Newburgh Defies State With 13 Point Welfare Clampdown
Newburgh New York, population 31,000, adopts a 13 point program to curb welfare costs, drawing praise and national opposition. City officials cite legal authority, while state leaders and Gov Rockefeller question legality and federal funding risks. Program limits aid to three months yearly for most recipients, bars welfare for unwed mothers bearing more children, and halts payments to able bodied men who refuse work.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
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Joseph Mitchell
Mitchell
Washington
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Plans Made For 2nd Space Trip
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP Virg il I Grissom and John H Glenn Jr move toward America's second manned space flight Tuesday morning. Grissom 32 an Air Force captain is the No 1 flight choice with Glenn 39 a Marine lieutenant colonel as backup. They dine on a prepared menu and study charts in a Cape ready room as medical and psychological tests proceed. Shepard counsels the two as they prepare Liberty Bell 7 a Mercury craft with an enhanced escape hatch larger window and improved controls for emergency exits.
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Glenn
Alan B. Shepard
Shepard
Sshepard
Libery Bell 7
Feedom
Mercury
Space Flight Prep For New Astronaut Training Mission
Space Administration will announce the selected astronaut Monday, 24 hours before launch. The mission mirrors Shepard's historic flight with a Redstone rocket to lift a manned capsule 115 miles up and 300 miles downrange. Grissom and Glenn began a high energy diet to reduce waste and provide quick-burning reserve for the test.
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Glenn
Powell vows to block pro union bias in education labor panel
Rep Adam Clayton Powell warns he will use his chairmanship to stop any legislation aiding unions that discriminate racewise. Speaking at a Negro labor officials meeting aligned with the NAACP convention he denounced craft unions as resisting integration and pledged action to keep them in line with democracy.
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Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
House Education and Labor Committee
Powell
NAACP
Organized Labor
Powell's Stand Backed by Randolph on Racial Discrimination
Powell's stand drew support from A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and NAACP vice president, who urged immediate and complete eradication of racial discrimination in the labor field.
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A. Philip Randolph
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NAACP
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Illusionist’s Sawing Act Collapses at Carnival
In Basingstoke England illusionist Marjorie Waddell’s stage collapsed during the traditional saw a woman in half act at the Basingstoke Carnival. A hundred people fell through floorboards, four taken to hospitals, others treated nearby for cuts and shock. The girl in the box was unharmed. The illusionist cut her fingers on the saw.
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Basingstoke
England
Marjorie Waddell
UAW Ends its Share Of Talks at GM Ford Chrysler
DETROIT AP The United Auto Workers completed its new contract demands presentation to General Motors and will wind up wage and benefit talks at Ford and Chrysler next week The union claims its proposals are affordable while GM officials call the package the largest in 25 years GM says the talks require a non inflationary settlement and notes the cost depends on local wage changes The union argues premiums and pension improvements could be funded by GM profits and cites a disparity in wage gains between workers and executives
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General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
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Seaton
UAW
Leonard Woodcock
Woodcock
Florida vacationer drowns at Guilford Lake near Lisbon
Edwin R. Grigsby 61 of Sebring Florida drowned while fishing from a boat on Guilford Lake four miles west of Lisbon. Deputy reports he apparently fell overboard. Grigsby had been staying at a relative’s cabin. He formerly lived in Williamsport Pickaway County.
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Pickaway County
Negro Gangs Attack Whites in Chicago Rift
Racial violence erupts on the South Side as Negro youth gangs injure whites. Police detain 64 youths, 19 charged with riot aiding, 20 juveniles released to parents, and 5 sent to a juvenile home. Emergency plan mobilizes 100 officers near Harrison High School amid ongoing unrest and an unsolved killing the day before.
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Linda Rivers
Alice Ramos
Ramos
Polie
Harrison High School
Matthew Tulber
Tulber
Fernando Molina
Joseph Zan
Liberal Republican push for full briefings on U S military readiness
Senators Cooper and Javits demand full congressional briefings on U.S. military readiness to meet the Berlin crisis and say they will vote for higher taxes if needed for additional military and foreign aid. Fulbright presses the foreign aid bill as Kennedy directs the administration push. Goldwater criticizes foreign policy and unilateral Cuba intervention remarks.
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Kentucky
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New York
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D-Ark
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Kennedy
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House
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Javits
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Goldwater
Senate Gop
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Castro
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Whatcha mean I’m uncouth quote sparks couplet banter
A playful exchange captures a young man challenging the question of manners with a witty retort about attending high culture events. The scene hints at social expectations and romantic dynamics in a lighthearted tone.
Kennedy At Cape Cod Tackling Berlin Woes
President Kennedy spent a quiet day at Hyannis Port with no public schedule beyond reviewing memoranda. Berlin and related international crises top his list as he remains near his summer retreat on Nantucket Sound, avoiding yacht outings due to forecasted bad weather.
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Kennedy
Berlin
Nantucket Sound
Cape Cod
Fidel No Problem Trujillo Describes Dominican Security
Gen Rafael L Trujillo Jr says the Dominican Republic is safe from pro Castro forces though risks exist if Cuban premier supporters seek to seize power or win elections. He expects the Dominico party to win May 16 1962 after modernization and notes Jose Rene Roman's 30 year sentence for his father’s assassination.
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Domaican Republic
Rafael L. Trujillo Jr
Dominican Republic
Trujillo
Jose Rene Roman
Rene Roman
Anll
Luis Amiama Tio
Antonio Imbert
Amiama Tio
Trujillo rules out next year's presidential bid
Trujillo said he will not run for president next year and doubts his uncle Hector Trujillo will either. He warned that if extreme leftists win, the armed forces must accept the people’s choice, while stressing he would not surrender control to the left but would hand over to elected officials. Balaguer meanwhile signed a law outlawing parties that support or spread Communist or anarchic doctrines.
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Hector Trujillo
Joaquin Balaguer
Captive Nations Week Proclaimed in Mass by Kennedy
HYANNIS PORT Mass AP President Kennedy proclaimed the week beginning today as captive nations week Kennedy urged Americans to observe the week with ceremonies and activities and to recommit themselves to support the just aspirations of all peoples for national independence and freedom.
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Illinois farmers protest Cadillac boast over grain payments
Five Illinois farmers travel in a 1959 Chevrolet to denounce a colleague who bought a $6,109 Cadillac with government grain program funds for not planting 104 acres. They seek to set the record straight about subsidies and question Smith’s farming claim while meeting Sen. Douglas and Sec. Freeman. Keating issued a supporting statement for Smith.
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Thespaper
Paul Miller
Har OM
William T. Smith
N.Y
Paul H. Douglas
Ill
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Freeman
Kenneth B. Keating
R-N.y
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