Stampede on Voting Rights sparks safety debates in 1964
The piece portrays debate over a proposed federal voting rights bill and its ex post facto provision tied to last November's turnout. It questions constitutional basis, cites state by state variance, and argues against punitive, mob-driven legislation while noting congressional support including Dirksen Republicans. It also mentions a livestock sale and civil rights tributes.
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Congress
Dirksen
Potter County
Texas
New York State
Texas license plates drop vowels on combos sparks memory
The piece notes no vowel letters on new Texas car plates to avoid embarrassing words and reduce demand for vowel spells. It cites BRR and BVD as memorable examples and mentions others like BRN BRW BVY and BRP while warning about oddities such as KKK in Dallas County.
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Texas
Senate panel rejects splitting foreign aid package
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes 9 to 4 to keep the 3.38 billion foreign aid package in one bill. Fulbright seeks two bills with more development aid under multination management while Morse and others oppose the split on the Senate floor.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Fulbright
Earler
Wayne Morse
Ore
Senate
John J. Sparkman
Alabama
Multination
Joseph S. Clark
George D. Aiken
Russell B Long
Louisiana
Embassy Reopens After Saigon Bombing Terror Outrage
President Johnson denounced the Saigon embassy bombing as a terrorist outrage and vowed continued aid to South Vietnam. He announced plans to seek funds for a new embassy building and praised Americans in Saigon for courage and solidarity with the South Vietnamese government.
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Washington
Johnson
United States
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Dean Rusk
Defense
Robert S. McNamara Johnson
Congress
Ile
South Viet- Nam
Viet Nam
A. Alexis Johnson
Daniel Boone Fines Himself After Minor Road Incident
McAlester Oklahoma Tuesday Daniel Boone passed a car illegally on his way to work without causing an accident and without officers nearby. Boone fined himself six dollars at his city police station. Dorothy Weir twenty one says a man kidnapped her to Galveston's West Beach beat her and fled in her sports car.
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Mcalester
Orla
Daniel Boone
Boone
Dorothy Weir
Galveston
West Beach
Miss Weir
John Sealy Hospital
Dickinson accuses march of orgies and communism in Alabama
Rep. William L. Dickinson of Alabama charged that drunkenness and sex orgies marked last week's civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. He said the Communist party underpinned Alabama's racial troubles. Charles Blackwell of SCLC dismissed the remarks as garbage.
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Washington
William L. Dickinson
Ala
Alabama
House
Selma
Montgomery
Communist Party
Dickinson
Charles Blackwell
March
Martin Luther King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Shakeup Outlined For Reserve Units
State officials outline a reorganization of reserve units affecting 20 communities across Texas and nearby areas. The 36th Infantry Division will shrink from about 8 240 to around 5 000 with units moved to Austin Amarillo Dallas and San Antonio.
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Canyon
Cal- Texas
Wichita Fats
Austin
National Guard
Army San Antonio
49Th Armored Division
North
East Texas
Dallas
36Th Division
Texas
90Th
South Texas
San Antonio
36Th Infantry Division
Selden Simpson
Amarillo
Peres Dumas
Houston
Galveston
Abilene
Judge Dismisses Coach Over Spring Training Hardship
A Denver judge excused Fritz Brennecke, coach at Colorado Mines, after asking prospective jurors if serving would be a hardship. Brennecke cited spring training and a winless season as his reasons, and was dismissed from jury service.
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Denver
Fritz Brennecke
Colorado Mines
Brennecke
Darrouzett Boy Scout Receives National Heroism Medal
Kenneth Lynn Slough a Darrouzett High School student was awarded the National Honor Medal for life saving after he pulled three drowning classmates from Lake Fort Supply on May 9 1964. The audience gave a long ovation as Kenny thanked the crowd for the recognition. The three students who were saved Bonnie Getz Jimmy Collingsworth and Darrell Duke attended the ceremony.
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Darrouzett
Kenneth Lynn Slough
Darrouzett High School
Boy Scouting
Carrouzett High School
Kenny
Lake Fort Supply
Oklo
Texas House approves 19 year voting age seek change
Texas lawmakers advance constitutional amendments with voter age 19 plan passing 103 to 34 in the House and a water bonds measure for 200 million dollars gaining Senate approval. Gov Connally backs the water bond amendment as both measures head to voters in November 1966.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
House
Senate
John Connally
Travis A. Peeler
Corpus Christi
Dirksen forces withdrawal of Communist charge at voting bill hearing
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen challenged Leander Perez a Louisiana political boss whose testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Johnson's voting rights bill included a claim of a Communist plan. Dirksen called the remark stupid and demanded its withdrawal from the record, prompting Perez to seek removal of the statement. Perez argued the constitutionality and alleged hidden aims of the bill, warning of a hidden conspiracy to grant Negro voting rights in the South.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Louisiana
Illinois
Leander Perez
Plaquemines Parish
Perez
Senate Judiciary Committee
Johnson
Dirksen
US Supreme Court
South
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