De Gaulle rejects Nassau Polaris plan and criticizes Britain
Paris AP report says President Charles de Gaulle declares France will not join the Nassau Polaris missile accord and will keep its own nuclear force. He questions Polaris value without submarines and warheads, notes Britain’s Common Market fit issues, and hints Britain could reform to meet six-nation terms.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Oday
France
Nassau
de Gaulle
Aeac
Wnether
Kennedy
Bahamas
America
Europe
Britain
Gaulle
British Commonwealth
Court strikes down Virginia racial law in high court ruling
The U S Supreme Court invalidated a 1956 Virginia statute seen by the NAACP as curbing its funding and counsel in anti discrimination suits. Five justices supported the majority, while three dissented. The decision centered on free speech rather than race, with opinions detailing regulatory limits on legal solicitation and representation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Virginia
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
John M. Harlan
Tom C. Clark
Potter Stewart
Byron D. White
William J. Brennan Jr
NAACP
High Tribunal
Brennan
Justice Harlan
Clark
Stewart
Harlan
White
Virginia Supreme Court
Kennedy seeks three year spread for 15.5 billion tax cut
President Kennedy asked Congress to quickly enact a plan to spread a 15.5 billion tax cut over three years, aiming for a balanced full employment economy. The plan would recover 3.5 billion in lost revenue as he delivered the State of the Union in a jammed House chamber, declaring the recession is behind us.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
House
Highlights of Union Message JFK State of the Union
President Kennedy calls for a $10 billion three year tax cut starting with a $6 billion personal and corporate rate reduction this year. He says the plan would create two million jobs and lift purchasing power. He notes 22 months of recovery but pushes for faster growth and full employment. A 35 hour week is warned as potentially inflationary. NATO expansion and Europe’s stance with de Gaulle color policy. Congress supports the tax cut in principle but details remain unsettled. JFK urges constitutional rights and voting equal for all citizens. The administration plans higher defense space and interest charges while holding other spending below this year.
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Congress
America
Kennedy State of the Union Highlights Tax Cut Push
President Kennedy’s State of the Union stresses a $13.5 billion tax cut as the centerpiece to spur full employment while trimming other domestic programs. The address hints at youth job training, a domestic Peace Corps, and continued focus on health and civil rights with scarce emphasis on welfare, housing, or public school aid.
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Peace Corps
Youth Conservation Corps
Kennedy
Airlift and ransom flights halted in Cuban scene
Miami reports end to refugee airlift from Cuba after 89 Cubans and Cuban-Americans arrive. Red Cross says no more ransom shipments by air. Pan Am suspends Havana service, preferring not to resume. The Shirley Lykes loads 6500 tons of food and medical supplies for Havana, with 1000 more to depart Baltimore.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Red Cross
Pan American World Airways
Havana
Castro
American Red Cross
Shirley Lykes
Baltimore
Port Everglades
Miami International
U.S
U.S. Immigration Service
United States
Twin City Chit Chat Dancing Lessons at St Marys School
Youngsters at St Marys Training School in Clarks learn coordination and rhythm through dancing lessons provided for a charge by a Monroe studio. Sister Zita mother superior says lessons by Genevre Faucette and Jack Fontaine of Arthur Murray school of dancing.
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St. Mary's Training School
Clarks
Monroe
Zita
Genevre Faucette
Jack Fontaine
Arthur Murray School of Dancing
Jennings and Bass win seats on Ways and Means
In a Democratic caucus secret ballot, Rep. W. Pat Jennings Virginia and Rep. Ross Bass Tennessee won the two Ways and Means seats. Rep. Phil M. Landrum Georgia missed out amid the administration backing for the post, with votes 169 Bass 161 Jennings 126 Landrum. Landrum denied any deal and the outcome challenges Speaker McCormack’s position.
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Washington
W. Pat Jennings
Virginia
Ross Bass
Tennessee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Phil M. Landrum
D-Ga
John W. McCormack
D-Mass
Jennings
Bass
Landrum
House Rules Committee
Georgia
Ways and Means
Khrush Prime Minister Heads to East Berlin Clash with Peking
Premier Khrushchev arrives in East Berlin for a Communist party meeting as he aims to challenge China over Beijing's charges of Western pressure. He plans to discuss Berlin settlement, observe the city wall, and rally European allies while denouncing Chinese policies. Gomulka's visit and Wu Hsiu-chuan's delegation accompany the diplomatic backdrop.
