JFK Backing Apostle Island Park Plan
President Kennedy expressed support for creating a national park at the Apostle Islands in northern Wisconsin. He viewed the 72,000 acre site from an Army helicopter and praised the white sand beaches by Lake Superior, comparing them to Cape Cod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Wisconsin
Apostle Islands
Lake Superior
John F. Kennedy
Cape Cod
Kennedy
Land and People Conference
Duluth
Minn
U.S
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Nelson
President Kennedy Visits Northern Wisconsin For Resource Rally
President Kennedy spoke in Ashland addressing northern Wisconsin’s economic distress and resource preservation. He cited saving fresh water soil forests and air and toured Apostle Islands before a 5000 crowd at Ashland Airport. The trip highlighted federal help to revive iron ore mining railroads timber and farming communities.
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Kennedy
Ashland
Wis
Duluth International Airport
Wisconsin
Harry Simon
Simon
Secret Service
Georgann Lowe
Washburn
Parity Of Opportunity New Kennedy Farm Goal
President Kennedy urged a new farm goal parity of opportunity in Grand Forks as he addressed 10,000 supporters at the University of North Dakota field house and received an honorary doctor of laws degree. He outlined rural electrification, dam programs, and expanded economic opportunities while stressing local concerns and conservation during a five day Western swing.
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Grand Forks
N.D
Kennedy
Duluth
Minn
University of North Dakota
White House
Bomb Blast Shakes Birmingham Amid Racial Unrest
A second bomb exploded in Birmingham hours after a two man presidential team arrived to aid racial unity. Police say two bombs were detonated in a plan to draw residents out for a larger attack but the second blast occurred too early. The site is a middle income Negro neighborhood on the south side near 16th Street Baptist Church, tying into a string of postwar bombings and unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Maurice House
16Th Street Baptist Church
Kenneth Royall
Lee
N Test Ban Ratified by Presidium in Moscow
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet unanimously ratified the limited nuclear test ban treaty shortly after the U S Senate action. Tass reported the 33 member body acted under constitutional authority while the Supreme Soviet was not in session.
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Moscow
Supreme Soviet
U.S. Senate
Tass
Presidium
Trade policy shift eyed as Soviet wheat talks studied
An aide said no Soviet approach has been made on US wheat sales. Traders pressed for possible deals but no official contact occurred. Ottawa talks involve US grain firms with a Soviet delegation led by S A Borisov. The White House and agencies study legal and policy issues amid Ottawa activity and a Canadian 500 million wheat sale.
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Freeman
Ovid A. Martin Washington
Orville L. Freeman
Soviet Union
U.S
Thomas R. Hughes
Duluth
Minn
S.A. Borisov
Joseph
Ottawa
Minneapolis
Charles Ritz
International Milling Co
Ralph Bruce
Archer Daniels Midland Co
Leopold Stern
Louis Dreyfus Corp
New York
Joseph Group
Minneapolis Tribune and
Des Moines Register
The
Tribune
White House
State, Commerce and Agriculture
Kennedy
Dow Jones
Financial
Wall Street Journal
Holland
Charles W. Bailey
Congress
the Tribune
Edith Brings 80 mph Winds to Martinique and St Lucia
Edith battered Martinique and St Lucia with 80 mile per hour winds and heavy rain. A hurricane watch was issued as the storm moved toward Puerto Rico within 24 hours. A tropical low near the Yucatan could develop into the season’s sixth tropical storm.
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Miami
Fla
Edith
Caribbean
Martinique
St. Lucia
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Gulf of Mexico
Rochester approves 7.7 million school bond issue
Rochester voters approved a 7.7 million school bond by 4439 to 2798 with about 35 percent turnout. Funds will finance a second senior high school two elementary schools and additions and remodeling of several elementary schools.
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Rochester, Minn
Rochester
U S suspends relations with Dominican Republic
Washington reports suspension of diplomatic ties with the Dominican Republic and a halt to economic aid until further notice. Officials say the action follows the overthrow of the government with which the United States had relations.
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Washington
State Department
Dominican Republic
United States
Tax Cut Passage Seen In House Vote
Democratic leaders forecast passage of President Kennedy’s 11 billion tax cut bill in the House before day's end with most Southern Democrats voting against the spending limit. If approved, tax cuts would begin to impact paychecks next January, with two thirds effective then and the rest a year later.
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Washington
House
Kennedy
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
McCormack
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
GOP
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means
Mills
Bobby First Witness As Crime Probe Opens
A Senate investigations subcommittee opened hearings into organized crime with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy detailing secret meetings assassinations and a power struggle in New York. He highlighted insider Valachi as breaking the underworld code and described Cosa Nostra as run by a nine to twelve member commission setting policy and allocating territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby
Washington
Senate
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Kennedy
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
America
Joseph Valachi
Underworld
Valachi
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Cosa Nostra
McClellan
Middle East
Europe
Mafia
Black Hand
Vito Genovese
Cosa
Monks Stop Attempted Renewed Demonstrations in Saigon
In Saigon Buddhists briefly tried to demonstrate in front of the National Assembly as McNamara and Taylor reviewed the situation. Police swiftly crushed the action, arresting a monk and companions and detaining several others as hundreds watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Viet Nam
Kennedy
Ngo Dinh Diem
National Assembly
Dominican forces oust President Bosch and outlaw leftists
Dominican Republic armed forces and police overthrew President Juan D Bosch and called for a respectable successor. Communists and Castro supporters were outlawed as riot police removed signs and arrested leftists. A provisional government to be set by leaders of opposition parties while schools, stores, and factories were closed. Bosch, 53, reportedly held at the palace or flown from the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Armed Forces
Juan D. Bosch
Bosch
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Fidel Castro
Trupillo
Carmen Bosch
Puerto Rico
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
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JFK
Apostle Island Park
By Harry Breuscher
Hope
Kennedy Farm
Rural Electrification Administration
Rea
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
Jerry ‘Zabana
Mark Fletcher
Red Cliff
Bad River
National Park
Alex Roye
Chippewas
Fred Connors
Bad River Reservation
Christine Petersen
Robert S. McNamara
Gen
Maxwell D. Taylor
Tan Son Nhut
South Viet Nam
Henry Cabot Lodge
UPI Radiotelephoto
Canada
Hughes
By Edmond Lebreton
G. Milton Kelly
U.S. Information Agency
Joint Chiefs of Staff
McNamara
Castro
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