State study debates sales tax amid New York growth
A 286 page final report by the Temporary State Commission on Economic Expansion, named by Gov Rockefeller, weighs a statewide sales tax to fund local services and spur jobs. Labor leaders oppose the tax as unfair to lower income groups, while the panel notes it could be studied if future revenue is needed.
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New York
Alf-Cio
State Commission On Economic Expansion
Rockefeller
Devereaux C. Josephs
The
New York Life Insurance Co
Harold C. Hanover
Afl-Cio
Jacob S. Potofsky
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Joseph
Commission
Potofsky
Hanover
UN Assembly Recesses as Soviets Defy Congo Cost Plan
The United Nations General Assembly recessed after approving a plan to share Congo operation costs. It set a 46 to 17 vote with 24 abstentions and authorized up to 24 million dollars for early 1961 Congo needs. The Soviets pledged to defy the cost share and criticized Dag Hammarskjold in the stormy 15th session.
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United Nations
N. Y
U.N. General Assembly
U.N. Congo
Soviet Union
Assembly
Dag Sammarskjold
Khrushchev
Hammarskjold
A. A. Roshchin
Security Council
United States
NATO
Valerian A. Zorin
U. S
James J. Wadsworth
Kennedy Selects Roswell Gilpatric Deputy Defense Chief
President elect John F Kennedy picks Roswell Gilpatric a New York lawyer and former Air Force undersecretary to be deputy secretary of defense. Gilpatric 54 will serve under Robert McNamara as second in command at the Pentagon amid budget planning concerns and a wider transition of the defense establishment.
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Robert S. McNamara
Ford Motor Co
Gilpatric
Air Force
Defense Establishment
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Joint Congressional
Kennedy
Defense Department
National Defense
Yale
Law
Yale Law Journal
New York
of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Pentagon
The
Aerospace Corp
Secretary of Defense
Thomas S. Gates Jr
China pledges aid to Laos rebels in context of U S intervention
Peiping radio quoted Lin Piao vowing China will do all it can to stop U S imperialism's intervention in Laos. The message to Vo Nguyen Giap marks North Vietnam's 16th anniversary and praises North Viet Nam's Red forces while pledging cooperation with Hanoi to safeguard Geneva accords.
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Tokyo
Lin Piao
China
U.S
Laos
Peiping Radio
Marshal Lin
Vo Nguyen Giap
North Viet Nam
Heandand Aid Wat
Southeast Asia
Viet Nam Democratic Republic
Lin
North
Viet Nam
Red
Inside Radio and Sports Highlights Across Pages
The snippet lists sections including Bridge Sports 16 Editorial Comics 23 Classified 22 Fulton 18 Phoenix 18, signaling page locations for diverse content from radio coverage to editorials and ads with city features Fulton and Phoenix.
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Bridge Sports
Fulton
Phoenix
Venezuelan Revolt Suppressed Near Caracas
A pocket revolt against President Betancourt’s government was crushed near Caracas led by Lt. Lizardo Marquez Perez with 20 men. They seized a guards post at La Guaira and were captured on the Caracas to La Guaira highway. Police and troops had earlier quelled leftist rioting in Caracas with eleven dead.
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Venezuela
UPI
Romulo Betancourt
Lizardo Marquez Perez
National Guard
Aguaira
la Guaira
Marquez Perez
Caracas Ta Guaira
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Ing. Betancourt
Fidel Castro
Betancourt
Stalingrad
Planes Collide Southwest of Hamilton Killing Three
Two light planes flying opposite courses collided in overcast weather southwest of Hamilton Montana on Tuesday. All three occupants died: Robert Ryman 37 owner of a local flying service his wife Donna about 30 and Norman C Ray about 43.
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Hamilton
Monta
Here
Robert Ryman
Donna
Norman C. Ray
Ben-Gurion Denies Israel Building Atomic Bomb
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion told Parliament the Negev reactor will be used solely for peaceful research and would be open to international students. He said the second reactor, larger than the Rehovoth training unit, would take three to four years to complete with a 24 000 kilowatt capacity despite press reports of bomb development with French aid. Both governments denied the claims and stressed peaceful aims.
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Jerusalem
David Ben-Gurion
Parliament
Israel
Negev Desert
Ben-Gurion
Rehovoth
U.S
Washington
London
Daly and Warren Receive Marriage License in San Francisco
John Charles Daly and Virginia Warren obtained a marriage license in San Francisco on Tuesday. Daly, 46, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and previously married, divorced, and now weds Miss Warren, 32, blonde daughter of Earl Warren, in a forthcoming ceremony slated for Thursday afternoon. A leaky fountain pen and a mislaid blood test certificate were resolved before the license was issued.
