Goldwater Considers Call for Pact to Ease Civil Rights Tensions
Senator Barry Goldwater weighed a potential meeting with President Johnson to form a pact aimed at keeping civil rights tensions quiet. Johnson indicated willingness to consider such a meeting if Goldwater formally proposed it, as Goldwater pondered the idea amid a Chicago news conference and jeers from American Nazi protesters at Washington National Airport.
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Washington
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
White House
Arizona
Chicago
Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell
Goldwater
Washington National Airport
Military Salary Increase Passed For 2.6 Million Servicemen
The Senate approved a $207 million yearly pay raise for more than 2.6 million military personnel, aiming for Aug 1 effect if signed by the President. The vote was by voice with swift House action expected and hearings planned to be brief. The bill’s effective date is the first day of the calendar month after enactment.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Carl Vinson
Dga
House Armed Services Committee
Rep
L. Mendel Rivers
D-S.c
Rivers
House
Viet Youths Raid Saigon Embassy in Protest
Fifty Vietnamese students invaded the French Embassy in Saigon after midnight. They burned a truck and damaged teleprinter gear, furniture, and windows while shouting anti France slogans. The embassy was empty and the incident followed a prior French memorial vandalism.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
France
de Gaulle
Bridgwater Talks Still In Progress In Cleveland
Contract talks continued in Cleveland between Bridgwater Machine and United Auto Workers Local 324. A local spokesman said negotiations, described as favorable, followed a three hour session yesterday afternoon directed by a federal mediator, with participants recessed until this morning.
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Cleveland
Bridgwater Machine
United Auto Workers
City Hall Picketed As Riots Spread Across Brooklyn
Rioting flared in Bedford Stuyvesant with 300 demonstrators tossing bottles and smashing windows while Harlem remained tense after two nights of disorder. A City Hall protest opposed police tactics and the ouster of Police Commissioner Murphy as a white detective faced potential grand jury action for shooting a Black teen in self defense.
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New York
Harlem
East River
Bedford - Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
City Hall
Michael J. Murphy
Paul Serevane
Corrigan Defends Sheppard Conviction Appeal Planned
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor John T. Corrigan criticizes a federal judge for freeing Dr Samuel H. Sheppard and says the office will participate in an appellate hearing in Akron. The Sixth District Court of Appeals will hear a motion to revoke the bond order and send Sheppard back to the penitentiary.
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Cleveland
Pcuyahoga County
John T. Corrigan
Samuel H. Sheppard
Sheppard
Akron
U. S. Sixth District Court of Ap
Peals
Sam
Ohio
Corrigan
Cuyahoga
Common Pleas
U. S. District Court
Carl A. Weinman
Summit County
King Aids Mississippi Freedom Democratic Drive
Dr. Martin Luther King arrives in Mississippi to bolster the Freedom Democratic party stance against the all white regular delegation. He will speak at mass rallies in Jackson Greenwood Meridian and Vicksburg and is joined by James Farmer who will also visit to support the movement. Support from several state delegations is reported ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.
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Jackson
Miss
Martin Luther King
Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Jackson Greenwood
Meridian
Vicksburg
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom Democrats
New York
Michigan
Wisconsin
Oregon
California
Colorado
Atlantic City
N. J
Government Secrecy Questioned by AP Editor Leader
Sam Ragan, president of AP Managing Editors Association and editor of the News and Observer, urged passage of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1964 to curb vague secrecy and broaden public access to information. He warned existing exceptions, notably in Defense, risk continued withholding of records.
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Washington
Sam Ragan
Associated Press Managing Editors Association
Ragan
Raleigh, N. C
News and Observer
Raleigh Times
Senate
Defense Department
Plane Veers Off Runway At Charlotte Airport
An Eastern Air Lines DC7-B from Atlanta crash landed at Charlotte Municipal Airport Monday night. All 56 passengers and crew escaped unharmed after the two left engines failed to reverse and the nose wheel collapsed, sending the craft veering off the runway and down a five foot embankment.
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Charlotte
N.C
Eastern Air Lines
Atlanta
Beloved Comic Laurel Ill in Hospital Secret Fans Send Letters
Stan Laurel aged 73, surviving member of Laurel and Hardy, lies ill in a hospital from a diabetic attack. He has received about 1000 letters daily from fans, while hospital staff deny his presence. Laurel’s friend confirms the star’s condition and thanks fans for their support, recalling Oliver Hardy’s 1957 death.
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Hollywood
Stan Laurel
Laurel and Hardy
Stanley
West Valley Baptist Hospital
Encino
Laurel
Europe
Oliver Hardy
Beatles Backers Picket Over Cincinnati Show
A group of teenage girls marched in Cincinnati shouting for the Beatles while the Musicians Union manned the picket line days before the August 27 appearance at the Cincinnati Gardens. The union cites a contract dispute over the number of musicians to hire and sponsors threaten to relocate the show to Dayton or Columbus if unresolved.
