Pepper Taft Win Decisive Victories in Primary Races
The Associated Press reports former Senator Claude Pepper of Florida and Robert Taft Jr. won decisive Democratic primary victories. Florida’s Sen. George Smathers and Rep. Dante Fascell also secured renomination while Kennedy backed measures drew mixed reactions in the state. Other results include Lausche and DiSalle renominated in Ohio and incumbents in Indiana and West Virginia holding their seats. Pepper campaigned for Social Security funded medical care for the aged and Kennedy’s program.
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Claude Pepper
Kennedy
Congress
Florida
Pepper
Miami
Robert Taft Jr
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
George Smathers
Dante Fascell
Frank J. Lausche
Michael V. DiSalle
Richard D. Kennedy
Taft
Indiana
West Virginia
New Mexico
Edwin Mechem
Sen. Smathers
Roger L. Davis
Fort Lauderdale
Douglas R. Voorhees
Fascell
David Eldredge
Smathers
Jobless Picture Improves WASHINGTON April unemployment falls
The April unemployment total dropped by 430000 to below four million for the first time this year while employment rose to a record high. Secretary Goldberg called the changes a sign of continued business expansion as long term unemployment held at 1.5 million. The jobless total stood at 3952000 and employed reached 67027000, up 711000 from March.
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Washington
Secretary of Labor
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Move State Capital Back To Fayetteville
Gov. Sanford discussed Raleigh editorials criticizing excluding the capital from an east west highway plan citing Fayetteville as the governor's home town. He suggested moving the capital back to Fayetteville as a possible remedy while the Highway Commission weighs toll financed routes through the region.
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Fayetteville
Raleigh
Sanford
Piedmont
Midwest
Charlotte
Greensboro
Middle West
The
Highway Commission
Soviet Union says test ban must include France
At Geneva the Soviet Union insisted it will not sign any nuclear test ban treaty without France. Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin cited France’s Sahara underground test and argued France must join negotiations. Western officials noted the U.S. and Britain oppose a treaty without verification, while France has boycotted talks since March 14.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
France
Valerian A. Zorin
United States
Britain
Zorin
Sahara
Paris
Mystery In Space May Be Probed
NASA officials outline experiments for Malcolm Scott Carpenter as his Mercury craft nears launch in mid May at Cape Canaveral. A particle cloud and a tethered balloon will test interactions with orbital motion to explain glowing “fireflies” seen by John Glenn and Titov’s phosphorescent spots. The flight delay shifts the planned May 15 date by a few days.
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Washington
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Mercury
John H. Glenn Jr
Gherman S. Titov
Project Mercury
Carpenter
Glenn
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
UN Starts Baluba Relocation From Katanga Camp
The United Nations Command began moving more than 42,000 Baluba tribesmen from a ramshackle refugee camp near Elisabethville in Katanga. The plan aims to return about 3,000 Balubas weekly to their native townships as they fled last September for protection from Katanga President Moise Tshombe.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
United Nations Command
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Estes Probe Expands to Include Two former Ag Officials
Justice Department and Senate investigators pursue the Estes case as they examine ties between Billie Sol Estes and two former Agriculture Department officials James A. McConnell and Walter Berger of the Commodities Stabilization Service under Ezra Taft Benson. A Texas court holds evidence Estes bought fertilizer from Commercial Solvents and sold it at a loss to farmers who stored grain in Estes elevators.
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Washington
Justice Department
Senate
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
West Texas
Kennedy
Orville L. Freemen
Freeman
James A. McConnell
Walter Berger
Commodities Stabilization Service
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Benson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
McConnell
Berger
Commercial Solvents Corp
New York
Texas
Senate Debates Literacy Test Bill Stalls as Debate Not Limited
The Senate voted 53 to 43 against a motion to limit debate on the Kennedy administration literacy test bill and 64 to 33 to table it. The measure would exempt those with at least six years of schooling from federal voter literacy tests. Backers say tests suppress minority suffrage. opponents argue it infringes states rights. If antifilibuster rules fail, the bill may be dropped this session.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Dirksen
West Is Thwarted Communists Block Effort To Probe Nam Tha Battle
Western efforts to probe the Nam Tha battle were blocked by Soviet and Polish opposition at the Geneva Laos talks. Polish resistance hindered a study of Nam Tha, while neutralist and anti-Communist factions expressed readiness to resume coalition talks with Boun Oum’s regime.
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Nam Tha
Soviet Union
Poland
Britain
Laos
Prince Boun Oum
Avtar Singh
India
Leon Mayrand
Canada
A. Morski
Malcolm MacDonald
Kang Khay
Souvanna Phouma
Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
MacDonald
Sou
Ble
Sam Neua
Singh
Commission
Vientiane
Boun Oum
Phoumi Nosavan
Foreign Office
London
Moscow
Sir Frank Roberts
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyok
Roberts
Sanford declines stance on medical aid for the aged
At a news conference Sanford praised general interest in aged care proposals but refused to comment on specific plans. He avoided taking a position in line with his hands-off policy on matters before Congress. He supported public school funding optimism yet doubted all goals could be met.
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Raleigh
Sanford
Congress
Kennedy
House
Ways and Means
United Forces For Education
Medical Society Admits First Negro Doctor in Charleston
The Kanawha medical society admitted Dr James H Nelson its first Black member. Nelson 57 of Institute practices in Charleston and serves as school physician at West Virginia State College. He was approved Tuesday by unanimous voice vote.
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Charleston
W.va
Kanawha Medical Society
James H. Nelson
Nelson
Institute
West Virginia State College
North Carolina Doctors Oppose Broad Health Care for Aged
At the 108th annual State Medical Society meeting Dr. John R. Kernodle urged doctors to back voluntary health insurance while opposing a Kennedy plan funding aged care through social security. He highlighted opposition to socialized medicine and supported potential merger of Hospital Saving and Hospital Care Association into a nonprofit insurer.
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John R. Kernodle
Burlington
Annual Society
Kennedy
Kernodle
Society
State Board of Health
Resolutions Committee
Johnston County
Pamlico-Albermarle
North Carolina
Hong Kong Returns Thousands to Red China Amid Refugee Crisis
Hong Kong police and British troops rounded up thousands of refugees fleeing hunger in Red China and forced them back across the border. Overcrowding, lack of host nations, and perilous journeys drove many to unsafe hideouts before capture. Government officials say capacity is exhausted with ongoing monthly attempts by refugees to enter the colony.
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Forrest Edwards
Hong Kong
China
Hong ‘Kong
Kowloon
Maet Af Tham
Thair Child
GE unveils fuel cell power source for Gemini spacecraft
General Electric announces a cut-away mockup of a hydrogen oxygen fuel cell delivering nearly 2000 watts for the Gemini crewed spacecraft. The unit, a foot wide and two feet long, by producing one pint of drinkable water per kilowatt hour, aims to aid life support and cooling aboard the mission.
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General Electric
America
General Electric Co
G.E
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John Chadwick
West
Vientiane, Laos
Oth
Ea Stiuna
Medical Society
State Medical Society
Red China
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