JFK and Mac Turn Policy Focus to Southeast Asia
Kennedy and Macmillan shifted allied policy to Southeast Asia with talks on Laos, Vietnam, and Cold War issues. Officials planned final rounds, while the leaders prepared a Honey Fitz boat meeting to review progress and confer on the Laotian crisis and nuclear disarmament.
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JFK
Mac
Southeast Asia
Russia
Red China
Laos
White House
State Department
Potomac River
Honey Fitz
South Viet Nam
Washington
Break Down Dr Finch and Carole Get Life Terms in Murder Case
Los Angeles AP reports a jury convicted Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff of murdering Finch's wife Barbara Jean Finch. The trio of trials ended with a life sentence instead of the death penalty, with parole possible after seven years in 1968.
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Los Angeles
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Finch
Carole
California
Barbara Jean Finch
West Covina
Keith
David Coleman
Mystery over tax bill legality sparks legislative standoff
Topeka AP reports House leaders debate the legality of last minute tax bills tied to a 5 per pupil school aid boost. Two conflicting resolutions and a March 17 deadline triggered questions about who can reintroduce bills, with a noon leaders’ meeting planned to decide if reintroduction occurs in the House or Senate.
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Topeka
House
Senate
Paul Wunsch
R-Kingman
Ways and Means Committee
Wunsch
John Anderson
Weather Notes Northeast Kansas Cool Week Ahead
A cool and mild pattern continues through Friday for Northeast Kansas. Tonight's lows expected between 28 and 32 degrees with Friday highs in the upper range.
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Kansas
Americans Rally To Aid Sgt York Tax Debt
Thousands respond to a fund seeking 25 000 to wipe out Sgt Alvin Yorks World War I tax debt. Letters flow in from all walks of life with many generous contributions including 1000 gifts from Sam Rayburn and Douglas Dillon, amid stories of Yorks 1918 ArmThe Argonne heroics.
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Gordon Brown
Sgt. York
Gorden Bac
Washington
Alvin York
Capitol Hill
Joe L. Evins
D-Tenn
York
Carapaign
Sam Rayburn
DéTex
Denver
Bobby
Lamie
Kankakee
Sergeant York
Rayburn
the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
William Randolph Hearst
Will Clayton
Philip L. Graham
The
Washington Post
Abe Pough
Memphis
Argonne
Tennessee
Injunction Ordered to Halt Negro Evictions in Tennessee
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Judge Marion S. Boyd to grant a preliminary injunction to stop eviction of several hundred Negro sharecroppers from rented Haywood County land in Tennessee. The DOJ Civil Rights Division sought the order due to landowners not renewing contracts because the sharecroppers registered to vote in 1960. The court had previously issued a temporary restraining order against contract terminations.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
U.S. 6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. Dist
Marion S. Boyd
Memphis
Tenn
Haywood County
Tennessee
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Court of Appeals
House Okays Move For Reappraisal at Olathe
The House adopted a resolution asking the secretary of defense and President Kennedy to review the transfer of the Naval Air Technical Training Unit from the Olathe Kansas Naval Air Station to the Glynco Georgia Naval Air Station. The measure was introduced by representatives from Johnson Wyandotte Franklin and Douglas counties.
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Teeta
House
Toy
Oo Secretary of Defense
Kennedy
Naval Air Technical Training Unit
Olathe
Kan
Naval Air Station
Glynco
Johnson, Wyandotte
Franklin
Douglas
Kansas House Approves Pay Raises For State Officials
The Kansas House passed multiple pay hike bills raising salaries for governor and most state officials by five percent effective January 1963. Increases cover district judges, supreme court justices, district court reporters, highway patrol, corporation commission members, and several appointive positions. bills move to the Senate for further action.
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Topeka
Highway Patrol
House
Gove Ror
State Supreme Court
Senate
Corporation Commission
Alcoholic Beverage Control
Veterans Commission
Revenue
The
Board of Agriculture
Supreme Court
Two Extra Tax Days Allowed by Government
The nation’s taxpayers will have two additional days to file federal income tax returns, extending the deadline to April 17 as April 15 falls on a Saturday. The extension follows law allowing shifts when deadlines land on weekend or holidays, with past practice treating timely mail-in postmarks before midnight on deadline day as on time.
