One Economy Bill May Pass, 2nd Not Likely
President Kennedy prioritizes an unemployment compensation bill to add up to 13 weeks of benefits for long term jobless. A second measure to raise and extend the minimum wage faces opposition from those who fear overreach and others who want more. Ways and Means and Labor Committee work on financing changes and wage coverage.
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Barry Schweid
Washington
Kennedy
House
Means
Labor Committee
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Wasiington
APL
Arne J. Goldberg
Congress
Tut
Adam Clayton Powell
D N
Lele
Pawsy
AEC
William Schnitzler
Afl-Cio
Tessimony
Laker
Goldberg
Kennedy asks Congress for extra unemployment aid
President Kennedy urged Congress to provide 83 million dollars more for unemployment compensation payments to former federal employees and ex servicemen as current funds would exhaust around March 1. The package adds to earlier Eisenhower requests and includes a 10 million boost for the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Labor Department
Dwight D. Risenhower
Risenhower
Bureau of Old Age and Survivors
Eisenhower
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pierre Salinger
Fighting in Cuba Escambray Clashes Tighten Castro War
Reports from Cuba say heavy casualties mount as rebels resist in the Escambrays with 11 militiamen killed near Trinidad and 300 wounded elsewhere in the south central region. Some 50,000 militiamen and 4,000 policemen push to wipe out 1,000 rebels amid open fighting.
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Cuba
AVANA
Escambray
Fidel Castro
Las Villas
Trinidad
Cys
Weather Arkansas mild with scattered showers today and tomorrow
Arkansas experiences mild weather with scattered showers today. Cooler air moves in tomorrow providing a drop in temperatures across the state.
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Arkansas
Negro Youth Robs Bank Kills Teller in Lake Charles
Wilbert Rideau, 19, a teen from the same shopping center, shot and knifed to death bank teller Julia Ferguson 50 and wounded two other employees, then abducted them in a $14,000 robbery. He was captured driving Ferguson’s car. Branch manager Jay Hickman was wounded. Dora McCain survived. Rideau faced murder, kidnapping, and armed robbery charges.
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Lake Charles
Wilbert Rideal
Julia Ferguson
Henry Reid Jr
Rideau
Reid
Sherff
South Gate
Gulf National Bank
Jay M. Hickman
Unem
Dora McCain
Bane
Verguson
McCain
Hickman
Ouachita Group Names President
H W McMillin of Arkadelphia was re elected president of the Ouachita River Valley Association today. Other officers named include Louis Hurley and Harold Woods of El Dorado and J E B Wheeler of Sterlington La as vice presidents and H K Thatcher of Camden as executive director.
Phelps Speaks in East Texas Inauguration News
In Marshall Texas the Rev Howard C Bennett was inaugurated as president of East Texas Baptist College at First Baptist Kilgore succeeding Dr HL D Bruce who becomes president emeritus. About 60 college representatives attended among 300 or more people at the rites. Rev Ralph Phelps Jr of Quachila College Arkadelphia spoke at luncheon and listed many pressure groups the new president will face.
Look Editor Is Named Ambassador Look Editor Is Named Ambassador
President Kennedy named William Attwood 41 foreign editor of Look magazine ambassador to Guinea Attwood joined the Democratic National Committee as a writer during the campaign He resides in New Canaan Connecticut and leaves Look magazine for the post As ambassador he will represent the United States in Guinea
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Washington
Kennedy Today
William Attwood
Look Magazine
Guinea
Attwood
Democratic, National Committee
Allwood
New Canaan
Conn
Rusk Statement Protested by Egyptian Official
Cairo Deputy Foreign Minister Wassein Zulficar Sabry summoned the U S ambassador to protest Secretary of State Dean Rusk s report that the United Arab Republic sent arms to Congo rebels. The Mickle Hast News Agency quoted Sabry calling Rusk s claim a flagrant equivocation and asked for clarification in Washington. The agency said Rusk s report showed ignorance of the map of the world.
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Cairo
Wassein Zulficar Sabry
U.S
Dean Rusk
United Arab Republic
Congo
Mickle Hast
Zulficar
Frederick Reinhardt
Rusk
Reinhardt
Washington
Rees' Father Takes Stand for Son
In Baltimore Melvin Davis Rees Sr testifies he saw nothing when his son arrived home about 13 hours after the government says Rees abducted Mrs Mil dred Jackson and her daughter Susan in Virginia. A Washington couple also testified that night the defendant was in their home during the alleged kidnapping.
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Baltimore
API
Melvin Davis Rees
Young Rees
Virginie
Melvin Davis Rees Sr
Idyallsville
Ald
Rees
Mildred Jackson
Susan
Apple Grove
Maryland
Washington D.C
Carroll V. Jackson
Sales Declined in Eighth District Stores
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports department store sales in the Eighth District for the week ended Feb 1 fell nine percent from the same week in 1960. Memphis drop 14 percent, St Louis 41 percent, Louisville six percent, and Little Rock three percent. Seven smaller districts rose one percent. Four weeks and year to date figures show declines.
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ST. Louis
API
Fectoral Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Federal Reserve
Memphis
St Louis
Louisville
Little Rock
Bill Sets Up Life Fishing Licenses
ARVASVILLE ROCK AP The House passed a Senate bill to authorize suspending drivers licenses in certain traffic cases and require driving school and safety essays. Members debated a life fishing license proposal with tiered fees, with 16 year olds paying 40 cents and seniors paying 2 dollars, amid constitutional concerns.
