McNamara Affirms U S Nuclear Arms Superior Stance
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara states the United States holds a strategic nuclear deterrent far superior to the Soviet Union and that mobile conventional forces armed with tactical nuclear weapons match any Soviet capability. He spoke at an Economic Club of New York dinner, signaling a Kennedy era policy reply to Berlin tensions and Khru shchev rhetoric.
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New York
Robert S. G McNamara
Kennedy
Berlin
Khruschev
McNamara
United States
Chips to Fall Where They May in Baker Case
Senate Rules Committee member C Clifford P. Case urged a full inquiry into Robert O. Bakers wheeling and dealing, arguing the integrity of Congress and public trust are at stake. The Baker resignation amid civil suit allegations prompted calls for asset disclosure by officials, though not by senators.
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Joseph R. Coyne
Washington
Clifford P. Chase
Senate Rules Committee
Robert O. Baker
New Jersey
Republican
Congress
Baker
Senate
Case
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
State Groups Hearing Claims On Tax Refund Requests
The Arkansas Claims Commission will hear two refund petitions. Robert Franklin seeks 5 514.95 for 1957 to 1961 taxes. J H Dickens seeks 11 346.11 for 1945 to 1961. The 1962 Supreme Court ruled the 1941 law illegal, and 1963 legislation addressed amusement device taxes.
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Little Rock
State Claims Commission
Arkansas
State Supreme Court
Robert Franklin
J. H. Dickens
Magnolia
Supreme Court
Lyle Williams
State Revenue Department
The
Claims Commission
Franklin
Dickens
Williams
Mexicans Charged With Auto Theft Near Highway 67 Labor Camp
Two Mexican nationals identified as Guadalupe Espenoza and Erasmo Contreras, both 17, were arrested by City Officers Rowe and McCulley at the state labor camp west on Highway 67 early today. They were handed to Texarkana officers pending auto theft charges after driving the car to the State Plant Board inspection station, then abandoning it and hitchhiking to the labor camp.
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Mexican Nationale
Guadalupe
Espenoza
Erasmo Contreras
Highway 67
Rowe and
McCulley
Texarkana
State Plant Board
Officials Talk to Professor About Arrest
Washington officials plan to question Yale professor Frederick Barghoorn to uncover why Soviet authorities detained him on spy charges. Three senior U.S. officials will interview him as policy makers weigh the case for future U.S. Soviet cultural exchanges and Moscow talks. Barghoorn was released after denial of further details.
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Lewis Gulick
Washington
State Department
Yale
Frederick C. Barghoorn
Russia
U.S
Barghoorn
Llewellyn Thompson
Moscow
William R. Tyler
Richard H. Davis
Bent Rusk
New Haven
Dom
Kremlin
Weather report and forecast for Arkansas notes light rain
Weather Experiment Station reports 24 hours ending 7 am Tuesday with high 56 and low 52 inches of precipitation totaling .22. Two day totals 1.13 inches. Forecasts show cloudy skies with small temperature changes and occasional rain and widely scattered thunderstorms through Wednesday. Laws to Convincicat on Page Two.
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Arkansas
Contempt Case Is Deferred In Arkansas
JONESBORO Ark AP Action on a contempt of court charge against Memphis attorney Hunter Lane Sr was deferred by U S District Judge Gordon Young Lane was ordered to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for disregarding a bankruptcy referee order to refund 96 41 of a 175 fee he charged The refund order was issued December 31 Youngs show cause order was issued November 4 and the referee received a 9441 check from Lane on November 6 Lane met privately with Young and several Merson attorneys testified for one
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Jonesboro
Ark
Memphis
Hunter Lane Sr
U.S
Gordon Young
Young
Lane
West Memphis
Merson
Man set himself ablaze after report of youths
Atlanta investigators say a 39 year old man, William Lanigan, reported being threatened by Negro youths and tried to burn him. He suffered severe burns and remained in poor condition at Grady Hospital after his clothes caught fire while he was drinking heavily.
