Kennedy to Present $99 Billion Budget with $6 Billion Deficit
President Kennedy will present a fiscal 1964 budget over $99 billion in outlays, the wartime peak. Officials say the deficit could reach about $6 billion if revenues run between $93 and $94 billion, with most growth from arms and space programs. A two-stage tax cut aimed to avoid large revenue losses is planned. Military spending hinges on Skybolt missile decision with Britain.
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Sterling F. Green
Associated Press
Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pentagon
Macmillan
U.S
Living Costs Hold Steady For Month
In November the consumer price index held at 106.0 based on the 1937-49 base, with lower food and clothing costs offsetting higher autos and services. Weekly take home pay rose to 86.19 for a three dependent worker, while pay increases are expected for about 225,000 workers. Food costs fell slightly in November due to seasonal pork, orange, and egg price cuts.
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Mec
Labor Department
van Clague
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
Republican
North Amerieco
Lockheed Aerospace
Armour Swift
John Morrell
Chicago
Clague
Florida
Leftist Leads Early in Dominican Presidential Race
In unofficial returns from the Dominican Republics first reelection in 38 years, reformist Juan Bosch of the leftist Revolutionary party leads over conservative Viriato A Fiallo of the National Civic Union. El Caribe notes conservatives win in Ciabo valley but not enough to overturn Bosch strong showing in Santo Domingo. in the federal district Bosch leads about 2 to 1 with 174 810 votes to 88 55. No firm prediction from observers due to incomplete data.
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Santo Domingo
Domincan Revolutionary Party
Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
Viriato A. Fiallo
National Civic Union
el Caribe
Ciabo
Revolutionary Party
Fi Caribe
Bosch
Fiallo
Light Barges Begin To Use Mississippi
Light barges edged up the shallow Mississippi from Cairo toward St Louis as the first to navigate since December. The towboat Peace pushed 10 to 12 lightly loaded barges into Cairo. about 250 heavily laden barges remain marooned there or at Cape Girardeau. Water levels at Cairo rose to 12.4 feet with 14 feet forecast, aided by dredging and recent rains, but full upriver movement awaits higher flows and continued scour of the river bottom.
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Mississippi River
Cairo
St. Louis
Cape Girardeau
Robert Peddie
Army Corps of Engineers
Peddie
U. S. Weather Bureau
Goose Island
Missouri
Illinois
Mississippi
Vaccine opposition slows polio immunization plans
Indianapolis officials caution against starting new Sabin oral polio vaccination programs despite a U S surgeon general approval. Dr Alfred J Marshall of the State Division of Communicable Disease Control notes no change in the outlook and points to reported paralytic polio cases linked to oral vaccines in the three step series.
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Indianapolis
Sabin
U.S
Alfred J. Marshall
State Division of Communicable Disease Control
Marshall
United Nations Session Ends Amid Cuba and China Conflicts
The General Assembly wrapped a midnight session shadowed by Cuba nuclear fears and the India China clash. It abolished Hungary watchdog reports, unseated Yemen’s royalist delegation, and approved U Thant spending up to 10 million a month in the Congo and 1.58 million in the Middle East to June 30. The India China war loomed, never formally raised at the UN.
