The second stage resembled Midas Samos designs and may carry experimental gear. A 300 pound capsule will be ejected after days and parachuted to Hawaii or fished from the ocean.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Midas
Samos Space
Air Force
Samos
Soviet Union
Hawaii
Keller Marks Visit to Kennedy in Presidential Record
Helen Keller, age 80, meets President Kennedy in the White House, continuing her run of visits to every U.S. president since Grover Cleveland. Accompanied by officials from the American Foundation for the Blind and Lions International, she learns of the Lincoln desk gift from Queen Victoria and asks Kennedy to send a kiss to Caroline.
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Washington
Helen Keller
Kennedy
Grover Cleveland
Harold Macmillan
Miss Keller
Caroline
Jacqueline
Middleburg
Evelyn Seide
Cleveland
Britain
Queen Victoria
American Foundation For the Blind, Inc
Lions International
Lions Organization
Lincoln Signs 1862 Land Grant Act Forming Public Colleges
President Lincoln signed the land grant act on July 2 1862 establishing a system that led to the founding of 68 colleges and universities across the United States.
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Lincoln
Train Derailment Traps Two Crewmen In Raleigh
A Seaboard Air Line mail and express train derailed in downtown Raleigh trapping engineer Thomas Moore and fireman Randolph Peebles for about an hour. Both men were freed and hospitalized with leg fractures. several passengers and crew suffered injuries. Investigators began a probe into the crash near the Martin Street viaduct on No. 4 Hamlet to Richmond express. cars were salvageable, no total loss reported.
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Raleigh
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Thomas Moore
Randolph Peebles
Moore
Hamlet
Rex Hospital
Peebles
Hartsville
S.C
St. Agnes Hospital
Dempsey Anderson
Holly Springs
Anderson
Cynthia Anderson
Joseph E. Anderson
John D. Smith
Richmond
John L. York
J. D. Owens
Jacksonville Beach
Fla
Seaboard
Drowned Youth’s Body Recovered in North Carolina
The body of Hugh Finch Jr., 20, of Rocky Mount, was recovered Saturday, the surviving victim of a boating accident from April 1. Patrick Couglin, 20, also of Rocky Mount, was recovered Thursday. Two others, Arthur F. Cockrell Jr. and Robert Lee Carr, both 21, reached shore safely.
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Belhaven N.C
Hugh Finch Jr
Rocky Mount
Patrick Couglin
Arthur F. Cockrell Jr
Robert Lee Carr
Informer Arrested After Motel Shooting in Martinsville
Harold Elzie Aaron, once a key state informer in the Henderson inc strike, faces malicious wounding charges after allegedly shooting Danville resident John Laton Pulliam in a motel room near Martinsville. Pulliam survived surgery. Aaron claims the shooting was accidental.
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Martinsville, Va
Harold Elzie Aaron
Henderson, Inc
John Laton Pulliam
Danville
Here
Aaron
Leaksville
N.C
Henry County
Raymond Smart
Pulliam
Smart
Martinsville General Hospital
Gardner Lee
U.S. 200
M. H. McBryde
Henry
Crosby Son and Wife Reconciled in Hollywood
In Hollywood AP reports Phillip Crosby and his ex showgirl wife Sandra Drummond reconciled after a family dinner at his father Bing Crosby’s home. Drummond plans to dismiss her separate maintenance suit while noting two young children.
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Hollywood
Phillip Crosby
Phillip
Sandra Drummond
Bing Crosby
Miss Drummond
Crosby
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Sports Illustrated
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