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Atlanta
William Lanigan
Grady Hospital
Davis
Kennedy calls on Cubans to oust Castro regime
President Kennedy urged Cubans to overthrow Fidel Castro during a Miami policy address ending a Florida swing. He promised U.S. support for a progressive post Castro government and warned against a new Communist takeover in the hemisphere. He headed to Texas for a three day tour, amid election campaign timing speculation.
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Washington
Kennedy
Florida
Texas
United States
Tampa
Miami
White House
South
Inter
Prosecution Witness Details Murder for Hire Plot
An additional prosecution witness testified in the T Eugene Thompson murder trial about an alleged contract to kill a churchgoing mother of four, Mrs Carol Thompson. The St Paul attorney, 35, is charged with first degree murder for his wife’s bludgeon stabbing last March 6.
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Minneapolis
T. Eugene Thompson
Thompson
St. Paul
Carol
Norman Masterson
William Randall
Sharp
Historic Site in Memphis Sold for 35-Story Bloomfield Plan
A Memphis firm purchased the site of the former Maxwell House in midtown Memphis and announced a 35 story Bloomfield Building project costing 1.3 million dollars with a 6.5 million dollar upper-floor hotel. The Maxwell House burned on Christmas two years prior, killing one man. Bloomfield bought the property from Edwin B. Raskin of Nashville and associates.
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Nashville, Tenn
Memphis
Bloomfield
Robert L. Taylor
U. S
Edwin B. Raskin
Nashville
Group Buys School Bus With Gold Bond Stamps
St Marys Catholic Church in Fort Smith Arkansas begins saving Gold Bond Stamps for a modern school bus to transport rural children. Mrs Kaye Holland Route 9 Box 435 Fort Smith requests 4000 filled stamps books and urges donations via Safeway Stores to forward to her.
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Safeway Stores
Gold Bond Stamp Company
Arkansas
St. Mary’s Catholic
Fort. Smith
Kaye Holland
Ford Smith
Holland
Lebanon Crisis Deepens as Iraqi Power Shift Unfolds
In Beirut AP reports that President Abdel Salam Aref and generals seized power in Iraq from Ba Aath Socialist leaders. Fighting erupts in Baghdad with a curfew, as Aref touts union with Syria and the United Arab Republic while factions clash over leadership and allegiance.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Abdel Salam Aref
Iraq
Ba’Ath
Baghdad
Aref
Syria
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Ba’Athist
U.A.R
Ahmed Hassan El-Bakr
Baghdad Radio
Bakr
National Guard
Alia Saleh I Siaidi
Randolph says Negroes suffer most from unemployment
AFL-CIO vice president A Philip Randolph told the ARL-CIO convention in New York that African Americans face the deepest job losses and risk losing faith in the labor movement unless it acts. He called Black workers pariahs in the economy and warned of growing alienation among the Negro community.
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Neil Gilbride
NEW York
Philip Randolph
Arl-Cio
Randolph
Afl-Cio
Brothers and Sisters
Star City man killed changing flat tire on Highway 81
Ronnie Doggett 24, of Star City, was killed Monday night when struck by a car as he tried to change a flat tire a mile north of Star City. State Police said Max Culpepper of Star City swerved to the left to avoid an oncoming car.
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STAR
Dog Kills Youth in Illinois
In Woodstock Illinois a four month old boy was mauled to death by a five year old sled dog bought a month earlier by the infant's father James Henderson. The dog dragged the child from the car and attacked over a dozen times before the infant died at a hospital about 90 minutes after the attack. Henderson, a dog trainer, said the dog attacked after he briefly left the baby on the car seat and he and his wife Kathryn returned to witness the mauling.
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Woodstock
Ill
Oute Og
James Michael Henderson
James&. Henderson
Henderson
Kathryn
Rugged Time on Skis Ends in Cast for Hollingsworth
SWATSLE av G and L Hollingsworth 44 director of Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories sustains broken arms in separate accidents. A week after removal of a cast from his right arm from a boating crash, he broke the left arm while skiing.
