Cooper Orbiting Earth Tax Plan Faces House Debate
Des Moines House debates a proposed 2 to 3 percent sales tax on services including newspaper advertising and a 3 percent flat income tax to fund property tax relief. Rep Le Roy Petersen and Rep Elmer Vermeer push a compromise plan while opponents warn it shifts burdens and reduces supplemental school aid.
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Des Moines
LeRoy Petersen
R-Grimes
Fribate
Elmer Vermeer
R-Pella
House
David Stanley
Muscatine
Petersen
Ashe
Polk County
Stanley
Rpeiller
Plat
Harold Fischer
R-Wellximeg
Vermeer
Fischer
William Denman
Jowans
Senate
Aso
Cooper completes fourth orbit in Faith 7 spaceflight
Astronaut Gordon Cooper continued his American spaceflight aboard Faith 7 east of Nicaragua, circling the globe at 4:22 p.m. EST and pushing toward the 22 orbit plan. Reported excellent systems, steady heartbeat, and normal temperature as mission aims to rendezvous later in the day.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Gordon Cooper
Caribbean
Nicaragua
Howard Benedict
Cape Caraveral
Cooner
South Atlantic Ocean
Raith 7
Cooper
Ascension Island
Charles Berry
Benty
Walter Schirra
Duvalier May Flee From Haiti
Rumors spread that Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier planned to flee as his constitutional term ended, with Opposition voices warning of a possible exile route via Haiti air force planes to Curacao then to New York and Europe. Several reservations under the name Duvalier allegedly appeared for a New York to Paris flight.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Francois Duvalier
Duvalier
Curacao
Vencauela
New York
Europe
Pan American World Airways
Paris
Endorse Bill To Outlaw Pro Boxing
Springfield moves to outlaw professional boxing in Illinois as a Senate bound bill advances after a 7 3 vote by the License and Miscellaneous Committee. Senator Paul Simon argues the sport dangers and racket influence justify outlawing pro boxing while supporting amateur boxing preservation.
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Springfield
Ilinois
Senate
Paul Simon
Troy
United States
Simon
Spanwns
Farm program backers win key Senate test
Senate debate centered on a vote that defeated a Republican amendment to delay the farm bill. Senator Ellender, the floor manager, argued the GOP move would only stall final approval of the measure, while Senator Hickenlooper criticized the legislation as the worst farm bill seen. The clash stayed largely along party lines as supporters pressed for passage by week’s end.
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Washington
Senate
Bourke B
Hickenlooper
Itowe
Alan J. Ellender
Dla
Ellender
Plan to add 600000 to Herbert Hoover Library
Des Moines reports a $600,000 expansion for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library at West Branch with an auditorium, research rooms, storage and display space. land acquisitions bring Hoover Birthplace Park to 28 acres. An old Quaker Meeting House will be moved near the park. An agreement with Great Iowa Corp preserves 16 acres west of the park to keep the pastoral setting.
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Hughes
Danbury
Des Moines
Harold. Hughes
Robert Barry
State Highway Commission
Town Senate
Barry
Tis Appropriations Committee
Siiual
Lowa Ax Wocktted Press
Herbert Hoover
West Branch
Robert E. Goodwin
Vt Goodwin
Hoover
Hoover Park
Goodwin
Great Iowa Corporation
Western powers reject Soviet protests on NATO force
Washington Britain and West Germany have issued notes rejecting Soviet protests against a NATO multilateral nuclear force. The notes, to be delivered in Moscow by Monday, frame the plan as defensive. Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin has been recalled to Moscow for consultations on East West relations and U.S.-Soviet ties, with plans to depart mid next week.
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Washington
United States
Britain
West Germany
Moscow
Anatoly Dobrynin
Waterloo approves 250000 recreation center bond
Waterloo voters approved a 250000 bond issue in a special election held Tuesday to fund the construction and equipment of a new recreation center. The measure carried with about 86 percent of those who turned out supporting the bond.
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Waterloo
Seek to End Relief Tieup In Illinois
Springfield efforts to end the tieup of relief funds in Illinois continued as food distribution to needy families expanded. Republicans demand ceilings on public aid for a two year period starting July 1 before approving May and June emergency appropriations, while Gov Kerner and welfare officials call the proposed ceilings unreasonable amid continued surplus food aid in Chicago and surrounding counties.
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Springfield
Illinois
Etto Kerner
Chicago
Cooper 10th Man In Space at Cape Canaveral
The article lists spaceflight milestones from the first orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin to later missions. It notes L Gordon Cooper Jr as the 10th man to go into space, with a roster of previous American and Soviet astronauts and their flight durations and dates from 1961 to 1962.
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John F. Glenn Jr
Atlantic
Pacific
World Inn
Cooper
Virgil. I. Grissom
Guaymas
Mexico
Roger
Grissom
Florida-Georgia
Atlas
Cape Canaveral
Welter M. Schirra Jr
Schirrz
Schirra
Cape
John E. Glenn Jr
Perth
Australia
Fla
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Yuri Gagarin
Gordon
Mrs. Cooper
Mother Watches Son Apollo Rocket Launch From Teemseh
Mrs Hattie Coopers speaks proudly of astronaut Gordon as his space rocket blasts into orbit watched by his grandmother Mrs Orena Herd and supporters in Teemseh Oklahoma. Families and reporters observe the countdown with quiet tears and prayers as the vehicle enters space.
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Teemseh
Okio
Gordon
Hattie Coopers
Orena Herd
Gooper
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Mercury Control
Center
Air Force
Major
Earth
Faith 7
Soviet Union
Kennedy
Peauniul
Trudy
Houston
Tex
California
Point Arguello
Tf Cooper
Pacifc Ocean
Midway Island
Mercury Control Center
Mercury Connor
Atlas Rocket
Faith
Haiti
U.S. Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
U.S. Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Gherman Titov
U.S. Marine
John H.glenn Jr
U. S.navy
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Andrian Nikolayev
Pavel Popovich
WS. Navy
Walter M. “Schirra
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