Taft Proposes Poverty Force as Alternative to Volunteers for America
Rep. Robert Taft Jr. proposes a bipartisan National Service Corps to run an anti poverty program, replacing the Volunteers for America section. The seven member commission would appoint a director and select volunteers with local agency invitations.
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Robert Taft Jr
Ohio
Peace Corps
Johnson
House Labor Committee
Taft
Volunteers For America
Sargent Shriver
National Service Corps Commission
Senate
Commission
Rights Package Altered
Senate leaders push a compromise rights package after six Kennedy talks to break the civil rights stalemate. They must rally caucus support to invoke cloture, with Dirksen needing 25 of 33 Republicans and Democrats needing 41 or 42 of 67 members.
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Psenate
Robert F. Kennedy
Everett M. Dirksen
Robert Kennedy
Senate
Everett Dirksen
Hubert Humphrey
Dirksen
Humphrey
State Board Reports Deplorable Conditions at Boys Industrial School
The Ohio Youth Services Advisory Board urges immediate remedies at Boys Industrial School Lancaster citing overcrowding with 1050 boys aged 10 to 18 in a facility designed for 600. It notes no fulltime physicians or psychologists, only 10 teachers for 200 attendees, high caseloads for social workers, heavy turnover, and unrealistically low salaries.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
Ohio Youth Services Advisory Board
Boys Industrial
Lancaster
Young Discloses Financial Status Amid Re‑ Election Bid
Senator Stephen M. Young of Ohio reports holdings totaling over 9000 shares across 24 corporations, more than $30,000 in government bonds, and real estate valued at $75,000 above debt. The 75 year old Clevelander faces Rep. Robert Taft Jr in this year’s election bid.
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Stephen M. Young
Dohio
Robert Taft Jr
Castro Foes Step Up Nerves War Against Cuba
Exile group Revolutionary Recovery Movement claims a combined raid by seaborne commandos and guerrillas seized the Pilan port and burned a sugar mill for three hours in eastern Cuba. The attack, acknowledged by Prime Minister Castro as coming from a ship at sea, marks the start of further raids announced in the movement’s first war communique.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
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Castro
Havanna Radio
GOP Hopefuls Bid For Oregon Victory
Three Republican presidential contenders make final pleas for Oregon primary votes as Gov Rockefeller campaigns. Lodges family backer George Lodge asserts his father would lead the ticket if needed. Nixon and Goldwater allies express optimism. Scranton and Smith run without campaigns.
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Oregon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
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George Cabot Lodge
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Richard M. Nixon
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Eisenhower Declines to Endorse GOP Candidate
Former President Eisenhower says he will not dictate or block any GOP hopefuls and refuses to name a preferred candidate. He notes neutrality is impractical and believes President Johnson could be beaten in November.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
California
Johnson
Tension Lifts In Cambridge After March Demonstrations
In Cambridge Maryland a third confrontation between racial demonstrators and National Guard troops ended tensely but without violence or arrests. Over 100 integrationists marched singing freedom songs before dispersing after guard contact with bayoneted rifles. Later about 150 Black residents and 300 white residents faced troops at an intersection before dispersing amid rising tension. A two month old Black child Rudolph A Perry Jr died Tuesday night near the earlier tear gas incident blamed by one leader on the gas.
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National Guard
Cambridge
Rudolph A. Perry Jr
Bike Mishap Kills Portsmouth Youth
A 15 year old Portsmouth youth died Wednesday night when his motorbike went out of control and landed on him. Donald Eugene Justice, son of Mr and Mrs Richard Earl Heil, was pronounced dead of a broken neck at Portsmouth Mercy Hospital.
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Portsmouth
Donald Eugene Justice
Richard Earl Heil
Portsmouth Mercy Hospital
Foreign Aid Bill May Escape Cuts in House
President Johnson’s 3.4 billion foreign aid bill may pass the House Foreign Affairs Committee intact for the first time a foreign aid request clears the initial barrier without cuts. Committee rejected all attempts to trim the bill, boosting Johnson’s strategy of a bare bones proposal before congressional appropriations follow.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
Fringe Players Disband After Broadway Run
The four young Britons behind Beyond the Fringe end their run on Broadway after over a year. Peter Cook pursues new productions, Jonathan Miller writes a history of neurology, Dudley Moore scores ONeill’s The Emperor Jones, and Alan Bennett takes a holiday.
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New York
The
Golden Theater
Peter Cook
Jonathan Miller
Dudley Moore
O’neill
Alan Bennett
Wage tax battle looms in Loveland plans to start tax
Loveland aims to collect a one percent income tax after July 1 pending court approval and possible voter referendum. Opponents vow further action. In Columbus, former Assistant State Atty. Gen. Aubrey A. Wendt is named common pleas judge of Coshocton County by Gov. Rhodes.
