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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1961
Page
2
As tax deadlines loom, millions face payments while employers withhold. Rebates total about 200 million to aid a slump. President weighs a temporary tax cut if no upturn by April. A Gallup poll finds people would spend extra pay on debts, housing, food, and recreation.
Secretary Kenneth B. Keating warned in Washington that New York will press to secure a fair share of defense work. He pledged to push bills aiding small businesses and directing contracts to areas with high unemployment as California steps up its drive to retain defense business.
In a broadcast summary the article notes former Vice President Richard M Nixon saying he will not run for governor of California in 1962. Some supporters think he should reconsider after large turnouts during a four day San Francisco visit. Robert Lindsey of San Jose, president of the California Republican Assembly, voices the possibility. Nixon spends Sunday resting at his San Francisco hotel and holds informal meetings with friends before returning to Los Angeles.
Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph M A H Luns arrived in Washington Sunday for talks on U S Netherlands relations and tensions with Indonesia. He will meet President Kennedy and confer with Secretary of State Rusk and other officials before returning to New York Wednesday. Luns named Edward J Sparks to the South American post and James Kedzie Penfield as ambassador to Iceland.
Robert F. McCann an American businessman released from Communist Chinese imprisonment died of cancer and remained in serious condition Sunday at Clark Field U S Air Base hospital. An Air Force spokesman said his condition was unchanged since arriving from Hong Kong about ten days ago. The spokesman did not know when McCann aged 60 would continue his trip to the United States. The Air Force plans to fly him to America if his condition permits.
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