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Cincinnati
Musicians’ Union
Ers
Cincinnati Gardens
Dayton
Columbus
Athens County Fair Premiums Highlight Today’s Edition
Athens County Fair premium list is included in tabloid form with today's Athens Messenger edition. Residents outside Rio Grande seek annexation while Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox race leaders in major leagues.
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Cincinnati
REDS
Chicago
White Sox
Athens
Canada
Rio Grande
Fragmentary Ohio Local Notices and Obituaries Byte
Fragmented OCR text shows scattered place names Athens Nelsonville Middleport and Pt Pleasant with obituaries and television mentions. No coherent event details found. cannot determine full item.
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Pleasant Pometoy
Middleport
Sane
Evseses
Viet Cong Ambushes Heavy Casualties Reported Near Saigon
Near the Geneva anniversary, Viet Cong guerrillas staged two ambushes in Chunong Thien Province. A US spokesman cited heavy casualties with at least 60 wounded in the first attack on a truck convoy from Vi Thanh to Go Quao and high expected fatalities among the dead.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
South
U.S
Chunong Thien
Vi Thanh
Quao
Vinh Cheo
Boy's Condition Unchanged In Holzer Hospital
Three year old Wellston area boy Bernard Blanchard remained in critical condition at Holzer Hospital after injuries and cigarette burns from an alleged beating at his home Saturday. Dave Leach, 29, of Wellston, is held in the Jackson County jail and has not been charged as officers await determination on the boy’s survival. The mother, Joyce Wells, says Leach beat the child and threw him against a wall after she tried to intervene.
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Jackson
Bernard Blanchard
Wellston
Holzer Hospital
Dave Leach
Jackson County
Leach
Joyce Wells
Ooreach
Venezuela Moves To Halt Trade With Cuba At OAS
The OAS foreign ministers convene a four day meeting as Venezuela seeks a full diplomatic and trade quarantine of Cuba with three working paper resolutions proposing aggressive measures including suspension of most trade and air and maritime links. Mexico Chile Uruguay and Bolivia retain ties with Cuba. A commission drafted papers for the ministers conference. Prime Minister Shastri plans to return to work after a mild heart attack.
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Washington
Venezuela
Castro
Cuba
Organization of American States
Mexico
Chile
Uruguay
Bolivia
Caribbean
New Delhi
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Rags Cost 15 Million in Iran Fraud Probe
Sen. Williams charged lax controls in 1958 foreign aid shipments. He named Manoutchehr Aadal, an Iranian national in New York City, as the key figure in paying 1.5 million for 40 thousand dollars worth of rags.
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Washington
Iran
John J. Williams
R-Del
Senate
Williams
Manoutchehr Aadal
New York City
Civil Rights Act Rulings Set for Wednesday
A three judge federal court in Atlanta will rule on the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Judge Elbert P. Tuttle said earliest rulings in two landmark cases will be delivered Wednesday. One suit challenges the public accommodations provision as illegal and not applicable to the Atlanta restaurant. The other seeks to halt enforcement of the act against an Atlanta motel.
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Atlanta
Elbert P. Tuttle
5Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Two Athens Stations Receive Gambling Stamps
The IRS announced that 297 taxpayers in the Southern Ohio IRS District obtained $250 gambling stamps for the fiscal year. Among them are Riverside Service at 136 Columbus Rd., Athens, and Shafer's Ohio Station on Chestnut Street in Nelsonville.
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Athens County
Ohio
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
Riverside Service
Columbus Ra
Athens
Shafer
Sohio
Chestnut St
Nelsonville
USS Alabama To Become Mobile Museum After 5600 Mile Journey
The 35,000 ton battleship USS Alabama will travel from Puget Sound to Mobile on a 50 day voyage via the Panama Canal to be enshrined in a marine park museum. The ship will depart empty with 2500 men aboard historically, now serving as a static display. The project costs about 1 million dollars and is led by the USS Alabama Battleship Commission under Stephen G. Croom.
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Seattle
Wash
Puget Sound
Panama Canal
Mobile
Ala
Alabama
USS Alabama Battleship Commission
Stephen G. Croom
Parcel Delivery Goes Zip Code Nationwide Pilot
The post office will have its 37 largest facilities sort outgoing parcels by zip code to speed long distance delivery and reduce damage. Gronouski announced that Detroit Philadelphia Washington Chicago Houston Minneapolis already use zip sorting and expansion will include Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Oakland Sacramento Seattle Portland this week.
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John A. Gronouski
Detroit
Philadelphia
Chicago
Houston
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
San Francisco
San Diego
Oakland
Sacramento
Calif
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Ore
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