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Faulkner County
W. EH. Lanson
St. Francis County
Clavis Kinney
Lanson
Game & Wish Commmission Authority
Kinney
House
Senate
Rtevenue Department
Walker Named President of Arkansas Board of Health
Samuel Auburn Walker, 54, of Russellville, elected president of the Arkansas Board of Health to succeed Dr. Woof Alsfadl. Dr. J. T. Herron, the state health officer, warned about fly-by-night drug makers counterfeiting name brand drugs and selling them to druggists in parts of Arkansas. He noted a Booneville Tuberculosis Sanitarium shipment of drugs, likely bought at a cut-rate price, was found to contain dirt and was rejected.
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Little Rock
Samuel Auburn Walker
Russellville
State Board of Health
Woof. Alsfadl
Little Tack
J.T Herron
Arkansas
Booneville
Aircraft Must Sound Alarm
Washington authorities ordered pilots to notify air traffic control immediately if any navigational or communications equipment fails in flight. The directive, effective now, covers all aircraft in controlled air space under instrument flight rules and follows the December 16 New York collision investigation.
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Washington
Federal Aviation Agency
PAA Air Treffic
New York City
Tornadoes Lash Oklahoma 12 Hurt Across Towns
A Friday night outbreak of winter tornadoes tore through central Oklahoma, damaging a town and battering four others. No deaths were reported but at least 12 people were injured. Konawir and Stratford areas bore heavy damage as debris blocked streets and power lines failed. National Guard patrolled the scene while crews searched wreckage for victims.
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Oklatoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Wardestiil
Konawe Town
Here
Thain Street
Konawir
M. Perkins
National Guard
Sonawa
Louise Critvens
Stratford
Duce
Wewoka
Allhhree
Oklahoma City
Jones
Government plans survey on family spending costs
New York report says Labor Department will conduct a comprehensive survey of consumer spending habits to update the cost of living index. Statisticians will question families in 27 cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and others, about incomes and expenditures to refine the yearly index base.
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New York
Labor Department
Plas
Ewan Clague
Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
Labor Tee
Chicago
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Boston
Piltshore
Cleveland
Lotral St. Louis
Baltimore
Washington
Arkansas Weather Pioneers Record By Hempstead Doctor
A historic note recounts Hempstead County physician Dr Nathan Douglas Smith as the first Arkansas weather record keeper. From the 1830s to the 1860s he logged daily observations in Washington, with a deep, detailed diary later shared with the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The correspondence includes his methods, instruments, and a belief that the records offered vital insights for crops on upland soils.
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Arkansas
Hempstead County
Nathan Douglas, Smith
Tope Star
de Nothin Douglas Smith
Smittsonian Institution
Washington, D.C
New
Talih
Smithsonian
Sith
Red River
Ouachita
Washita
Fulton
Little Missouri
Tooseph Henry
Dre Smith
Washington, Ark
N. D. Smith
Smith
Smithsonian Institution
Arekansas
Grain Terminal for Stuttgart to Expand Inland Trade
Arka AP report states We Arka Grain Corp announces Stuttgart expansion to become the South's largest inland grain terminal. The plan adds 64 new soybean storage tanks and strengthens existing facilities with four towering units. Work starts immediately with completion targeted for September. The Stuttgart complex will reach about 3.0 million bushels capacity for the crop. Other AGC plants already handle substantial soybean storage across the region.
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Stuttgart
Arka
We Arka Grain Corp
L. C. Curler
AGC
Carter
AWG
Star One of 1299 Daily ABC Papers
Montiership list of Me At Boerka of Circulations of Chihange shows Lippe Star among 1209 newspapers. Tape lists seven ABC cities in Arkansas with Fayetteville Fort Smith Little Rock Pine Bluff Rogers Texarkana. ABC notes 274 advertiser members and 275 advertising agencies. director control rests with universal advertisers. Newspapers publicly sworn statements of circulations twice yearly ending March 30 and September 30, with audits by Chicago-controlled auditors.
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Boerka
Chihange
Lippe Star
ABC
Arkansas
Ayetteville
Fort Smith
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Rogers
Texarkana
Board of Directors
Addit
Bureau of Circulations
Chengpen
Hope Stars
Chicago
Warns About Drugs at Low Prices
State health officer T. Herron warned buyers to beware of dozen or so fly-by-night firms selling drugs at counterfeitly low prices. He said some offer low rate medicines that may lack strength or contain proper ingredients only sometimes, posing serious health hazards especially to heart patients. Investigations were ongoing.
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Rock
API
Ded T. Herron
Tosday
Fle
Herven
Herron
Rules Group to Free All Measures in House
Washington AP report says the Rules Committee, long a bottleneck, will free for full House action every bill on its docket. Chairman Howard W. Smith of Virginia vows to adopt a broader method, challenging Speaker Rayburn as Kennedy proposals gain support. The shift follows a reported shift from 2 to 13 members, expanding the panel’s reach and signaling tighter party control.
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Geoffrey Gould Washington
Fppe
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Sam Rayburn
Dvex
Smith
Republicanolumnittee
Ray- Hien
Kennedy
Rayburn Ikl Sraith
Hitler
Hasyburn
Rayburn
Spit
BUTTE
Asia and Africa push for stronger UN action on Congo
Asian and African leaders pressed the United Nations Security Council to authorize force to head off civil war in the Congo. The draft sought a broad U.N. mandate and drew support from the United States with reservations, while the Soviet Union warned of a veto and called for a complete U.N. operation. If vetoed, an emergency General Assembly session could be convened within 24 hours. otherwise action would await the resumed March 7 session.
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William N. Oatis
United Nations
N.Y
Asia
Security Council
Congo
U.N. OW
Ceylin
Liberia
Hit
U.N
Africa
Strdies
United States
U.S
Adlai Stevenson
Unin
Day Hammarskjold
Joseph Kasavabu
Stella Ebeinge
Soviet Union
Kasavubu
Hammaatskjold
U.N. Cong
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