President Kennedy cancels speech to aid back recovery
President Kennedy canceled a planned speaking engagement to speed recovery from a back injury. White House press secretary Pierre Salinger said the move shows no deterioration, just a need to let improvement continue. Kennedy walked with crutches from the White House living quarters to his office and plans a full yet cautious schedule without a news conference this week.
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Washington
Kennedy
Pierre Salinger
White House
Salinger
Janet Travell
Canada
Palm Beach
Fla
Paris
Amintore Fanfani
Thunderstorms Continue With Little Moisture
Thunderstorm activity persisted at a reduced pace in New Mexico with added showers expected in the northeast and the southern half of the state. Grants recorded .05 inch of rain the day prior while Albuquerque Clayton Las Vegas Socorro and Truth or Consequences saw trace amounts. Carlsbad reached 97 degrees with a cool 40 at Grants and Santa Fe noted 84 degrees as forecasts called for warmer conditions this afternoon.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Grants
Albuquerque
Clayton
Las Vegas
Socorro
Carlsbad
Glenwood
Santa Fe
Jackie Kennedy Dances Late At Athens Greek Night
Jacqueline Kennedy dances until 1 a.m. at a seafront Athens night club. She attends dinner and dancing as guest of Mrs. Constantine Caramanlis, wife of Greece's prime minister, overlooking the Saronic Gulf.
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Jackie
Athens
Greece
Jacqueline Kennedy
Saronic Gulf
America
Constantine Caramanlis
Newsmen Find Florida Police Not Asleep
Mexican born reporter Hector Morales tested security by landing on a Florida shore in Cuban fatigues and a two day beard. Two Fort Lauderdale officers detained him as he swam ashore but released Morales after his identity was verified.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Soap Box Derby Clinic Set On Thursday
The 1961 Soap Box Derby Clinic for entrants will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Central fire station. It explains car construction questions and fiberglass use. Race day July 4 starts about 8 a.m. with preliminary inspection June 24 at 1 p.m. on West Fifth Street in Cahoon Park.
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Central Fire Station
West Fifth Street
Cahoon Park
Tom Brown Named Treasurer at Western States Conference
Tom Brown of Artesia New Mexico, a Democratic National Committeeman, was named treasurer of the Western States Democratic Conference in Portland. The three day workshop urged expanded aid to foreign trade, small business and natural resource development.
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Tom Brown
Portland
Ore
Artesia
N.M
New Mexico
Eisenhower Says Invasion Needs Air Power For Cuba
Former president Eisenhower warned that any invasion of Cuba would fail without strong air support if opposing air power exists. He noted refugees had sought ways to topple Castro but had no unified plan or leader. He criticized Kennedy's reliance on a prisoners' tractor proposal as risky foreign policy.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Cuba
Fidel Castro
William E. Miller
Kennedy
United States
Central America
Castro
Ike
Senate approves large housing bill amid House fight
The Senate passed a 6.14 billion housing bill 64 to 25, boosting Kennedy administration hopes for a House showdown. The measure long termizes urban renewal public housing and veterans housing, with Sparks man noting possible absence of future omnibus housing needs. House floor manager Albert Rains warned of a coming House clash over public housing and financing methods.
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Washington
Senate
Kennedy
House
House Rules Committee
President Kennedy
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Congress
Sparkman
Alberts. Rains
House Banking Committee
Rains
Treasury
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Johnson Calls End to Sowing Seeds of Suspicion
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson urged Americans to halt reckless attacks that sow suspicion about government and institutions. He avoided naming the John Birch Society but condemned ill conceived charges against figures like Eisenhower and Warren as attacks on American institutions.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
John Birch Society
Capitol Page School
Johnson
Robert Welch
Welch
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Earl Warren
North Main Road Toll So Far This Year 136 Last Year At This Date
A local traffic update shows North Main Road records 136 tolls collected year to date, compared with the same date last year. Officials note higher activity may reflect seasonal travel patterns and economic factors.
Area Girls Are Elected To Offices
New Mexico Girls State opens with elections for six cities including Cactus City Sage City and Yucca City. Mayors councilmen clerks treasurers and judges are named for each city with several towns represented by officers from Albuquerque Carlsbad Hobbs and Roswell among others.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Cactus City
Rosemary Lowery
Hagerman
Charlotte Bunch
Artesia
Carol Hayton
Grants
Paula Carl
Roswell
Deanna Smith
Tatum
Lou Ann Shurbett
Roy
Frances McLemore
Alamogordo
Deana Lorentzen
Carlsbad
Sage
Sandy Whitney
Prissy Montoya
Las Vegas
Anne Harding
Georgann Jackson
Jal
Leslie Gordon
Tester Says Didn t Know What Doing
A farmer turned engineering assistant in New Mexico tested base materials for a Lordsburg highway link. He claimed no knowledge of plasticity tests used to explain road breakage after wetting and drying. Officials cited nonconforming samples and a faulty sub base as causes of failure.
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Washington
New Mexico Highway Department
House
Lordsburg
N.M
Luis G. Trujillo
Truth Or Consequences
N. M
Trujillo
U. S. 70
Garfield
Howard Nix
Deming
Nix
Ray G. Trujillo
el Paso
Tex
Ray Trujillo
Wade Perry
Albuquerque
State Highway Department
Central State Laboratory
Perry
Leland Doty
Wnless
Egg Smellers Corps trains recruits to detect rotten frozen eggs
Twenty recruits in Kansas City study chemical and biological tests as the nose remains the main defense against spoiled 30 pound cans of frozen eggs. Alfred Barnard notes detection hinges on smelling and that age does not affect the nose.
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Kansas City
Egg Smellers Corps
America
Alfred Barnard
Pure Food and Drug Administration
Barnard
Tractors for Freedom group arrives in Havana talks
The U S Tractors for Freedom Committee reached Havana at 6 24 am on its prisoner exchange mission. A four man technical team departed from Miami at 5 26 am seeking a quick tractors for prisoners swap while a lone protestor accused them of ransom and Logan Act violations.
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Miami
Fla
U.S
Tractors-for-Freedom Committee
Havana
Fidel Castro
Pan American World Airways
Miami International Airport
Three-Year-Old Drives Family Car Lesson in City
Three-year-old Sharon Ann Pirtle daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Pirtle Route 2 Box 66 started the family car parked near Second Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The car struck a vehicle driven by Richard Lee Johnson Route 2 Box 264 D. Both occupants escaped uninjured.
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Sharon Ann Pirtle
Thomas Pirtle
Second Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Richard Lee Johnson
Sharon
Johnson
Two Sentenced in Court After Guilty Pleas
District Court Judge George L. Reese sentenced Benny R. Encinios to not less than five nor more than seven years for statutory rape. William Ray Hill drew multiple terms for a bad check, fraud, burglary, and larceny with concurrent runs, totaling two to seven years on varying charges.
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George L. Reese
Benny R. Encinios
E. Alameda St
William Ray Hill
Rock Inn Courts
Food Mart
Reese
Hill
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Florida
Gop
Ihe
Charles Haslet
Douglas R. Voorhees
Voorhees
Dade County
Pauline Christenson
Merced
Calif
Ruidoso
Christenson
Bill
Marvin
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