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Cuba
India
China
110-Nation Forum
Hungary
Assembly
U Thant
Congo
Middle East
Protest over U.S. mission amid Congo secession clash
Congolese nationalist opposition in Parliament denounced a U S military mission led by Lt Gen Louis W Truman as an attempt to base forces in the Congo and urged a protest letter to U N Sec Gen U Thant while pressing for the release of ex deputy premier Antoine Gizenga within 48 hours U N chief Robert Gardiner headed back to the Congo to press end to Katanga secession as Truman's eight man mission studied U N aid needs in Leopoldville
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United States Today
Congo
United Nations
U.S
Louis W.truman
House
U.N
U Thant
Antoine Gizenga
Gizenga
Stanleyville
Bula-Bemba
Congo River
Patrice Lumumba
Cyrille Adoula
Adoula
Gen. Truman
Gabriel Humbu
N.Y
Robert K. A. Gardiner
Katanga
Gardiner
Louis W. Truman
Truman
Andrews Air Force Base
Maryland
Leopoldville
United States
U.N. Congo
Tidal wave alert canceled after brief Ha waiian scare
Honolulu reports a 43 minute flurry of activity as seacoast residents fled to hills after a tidal wave warning. Civil Defense HQ credited Midway Island remaining unaffected, undermining alarm tied to Aleutian earthquake aftershocks.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Ito
Mawaii Civil Defense
Midway Island
Aleutian Islands
Atomic Armed NATO Force To Be Created
A historic image description details an Iion ring of steel with a 12 foot compression ring at the center. The compression ring sits atop a 78 foot high temporary tower while construction proceeds and scaffolding supports the roof.
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NATO
Iion
Contempt actions stalled against Barnett in Mississippi
Washington informs that the Justice Department plans criminal contempt charges against Governor Ross Barnett but is delayed by mail. A separate civil case seeks a fine for failing to comply with court orders to admit James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. The department has not disclosed filing details and the cases are proceeding in federal courts.
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Department
Justice Department
Saidj
Ross R. Barnett
Barnett
Sth
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Meredith
New Orleans
Wees
King
Circuit Court
Negroiversity
James Meredith
Mississippi
Stevenson Denies Soviet Congo Threat at UN News Conference
Adlai Stevenson told reporters in New York that the U S military mission to the Congo exists only to back Secretary General U Thant in his unification plan and that he knows of no Soviet interference. He said there are no political implications tied to the eightman mission’s Congo visit.
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Stevenson
Soviet Congo
United Nations
N. Y
Adlai E. Stevenson
U. S
Congo
U Thant
U.S
Snow For Southern Illinois Weather Outlook
Light snow tonight with 13 inch accumulation possible. Continued cloudy and cold Saturday. Low tonight mid 20s. High Saturday around 30. Weather map highlights conditions on page 13.
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Southern
Illinois
Kennedy Macmillan Hold Nassau Nuclear Pact Summit
Kennedy and Macmillan announce a Nassau accord to create a NATO nuclear shield by 1970. The plan ferries Polaris missiles to British submarines and assigns one US Polaris sub to NATO for each British boat. France may join. costs and independent national interests are preserved.
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Kennedy
Macmillan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Western Alliance
United States
Britain
NATO
U. S
France
Lyford Cay
Soviet Union
JFK Releases $197 Million for Local and Federal Projects
President Kennedy released 197.6 million dollars under the Public Works Acceleration Act for state, local, and federal projects aimed at chronic unemployment. Illinois received 4.121 million of the first allocation, Southern Illinois 2.054 million, with Rep. Kenneth Gray predicting more funds for the region.
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Kennedy
Secretary of Commerce
Luther I. Hodges
Congress
Illnois
Southern Illinois
Kenneth J. Gray
Tree Gets Planted Gadget Spares JFK's Back
Nassau Bahamas December 21 AP Kennedy arrives to plant a tree as a ceremony marks the historic visit Islanders arrange a launch mechanism to release a rooted earthen ball containing the tree Kennedy avoids digging his back condition worsened previously during Ottawa 1961 travel The government designates a pair of grave plots for launching and memorial plaques will be placed within a month for the Kennedy Macmillan visit ending with a Palm Beach Christmas trip.
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Kennedy
Ottawa
Palm ‘Beach
Fla
Rupper Wee
Macmillan
Snow stretches from Kansas to Virginia across eastern half
Winter swept the nation’s eastern half with brittle cold snow and icing. Subzero temperatures lingered into early Saturday. A following snowstorm moved from Kansas to Virginia, with heavy falls in the Shenandoah Valley west of Staunton, Virginia.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Virginia
Staunton
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