Kennedy Plans Farm Legislation After House Defeat
President Kennedy plans new farm legislation to replace the omnibus bill killed by the House. A White House visit reported Kennedy indicated a later year proposal with few details. The defeated measure sought strict wheat and feed grain controls to curb surpluses, while the Senate had approved a similar bill.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
White House
Victor Wickersham
D-Okla
Senate
Ezra Taft Benson
Phil Weaver
Nebraska
Wickersham
Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
West New Guinea action reports halve Indonesian paratroops
In Hollanda West New Guinea authorities say more than half of the 450 Indonesian paratroops dropped since April 26 have been put out of action. Dutch losses include six soldiers and three Papuan guides killed and eight wounded.
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Hollandia
West New Guinea
Son of Morton H. Thompson gets life for fatal stabbing
The son of novelist Morton H. Thompson was sentenced to life imprisonment after pleading guilty to stabbing his mother to death with an icepick last February in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Morton H. Thompson
Dirksen Denounces Gestapo Like Act By Farm Agency
Senate GOP leader Dirksen and Rep. Halleck attacked the Agriculture Department for reviewing Republican correspondence connected to the Estes case. Mundt and Curtis disclosed the agency was pulling files since 1953, calling it an effort to thwart the McClellan subcommittee.
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Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Agriculture Department
Senate
Billie Sol Estes
Dirksen
Senate Gop
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Halleck
John L. McClellan
Estes
Texas Wheeler-Dealer
McClellan
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Beaumont Man Killed In Wreck Near Orange Interstate 10
Beaumont man J. W. Helm, 35, died when his car overturned at a curve two miles west of Orange on Interstate 10 before dawn. Two companions, Thomas D. Castle, 30, of Beaumont, and Joseph H. Turner of Silsbee, were injured but not seriously.
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Orange
Tex
J. W. Helm
Beaumont
Thomas D. Castle
Joseph H. Turner
Silsbee
Resolutions Pass as Davis Faces Rebel Legislature
Governor Jimmie H. Davis confronted a defiant House led by Richard Bertrand as three administration proposals failed. The body, cutting across party lines, approved a resolution dedicating tideland revenues to retire $120 million in bonds amid an ongoing power struggle. The $495 million appropriations bill was set to move from committee, signaling further clashes.
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Davis
House
Earl Long
Richard Bertrand
Lafayette
T. T. Fields
Farmerville
Bertrand
Tidelands
Earl of Louisiana book review noted in London Observer
H M James a Monroe civic leader and businessman forwarded a June 17 London Observer tear sheet to the News Star. The review discusses The Earl of Louisiana a biography of former Louisiana Governor Earl K Long. James and his wife are touring Europe and attending events as noted on the chit chat page.
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H. M. James
Monroe
The
News - Star
London Observer
Observer
Earl of
Louisiana
Earl K. Long
James
Europe
Veteran Dakota Congressman Dies At Age 65
Senator Francis Case of South Dakota died at 65 after a 25 year congressional career. Born December 9 1896 in Everly Iowa he served seven terms in the House and two in the Senate as ranking Republican on the Public Works Committee. He influenced water conservation highway policy and Missouri River flood control projects.
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Washington
Francis Case
S.D
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Everly
Iowa
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Senate
The
Senate Public Works Committee
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Capitol
Custer
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Black Hills
Big Bend Dam
Missouri River
Four Missing On Mountain Climb Safe
The White House reported the four climbers including Woodrow Wilson Sayre have been found in Nepal near Namche Bazaar in weak condition and request helicopter evacuation. The group left base camp May 2 to try Gya Chungkang Peak, 25,910 feet, on the Nepal Tibet border.
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White House
Woodrow Wilson
Nepal
Katmandu
Khum Jung
Namche Bazar
Woodrow Wilson Sayre
Francis B. Sayre Jr
Washington Cathedral
Tufts University
Norman Hanson
Boston
Roger Alan Hart
Tufts
Hans Peter Duttle
Gya Chungkang Peak
Nepal-Tibet
Mt. Everest
Scarsdale Named Wealthiest Town in Nation
Scarsdale New York volunteers fight blazes as four fire companies, one paid, serve about 19 000 residents in a village like community with no major industry. Residents are prominent professionals. Sales Management magazine cites average family income around 29 276 dollars and 86 5 percent of households with investments, per 3A.
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Scarsdale
N.Y
New York City
Westchester County
Youths die in Quincy rock slide near quarry
In Quincy near the granite quarry, two 18 year old youths Joel Ryan and Arthur O’Neil were buried under tons of rock when a 100 foot pile gave way. A 17 year old, Francis McAuley, escaped with a scraped arm and told police the trio had driven to watch traffic on an expressway.
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Quincy
Mass
Joel Ryan
Arthur O'Neil
Francis McAuley
Ryan
McAuley
O'Neil
McCormack asks Kennedy race to stay out
Boston based report says Atty. Gen. Edward J. McCormack Jr. asked his uncle Speaker John W. McCormack to stay out of the contest with Edward M. Kennedy for the Democratic nomination to the U S Senate.
