POB Unruffled by Razzing Over Little Brother's Wedding
Marine Lt. Gerard Nugent known as POB speaks of flak from fellow officers about his brother Pat Nugent, the groom selected to marry President Johnson's daughter Luci on August 6. Gerard, stationed near Da Nang, says he won’t attend the wedding, staying through his tour to September.
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Little
DA Nang
South Viet Nam
Hill 22
Pat
Gerard Nugent
Pat Nugent
Johnson
Luci
Washington
Gomez
Gulf Company
White House
Nugents
Jerry P. Nugent
3Rd Pla
Toon
Echo Company
3Rd Marine Regiment
Nugent
Marquette Uni
Marine Corps
Gerard
Phyllis
San Diego
Calif
Waukegan, Til
Firefighters battle 20000 acre blaze near Santa Barbara
About 1500 firefighters from California Arizona and New Mexico work in a hand to hand effort against a 20000 acre brush and pine fire threatening the Santa Barbara area and endangered condors in Los Padres National Forest. Five hundred Indian firefighters arrive by air while retardant drops resume as helicopters airlift crews into rugged terrain. Two airmen from Vandenberg AFB die in a prior plane crash.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
California
Los Padres National Forest
U.S. Forest Service
Ray Dalton
Arizona
New Mexico
Inferno
Forest Service
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Westmoreland Awards Silver Star to Airborne Captain
Gen. Westmoreland pins the Silver Star on Captain William C. Carpenter of the 101st Airborne for heroism during five days of battle in South Viet Nam's central highlands. Carpenter called a napalm strike to save his company, with rescue efforts by volunteers and heavy enemy losses. Toni Carpenter voiced pride from Central Valley, New York.
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Westmoreland
Dak TO
South Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
U.S
Viet Nam
West Point
Lonesome End
Cape
William C. Carpenter
U.S. 101St Airborne Division
101St
Westmore
Land
Carpenter
Laos
U.S. Airborne
Walter J. Sabalauski
Palm Bay
Fla
Sabalauski
VP Urges Mayors to Join War on Slumism in Cities
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey told the United States Conference of Mayors that slumism breeds disorder demagoguery and hate and urged mayors to back the demonstration cities bill in Congress. He stressed new funds to revitalize central and slum areas without halting existing programs. The talk followed concerns that federal funds may be diverted to Vietnam, starved for urban needs.
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Dallas
Tex
Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
America
United States Conference of Mayors
Humphrey
Congress
Internal Purge in Peking Deepens China's Political Storm
AP reports Beijing endures a political hurricane as old-line dogmatic Communists clash with reform-oriented rivals led by the city party committee. Purges target Peng Chen and Lu Ping while state outlets frame the struggle as a life-and-death clash over socialism and peaceful evolution.
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Peking
Peking City
Liberation Army Daily
Peng Tehuai
People’s Daily
Mao Tze-tung
Peking University
Lu Ping
Peking Party Committee
Peking Municipal Committee
Federal Move to Convict 7 Klan Leaders Opens
In Washington AP brief, Robert M. Shelton heads a federal contempt trial as the first step in prosecuting seven Ku Klux Klan leaders. Convictions could bring fines up to $1,000 and prison terms up to one year. Others named face weekly trials starting Oct. 3. Also: a separate Sterling North Dakota crash leaves one dead and two injured, on U.S. 10 amid heavy rain.
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Washington
Robert M. Shelton
U.S. District Court
US. Dist
Matt*w F. McGuire
Shelton
House C
Imperial Wizard
United Klans of America
Ster
Klan
Un-American Activities Committee
Tuscaloosa
Ala
House
James R. Jones
Grand Dragon
Realm of
North Carolina
Robert E. Scoggin
South Carolina
Calvin F. Craig
Georgia
Marshall R. Kornegay
Virginia
George F. Dorsett
Robert Hudgins
Klavern
Capital City Restoration Association
Sterling
N.C
Joseph T. Hanna
Menlo Park
Calif
St. Paul
Nine Million Invested to Aid Minnesota Economies
Eugene P. Foley, head of the Economic Development Administration, announced over 9 million dollars have been pumped into Minnesota communities with lagging economies. Speaking at the Minnesota Inventors Congress exhibition in Redwood Falls, Foley said the funds aim to help timbered out, farmed out, and mined out areas reconnect with national prosperity, with 27 qualified areas in northern and northeastern Minnesota.
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Redwood Falls
Minn
Minnesota
Economic Development Administration
Eugene P. Foley
Foley
US transfers minesweeper MSC 306 to Nationalist China
The 320 ton wooden hull ship MSC 306 is reassigned under military aid and renamed Young Lo MSC 161. It will operate with a 40 crew under the Nationalist Chinese navy.
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Philadelphia
United States
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Central Valley, N.Y
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Africa
Peking Daily
Boss Shelton
Carl P. Leabsdorf
Edwin E. Willis
D-La
Olid Brass
R. L. Hayes & CO
PLBG
HIG
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Ste
Malcolm Browne
THE
Horst Fars
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Colm Browne
Horst Faas
Peter Arnett
Austin
Daily Herald
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