Threatened Strike Off For 30 Days
Washington AP The nation s railroads agreed to delay posting new manpower trimming work rules for 30 days averting a nationwide strike next Tuesday. Daniel P Loomis president of the Association of American Railroads announced the decision at a House Commerce Committee meeting. The 195 carriers involved would not impose the changes until 12 01 a m Aug 29. The railroads said the step aims to cooperate with Congress which is weighing President Kennedy s plan to refer the dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission.</S>
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Daniel P. Loomis
Association of American Railroads
House Commerce Committee
Loomis
Congress
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
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J. E. Wolfe
National Railway Labor Conference
Wolfe
Oren Harris
D-Ark
John O. Pastore
D-R.i
Senate Commerce Committee
Pastore
Nixon Warns West On Khrushchev’s Mellowed Image
Former Vice President Richard Nixon warned the West not to misread Khrushchev as mellowing over the test ban. He cited East Berlin and Budapest as evidence of repression and warned of ongoing Soviet espionage and Latin American Communist subversion. Nixon said true relaxation would show in greater freedom for Communist nations and referenced Hungary and the Berlin Wall as failures of past administrations.
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Richard M. Nixon
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Nixon
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Budapest
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East Bloc
Latin America
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U S Automakers Hit All-Time 1963 Production High
Detroit AP reports U S automakers reached an all-time 1963 model car output with vehicle No 7 130 001 rolling off the line late Wednesday or early today surpassing the prior 7 130 000 record set by 1955 cars. Final 1963 run expected around 7 340 000 before mid August changeover. Specific plant production not identified.
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Detroit
U.S
90 Degree Day Sustains Heat Wave Across Wisconsin
La Crosse recorded a 90 degree day marking the 12th time since June 22 this summer. Meteorologist Carl Peterson notes July follows normal patterns with highs in the low 90s possible through Thursday and Friday. Lone Rock and Eau Claire posted 91 degrees, Needles, California hit 117, while Redmond, Oregon cooled to 34.
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Carl Peterson
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Mercury
Coulee
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Lone Rock
Eau Claire
Needles
Calif
Redmond
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FEPC Set to Be First Civil Rights Bill in House
Washington AP reports the fair employment practices bill may be the first civil rights measure acted on in the House this session. Leaders hope floor action before the August 28 Washington march. The bill would create a five member FEPC commission and an administrator to ban employment discrimination, while a GOP substitute would shift enforcement to federal courts.
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Washington
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Congress
House Education and Labor Committee
GOP
Robert P. Griffin
R-Mich
Wisconsin weighs $141 million in new taxes to balance budget
A Wisconsin special negotiating team reached a budget plan for 1963-65 totaling about $626.4 million with new taxes estimated at $141 million. The package includes a 0.3 percent income tax increase, a $2 filing fee, auto registration surcharge, and expanded sales taxes aimed at funding a roughly $630 million biennium. The plan seeks to avert the state’s long financial crisis amid divided legislature.
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John W. Reynolds
Wisconsin
Robert Knowles
New
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Reynolds
Glen Pommerening
Wauwatosa
Pommerening
Howard Koop
Department of Administration
U S Britain And Russia Initiate Nuclear Test Ban
In Moscow a partial nuclear test ban was initiated and expected to be signed next week by Britain the Soviet Union and the United States. Hariman Hailsham and Gromyko hailed the pact banning tests in air space outer space and under water. The ceremony will include Dean Rusk Lord Home and Gromyko. The move follows a three hour meeting at Spiridonovka Palace. The West pressed for a broader nonaggression pact but negotiations remained focused on the test ban. Khrushchev signaled future steps. See NUCLEAR Page 2
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W. Averell Harriman
Britain
Soviet Union
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Dean Rusk
Lord Home
Gromyko
Hailsham
Foreign Ministry
Spiridonovka Palace
Khrushchev
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Alliance
Averell Harriman
Andrei A. Gromyko
NATO
Wisconsin Tangles Over Citizens Letters To Legislators
Wisconsin Republicans weigh an amendment to allow residents to write to their senator or assemblyman about legislation without inducement. Atty. Gen. George Thompson, a Republican, backs the aim to simplify lawful citizen communication. An AG opinion previously held messages to lawmakers must be sent to all legislators, not to individual members. The dispute followed telegrams from state college officials urging or opposing a tax, challenging the ruling and drawing protests from publisher William Evjue.
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Madison
Wisconsin
George Thompson
GOP
Thompson
Pinion
Association of Wisconsin State College
William T. Evjne
The
Madison Capital Times
Evjue
Paul Alfonsi
R-Minocqua
Priests' Bikes Stolen From Front of FBI Building
Two Milwaukee priests studying at Georgetown University reported their rented bicycles missing from bike stands in front of the FBI headquarters. Fathers Glenn Gessner and Gilbert Semsa returned from touring FBI offices to find their bikes gone.
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Milwaukee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Glenn Gessner
Gilbert Semsa
Georgetown University
Justice Department
FBI
Political Harvest Slim At Governors Parley
Democrats and Republicans left the 55th Governors Conference with few political gains. Rockefeller drew Civil Rights attention as a top 1964 GOP prospect while Goldwater held steady with state GOP leaders. Romney pressed civil rights support yet criticized federal economic policy. Rhodes liked Cleveland as 1964 host. Anderson won chairmanship from Rosellini as the chair rotates between parties.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Barry Goldwater
Rariz
GOP
George Romney
Michigan
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Cleveland
John Anderson Jr
Kansas
Albert D. Rosellini
Washington
U S Embassy Seized In Cuba Expropriation
The Castro government seized the United States Embassy in reprisal for Cuba's bank account freezes in the United States. The building has housed the Swiss Mission for American Affairs since relations broke on January 4, 1961, under a Swiss flag.
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