03 May 1961
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Newspaper
Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1961
Page
1
Administration supporters forecast a narrow House approval for Kennedy’s minimum wage bill with Senate passage all but certain. The compromise would raise the floor to 1.25 by 1963 and extend coverage to about 3.62 million workers, mostly in retail, while trimming some categories.
Washington AP Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba arrives for a state visit and meetings with President Kennedy. He will place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns, address Congress, and meet officials as Washington hosts him over ten days. His trip aims to outline a two year plan with modest aid requests.
Radio Havana announced the capture of Manuel Artime, leader of the ill fated invasion of Cuba two weeks earlier. Artime had been hiding in the Bay of Pigs swamps awaiting a chance to flee to the United States and was accused of taking funds from an agricultural cooperative to join exile forces. He had been a member of Castro's rebel army during the Batista overthrow and claimed ties to Castro’s later land reform efforts.
In Jerusalem Israel AP reports Birs Zivia Lubotkin described weeks of resistance in the Warsaw ghetto during Eichmann trial testimony. She recalled home made bombs matches scarce arms and German assault to deport Jews to gas chambers. We believed justice would prevail despite no military win.
British diplomat George Blake, 38, pleaded guilty to spying for Russia since his North Korean captivity. He received 42 years in prison, the harshest peacetime sentence in Britain. Blake admitted passing a mass of information to the Russians after his 1951 betrayal while in Communist hands.
A search party found the body of a second airman after an Air Force B47 crash near Hurley Wisconsin The bomber from Forbes Air Force Base Topeka Kan crashed during a practice run in the north woods two crewmen parachuted to safety Capt Frank Mead II and Capt John Hill were injured and taken to Ironwood Michigan hospital Mead walked from the woods Hill suffered a dislocated knee and a sore shoulder The crash followed a prior February incident involving the same unit and an investigation team arrived to take over
President Kennedy plans to send nuclear test ban negotiator Dean back to Geneva in a renewed push for a treaty with the Soviet Union. Officials say no new U S concessions are planned and exchanges will be patient as talks resume, with no fixed deadline for testing or settlement.
Thousands of armed police and plainclothes officers swept through Johannesburg and other cities raiding homes of whites and non whites in what officials called a major operation to forestall protests tied to South Africa's May 31 republic proclamation. The capture of leaflets urging nonwhite demonstrations was a key suspect motive. Police presence was nationwide with unclear arrest numbers.
Herbert Kaubvar decorated his tavern with hammers and sickles and advertised red hued beer to attract May Day customers. The display drew one passerby who threw a rock and shattered Kaubvar’s plate glass window.
Laos rebels order a cease-fire for 8 a.m. Laos time and urge Prince Boun Oum's government to join prompt negotiations for a lasting armistice. The move follows mixed talks near Vientiane as a three-nation truce team prepares to oversee a Geneva peace conference.
The Joint Finance Committee recommended a 52.9 million deficiency appropriation to cover higher than expected costs in the state school aid program. Lawmakers called for a restudy of the school district consolidation law to place all territory in high school districts by July 1962.
Space program advances toward a possible Friday launch for Alan B. Shepard Jr. and the next flight aims to orbit the globe before year’s end. Weather fronts delay Cape Canaveral operations as engineers tackle a fuel feed issue aboard the Redstone rocket amid tense preflight procedures. Navy crews prepare rescue plans and doctors monitor pilots with sensors and heart readings.
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