Faiths Unite for Eight Day Prayer Week Across Denominations
Protestants Catholics and Orthodox join in a global unity effort from January 18 to 25 with mutual prayers in homes and churches. The observance is backed by national and world church bodies and includes laity participation. Dr Hugh N MacKechnie, 87, former Loyola surgery head, dies in Chicago.
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New York
Titus Cranny
Graymoor Friars
Garrison
N.Y
Faith and Order
National Council of Churches
United States
World Council of Churches
Chicago
Hugh N. MacKechnie
Stritch School of Medicine
Loyola University
Kennedy Budget Highlights for 1963 Outlined
President Kennedy’s budget message sketches fiscal 1963 spending. Surplus around 500 million with revenues near 93 billion. defense up to 52.7 billion. space and space research funding boosted. farm, natural resources, and public works spending adjusted. tax enforcement and debt limit changes proposed.
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Washington
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
Food For Peace
Export-Import Bank
InterAmerican Development Bank
Space Research
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Moon
Earth
Congress
Internal Revenue Service
State of the Union
Berlin Tanks Begin Pullback as Soviet Armor Withdraws
U S Army tanks retreat from the Berlin wall area and Soviet tanks leave their bivouac near Unter den Linden amid easing tension in a divided city. West Berlin training trips and Adenauer's planned visit highlight ongoing Cold War signals. four East Germans escape to the West in the night.
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Berlin
U.S
Berlin Wall
Friedrichstrasse
Wall
East Berlin
Soviet Union
Templehof
Unter den Linden
Electricians Win 30 Hour Week and Raise in Landmark Deal
New York union electricians win a five hour day and pay raise after a week of strike action. The settlement affects 125 of 600 electrical contractors and may influence the broader city shutdown of 80 percent of the $14 billion industry. The contract runs July 1 to June 30, 1964, with a 30 hour week and overtime set at $7.44. Local 3 leader Harry Van Arsdale Jr. notes overtime limited to 15 hours weekly and cites unemployment protection amid new machinery advances.
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New York
Union Electricians
Building Trades Employers Association
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Harry van Arsdale Jr
Local 3
van Arsdale
Mc Kan Areas Part of Plan
President Kennedy’s appropriation requests include Missouri and Kansas flood control and reclamation projects. The package seeks 70 million dollars for lower Mississippi river works and tributaries, with about 10 million less for the Missouri River basin. Kansas projects feature Almena unit 4.83 million, Cedar Bluff unit 906 thousand, and Glen Elder unit 750 thousand for land, canal and relocation work.
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Washington
Missouri
Kansas
Kennedy
Mississippi River
Cape Girardeau
Almena
Norton
Cedar Bluff
Greek Offered at KU Now in Spring Semester
Kansas University will offer beginning Greek in the spring for the first time in 1962. Greek I has traditionally been fall only. the new five hour course by Dr. Austin Lashbrook will count toward the 16 hour language requirement and will have one section.
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Kansas University
Austin Lashbrook
Court Denies Claim Against Texas Trucking Co
A $70 526 damage claim against Vincent Trucking Co. of Lockney Texas was denied in U S District Court in Wichita. Judge Arthur J Stanley Jr directed verdict against plaintiff Rev L H Young of Morland Kansas. Defendants were C L Vincent d b a Vincent Trucking Co Ennis Lee Hemphill Plainview Texas and an insurance firm.
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Wichita
Texas
U.S. District Court
Arthur J. Stanley Jr
L. H. Young
Morland
Kan
C. L. Vincent
Vincent Trucking Co
Lockney
Tex
Ennis Lee Hemphill
Plainview
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Need
Association
Unite Chretienne
THE
Associated Press
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Berlin
Glen Elder
Almis Presley Ubive
Halwalus
Bactunthay
Walters
Vivien Leigh Reesee
Sione
Aera
Warner Bros
PIZZA
Pizza Hut
Granada
Steve Cochran
State of
Ober’s Menswear Sale
Massachusetts
Ford
Youll
Ford Motor Company
Valane Yy Ford
Vermont
Lawrence, Kansas
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