Education Bill Faces Rough Road Through Congress
President Kennedy’s education bill opens with Hearings before the House Education and Labor Committee led by Anthony Celebrezze and Francis Keppel. Republicans press to prune the package, which groups aid for schools, colleges, libraries, and adult ed, with first-year costs about 1.2 billion and three-year totals ranging from 4.6 to 7–10 billion depending on the estimate.
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Anthony J. Celebrezze
Adam C. Powell
Dn.y
Education and Labor Committee
Charles E. Goodell
R-N.y
West U S Still Cold Brings Sharp Midwest Warm-Up
A fresh mass of cold air ended a brief western warming spell as temperatures rose in the Midwest and West. Subzero readings persisted in New England and New York, while warmer Pacific air spread across the Rockies to the plains and Great Lakes. The Midwest enjoyed a warming trend after Sunday morning subzero cold.
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Italy Backing Britain’s Bid to Join the Market
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan returned from Rome with Italian support for Britain’s move to join the European Economic Community despite Charles de Gaulle's opposition. Macmillan cited unanimity of Italian and British views and urged perseverance. A Brussels communique urged salvage of European unity and endorsed Kennedy’s multination nuclear force plan while France pursues its own nuclear capability. Spaak warned that rising nationalism in France endangers a unified Europe.
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Amintore Fanfani
Macmillan
Rome
Italy
Britain
Anthony White
London
Charles de Gaulle
Amintore Fanfan
Brussels
Kennedy
de Gaulle
United States
France
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Spaak
le Peuple
Europe
Jackie Kennedy Visits New York for Shopping
Jacqueline Kennedy arrives in New York after a Washington departure delayed two days by bad weather. The former first lady plans a brief shopping trip in the city during her stay.
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New York
Jacqueline Kennedy
Washington
Testimony Begins In Ohio U Murta Murder Trial
In Athens Ohio former Ohio University education professor Gene Isaac Steel faces first degree murder charges for beating his pregnant wife Helen to death with a crowbar last October and dumping the body in a lake. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty and will present three witnesses including the victim’s parents and a former companion. Judge John Bolin presides and a 12 member jury was selected after extensive voir dire.
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Ohio University
Gene Isaac Steel
Helen
Miles Tabor
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Steel
John Bolin
Kennedy to Issue Cuba Shipping Order Soon
Washington sources say President Kennedy will issue a long awaited order restricting shipping to Cuba. The plan centers on banning U.S. government or government financed cargoes to ships calling at Cuba after January 1. The move aims to raise Cuba's costs by forcing reliance on its own ships and to isolate Fidel Castro's regime.
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Kennedy
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Fidel Castro
Dean Rusk
Defense Department
United States
Showdown Nearing In Canadian Crisis
Firemen and arson investigators probed a million-dollar blaze that destroyed the plush Youngstown Club in Youngstown Ohio.
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Youngstown
Youngstown, Ohio
Violence at Nicaraguan election mars Somoza rule
In Managua violence broke out as Nicaraguans voted to extend the Somoza regime. Three men and an infant died and eight were wounded in clashes between National Guardsmen and anti-Somoza demonstrators. René Schick Guama, backed by the ruling party, was declared the winner amid charges of a sham vote and boycotts. Opposition leader Dr. Fernando Aguero Rocha was arrested for incitement but later placed under house arrest after urging followers to end demonstrations.
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Rene Schick Gu
Cuttuerrez
Somozalran Liberal Party
Fernando Aguero Rocha
Aguero
Schick
Somoza
Luis Somoza
Somozas
Bomb threat call casts doubt on Case Hospital search
Delaware Ohio AP reports police investigated a bomb threat to Jane M. Case Hospital after a man phoned Sunday claiming a device would detonate at midnight. No suspicious items were found during the search.
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Delaware, Ohio
Jane M. Case
Robbery report on Hrivak notes possible two accomplices
Police said Hrivak reported seeing only one man but heard considerable noise during the robbery. They believe the gunman may have had two accomplices who were let into the building after tying up the watchman. The watchman smelled smoke, freed himself, and called the fire department.
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Hrivnak
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Firemen battle zero weather blaze for two hours
Firefighters fought a general alarm blaze for two hours in near zero weather before bringing it under control. Fire Capt. James Prosser, 49, was admitted to South Side Hospital with a possible abdominal injury and was to undergo tests. Seven other firefighters were treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation or minor sprains from ice falls.
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South Side Hospital
Six Fishermen Survive Storm But Three Die Near Gulfport
Six of nine Sea Horse crew members lashed together with rope were rescued by Coast Guard cutter Nike after their trawler sank in 25-foot seas about 40 minutes from rescue. Dead were Willard Hull Archie Wilson and Wesley Eli. Survivors treated for shock and exposure after the vessel left Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
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Coast Guard Cuttter Nike
Willard Hull
Archie Wilson
Pensacola
Fla
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Haslett
Theodore
Ala
Max Alford
John Summers
Sea Horse
Griggs
Summers
Nike
Canada faces possible dissolution over nuclear warheads crisis
Ottawa reports Defense Minister Harkness resigns from cabinet over nuclear warhead policy as Canada nears a constitutional tipping point. Diefenbaker’s government clings to power amid opposition demands and Washington pressure on Bomarc missiles and Voodoo jets. A no confidence vote looms with Liberal Pearson courting Social Credit and New Democrats.
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Social Credit Party
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New Democratic
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House of Commons
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Keating Keeps Kennedy On Run With Cuban Charges
Senator Kenneth B. Keating accuses the Kennedy administration of a Soviet arms buildup in Cuba. He cites stronger military strength and missile bases, while officials contest specific figures but acknowledge some plausibility of his warnings. Keating refuses to disclose his information sources beyond saying the government holds similar or greater data.
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Washington
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Edwin Martin
ABC
Senate
Senate Internal Security
Civil rights advocate seen without overt party ties
Observers describe him as a strong civil rights supporter with no clear Republican affiliation, noting the challenge of fitting him into a partisan frame.
Weather improves with light snow and rising temperatures
The region sees improving weather aside from light snow or sleet tonight. Temperatures moderated overnight and are warming today, with a warm trend expected into the end of the week. Yesterday’s low was 12 and high 20, today’s low 22.
Man Trails Woman Doing Everything Right Joke
A witty line notes the perplexity of a man following a woman who handles driving correctly, highlighting humorous role reversal and everyday gendered observations in a lighthearted quip.
Mother and four children die in Massillon blaze
In Massillon Ohio a mother Jane Burhenn 33 and her four children Edward Peter 13 Eric Phillip 9 Roxy Ann 5 and Gretchen 6 months perished in a house fire believed caused by an overheated coal furnace. The father Edward was burned and treated for shock. The home was destroyed.
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Ohio
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Roxy Ann
Gretchen
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