Democrats Seek Court Control Of November Redistricting Case
New York Democrats ask a federal three judge panel to allow intervention in the reapportionment dispute to bar a court ordered special legislative election this November under the Republicans plan. Assembly Speaker Travis and Senate Majority Leader Zaretsky file with Special Counsel Rifkind to support their motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Assembly
Anthony J. Travis
Senate
Joseph Zaretzki
Manhattan
U. S. Court of Appeals
Sterry R. Waterman
Travia
Zaretzki
Simon F. Rifkind
Rifkind
Anti Smut Bill Gains Senate Approval In Albany
The Senate approved a bill to bar youths 16 and under from stores selling objectionable literature by a 48 to 6 vote. Gov Rockefeller faces possible veto as the measure heads to the Assembly and amid other labor and reapportionment debates in the Albany session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Senate
Rockefeller
Assembly
Taxicab Strikers To Return Today
The mayor's chief labor mediator announced that wild cat taxicab strikers in Queens will return to work this morning after a meeting at City Hall with representatives of the strikers and the AFL Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wildcat
Queens
Morris Tarshis
City Hall
American Federation of State
Viet Reds Bomb Phouc Loi Base and Fire Hits Near Hanoi
AP reports U S warplanes launched a large propaganda leaflet run 35 miles south of Hanoi and bombed Phouc Loi Naval base 165 miles from the Red capital. Over 100 aircraft joined the third day of resumed strikes north of the 17th parallel. In ground fighting Viet Cong mortars hit US Marines near Da Nang, while paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade cleared a guerrilla zone northeast of Bien Hoa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Phouc Loi
North
Radio
Moscow
U. S
da Nang
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bien Hoa
Rights bill amended to protect Puerto Rican voters in New York
The Senate added a provision to shield Puerto Ricans educated in non English schools from ballot denial in New York. The amendment, backed by Kennedy and Javits, allows voting if sixth grade literacy or state education level is met, regardless of English reading or writing ability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ate
New York
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Robert F. Kennedy
Jacob K. Javits
Kennedy
Javits
U.S
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Briton’s bribe to Viet Cong backfires in Saigon travel tale
Peter Williams, a 37 year old Briton and ITT engineer, claims he paid the Viet Cong and denounced the United States to aid a microwave project for the Saigon government. While en route to Nhatrang his bus was halted by a Viet Cong roadblock as soldiers questioned him in Vietnamese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
Viet Nam
Peter Williams
United States
Williams
Internation] Telephone and Telegraph Co
Viet Cong
Nhatrang
Courts OK Audit Power Over World's Fair Finances
Albany AP The New York Court of Appeals ruled that the New York City controller may audit the World's Fair financial records and subpoena the books. The state high court also found four civil rights activists violated no law by picketing the Florida Pavilion last year. The city was to receive remaining proceeds after bond redemption and bills. initial estimates valued the city’s share at about 49.7 million dollars, with a post season balance of 12.6 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Court of Appeals
New York City
Florida
Fair Corporation
Abraham Beame
State Supreme Court
Appellate Division
Beame
Flushing Meadows Park
Queens County
World's Fair Corp
Kansas Lawyer Thompson Elected United Presbyterian Moderator
William Phelps Thompson, a Wichita partner, was elected moderator of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. on the second ballot at the 177th General Assembly in Columbus. The 46 year old layman led over Rev. Sherman Skinner and Rev. E. G. Montag with 459 votes to 350 and 7, respectively, as delegates discussed closer ties with Roman Catholics and interfaith unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, Ohio
Kansas
William Phelps Thompson
United Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Thompson
Wichita
General Assembly
Sherman Skinner
St. Louis
E. G. Montag
Beaver, Pa
Skinner
Montag
Elder Hawkins
U S Emphasizes Neutrality in Dominican Crisis at U N
U S Ambassador Adlai Stevenson told the Security Council the armed forces remain under presidential orders to be neutral and self protective in the Dominican civil war. He urged the OAS to pursue a peaceful solution and noted the deaths of Col. Rafael Fernandez Dominguez and Juan Miguel Roman Diaz in Santo Domingo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
United States
U.S
Adlai F. Stevenson
U.N. Security Council
Council
Organization of American States
OAS
Stevenson
Col
Rafael Fernandez Dominguez
Juan Bosch
Juan Miguel Roman Diaz
Santo Domingo
Fernandez
Jottin Cury
Cury
Col. Fernandez
U. S
Dominican Republic
Nikolai T. Fedorecho
Security Council
Buckley sues Shaw and two papers for 1.5 million
William F Buckley Jr editor and columnist files separate libel and slander suits totaling 1.5 million against Artie Shaw and two New York newspapers The Herald Tribune and the New York Post The actions seek 500000 from each defendant and returnable in Bridgeport Superior Court by June 1 Buckley a Stamford resident filed over reported remarks from an April 4 speech and subsequent editorials and TV remarks by Shaw on May 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport, Conn
William F. Buckley Jr
New York City
Artie Shaw
Buckley
New York Herald Tribune
New York Post
Shaw
David Maclay
Bridgeport Superior Court
Stamford
Conn
New York
Holy Name Society
Herald Tribune
Channel 7
ABC
Truce Talks In Dominican Republic Amid Four Day Battle
Red Cross and the United Nations negotiate a 24 hour cease fire in Santo Domingo to allow removal of dead and wounded and restock hospitals as forces clash in the northern suburbs. The agreement excludes the junta and rebels from signing a single pact. The attack continues elsewhere despite hopes for a durable halt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Red Cross
United Nations
Junta
Dominican Red Cross
Luis F. Fernandez Martinez
Embajador
Antonio Imbert Barrera
Fernandez Martinez
Pierre Jequier
International Red Cross Committee
Antonio Delgado
Pan American Sanitary Bureau
World Health Organization
WHO
Jose Antonio Mayobre
U.N
U Thant
Mayobre
Imbert
Department store sales rise in New York metro week
New York and northeastern New Jersey department store sales for the week ended May 15 rose eight percent from the same period last year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
Federal Reserve Bank
Kennedy presses federal gun control law in Senate hearing
Senator Robert F Kennedy urged federal action to curb mail order gun sales and ban surplus military weapons. He supported Sen Dodd’s bill before the Senate juvenile delinquency subcommittee, invoking his experience as attorney general and stressing crime reduction. He did not address the assassination in his remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate
Thomas J. Dodd
D-Conn
United States
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Leo Harvey Oswald
New York
U. S
Dodd
Also Mentioned on This Page
Congress
Thomas Laverne
Rochester
Thomas Mackell
Manfred Chrenstein
John H. Hughes
Syracuse
Hughes
Ohrenstein
Guy Mangano
Brooklyn
Antilsmut
White Sands
N. M
Martin Co
Army
Sen
America
Fair Books
World's Fair Organization
United Presbyterians
Sues Artie Shaw
Cairo
Desert
Karachi
London
Tehran
Donald Love
Riverside
Esso International
Far East
Lewis Page Howard
Elizabeth
Sturgis
Mich
Howards
Saudi Arabian
Dhahran
Arabian-American Oil Co
Aramco
Bombay
Indonesia
Akhtar Aly Khan
Hayuddin
National Press Trust of Pakistan
A. K. Quereshi
Associated Press of Pakistan
Galal Alkarimi
Francisco Caamano Deno
Robert Sadin
American Peace Corps
Utica Marine Free
Pfc
Leslie Mykle
Utica
N.Y
Mykle
Anoth
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!