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Khrushchev
East Berlin
Communist Party
Red
West
Poland
Red Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Ostbahnho
East Station
Walter Ulbricht
Gomulka
London
Moscow
Peking
Kremlin
Wu Hsiu-chuan
Yugoslavia
Chinese Communist Central Committee
Europe
Border Guards
Cuba
Train Derails In Arkansas Near Dumas
A Missouri Pacific freight train traveling from Little Rock to Alexandria, Louisiana derailed near Dumas Arkansas. About 39 cars involved in the wreck, with many mangled freight cars scattered. No injuries reported. The derailment damaged roughly 100 feet of track between Dumas and Gould.
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Dumas Ark
UPI
Missouri-Pacific
Little Rock
Alexandria
Here
Gould
UN envoy to demand Tshombe surrender at Kolwezi
The United Nations prepared to send a special emissary to Kolwezi to force President Moise Tshombe to surrender his Katanga stronghold or face force, with a Gurkha battalion ready to seize Kolwezi if he refuses. U.N. ground forces neared Kolwezi as Indian troops occupied Shinkolobwe and rail service resumed, signaling intensified action in the Katanga crisis.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
United Nations
Kolwezi
Moise Tshombe
U.N
Tshombe
Leopoldville
Central Congo
Jadotville
New York
Rhodesia
Mokambo
Sakania
Northern Rhodesia
Diehard
Congo
Cold snap grips Northeast Louisiana with subfreezing lows
A new Arctic air surge pushes south as Northeast Louisiana endures a 12 degree low last night with today’s highs 32 to 36 and Sunday not above freezing. Expect partly cloudy skies and light variable winds. Natchez Holy Family School closes for broken pipes amid continuing frigid spell. five day outlook shows about 12 degrees below normal and precipitation likely late in the week.
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Natchez
Miss
Holy Family of St
Seven Hurt In Head On Crash Near Springhill La
Seven persons were injured in a head on collision about 14 miles south of Springhill. Three were hospitalized, including Charles Anderson 16 of Springfield at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Baton Rouge Robit Scharwath of Ponchatoula at Baton Rouge General Hospital and Darrell Penton 19 of Ponchatoula at Lallie Kemp Memorial Hospital Independence. William J Powell 16 of Albany was treated in a Baton Rouge hospital for bruises and released cited for reckless driving no license speeding and negligent injury.
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Springhill
Here
Charles Anderson
Springfield
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital
Baton Rouge
Robit Scharwath
Ponchatoula
Baton Rouge General Hospital
Darrell Penton
Lallie Kemp Memorial Hospital
Independence
William J. Powell
Albany
Todays Chuckle Politician records and fear of change
A lighthearted quip notes that a politician clings to their record out of fear that stepping away would reveal unwelcome truths. The joke plays on the idea that time may expose what is hidden by stubborn adherence to a past stance.
President Assassinated as Togo Falls Into Leadership Crisis
A sergeants revolt after President Sylvanus Olympio was killed in Lomé. Nicolas Grunitsky and Idrissou Meatchi emerged as possible leaders of a new government. Meatchi rumored back from Ghana, Olympio’s body found outside the U S Embassy, others detained.
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Lome
Togo
Sylvanus Olympio
Nicolas Grunitsky
Idrissou Antoine Meatchi
Togo Assembly
Grunitsky
Dahomey
Meatchi
Ghana
Olympic
U.S
Olympio
Pine Bluff Paper Mill Fire Leaves One Dead
The International Paper Co. mill fire in Pine Bluff Arkansas left A L Crawford 57 dead and Hes ter L Hunt 44 missing. Officials said flames would burn for two more days as oily smoke hampered crews and the cause remained undetermined.
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Ark
International Paper Co
A. L. Crawford
Hester L. Hunt
Jackson
Miss
Hunt
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