The Plains School Transfer Passes In Special Election
The Plains district approved transferring to Athens City after a second try by 530 to 301 unofficial votes. Turnout reached about 80 percent as The Plains 1 precinct flipped from November results, with additional yes votes across The Plains 2 and surrounding precincts.
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Plains
Athens City
The
Chauncey-Dover
Chauncey
Election Board
Plains 1
the Plains
Athens North
Circle Hill
East Luhrig
West Luhrig
Ruby Jury Box Still Empty as Two Prospects Decline Death Penalty
Dallas reports two more jurors declined consideration of the death penalty in Jack Ruby's murder trial, leaving no jurors seated. Prospects J I Richardson and Jesse R Jones said they could not vote for execution. Melvin Belli objected to excluding jurors who oppose the death penalty.
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Ruby
Dallas
Jack Ruby
J. I. Richardson
Jesse R. Jones
Henry M. Wade
Melvin Belli
Belli
Joe B. Brown
Tex
Quake Triggers Azores Evacuation by Allied Ships
Refugees from Sao Jorge flee as a six day earthquake prompts urgent evacuation. An American and British fleet ferries 510 islanders to Terceira, then returns for more as 30 foot seas slow operations. Volunteers from six ships including the Arizon aid the effort amid shaky communications and rising tremors.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Sao Jorge
Azores
Terceira
Atlantic
Labor chiefs vow to hold line on grain boycott
Miami Beach reports labor leaders led by Thomas W. Gleason refuse to back down from a boycott of U S wheat shipments to the Soviet Union. AFL CIO head George Meany and Paul Hall back the stance while James Reynolds seeks settlement. demand half the wheat move in U S vessels and a written pledge by Cabinet officers.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Johnson
U. S
Soviet Union
Thomas W. Gleason
International Longshoremen’s Union
Labor
Secretary of Labor
James J. Reynolds
Gleason
Paul Hall
Afl-Cio
Maritime Trades Department
U.S
Hall
John F. Kennedy
Survivors Rescued From Battered British Merchant Ambassador
The rescue ship hauled aboard three crewmen from the storm battered Ambassador, a 443 foot British merchantman, 660 miles southeast of Halifax. Four to six men remained aboard as the hulk listed. The Vulcania and Coast Guard cutters aided with air support hindered by rough seas and high winds.
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New York
North Atlantic
Fruen
Coast Guard
Coas Bay
Halifax
N.S
Vulcania
Philadelphia
England
Jumpy Viets Warned To Avoid Americans
In Saigon a grenade near the U S Information Agency building caused a noon scare when found as a plastic dummy. An American soldier accidentally shot a Vietnamese street vendor, who was not seriously wounded. The Viet Cong station warned locals to keep away from Americans. Streets were blocked during the incident.
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Saigon
South
Viet Nam
U.S. Information Agency
Information Agency
Families Of Americans In Viet Nam Could Leave
Washington officials permit U S dependents to return home amid intensified Communist terror in South Viet Nam. About 1339 American wives and children remain, with few requests to evacuate so far. Three weeks show 6 killed and 85 wounded, but no plans for wide evacuation.
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Viet Nam
Washington
U. S
South Viet Nam
Explosion Rips Negro Bethlehem Baptist Church
An explosion damaged the Negro Bethlehem Baptist Church in Lower Gwynned Township Ambl er Pa likely set off near the front. About ten thousand dollars in damage reported. Police sealed evidence with a tarpaulin as choir members had just left minutes before. Also reports President Johnson may appoint Frankie M Freeman to the U S Civil Rights Commission.
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Ambler
Bethlehem Baptist
Lower Gwynned
John Smart
Washington
Johnson
St. Louis
Frankie M. Freeman
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Washington Post
Man Admits Slaying His Girlfriend in Toledo Case
Howard L. Farnham, 33, a former Toledo man, signed a statement admitting the fatal shooting of Joan M. Rosario, 28, whose body was found northwest of Dayton. He said the shooting followed a quarrel after she said she would marry another man. a first degree murder warrant was issued.
