Kennedy backed wage rise faces compromise on coverage plan
Capitol Hill buzzed as House lawmakers tackled a 31 cent wage floor bill with President Kennedy proposing a 25 cent increase and 4.3 million workers gaining coverage. A Republican Southern Democrat coalition preferred 15 cents and limited coverage to 1.4 million workers, aiming to avert a public clash. Rep. Carl Vinson to push a compromise, while Rep. Ayres signals likely opposition.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
House
Kennedy
Coalition
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
Vinson
William H. Ayres
Ohio
Arthur J
Kennedy Sent Jobless Benefit Bill To President
A near billion dollar emergency extension of unemployment benefits awaits President Kennedy's signature. The plan, top priority in his recession measures, would add extra checks within fifteen days and reach up to three million jobless over a two year period. State funding advances will be repaid from a later tax increase.
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Washington
House
Senate
Nelson to Talk At Appleton Meet
Madison AP Gov Gaylord Nelson will visit Appleton Friday to present a 5 million dollar 10 year plan to preserve Wisconsin outdoor resources. He will meet the Department of Resource Development Advisory Committee, speak to reporters, and outline Wolf River basin and Fox River Valley proposals. Ayub Khan to visit United States and Canada next fall.
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Gaylord Nelson
Appleton
Wisconsin
Department of Resource Development
Wolf River
Fox River Valley
Dacca
Pakistan
UPI
Mohammed Ayub Khan
United States
Canada
Local Obituaries Highlighted In Today's Index
A compact index lists sections for obituaries editorial weather and society pages across the edition. Readers are guided to Winnebago land Neenah Menasha and sports comics TV markets in various pages.
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Today's Index
Winnebagoland . We
Society
Neenah-Menasha
New Plans For African Aid In Works
United Nations expected to receive Kennedy administration proposals for a U.N. program to boost Africa's economy and education. The plan signals changes to the Eisenhower effort that stalled before resolution, with U S delegates reporting the administration will present revised aims at the General Assembly debate.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
Africa
General Assembly
Eisenhower
U.S
Kennedy Signs Emergency Feed Grain Plan After Senate Vote
Washington AP reports President Kennedy signed the emergency feed grain program into law after Senate approval 58-31 and House approval 231-185. Secretary Freeman announced higher national average price supports for corn sorghum oats barley and rye and planned field meetings with farmers to explain the program.
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Senate
House
Kennedy
Vile L. Freeman
Freeman
Omaha
Agriculture Department
James R. Ralph
Illinois Senate weighs protecting snow crew from winter firing
The Illinois Senate considered a bill to protect highway workers operating snow removal equipment from dismissal during the winter season.
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Springfield
UPI
Illinois Senate
Senate OKs Early Release of State Building Projects
The Wisconsin Senate unanimously approved a bill to release 6.6 million in state building projects ahead of schedule to counter recession. Projects include 3 million for the Winnebago State Hospital infirmary in Oshkosh and 2.6 million for the Kettle Moraine School for Boys near Plymouth.
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Oshkosh
Kettle Moraine School
Plymouth
Delavan School For the Deaf
Downer
Milwaukee
Cuban exile groups form council to oust Castro
Two Cuban exile groups unite under Jose Miro Cardona to form a Revolutionary Council aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro within 18 months. The body includes Manuel Ray and Manuel Antonio de Varona, pledging free elections, private investment, and the outlawing of the Communist Party. Castro calls them puppets as exiles abroad seek support from Canada to Patagonia.
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New York
Fidel Castro
Jose Miro Cardona
Revolutionary Council
Democratic Revolutionary Front
Cardona
Cuba
Castro
Canada
Patagonia
Havana
Revolutionary Movement ‘of the People
Manuel Ray
Manuel Antonio de Varona
de Varona
Red Party
Communist Party
Wisconsin Highways Wet With Rain Snow and Fog
Light rain drizzle and fog spread across Wisconsin early today with wet highways. Snow fell in the north melting on contact while southeast counties reported the heaviest fog and lingering precipitation.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Milwaukee bookkeeper admits stealing twenty thousand
MILWAUKEE UP I Mrs Angeline Dose a bookkeeper at Gaenslen Brothers Leath made a confession of taking money from the firm's books auditors say she began in 1957 six months after employment and by Wednesday admitted taking about twenty thousand dollars with small amounts like seventy dollars at a time She said she used funds for home purchases cab fares and clothing and would try to repay later but offered no defense to the charges Judge Christ mas set April 7 for trial with bail at two thousand five hundred and noted she earned seventy dollars weekly.
