Rockefeller seeks 10 percent rebate on 1960 New York income tax
Governor Rockefeller asks the Legislature to approve a 10 percent rebate on 1960 state income taxes totaling about 90 million dollars. Backed by projected year end surpluses, the plan targets 1960 earners while Democrats push for broader relief and alternate proposals.
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Albany
Rockefeller
New York State
State
Bates
Arthur Levitt
Levitt
Senate
Walter J. Mahoney
Mahoney
King Clark Gable Dies After Heart Attack at 59
Hollywood mourns Clark Gable whose death at Hailswood Hospital follows a second heart attack. The king of cinema had hinted at retirement for his forthcoming March baby, after a career spanning decades and a storied rise from stock actor to Oscar winner.
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Hollywood
Clark Gable
Oy Mé
Kay
Gable
Cadiz
Ohio
Lionel Barrymore
Los
Margaret Mitchell
Rhett Butler
Columbia
Poverty Row
Siberia
MGM
Frank Capra
Dishwasher admits March slayings of three Chicago women
In Ottawa Illinois a 21 year old dishwasher Chester Weger confessed to police that he killed Lillian Oetting Maydred Lindquist and Frances Murphy in Starved Rock canyon after a bungled purse snatching attempt. Weger described striking the women with a tree limb and hiding the bodies in a cave.
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Chicago
Starved Rock State Park
Ray Butsey
Chester Otis Weger
Park Lodge
Lillian Oetting
Maiidred Lindquist
Frances Murphy
Riverside
Butsey
Weger
Deer Park
Murphy
Mrs Murphy
Mrs. Murphy
Sir Winston Churchill Improves After Back Injury
Doctors say the 86-year-old former prime minister is bearing the back fracture with effort and rests in bed after a fall last Tuesday night. A 90 minute medical briefing described his condition as encouraging and noted messages of support from Queen Elizabeth II and PM Macmillan.
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London
Winston Churchill
Herber J. Seddon
Churchill
Seddon
Winston. Churchill
Sir Winston
Jan Lus
Queen Elizabeth II
Harold Macmillan
Nixon Captures California Narrowing Kennedy Lead
After extensive absentee ballots Nixon secured California's 32 electoral votes, trimming Kennedy's nationwide popular vote lead to about 197 thousand. Kennedy still holds a 300 electoral vote tally with Florida and North Carolina counted and Indiana giving Kennedy some gains.
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Richard M. Nixon
California
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
Florida
North Carolina
Indiana
Mississippi
Eisenhower orders Navy ships to aid Guatemala and Nicaragua
President Eisenhower ordered U.S. Navy warships and air units to help Guatemala and Nicaragua deter any Communist directed attack. The ships, including an aircraft carrier, are on the high seas awaiting possible action. White House officials say NSA talks did not discuss aid requests.
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GauPi
Eisenhower
Guatemala
Nicaragua
White House
Nicagua
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Christian A. Herter
Defense
Thomas 58
Gates
Lyman Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
National Security Council
NSA
Umits
James C. Hagerty
Caribbean
Hagerty
White Student Boycott of N Orleans Schools Complete
White students boycotting an integrated New Orleans school appeared total as three white first graders attended classes while six marshals escorted Negro pupils to McDonagh No. 19 and Frantz. The city endured tense demonstrations, arrests, and violence as federal judge Wright maintained the integration order amid political pressure and school board funding fights.
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New Orleans
McDonagh No
U.S
William Frantz
Frantz
St. Charles Avenue
Louisiana
J. Shelly Wright
Baton Rouge
Wright
State Senate
James F. Redmond
Jimmie H Davis
Eggnog Favorite of 105 Year-Old Woman in East Berne
Mrs Elia St John marks her 105th birthday in East Berne Albany county enjoying a quart of eggnog daily with meals. She walks unaided at the nursing home, reads from a Bible, and is described as a widow of a farmer who grew up near Middleburgh Schoharie county where her father was a blacksmith.
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Berne
Elia St. John
St. John
Albany County
Motor powered fishing plug attracts fish in Florida
James R. Bosell, an electrical contractor in Fort Myers Florida, has invented a fishing plug driven by a one fourth ounce motor and a small battery. The device performs errations designed to attract fish.
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Fort Myers
Fla
James R. Bosell
Ex Navy Secretary Jahneke Dies at 83 in New Orleans
Rear Adm. Ernest Lee Jahneke former assistant secretary of the Navy under President Hoover died at his home on Wednesday. A New Orleans native, Jahneke was named a commodore in 1931 and rear admiral in 1955.
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Pass Christian
Ernest Lee Jahneke
Navy
Herbert Hoover
New Orleans
Jahneke
Kennedy and Johnson Chart Nation Course at Johnson Ranch
President elect Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, in rough attire, depart from the LBJ Ranch for early talks as plans form for the transition of power in January. Sam Rayburn and Texas leaders join in activities before Kennedy heads to Palm Beach.
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Johnson City
Tex
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
Secret Service
Palm Beach
Fla
LBJ
Pedernales
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Price Daniels
Texas
Pak Beach
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