Legislature passes tax relief bill in Albany
The Senate gave final passage to Gov. Rockefeller's tax relief plan raising credits for unmarried heads of households from 10 to 235 dollars, while a broader relief was defeated 33 to 24. The bill, sent to the governor, would affect about 250 of 600,000 taxpayers and reduce revenue by 3.75 million dollars.
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Rockefeller
Assembly
Anthony J. Travia
Travia
Walter J. Mahoney
Mahoney
Sen
Joseph Zaretski
New York State Home Builders Association
Gov. Rockefellers
Jewish Cemetery Markers Defaced on Staten Island
Nearly 100 headstones at Baron Hirsch Cemetery in Graniteville were defaced with yellow swastikas and German words. The damage covered a 5 acre section of the 35 acre site, including graves of World War I service members. Paint covered the Star of David and words such as Death and Fatherland appeared. Fuehrer was also found.
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Wew York
Staten Island
Graniteville
Eisenhower Urges Removal of Interest Rate Ceiling
President Eisenhower urged Congress in a special message to remove the 4 1 4 percent ceiling on long term government bonds. He blamed Congress for raising debt costs and called the ceiling archaic and impractical in the opening message of the new session.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Dress of Mrs Finch Exhibit In Murder Trial
In Los Angeles警方, the dress Barbara Jean Finch wore the night of July 18 features a bullet hole matching a back wound. Capt. Ryan testifies the white cocktail dress was seized from the Finch home as police sought a pistol and Dr. R Bernard Finch, arrested next day in Las Vegas. Carole Tregoff, 23, a former model, faces murder and conspiracy charges as Finch’s mistress goes on trial.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Jean Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Finch
West Covina
Dr. Finch
Las Vegas
Nev
Carole Tregoff
Miss Tregoff
Senator Green Retiring at 92
Senator Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island at 92, the oldest to serve in Congress, will retire after four terms citing failing eyesight and hearing. He underwent cataract surgery, began in state politics in 1906, served as governor, and was elected to the U S Senate in 1934.
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R. Lo
Theodore Francis Green
D-Ri
Congress
Green
Frank Rae
Rhode Island House of Representatives
U. S. Senate
Missing Girl Harriet Benton Unclaimed Mail at Las Palmas
A missing New York girl, Harriet Benton, 22, remains unclaimed at the Las Palmas Yacht Club in the Canary Islands. Mail addressed to her has piled up since mid November. Benton is believed aboard the yacht Raider which left Casablanca for the Canaries Oct 15.
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Canary Islands
Ogdensburg
Las Palmas Yacht Club
Harriet Benton
Casablanca
Miss Benton
Naples
Italy
U.S. State Department
Voting Rights Restored for 1377 Negroes in Washington Parish
U S District Court in New Orleans ordered the restoration of voting privileges to 1 377 Negroes removed from Washington Parish rolls on technicalities. Judge J Skelly Wright barred four Citizens Council members and Curtis M Thomas from further discriminatory challenges and required detailed compliance reports within 10 days. The decree notes only 10 white voters were removed. Atty Gen M F Ryan Jr said the ruling bars applying different qualification rules by race.
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U. S. District Court
Washington Parish
J. Skelly Wright
White Citizens Council of
Curtis M. Thomas
Register of Voters
Louisiana Parish
Diaz D. McElveen
E. Ray McElveen
Saxon Farmer
Eugene Farmer
Wright
Thomas
Washington
Asst
M. F. Ryan Jr
Civil Rights Division
Icelandic Trawler Uranus Missing Forty-Eight Hours
Halifax reports a 636-ton Icelandic trawler Uranus carrying 28 men has been missing nearly 48 hours after last radio contact on Sunday afternoon off the Newfoundland north coast. The Royal Canadian Air Force issued a search alert to ships in the area and will deploy aircraft when weather allows. The vessel was in very severe weather at the time of contact.
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Newfoundland
Royal Canadian Air Force
Icelandic Coast Guard
RCAF
Uranus
Eisenhower to seek postal rate increase and budget plan
President Eisenhower plans to ask Congress to raise postal rates as part of a new fiscal year budget previewed at the White House. Rep. Charles Halleck and other Republican leaders were briefed on a budget that calls for 79.8 billion dollars in spending and a projected 4.2 billion dollar surplus.
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Edward Abbott
Fusion
Wilson Folmar
Abbott
Cairo
Egypt
IKE
Washington
UPI
Eisenhower
Charles A. Halleck
R-Ind
Halleck
White House
Sampson Base Bid to Become Washington State Park
The Interior Department made public today a recommendation that 1,030 acres of the former Sampson Air Force Base in N Y be designated as a state park and recreation area.
