Tough Road Ahead For JFK Plans
President Kennedy faces a tough path as Congress weighs proposed powers to negotiate lower European tariffs, tax revisions, and a three year $3 billion Alliance for Progress fund. He seeks authority to ease recession risks, expand social programs, and push higher education aid, while civil rights and urban affairs face skepticism. Republican leaders deride the plan as broad and impractical, while Democrats offer cautious support for ambitious goals.
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Coal Output Up In Early January Figures
Washington AP reports bituminous coal production for the week ended January 6 estimated at 7.4 million tons, up from 6.83 million tons a year earlier, according to the National Coal Association on Thursday.
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Jazzman Loses Custody of Child in Los Angeles Case
AP report says Pete Candali, husband of actress Betty Mullan, lost physical custody of Tara Claire Candali to her mother, Vicky Lane, after claims Candali and Miss Hutton left the child with servants while away on show engagements. The couple were previously divorced in August TSAR.
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Automation Unemployment Aid Debate in Advisory Report
A government labor advisory group led by University of California President Clark Kerr urged combining automation growth with strong human safeguards. The plan mirrors Kennedy proposals, calling for federal unemployment standards, public works, and education aid, with private industry boosting jobless support and early layoff notices. Key members include Henry Ford II, John M. Franklin, J. Spencer Love, George Meany, and Walter Reuther with Arthur Goldberg as chair. Dissent came from Ford and Arthur Burns over emphasis on automation effects and unemployment standards.
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Bus Driver Keeps Family Warm After Snowbound Journey
In Crossett Arkansas a Negro grandmother Mae Lee Johnson and her granddaughter Gwendolyn Faye spent two nights aboard a stranded Continental Trailways bus amid a snowstorm. Driver C. C. Barrow organized meals and shelter using white and Black volunteers. local hotel staff and residents offered rooms, meals, and invitations. By Thursday, aid flooded in from white and Black residents with many offering lodging.
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Continental Trailways
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Texarkana
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Los Angeles
Julian Haas
Raldio Station
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Howard Johnson
NLRB Finds firm armed workers in 1960 strike clash
Washington AP. The National Labor Relations Board ruled a Florida firm supplied guns and ordered drivers to pursue strikers with cars during a 1960 union organizing drive. Cone Bros Construction and Tampa Land & Material Co. faced unified findings of unfair labor practices for arming nonstriking employees and threats to shoot others.
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Champions Named at Pennsylvania Farm Show
Harrisburg AP reports champions selected Thursday at the Pennsylvania Farm Show including Beef Cattle Shorthorn female Timberlee's Beauty with second place FAV Smalstig Pittsburgh Polled Hereford Bull F.L.F. Domestic W8 Falklands Farm Schellsburg Bedford County Market Lambs Cheviot Mrs. David McDowell Mercer R.D.4 Suffolk Timothy Newton New Albany Bradford County.
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Suffolk
Timothy Newton
New Albany
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McCormack Attends All-Women Luncheon Surprise
Washington AP Report: Speaker John W. McCormack, thinking telegrams came from Orville, appeared alone at an all women luncheon in the Senate Office Building. The Democrat crowd welcomed him with cheers as the First Lady Mrs Kennedy joined as guest of honor at the 15 women event.
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Kennedy State of the Union echoes in proposed economic moves
Kennedy’s State of the Union proposals spur a mix of bills. Retraining for the unemployed advances with a $655 million Senate bill, youth employment corps gains Senate approval, and a one hundred fifty thousand member program while the House channels a milder version. A 15 percent investment tax credit for machinery is likely to move in the House. Postal rate hikes loom, tax withholdings on dividends may join a tax revision bill, and excise and corporate rates look set to extend. Transportation tweaks include possible halving the 10 percent travel tax.
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Erie Firm May Purchase Assets In Ansonia Plant
An Erie, Pennsylvania firm entered into an option to buy the operating assets of the Ansonia Manufacturing Co. which produces screw machine products. The option by Penn-Union Electric Corp would take effect for another month. Ansonia employs about 125 people.
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Broadcasters Discuss Polio on Indiana Public Schools Station
Indiana Public Schools will air a special program Sunday January 14 at 6 15pm to mark January as the March of Dimes month. Senior Broadcasting Club members of Indiana Joint High School present a panel on polio causes and effects with Christine Oliverio and Donna Yakubosky writing the script. Panelists include Margi Brody Rose Marie Adaornato Ed Rankin and Gary Overdorff moderating.
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Two House Committees Hold Kennedy Program Fate
President Kennedy’s 1962 agenda hinges on two House panels led by conservative Southern Democrats. The rules and Ways and Means committees control the path of his proposals, with Mills and Smith pressuring for or blocking votes. The rules panel can stall action while Ways and Means handles tax and Social Security matters, including a disputed medical care bill.
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Arkansas
Ways Aid Means
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
Smith
Aviation Fuel Dealers Reap Benefits in Pa Tax Cut
Harrisburg AP reports John W. MacFarlane executive director of Pennsylvania Aeronautics Commission says aviation fuel dealers reap all benefits from 1961 state fuel tax cut. He cites a personal survey conducted after the legislature authorized the half cent tax reduction.
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Rescuers Hampered In Peru
Rescuers faced rock and snow in Peru as avalanches hampered efforts. The report notes fuel prices and profits, while lawmakers in Philadelphia scrutinized a 1961 Pennsylvania jet fuel tax cut and its impact on airport funding and aviation subsidies.
Pennsy Central agree on merger terms loom over rail combine
AP reports Pennsy and New York Central directors meet separately to approve financial terms of a planned merger involving about 8.5 billion in assets. The deal, shaping a single large railroad, requires stockholder and Interstate Commerce Commission approval, with DOJ scrutiny and potential labor opposition due to expected job cuts.
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Avalanche Devastates Ranrahirca Killing Dozens
Survivors recount the Ranrahirca avalanche that began with a blast like dynamite and swept down the canyon in eight minutes. It buried the village cathedral and colonial art, damaged the village hall and school, with only some houses beyond the slide surviving. Air force helicopters helped rescue workers at a hydroelectric plant. troops cleared roads as Peru faces repeated disasters in the Andes.
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