Revenue Called For Road Financing Plight Outlined
Highway Chairman Merrill Evans told the House Roads Committee North Carolina’s Highway Commission faces a severe revenue shortfall. He warned a $200 million bond issue for secondary roads could be spent in four years, noting no surplus highway money exists today. Representatives urged higher vehicle taxes and fuel fees to fund roads. Evans cited growing demand and money shortfalls.
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Raleigh
Merrill Evans
House Roads Committee
State Highway Commission
Evans
Highway Commission
Herman H. West
Cherokee
West
North Carolina
Clyde Harriss
Rowan
Highway Bonds To Be Asked In 1963 North Carolina Action
North Carolina lawmakers plan a 200 million dollar bond proposal to fund road building. Senators Robert F. Morgan and William P. Saunders announced plans to sponsor the measure focusing on secondary roads and accelerated primary system work. The proposal would be financed from existing revenue with no new taxes. A separate GOP bill seeks to appoint rather than elect the state superintendent of public instruction.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
Robert F. Morgan
Cleveland
William P. Saunders
Moore
Senate
House
State House
State Legislative Building
Thomas White
Lenoir
White
Jackson County
Lacy Thornburg
Clifton Blue
Terry Sanford
Morgan
Saunders
8000 Soviets May Leave Cuba
US sources report as many as 8000 Soviet troops may depart Cuba within days. Four ships, arriving in Cuban waters, could carry troops and missiles off the island, affecting the balance with Fidel Castro’s administration.
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Washington
Cuba
Cuban
Kennedy
Fidel Castro
MIG Jets Fire Rockets Over Shrimp Boat Near Key West
Two Cuban based MIG fighters fired rockets near the shrimp boat Ala about 60 nautical miles north of Cuba and 78 southeast of Key West. U.S. interceptors and a Fort Myers based crew rescued two men, Paris Jackson and Benjamin Washington, after engine failure left their 67-foot vessel adrift for about three days. The Pentagon said there was no engagement and the rockets narrowly missed the boat before MIGs retreated as U.S. planes approached.
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Washington
Twoi
Key West
Cuba
Iby
U.S
Florida Straits
Defense Department
Department
Marine
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Fort Myers
Fla
Fort Myers Seafood Packers Inc
Paris Jackson
Benjamin Washington
Carl Abbott
Jackson
Abbott
Ala
Pentagon
Kretchmer
Newport, RL
Kennedy Rewraps Health Plan for Congress
President Kennedy presents a $10 billion five year aging program with hospital insurance for the elderly and tax benefits, plus more housing loans for seniors. The plan repeats earlier items, faces House opposition, and introduces an insured benefits option alongside Social Security financed coverage.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
American Medical Association
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Africans on Strike in Bulgaria in Sofia protests
About 300 African students in Communist Bulgaria began a strike to protest government refusal to fund their departure. Ghana's ambassador to Sofia confirmed 100 had left amid claims of mistreatment and racial discrimination while others stayed away from Sofia State University classes.
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Vienna
Austria
Bulgaria
Ghana
Sofia
J. L. Appah Samong
Sofia State University
Stock theft alarms Wall Street over $3.5 million loss
FBI said over 17 months ago two armed men broke into the New Rochelle home of elderly widow Theresa N. McSweeney and vanished with stock certificates valued at more than 3.5 million dollars. Police noted prior burglary at Atlantic City tied to the same thieves who stole jewelry valued at 100000 dollars.
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New York
Wall Street
FBI
Theresa N. McSweeney
New Rochelle
N.Y
US Leaders Discuss Countermeasures After Cuban Incident
In Washington officials met on a new Cuban tension after Soviet built MIGs fired on a Florida shrimp boat near international waters. The Pentagon said no hit occurred. talks focus on strengthening defenses as ships hunt for the Marine Sulphur Queen wreck. More may be linked to prior rocket actions against a Venezuelan freighter.
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Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Florida
Cuba
Beaumont
Tex
Norfolk
Defense Department
MI6
Anzoategui
Icy Cold Front Sweeps Midwest to South
A vast mass of icy air driven by brisk northerly winds drives subzero temperatures from Montana through the Dakotas into Ohio. Snow and gale winds lash New York and stranding hundreds of residents as cold spreads southward toward Kentucky and Tennessee with near zero readings in Rochester and Buffalo.
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Associated Press
Montana
Ohio
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wisconsin
Iowa
Michigan
Illinois
New York State
New York
Lake Erie
The
Mercury
Kentucky
Tennessee
Great Lakes Region
Continental Divide
North Dakota
Weather Bureau
Virginia
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
New Mexico
Midwest
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Guilford
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Ares
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Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Geneva
Soviet Union
Humphrey
U.S. Senate
Brazil
John R. Evenson
Ft. Atkinson
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Buffalo
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