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Loveland
Columbus
Aubrey A. Wendt
James A. Rhodes
Common Pleas
Coshocton County
NATO mediation in Cyprus okayed by Greece and Turkey
Greece and Turkey agreed to NATO mediation on Cyprus and broader Greek Turkish relations. Greek Foreign Minister Kostopoulos conditioned mediation beyond Cyprus, while Turkish FM Erkin accepted NATO mediation. The move aimed to avert a regional crisis and support German reunification efforts.
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Turkey
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North Atlantic Alliance
Stavros Kostopoulos
Feridun Cemal Erkin
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Makarious
U.S
Dean Rusk
Paul-Henri Spaak
Belgium
Paul Martin
Canada
Rusk
Ohio State Bar opens 84th annual meeting with court system proposal
The Akron meeting centers on a plan to unify Ohio courts. It would give common pleas courts jurisdiction over probate juvenile municipal county police mayor's and other subordinate courts.
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Akron
Ohio State Bar Association
Common Pleas
Marshman Sets Speed Record then Trains With Donna Mae Mims
Bobby Marshman tours the Indianapolis oval after blasting the one lap speed mark at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, riding a bicycle and meeting 1963 Class H SCCA champion Donna Mae Mims. He clocked 157.178 mph for the record.
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Bobby Marshman
Donna Mae Mims
Marshman
Indianapolis Oval
McNamara Contemplates Testimony on Vietnam War Outlook
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, back from South Vietnam, says he would report to a House committee on obsolete equipment and the war’s outlook. He warns of a long hard war but insists persistent execution could lead to victory and notes plans to double Viet Nam air force pilots.
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Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
House Armed Services Committee
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Pentagon
Viet Nam
U.S
Jet Crash Kills Five In Nevada Housing Tract
Five people including three children died when an F105 fighter plane plunged into a Las Vegas housing development after takeoff from Nellis Air Force Base. Seven homes were destroyed as flames spread. nearby Lincoln Elementary School students were in class and unharmed. A truck driver recounted the plane hitting a house with its tail alight and skidding across rooftops.
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Nellis Air Force Base
Lincoln
He Says Green Cop Sees Red In Chattanooga
Motorist Charles Tinker of Americus Georgia told Patrolman Clyde Ingle he had a green light after a collision. Tinker, 26, was charged with drunken driving. There was no traffic light at the intersection.
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Tenn
Charles Tinker
Clyde Ingle
Tinker
Americus, Ga
Actress Diana Wynyard Dies at 58 in London
Diana Wynyard a leading British actress and Hollywood star of the 1930s died in London on Wednesday at age 58 from a kidney ailment.
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Diana Wynyard
Britain
Hollywood
U S Bans Food and Medicine Shipments to Cuba
The Commerce Department orders an embargo on all food and medicine sales to Cuba requiring government approval for every shipment except gift parcels. Cubans have approached U S firms about buying millions of dollars in drugs.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Cuba
United States
U. S
Costs Run High On Space Suits
American astronauts bound for the moon will carry suits costing about $60,000 each after including development and research expenses.
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Washington
Moon
Brazil Breaks Diplomatic Ties with Cuba over Communism Spread
Rio de Janeiro announces severed diplomatic relations with Cuba accusing the Castro regime of trying to spread communism in Latin America’s largest country.
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Brazil
Cuba
Latin America
Hearing Set for Hockingport Bridge Plans in Ohio
A public hearing at 10 a.m. June 9 in Ewing Hall Auditorium before the U S Army Corps of Engineers will review the Ohio Department of Highways bridge project over the Hocking River at Hockingport. Col Harrington W Cochran notes a three span deck plate girder design 363 feet long with 141.1 foot main span clearance and 28.7 feet center clearance above river pools. Written statements are requested for accuracy.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Ohio Department of Highways
Hocking River
Hockingport
Harrington W. Cochran
Corps’ Huntington District Office
Ohio River
Belleville Locks and Dam
Cochran
Truck, Auto Crash Kills 3 Near Washington Court House
A head on collision on Ohio 3 two miles northeast of Washington Court House killed three people Wednesday afternoon. Truck driver Woodrow W. Thompson, 51, of Columbus, and two women in the car, Lillian Mae Pennell, 60, and Mildred Pauline Anders, 39, both of Washington Court House, died at the scene. The Fayette County sheriff's office has not yet determined which woman was the car’s driver.
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Woodrow W. Thompson
Columbus
Lillian Mae Pennell
Mildred Pauline Anders
Washington Court House
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