Accommodations Act Held Illegal in Alabama Ruling
A three judge panel in Birmingham ruled the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional as applied to Ollie's Barbecue. The panel issued a temporary restraining order against enforcing the act and sent the matter for possible appeal. The decision contrasts with a similar Atlanta panel and Lester Maddox’s case in Georgia.
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Birmingham
Ala
U. S
Nicholas Katzenbach
Ollie McClung Sr
Ollie
McClungs
Atlanta
Lester Maddox
U. S. Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Justice Department
President Johnson Calls for Centralized Nuclear Control
In Seattle President Johnson argued for direct White House control of nuclear weapons, saying steps ensure no madman or mishap triggers war. He framed a shift toward public private power cooperation and a broader conservation program spanning from the Yukon to the Potomac.
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Seattle
Wash
Johnson
White House
United States
Portland
Ore
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Barry Goldwater
Detroit
Goldwater
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Lester Pearson
Pacific Northwest
Yukon
Rio Grande
Columbia
Potomac
Heat Rises Over Reapportionment Constitutional Amendment
Washington reports a new House bid to rush a constitutional amendment blocking state legislative reapportionment. Rep Howard W Smith seeks quick Rules Committee action to bypass committees and push the measure toward a two thirds House vote, echoing prior failed efforts.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
Howard W. Smith
Dva
House
Smith
Rules Committee
Proposed Platform Outlines GOP Honesty Agenda
At the Ohio GOP State Convention a 1964 platform pledges limited government and citizen initiative. It lauds two years of GOP rule, endorses the national platform, and backs Goldwater Miller tickets, Taft Jr. for senator Oliver Bolton for at large, plus the full Republican slate for Congress and state offices.
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Columbus
Barry Goldwater
William Miller
Robert Taft Jr
Oliver P. Bolton
Congress
Barry Goldwater Jr Opens Ohio Republican State Convention
Barry Goldwater Jr. 26, son of Barry Goldwater, headlines the one day Ohio Republican State Convention in the RKO Palace Theater. He fires the opening salvo in the most intensive Republican campaign in Ohio political history.
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Columbus Pinch
Barry Goldwater Jr
Ohio
Goldwater
Arizona
Rko Palace
Hubert Humphrey Tours Texas Arkansas Campaign Trail
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey carries the Johnson Humphrey campaign flag into the south today for a Texas and Arkansas swing. He says Barry Goldwater is manipulating Viet Nam for political gain and rejects Americans for Democratic Action’s Cuba readmission stance to the OAS if Cuba abandons subversion and seeks nonalignment.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Southland
Texas
Arkansas
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Viet Nam
Americans For Democratic Action
Cuba
Organization of American States
Miller Blames Johnson Farm Policy For Farmers’ Plight
Rep William E Miller decries Democratic farm policy at a Des Moines rally calling Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman an inept czar. He asserts the Johnson administration failed to redeem major farm pledges from 1960 and outlines his campaign path through Iowa Wisconsin Ohio and Illinois.
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Des Moines
Iowa
William E. Miller
Washington
Presi
Orville L. Freeman
Johnson
Miller
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Welcome Is Canned Welcome Is Canned
Akron Mrs Lyn don B Johnson was to arrive at Municipal Airport to the strains of Garfield High School Band. Musicians Union Local 24 threatened to picket the airport if the kids appeared to play at a political rally. Oldon Motz Local 24 president said the rally was improper. Columbus Enquirer endorsed Sen Barry Goldwater for president. Washington output of factories mines and utilities rose for the 12th consecutive month.
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Akron
Lyndon B. Johnson
Municipal
Garfield High School
Musicians Union Local 24
Oldon Motz
Local 24
Jury Draws for Athens County in October Term
Inside The Messenger reports 155 names drawn for Athens County juries as the October court term nears. Also notes editorials and local political preview items across pages.
