Bass Estes case: Financiers deny collusion claims
Rep Ross Bass accused Commercial Solvents Corp of securing assurances from the Agriculture Department to receive all grain payments tied to Billie Sol Estes grain activities before Estes had a contract. Commercial Solvents officials denied the claim and said no such assurances existed, amid testimony about a 1959 start to Estes grain operations and a related loan and storage agreement.
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Washington
Ross Bass
D-Tenn
Commercial Solvents Corp
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol
Bass
Estes
Outgrowth Of Kennedy Proposal Thant Exposes U N Aid Plan
U Thant proposed a ten year United Nations development program aimed at raising living standards for hundreds of millions. The plan seeks 5 percent annual income growth, a doubling of living standards in 25 to 30 years, and a $4 to $5 billion annual funding increase. It envisions 130 percent higher manufacturing output and food supplies rising 4 percent yearly in key regions.
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United Nations
N. Y
U Thant
U.N
Kennedy
General Assembly
U. N
United States
Soviet Union
Special Fund
Africa
Middle East
Far East
Latin America
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Babysitter Charged With First Degree Murder in Akron Child Death
Rochelle Posey, 20, faces a first degree murder charge after telling police she strangled 14 month old Michael Magier with a silk stocking over 20 minutes. The infant died en route to hospital as Ruth Magier’s husband and family grieved in Summit County, Ohio.
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Akron, Ohio
Rochelle Posey
Michael Magier
Miss Posey
Forrest Diefendorff
Norton Village
Diefendorff
Ruth Magier
Magier
Joseph
Market Trading Mixed Amid Turbulent Session
The stock market fluctuated heavily in New York with the AP index at noon showing slight declines. The Dow fell 2.51 to 571.53 as brokers faced a nine minute tape delay and mixed readings suggested the market hovered near the year's low amid volatile trading.
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New York
Associated Press
Dow Jones
Standard & Poor
Alcatraz Escapees Suspected of Outside Help
San Francisco report says FBI weighs theory of outside help for John Anglin Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris in their Alcatraz break. Search teams sweep Angel Island as guards question recent visitors. one more inmate tied to plan remained on the island.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Examiner
FBI
John Anglin
Clarence
Frank Morris
Angel Island
Alcatraz
Allen Clayton
Atlanta
Anglin Brothers
Morris
Olin Blackwell
Fred Wilkinson
Federal Director of Prisons
the Anglin Brothers
U S Sergeant Killed in Viet Nam Battle Near Laotian Frontier
A U S Army sergeant was killed and two Americans wounded in combat with Vietnamese troops near the Laotian frontier about 360 miles north of Saigon. The wounded, a captain and a sergeant, were taken to a field hospital at Nha Trang. Names were withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nha Trang
Viet Nam
U. S. Army
U. S
United States
Ngo Dinh Diem
Airlines Strike Looms as Talks Break Down
Washington reports a strike seems likely among Pan American World Airways Trans World Airlines and Eastern Air Lines after 24 hours of escalation over wages and crew size. AFL CIO president Ron Brown and Labor Secretary Goldberg warned no settlement appeared near as arbitration was rejected.
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Washington
Flight Engineers International Association
Meee
Ron Brown
Afl-Cio Union
Brown
Pan American World Airways
Trans World Airlines
Eastern Air Lines
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Kennedy
Asher Schwartz
Jesse Freidin
Airlines
New York
W. Willard Wirtz
State Board Approves 47 Million School Budget Request
The State Board of Education endorses a 47.2 million dollar request for public schools for the next biennium. The plan raises teacher salaries by 15 dollars per month first year and 10 second year, adds five sick days, and funds 150 attendance counselors while aiming for long term salary increases to reach the national average.
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Raleigh
State Board of Education
Advisory Budget Commission
Estes Testimony Opens Doors
Billie Sol Estes testified before the Robertson County grand jury probing the 1961 fatal shooting of Henry H. Marshall, state chief of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Prosecutor Bryan Russ said three to four more witnesses may be subpoenaed. Estes refused about 100 questions on self incrimination.
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Jerry Pillard Franklin
Tex
Billie Sol Estes
Agriculture Department
Bryan Russ
Russ
Robertson County Grand Jury
Henry H. Marshall
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Eskes
Texas Atty
Will Wilson
Estes
Wilson
John D. Cofer
Austin
Marshall
Cofer
All
Laos Neutralist Leader Plans Unified Geneva Delegation
Prince Souvanna Phouma says he will personally lead a unified Laos delegation to the Geneva talks to sign the 14 nation Laotian conference agreement. He aims to depart June 24 or 25 and expects the conference to reconvene by July 2 and finish by mid July.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Souvanna Phouma
Laos
Geneva
Souvana
Khang Khay
Phoumi Nosvan
Paris
Souphanouvong
Red Prince
Souvanna
Phoumi
Luang Prabang
Bomb Site Rejected for Bladen Lake Forest
Rep Alton Lennon says the Air Force rejected Gov Terry Sanford's offer of Bladen Lake State Forest as a practice bombing range after a study found the forest does not meet criteria. Lennon telegraphed the Bladen Journal detailing the decision.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Alton Lennon
D-N.c
Bladen County
Air Force
Terry Sanford
Bladen Lake State Forest
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Janice Hernan
Youngstown
Ohio
Rep
Estes Financiers
House
Maynard C. Wheeler
Wheeler
L. H. Fountain
Texas
Frank Cain
Dallas
Cain
Thant
Fed
Assembly
Pedro L. Roig
Cuba
Mexico City
Roig
Jack Lefler
AP Business News
U.S
Freidin
North Carolina
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