Florida House Probes State Debt and Poll Tax Amendment
The Florida House passed a joint House-Senate finance committee probe into state bonded indebtedness including a $157 million turnpike refinancing. The move, urged by Rep. Fred Karl of Volusia, aims for early approval and advances after Roads Committee endorsement.
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Tallahassee
UPI
House
U.S
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House Roads Committee
Fred Karl
Volusia
Wheeling Steel Raises Prices On Anniversary Move
Wheeling Steel Corp increased steel prices by an average six dollars a ton, marking the first anniversary of a prior hike that drew White House involvement. President William A. Steele claimed costs rise without a price hike, while Iron Age reported growing steel consumption and potential higher demand next month.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Iron Age
Pope Urges Peace Through Negotiation to Avert Atomic War
Vatican report cites Pope John XXVII warning that humankind faces annihilation in an atomic conflict. He calls for discarding weapons in favor of negotiation, noting continued nuclear tests threaten life and urging restraint from arming for fear reigns and drives vast military spending.
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Vatican City
UPI
John XXVII
Pepe
Earth
Pope John
Sarasota Figures Push I-75 Link and Gun Law Repeal
Sarasota lawmakers led by Rep. John Hasson and Sen. Warren Henderson advocated a Florida West Coast intrastate highway link of I-75 and introduced repeal of the old Florida gun law in the House.
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Sarasota County
John Hasson
Saraso
Florida West Coast
Florida
Warren S. Henderson
Florida House
Literacy blamed for draft rejects by high school graduates
Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz cited that 38 percent of youths called for the draft were rejected for illiteracy and 13 percent of rejects were high school graduates. He spoke at the National Committee for Support of Public Schools conference. He warned the teen-age unemployment rate rose from 6 to 12 percent for whites and from 6 to 21 percent for non whites between 1952 and 1962.
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Washington
UPI
W. Willard Wirtz
The
National Committee For Support of the Public
Wirtz
Governor Bryant Eyes Banks for Pike Funding
A 1961 letter by Governor Bryant to Turnpike Authority Chairman John Hammer reveals plans to enlist banks led by First National Bank of Miami Beach and other major lenders as paying agents or trustees for interstate financing. The Times located the document among Turnpike records in Tampa, naming Florida National Bank Orlando and several institutions in St. Petersburg Jacksonville and Miami as potential participants.
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George Smathers
First National Bank of
Miami Beach
Frank Smathers
Florida National Bank
Orlando
Ball
O. P. Hewitt Jr
Mr. Ball
Ed Ball
Florida duPont
Bryant
National Bank of
Jacksonville
St. Petersburg
Miami
Flo
Churchill Receives Honorary U S Citizenship Proclamation
Sir Winston Churchill was awarded an honorary U S citizenship and passport in London. U S Ambassador David K E Bruce delivered the documents to Churchill at his Hyde Park home in a private ceremony. The act marks the first time Congress granted such an honor to a foreigner.
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UPI
Winston Churchill
United States
Kennedy
Washington
U.S
David K. E. Bruce
Churchill
White House
Clementine Churchill
Momen
U. S
Hyde Park
Slovakia
Train derails chain obstacle during strike bound railway
In St Augustine a freight train broke through chains and derailed a blockade set by strikers on the Florida East Coast Railway. In Marianna police say a $115000 bank robbery was meticulously planned with gunmen threatening an officer to reveal where a car was parked. In Tallahassee attorneys face professional misconduct charges as a separate report notes a request for help with a $50 million matter.
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ST. Augustine
UPI
Florida East Coast Railway
Marianna, Fila
Exiles Score JFKs Soft Castro Policy
Cuban exile leaders break with the Kennedy administration over its soft line toward Fidel Castro. The Cuban Revolutionary Council backs president Jose Miro Cardona, seeks a $50 million U.S. credit for a new exile army or a major role in anti Castro plans, and vows to continue the fight despite Washington. The council calls for support from New World nations and labels U.S. policies as creating a crisis.
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Miami
UPI
Fidel Castro
United States
Cuban Revolutionary Council
Washington
Jose Miro Cardona
Castro
Miro
U. S
Cuba
True story cited in libel suit over SEC fix claims
Curtis Publishing defends its Saturday Evening Post report as true claiming Wallace Butts and Paul Bryant were depicted with no basis for the alleged source details. The $10 million suit by Butts accuses the piece of inflaming charges about NCAA football cheating and the Post seeks court dismissal of some claims.
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Atlanta
UPI
Curtis Publishing Co
Saturday Evening Post
Georgia
Wallace Butts
The
Post
Butts
University of Georgia
Alabama
Paul Bryant
Bryant
Curtis
County plans expansion through extra taxes for courthouse
Florida law allows counties to levy capital improvement taxes without a referendum. County voters pay on bonded debt while 20 mills are proposed for courthouse expansion under Chapter 125 provisions. The fund would cover future expansion needs as commissioners approved a small budget increase.
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Forrest Clark News
Florida
Third Article Of A Series On Courthouse Feasibility
The Sarasota county commissioners will restart with a feasibility study after a public hearing doomed the $1 million courthouse addition. Attention shifts to locating a new site and financing to purchase land, with several downtown sites under consideration including Fruitville and Reed near the agricultural center.
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Fruitville
Reed
Email Agricultural Center
Tae
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