Kennedy Makes Strong Pitch for Early Tax Cut
President Kennedy urged an early and substantial tax cut before about 3,000 Economic Club diners in New York. He promised budget restraint, said a tax bill would go to Congress next month with a stable domestic spending level, and noted defense and space spending would rise before peak. He avoided date and amount specifics and awaited Treasury details.
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Kennedy
Frank Cormier
NEW York
Economic Club of
Will
WVU
Congress
Robert S. McNamara
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
Relay satellite aims to link world with limited power
NASA launched Relay a 172 pound satellite from Cape Canaveral to test a global space communications network. In orbit 4612 miles high at apogee and 820 miles at perigee it performed well until battery voltage dropped, delaying tests though power may recover for future experiments including TV links.
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Washington
U.S
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
International Telephone & Telegraph Corp
Nutley
N.J
Te Emetry
Hope
Telstar
Europe
United States
20000 Workmen Plunge Into Fruit Harvesting
Florida mobilizes over 20000 workmen to harvest frozen citrus before spoilage amid a severe cold wave. The government offers emergency loans to citrus growers in 34 counties as workers peak at 27000 for harvest and 50000 migrants statewide for vegetables. Jamaica labor plans begin with 3000 imported workers and three flights weekly.
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Washington
Farmers Home Administration
Farris Bryant
Lakeland
Florida
Jamaica
U.S. Department of Agriculture
77 Chest X Rays Show Deviations In County Tests
A survey of 1 488 free chest X rays in Somerset County found 77 deviations from normal. The screenings, run with the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, identified suspected lesions and various stages of tuberculosis. Follow up and free X rays are offered. Christmas Seals funds support the program.
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Somerset County Tuberculosis and Health Society
Stoystown
Hooversville
Central City
Jerome
Thomas Mills
Boswell
Somerset
Elizabeth L. Carr
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control of Pennsylvania
Department of Heath
Carr
French
Robert L. French
Post Office Lobby To Stay Open Later
The Somerset post office lobby will be open until 8 p.m. for mail deposits, announced by Eldon Long. Regular schedule resumes December 22.
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Somerset Post Office
Eldon Long
Subsidies Granted for Somerset County School Buildings
Five Somerset County districts receive state subsidies totaling 48 753 73 for authority rentals and sinking fund charges on school buildings. Hooversville Borough gets 13 564 53 Quemahoning Township 24 841 08 Shanksville Borough 625 25 Stonycreek Township 6 161 28 Stoystown Borough 3 561 59. State aid covers about half of local costs for the past school year.
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Somerset American
Harrisburg
Harrisburgh
Somerset County
Grace M. Sloan
Department of Public Instruction
Distr Cts
Hooversvile
Quemahonirg
Shanksville
Stonycreek
Stoystown
Balloon Flight Reaches Outer Edge for Star Study
At Holloman Air Force Base New Mexico Capt Joseph W Kittinger Jr and astronomer William C White completed a record balloon ascent to about 81 500 feet to study star twinkling and atmospheric conditions aboard a 4800 pound gondola. They landed in the New Mexico desert near Highway 81 about 40 miles from Deming.
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Harold R. Williams
Holloman Air Force Base
N.M
Space
Air Force
Joseph W. Kittinger Jr
William C. White
White
China Lake
Calif
Capella
New Mexico
New Mexico Highway 81
Deming
Minuteman Flies 5200 Miles to Set Record
An Air Force Minuteman set a new record by flying 5200 statute miles to a target off Ascension Island in about 20 minutes. It marked the first flight of the Wing 2 ICBM, carrying more solid fuel in the first and second stages. The reentry vehicle nose cone came in on the Ascension splash net, with Wing 2 to be operational at Ellsworth AFB and a Cape Canaveral silo mount used for the test.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Ascension Island
South Atlantic Ocean
Ascension
Ellsworth Air Force Base
S.C
Ellsworth
U S Exhorts Allies to Quit Nuclear Waste
The United States urged NATO allies to stop funding independent national nuclear forces and to shift money to conventional armament. McNamara and Rusk offered help toward a multinational European nuclear force if politics and costs permit, while Britain and France push their own weapons.
