Budget Estimates Climb as Costs Rise
Springfield reports $300 million in increased two year spending eyed by budget planners. Gov. Kerner will present the two year budget after hearings, with the Illinois Budgetary Commission approving school aid boosts and trimming others. Major increases include mental health and university operating costs, plus bond payments and salary raises.
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Charles Whalen
Associated Press
Springfield
Otto Kerner
Illinois Budgetary Commission
Kerner
School Problems Commission
Illinois Senate backs ceil on public aid payments
The Senate Public Welfare Committee approved a bill to cap aid payments, sending it to the floor in a 7 to 3 vote. The plan would limit ADC checks from 120 to 240 dollars per month and cap recipient relief at 80 dollars monthly, excluding elderly, blind, and disabled.
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Arthur L. Srb
Associated Press
Springfield
Illinois ‘Public Aid Commission
Arnold Maremont
IPAC
Senate Public Welfare Committee
Maremont
Rae C. Heiple
Washington
GOP
Arthur Gottschalk
Park Forest
Otto Kerner
Senate
Canfield
Harold Swank
Illinois
Heiple
W. Russell Arrington
Evanston
Arrington
Pickets at White House urge clothing for animals
Washington March 5 AP demonstrators urged President Kennedy to clothe all animals to protect children from naked horses cows dogs and cats. The White House remained silent as the protestors handed out leaflets calling for decency in animal attire.
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White House
Washington
Kennedy
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois turns colder
Cloudy and colder tonight with a low in the 30s. Wednesday brings fair skies and warmer temperatures. High Wednesday in the upper 40s to low 50s.
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Illinois
Mansfield Defends Kennedy Cuba Policy in Clash With Arends
Sen. Mansfield challenged Rep. Arends over Kennedy Cuba policy and pre October missile reports. The exchange follows Arends’ charge that the White House hides the full Cuba story and cites Lt Gen Gerrity testimony on October warnings. Meanwhile Soviet troop withdrawals from Cuba were reported by informed sources as a slow ongoing process. Goldwater and Dirksen urged a Senate probe of the matter.
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Arends
House
House Armed Services Committee
Thomas P. Gerrity
Air Force
Kennedy
Mansfield
Soviet Union
Cuba
Cuba accuses U N of U S aggression over Cuba notes
Havana reports Foreign Minister Roa delivered a 4000 word note to U Thant accusing the United States of preparing aggression that could trigger thermonuclear war. Cuba's armed forces also says U S actions provoked incidents at sea and on land near Guantanamo Bay.
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Havana
Paul Roa
U. N
U Thant
United States
Cuba
Thant
Roa
U. S
Fidel Castro
Cuban Armed Forces Ministry
U. S. Navy
Guantanamo Bay
Camaguey Province
Central Intelligence Agency
van A
Guantanamo Base
Train Wreck Is Sabotage
Police say a tampered switch sent a train with 118 passengers toward a warehouse of volatile chemicals at 60 mph. The Southern Pacific Coast Daylight derailed and halted in loose earth, stopping 1000 feet from the warehouse. Eleven were hurt, three hospitalized, none seriously.
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Northridge
Calif
Southern Pacific Coast
Senator Laughlin presses illegitimacy crime bill
Springfield March 5 AP Senator Everett E Laughlin Republican Freeport announced he is drafting legislation to make it a prison offense for mothers to have more than one illegitimate child He said more than 54000 illegitimate children are on Illinois public aid rolls.
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Gottschalk
Robert Canfield
Rockford
Maremont
Canfield
Illinois
Springfield
Everett E. Laughlin
R.freeport
Thay
Laughlin
Income tax bill floats flat 2 percent rate in Illinois
Rep. Joe W. Russell proposes a two percent flat income tax to cut sales use tax from 3 to 2 percent and reduce local property taxes by 10 to 15 percent. He says 75 percent of taxpayers would gain, 10 percent would pay more, despite constitutional questions. House Speaker Lewis names 15 to judicial revision panel led by Rep. Robert Burhans.
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Charles W. Clabaugh
Rchampaign
School Problems
Ralph H. Johnson
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois
Joe W. Russell
Piper City
Russell
House
John W. Lewis
Rep
Robert Burhans
Peoria
Chances Dim For Contracts at Ordill Plant Layoffs May 15
Universal Match Corp. expects layoffs at its Ordill plant starting May 15 unless new supply contracts are secured. Carl Gottlieb, general manager of Unidynamics, said the division may not sustain activity beyond June, with only essential pyrotechnic work retained if contracts remain scarce. A Phoenix research facility is planned, not yet in operation, while Crab Orchard production faces declining market share amid competition.
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Universal Match Corp
Ordill
Carl G. Gottlieb
Unidynamics
Ferguson, Mo
Gottlieb
Boeing Aircraft Co
Phoenix
Cuba full of Russians and guns, youth militia seen
Knowlton Nash reports from Cuba during the sugar cane harvest era noting widespread weapon possession among civilians and militia youths some as young as 15. He documents guards with machine guns at interviews with Ernesto Guevara and the tense atmosphere between Castro supporters and opponents.
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Cuba
Ernesto Guevara
Camaguey
el Commandante Guevara
Tanker Marine Sulphur Queen Search Abandoned
The Miami Coast Guard said an active search has been abandoned for the tanker Marine Sulphur Queen that disappeared with 39 crewmen after leaving Beaumont Texas on February 2.
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Miami Coast Guard
Beaumont
Tex
Canadian reporters Return From Cuba
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp reporters and cameramen have returned from Cuba. Washington correspondent describes their impressions and observations from the trip.
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Penses
Mem Paten
JFK
Jack Bell
Mike Mansfield
Congressional
St. Petersburg
Fla
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ii
U.N
Key West
Oriente
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Nois
Universal
Department of Labor
Kenney
Ariz
Crab Orchard
Rockies
Knowlton Nash
Canadian Broadcasting Corp
Castro
Miami, Fla
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