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Milwaukee
UPI
Angeline Dose
Gaenslen
doctor_ or Co
Christmas
Dose
Jte
Figh
Seraphim
Kennedy To Outline Laos Policy In Major Address
President Kennedy is expected to announce a major U S policy statement on the Laos crisis with moves to strengthen the pro Western government against Soviet backed forces. Officials caution Moscow may resist Western terms as Britain pushes a diplomatic settlement. Rusk heads for Bangkok to meet SEATO foreign ministers as Vietnam style danger grows.
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Kennedy
U. S
Ovuviel Ledcuull LU
Britain
Laos
New York Herald Tribune
Rusk
Dean Rusk
Bangkok
Thailand
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
United States
Britain Accepts Soviet Laos Peace Plan Proposal
Britain accepted the Soviet proposal for an international conference on Laos provided the USSR first secures a cease-fire. A British note urged a joint appeal by British and Soviet foreign ministers to end fighting and to deploy an Indian Canadian Polish control commission to oversee a truce.
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Associated Press
Laos
Britain
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Southeast Asia
U.S
Midway
Hong Kong
7Th Fleet
Indochina
Okinawa
Tokyo
Bang
Kok
British Stirred Over Spy Ring
London reports a political storm as a Soviet spy ring case unfolds five years after the arrest of a master spy, an American couple, and two British lovers for stealing Royal Navy secrets. The sentences ranged up to 25 years for the ring’s presumed leader with warnings of broader Soviet infiltration and calls for tighter Western security cooperation.
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London
Britain
England
Moscow
Lord Carrington
Admiralty
S Navy
Lord Beaver
Brook
Daily Express
United States
Klaus Fuchs
Guy Burgess
Donald MacLean
Bruno Pontecorva
Briiish
U.S
Gordon Arnold Lonsdale
Scotland Yard
Morris Cohen
Kroger
Helen
Tulius
Ethel Rosenberg
Five Stars Returned To Eisenhower
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower has his five star general rank restored by legislation signed by President Kennedy. Eisenhower will keep his $23,000 pension and $50,000 expense fund as a former president and will not receive additional Army pension or allowances.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Exsenhower
Congress
SEATO Could Deploy 4009 Troops Into Laos
SEATO nations may send about 4000 battle ready troops to Laos after a decision to aid the royal Laotian army. Some say such intervention could trigger a Korea-like war, complicating U.S. airlift and sea lift limits. Officials caution no immediate direct U.S. military action is planned. The alliance, including Britain France Australia New Zealand Thailand the Philippines and Pakistan, weighs continued planning to resist communist aggression.
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Washington
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Laos
Vientiane
L. S
United States
Pentagon
U.S
Pathet Lao
Seato Alliance
SEATO
Britain
France
Australia
New Zealand
Thailand
Philippines
Pakistan
Bangkok
Five Warranted Ties Thefts Tied to Auto Firm Leaders
Warrants were issued Wednesday for five men tied to a major tie theft scheme. James H. Knippel and Ralph Staszal, leaders at Kr Ache To., faced charges of receiving stolen property valued at 2900. Mortimer G. Kavanaugh Tim E Boles and Richard T Pliss were charged with burglarizing Schicks Standard Service Station. Police traced ties stolen January 23 to the auto firm.
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Sands of Dinilars
James H. Knippel
Ralph Staszal
Kr Ache To
Mortimer G. Kavanaugh
Tim E Boles
Richard T Pliss
Schicks Standard
Aires
Hugh O'Connell
Stahon
Passet
Auto
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Vang Vieng
Udorn
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Mulwaukee
Hubert Lister Parker
Tam To
Pate
Five
Tura
East Pakistan
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