Kennedy backs voluntary farm production controls shift
President Kennedy proposed voluntary rather than compulsory controls for feed grains and milk to curb surpluses and reduce federal farm costs. He urged government payments to cut production of surplus crops while leaving earlier 1938-mandated authorities intact for poultry and fruits. He cited farm gains and urged better income, lower consumer prices, and reduced price support expenditures.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
U.S
American Farm Bureau Federation
Jas
Britain Moves To Rebuild Economy After Common Market Setback
London reports Britain plans freer outlets for trade as it seeks to offset the loss of full Common Market access. Prime Minister Macmillan meets Denmark's Jens Otto Krag to discuss EFTA expansion and possible tariff talks with the United States under GATT.
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Jens Otto Krag
Harold Macmillan
Admiralty House
London
Britain
Brussels
Denmark
European Free Trade Association
EFTA
Krag
Six Eyes
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
The
Times of London
United States
GATT
Geneva
Commonwealth
Europe
Release of 1961 Cuban invasion testimony eyed by State Department
State Department weighs releasing long secret Senate Foreign Relations Committee testimony from 1961 on the Cuban invasion disaster. Witnesses testified that no U S air cover was promised to invading refugees, with questions about planned or canceled air strikes. Senators differ on publication while preserving security.
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Washington
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Town
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Hickenlooper
Rene
Adm
Arleigh A
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
U.S. Air Force
Dirksen
Kennedy proposes new cotton program to align domestic and world prices
President Kennedy recommends a two year cotton plan to Congress mirroring the National Cotton Advisory Committee framework. It would replace the two price system with an equalization payment to raise domestic cotton pricing to world levels while allowing up to 20 percent excess planting without extra pay.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
National Cotton Advisory Committee
U. S
Delta
Punch and Plant Method Restores Hair
At the American Osteopathic Association convention in Miami Dr Daniel Koprince of Royal Oak Michigan described punch and plant hair transplants. He said a 20 hair scalp plug is moved to the balding area using local anesthetic and as many as 15 plugs can be transferred in one sitting. The newly transplanted hairs die in about a month.
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Miami
Fla
American Osteopathic Association
Daniel Koprince
Royal Oak
Mich
Ke Prince
Interstate Projects Will Not Be Changed
The North Carolina State Highway Commission kept current interstates schedule untouched delaying no projects in order to avoid delaying others. A special study committee chaired by Dr Worth Joyner and including Commissioner Murray Tate Jr concluded public hearings and consultations with engineers supported the decision.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Murray Tate Jr
Hickory
Tate
Worth Joyner
Rocky Mount
U.S. Presses Canada on Nuclear Defense Policy
The United States urges Canada to equip its defense forces with nuclear weapons, saying NORAD must be capable against the Soviet bomber threat. Washington criticized Ottawa for lacking a practical plan, a remark tied to Canadian parliamentary debate led by Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker.
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Washington
United States
John G. Diefenbaker
Canada
Soviet Union
State Department
Ottawa
U.S
Western Alliance
NORAD
Diefenbaker
Social Credit Party
Roberts
Lester B. Pearson
Liberals
Toronto
Pat- Diefenbaker
Kennedy
Methodists Near $3 Million College Drive Pledged
North Carolina Conference Methodists report 2,928,969 pledged toward a 3 million college development drive. Dr. Allen P. Brantley announced at a Raleigh news conference that most districts contributed, with Fayetteville Rocky Mount and other colleges set to receive funds. Raleigh district led pledges at 448,410, while the drive includes support for Louisburg College High Point Greensboro Duke Divinity Wes ley foundations and local foundations in Cumberland Nash Edgecombe and Franklin funds.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Conference Methodists
Allen P. Brantley
Commission On Christian Higher Education
Brantley
North Carolina
Fayetteville
Rocky Methodist College
Ee ‘Carolina Wesleyan
Louisburg College
High High Point College
Greensboro College
Duke Divinity Schools
Wesley Foundations
Burlington
Durham
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
New Bern
Rocky Mount
Wilmington
Raleigh, Fayetteville
Cumberland, Nash - Edgecombe
Franklin County
Cumberland, Nash and Edgecombe Folks
New York Newspaper Strike Talks Make Progress
Mayor Wagner announced progress in ending the 55 day city newspaper blackout after an 18 hour City Hall session. He cautioned that the parties are still a long way from settlement as issues are resolved and others deemed negotiable.
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New York
Robert F. Wagner
Vietnamese coast mountains clash kills U.S. Army captain
Communist guerrillas shot and killed a U.S. Army captain during a clash in the coastal mountains about 300 miles north of Saigon. Government forces of about 200 men fought Viet Cong units of similar size. the captain's identity was not released. The death raises American fatalities in Vietnam to fifty five since December 1961.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Quang Nga
Viet Nam
U.S
Hitler's Army Surrendered At Stalingrad 20 Years Ago Today
AP dispatch recalls the 1943 surrender of Friedrich von Paulus and the German army at Stalingrad, a turning point in World War II. Eddy Gilmore narrates the scene in Volgograd with notes on the siege, the Soviet victors, and the long shadow of the battle on Allied hopes.
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Hitler
Stalingrad
Eddy Gilmore
Soviet Union
Stalin
Volgograd
U.S.S.R
Wehrmacht
Germany
Free World
Corres
Pondent
Friedrich von Paulus
von Paulus
Schmidt
Dier
Chuikov
Volga
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Methodists
U.S. Army
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