Committee Clears Way For House Action on General Spending Bill
Harrisburg AP The House Appropriations Committee cleared Gov Scranton s general spending bill for floor action and reduced the total to 963 805 531 from 992 995 385. Cuts included 1 million from Eastern Western State Schools and 3 714 854 in total across state government operations. The bill funds education welfare health and commerce but excludes highways. A coal research line was moved to a separate bill. The deficit for 1962 63 was revised to 14 5 million from 21 million.
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Harrisburg
House Appropriations Committee
Scranton
Blaine Hocker
Appropriations Committee
Hocker
Gov. Scranton
Senate
House
Daniel A. Bailey
R Clearfield
William V. Mullin
Philadelphia
Senate Constitution Committee
Commissioners Reappoint Lape To Housing Post
A. O. Lape of Stoystown was reappointed to the Somerset County Housing Committee for a five year term. The renewal is effective Aug 7, 196? and runs to Aug 1968, as one of the original 1953 members. The board discussed subdivision regulations with James Kehey of the county planning commission, with final adoption delayed pending review of legality and practicality. The commissioners also signed a semi annual contract for boarding Somerset County prisoners at the Allegheny County Work House and Inebriate Asylum at $4.16 per inmate day, up from $3.59, total six months $7,114.50, with sixteen inmates housed.
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A. O. Lape
Stoystown
R. D
Somerset County Housing Committee
Somerset County Commissioners
James KeHey
The
County Planning Commission
Kelley
Somerset County
Allegheny County
Court orders Mobile Alabama school desegregation this fall
A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Mobile Alabama's combined city county school system must begin desegregation in September under a stairstep plan. The 2-1 decision overturned a federal judge and sets first grade classes for integrated operation as the district, with 73 500 pupils, moves through the grades.
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New Orleans
Mobile
Ala
Alabama
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Appeals Court
U.S
John Minor Wisdom
John R. Brown
Houston
Tex
Griffin Bell
Atlanta
Justice Tilt Said To Favor Criminals At Kiwanis Talk
Lt. James Straub of the Pennsylvania State Police told the Somerset Kiwanis Club that crime and its prevention demand tougher law enforcement as the justice balance seems to favor criminals. Sgt. Paul Lutz joined him as a guest of Clarence Yancey.
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James Straub
Pennsylvania State Police
Greensburg
Kiwanis Club
Somerset
Straub
Pennsylvania
Paul Lutz
Somerset State Police
Lutz
Clarence Yancey
Kiwanis Programs
Seven Springs Resort
Kiwanis
Idlewild Park
Verle Fritz
Picnic Games
Des Moines Man Misplaces Sack Containing Lollipops
Robert Asbille of Des Moines grabbed the wrong sack on his way to work and found it held 21 lolipops. His daughter Jeanne took two sandwiches for a school party.
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DE Moines
Iowa
Robert Asbille
Des Moines
Jeanne
House Feud Slows Legislature With Constitutional Reading Rule
Democrats invoked Article III Section 4 delaying bills by requiring full readings on three days. The move, a tactic in a partisan fight, slowed the 1963 session as 140 items faced delay. Republicans threatened daily sessions to recover lost time.
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Fred Walters
Harrisburg
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Anthony J. Petrosky
Albert W. Johnson
Rockwood Woman Charges Nephew With Larceny
A 24-year-old Fayette County man, Elmer Thorne, faces a 1 p.m. hearing before Justice of the Peace H. S. Whipperman on larceny charges. Thorne allegedly took $29 from his aunt Mrs. Anna Sherman of Rockwood, funds pledged for church mailings to New York. He admitted the theft but did not restitution. Thorne was arrested by Somerset Constable Ed Peck after a warrant, and is jailed pending the hearing.
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Fayette County
Justice of the Peace
H. S. Whipperman
Anna Sherman
Rockwood
Elmer Thorne
Namacolin
Sherman
Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
New York
Thorne
Somerset
Ed Peck
Whipperman
Red Chinese Skip Day of Peace Talks
In Moscow, Soviet and Chinese negotiators canceled Tuesday's session of ideological peace talks amid Kremlin rebuke. The Chinese embassy said talks will resume Wednesday, with officials hinting that tensions may stem from Chinese aims to dominate the Communist world and Soviet resistance to that plan. Premier Khrushchev's aloof stance and Spaak's optimism in Kiev added to the muted progress outlook.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Peking
Communist Party Central Committee
Pravda
Izvestia
Sovie
Khrushchev
Belgium
Paul-Henri Spaak
Kiev
Spaak
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Brussels
Brunei May Yet Join Malaysia Says Malayan Delegates
Malaya's delegation says Brunei may still join the Federation of Malaysia planned for Aug 31. British sources agree. Brunei's Sultan Omar Ali and Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman are away in London with talks possible to narrow differences.
