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Newspaper
Silver City Daily Press
Location
Silver City, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1964
Page
6
House approval of a 533 million pay raise package boosts wages for 1.7 million federal workers including 7500 a year for Congress, judges, Cabinet officers and top executives. The measure, eased by a smaller raise and next January effect, passed 243 to 157 after prior defeat.
The attorney general's office states a justice of the peace may run for mayor of his community and keep his justice position. The opinion was sent to Peace Justice William J. Place of Los Lunas.
Washington reports on Sen. Joseph S Clark attacking belligerent opposition to disarmament led by Barry Goldwater. Saulnier criticizes Kennedy Johnson spendings as questionable, citing bookkeeping devices. Marina Oswald testifies to the Warren Commission about threats to Nixon and the locked room episode surrounding Oswald. The Kennedy assassination remains the focal point as Oswald is dead and Ruby is involved.
STOKHOLM Sweden AP Col Stig Wennerstrom of the Swedish air force was sentenced to life in prison for spying for the Soviet Union This is Sweden s harshest peacetime sentence and comes ten days before Khrushchev s Stockholm visit Wennerstrom 47 was jailed after fourteen years of espionage in Moscow Washington and Stockholm mainly targeting NATO He can seek parole after ten years
An Albuquerque man identified as Charles E Summers, 61, died of injuries when his car collided with a westbound tractor trailer after failing to stop at a U S 60 intersection. Summers died at Bernalillo County Indian Hospital. The truck driver Norman L Hale, 3, from Eager Arizona, was uninjured.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ralph Abernathy and Boston University chaplain William England face arraignment on charges tied to a segregation restaurant protest. King stayed jailed, with a grand jury convened by Judge Howell Melton to probe racial disturbances in the old city.
In Mississippi at the University of Mississippi a 17 year old Jackson student, Cleveland Donald, enrolled for the summer term amid contrasts to Ole Miss earlier turmoil. In Louisiana, Northeast Louisiana State College enrolled a third Negro student, Leo Samuel Saucer, with two other black students, after a federal court order ended segregation barriers at the school.
Governor Jack M. Campbell and Lieutenant Governor Mack Easley will address the New Mexico Press Association summer convention at Ruidoso Downs on June 19 and 20. The lineup includes J B Ferguson of Ruidoso Downs, Robert Lee editor of the El Paso Herald Post, Lloyd Dodds of Mountain States Telephone, Richard L. Hainline of Ford Motor Co, and Francis Stilley of the AP New York office.
The attorney general ruled Springer institution the New Mexico Boys School not liable for damages to a private residence caused by an escapee inmate. Superintendent Glen J. Walker said a residence owner filed a claim for a broken window.
Swedish students in Uppsala light bonfires to mark the end of winter, toss their winter caps into the Fyrisan River, and celebrate through the night with music and revelry. The event embodies local seasonal rites and youth culture as spring approaches.
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