Congress Set To Vote Self Raise For Pay Increases
The House moves toward approving a federal pay raise bill after nine years without one. It would boost pay for members of Congress and other officials, affecting about 1.7 million federal employees with an average lift of 150 dollars yearly for mailmen and secretaries. Supporters push for a recorded vote. opponents urge restraint.
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Washington
House
Congress
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Hale Boggs
Louisiana
Albert
Morris K. Udall
Dariz
Mt Vernon King City Spring Opening Sale Opens Friday
Mt Vernon businesses announce a two day Spring Opening with new spring merchandise on display and special bargains. King City Retailers will offer rose bushes at 48 cents and donate rambling roses for highway entrances planted by the Mt Vernon Woman's Club garden division as part of a city beautification program.
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Mt. Vernon
King City
Garden Club Division
John Manion
Ansorge Distributing Co
Benton Road
Delo
Garden Club
Ruby Trial Witness Describes Ruby in Trance
Rabbi Hillel Silverman testified Ruby seemed in a trance during the Kennedy assassination night in Dallas. The defense witness said Ruby, near 1,000 temple attendees, thanked him after services instead of expressing grief. A defense psychiatrist argued Ruby was legally insane at the time of Oswald's murder.
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Dallas
Tex
Jack Ruby
Hillel Silverman
Ruby
John F. Kennedy
Silverman
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Shearith Israel
Eva Grant
Oswald
Walter Bromberg
New York
Crooks Testifies He Killed Means in Self Defense
Edward L. Crooks 33 of Belle Prairie testified as first defense witness in a Circuit Court murder trial in Fairfield. He said he shot Clifford Means of Fairfield on farm property owned by the Shelton family after Means attacked him and threatened to force a land sale. Means owed Crooks $15,000 and they had been partners in land clearing since 1962.
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Fairfield, Ill
Wayne County
Shelton
Edward L. Crooks
Belle Prairie
Clifford Means
Fairfield
Means
Shelton Gang
Crooks
Sheltons
Mean
Cherokee
Okla
U S Fliers Shot Down Over East Germany Reported Alive
Three American airmen aboard a jet bomber shot down over East Germany are reported alive. A nurse in Gardelegen East Germany said the wounded officer was moved to a hospital and joined his comrades. The men are David I. Holland 35 Holland Minn Melvin J. Kessler 30 Philadelphia and Harold W. Welch 24 Detroit. The United States denies Soviet spy charges and seeks their return.
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Washington
U. S
East Germany
State Department
Richard J. Phillips
Frankfurt
David I. Holland
Holland, Minn
Melvin J. Kessler
Philadelphia
Harold W. Welch
Detroit
United States
Soviet Union
U.S
Six Monarchs Attend King's Funeral in Athens
King Paul of Greece was buried as six of Europe’s seven reigning monarchs attended the funeral in Athens. Crown Prince Constantine, 23, marched with his mother Queen Frederika and sisters Irene and Sophie beside the flag draped coffin. Notables included King Baudouin, Queen Juliana, King Frederik, King Gustav, and King Olav. Queen Elizabeth II was absent. Nearly 800,000 Greeks lined the cortege route. former President Truman and Mrs. Johnson attended for the United States.
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Gerald Miller
Athens
Greece
Paul
Europe
Constantine
Frederika
Irene
Sophie
Baudouin
Belgium
Juliana
Netherlands
Frederik
Denmark
Gustav
Sweden
Olav
Norway
Elizabeth II
Britain
Prince Philip
Harry S&s. Truman
Lyndon
Johnson
United States
Truman
Motions Overruled In Election Cases Set For April 2
Circuit Judge Roy O. Gulley overruled all new motions in the local election irregularities case and set arraignment for April 2 for all persons indicted by a special grand jury. The indictments arise from States Attorney Jay B. Stringer's probe of voting irregularities in Mt. Vernon township last year. The judge upheld the grand jury's legality and overruled requests to alter the jury method and to strike Stringer's motion. No trial dates were set. late April or early May were discussed, with Stringer seeking about one trial for late April or early May.
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Roy O. Gulley
Jay B. Stringer
Mt. Vernon Township
Gulley
Stringer
Petit Jury Venire
Dewey Barton
William T. Edmison
Deadline Near You Must Be Registered To Vote In April
Mt. Vernon and Jefferson county residents must be registered to vote in the April 14 primary. March 16 is the registration deadline at County Clerk Lester Davis’s office. Those at the same address need not re register. others must transfer or register if they meet age or status changes. Contact the county clerk’s office to register.