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SAN Franusolu UF
John Charles Daly
Virginia Warren
Earl Warren
Daly
New York
Johannesburg
South Africa
Miss Warren
Smith Named To Serve Kennedy's Senate Term
Benjamin A. Smith II a former Harvard roommate of John F Kennedy is named to fill the remaining two years of Kennedys Senate term. Governor Foster Furcolo announced the appointment saying Smith will take the seat January 3 giving him seniority over other freshmen senators. Smith formerly mayor of Gloucester and a Naval WWII veteran rose from Gloucester School Committee to Democratic National Convention delegate and Kennedy campaign organizer.
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Benjamin A. Smith II
Harvard
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate
Smith
Gloucester
Foster Furcolo
U. S. Senate
Palm Beach
Fila
Winthrop House
Torbert H. MacDonald
Massachusetts
Pacific
South Carolina
Kansas
Navy Plane Crashes Off Newfoundland with All Possibly Lost
A U S Navy Neptune P2V patrol bomber from Argentia Newfoundland crashed into the Atlantic about 17 miles northeast of Cape Race. Rescue planes and ships searched the area but officials said there were likely no survivors as weather remained clear and the cause was unknown.
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ST. John's
Newfoundland
U.S. Navy
Argentia
Nfld
Atlantic
Cape Race
Army Draft Call Sets February Quota at 6000
Washington reports the Army issued a February draft call for 6,000 men matching January’s quota and below November and December levels. The total drafted or earmarked since September 1950 reaches 2,595,930.
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Washington
Army
Winter Storms Leave 16 Dead Across Plains to Midwest
A winter storm system sweeping from the Plains into the Midwest and East caused at least 16 deaths across Illinois Ohio Michigan and Missouri. Subzero readings were reported in the Northern Plains Wisconsin Iowa and Illinois with 20 below zero in North Dakota. California enjoyed mid 80s as New York saw fresh snow and school closures across several states due to ice and wind.
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Michigan
Midwest
North
Midlands
Texas
Gulf Coast
Midas Satellite Orbits Earth in New Temperature Probe
The 81 foot Discoverer XIX launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base enters a 93 minute polar orbit to measure the earth's infrared heat. Future Midas systems will use the data to detect hostile missile firings by reporting abnormal heat flashes with a network of eight to twelve satellites.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Midas
Loren Babe Named Field Manager Of Auburn Yankees
Loren Babe, 32, formerly with the New York Yankees, was named field manager of the Auburn Yankees in the Class D New York Pennsylvania League. He succeeds Bob Bauer and hails from Omaha Nebraska. Babe had been out of baseball since 1959 after an injury in spring training with Rochester and previously played for Rochester Toronto and Syracuse in the International League and for New York.
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Loren Babe
Auburn
New York
Long Thought Dead Nazi Butcher Arrested For Auschwitz Murders
Frankfurt authorities bring Richard Baer 49 to face charges of murdering Jews at Auschwitz and during a 1945 retreat. Baer, last commandant of Auschwitz, was arrested near Hamburg after living under an assumed name as a master lumberman. He was identified through handwriting samples and jailed amid guards.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Richard Baer
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Baer
Auschwitz
Dassendorf
Hamburg
Rudolf Hoess
Hoess
Schwitz
Heinz Wolf
Neumann
Prince Mismarck
Navy Criticized in Carrier Fire at Constellation
A Navy Court of Inquiry reviewed the Constellation fire that killed 48 workers and caused 75 million dollars in damage. Vice Admiral Aus tin led the hearing while calls for safer scaffolding and potential metal substitutes dominate debate among naval and city officials.
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NEW Yuri
Naval Court of Inquiry
Constellation
Alondas
Bernard L. Austin
Schuyler N. Pyne
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy
Navy Yard
Washington
Edward F. Cavanagh Jr
Fire Department
City Pier
Cavanagh
New York
William B. Franke
Adm
Charles Welthorn Jr
Naval Dist
Tanker Pine Ridge Breaks Up in Heavy Seas Off Cape Hatteras
A 10,417 ton tanker Pine Ridge breaks in two amid violent seas 90 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Coast Guard and Navy vessels race to aid 37 to 39 crew including the skipper as men are reported in the water and on the stern section. The ship built in 1943 runs from New York to Corpus Christi and was underway with ballast.
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New York
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Coast Guard
Pine Ridge
Keystone Shipping Co
Wilmington
Del
Navy
New York City
Corpus Christi
Texas
Prendergast to Take New York Demo Quarrel to Kennedy
Michael H. Prendergast plans to take New York Democratic leadership disputes to President-elect John F. Kennedy. He hopes Kennedy will recognize him as party leader in New York, stressing New York's 45 electoral votes in his federal patronage influence. He said he would serve out his term to June 1962 and might run again.
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Michael H. Prendergast
New York
John F. Kennedy
Prendergast
Kennedy
New York State
Wil- Han Walton
Paul Corbin
Tammany Y
Carmine DeSapio
DeSapio
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