The Pontiac Press: 1961-02-01

Swainson asks 3 per cent state income tax ; Liner sails into Recife- rebels granted asylum ; $6 1/2 million budget adopted by commission ; Approach stirs demonstrations, police patrols ; Peppy chimp back at U.S. home base ; 1st minuteman flight complete success ; AMC reports dip in profits ; Dems digging in for tough fight ; AF mum on space spy: orbit secret satellite ; Ground hog is star of weather picture ; President and advisers discuss plan on slump ; Diplomats expect Mac to visit JFK in March; The day in Birmingham: ‘unsightly’ shopping mall to be removed from city ; Set deadline for acquiring absentee ballots ; City approves expansion: OK’s $80,000 for hospital ; February makes a mild entry ; Six Americans get 30 years in Cuba ; Face sentence in Netherlands ; Land ho! Passengers sick of sea ; Area Dems plan Williams-style square dance ; White Boys quit Orleans school ; State split by part on House rules vote ; Art Institute loses one-man police force ; For proposed reform: governor’s tax estimate ; Set government to buck Fidel? ; Col. Rogers combines fun, work ; Reflector repeal bill introduced ; Broadcasters reach agreement on pact ; Use, sales tax record in state ; Moscow paper praises Kennedy’s Union speech ; To fight segregation throughout the U.S. ; World Almanac, 1961 Volume, full of facts