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Toledo
Dayton
Howard L. Farnham
Joan M. Rosario
Farnham
Rights Bill Tests LBJ Mastery with Congress
President Johnson faces an ultimate test as the House civil rights bill moves to the Senate. Senator Humphrey pledges no compromises to break a Southern filibuster, while Senator Dirksen forecasts concessions and a voluntary desegregation plan as a counteroffer.
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LBJ
Washington
Johnson
Congress
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Senate
Humphrey
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Dirksen
Hands Off Cyprus Is Russian Theory
At United Nations reports say the Soviet Union will urge the Security Council to guarantee Cyprus independence and territorial integrity and then withdraw, backing Makarios and calling for a hands off approach. Adlai Stevenson and Nikolai Fedorenko prepared to speak as Thant works toward a plan for an impartial mediator and an international peace force.
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N. Y
Soviet Union
UN Security Council
Cyprus
Nikolai T. Fedorenko
Makarios
Council
Fedorenko
U. S
Adlai E. Stevenson
U Thant
Britain
Greece
Turkey
Fishing Caused Repercussions Trial for Cuban Crew
In Key West Florida the first of 29 Cuban fishermen go on trial before Judge Thomas Carl. The captain and 24 crew members of four government owned trawlers waived jury trial on unlicensed fishing charges. The case ties to Guantanamo Bay and features Cuban revolutionary songs from a jail bullpen.
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Florida
Key West
Fla
Cuba
Lers
Coast Guard
Tortugas Islands
Thomas Carl
Criminal Court
U. S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Cubans Hijack Plane and Force Flight to Havana
Cuban authorities confirmed two Cubans hijacked a private Piper Apache flying from Tamiami to Key West. They forced pilot Richard Wright, 23, of Miami, to steer toward Havana at gunpoint. The suspects Enrique Castillo Hernandez and Reinaldo Lopez Lima chartered the plane and demanded Naples before landing.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
U. S
Cuba
Tamiami Airport
Miami
Fla
Key West
Britain to name Polaris sub Resolution for 1968 service
Britain's first Polaris submarine will be named the Resolution. The keel will be laid next week and the vessel is planned to enter service in 1968.
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London
Britain
Resolution
Famed Writer Kelland Dies at 82 in Arizona
Clarence Budington Kelland, 82, prominent fiction and newspaper article writer, died Tuesday after a long illness in Phoenix. Kelland began his newspaper career in 1904 with the Detroit News and earned national renown through 55 serials in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Clarence Budington Kelland
Kelland
Detroit News
Saturday Evening Post
Hoffa May Go On Stand During Trial
James R. Hoffa president of the Teamsters Union may testify at his trial on charges of attempted jury tampering. The defense could finish up by mid next week as the trial began January 20. The government rested last Friday with Thomas E. Parks the third of five men on trial.
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Chattanooga
Tenn.p
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Thomas E. Parks
Nashville
Hoffa
Strike Threatens Cape Kennedy Spur Use
Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds plans to renew a proposal to bar the Florida East Coast Railway from using a Cape Kennedy spur amid a 13 month wage strike affecting missile aid space program. Union pickets halted base construction. Reynolds met with union and railroad reps to seek settlement. Ed Ball, 75, vice chairman, rejected arbitration, urging court involvement.
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Daytona Beach
Fla.w
James J. Reynolds
Florida East Coast Railway
Cape Kennedy
Reynolds
Ed Ball
Miami-Jacksonville
Light Snow Falls Amid Steady Temperatures in Athens
Light snow began Tuesday afternoon and totaled 1% inches by Wednesday morning in Athens per U. S. Observer C. L. Colmer. Temperatures hovered near freezing with 33 at 10 a.m., up two degrees from the early low. yesterday’s high reached 41.
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Athens
U. S
C. L. Colmer
Baker Expected to Turn Over Records in Senate Subpoena
Washington Bob Baker former secretary to the Senate's Democratic majority faced a closed Rules Committee hearing on a subpoena for his financial records. It was unclear if he would produce the documents or invoke the 5th Amendment against self incrimination during the investigation of his outside business dealings.
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Washington
Bobby Baker
Senate
Senate Rules Committee
Baker
Lyndon B. Johnson
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