North Carolina Ends 1961 Session With Farewell Adjournment
Raleigh AP reports North Carolina's General Assembly formally adjourned at 12 18 p.m marking the end of a session famed for large school appropriations. Sen Tom White led the final legislation a policy study on historical site funding and restoration. House sponsor Rep C Wayland Spruill pushed retroactive pay raises for reading clerks and sergeants at arms, but the measure was defeated in the Senate Calendar Committee.
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Advisory Budget Commission
Rep. C. Wayland Spruill
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Education And Food Tax Major Accomplishments
Raleigh reports the General Assembly ended a 4%2 month session with Gov. Sanford pushing a quality education program and a 3 percent sales tax on food to fund it. The $65.5 million budget over two years includes pay raises and 1,400 new teachers, while other actions reshaped the court system and extended the minimum wage to 19,000 workers.
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Tshombe Freed by Congo Government News Conference Held
Katanga President Moise Tshombe is released after two months as Gen. Joseph Mobutu and Premier Joseph Ileo join him for a news conference in Leopoldville. Tshombe plans to return to Elisabethville and hail Mobutu’s role in ending the Congo crisis.
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U.N
Ikeda and Rusk Claim Strong Japan U S Ties
Japanese prime minister Hayato Ikeda and Secretary of State Dean Rusk said close collaboration between Japan and the United States is now grounded on equality and partnership after three days of talks. They hailed a foundation for deeper cooperation and noted a formal dinner at the Japanese Embassy with Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Kennedy planning to attend.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Plan Would Give Safe Drivers 10 Percent Insurance Discount
RALEIGH AP motorists with three year safe driving records would gain a 10 percent discount on automobile liability premiums under a plan from the North Carolina Rate Administrative Office. A similar discount for collision insurance was submitted by the North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau. A court challenge to the state law banning deviations in liability rates was anticipated by the National Association of Independent Insurers, claiming the rule violates federal anti trust laws.
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Charles J. Komaiko
All State Insurance Co
State Farm
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Kennedy Pressed by Khrushchev on Berlin and Nuclear Tests
U S officials view Khrushchev's Berlin time table and threat to resume atomic tests as a renewed Cold War maneuver. Western allies study the plan while Kennedy strategists expect pressure to prompt a new nuclear test.
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Khrushchev Warns of Immediate Soviet Nuclear Tests
Khrushchev declares the Soviet Union has developed nuclear weapons needing testing and will resume tests immediately if the United States does. In a Kremlin address marking the 20th anniversary of the Nazi invasion, he also vows a separate peace treaty with East Germany by year’s end if Western powers reject German settlement.
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Kennedy Suffering Mild Virus Then Returns To Normal
President Kennedy contracted a mild mixed bacterial viral infection overnight. His temperature returned to normal by midmorning and doctors forecast the illness would run its course in about two days.
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Kennedy
Janet Travell
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Georgetown
George Barkley
Potomac River
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Honey Fitz
Pierre Salinger
Ikeda
Laos Princes Agree On Unity But Offer Few Details
Three Lao royal princes meeting in Zurich urged national unity while leaving concrete solutions to King Savang Vathana. They backed broad participation in a new regime but did not specify power shares or leadership, and avoided a plan for the National Assembly. A single Lao delegation to Geneva 14-nation talks was discussed but not decided.
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Europe
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Souvanna Phouma
Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
National Assembly
Czech U N delegate Miroslav Nacvalac to fly home
Miroslav Nacvalac a Czech U N delegate and top spy suspect bowed to U S pressure and arranged a flight home with his wife and two sons. Washington revoked his U N mission status making him an illegal alien. Czechoslovakia denied the charges and vowed to press the headquarters agreement in the U N. The incident may influence moves to relocate U N headquarters from New York.
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United States
Eichmann claims Madagascar plan to save Jews by settlement
Adolf Eichmann testified in Jerusalem that he conceived a Madagascar plan to move Jews to a French island off East Africa in 1940. He said the scheme was studied but never advanced, and he acted under orders for most actions tied to mass slaughter. He asserted he opposed his transfer to Berlin and claimed to have been at Gestapo HQ against his will.
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Longshoremen Return to New York Posts as Strike Expands
New York docks reopen after a one day stoppage while the nationwide maritime strike widens. About 150 ships are immobilized across 30 ports as oil plants face disruption and production groups urge a Taft Hartley cooling off period.
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