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Sampson Base
Washington
Sampson, N. Y., Air Force Base
Interior Department
Geneva resumes talks on nuclear test ban in 1959
The United States the Soviet Union and Britain renew negotiations in Geneva for a world ban on nuclear tests. Talks since Oct 31 1958 have largely stalled over verification procedures and on site inspections. Western scientists warn a perfect detection system may be impossible though on-site inspection could deter violations.
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United States
Soviet Union
Briton
U. S
U.S
Evgeny Federov
Philadelphia Admits Los Angeles Third Largest City
The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce conceded that Los Angeles is now the nation’s third largest city. It estimated Philadelphia’s 1959 population at 2,207,200 versus Los Angeles at 2,397,500, a 190,300 edge for LA, noting LA spans 451 square miles while Philadelphia covers 127.
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Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelpha
Chamber
Former Michigan Farmer Chooses Australia For Good
Stanley Yankus, once at odds with U S wheat limits near Dowagiac, Michigan, moved with his family to Adelaide last May. He worked for Pope Products in Australia, earning about 36 dollars weekly, built a 12500 dollar three bedroom home, and plans permanent residency while cherishing memories of American friends.
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Mich
Stanley Yankus
Australia
Michigan
United States
Dowagiac
Yankus
Adelaide
Benton Harbor News Palladium
U. S
Congress
Pope Products Ltd
Castro Declines U S Protest Over Cuba Land Grab
In Roc an tico Hills Westchester hunt opens on 2,600 acre Rockefeller estate. Seventy five hunters escorted to starting points, with maps coffee and truck pickup. 36 deer bagged in 10 day season amid crop damage from starving deer. Rockefeller family controls the estate with John D Rockefeller Jr. heirs living there. In Washington, Lyndon B Johnson resists growing demands to expand Democratic policy control, signaling a caucus discussion and potential bills on elections and school construction.
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N.Y
Rockefeller Estate
Rocantico Hills
Westchester County
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Westchester Hunt
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Ris Sons
Gov. Rockefeller
Joan D. II
Laurance
David
Winthrop
Washington
Senate
Johnson
Gore
Policy Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Tennessee
White House
George A. Smathers
Florda
Democratic Senatoral
Cuba orders property cases to court amid land reform drive
U S citizens in Cuba face expropriation under Castro s agrarian reform with courts to handle complaints. Bonal notes seizure without court orders or receipts and little compensation. State Department cites violations of Cuban and international law as bonds compensate via 20 year Cuban bonds.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Roperty
U.S
Philip Bonsal
State Department
U. S
Marcelo Fernandez
Fernandez
Bonsal
Washington
Castro
Worldwide anti-Semitism drive escalates with arrests
Arrests mounted as a global drive against anti-Jewish incidents intensified. West Germany faced warnings from Chancellor Adenauer and Foreign Minister von Brentano about threats from enemies, while police in West Berlin moved to curb propaganda linking leaders to anti-Semitic acts and Hitlerism.
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U.N
West Germany
Cologne
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
West Berlin
Germany
Heinrich von Brentano
East Germany
Religious affiliations questioned by Presbyterian ministers poll
The United Presbyterian Church in the U S A reports a poll showing 875 ministers disagree that a candidate's religious affiliation is irrelevant, with 57 agreeing. The 1 047 responses came from 10 947 possible. The survey appeared in Monday Morning magazine as Kennedy runs for the Democratic nomination.
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Philadelphia
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
John F. Kennedy
Mass
Rayburn Declines Chairmanship of Democratic Convention
House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas said he does not choose to be chairman of the Democratic National Convention and will not accept the post. He noted his past convention leadership but added he endorses no candidate for the 1960 chairmanship and backs Lyndon B. Johnson for president. Rayburn aims to see one convention from the floor.
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Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Rayburn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Los Angeles
Chinese Red Airman Dies in Formosa Jet Crash
An American source reports a Chinese Communist pilot died when his MIG fighter crashed during a bid for defection in Formosa. The Nationalist Defense Ministry says the Red flier defected to Nationalist China and that his plane was slightly damaged on a hard landing at an emergency strip in the northeast.
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Taipei
Formosa
Nationalist Defense Ministry
China
Rejected Suitor Kills Girl Then Ends Life in Waddington
State Police report a 22-year-old man, George Roberts, shot his 19-year-old former fiancée Shirley Ann Cole of Waddington and then killed himself on a road between Ogdensburg and Massena. The bodies were found beside Miss Cole’s car with a .22 rifle nearby. Both worked at the Massena Chevrolet plant and had become engaged. after a recent argument Miss Cole returned the engagement ring and began a trip home from work when Roberts overtook her car and shot.
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N.Y
George Roberts
Shirley Ann Cole
Roberts
Miss Cole
Ogdensburg
Massena
Chevrolet
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