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Mt. Vernon
Jefferson County
Lester Davis
Newspaper Ads Sell More Food Declares IGA Exec
In Chicago a merchandising executive said newspaper advertising yields more sales than any other medium. Orville W. Johler, vice president of Independent Grocers' Alliance, noted the group spends about 90 percent of its advertising budget in newspapers and 10 percent in TV and radio during a Midwest seminar.
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Chicago
Orville W. Johler
Independent Grocers’ Alliance
IGA
Midwest
Levees Hold On Rivers In Little Egypt
Revisions in flood forecasts show Southern Illinois will face fewer flood crests along the Ohio and its tributaries. Crests at Cairo and Gallatin are adjusted downward, with many counties reporting no evacuations. Some flooding persists on the Saline River near Equality and minor relocations near Paducah as Ohio waters recede.
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Cairo
Ill
Ohio River
Illinois
Ohio
Mississippi River
Gallatin
Wabash
Saline
Illinois 13
Equality
Gallatin County
Weather Bureau
Little Wabash
Carmi
Big Muddy
Marion
West Frankfort
Murphysboro
Mount Carmel
Kaskaskia
Carlyle
Shawneetown
Kentucky
Ilinois
Paducah
Harrell Sought In FBI Circulars
Police and sheriff departments received FBI mailed circulars seeking help locating John R Harrell founder of a cult missing nearly a year. Harrell, 42, was named in a bench warrant after failing to appear for trial with 11 followers. The group was seized in 1961 and Harrell and seven family members vanished on March 31 1963.
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Louisville, Ill
FBI
John R. Harrell
Harrell
U.S. District Court
East St. Louis
Louisville
Massive U.S. aid urged as McNamara visits Vietnam
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara signals continued and possibly increased U.S. aid to South Vietnam after a five day fact finding mission. He voiced confidence in General Khanh’s government and pledged sustained military and economic support to defeat the Viet Cong.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Robert S. McNamara
Johnson
U. S
McNamara
Nguyen Khanh
U.S
Khanh
Hue
Viet Nam
Defense Secretary
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
New Hampshire
Duong van Minh
MeeNa
Ward elected president of national concrete pipe group
Charles S. Ward of Mt. Vernon was elected president of the American Concrete Pipe Association at its 56th annual meeting in San Francisco. Ward, head of Nelson Concrete Culvert Co. and Concrete Pipe Inc., is a Mt. Vernon civic leader and bank director, with other local roles. More than 600 members from all states and foreign countries attended the four day convention at the Fairmont Hotel.
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Charles S. Ward
Mt. Vernon
American Concrete Pipe Association
San Francisco
Calif
Ward
Richview Road
Nelson Concrete Culvert Co
Concrete Pipe, Inc
Evansville
Ind
Fairmont Hotel
International Association
First National Bank
Hoffa gets eight years and 10000 dollar fine
Teamsters President James R. Hoffa was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined 10000 dollars for attempting to tamper with a federal court jury. Three co defendants received three year terms. Hoffa vowed to appeal as prosecutors warned the case struck at the administration of justice.
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Bill Rawlins
Chattanooga
Tenn
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
U.S. Dist
Frank Wilson
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Wilson
International (Teamsters) Union
Jimmy Hoffa
Union
Charles Bell
Washington Joint Conference of Teamsters
Bell
Nashville
Ewing King
Nashville Teamsters
Larry Campbell
Detroit Teamsters
Campbell
Thomas Parks
U.S
Hal Bullen
Cubans Shoot At Each Other Over Lobster Traps
A Coast Guard pilot reported that Cuban fishermen in the Bahamas area about 60 miles east of Hollywood Florida were involved in a dispute over lobster traps. The 78 foot British vessel Madame Elizabeth had radioed that three or four Cuban boats fired on something, but initial observations suggested the incident was a dispute among fishermen rather than a pirate or military engagement.
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Louisville
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Army Engineers
The
National Guard
Parkersburg
W. Va
Wheeling
Huntington
Point Pleasant
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Here
Bahamas
Hollywood
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David IT. Holland
New Albany
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Viet
Indianapolis
Aurora
Jeffersonville
Robert Warmurton
C. S. Ward
Mt V. Man Heads
Nat'l Concrete Pipe Association
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