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Leonard Kirschen
London
Malaya
Brunei
Federation of Malaysia
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Sultan Omar Ali
Integrationists Parade Through Cambridge Again
In Cambridge Maryland nearly 200 demonstrators, black and white, marched to protest segregation. A white youth slugged a demonstrator outside a bar. state police arrested James T. Thomas who was later released on 50 dollar bond. Gloria Richardson led the Cambridge Nonviolent Action group after a Washington meeting with a Justice Department official.
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Cambridge
James T. Thomas
Michael Monrve
Harvard University
Havertown
Dorchester County
Thomas
Justice Department
Washington
Baltimore County
Gwynn Oak Amusement Park
Baltimore
Gloria Richardson
Second Parade Tonight in Somerset Firemen Jubilee
Tonight at 7:30 the Somerset Firemen's Jubilee hosts a second parade with Tam O'Shanters uniformed baseball players and antique cars. The route forms near the high school, goes up Main Street then north from the diamond, proceeds along W Union Street, and ends at the jubilee grounds before a drill by the Tammies. Players from local baseball leagues and county antique car owners join the procession.
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Somerset Firemen's Jubilee
Main Street
W. Union Street
Jubilee Grounds
Somerset
Western District of Pennsylvania Antique Car Association
Gasoline From Coal Project Aims to Boost Coal Regions
Interior Department negotiates a $10 million pilot plant with Consolidation Coal Co to convert coal into gasoline using German tech. Site potential in Cresap West Virginia or Library Pennsylvania. project may employ 600 at full scale and 300 miners, with 10 000 tons daily coal input. Plan active within a year. Kennedy seeks more funding. Other coal to fuel studies tied to jet fuel and chemical production are under review.
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Joseph R. Coyne
Associated Press Special Service
Washington
Interior Department
Consolidation Coal Co
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Office of Coal Research
West Virginia Panhandle
Pennsylvania
Congress
Library
Cresap
W.va
Germany
Kennedy
Koppers Co
Pittsburgh
General Electric Co
Schnectady
N.Y
Bill to halt federal aid to segregated schools passed by subcommittee
A House subcommittee agreed on a bill to cut federal aid for schools that practice racial segregation. It would require districts to desegregate by mid-1964 and operate desegregation a year later or lose funding. James Farmer urged a quick cutoff, while officials urged careful passage of a program for undereducated persons.
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Washington
House
House ,Education and Labor Committee
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
House Education and Labor
Ivan Nestingen
Welfare
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Farmer
Full Education and Labor Committee
15 Workers in Over-45 Bracket Placed in Jobs
Somerset area employment records show 15 workers aged 45 and over were placed in new agricultural jobs in May by the State Employment Office in Somerset. This marks a drop from May 1962 and May 1961, with none of the placements in the 65 and over category. The office logged 77 new applications in May, including one by a 65 year old, and eight residents received initial counseling.
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Somerset
Harrisburg
State Department of Labor and Industry
Somerset Area
State Employment Office
Somerset Employment Office
Kennedy asks Goldberg to arbitrate rail dispute
President Kennedy proposed Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg as binding arbiter to resolve the deadlocked rail work rules dispute. Both sides would decide by 10 a.m. Wednesday whether to accept. If accepted, Goldberg would rule before the Supreme Court term begins.
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Washington
Kennedy
Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
High Court
Goldberg
White House
Roy E. Davidson
Brotherhood of Locomotve Engineers
J. E. Wolfe
United Steel Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Pierre Salinger
Rail Strike Would Not Affect Everybody Alike
A nationwide railroad strike would hit different people and places in varied ways. Cities relying on rail cargo like Philadelphia and Kansas City would feel strain, while Houston and Seattle might endure with alternatives. In New York and Chicago, heavy car and bus use could trigger major traffic jams.
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Stanley Meisler Washington
Chicago
California
New York
Houston
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Kansas City
New Orleans
Tex
Seattle
Wash
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