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U.S
Paris
United States
Robert S. McNamara
Dean Rusk
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council
Britain
France
Western
Europe
Council
McNamara
Rusk
West
NATO
Skies Begin Clearing After 2 Inch Snowfall
Skies cleared after a mild storm dumped two inches of snow in Somerset on Friday. Roads were reported open by 2 am as highway crews finished cleaning and widening county roads and applying salt on hills and slick spots. Temperature was 10 degrees with rising barometer and sunshine expected. more snow possible tonight.
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Somerset
Department of Highway
Justice Douglas Attacks U S Institutions
Associate Justice William C. Douglas bluntly accuses government, press, schools, and business of fostering conformity and ignorance. He says censorship and secrecy undermine informed judgment and warns CIA meddling fuels unrest in the Middle East, while the press fails to inform.
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Chicago
William C. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court
Douglas
Washington
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Department
CIA
Middle East
U Thant Appeals 17 Nations on Katanga Copper Blockade
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant asks 17 countries to heed Cyrille Adoula’s plea to stop copper and cobalt imports from Katanga. He targets Belgium Britain Portugal and South Africa with letters urging action to block shipments and press for coalitions favoring Congo reunification.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
U Thant
Cyrille Adoula
Congo
Katanga
Adoula
Thant
Belgium
Britain
Portugal
South Africa
Moise Tshombe
Union Miniere
Katanga Mining Corporation
Tshombe
Printing Leader Rejects 60 Day Truce Plan
The head of the nine New York newspapers strike rejects a 60 day truce as federal mediators set talks for next Tuesday. He warns that any paper closing would be by its own action not murder while coverage notes wage demands and stalled negotiations amid the Christmas advertising slump.
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NEW York
Mariner 2 Reaches Venus For First Close Look
Earth men sent Mariner 2 36 million miles to Venus for a close up. Radiometers worked after a late command, confirming data from the probe. The craft reached 21 000 miles from Venus and sent back signals to Goldstone and a Washington briefing.
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Washington
Earth
Venus
Cape Canaveral
Fla
William Pickering
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goldstone
Calif
Music of Spheres
Pickering
Hoffa Denies Receiving Anything of Value in Trial
James R. Hoffa testified he borrowed from Test Fleet dividends but denied taking any thing of value from Commercial Carriers Inc. He said he misled Senate investigators in 1957 about owning a truck firm linked to Test Fleet. The Taft Hartley case centers on alleged payoff after a Flint strike.
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Nashville, Tenn
James R. Hoffa
Senate Rackets Committee
William E. Miler
Hoffa
Commercial Carriers, Inc
CCI
Flint, Mich
Test Fleet Corp
Flint
Weather Warms Over Eastern Half of Nation
A Friday warmup hit the eastern half of the country while northern areas stayed near freezing. Snow fell along Lake Michigan to the Atlantic as Florida workers picked frozen citrus amid two nights of hard freezes. The storm earlier in the week caused at least 163 deaths.
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Lake Michigan
Atlantic Ocean
Florida
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Sunshine State
Weather Bureau
Midwest
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Minuteman
Malmstrom Air Force Base
Great Falls
Mont
Justice Douglas
William N. Oatis
Printing Leader
Bertram A. Powers
Afl-Cio International Typographical Union
Local 6
Journal - American
Powers
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Tribe Herald Tribune
Star-Journal
ITV
Times
Daily News
Journal-American
World-Telegram & Sun
Mirror, Post, Herald Tribune
Long Island Star-Journal
Long Island
AFL Cio American Newspaper Guild
New York Daily News
Federal Mediation
William E. Simkins
By Gardner L. Bridge
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