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Swatsle
G&l Hollingsworth
Boeing Scientific Research
Hollingsworth
Hope booster club tours Cowboys Eagles game
Hope booster club took 22 Hope Bobcats to Dallas for a pro game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles in private cars led by Coach Ben Burton and assistants. The drive supports a student loan fund via the Business and Professional Women's Club cake sale starting this week with public cooperation requested.
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Hope Booster Club
Hope Bobcats
Dallas
Dallas Cowboys
Philadelphia Eagles
Ben Burton
Frank Francis
Wesley Huddleston
Jewel Still
Lyle McMahon
Horace Samuels
Clyde Coffee
Hope Business and Professional Women's Club
Wreck damages two cars at Third and Walnut Streets
A collision at Third and Walnut Streets today damaged two vehicles driven by Lester Cook and George Hollis of Hope. City officers Jarvis and Shirley investigated the wreck.
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Third and
Walnut Streets
Lester Cook
George Hollis
Hope
Jarvis
Shirley
Kennedy Seeks Peace With Steel in Speech to Chamber
President Kennedy, addressing the Florida State Chamber of Commerce in Tampa, urged peace and prosperity themes to ease the frayed ties with business since the 1962 steel price crisis. He touted civil rights, tax cuts, tariff reductions, and export expansion while signaling continued sensitivity to business concerns. Continued on Page Two.
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Sterling F. Green
Associated Press
Washington
Kennedy
White House
Wall Street
Florida State Chamber of Commerce
Tampa
Record Corporation
Helena racial demonstration charges filed after city court
Authorities in Helena Arkansas prepared to file charges against 28 of 32 demonstrators in a Saturday racial sit-in as the municipal court sentenced eight youths to six month suspended jail terms with fines and one year probation. William Hansen and John Bradford faced continued cases. Many demonstrators, mostly high school students, were released to parents amid apologies from guardians.
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Helena
Ark
D. S. Heslen
Roy Ross
William Hansen
Pine Bluff
John Bradford
Mount Olive
Miss
Oscar Lee Fuller
Hansen
Bradford
Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee
Ross
Noel Washington
Heslen
Washington
Bill Hudson
Associated Press
Arkansas Am&n
Pine Blaff
SNCC
Quorum Court Sets Budget at $64,275
Hempstead County Quorum Court held a day long session to establish the annual appropriations totaling 64,275 dollars. They added 800 dollars for the Municipal Court and 360 dollars for the County Health Nurse, with detailed allocations to County Court Justice Court Civil Courts Jail Expenses Paupers Fund and other departments plus agency salaries and supplies. The plan includes funding for the Arkansas Crippled Children's Home Health Office staff and courthouse repairs.
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Hempstead
Arkansas Crippled Children's Home
Inez Turner
Gomer Jones
Florence Crittenden
Defense chief defends TFX award as national defense driven
Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric told the Senate Investigation subcommittee that the $5 billion TFX warplane contract award to General Dynamics was based on national defense and nothing else. He argued the General Dynamics design was simpler and less risky than Boeing's rival plan, maintaining the decision was correct.
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Washington
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
General Dynamics Corp
Ft. Worth
Tex
Boeing Co
Seattle
Gilpatric
General Dynamics
Boeing
Anti-harassment Ordinance Passed in Dallas
Dallas City Council unanimously adopted an anti-harassment ordinance after the attack on Adlai Stevenson. The measure allows peaceful picketing but bars interference with entry to or exit from public or private meetings, with a maximum $200 fine.
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Dallas
Adlai Stevenson
U.S
United Nations
Anti-U.n
Can't Get Around Much Any More Grandma's Birthday
Seattle AP report notes Margaret Starkweather laments limited mobility due to advancing years. The longtime resident celebrates her 10th birthday Friday, reflecting on past hunting trips and public activity.
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Seattle
Margaret Starkweather
Grandma Starkweather
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