Business leaders urged to back a tax cut in 1963
Kennedy's chief economist Dr. Walter W. Heller told the Spring Business Council meeting in Hot Springs Virginia that a substantial tax cut is needed to spark a real unemployment reduction. A national drive for a $10 billion tax cut has drawn Ford Motor Co. chairman Henry Ford II and other top executives into the new Business Committee on Tax Reduction in 1963.
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Hot Springs
Kennedy
Walter W. Heller
Business Council
Heller
Henry Ford II
Ford Motor Co
Frederick M. Kappel
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Roger M. Blough
U.S. Steel Corp
New
Business Committee
Cochairmen
Ford
Stuart T. Saunders
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Restoration of River Boat Town Atmosphere Set
St Joseph plans a planned restoration to transform its downtown into a 19th century Mississippi river boat town. DA Thompson Clarke mayor Newt Wilds and Lovely Louisiana Tourism backs a pilot program to spur local economy through period design. private property owners fund work with support from utilities and industries.
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ST. Joseph
Thompson Clarke
U S Envoy Attacks Pro Red Faction in Laos
U S Ambassador Leonard Unger condemned the pro Communist Pathet Lao in Vientiane calling for U S support to Laos and insisting Washington will not abandon the country to communism. He spoke at a ceremony opening a new U S financed market for locals.
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U. S
Laos
Vientiane
U.S
Leonard Unger
Pathet Lao
United States
Bentz & Elmore Win Monroe Street Contract 1963
Bentz & Elmore of Monroe won the Monroe city street contract for the 1963 program with a low bid of 319 388.20 after four bids. Work starts within 15 days and lasts 200 working days covering 74 street improvements over about 19 miles.
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Bentz & Elmore
Monroe
City of
W. D. H. Rodriguez
Tom Keller
Terrall Construction Co
Louisiana Paving Co
Rodriguez
Selman Field
Phi Sigma Epsilon members tour Twin City businesses
Northeast Louisiana State College students in Phi Sigma Epsilon planned a 9 a m meeting with Kellogg Moore Oil officials to discuss wholesale oil operations and then visit Cotton Bakery to learn about wholesale bakery handling in a morning itinerary.
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Phi Sigma Epsilon
Northeast
Louisiana State College
Twin City
Kellogg-Moore Oil Company
Cotton Bakery
Riots Flare On New England Campuses In Spring Madness
Police battled Yale students in New Haven as 1,500 surged through streets. 17 arrests and a hospitalizing injury. Brown and Brandeis scenes followed with four arrests at Brown and no arrests at Brandeis. Rhode Island and Massachusetts campuses also saw police action.
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New Haven
Conn
Providence
R.I
Waltham
Mass
Yale
Brown
Pembroke College
Bryant College
Rhode Island School of Design
Princeton
New Jersey
Brandeis University
Alcohol revenue since repeal reached 76 billion says Licensed Beverage Industries
Federal state and local alcoholic beverage revenues from 1933 to 1962 totaled about 76 billion dollars, enough to cover the federal government’s expenses for roughly 130 years, according to Licensed Beverage Industries.
Hunger Deepens as Illinois Relief Runs Dry
Illinois faces a widening relief crisis as thousands lack food with weeks of aid payments blocked by a legislative deadlock. IPAC funds are exhausted and an emergency appropriation stalls while private agencies and settlement houses scramble to feed as many as 20 families a day.
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Chicago
UPI
Illinois
Illinois Public Aid Commission
IPAC
Woodlawn
South Side
Republican Party
Loop
Chicago Federation of Settlements
Clarence Boebel
Salvation Army
Catholic Charities
Drug suspected in death of pro grid star Lipscomb
Gene Lipscomb a veteran NFL defensive tackle died in Baltimore after an autopsy found needle marks and a homemade syringe near his body. An assistant medical examiner said narcotics are suspected and results of chemical tests are pending. Lipscomb played for the Steelers Colts and Rams and was 31.
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Baltimore, Md
Gene
Big Daddy) Lipscomb
Rudiger Breintecker
Lipscomb
West Baltimore
Lutheran Hospital
Timothy Black
Black
Pittsburgh Steelers
Steelers
Baltimore Colts
Colts
Los Angeles Rams
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Camp Pendleton Marines
Baltimore
Partly Cloudy Skies Forecast for Thursday through Saturday
Forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. Highs will reach 86 to 90 while nights stay around 62 to 66. Southerly winds at 5 to 15 MPH. Monroe records show Thursday high at 68 and overnight low at 67.
