Kennedy creates emergency board to avert rail strike
President Kennedy appoints a three member emergency board led by Samuel S. Rosenman to study the four year old rail labor dispute and propose settlements within 60 days. The move pauses a threatened nationwide strike by about 200,000 on train workers as unions seek to end feather bedding and preserve jobs amid 700,000 total rail workers.
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Washington
Kennedy
Samuel S. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Nathan Feinsinger
University of Wisconsin
Clark Kerr
University of California
Kerr
Feinsinger
Rosenman
County Board Meets Friday to Organize Soon
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9 30 a m Friday at the courthouse to set the date for a session to organize for the coming year. The meeting will mark the farewell of four retiring supervisors Bill Ed mison, Max Dyer, Pearl Edwards, and Leonard Wilson. New members to be seated are Keith Mills, Terry Marlin, Bob Edson, and John Shores. chairman Charles Waite to be elected in the next two weeks.
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Jefferson County Board of Supervisors
Court House
Bill Edmison
Max Dyer
Mt. Vernon
Pearl Edwards
Shi- Joh
Leonard Wilson
Farrington
New” Board
Charles W. Waite
Mt. Vernon Township
Keith Mills
Farrington Republican
Terry Marlin
Shiloh
Bob Edson
John Shores
Woman lights her way to surgery after crash
Lena Goldstein was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach after an auto crash that knocked out power to the area by snapping two electric lines and cutting service to the hospital. She was treated in the ER by flashlight as repairs were underway.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Lena Goldstein
Mount Sinai Hospital
Illinois lawmakers drop $2500 expense bill amid constitutional doubts
Springfield lawmakers saw a bid to pay each legislator 2500 dollars per regular session die after Rep. Paul Powell said the measure would violate the state constitution which specifies only 50 dollars for postage. The body currently pays 6000 dollar salaries plus mileage. Powell rejected politics but no plan to refile.
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Springfield
Illinois
General Assembly
Paul Powell
Vienna
Powell
Otto Kerner
House
Senate
Buties
Dynacolor May Merge With 3M in Rochester Report
Rochester based Dynacolor Corp makers of color film said Wednesday that talks are underway with Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co to pursue a possible merger. Both firms are major suppliers of color processing materials. The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the discussions and notes the talks center on strategic alignment and potential market expansion.
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Rochester, N. Y
Dynacolor Corp
Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co
Governor Kerner eyes 62 million IPAC cut in Illinois budget
Governor Otto Kerner indicated he would accept a $62 million cut in a proposed $701 million Illinois Public Aid Commission program. He warned that if funds run out before the 1963-65 period, “the people will have to be taken care of.” The press noted Republican plans to削 IPAC by $4 million with ceilings on individual relief grants, while Kerner weighs a new revenue article and tax options. He also discussed state parks funding, retirement reform, and boxing policy amid a busy political moment in Illinois.
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Springfield
Ill
Otto Kerner
Illinois Public Aid Commission
Kerner
Revenue Department
Michigan
Gordon Kerr
Brookport
Davey Moore
Illinois
Chicago
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Daley
Benjamin Adamowski
Frank Cormier
Washington
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Cuba
United States
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Eisenhower
Maurice Stans
Stans
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Soviet Union
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Senate
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Khrushchev
U.S
Congress
Florida
Senate votes to limit public aid birth control program
Illinois Senate passes bill to restrict IPAC birth control aid to married women with spouses, advancing to the House. The measure, led by Sen. Morgan Finley, aims to curb program reach despite efforts by TRAC chair J. Arnold Maremont that it could save money and reduce unwanted births.
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Illinois Senate
Morgan Finley
Chicago
Robert Canfield
Rockford
Ilinois Public Aid Commission
Senate
Farris Fowell
Naperville
Finley
Commission
J. Arnold Maremont
TRAC
Fawell
Arthur Gottschalk
R-Park Forest
Gottischalk
Arthur Sprague
la Grange
Everett R. Peters
St. Joseph
Maremont
IPAC
Indict Ex Mayor as Tax Evader in Independence Mo
Kansas City AP reports William H. Sermon former mayor and Democratic leader of Independence Missouri was indicted for willfully evading more than 225000 dollars in federal income taxes for 1956 to 1960. Grand jury said he reported 172518 for the period and paid 58199 in taxes while his true income was 28808 and he should have paid 225834.
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Kansas City
William H. Sermon
Independence
Truman
Baptist Women Meet at West Frankfort Convention
About 1000 women expected to register before Friday close as the 56th annual state convention of Baptist Women's Missionary Union opens in West Frankfort.
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West Frankfort
State Convention of Baptist Women’s Missionary Union
First Woman Trooper Joins State Cops In May
Illinois state Police will welcome their first woman trooper next month Joanne Mariani 39 former Evanston movie censor and Chicago suburb’s only policewoman begins a 10 week Springfield training in May She will work state wide in plain clothes with no uniform skirts and will carry a pistol in a handbag She is divorced mother of three and will take a pay cut from 930 to 420 a month with rookie pay at first later increases
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Chicago
Tillinois
James McMahon
Joanne Mariani
Evanston
McMahon
Mariana
Springfield
Mrys. Mariani
Cleveland printers inch toward end of longest city strike
After buyout and wage talks, Cleveland printers union prepares to ratify tonight at 11 am, paving way for restoration of daily papers after 126 days of stoppage. Last holdout union and Teamsters already agreed, with fringe benefits and wage increases central to settlement.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Greater
New York
The
Plain Dealer
Cleveland Press News
Machinists
James Tafelice
Teamsters Union
Ralph S. Locher
Newspaper Guild
Printer's Union
Detroit doctors test dead germs to dissolve stroke clots
A Wayne State University Neurology chair says solutions of dead strepto corcus germs injected into stroke patients dissolve clots causing the stroke. The finding, announced Wednesday in Detroit, notes the potential for a new treatment approach.
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Detroit
John Sterling Meyer
Wayne State University
Tanks Move Against Navy Rebel Bases
Argentina s rebel navy battles loyalist forces in a three day uprising against President Jose Maria Guido. Loyalist troops seize Mar del Plata base and threaten Puerto Belgrano as talks for a truce stall. Casualties unconfirmed but reported at least 26.
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Buenos Aires
Jose Maria Guido
Juan Carlos Ongania
Adm
Eladio Vazquez
Ongania
Puerto Belgrano
Here
Mar del Plata
Juan Manuel Astigueta
Juan Carlos Opgania
Vazquez
Astigueta
Hore
Wiuy
Eah
Guido
Uth
Robert Berrellez
Bahia Blanca
Kut Dietrich
Berrellez
Navy
Congress
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Florida Strike Threatens Florida East Coast Rail Service
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers called a Friday strike against Florida East Coast Railway after the company independently ordered work rules changes. The move has brought railroads and unions close to a nationwide labor crisis.
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Cliveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Florida East Coast Railway
Unemployment Drops Sharply In March Record Jobs Rise
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate falls from 6.1 to 5.6 percent, the largest monthly drop in over four years. Unemployment decreases by 417,000 to 4,501,000 while employment rises 790,000 to 67,148,000, about 800,000 above a year earlier. March posts a record job total.
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Washington
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