Reach Accord On Fiscal Plan
Madison AP Democratic Gov. John W Reynolds and eight Wisconsin lawmakers reached a budget tax accord to fund a 1963-65 state outlay of about 630 million dollars with new revenue estimated at 140.7 million. The plan includes a 0.3 percent income tax hike, a 2 dollar filing fee, an auto registration fee, and new sales taxes totaling around 46.8 million. It preserves a 300 dollar minimum standard deduction for low earners and reallocates local vehicle tax options. The measure, drafted with Sen. Robert Knowles and Assemblyman Glen Pommerening, moves to party caucuses for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
John W. Reynolds
Wisconsin
Robert Knowles
New Richmond
Reynolds
Glen Pommerening
R-Wauwatosa
Pommerening
Rights Chiefs Are Not Reds Declares RFK
Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy stated the Justice Department has no evidence that top civil rights leaders are Communists or Moscow-controlled. He cited FBI and other sources supporting King and other leaders. Testimony followed prior charges by Barnett, Wallace, and Bruce Bennett that linked Communist influence to the movement. The letter to Sen. Monroney and the hearing context are noted.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Justice Department
Senate Commerce Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Martin Luther King Jr
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
George C. Wallace
Alabama
Bruce Bennett
Arkansas
Commerce Committee
Red
King
Tennessee
A. S
Mike Monroney
Dekla
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Kennedy
Monroney
Robert Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Bill Bans Wolf River Dam Construction in Outagamie Area
The Wisconsin State Assembly passed a set of minor Senate bills and sent them to the governor while awaiting a budget tax dispute settlement report. Included is a bill prohibiting dam construction on the Wolf River north of Outagamie County, following a prior law banning a Wolf River dam at Pearson Langlade County.
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Madison
State Assembly
Senate
Wolf River
Outagamie County
Pearson
Langlade County
Admitted Gift-Taking by 13 Milwaukee Police
Milwaukee police chief says 13 vice squad officers admitted taking cash or gifts from a known prostitute, Mrs Johnnie Mae Jackson. Tests were conducted at the State Crime Laboratory in Madison and written reports are awaited before action. Amounts were reportedly small, around 40 dollars, with some cases describing nominal sums.
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Milwaukee
Howard
Johnson
State Crime Laboratory
Madison
Johnnie Mae Jackson
Powers Sign N Ban Treaty With Three Nations
MOSCOW AP The United States Britain and the Soviet Union opened a treaty banning nuclear tests in air outer space and under water The pact was initiated by W Averell Harriman Lord Hailsham and Andrei Gromyko after a three hour meeting at Spiridonovka Palace The three signed copies were exchanged and the press waited about four hours Khrushchev in a letter to African nations spoke of a radical turn toward a better international climate and offered a nonaggression pledge to Africa if Western powers would reciprocate The treaty bars tests by signatories in air water and space and forbids aiding spread of nuclear weapons It allows withdrawal on 60 days notice and excludes underground tests due to lack of safeguards.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Hailsham
Andrei Gromyko
Foreign Ministry
Spiridonovka Palace
Harriman
Gromyko
NATO
Khrushchev
Africa
Geneva
Earthquakes Rattle Villages Near Rome
In vacation towns northeast of Rome, strong aftershocks rattled buildings and towers, forcing residents to flee. The tremors, the second day in a row, caused alarm but no casualties were reported.
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Rome
Appennines
Joint Chiefs Left in Dark on Nuclear Test Ban Talks
Washington AP reports that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not briefed on the limited nuclear test ban proposal until near the Moscow talks end. Most chiefs opposed a comprehensive ban but may accept a pact excluding underground tests, amid a clause allowing withdrawal if external tests threaten security.
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Washington
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Britain
Brooklyn ministers stage civil rights protest at hospital site
Twenty four ministers, most Black, blocked a Brooklyn hospital construction entrance and were arrested, along with 27 other demonstrators. The clergy protested job discrimination in the construction industry as civil disobedience tied to recent city housing project jail terms for white protesters.
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New York
Brooklyn
Downstate
Augustus Jones Jr
Mr. Jones
Manhattan
T. Vincent Quinn
Rutgers Houses
Lower East Side
Byrnes Favorite Son Bid Endorsed in Wisconsin
Washington AP Wiscon sin Republican Chairman Talbot Peterson endorsed Rep John Byrnes R Wis as a favorite son candidate to blunt a clash between Rockefeller and Goldwater forces If Byrnes commits to the role he would head Wisconsin's delegation to the Republican national convention next year Peterson and George Greeley outlined the plan and a fall announcement is expected Byrnes has not yet decided on the role but is seen as shaping Wisconsin's primary strategy
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Washington
Wisconsin
Talbot ‘Peterson
John Byrnes
R-Wis
Rockefeller
Goldwater
Peterson
George Greeley
Wisconsin Cop
Melvin Laird
Byrnes
His
Neilson Rockefeller
New York
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
House Republican Policy Committee
Thieves Ransack Farmer Myers Home
Thieves ransacked Glenn Myers home in Carmi Illinois stealing a television set a shot gun silverware radios clothing jewelry an electric skillet and other kitchen utensils pictures and dishes leaving only a pair of pants.
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Carmi
Dl 'Jupd
Glenn Myers
Myers
Booster Rocket Trouble Delays Syncom 2 Launch
Trouble in the Delta booster rocket forces a third postponement of the attempt to launch the Syncom 2 communications satellite into a 22 300 mile high orbit where it would hover over one area of the earth. No new launch date was set.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Railroads Pause Manpower Rules to Avert Strike
Washington AP The nation’s railroads agreed to a 30 day delay in posting new manpower trimming work rules preventing a nationwide strike next Tuesday. Daniel Loomis head of the Association of American Railroads said 198 carriers would not impose changes until 12:01 a.m. Aug 29 to cooperate with Congress which weighs Kennedy plan to hand the dispute to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Washington
Daniel P. Loomis
Ake
Association of American Railroads
House Commerce Committee
Loomis
Congress
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
Senate Commerce Committees
Pastore
Harris
House Committee
Commerce Commission
CAB Hearing To Reconvene In Washington
The CAB area airport hearing ends in Wausau and will reconvene in Washington next week to allow Examiner Edward T. Stodola to question FAA officials. He will probe FAA recommendations favoring Winnebago County Airport over Appleton, Oshkosh port adequacy, and FAA policy on covenants transfers. Attorneys then file briefs within two months, with a likely four months to a first decision.
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Cab Area
Wausau
Washington
Edward T. Stodola
Federal Aviation Agency
Stodola
FAA
Winnebago County
Appleton
Oshkosh
Nixon Warns West Not To Trust Khrushchev Appeal
Former Vice President Richard Nixon urged the West not to be deceived by Khrushchev and warned that East Berlin remains a tightly repressed police state. Nixon criticized both administrations for failing to act against Communist expansion, citing Hungary and the Berlin Wall, and described East Berlin as more anti Communist than Poland or Hungary during his unheralded visit.
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Berlin
Richard “Mo Nixon
West
Nixon
Khrushchev
East Berlin
Budapest
Otheran
East Germany
Berlin Wall
Hungary
East
Vice
Richard M. Nixon
West Berlin
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R-Rosendale
Frank Panzer
Brownsville
RFK
Banning
Moscow Palace
Joint Chiefs
Richard Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Dean Rusk
Russell
Henry M Jackson
D-Wash
Rep. Byrnes
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