Kennedy Cuts Aid Requests $420 Million
President Kennedy, facing a cautious Congress, trims foreign aid by 120 million and lowers total new funds to 4.5 billion in a special message. With carryovers, actual aid would total 41.85 billion, down from 51.0 billion previously. He touts tighter standards and private sector development via targeted tax credits.
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UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Citizens’ Committee
Lucius D. Clay
U.S
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Otto E. Passman
D-La
House Appropriations
Clay Committee
Latin America
Alliance For Progress
India
Navy Rebels Back Revolt In Argentina Gains and loses footing
Two retired army generals proclaimed a revolt against President Jose Maria Guido and won initial naval support. Radio stations were seized but the uprising dissolved by noon and navy units remained in revolt in some areas. The plan aimed to block June elections seen as Peronist.
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Buenos Aires
Jose Maria Guido
Guido
Juan D. Peron
65 000 To Lose Railroad Jobs
Chicago based report states that at 12:01 a.m. on April 8 U.S. railroads will implement work rules changes aimed at ending featherbedding, potentially eliminating 65 000 railway jobs. James E. Wolfe, chairman of the National Railway Labor Conference, announced the move after a Supreme Court decision lifted a remaining injunction.
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Chicago
U.S. Supreme Court
James E. Wolfe
National Railway Labor Conference
National Railway Mediation Board
Kennedy
Costumes Planned for Wichita Mountains Easter Pageant
Mrs Maud Smith oversees a volunteer wardrobe for 400 to 800 actors in the Holy City Easter pageant. Donations from individuals and groups supply most costumes including robes and parachute nylon for angel wings. Rehearsals do not use costumes, and a sea of Galilee is created with blue parachute material.
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Virgil Gaither
Hollywood
Wichita Mountains
Ku Klux Klan
Maud Smith
Holy City
Sea of Galilee
Jennifer Lee
Jay 8. Lee
Wichita Falls
Angel
Oklahoma Senate committee approves broader city tax powers
Oklahoma City report says the senate municipal government committee advanced a bill allowing cities to levy new taxes with voter approval. The measure targets cigarettes gasoline insurance premiums and payrolls among others while excluding ad valorem property taxes. The bill moves to revenue and taxation then back to the senate.
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Oklahoma City
API
Senate Municipal Government Committee
Fred Harris
Lawton
House
Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
Senate
Roy Grantham
Ponca City
David Fudge
Oklahoma Municipal League
City approves waterworks study contract for 21 000
City council adopts a resolution for an eight month waterworks system study to plan present and long range needs. C H Guernsey and Co. will prepare plans with federal aid aided by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and Industry. The study cost is estimated at 21000 with two thirds funded by the federal government.
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Oklahoma Department of Commerce and Industry
C. H. Guernsey and Co
Oklahoma City
Lawton
Georgia Alabama football scandal report details improper communication
A two week investigation led by Attorney General Eugene Cook found that Georgia coach Wally Butts and Alabama coach Paul Bryant spoke by phone on September 13, 1962. The 16 minute call allegedly discussed plays formations and techniques that could have affected the September 22 game. George Burnett overheard part of the call. Alabama won 35 to 0.
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Atlanta
Eugene Cook
Carl E. Sanders
Wallace Butts
Paul Bryant
Cook
Sanders
Saturday Evening Post
Butts
Georgia
Bryant
University of Alabama
Alabama
George Burnett
Wally Butts
John Griffith
Moon IV launched as Soviet moon probe pursues early landing
The Soviet Union fired an unmanned 3,130 pound Moon IV research vehicle from an Earth satellite, aiming for a moon landing or close flyby. Tass said it would reach the moon's area in about three days with instruments functioning, as Barabashov of Kharkov urged more photos to map topography and atmosphere.
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Candy
Candy Barr
Troylene
Edna
Goree
Juanita Phillips
Jack Sakhian
Ollywood
Calif
George Syvertsen
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
Tass
Yellow Sea
Nikolai Barabashov
Kharkov Observatory
Barabashov
Moon
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Eubanks Calls County Grand Jury for April 15
District Judge Luther B. Eubanks announced a county grand jury will convene April 15 as a continuation of the 1962 grand jury recommendations. Thirty six names drawn Jan 7 will be summoned to report at 9 a.m. April 15 with notice by registered mail at least ten days prior.
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Luther B. Eubanks
Eubanks
Ollie Fite
China to Free Indian Prisoners in Repatriation Plan
The new China News Agency announced that Communist China will release and repatriate 3,213 Indian prisoners of war still held after last fall’s border fighting. The release begins April 10, under a note delivered to the Indian Embassy in Peking.
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Tokyo
China
New
China News Agency
Peking
Thunderstorms forecast across southwest Oklahoma area today
The U S Weather Bureau warns of a line of thunderstorms developing in West Texas this afternoon and moving east into Oklahoma. Some storms may be severe with hail and damaging winds 3 to 9 p.m. along and 60 miles on each side of a Lubbock Texas to Hobart Oklahoma corridor.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Texas
Lubbock
Tex
Hobart
Okla
Texas-Oklahoma
Arnett
Cheyenne
Req River
Randlett
Lawton
Weather Bureau
Texas Panhandle
Tulsa
Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base
Guymon
Ponca City
Kennedy Sets Western Tour
President Kennedy plans a June inspection tour of Western military bases and will attend the U S Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado Springs. He will present diplomas at the academy on June 5 and visit North American Air Defense Command, White Sands Proving Grounds, and San Diego fleet maneuvers.
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Washington
Kennedy
U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
Air Force
Penned
North American Airfense Command
el Paso
Tex
White Sands
N.M
Frank D. Roose Opens Center in Tokyo
AP reports Frank D. Roose opened a center downtown Tokyo today marking another step in his international initiatives. Local officials welcomed the development as a venue for cultural exchange and business collaboration.
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Tokyo
Frank D. Roose
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