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Washington
Katanga Ban Sparks Growing U N Crisis
A U N spokesman warned Katanga’s boycott endangers operations as sanctions bite Elisabethville. Alex Bellina confirmed Tshombe’s pledge to halt sanctions was not fully accurate. U N chief Tombeleine was ejected from a hotel and warned against further disruption.
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Elisabethville
the Congo
United Nations
Katanga
U.N
Moise Tshombe
Alexander Bellina
Tshombe
Ireland
Sean McKeown
Michael Tombelaine
McKeown
Congo
Leopoldville
Sabena
Labor chief warns job gap remains grave at 10 million target
Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg warned that even with growth America faces a serious unemployment problem. He said 10.5 million new jobs are needed next year for full employment, with seven million required if unemployment drops to 4 percent. He cited March figures of 5.495 million unemployed and 65.516 million employed. He outlined extended benefits, ethics rules, labor representation changes, and resistance to broader retail coverage.
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Washington
Arthur J. Goldberg
Goldberg
Kennedy
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Ida Klaus
New York City Labor Department
National Labor Relations Board
Sen. A. S
Mike Monroney
D-Okla
KU Nuclear Unit Nears Operation at KU Campus
Final assembly of Kansas University's 10 kilowatt reactor proceeds north of 15th Street across from Allen Field House. The $567000 facility is nearing initial operation with tests planned through summer and research use expected in later summer.
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Kansas University
Thurman Shoptese of
McLouth
Russell Mesler
15Th Street
Allen Field House
Messer
Prof
Sheriff and Deputy Join Flying Saucer Group Witnesses Sighted Object
Douglas County Sheriff Fred Broeker and Deputy Wayne Schmille join the We Who Have Seen Flying Saucers in the Sky group. They report a fast moving blue and red object sighted near Baldwin on a road block night.
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Sheriff Broeker
Object
Douglas County
Fred Broeker
Sam
Broeker
Wayne Schmille
Brooker
Wayne
Baldwin
Brookes
Forbes
Topeka
Broecker
Schmille
Fred
Dick Stanwix
Eddie Bond
Uncle Sam
Raney to Open Third Store At Dillon's Plaza
Raney Drug Co announces a 90000 expansion at Dillon Plaza Shopping Center at 1800 Mass. Lt. Richard M. Raney says a new Raney drug store will be south of Dillon's Food Store and Waters Gifthouse, with a 40 foot front on Massachusetts Street and 100 feet depth. An additional 50 foot front building will sit between the new store and the existing Dillon building. The project aims for completion by September.
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Dillon Plaza
Mass
Richard M. Raney
Raney Drug Co
Company
Dillon Food Stores
Raney Drug Store
Dillon’s Food Store
Waters
Massachusetts Street
Raney
Dillon
Raney Hillcrest
Mild days and cool nights forecast in Lawrence
Weather in Lawrence shows mild days and cool nights with a springlike forecast through Friday. Daytime temperatures near 60 by afternoon, with mornings around 30 to 40 and a high of 55 yesterday.
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Lawrence
Weather Bureau
Massachusettes Street parade marks WWI start 44 years ago
Forty four years ago the Massaa chusetts Street parade and Bowersuck theater rally signaled the W orld War I begin. Citizens crowded downtown as Governor Troutman spoke at the meeting and local men enlisted, amid scenes of pride and fear. A Baldwin cobbler was arrested as a suspected spy, while a milk wagon crashed on a Lawrence hill startling bystanders. Douglas County pledged support to the war effort.
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Massaachusetts Street
Bowersuck Theater
Journal-World
Germany
Baldwin
United States
Secret Service
Chargd
James A. Troutman
Topeka
J. D. Bowersock
Henry Asher
Jack Fritzel
Lawrence
12Th
la. Sts
Douglas County
Journal-World Reports
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Harold Macmillan
Dr. Finch
Kansas House
Tom Johnson
Journal-World Photo
U.N. Man
Labor Department
Dillon's Plaza
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