Foreign Aid Bill Passes With Reapportionment Compromise
The Senate adopts a nonbinding sense of Congress on reapportionment and proceeds to pass the foreign aid bill totaling 3.3 billion dollars. The action ends a filibuster over a Supreme Court reapportionment delay and signals possible adjournment by next week. The aid package comes in well under the president’s request.
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Supreme Court
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Mike Mansfield
McBee to Join Litton Industries
Charles B. Thornton of Litton Industries and Allan A. Ryan of Royal McBee Corp announced a plan to combine the two companies subject to board and stockholder approval. Royal McBee stockholders would receive Litton preferred stock on a share for share basis if 80 percent accept, with Royal McBee becoming a Litton division. Royal McBee employs about 11,000 people and has plants in four states plus operations in five foreign countries.
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Athens
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Europe
Europe anticipates Warren Report on Kennedy assassination
The Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone faces European backlash. In Italy France West Germany Belgium and Norway leftist groups and press argue for a conspiracy theory or accuse U S authorities of cover ups.
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Europe
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France
U.S
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Coast Fire Rages. One Firefighter Killed And 36 Hurt
A brush and hillside fire near Santa Barbara and Montecito burned across 40,000 acres, killed one firefighter, and injured 36 others as Santa Ana winds intensified. The blaze destroyed 78 structures while crews battled flames with aerial support. statewide, about 83,000 acres burned in six days across five northern counties.
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State Division of Forestry
Auto Strike Flares Hits GM Plants
The United Auto Workers struck General Motors after failing to agree on a new contract by a 10 a.m. EST deadline. The walkout began at plants across Cleveland and Framingham and would idle about 260000 GM workers, highlighting unresolved issues beyond pay.
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UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Leonard Woodock
Reedsville Man Killed When Tractor Overturns
Wilber Arthur Barr 52 a Reedsville service station operator was killed when a tractor overturned pinning him. He died en route to Meigs Memorial Hospital from a crushed skull per Meigs County Coroner Henry Ewing. Survived by parents a sister and four brothers.
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Meigs Memorial Hospital
Coalville
Meigs County
Henry Ewing
Lonnie Barr
Opal Harris
Russell
Vienna
W. Va
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Pittsburgh
Dale
Charles
Little Hocking
Belpre By-Pass Opens Ahead of Schedule
Belpre by pass opens at 8 a.m. DST Saturday after a $5 million, four lane, 6.36 mile project built by S J Groves and Sons of Minneapolis. The route from Route 76 at Portersfield to Main St Belpre includes two interchanges and eight bridges. Completion expands Route 50 and 7 to four lanes to Coolville and trims travel time between Athens and Parkersburg. Project required moving nearly three million cubic yards of earth. Ora Ashcraft supervised state work with H A Dye filling in during illness.
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Athens
Parkersburg
Carthage Gap
Gallipolis
Ora Ashcraft
Guysville
H. A. Dye
Marietta
Ashcraft
Johnson Campaign Tour Heads to Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas
President Johnson travels to Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas on a political tour. He plans an on-the-border meeting with Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos as the three states combine for 40 electoral votes. Texas 25 Ark ansas 6 Oklahoma 8 votes split in 1960.
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Johnson
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Mexico
Ad ‘Fo Lopez Mateos
Lopez Mateos
Sharpsburg Pilot Killed In Germany
Captain Max Lee Seyfried 24 formerly of Sharpsburg died in a German plane crash after an engine failure during a power takeoff. He served as a Drone Section commander with the Third Infantry Division at Kitzingen, a six wing pilot and Ames Bern High School graduate 1958. Surviving wife Peggy Johnson of Sharpsburg and children are at his base in Germany. Funeral plans listed by Fawcett Stone for local services.
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Laura
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United States
Fawcett-Stone Funeral Home
Chesterhill
Five Day Forecast For Ohio Cities
Temperatures will average 2 5 degrees below normal with Cincinnati Columbus and Cleveland given normal highs and lows. Warmer over the weekend then cooler next week and warmer again midweek. Scattered showers early next week expected to total about half an inch.
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Columbus
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Appalachia Bill Seen With Abelec Vote In Congress
In this issue of The Messenger, Senator Young forecasts a Johnson victory in Ohio while measures related to the Appalachia Bill loom in Congress. The paper notes Mason County Court approving a $10,000 health facility study and Meigs County Commissioners backing a future museum project. Ailing Todd Snyder faces the Middleport Yellow Jackets as Athens hosts the matchup. A Cheshire-area home is destroyed by fire as plans for a new site are discussed.
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Cheshire
Mason Boy Drowns In Water Jar
Jeffrey Scott Gibbs 14 month son of Hubert and Catherine Gibbs of Hartford drowned Thursday evening in a large jar of water while playing in the front yard. He was dead on arrival at Mason hospital. Coroner rules accidental drowning. Surviving grandparents are James and Catherine Pierce Letart Falls Ohio and Charles Gibbs Hartford. Services Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Church of Christ Union with burial Union Cemetery. Friends may call at Fogelsong funeral home one hour before service.
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Catherine Pierce Gibbs
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Oliver C. Eschenaur
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Letart Falls
Ohio
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Howard Killingsworth
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Foglesong Funeral Home
Ohio cities Logan and Jackson named in airport plan
Logan and Jackson join 17 other Ohio locations on a national FAA recommendation for 727 new landing facilities and improvements over five years. The plan is nonbinding and outlines potential airport development without federal funds. Other included Ohio cities are Bellefontaine Chillicothe Cincinnati Columbus Coshocton East Liverpool Georgetown Hillsboro Kenton Mount Vernon Newark Norwalk Salem Sandusky Washington Court House Wooster.
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Associated Press
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Jackson
Federal Aviation Agency
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Coshocton
East Liverpool
Georgetown
Hillsboro
Kenton
Mount Vernon
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Norwalk
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Wooster
Aberdeen birth brings 10 pound bouncing baby girl
A baby girl weighing 10 pounds or more was born Thursday night to Mrs. Andrew Fischer, 31, in Aberdeen. The newborn follows her mother’s earlier delivery of quintuplets just over a year ago.
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Aberdeen
Andrew Fischer
Typhoon Wilda Leaves Japan in Ruin After 24 Hour Sweep
Typhoon Wilda swept across Japan causing widespread damage. Reports cite 30 dead 8 missing and 238 injured with 40 569 houses damaged or flooded 64 ships sunk and 192 damaged or adrift as authorities tally the toll.
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North Pacific
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