Hughes Pledges Streamlined Government Inaugural Address
Governor Harold E. Hughes, Des Moines, 38th to hold office, pledged to streamline state government without legislative delay. He urged reforms within existing structures, supported four year terms, civil service, and veto power over individual appropriations, while signaling a budget message on revenues and school aid. He praised ex governor Norman Erbe for a smooth transition and called for open agency meetings and public school bus access. He opposed the death penalty and backed expanded highway construction, public retirement benefits, utility regulation, Kerr-Mills aging aid, a public defender system, and stronger conservation, plus tackling alcoholism, discrimination, mental illness, and aging issues.
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Amy
al Vany
Norman Erbe
Erbe
Bout
Kerr-Mills
Conservation Department
Speeding Train Strikes Car near Booneville Kills Four
Four from Winkerset, Gaylon Goodknight 29 Anna Margaret Flesher 66 and Margaret Seita 39, and Ale fued Seita 66 died when a Rock Island train struck a car on a private drive near Booneville. The car, heading to J H Pierce plant foreman Booneville Gravel Co, was hit at about 50 mph. The impact tossed the car 200 feet down an embankment and left one victim beneath the wreckage. The train traveled from Des Moines toward Council Bluffs with occupants dead at the scene.
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Booneville
Des Moines
Winker
Gaylon
Goodknight
Anna Margaret Flesher
Ale Fued Seita
Mar'garet
Ted
J. H. Pierce
Booneville Gravel Co
Rock Island
Charles Dowell
Council Bluffs
Khrushchev Gazes At Berlin Wall Visit
Khrushchev toured the Berlin Wall and waved to West Berlin crowds from the line near Checkpoint Charlie. He had just heard Polish Communist chief Comulka credit him with averting nuclear catastrophe in the Cuban crisis.
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Khrushchev
Checkpoint Charlie
West Berlin
Wladyslaw Comulka
Khtughchev
Moscow
Peking
New Effort to Settle Docker Strike Opened
New York report on an emergency labor relations board appointed by President Kennedy to settle the Atlantic and Gulf dock strike. The 60 000 longshoremen are said to be crippling shipping from Maine to Texas, with Congress possible action if negotiations fail. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon expressed optimism that disputing parties can reach settlement.
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Kennedy
Atlantic
Free World
Congress
Maine
Wayne Morse
Rgre
Newsriet
Bill Would Ban Death Penalty in Senate Debate
A bill to abolish the death penalty was introduced in the Senate on Thursday. Supporters argued the measure has a better chance of passage this session after similar proposals stalled in past votes.
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Dés Moines
Senate
Control of Billboards Is Sought in Des Moines Iowa
Rep Paul Knowles of Davenport and six Republicans file a measure to allow more highway billboards along interstates and to relax Scott County zoning rules. The plan would permit only directional official signs and ads within 60 feet of roads and limit other signs near interchanges.
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Des Moines
Paul Knowles
Davenport
Knowles
Scott County Zoning Commission
Lionel
Broad Program To Aid Iowa's Aged Is Urged
Des Moines reports the Governor's Commission on Aging urges a broad educational plan for Iowa seniors. It calls for closer supervision of older drivers and restrictions for those 80 and older if impairment exists. Statistics show rising fatal crash rates among drivers over 70, with 40 to 43-year-olds faring best. The plan also proposes safety campaigns highlighting household hazards.
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Des Moines
Governor’s Commission On Aging
Iowa
Strate Safety Department
Big Blast Shakes Long Island Localities
A propane like gas released from a container in an alley leaked into a basement and caused a series of explosions that destroyed a one story building. The Reporter of Direct Mail Advertising plant building valued at 80000 was damaged. no injuries but 13 people evacuated. Debris and fires were quickly controlled by firefighters.
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Garden City
Long Island
Reporter of
Direct Mail
Peter Hoke
Aomilion
Moedinat
Guthrie Man Dies in Chicago Expressway Crash
Herrick, 7, of Guthrie Corner Iowa, fatally injured when his car went the wrong way on the Northwest Expressway overpass in Chicago. Police say he drove south in the northbound lanes and struck a guard wall after exiting onto Jackson Boulevard.
