Youth Job Bill Faces Senate Opposition
President Kennedy’s youth employment bill meets sharp Republican opposition in the Senate as Democrats press for quick passage. Senator Mansfield vows a night session if needed to move the high priority measure despite GOP amendments led by Senator Prouty. The plan creates a federal youth conservation corps and a hometown public service corps to tackle youth unemployment.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vt
Prouty
Congress
Federal
Youth Conservation Corps
Public Service Corps
Interior Committee
Finance Expert Named To Head Ford Company
A Dutch born manufacturing veteran Dykstra named to head Ford, becoming the seventh president in 60 years and the fourth outsider. He previously ran Oldsmobile manufacturing and served at Ford since 1947, with prior tenure at the Air Force Statistical School at Harvard. He met McNamara during that time.
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Detroit
Arjay R. Miller
Nebras‘kan
Ford Motor Co
Miller
John Dykstra
Dykstra
Charles H. Patterson
Foi
Ford
Air Force
Robert S. McNamara
Washington
Defense
Henry Ford II
Ford Company
Federal Reserve Bank
San Francisco
McNamara
Air Force Statistical School
Harvard
Netherlands
Oldsmobile
John S. Gray
Henry Ford
Edsel Ford
Henry
Edsel
Vandals Destroy Fir Trees In Myrick Park Loss About 1100
Eugene Fry, director of parks and recreation, reports about 15 newly planted fir trees were vandalized in Myrick Park causing an estimated $1,100 in damage. Trees transplanted from the city nursery were damaged while others escaped. Fry notes repeated vandalism this spring includes broken fireplaces, beer bottles and bathhouse windows.
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Eugene Fry
Parks and Recreation
Myrick Park
Fry
Myrick
Woman sentenced for forging four Milwaukee checks
MILWAUKEE AP Mrs. Winona Crippen 42 of Fond du Lac was sentenced to four years at the Wisconsin Home for Women at Taycheedah after pleading guilty to forging four employer checks totaling 6697 for Jim Mechel Building Specialties Inc Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Winona Crippen
Fond du Lac
Wisconsin
Taycheedah
Three Nation Control Group Seeks Laos Peace Efforts
The International Control Commission led by Avtar Singh visits Plaine des Jarres as tensions persist between neutralist forces and Pathet Lao. SEATO, U S allies plan a show of force with air sea maneuvers while mediators aim for a peace meeting between Kong Le and Pathet Lao leaders.
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Antoine Yared Vietiane
Laos
International Control Commission
Plaine Des Jarres
Pathet Lao
Avtar Singh
India
United States
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Khouang
Plaine de Jarres
Vientiane
SEATO
Phoumi Nosavan
Kong le
Paris
Thailand
South China Sea
Control Commission
Singkapo
Plaine
Xieng
Kennedy delays trip over steel price rise
President Kennedy postpones departure to Palm Beach from 4 p.m. to 9 15 a m Thursday amid reports of a $6 a ton steel price hike by Wheeling Steel Corp and possible industrywide increases. White House officials say steel was a major factor but offered no direct link.
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Washington
Kennedy
Florida
Wheeling Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
White House
Palm Beach
Pierre Salinger
Salinger
New York
Wheeling Steel
William A. Steele
Wheeling
Cuban crew recaptured after five days at sea and prison
Jack Browne, a former Milwaukeean, says his fishing boat crew was captured off Cuba after 25 days at sea, held in Havana secret police cells for 67 days, and pressured to embrace communism during interrogation. He notes the captors believed they were CIA agents and says medicines and food were flown in as part of a ransom.
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Miami
Jack Browne
United States
Browne
Cuba
Central Intelligence Agency
Havana
Diefenbaker seeks minority support after election loss
Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker flies to Ottawa to consult with Social Credit and New Democratic leaders on backing to stay in office. Liberal Lester B. Pearson prepares to form a government if Diefenbaker resigns after Liberals win 128 of 265 seats.
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Max Harrelson
Toronto
John G. Diefenbaker
Ottawa
Liberal Party
Social Credit
New Democratic
Lester B. Pearson
Diefenbaker
Liberals
House of Commons
New Democrats
W. L. Mackenzie King
Commons
Mackenzie King
T. C. Douglas
Douglas
Robert Thompson
Real Caouette
Churchill Named Honorary U.S. Citizen by Congress
President Kennedy signed a proclamation making Sir Winston Churchill the first person to receive honorary American citizenship by an act of Congress. Churchill expressed gratitude in a London broadcast as ceremony took place with White House officials and international dignitaries watching.
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Sir Winston
Randolph Churchill
Britain
Sir Winston Churchill
White House
John Kennedy
Randolph
Winston
Tazewell Shepard
Navy
Mrs. Kennedy
Washington
United States
Kennedy
Churchill
Marquis de Lafayette
Lafayette
Maryland
Virginia
U.S
Congress
London
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marine Corps
George Ball
Wheeling Steel Price Rise Sparks Market Taproom Clash
Wheeling Steel Corp raises select prices about six dollars a ton on a year after a Kennedy era clash. The move influences steel stocks and may affect union talks as manufacturers stockpile in case of a strike by the United Steelworkers of America.
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United Steelworkers of America
Afl-Cio
Wheeling Steel
New York Stock Exchange
Washington
Reynolds hits flu causing two public appearances to be canceled
Governor John W. Reynolds, felled by influenza, cancels two key events. He was to attend a Kenosha groundbreaking for an American Motors plant addition and to make a tax bill appeal before the Joint Finance Committee. Reynolds will be replaced by Roger Miller at the Kenosha ceremony and Stanely Zuckerman at the legislative hearing, with a return planned for Thursday after rest.
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Zuckerman
Reynolds
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