Kennedy tax revision wins House vote amid Senate battle
Administration leaders hailed President Kennedy's tax revision bill victory in the House by a 219 to 196 vote and set sights on a heated Senate fight. The measure passed largely on party lines with 218 Democrats and one Republican supporting, while opposition came from 162 Republicans and 34 Democrats.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
House
Senate
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Richard H. Poff
Virginia
State moves to build Raleigh alcoholism hospital
The State Hospitals Board of Control proposes a 100 bed alcoholic hospital near Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh with at least half funding from the Hill Burton act. If approved the Dix unit fades and beds are allocated: 40 at Broughton in Morganton, 40 at Umstead in Butner, 20 at Cherry in Goldsboro.
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Raleigh
Advisory Budget Commission
Pawhe Pegiel
Board of Control
Tis
Dorothea Dix State Hospital
W. P. Kemp
Goldsboro
Broughton Hospital
Morganton
Umstead Hospital
Butner
Cherry Hospital
Cuban invasion trial in Havana inmates admit guilt
Havana three morning papers report that over 1100 prisoners on trial for the April invasion have admitted guilt. The tribunal president told prisoners they could speak, while papers publish a confession by Capt. Jose A. Perez San Roman dated May 10 1961.
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Havana
Augusto Martinez Sanchez
Hoy
Jose A. Perez San Roman
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Three-Year-Old Rescued From Rocky Ledge at Niagara
April Hubbard fell 45 feet onto a rocky ledge by the lower Niagara River while playing with three other children. After an all-night search, police and rescuers pulled her from a bush at 3:15 a.m. She suffered only scratches and bruises and recovered after a sandwich at the hospital.
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Harry Hubbard
April
Niagara River Gorge
Niagara Falls
Ont
Niagara River
April Hubbard
Russell Sanderson
Segregated School Aid To Be Cut
Washington AP The administration will cut off from segregated schools the federal aid for construction and operating costs serving children on federal property starting September 1963. Welfare head Abraham Ribicoff announced the ruling to a House subcommittee studying integration since 1954. He said no immediate implementation before the 1963 school year.
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Washington
of Welfare
Abraham A. Ribicoff
House
Ribicoff
State Hospitals Board edges land transfer for federal mental prison
The State Hospitals Board of Control voted to transfer 1000 acres of state land at Butner to the federal government for a $17 million psychiatric hospital for mentally ill male inmates. Fred Wilkinson of the Bureau of Prisons praised Butner as a near fit site on the east coast, with final approval pending Attorney General Kennedy.
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Raleigh
State Hospitals Board of Control
Butner
Fred Wilkinson
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Wilkinson
Springfield
Robert F. Kennedy
John W. Umstead
Chapel Hill
Council of State
George Uzzell
Salisbury
C. Wayland Spruill
Uzzell
Duke
University of North Carolina
Progress Against Cancer and Hodges in Family Weekly
The article notes gradual cancer progress from seven to 25 years ago to current survival gains and cites a Family Weekly report "Where is the Cure for Cancer?" Also features Luther Hodges with the piece "Luther Hodges He Lives the American Dream" as part of a series on influential decision makers.
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Family Weekly
Luther Hodges
Hodges
Guido Takes Office Under Military Eye
In Buenos Aires Jose Maria Guido pressed into the presidency under military oversight after a disputed oath at the Supreme Court. The army navy and air force chiefs signed the transfer as Frondizi’s ouster triggered a tense power bid amid demands to curb Peronists and other groups. Guido, originally the military’s choice, faced early friction as officers questioned his unilateral oath.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jose Maria Guido
Viva Frondizi
Senate
Supreme Court
Arturo Frondizi
Guido
Frondizi
Raul Poggi
Cayo Antonio Alsina
Air Force
Adm
Agustin Penas
Navy
Air Ministry
Five Die In Car And Train Crash West Of Owosso
Three adults and two children were killed when an automobile collided with an Ann Arbor Railroad freight train five miles west of Owosso Michigan. Three other Cutter children were injured and one critically. Victims included Fred Crawford Barbara Kunzi and Donna Cutter and the two Cutter children Tommie and Rennie. The scene involved families bound for Corunna for Charles Kunzi’s rape trial.
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Owosso, Mich
Ann Arbor
Owosso
Fred Crawford
Barbara Kunzi
Donna Cutter
Charles
Corunna
Lower Michigan
Government plans to release 75 million sterile flies weekly in Texas
The Agriculture Department proposes a three year program to flood Texas and nearby infested areas with sterile screwworm flies to halt cattle losses worth about 125 million yearly. A 50 mile Rio Grande corridor would receive periodic releases to intercept females from Mexico. Two hundred million sterile flies are already produced weekly.
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John Beckler
Washington
Texas
Mexico
United States
Florida
Gulf
Department of Agriculture
House
South
West
Oklahoma
Rio Grande
Top U S Reds Plead Innocent
Gus Hall and Benjamin J. Davis, top officials of the U S Communist party, pleaded innocent to charges of failing to register under the Internal Security Act of 1950. They were released on $5 000 bonds each as motions were set for 30 days.
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Washington
Gus Hall
Benjamin J. Davis
U.S
Communist Party
Hall
Davis
Justice Department
U.S. Dist
Matthew F. ‘McGuire
McQuire
House Un-American Activities Committee
First Lady Prefers Trip With JFK
Mrs. John F. Kennedy says her 20 day journey through Rome India Pakistan and London was fascinating but she would rather travel with her husband next time. President Kennedy welcomed her home at Washington National Airport after the semiofficial tour.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
India
Pakistan
Kennedy
Caroline
Washington National Airport
Rome
Pope John XXIII
Taj Mahal
Ganges River
Banares
Khyber Pass
Sardar
London
Queen Elizabeth
U.S
J. Kenneth Galbraith
White House
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