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Herrick
Guthrie Corner
Iowa
Jackson, Boulevard
Tackson Boulevard
First Tax Cuts Under Kennedy's New Program Seen This Summer
Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon said the three year tax overhaul would take effect this summer, not before mid year, with retroactive potential to Jan 1. He projected full employment by 1966 and surpluses thereafter, though Congress delays and workload may push the start date later.
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Kennedy
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Dillon
Congress
Wiol
Fidel May Let More Quit Cuba
A Swiss diplomat said Fidel Castro's government may allow a second planeload of Cuban American citizens to leave for the United States on Friday. The envoy did not specify the number, though more than 400 Americans have fled for repatriation. The first group of 68 people arrived in Miami last Sunday. about 170 Americans work with Castro's government, and roughly 25 to 200 remain in Cuba, mostly children.
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Cesiro
Kennedy outlines defense budget and forces shift
President Kennedy proposes defense outlays totaling about 55 billion for the coming fiscal year with 2.6 billion more than this year and roughly 10 billion more than 1960. The Air Force budget falls to 19.9 billion while Army and Navy rise to 12.17 billion and 15.10 billion respectively as non-nuclear deterrence emphasis grows.
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Kennedy
Air Force
Army
Navy
Princeton Man Fatally Hurt in Car Crash at Pole
Jon Graham, 24, of Princeton, died when his car skidded 118 feet and struck a utility pole on Highway 67 in LeClaire. County Medical Examiner Dr. BR Perkins ruled chest injuries as the cause. Graham, father of three, was alone in the vehicle and pinned in wreckage. deputies Al Epperly and William Dillon investigated.
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Jimmie
Bur
State Federal Authorities in Execution Pact
Des Moines State Portal Director Benjamin F Baer announced an agreement to use Fort Madison Penitentiary for the execution of Victor Feigen, a federal kidnapping convict, with a February date set and prior assurances of cost reimbursement. The meeting included Warden Bennet and U.S. Marshal C H Meek of Dubuque.
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Des Moines
Benjamin F. Baer
Fort Madison
Victor Feegner
Baer
Bacy
Bennet
U.S
C. H. Meek
Dubuque
Kennedy seeks record budget to spur full employment
President Kennedy proposes an unprecedented 998.8 billion budget with tax cuts aiming to lift the nation toward full employment and rising purchasing power. He predicts defense and space spending, new medical care finance, and urban aid, while acknowledging a peacetime deficit to fund growth.
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Washington
Kennedy
Kennedy 1964 Budget Plan Shows Sources and Spending
An AP Wirephoto chart outlines President Kennedy's proposed fiscal year 1964 budget of 98.8 billion dollars starting July 1. The graphic details how the budget dollars will be sourced and allocated across government programs.
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Kennedy
District 13 Budget Puts Funds to Levees and Ditches
President Kennedy's coming year budget includes 229000 for Muscatine Island Levee District and Muscatine Louisa Drainage District No 14 as part of 43673500 for Town projects under the Corps of Engineers. Also 1500000 for Town River Flint Creek Levee District No 16 in Louisa and Des Moines counties and 15000 for a Duck Creek survey. Illinois shares total 50440900 with 300000 for locks on the Mississippi and 2300000 for regulating works between the Ohio and Missouri rivers.
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Muscatine- Louisa
Corps of Engineers
Kennedy
Town River-Flint Creek
Duck Creek
Louisa
Des Moines
Illinois
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Ohio
Missouri
More Cash Urged for Space Race by Kennedy
President Kennedy urged Congress to approve 4.2 billion dollars for fiscal 1961 31.8 billion? for NASA to push U S landing on the moon this decade plus 754 80 000 for the Atomic Energy Commission space projects an increase of about 40 million over the current year. The aim is to expand space programs and maintain U S leadership in exploration and utilization of space.
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U. S Space Agency
Kennedy
Congress
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Plans Dropped For Mine Blast By Tshombe
Elisabethville Nantanga In Katanga President Moise Tshombe returned to his capital and began talks with U officials to end secession. The meeting aimed to plan a peaceful United Nations entry into Kalwezi, his last holdout. He said plans to blow up copper mines and the Union Miniere refinery at Kalwezi have been suspended.
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Nantanga
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Kalwezi
Tshombe
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