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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1962
Page
2
One of Frank W Muller senior's first official acts as Nashville police chief was to suspend Patrolman Frank W Muller Jr for three days for negligence after a minor traffic accident while driving a patrol car.
President Kennedy said his administration achieved more civil rights advances in the last year than in the prior eight years, citing voting rights progress, federal employment and judiciary appointments, and desegregation in interstate travel. He pledged an order against discrimination in federally aided housing when in the public interest. Critics argued the housing pledge fell short. Separately, Cosmos Club members voted against racial discrimination, while issues at Cambridge and a fire disaster at Lewis College drew regional attention. The Cambridge incidents saw 12 trials granted after sit ins. 16 Negro and 4 white detainees posted bail. King commented on reports of desegregation progress amid a broader debate on civil rights.
President Kennedy said Berlin negotiations should proceed for a reasonable period to judge progress. He favored extending U.S.-Soviet exploratory talks and hinted tariffs could drop up to 20 percent if industrial imports are affected. He urged Netherlands and Indonesia to settle New Guinea disputes and warned about potential risks of a hard response to Berlin temptations.
President Kennedy plans a Sunday meeting with UN Secretary General U Thant in New York. They will lunch with UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson at Stevenson’s hotel suite, per White House. Kennedy supports UN bonds to share the burden and warns on Congo financing.
Henry A. Barnes, newly appointed traffic commissioner, faced a late start on his first day in New York City due to a crane blocking the street during his drive to the office. Barnes, known as a traffic expert from Baltimore, promised to tackle the city’s congested streets.
Sioux Falls South Dakota (UPI) a driver, 57 year old Henry Floren of Baltic SD, pulled his school bus with five children aboard to the side of the road yesterday and died, apparently of a heart attack.
Washington sources say President Kennedy will ask in his annual budget message Thursday for a foreign aid request near 4.897 billion dollars the largest since 1953 and about 640 million more than Congress approved. The plan also signals increased civilian space program spending.
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