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Monroe
Development Agency Planned by West Monroe Chamber
West Monroe Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee begins plans to form a local development company to obtain SBA loans for business expansion. SBA official Algie K. Choate outlines loan terms up to 350000 with 80 percent loan value, to be routed through the local development company. The effort follows the loss of Louisiana Veneer to Chatham and names Delma Carter as head of a committee to push the project.
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West Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Small Business Administration
SBA
Algie K. Choate
Choate
West Monroe
Chatham
Louisiana Veneer Company
Eugene Scott
Delma Carter
Haiti Dictator Duvalier Opens For 42 Refugees At Embassy
Haitian leader Francois Duvalier told the OAS he would permit 42 political refugees in foreign embassies in Port au Prince to leave Haiti. He also telegraphed the OAS chair that seven men deemed enemies of the state would not be granted safe conduct due to alleged attempts on his children.
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Washington
UPI
Francois Duvalier
Organization of American States
OAS
Port-au-Prince
OAS Council
Gonzalo Facio
Duvalier
Psychologist Testifies on Harm of Mixing Desegregation Efforts
Dr. Henry E. Garrett, a longtime Columbia University psychologist now at Virginia, testified in Savannah that both white and Negro pupils suffer from desegregation. He argued that transferring talented Negro students to white schools harms both groups, as ruling judge Scarlett weighs potential injurious effects against integration in the 1963 Georgia case. The proceeding included crossfire over whether psychology evidence should influence school desegregation.
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Brunswick, Ga
Supreme Court
Henry E. Garrett
Columbia University
University of Virginia
U.S
Frank M. Scarlett
Garrett
Savannah-Chatham County
Georgia
Savannah
Scarlett
Constance Baker Motley
New York
U.S. Supreme Court
R. T. Osborne
University of Georgia
Savannah - Chatham County
Kennedy recalls suffrage era in Rose Garden remarks
President Kennedy told the Council of the League of Women Voters about the suffragette movement and the public outcry outside the White House. He recounted an anecdote where a leader urged protesters to trust in divine protection.
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Washington
Kennedy
White House
Council
The
League of Women Voters
Prosecutor Demands Death For Russian Spy Penkovsky
In Moscow the military prosecutor asked for the death penalty for Oleg Penkovsky who is accused of spying for U S and British intelligence. The court was to hear verdicts on Saturday after testimonies including tales of espionage and parties.
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Moscow
Oleg Penkovsky
U.S
Greville Wynne
Penkovsky
Artem Gorny
Foreign Affairs Department
Wynne
Gorny
Soviet Union
Izvestia
Newscaster Narrowly Escapes Train Crush at Queens Station
Radio commentator Norman Brokenshire, 64, was dragged about 150 feet between an incoming Long Island Rail Road train and the Jamaica station platform in Queens. He suffered bruises and leg cuts as his right leg slipped between train and platform during a train-change en route home to Lake Ronkonkoma.
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New York
Norman Brokenshire
Long Island
Jamaica Station
Queens
Brokenshire
Lake Ronkonkoma
Stassen hints possible candidacy in New Hampshire primary
Bulletin reports former Minnesota governor Harold E. Stassen said he may run in the New Hampshire presidential primary and in other state contests if all goes well there. Officials note Kennedy marked Hoover’s 40th anniversary as FBI chief.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
New Hampshire
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
King aides seek end to Birmingham protests after talks
In Birmingham Alabama Dr Martin Luther King Jr engaged in biracial talks that could halt mass demonstrations in the city. A King ally predicted an agreement today though protests could resume if talks fail. The National Maritime Union sent 32692 for bonds to release jailed demonstrators as King aides push to drop charges. Demonstrators were orderly released from Birmingham jail while King said a deal had been reached on most points.
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Birmingham
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
National Maritime Union
Afl-Cio
Wyatt Tee Walker
Andrew Young
Ordinance Approves Monroes New Boat Dock And Park
The city council adopted an ordinance governing the Ouachita River boat dock and park across from Forsythe Park. It restricts swimming and littering, sets parking and speed rules, limits idle boat speed, bans tying to banks, requires mooring permits with fees 20 to 40 cents per foot monthly, and caps permits for boats up to 70 feet.
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Monroe
Ouachita River
Forsythe Park
Man Clubbed and Pushed To Death on Brooklyn Subway
A man about 50 was attacked by two youths on a Brooklyn subway platform and shoved into the path of an oncoming train. Witnesses heard him cry for help before the assailants struck him with a whisky bottle then fled. Police reported the body was severed and bore no identification beyond a crumpled dollar.
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New York
Brooklyn
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