Kennedy backs large tax cut without reform to spur growth
President Kennedy pressed for a $10 billion or larger tax cut in 1963 without reform to avoid a recession. He warned that failure to pass a sizable reduction could trigger a post war recession with job losses and a higher deficit. He urged Congress to rewrite the package only if needed and defended fairness across brackets.
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Alvin Spinar
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
American Bankers Association
Bankers Today
Afl-Cio
Bankers Association
Big eater John Sully Jr dies at 29 in New Jersey
AP reports John Sully Jr aged 29 died after a heart attack. He could eat six pizzas at once and finish a case of beer while watching TV. His physician Dr. A. T. Stokes said his weight, warned two months earlier, was endangering his life. Sully stood 5 feet 10 inches and weighed 650 pounds.
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N. J
A. T. Stokes
John Sully Jr
Sully
Supreme Court Reverses Racial Demonstration Convictions
The Supreme Court 8 to 1 overturned 187 breach of peace convictions of Negro students and residents from Columbia South Carolina for a March 2 1961 protest at the State Capitol. Justice Stewart wrote the majority holding the arrests violated free speech and assembly rights. Justice Clark dissented.
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Washington
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Stewart
Clark
Columbia
S.C
State Senate
Warren
Black
Douglas
Harlan
Brennan
White
Goldberg
Daniel McLeod
High Court
See Court
Burglars Steal Medical Kits From Doctors Cars
Police report multiple burglaries targeting doctors cars last night. Two kits were stolen from unlocked vehicles in driveways while five other cases involved searches and attempted trunk entries. A Lawton man also reports briefcase thefts from his car.
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Cleo Stout
Deloy Misel
Misel
Lawton
Don Sherry
Columbia
Fatal Disinfectant Case Kills Apache Man On U S 277
An Apache man, 76, died when a case of liquid chlorine disinfectant blew from a milk truck and shattered the windshield of the vehicle he rode in on U S 277 north of Lawton. Two Walters men also died in a Sunday one car crash near Walters, as weekend traffic toll reached 97 statewide.
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U.S. 277
Lawton
Walters
Cotton County
Dick McNeill
Roger Dale Sanders
S. Broadway
Howard Trahan
Indiana
Zonnie Burris
Okmulgee
Beverly J. Clark
Oklahoma City
McNeill
U. S. 277
Fort Sill
Quinnette Road Crossing
Dick Cawley
Highway Patrol
J. D. Sechrist
Rt. 3
Apache
Central Oklahoma Milk Producers Association
Richard Dewayne Ross
Sullivan Drive
Cawley
Trahan
Sanders
SH 5
Herbert Barber
Tranahan
Barber
Burris
Russell
Miss Clark
Okemah
Lawton Highway Patrol
Comanche County
Pearson Funeral Home
Welch
Imogene Spannagel
Dennis
Richard
Regina
Brownie
Cynthia
Shawn
Howard Jr
Risa
Lucia Trahan
Jennings
Howard
Allen
Wiley Trahan
Louisiana
Mabel Premeaux
Pearson Funeral Home Chapel
Keven Devlin
Walters Cemetery
Jim Ury
Ford
U.S
Local Option Dry Pushed as Only Safeguard in Oklahoma
Ross J. McLennan of SANE criticized Oklahoma liquor policy saying local option is the only effective deterrent to crime and corruption. He compared Oklahoma unfavorably to Kansas, urged voters to back local option, and condemned current liquor control as written by the industry.
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Oklahoma
Ross J. McLennan
Sooner Alcohol - Narcotics Education
SANE
McLennan
Kansas
Genet Enters Plea in Oklahoma City Funds Case
Former state commerce and industry director Max Genet Jr. pleaded innocent to two felony counts charging diversion of state funds. A preliminary hearing was set for March 7 at 9 a.m. Genet posted bonds totaling 10,500 and spoke to reporters after the arraignment.
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Oklahoma City
UPS
Max Genet Jr
Commerce and Industry
Justice of the Peace
Wendell Foster
Genet
Foster
Commerce and Industry Department
Howard Edmondson
Los Angeles
Calif
Oklahoma
Senate
Warplane Funds OKayed By House Panel
The House Armed Services Committee voted to authorize extra money for two RS70 bombers and added two nuclear powered attack submarines not requested by the administration. The move lifts Kennedy’s arms bill toward a record peacetime total near 16 billion dollars before it goes to the House floor.
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Washington
UPI
House
Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Kennedy
Rules Committee
Gary Man Named To Aid Quiz Of Gourley Regime
Gov. Henry Bellman appointed Tom G. Martin of McAlester as temporary commissioner of the state Insurance Fund to aid a Senate investigation of Gourley era expenditures. Martin, a former eight year fund official, will assist the probe as the department undergoes reorganizational changes and Bellman conducts a Northwest Oklahoma tour.
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Gary Man
Quiz
Gourley
Oklahoma City
Tom G. Martin
McAlester
State Insurance Fund
Senate
Henry Bellman
Martin
Raymond Gary
Washington
Oklahoma
Department of Commerce and Industry
Capitol
J. Leland Gourley
Johnston Murray
Bellman
Ray Fine
Gore
Charles Nesbitt
Board of Managers
Himself
Nesbitt
Cooler Readings Shift Across Southwest Oklahoma
The U S Weather Bureau reports mild starts and blustery north winds 10 to 25 mph across southwest Oklahoma with a cooling trend by nightfall. Highs reach 55 in the north to 75 in the south with lows 24 to 42 as conditions turn mostly cloudy east and partly cloudy west.
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Oklahoma
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lawton
Weather Bureau
Altus
McAlester
Mercury
Guymon
Congolese Premier Adoula Arrives in Brussels for Belgium Visit
Premier Cyrille Adoula arrived in Brussels from Leopoldville marking the first visit by a Congolese leader since the Congo gained independence on June 30 1960.
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Brussels
Bellum
Cyrille Adoula
Leopoldville
Belgium
Ransom Ship Arrives With Supplies for Havana
The Red Cross charter Priamos arrived in Havana from New Orleans with another batch of ransom goods for the Pig Bay invaders. It marked the third ship to reach the Cuban capital with such provisions.
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Havana
Three Convicts Up for Parole From Oklahoma Prisons
The state Parole and Pardons Board recommended parole for three inmates. Arvel W. Maxwell, 33, of Tulsa County manslaughter in a traffic death. Richard G. Davis, 36, serving 10 years for robbery from Oklahoma County. William Thomas Reid Jr., 33, serving 10 years for rape from Oklahoma County.
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THE
Associated Press
Henry Bellmon
Bellmon
House Common School Committee
Bill Shipley
J. D. McCarty
Shipley
Senate Appropriations Committee
General Revenue Fund
E.L
Bud) Stewart Jr
Shawnee
Highway Commission
Senate Roads and Highways Committee
Nat Irish
Muskogee
Robert Newhouse
Tulsa
John Cooper West
Elk City
By Jack Bell
Everett’ M. Dirksen
R-I
Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
Batista
John Stennis
D-Miss
Stennis
Robert F. Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Scott
United States
Organization of American States
OAS
Gonzalo J. Facio
Buralars
Pauls Valley
Lake Eufaula
Adoula
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