Byrd warns Kennedy tax cut risks solvency
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, head of the Senate Finance Committee, calls President Kennedy's proposed $11 billion tax cut a dangerous gamble funded by deficits. He doubts Senate action this year, supports tax relief only with substantial spending cuts, and says the economy remains strong despite calls linking delays to civil rights progress. He notes current employment levels are high and questions the magnitude of benefits for lower brackets.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
Kennedy
Virginia
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Byrd
Associated Press
Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Double bath joins the bed in Forum bath line
A British maker unveiled the Forum bath at the London Building Exhibition priced at 700 dollars. It comes in side-by-side or toe-to-toe layouts and four have already been sold according to a salesman.
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London
White Clergymen End Fast As Sheriff Integrates Jail
In Williamston North Carolina Sheriff Raymond Rawls agreed to desegregate the Martin County Jail after 15 Northern white clergymen ended a two meal hunger strike. The ministers were jailed earlier for leading an anti segregation march and later shared a cell with Negro inmates. Authorities planned more mattress placements as demonstrations occurred with police presence and no violence reported. The marchers included Rev Harvey Coxe of Andover Newton Theological Seminary and Rev David King of Amherst Mass as they walked with a Negro girl amid Negro demonstrators and white onlookers.
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Williamston
N.C
Raymond Rawls
Martin County
Rawls
Harvey Coxe
Andover-Newton Theological Seminary
Massachusetts
David King
Congregational Christian
Amherst
Mass
Ray
U N Command Plans Talks With North Korea Over Ambush
The U N Command said the ambush that killed South Korean Captain Hong Chung wi and wounded American Specialist Harold Aldrich appears isolated as it prepares to meet North Korean officials in Panmunjom to protest the attack. Eight unarmed patrol members wore yellow armbands. South Korean troops recovered the captain's body and Aldrich remained in good condition. Lt Col Alphus R Clark received treatment for shock and exposure.
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Seoul
Korea
U.N
Hong Chung-wi
Harold Aldrich
Montrose
Colo
Pukhan River
U. N
Hong
Aldrich
Alphus R. Clark
Leavenworth
Kan
Still Active at 101 Buffalo Catholic Pastor
Msegr. Richard O'Brien, pastor of An nunciation Parish in Buffalo New York, is the oldest active Catholic pastor in the United States at 101 years old.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Richard O'Brien
Annunciation Parish
United States
Crippled Oil Tanker Sinks After Collision Near Cape Cod
A crippled Dynafuel to Newark bumped by a Norwegian freighter in fog ten miles west of the Cape Cod Canal. Dynafuel sank with only its bow above water as 57 crew, including 17 from Dynafuel, rode out the night on the Fernview. Five tankermen sustained injuries and were hospitalized in Boston. none in serious condition. Dynafuel had discharged oil at Newington and Revere before heading to Newark.
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Buzzards Bay
Mass
Dyname
Fernview
Cape Cod Canal
Coast Guard
Boston
Dynamel
Dynafuel
Sun Oil Co
Newark
N. J
Newington
N. H
Revere
Judge dismisses charges in Syracuse racial demonstration
A Syracuse judge grants a surprise motion to dismiss charges against all but one of those arrested in a recent racial protest at a city urban renewal site. Assistant district attorney J Richard Sardino says the controversy is settled and no recurrence is expected.
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Syracuse
J. Richard Sardino
Onondaga County
Last Skiing Season for Septuagenarian Veteran Skier
The 75 year old veteran skier Scudder announced this season will be his last due to a slowing automobile accident.
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Scudder
U.S.-Soviet relations stall as Barghoorn case looms
Washington officials say U.S.-Soviet ties remain frozen until Yale scholar Frederick C. Barghoorn is freed. President Kennedy warned the arrest has badly damaged the atmosphere, signaling a setback after the Moscow test ban pact. Moscow’s impatience grows amid blocking convoys and anti-American press, affecting cultural exchange talks.