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Athens County
Alden
Ohio U
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Point Pleasant Group
Hank
Thurmond to Introduce Goldwater Campaign in Greenville
Sen. Strom Thurmond, who switched to the Republican Party, will introduce Sen. Barry Goldwater in Greenville as the candidate campaigns in South Carolina. A large portrait backdrop accompanied Goldwater’s two state TV address after Thurmond’s public switch and prior to his noon airport appearance in Greenville Spartanburg.
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Barry Goldwater
South Carolina
Goldwater
Thurmond
Greenville-Spartanburg
Taft Attacks Make-Work Federal Programs
Rep. Robert Taft Jr. denounces federally financed make work programs as failing to deliver lasting jobs for the unemployed. The Republican Senate hopeful urged strengthening existing tools to fight unemployment rather than expanding public works and job corps programs. He called for a coordinated attack on root causes of unemployment using authorized actions.
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Rep
Robert Taft Jr
Taft
U. S. Senate
Area Redevelopment Administration
Vatican council debates new title for Virgin Mary
The Vatican Ecumenical Council discussed granting a new honorific to the Virgin Mary while bishops at St. Peter's Basilica clash over the preferred title. The push followed warnings from council fathers against excessive Mary devotion.
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Vatican City
Vatican Ecumenical Council
St. Peter’s Basilica
Mary
Goldwater presses federal grant stance in the South
Sen. Barry Goldwater campaigns in the Carolinas urging removal of earmarked federal grants. He argues unrestricted aid should return to taxpaying states and accuses the White House of keeping cities subservient to a vast federal bureaucracy. He praises Strom Thurmond and expects Thurmond to introduce him in Greenville. A separate item notes nine month old Gerald Lee Edwards drowned in Mount Repose, Batavia, after falling into a bucket of water.
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Raleigh
N. C
Barry Goldwater
Carolinas
Montgomery
Ala
Arizona
White House
Johnson
Congress
Goldwater
South
Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
GOP
Greenville
S. C
Thurmond
Batavia
Gerald Lee Edwards
Hugh Edwards
Mount Repose
Drought Area Survey Ordered in Ohio
Gov James A Rhodes directs the State Agriculture Department to survey Ohio's 20 county drought disaster area to assess the need for the federal emergency feed grain program this fall and winter. He asks Dean Roy M Kottman to mobilize Extension Service field forces and appeals to U S Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman for similar surveys to protect breeding herds and flocks amid feed shortages. Twenty counties now approved for emergency grazing and haying on soil bank lands through Oct 31.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
State Agriculture Department
Ohio
Rhodes
Dean Roy M. Kottman
The
Cooperative Extension Service
U. S. Ag
Riculture
Orville Freeman
Madison
Pickaway
Ross
Highland
Pike
Clermont
Brown
Adams
Scioto
Lawrence
Hocking
Vinton
Jackson
Athens
Meigs Gallia
Darke
Preble
Montgomery
Butler
Universities Urged to Lead Poverty Battle at Bowling Green
At Bowling Green State University inauguration for William T. Jerome III, Anthony J. Celebrezze urged state universities to shed ivory tower status and lead in poverty reduction. He said education is the key to bridging the rich and poor, calling for universities to be a major creative force in the state's well being. The remarks closed a two day celebration surrounding the new president's induction.
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Bowling Green
Anthony J. Celebrezze
U. S
Cleveland
Jerome
Wallace Sets School Switch
Alabama Governor George Wallace announced a plan to call a special session of the state legislature on Monday to enact laws restoring complete control of the school system to the state government.
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Milwaukee
Alabama
Gav
George C. Wallace
UAW Ford Talks Reach Crisis Point Before Strike
UAW and Ford near a walkout as a 10 a.m. Friday strike deadline approaches. Walter Reuther says talks on non economic issues remain tense while union may accept Ford's economic offer similar to Chrysler settlement. Potential trouble also at Chrysler amid broader UAW pressure.
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Detroit
Ford
United Auto Workers Union
UAW
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Chrysler
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