Congress Pressured On Taxes
Washington AP reports Congress faces pressure to enact a tax cut this year while Kennedy weighs delaying broader reforms. Leaders doubt quick passage of a bill combining rate cuts with tax-code revision, as Dillon prepares to testify February 6 on the first stage of a three-year reduction.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Today's Chuckle The Trouble With Blowing One's Own Horn
A lighthearted quip notes the trouble of praising oneself as it leaves little wind for progress. The joke hinges on a play on blowing horns and climbing, implying self-praise hinders results.
Daytonian Arrested In Bank Theft
FBI agents recover additional 5700 of the 7900 holdup at Citizens Federal Savings and Loan in Dayton. Clayton L. French, 37, unemployed nurse, arrested at home Thursday night on federal bank robbery charges. Earlier 1100 recovered. remaining 1100 expected today. Bandana mask and toy pistol found near the office in a shopping center north of city limits.
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Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Co
Clayton L. French
Ed Mason
Cincinnati
FBI
Mason
French
Savings and Loan Office
Photographs Taken Of Alabama U By Air Force
The Montgomery Advertiser reports a Justice Department spokesman confirmed the Air Force photographed the University of Alabama campus in anticipation of a possible integration showdown at the all white university. Edwin Guthman said the images could help in case they were needed, drawing a parallel to Mississippi integration events.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery Advertiser
Justice Department
Air Force
University of Alabama
White University
The
Advertiser
Edwin C. Guthman
University of Mississippi
Guthman
Bethesda
Hit And Run Motorist Kills Three Workmen
In Kansas City a hit and run vehicle struck four men working to lay a telephone conduit at Oak and Truman Road. One man, Jesse Francis Blankinship, 35, died while two others were injured but in satisfactory condition. A fourth worker wrestled with the driver, who fled on foot after the car stopped a block away. Thomas Williams, 21, aided in stopping the vehicle.
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Kansas City
Oak and
Truman Road
Jesse Francis Blankinship
Thomas Williams
Williams
Mercury Astronaut Cooper May Orbit On April Two
Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. may begin an orbital Mercury flight on April 2 lasting 18 orbits or 22 orbits for about 27 to 34 hours. If successful, he would land in the Atlantic north of Puerto Rico or in the Pacific near Midway Island. NASA has not announced dates yet. The mission follows the Mercury program with Gemini early next year and Apollo later. Cooper may use an improved couch and restraint system and sleep in two four hour blocks with ground-controlled wake signals. Walter Schirra Jr. reflected on cloud cover during his October flight and noted difficulty in sighting ground flares. Cooper’s experiments include a seven-pound flashing sphere and a 30-inch sphere towed by line for visual observations.
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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Air Force
Atlantic
Puerto Rico
Pacific
Midway Island
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cooper
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Earth
Africa
Australia
Navy
Durban
Perth
Wreckage Of Bomber Found Near Elephant Mountain
Air Force says an $8 million B52 bomber from Westover Air Force Base Massachusetts was found wrecked ten miles east of Greenville Maine near Elephant Mountain. Nine airmen were aboard when the craft broke up. no survivors sighted as a paratrooper waved from ground.
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Katahdin
Fire bug suspect sent to Lima State Hospital for observation
Columbus Ohio AP report states 19 year old William Ostermeyer a confessed arsonist has been ordered admitted to Lima State Hospital for a 30 day period of observation by authorities.
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Columbus, Ohio
William Ostermeyer
Lima State Hospital
Kennedy says Cuba buildup not supported by evidence
President Kennedy says aerial surveillance shows no massive Soviet buildup in Cuba. He notes 16,000 to 17,000 Soviets on the island are active but only one Soviet ship since October carried arms, with no offensive weapons proven. He pushes for a three year 13.6 billion tax cut and outlines Atlantic alliance unity amid De Gaulle’s Europe.
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France
United States
Europe
Charles de Gaulle
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Atlantic Alliance
Khrushchev
America
Italy
Turkey
Mediterranean
U.S
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N-Y
Castro
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Rusk
Central Intelligence Agency
Thank God 1170 Cuban refugees arrive on freighter
1170 Cuban refugees arrive at Port Everglades aboard the freighter Shirley Lykes. The travelers, mostly relatives of the 1113 released prisoners, endure a rough voyage and join a Red Cross medical team after disembarking. The group includes 390 men, 527 women, and 253 children, many fleeing loss of possessions.
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United States
Shirley Lykes
Port Everglades
Fort Lauderdale
Hadeen
Fidel Castro
U.S
Red Cross
Cuba
Havana Harbor
Fidel
Fla
Havana
Nation Wide Cold Grips Nation Amid Severe Winter
Bitter air mass grips country from Rockies to Atlantic causing record lows in the South and Midwest. At least 112 deaths reported from exposure and related incidents as schools close and travel disrupts across regions including Florida’s citrus areas. Florida remains uneven with Everglades spared while northern counties freeze.
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Rockies
Atlantic Coast
South
Tennessee
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Nine Dead In Ohio’s Cold Wave
Ohio endures a deep freeze with at least nine deaths linked to the storm and cold. Forecasters warn of a slow warming trend, possible 8-23 degree readings in various regions, while heart attacks from shoveling snow and icy highway accidents contribute to the toll. Schools close, gas supplies strain, and a Columbus auto store reports battery jumper cables sold out.
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Ohio
U.S. Weather Bureau
Joseph Plogman
Cincinnati
Wayne County
Brown County
Columbus Auto
Rusk to back Kennedy on Cuba buildup probe begins
President Kennedy defends the claim of no new Cuban military buildup while Republicans seek independent inquiry into the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Rusk to testify as senators push for closed hearings with CIA officials. Kennedy discusses air support plans and assigns White House responsibility for the invasion failure.
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Washington
Cuba
Senate
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Kennedy
Caribbean
Whistlers Mother Exhibition Opens in Atlanta Date Set
The famous painting Whistler's Mother will come to Atlanta for an exhibition opening February 10. Arthur L. Harris, French consular agent in Atlanta, said the painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler would arrive February 5, according to a French government statement.
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Atlanta, Ga
Whistler
Atlanta
Arthur L. Harris
James Abbott McNeill
Longshoremen Vote Favor Return to Work West Coast Ports
In New York the settlement reached by the Kennedy era mediation board prompts longshoremen to vote overwhelmingly for resuming work. Walter A. Sullivan of the AFL CIO International Longshoremen's Association notes plans to withdraw pickets from the Port of New York as crews prepare to return within 24 hours after official confirmation. Some South Atlantic and Gulf ports face local disputes threatening the nationwide move.
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New York
Mediation Board
Kennedy
Walter A. Sullivan
Atlantic Coast
Afl-Cio International Longshoremen’s Association
Maine
Texas
Sullivan
South Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Atlantic
Gulf
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