LBJ Bills Face Slim Chance for Action Before Easter
President Johnson faces slim odds for House passage of three top bills before Easter. The voting rights bill, a 1.3 billion education aid measure, and elderly health care plan all stall amid committee delays and procedural hurdles. House leadership canceled a tight timetable as hearings extend beyond the holiday period.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Johnson
House
Senate
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Ways and Means
Rules Committee
House Judiciary Committee
Traffic Deaths State Today and 2 Historical Totals
A brief item notes traffic death statistics from Iowa with two historical comparisons, citing figures for 128 and 136 years ago and referencing numbers 157 and 176 in the record. The snippet preserving the era context implies a diary-like roll of traffic fatalities across time.
Quake Devastates Chilean Copper Village El Cobre
A massive central Chile earthquake shattered the El Cobre copper village burying 400 residents under mud and water. President Frei surveyed the damage as 26 died elsewhere, hundreds injured, thousands homeless.
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Chile
Llay- Llay
el Cobre
Jubilant New Yorkers Welcome Space Crew in Gotham
Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young arrived at LaGuardia to a rainy greeting and ticker tape parade along lower Broadway. Vice President Humphrey and Mayor Wagner led dignitaries as crowds cheered the first dual space travelers toward City Hall.
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Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
New York City
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America
Florida
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Wagner
Clinton B. Anderson
D-N.m
Margaret Chase Smith
Humphrey
Bowling Green
Manhattan
City Hall
City Department of Public Events
Broadway
John H. Glenn Jr
Scott Carpenter
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Glenn
Services for Sister of State Justice
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Mrs. Winifred Gallagher Harsh sister of Associate Justice Thomas Gallagher of the Minnesota Supreme Court She died Saturday at 68 in Faribault Survivors include her brother Robert Faribault and sister Mrs J Thomas Traughber Minneapolis Services set for 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
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Minn. Jap
Winifred Gallagher Harsh
Thomas Gallagher
Minnesota Supreme Court
Harsh
Hotel Faribault Inc
Herme
Justice Gallagher
Robert
J. Thomas Traughber
Minneapolis
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Klansmen Ask Meet With LBJ
Ku Klux Klan leaders Calvin F. Craig and Robert M. Shelton Jr request a face to face meeting with President Johnson after his denouncement of the Klan as hooded bigots and calls for an investigation. The White House referred the telegram to Attorney General Katzenbach for action, while lawmakers back Johnson’s push for inquiry.
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Johnson
White House
Georgia
Calvin F. Craig
Robert M. Shelton Jr
Nicholas Katzenbach
Alabama
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Detroit
Selma
Supreme Court
America
Craig
Atlanta
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Congress
St Cloud Rally Supports Alabama Civil Rights Drive
About 700 people gathered at the Civic Center in St. Cloud to back Alabama civil rights efforts. A telegram with over 1000 signatures was sent to President Johnson, urging approval of civil rights legislation. Speakers at the courthouse included Robert Samples of Richfield, an interracial leader and former regional Catholic Inter-Racial Council president, who urged equality and progress.
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ST. Cloud
Minn
Alabama
Johnson
Civic Center
Robert Samples
Richfield
Steel Union Sets Demands in New USW Contract
In Pittsburgh the United Steelworkers Union will formally present its economic package to four industry representatives, detailing wages fringe benefits and total job security for about 450 000 steelworkers. Industry bargainers led by R Conrad Cooper of U S Steel met last week with President David McDonald as a May 1 strike deadline looms.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
U.S. Steel Corp
R. Conrad Cooper
USW
David J. McDonald
Impeach Wallace plan sparks Alabama mass protest drive
Civil rights leaders led by Rev. James Bevel announce a two week push to impeach Gov. George C. Wallace and turn Alabama into a mass demonstration to pressure voter registration. They pledge a mid April start, expansion to Birmingham Mobile and Montgomery, with a 30 day boycott and handbill campaign.
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Wallace
Alabama
Bevel
Selma
Ala
George C. Wallace
James Bevel
Minnesota Gov Signs Vote Change For New Residents
Gov Karl Rolvaag signed a bill allowing Minnesota residents who have lived in the state 30 days to vote in presidential elections. The prior rule required a six month stay before voting.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota
Karl Rolvaag
St Thomas College President to Be Elevated to Bishop
Msgr James P Shannon president of the College of St Thomas in St Paul will be consecrated a bishop at St Paul Cathedral on Wednesday The ceremony will be led by five priests with Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi apostolic delegate to the United States as the consecrating prelate Shannon a native of South St Paul and St Thomas graduate of 1941.
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College of St. Thomas
St. Paul Cathedral
James P. Shannon
South St. Paul
St. Thomas
Egidio Vagnozzi
United States
Supreme Court rules partial closures to chill unions unfair
The Supreme Court held that closing part of a business to deter union activity is an unfair labor practice, while preserving the employer's right to shut down the entire business for any reason.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Socialite unveils luxe yacht club in Miami
Mrs. Carl ing L. Dinkler Jr., Atlanta socialite, says she is launching a personal program to aid the rich by creating a glamorous Miami yacht club with chrome hinges gold plated to match golden plumbing, as President Johnson helps the poor.
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Miami, Fla
Johnson
Carling L. Dinkler Jr
Atlanta, Ga
Miami
Central States Hit by More Snow and Storms Overnight
Turbulent weather swept the central states with renewed snow, hail and thunderstorms. Snowfall neared a foot in northern areas, Duluth and northern Michigan areas reported heavy accumulations as storms stretched from the Great Lakes to the South, with Bowling Green and Huntsville measuring large rainfall and hail reported in Tennessee and Mississippi.
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Associated Press
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Minn
Minnesota
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Great Lakes
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Huntsville
Ala
Nashville
Tennessee
Mississippi
Mayor urges publishers unions to push agreement before deadline
New York Mayor Robert F Wagner urged publishers and nine craft unions to intensify talks ahead of Tuesday midnight contract expirations. He volunteered help, recalling his role in ending the 114 day shutdown two years earlier. The photoengravers threaten a strike after midnight if offers are unsatisfactory.
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NEW York
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Photoengravers
Printers Union
Publishers Association of
New York City
New York Newspaper Guild
The
Post
Publishers Association
the Post
Golf in Snow Falls as Stocksett Tees Off in Capital
Gerry Stocksett of St. Paul directs a mighty swing on a snow-covered country club course. He painted the ball black to show against the white snow, as the city recorded 10.6 inches of new snow and a 37 inch March total. Baseball prepares to open its season in Minnesota in two weeks.
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Gerry Stocksett
Stocksett
Minnesota
Tax Committee to Hear Rolvaag Revenue Proposals
The Minnesota House Tax Committee schedules three hearings this week on Gov. Rolvaag’s revenue plans. A 10 a.m. Tuesday hearing examines a $10 million deductible item on corporate state income tax returns and a lowered state rate. A 4 p.m. Tuesday hearing covers a proposal to remove federal taxes and levy a 3 percent excise on new cars and trucks, raising about $32 million. A 10 a.m. Thursday hearing opens on an $89 million plan for a one percent across the board income tax hike.
Cerise Club in LaCrosse Destroyed by Fire
The Cerise Club dining establishment at the edge of LaCrosse burned early today. Owner Gerald Heberlein estimated the loss at about 200000 dollars.
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Lacrosse
Wis
Cerise
Gerald Heberlein
Ownex
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