McNamara Sees Viet Nam Outcome Key to Halting Red Advance
Defense chief McNamara warns that the South Viet Nam outcome will determine Communist expansion across Southeast Asia and beyond. He urges continued U S support, notes Viet Cong gains and Vietnamese regulars improving, and flags Laos Thailand Indonesia and Cambodia as intertwined trouble spots.
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Washington
Robert 8S
McNamara
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
United States
House Armed Services Committee
U.S
North
Viet Nam
Laos
Thailand
Pentagon
Saigon
Vientiane
Luang Prabang
South
East Asia
Pathet Lao
Indonesia
Malaysia
Cambodia
Sihanouk
Peiping
Hanoi
Liberation Front
Aviatrix Conqueror’s Husband Believes She Died In Mountain Crash
Los Angeles AP reports Joan Merriam Smith, 28, widely known as a world circumnavigator, is believed dead after a small plane crash in the San Gabriel Mountains. The other aboard was Trixie Ann Schubert, 42, of Los Angeles, writing Joan’s life story. Smith’s husband, USS Endurance commander Lt. Cmdr. Marvin Smith Jr., says he has no doubt his wife died as the plane did not return.
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Los Angeles
San Gabriel Mountains
Joan Merriam Smith
Trixie Ann Schubert
Joan
Sheriff's
Long Beach
Marvin
Jack) Smith Jr
Smith
Endurance
Long Beach Harbor
Jerrie Mack
Columbus
Ohio
Jean
Amelia Earhart
Ranger 8 Adjusts Course Aiming at Moon Landing
Ranger 8 moved toward the moon after a successful 59 second direction change maneuver. Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports preliminary path toward Mare Tranquillitatis and 3 p.m. EST for precise calculations.
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Ranger
Pasadena
Calif
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
President Johnson praised essay by Dur ham boy on turtles
President Johnson expressed interest in meeting Jim Karkbeck a 10 year old from Durham New York whose Cub Scout essay about three turtles earned a Fre doms Foundation award. Ranger 8 carried six television cameras to capture more than 4000 pictures of the moon surface aiming for sharper detail near the terminator in the Sea of Tranquillity than Ranger 7.
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Jim Karkbeck
Durham
N. Y
Ranger 8
Ranger 7
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Washington
Johnson
Europe
White House
National Industrial Conference Board
NICB
Johnson urges business leaders to curb gold dollar drain
President Johnson召集约370名高层企业家在白宫听取意见 促请自愿削减在欧洲及其他发达国家的投资与对外 lending 以平衡国际收支 同时保留通过立法强制削减的选项 NICB会议揭示财政减税超出预期 与 Eisenhower 叙旧场景伴随总统说 Great Society 不是福利型开支.
Snow Slide At Granduc Mines Reported Fatal
An RCAF briefing says 40 to 50 men may have died in a snow and ice slide at the Granduc mining camp on the lelue glacier about 800 miles north of Vancouver. A Pacific Western Airlines plane relayed the crash report to authorities including the army RCMP and provincial officials.
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Vancouver
B.C
Granduc Mines
Here
Royal Canadian Air Force
RCAF
Pacific Western Airlines
Lelue
Granduc
Army
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Medal of Honor winner Beyer found dead at farm
Arthur Beyer 55 a World War II Medal of Honor recipient was found dead by hanging in his farm garage in Buffalo N D Coroner Dr D H Lawrence ruled death a suicide Beyer earned the Medal for heroism with the 603rd Tank Destroyer Unit aiding the 101st Airborne at Bastogne He captured at least 18 prisoners a native of St Ansgar Iowa and former Ogema Minnesota resident.
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Buffalo
N. D
Arthur Beyer
D. H. Lawrence
Cass County
Truman
Beyer
603Rd
101St Airborne Division
Bastogne
St. Ansgar
Iowa
Ogema
Minn
Extension Bill for DST Gets Senate Boost
John F. Fritz Johnson and his wife Nancy head for a car after their son’s release from a hospital where memory and physical tests were given. Johnson, known as Fritz in Omaha, has been identified as Larry Bader of Akron, Ohio who disappeared during a 1957 fishing trip.
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Senate
John F
Fritz) Johnson
Omaha
Nancy
Johnson
Plain “Fritz
Larry Bader
Akron
Ohio
Restoration School Aid Fund Bill Heads to Governor
The House passed the bill 13 to 11 to restore 6.6 million in school aid funds withheld by Governor Rolvaag last year, with the Senate approving 57 to 6. Rolvaag has three days to sign veto or let it become law. The measure aims to reuse savings from his austerity push to bolster the school aid fund. Also, bills propose a merged State College and State Junior College Board to appoint a single higher education director.
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ST. Paul
Karl Rolvaag
House
Alpha Smaby
Minneapolis
Senate
Rolvaag
Smaby
Aubrey Dirlam
State College Board
State Junior College Board
John McKee
Bemidji
Roy Schulz
Mankato
Traffic Deaths Then and Now Across Iowa
A brief listing contrasts historical and recent Iowa traffic tolls noting 81 years ago an 38 died and 8 years ago 92 perished, underscoring long term traffic safety changes across the state.
Minnesota Wisconsin Move To Extend Daylight Time Faces Senate Hurdle
Minnesota and Wisconsin daylight saving proposal would shift to end of September to align with Wisconsin, extending from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The Senate committee sent the bill to the Rules Committee amid delayed floor action and concerns about health impacts and late-session maneuvering.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Senate General Legislation Committee
Clifford Lofvegren
Alexandria
Lofvegren
Public Welfare Committee
A. M. Keith
Rules Committee
Senate
Raphael Salmore
Stillwater
Wisconsin
House General Legislation Committee
House General Legisation Committee
Police Seek Others in Bomb Plot
Police, the FBI and the RCMP pursue possible additional members in a thwarted plan to dynamite the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument and the Liberty Bell. Reports spread to several U S cities and Canada. Raymond Wood aided the undercover operation. Arrests included three Black men and a White Canadian woman. Twenty two sticks of dynamite transported from Canada were seized.
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New York
FBI
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Washington Monument
Cleveland
Detroit
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago
Baltimore
Toronto
Montreal
Raymond Wood
Canada
Michelle Duclos
Post Office observes Washington’s Birthday holiday
The Post Office Department announced a holiday closure on Washington’s Birthday with no mail delivery except special delivery. In Atlanta Lester Maddox, a noted foe of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, says he leased his restaurant property to two former employees who will serve customers of all races.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Atlanta, Ga
Lester G.maddox
Reds Charged With Plotting Revolution in India
Indian government charged that pro-Chinese communists planned a revolution by circulating Guevara written guerrilla instructions. Home Minister Nanda said the plot was stopped with about 900 arrests since Dec 30. In Minnesota a Brainerd fire destroyed a two story building with four offices and eight apartments, losses over $200000.
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New Delhi
India
Cuba
Ernesto Guevara
G. L. Nanda
Brainerd, Minn
Brainerd
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Ann Merriam
Miami
Schubert
Delwyn G. Schubert
Lad
Freedoms Foundation
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Harold W. Bean Jr
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Taumi
John Olson
Worthington
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Duluth
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