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Washington
Russia
Frederick C. Barghoorn
Yale
Kennedy
U.S
Moscow
Camp David
Khrushchev
Dwight D. L Eisenhower
Bar
Berlin
Atlantic Alliance
Kremlin
Barghoorn
Soviet Union
Igor A. Ivanov
New Jersey
Deep South Sees Record Low Temperatures
A cold snap drives temperatures below freezing across the Deep South with Tallahassee and Cross City Florida posting record lows of 23 degrees. Tampa hits 35 and Miami records 45 for the date as a broad cold dome settles east of the Mississippi, while the Plains and Northeast report snow flurries and lighter rain in the West.
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Associated Press
Southland
Florida
Mercury
Tallahassee
Cross City
Tampa
Miami
Mississippi Valley
Plains
Burlington
Key West
Fla
Augusta
Columbis
S. C
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Far West
Americans Butenko And Ivanov Plead Innocent On Spy Charges
John William Butenko 38 of Orange and Igor A. Ivanov 33 of New York City pleaded innocent in Newark to three counts of conspiring to transmit information to the Soviet Union related to U S national defense. They were arrested October 29 by the FBI amid an espionage plot break up. Bail requests were renewed but remain unsettled.
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Newark
N. J
Russia
John William Butenko
Orange
Igor A. Ivanov
New York City
FBI
Ivanov
Thomas
Asst. U. S. Atty
Sanford Jaffe
Butenko
Meaney
Court of Appeals
Soviet Union
U.S
U. N
United States
Hudson County
Jersey City
Hotel Hamilton in Utica Closes After 100 Years
The Hotel Hamilton, a 300 room Utica landmark with a century of history, has closed. The Common Council ordered condemnation last month and the building will be torn down to make way for a municipal parking lot. Staff in the lobby announced the closure with the line We are out of business.
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Utica
Hamilton
Common Council
Sister Catherine Berissimo to be 100 this November
Sister Catherine Berissimo of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet will celebrate her 100th birthday on November 24. A longtime teacher in the Albany and Syracuse dioceses, she spent more than 50 years in education and now resides in retirement at a convent.
Kennedy pushes tax cut to spur jobs at AFL CIO meet
President Kennedy told an AFL CIO convention the Congress should promptly pass his 11 billion tax cut bill to spur job creation. He cited four million unemployed and urged action despite doubts about passage this year. He criticized Republicans including Rockefeller and Goldwater and pressed for higher wages and 10 million more jobs in two years.
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New York
Kennedy
Congress
Senate
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Arizona
Kennnedy
Rockefeller
Kennedy U-Turn on NY Traffic Plays To Ordinary Motoring
President Kennedy tours the East Coast and forgoes a 35 motorcycle police escort in New York City to ride as an ordinary motorist stopping at red lights. Police debate the risk vs. protection while the Secret Service defers. Kennedy later heads to Palm Beach where police are accustomed to his town driving.
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New York
Kennedy
Palm Beach
Fla
Pierre Salinger
la Guardia
Michael J. Murphy
Secret Service
Rumor Mills Tie Mills to Supreme Court Appointment
Washington rumors revive that Rep Wilbur Mills may join the Supreme Court with Kennedy backing for a tax cut gesture. Denials follow as Mills’ stance on the administration’s Social Security aged care bill splits the Ways and Means Committee, potentially reshaping medical care prospects.
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Washington
Wilbur Mills
Supreme Court
Mill
Kennedy
Ways and Means
Mills
Plaa
William O. Dougs
Hugo L. Black
Row Over Grain Sales to Soviet Stalls Action on Foreign Aid Bill
Senate battle blocks Kennedy foreign aid bill passage over Mundt amendment to bar Export-Import Bank guarantees for private grain sales to Communist countries. Mansfield and Humphrey push to table. Dirksen abstained. debate unsettled as concerns rise over a 250 million wheat sale to Russia and Hungary loans.
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Senate
Kennedy
Karl E. Mundt
R-S.d
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Mansfield
Russia
Mundt
Hungary
Humphrey
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Foreign Relations Committee
Dune Onsfield
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