Minimum Wage Bill Victory Predicted In Congress
Administration supporters forecast a razor thin House victory for President Kennedy's minimum wage bill with Senate approval deemed likely. The compromise measure raises the floor to $1.25 by 1963, adding about 3.62 million workers, mainly in retail, under the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Hall
Washington
House
Kennedy
Senate
White House
Senate House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pathet Lao orders cease-fire as clashes flare near Pha Lane
In Laos the Pathet Lao commanded troops to stop firing while rebels attacked Pha Lane on the road to central Vietnam. Informants said the battalion-size assault began this morning near midday, with fighting spreading 60 miles east of Savannakhet toward the Nam Lik river area.
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Vientiane
Laos
Pathet Lao
Pha Lane
Viet Nam
Savannakhet
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Hin Heup
Nam Lik River
Vientian
At & Am
Boun Oam
Radio
Hanoi
Peiping
Kong le
Souvanna Phouma
No Man's Land
Boun Oum
Luang Prabang-Vientiane
Fits
Law Leader Is Captured In Cuba Invasion
Key West dispatch reports Capt Manuel Artime, leader of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, captured in the Bay of Cochinos swamps. Radio Havana cites Artime fleeing Cuba for the United States with funds from an agrarian cooperative.
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Key West
Fla
Manuel Artime
Cuba
Radio Havana
Artime
Bay of Cochinos
United States
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Castro
Mexico City
Manzanillo
National Agrarian Reform Institute
Tito
Russia
Escambray Bay of Cochinos
Friday Earliest Date For New Man In Space Attempt
Cape Canaveral reports push of the Mercury mission to Friday as Redstone fueling and system checks finalize after Tuesday's weather delay. Shepard and Glenn await launch in readiness room while recovery ships stay on station for possible post flight needs.
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Space Man
Cape Canaveral
Alan B. Shepard
Fla.p
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Walter Williams
Williams
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Shepard
This Nations First Space
John H. Glenn Jr
Weather Bureau
Florida
U. S
Earth
Navy
Glenn
Grand Bahama Island
Chamber Plans Membership Drive and Tourism Push
Chamber of Commerce directors outlined a late month membership drive starting May 23 with Bill Wilson as drive head. They discussed industrial prospects and potential Indian art resources to attract visitors. A tourism development committee report praised efforts and a revaluation campaign was scheduled with a Friday 7 am meeting at the 66 Cafe chaired by Herbert Feather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
J. E. McConnell
Claude McCormick
Bill Wilson
Herbert Feather
Mark McLaughlin
Mel Gilbert
Harold Lacik
66 Cafe
Ginning Figures Decline From Last Year Nationwide
The Census Bureau reports 14,265,038 running bales ginned from the 19% crop, about 14,272,040 bales of 500 pounds, below the 1959 figures of 14,515,111 running bales and 14,557,549 bales of 5300 pounds. Texas ginned 4,344,799 bales versus 4,403,078 a year earlier.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Texas
Legislature Deliberations Shift to Senate Action
Texas lawmakers faced a Senate path for House approved bills as sessions paused on contentious measures. House actions included a complex natural gas tax bill and a plan for medical aid, while six constitutional amendments advanced to the Senate for potential voter approval. Senate debate focused on taxation, judiciary reforms, and emergency communication rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate State Affairs Committee
Senate
University of Houston
House Committee
House Tax Committee
Bob Eckhardt
Houston
Court of Criminal Appeals
House Criminal Jurisprudence
Fulbright Sees Blunder Shared by White House and Agencies
Sen. J. William Fulbright says the Cuban invasion was a mistake with collective responsibility spread among the White House Defense Department CIA and State Department after a four hour briefing by Allen Dulles and Richard Bissell. He notes prior warnings and cites potential joint oversight over CIA operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
White House
Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Allen W. Dulles
Richard M. Bissell Jr. Dulles
Plans
Defense Department
Dean Rusk
Laos
Cuba
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Church
Latin America
Senate
House Committee
Sen
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Congress
Tunisian President Bourguiba Begins U S Visit
President Habib Bourguiba arrives in Washington for a state visit with President Kennedy. He will meet officials, address Congress, visit Mount Vernon, and discuss Tunisia’s 10 year economic program while noting no new aid requests but potential aid increases after plan completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Habib Bourguiba
Tunisia
Kennedy
Bourguiba
Congress
Mount Vernon
National Gallery of Art
Secretary of State
Dean Rusk
State Department
France
North Africa
United States
U. 68
North Texas Tornado Forecast Expanded Across Central Panhandle
A broad tornado forecast covered North Central Texas and the Panhandle. The Weather Bureau warning spanned 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. and included Wichita Falls Vernon Gainesville Breckenridge Quanah Graham and other counties as the line traced from Gainesville to Spearman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
the Panhandle
The
Weather Bureau
Gainesville
Breckenridge
Childress
Spearman
Wichita Falls
Vernon
Quanah
Graham
Texas Panhandle to South Texas Weather Outlook
The Weather Bureau notes thunderstorms forming mid afternoon Wednesday across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles with tornadoes large hail and damaging winds likely 3 pm to 9 pm along a line from northwest of Gage Oklahoma to southeast of Wichita Falls. Showers were developing in East Texas and along a Paris to Longview corridor with additional lines from Denison to Nacogdoches. Early readings ranged in the 70s and 80s statewide with scattered thundershowers expected through Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Texas
West
Perth
South High
Nocona
Seymour
Henrietta
Shamrock
Wellington
Spearman
Childress
Perryton
Wamed
Dallas
Fort Worth
Abilene
Borger
Amarillo
Weather Bureau
Oklahoma Panhandles
Mos
Gage
Okla
Wichita Falls
East
Paris
Longview
Denison
Nacogdoche
College Station
KE Paso
Dalhart
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Dailes
China
Lai Chow
Luang ' Prabang
Thailand
Thokhek
Vang Khy
Law
Chamber
Austin
Solon
By Endre Marton
North
Associated Press
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