Congress Ends Session In Flare of Tempers
The Kennedy era first congressional session closes after a heated end as the House passes a 1.126 billion omnibus appropriation and the Senate reluctantly accepts it. Senators denounce adjournment while approving the measure by voice vote in a 19 hour session that set peacetime spending records.
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Washington
Kennedy
Senate
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
House of Representatives
Dirksen
White House
Treasury
du Pont
General Motors
Howard Highlanders eye first Grand Feature Parade trip
The Howard County Junior-Senior High School band from Ellicott City Md plans to march in the Grand Feature Parade on May 4 Their information sheet arrived at fete headquarters Special Delivery The USO window at the Army-Navy Recruiting office 41 E Piccadilly St leads eight Community Chest Services displays Ralph Halfen and agency reps set up the exhibits MSgt Elvis S Williams arranged this display.
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Howard County
Ellicott City
Howard Highlanders
Community Chest
Ralph Halfen
Chest
USO
Army- Navy
E. Piccadilly St
President Names McCone to CIA Post
President Kennedy named John A. McCone former Atomic Energy Commission chairman to head the CIA, succeeding Allen Dulles in November. Dulles will retire after eight years and remain as a consultant. McCone is a West Coast industrialist and Republican.
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Newport
R.J
Kennedy
John A. McCone
Atomic Energy Commission
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
McCone
Dulles
Naval War College
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Air Force
Harry S. Truman
Smooth
Tshombe Calls For Meeting With Premier
Elisabethville Katanga AP Tshombe signals willingness to meet in London or Ndola to seek peaceful talks on Congo disputes. He opposes negotiations under UN pressure while curfew and bans on bars continue after clashes. Interior Minister Munongo alleges UN thefts from security police, billing the UN for 2,216,300 francs.
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Elisabethville
Katanga
Couse
Tshombe
Congo
London
Ndola
Rhodesia
U.N
United Nations Army
Godefroid Munongo
Paul Kazemibe
Munongo
United Nations
Kennedy Signs Bill to Create Arms Control Agency in New York
President John F. Kennedy signs legislation in New York to establish an arms control and disarmament agency. Present are Rep. Robert Kastenmeier, John L. McCloy, and William C. Foster who will head the new agency. others in background are unidentified.
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John F. Kennedy
New York
Robert Kastenmeier
D-Wis
John L. McCloy
Kennedy
William C. Foster
Foreign Aid
Nixon Faces Televised Question California Governorship Bid
Richard Nixon plans a televised news conference to decide if he will run for governor of California in 1962. Debate among Republicans includes whether the former president should pursue the state post to boost a 1964 or 1968 national bid. Brown is expected to announce candidacy. Nixon's entry is contested by supporters and skeptics within the party. The event airs on four L A stations with national excerpts planned.
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Morrie Landsberg
Los Angeles
Richard M. Nixon
California
Nixon
Goodwin J. Knight
ABC
Calfornia
Peo
Brown
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Republican State Central Committee
Defense rests as Melvin Rees case nears closing
In Spotsylvania AP defense attorneys for Melvin Davis Rees Jr. finished their case after calling three witnesses including Rees’ former mistress Pat Weidenhaus and associates William Lynn and Phil Trap. The jurors were told to prepare for possible further testimony and closing arguments. the trial centers on the murder of Carroll Vernon Jackson Jr. during the Jackson family kidnapping.
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Melvin Davis
Rees Jr
John D. Butzner Jr
Rees
Pat Weidenhahl
William *Lynn
Phil Trap
Hyattsville
Carroll Vernon Jackson Jr
Louisa County
Miss Weidenhaus
Norfolk
Jackson
Glenn Lero Moser
Moser
Washington
Weidenhaus
Joseph L. Savage Jr
Alfred W. Garnett
Maris Delays Bid For 61 homer as rest takes over
Roger Maris, fresh off his 60th homer, sits out to rest and ease tension in the Yankee lineup against Baltimore. Manager Ralph Houk cites their need to protect the World Series run. Mantle also out with illness while Maris reports a back kink but calls it minor.
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NEW York
Roger Maris
New York Yankees
Baltimore Orioles
Maris
Mickey Mantle
Ralph Houk
Roger
Mantle
Mickey
Mayors Fly To Germany Back Kennedy Berlin Policy
A 22 mayor delegation will fly to Germany to show unity behind President Kennedy's West Berlin policy. Jacksonville Mayor Hayden Burns will lead the group and present messages from hundreds of U.S. cities to West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt at a luncheon on October 1.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Germany
Kennedy
West Berlin
Hayden Burns
Jacksonville
U.S. Conference of Mayors
U.S
Burns
Willy Brandt
Britain Urges Talks Between East and West at U N
Britain calls for East West talks to settle the Berlin crisis and disarmament, urging both sides to avoid seeking victory. Lord Home criticizes Soviet coexistence and supports renewed negotiations under UN framework with guarantees for access to West Berlin.
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Britain
Berlin
U.N. General Assembly
Lord Home
Soviet Union
United Nations
Khrushchev
Troika
Dag Hammarskjold
Kennedy
West
West Berlin
Security Council
East German warning shots as 600 West Berliners protest border evacuations
East German police fired warning shots Tuesday night when about 600 West Berliners threw rocks at border lights along the barbed wire barrier. West Berlin police pushed the crowd back in Reinickendorf as the East builds a trench and evacuates residents from border areas. The Communist newspaper Neuss Deutschland reports 140 families evacuated from Bernauerstrasse last Sunday.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Reinickendorf
Fredrichstrasse
Pankow
Bernauerstrasse
East Berlin
Communist Party
Neuss Deutschland
Ford and UAW Near Three Year Labor Accord
Detroit AP reports Ford Motor Co and the United Auto Workers were believed close to a three year contract. Spokesmen spoke at a downtown Detroit hotel as Walter Reuther noted discussions covered general noneconomic contract matters for Ford's 120000 hourly workers. The GM signing set a pattern for Ford and Chrysler talks with a proposed roughly 12 cent per hour raise and full company paid hospital medical insurance plus expanded layoff pay and higher pension levels.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Ford
Reuther
General Motors Corp
Louis G. Seaton
Chrysler
Cuba reorganizes army into three corps says Castro
Fidel Castro announced in Matanzas that Cuba has restructured its armed forces into three main corps after a graduation ceremony for 400 militia officers. He insisted the revolutionary army now comprises companies through army corps and warned of a possible U S invasion, promising a greater defeat than the Bay of Pigs.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Matanzas
Castro
United States
Bay of Pigs
Pingrey & Carper Cleaners
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