Senate Blocks Aid to Countries Backing Cuba Amendment Targets Arms to Castro Regime
Senate consideration centers on a Bridges amendment to a foreign aid bill. The measure would withhold funds from nations deemed by the president to be arming or aiding the Castro regime in Cuba. Debate quickened as adjournment hopes rise and wage legislation stalls. Kennedy signals possible talks on a broader minimum wage package.
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Cuba
Sen
Styles H. Bridges
R-Nh
Eisenhower
Senate
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Congress
Mansfield
Senate House
Special Rush Envelopes Spur Local News Sharing
The Star circulates to correspondents with Special Rush stamps for news submissions. A Forsythia bush by the Star Office blooms, while Peter the squirrel at 12 Cameron St crosses Kent St slowly with a nut. George Pennington finds a large garden spider on his door. Echo's Earth shadow flight tonight and early Thursday is described with times and sky positions.
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Star
Peter
Kent St
George Pennington
Stephenson
ECHO
Byrd Apple Picnic Set for Berryville With 3000 Expected
Senator Byrd gathers more than 3000 guests for his 37th annual apple picnic at Rosemont Orchards Berryville. The event honors entomologist Dr. Walter S. Hough with a noon luncheon and 1 pm speeches, rain plan to Byrd canning plant.
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Senator Byrd
Rosemont Orchards
Berryville
United States
Walter S. Hough
Winchester Fruit Research Laboratory
Byrd Canning Plant
Byrd
Powers Parents Leave Moscow After U2 Pilot Detention
Francis Gary Powers parents arrived in Copenhagen from Moscow with cautious hope of seeing their son, who faces a 10 year espionage sentence. They left for New York with Jessica Hileman and others. Barbara Powers remains in Moscow seeking Khrushchev’s intervention.
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Francis Gary Powers
Moscow
New York
Oliver W. Powers
Pound
Ida
Barbara
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Yalta
Black Sea
Ida Powers
Richard Snyder
North Plainfield, N.J
Live Polio Vaccine Licensing Plan Announced
Washington AP reports U S Surgeon General Leroy Burney outlined a timetable to license a live polio vaccine next year with three Sabin strains. Initial access will be limited and production may not begin in quantity for months, and the Sabin strains were largely developed under foundation grants.
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Washington
U.S
Leroy E. Burney
United States
Public Health Service
Albert Sabin
Cincinnati
Burney
Sabin
National Foundation
National Foundation For Infantile
Oame
Eddie Cantor Enters Hospital for Rest and Checkup
Hollywood AP reports comedian Eddie Cantor, 68, in satisfactory condition after checking into a hospital for several days rest and a routine checkup. Cantor suffered a heart attack following a 1962 television appearance.
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Hollywood
Eddie Cantor
Cantor
Rescue Squad Receives 1000 Donation for Building Fund
Ralph Hardy directs Winchester Volunteer Rescue Squad as C B Mallory of American Brake Shoe Co presents a $1000 check for the squad’s building fund. Fifteen minutes later the squad responds to a crash on Route 7 near Winchester aiding Israel Goldin, 62, of Drexel Hill Pa, with a compound leg fracture and other injuries.
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Ralph Hardy
Winchester
C. B. Mallory
Israel Goldin
Drexel Hill
Rt. 7
Mr. Goldin
Lumumba Sends Troops Into Kasai Province
Premier Patrice Lumumba ordered airlift of Congolese troops into Kasai to quell tribal strife and possible secession. Col. Joseph Mobutu said over 600 soldiers were dispatched to Luluabourg as Belgian paratrooper activity was claimed near the Lower Congo frontier. The move aims to shore up the Kasai region amid unrest and tensions with Belgian forces.
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Patrice Lumumba
Kasai
Air Congo
Belgium
Sabena
Leopoldville
Luluabourg
Joseph Mobutu
U. N
Lower Congo
Portuguese Angola
Lumumba
Nixon Urges Firm Policy Without Belligerence
Vice President Richard M. Nixon told a Detroit audience that the United States must remain firm without belligerence in foreign policy. He said readiness to negotiate with Communist world representatives is needed when conference chances yield reasonable results, and that Berlin and other places must be free.
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Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Berlin
Detroit
Cobo
Medical Care Set As Campaign Issue
The Senate defeated a Kennedy backed plan to add broad medical care benefits to Social Security and raise payroll taxes. A separate bill funding federal grants to states to help pay medical bills for needy aged was approved, while an opposing Thurmond Goldwater vote stood against the social security approach. The issue spawned partisan debate as Kennedy pledged to push the matter to voters.
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Senate
Eisenhower
House
Strom Thurmond
D-Sc
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Kennedy to Speak Tonight in Alexandria Campaign Rally
Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and running mate Lyndon B. Johnson plan a 8 p.m. rally at George Washington High School stadium in Alexandria Virginia. Gov. Almond and Virginia lawmakers are expected to attend while Sen. Byrd declines to attend. The event marks Kennedy Johnsons first joint campaign appearance in the South and promotes Democrat Ralph Kauls bid in the 10th District against Rep. Joel Broyhill.
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Associated Press
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Virginia
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
George Washington High School
Alexandria
J. Lindsay Almond
A. Willis Robertson
Congress
Harry F. Byrd
South
Johnson
Ralph Kaul
Kaul
Joel T. Broyhill
Boston Transit Strike Settled in One Day
Boston businesses counted millions in losses after the city’s first transit walkout in 41 years ended just before 5 p.m. Tuesday. Rapid transit lines resumed within an hour and by 6 30 p.m. the Metropolitan Transit Authority said the system was near normal, serving about 700 000 daily riders.
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Boston
Metropolitan Transit Authority
Castro Defies OAS Call Amid Cuba Split with West
In Havana Fidel Castro rejects an OAS appeal to disavow ties with the Soviet Union and China. He declares friendship with those allies and vows triumph with or without the OAS. US Secretary of State Herter outlines Washington's hard line while Cuba faces regional pressure on the Communist issue.
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Costa Rica
Cuba
Soviet Union
China
Fidel Castro
Havana
People’s Republic of China
OAS
Castro
Organization of American States
U.S
Christian Herter
Venezuela
Julio Turbay-Ayala
Turbay-Ayala
Americas
Raul Roa
United States
Latin America
Eisenhower says Kennedy needs party unity to push agenda
President Eisenhower told reporters Kennedy can win Congress support if Democrats unite. He defended Benson and accused Kennedy of seeking leadership without party cohesion. He noted a 2 to 1 Democratic majority and said foreign policy should not be a campaign issue. He also announced a network debate plan to give Kennedy and Nixon equal time.
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Eisenhower
John F .Kennedy
Congress
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Senate
L Eisenhower
United Nations
Richard M. Nixon
Benson
Ezra Taft Benson
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