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Boston
Edward J. McCormack Jr
House
John W. McCormack
Edward M. Kennedy
U. S. Senate
Union talks on Pan Am Eastern TWA contract plan
New York AP reports flight engineers from Pan American World Airways and Eastern Air Lines met to discuss a proposed master agreement with Trans World Airlines. A tentative framework seeks wage standards work rules and job protection across the three carriers.
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New York
Pan American World Airways
Eastern Air Lines
Union
Trans World Airlines
Doctors Begin Investigation Of Strange Malady
Spartanburg doctors opened a detailed inquiry into a mysterious illness that felled many women at the Jonathan Logan knitting mill. About 40 treated for insect bites, with symptoms including nausea, rash, and fainting. the factory sent most workers home as fumigation failed. Authorities suspect an insect in imported fabric may be the cause.
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Spartanburg
UPI
Jonathan Logan
Spartanburg Hospital
Blue Chips Stage Subdued Rally
New York stocks showed a mild rally for blue chips near noon while the rest of the list fell. By 1 p.m. the Dow Jones average was down 1.26, S and P 500 slipped 0.37, and trading totaled 3.13 million shares through the third hour as steel issues weakened with Republic and Lukens dropping on sales and earnings concerns. Eastman Kodak slid over 1 percent in chemicals while autos remained steady.
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UPI
Blue Chips
Standard & Poor
Republic
Lukens
Eastman Kodak
Slayings Probe In Morris Township Two Teens Killed
Police intensified inquiry into the bludgeon deaths of two Morris Plains high school girls, Margaret Kennedy and Noreen Buckley, found near a wooded road. An 18-year-old acquaintance was questioned, claimed to have talked with them at a soda shop, and released after a lie detector test.
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Morris Township
N. J
Frank C. Scerbo
Margaret Ann Kennedy
Noreen Buckley
Morris Plains
William F. Costello
Buckley
Kennedy
Morristown
Bailey-Ellard High School
Today’s Chuckle About Neighbors and Family Arguments
A light humor item notes that only those living next door are likely to hear both sides of a family quarrel, hinting at close proximity and shared info in a playful way.
Holmes Receives Prison Term In Traffic Deaths
Judge Jesse Heard denied motions for arrest and a new trial in the case of Lawrence Holmes Jr. a 21 year old Monroe man convicted of negligent homicide. He was given five years in the state penitentiary, suspended, and placed on probation in Fourth District Court for the April traffic deaths of Mrs Barbara Little and Bobby Lynn Hendrix at Powell Avenue and Milhaven Road. The driver of the truck involved in the crash faced the penalties.
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Jesse
Lawrence Holmes, Jr
Monroe
Fourth District
Holmes
Ouachita Parish
Barbara Little
Bobby Lynn Hendrix
Powell Avenue
Milhaven Road
Heatwave to Persist as Summer Opens on Warm Weekend
The forecast calls for partly cloudy, warm weather through Saturday with highs near 90s and a low around 72 tonight. Humidity index may reach 81 today. Thursday’s high was 91 with a low of 69. Sunset is 7:19, sunrise Saturday at 5:01 a.m.
Vatican altar panel uses young JFK as angel model
Washington Post and Times Herald report that in 1939 President Kennedy served as the face for a wooden angel in Irene Wiley’s Vatican altar panel. Wiley, wife of diplomat John Wiley, says the likeness appears in one panel amid a twelve panel altar gifted to the Vatican. JFK spent a week with the Wileys during a Europe tour, and Wiley describes his expression as youthful serenity.
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UPI
Foreign Service
Kennedy
Vatican
Washington Post
The
Times Herald
Post
Irene Wiley
John Wiley
No Survivors In Air France Plane Tragedy
Air France Boeing 707 crashed on a Guadeloupe mountainside during a pre-dawn storm while approaching Le Raizet airport near Pointe-a-Pitre. All 113 aboard were killed, including 103 passengers and 10 crew. Most victims were French or Latin American. the search for bodies continued in the jungle area three miles east of Deshayes, Basse-Terre.
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Guadeloupe
UPI
Air France
Paris
Santiago
Chile
Caribbean
le Raizet
French Ministry of Overseas Territories
Deshayes
Basse-Terre
Puerto Rico
Chateau de Chantilly
Andre Lesieur
Point-a-Pitre
Youth Found Unconscious Near New Iberia
Ronald Houston a 17 year old Fair Lawn New Jersey high school student ran away after failing a history course and could not graduate. He was found on U S 90 near New Iberia lacking food after weeks away, examined by a doctor and placed in the Iberia Parish jail with no charges filed. He had traveled via travellers checks to Salt Lake City and his car was found in California.
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Ronald Houston
Fair Lawn
N. J
Louisiana
Iberia Parish
Houston
U.S. 90
Salt Lake City
California
Glenn Family Plans Camp Out
Washington AP says astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. will take a secret camping trip with his wife and two children for the first time since joining Project Mercury. Mrs. Glenn notes John needs some time alone and that they used to camp frequently.
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John H. Glenn Jr
Project Mercury
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