Moon Warms Public Opinion On Space Program Debates
President Kennedy backs lunar plans amid doubts from Republicans and scientists split on benefits. NASA official James Webb argues most work will come from private industry and universities while critics warn space funding crowds education and housing needs.
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Kennedy
Soviet Union
Senate
James E. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Senate Space Committee
NASA
Congressional Reception At White House Ends Quietly
President Kennedy hosts a social March reception for about 1000 guests with lawmakers from both parties. The event passes without the crises of prior years as a 1960s steel price debate and Bay of Pigs episode are absent. A broken teacup incident prompts a light quip about Republicans.
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Washington
White House
Kennedy
East
Congress
Bay of Pigs
Reocta
Hatchery Pond Fishing Opens Again May 4
Eight hatchery ponds of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries near Front Royal reopen to Virginia anglers beginning May 4. Last year anglers caught 5 249 fish totaling 1 089 pounds from the ponds. Hours are 8 a m to 4 p m daily with a four inch minimum size limit on bass and stocked fish allowed.
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Front Royal
Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries
Virginia
Erlock
Hearing Set On Airport At Manassas
The State Corporation Commission set a hearing for June on a request to establish and operate an airport at Manassas in Prince William County about five miles southwest of the town.
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Manassas
Richmond
State Corporation Commission
Prince William County
Rockefeller
Bureau of Advertising
Bureau
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Morton Charges President Playing Politics Over Cuba
Senator Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky accuses President Kennedy of politicizing Cuba policy. He cites past steps to train Cuban exile invaders and Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs involvement, contrasting this with Kennedy’s current stance and missile crisis leadership.
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Morton
Cuba
Washington
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Kennedy
Senate
Fidel Castro
Eisenhower
Castro
Kentuckian
Bay of Pigs
Fire Destroys 1951 Molden Home in Hillside Ranch
A blaze consumed the all electric Molden residence built in 1951 by Ed Molden. The oil line fed the flames while the structure, a stone brick and wood ranch with three floors, collapsed some parts and left nothing saved but clothing. Architect Williams, noted for Kennedy's weekend retreat project, was mentioned in connection with the house.
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Ed Molden
Hotpoint
Red Chinese Rocket Expert Flees to West
The Free China Relief Association says a Chinese Communist rocket expert escaped to Macao from Formosa. The man is identified only as Lt. Li from Kwang tung province and was invited to come to Formosa.
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West
Taipei
Formosa
Macao
Free China Relief Association
South China Province
Kwangtung
Shenandoah OKs 2.08 Million Budget With Tax Shifts
Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors approved a 2,078,628 dollar budget after a public hearing attended by about 75 people. Real estate and personal property levies were set with adjusted assessment percentages. school board requests rose by 76,350 dollars, about 64,000 of which funds teachers’ raises locally.
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Woodstock
Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors
Business Committee Seeks 10 Billion Tax Cut
Washington AP reports a group led by Henry Ford II requesting a 10 billion cut in corporate and individual taxes. The Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963, backed by Kennedy, urges early major reductions while balancing federal revenues and expenditures.
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Washington
Henry Ford II
Kennedy
Ford
Business Committee For
Congress
White House
Ing
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Treasury
Prince Ranier and family spend weekend in West Virginia
The Prince and Princess of Monaco with two children arrived at The Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs by train from Philadelphia for a quiet weekend. Hotel officials said the royal party had no formal engagements planned.
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Prince Ranier
W.va
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va. Gap
Prince
Monaco
Gheenbrier Hotel
Philadelphia
Prince Rainier III
Princess Grace
Three Teenage Boys Spanked in Atlantic City Court
In Atlantic County Juvenile Court Judge George Naame ordered that three teens spanked by their fathers after admitting larceny and stolen goods. The unusual punishment aimed at public shame, while the youths received two-year probation and suspended sentences to the State Home for Boys at Jamesburg.
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Atlanntic City
Atlantic County
George T. Naame
Atlantic City
Kiwanis
Rotary
Exchange
Ilions
Naame
Neame
Jamesburg
Rockefeller calls JFK NATO plan a crazy quilt plan
New York AP Rockefeller criticizes Kennedy nuclear policy as illusory and chaotic urging genuine Atlantic partnership. He proposes a five point program including a permanent NATO committee with cabinet rank and a policy group to coordinate European and regional actions. He favors selling nuclear materials to Europe tied to integration progress.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Western
Europe
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Rockefeller
U.S
Soviet Union
A Ittee
Latin America
Japan
Pacific
Southeast Asia
Africa
United States
King Clergymen Convicted for Defying Court Order
Circuit Judge W A Jenkins Jr finds Martin Luther King Jr and 10 other Negro ministers in contempt for violating an injunction against racial demonstrations. Five days in jail starting May 16 and a $59 fine for each. appeals planned to Alabama and U.S. Supreme Courts if needed.
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Birmingham
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
W. A. Jenkins Jr
King
A. D. King
Wyatt Tee Walker
Ralph D. Abernathy
Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Andrew Young
John Thomas Porter
Theodis L. Fisher
Nelson H. Smith Jr
Joshua W. Hayes
James Luther Bevels
Jenkins
Supreme Court
Abernathy
Shuttlesworth
Jack Greenberg
New York
Alabama Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
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