Tight security rules widen checks for LBJ escorts
Air Force issues July 6 directive under Gen J P McConnell tightening security for personnel assigned to presidential support. National agency checks must be renewed if older than one year, a wife’s U S citizenship is now required, and applies to all Air Force staff entering presidential facilities or events including honor guards bands and aircraft crews.
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Zong Defections Rise Under Open Arms Program
SAIGON AP reports 423 People’s Liberation soldiers defected last week under Open Arms, raising year to date total to 18,807. The 1969 tally compares with 10,593 at the same point last year. Last week’s figure surpassed the prior week’s 333 military defectors and 13 others.
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Saigon
Hospital notes list admissions at Gulf Coast and San Jacinto
A list of patients admitted to Gulf Coast and San Jacinto Methodist hospitals, with names, addresses, and room numbers. Elizabeth Ann Carter, Ross Mitchell, Carolyn Trevino, Vivian Pope, Mary Dodge, Grace McFairidge, Effie Mason, Catherine Santi, Melba Smith, Martha O'Brien, Green Zavodny, Leland Robinson, Joseph Exvin, and James Adams are recorded among others.
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Elizabeth Ann Carter
Mervin FE. Carter
N. First
Effie Mason
Texas
Catherine Santi
Lay Porte
Melba Smith
Hunnicutt
Martha O’brien
Merrilane
Green Zavodny
Town
Leland Robinson
Center
Joseph Exvin
Wade
James Adams
Highlands
Roar
Odell Shepard Dies Pulitzer Poet Politician
Odell Shepard, 82, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, politician and historian, died at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London near his Jordan Cove cottage. A Rock Falls native, he served as Connecticut lieutenant governor from 1911 to 1943 and won the Pulitzer in 1937 for Pedlar's Progress the life of Bronson Alcott.
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New London
Jordan's Cove
Spokken
Rock Falls
Eugene O'Neill
U.S
Vietnam
Shepard
Bronson , Alcott
Connecticut
Medicare tax hike debated by House committee
The House Ways and Means Committee weighs raising the payroll tax to fund rising hospital and medical costs. Officials say hospital charges may grow 15 percent annually, higher than earlier 7 percent estimates, with a four tenths of one percent Social Security tax boost on the $7,300 base, split between employer and employee, potentially lifting annual costs for workers earning $7,800 or more.
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Dinah Shore Undergoes Minor Surgery in Hollywood
AP reports Dinah Shore was at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood for minor surgery. The singer actress is listed in stable condition with the procedure described as routine. No complications noted, and she is expected to rest at the facility for a short period.
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Dinah Shore
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
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Barbra Streisand
Jersey City
Government to study racial makeup of unions for possible action
In Washington AP says the federal government will survey the racial composition of labor unions to uncover discrimination and may pursue court action. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to mail questionnaires to 52 000 locals controlling over 16 million members, with noncompliance risking contempt of court. Meanwhile in London Rhodesia trade tensions rise as sanctions push clashes over belky union measures and multiple countries report varied imports and exports.
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Appeal by Coppolino Rejected by Tribunal
LAKELAND Fla AP The 2nd District Court of Appeals denied Dr Carl Coppolino a bond hearing after his murder conviction for killing his wife Carmela 32 by injecting a muscle relaxing drug to suffocate her while conscious He remains in Raiford state prison
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Carl Coppolino
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Carmela
Raiford
House Passes Bill To Stymie Rioters
Washington AP reports the House approved a riot prevention bill that makes interstate travel to incite riots a federal crime with up to five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Civil rights groups condemned it as anti Negro and warned senators may attach civil rights amendments to the measure.
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Fulbright seeks Capitol Hill briefings for foreign policy
Sen. J. W. Fulbright urges moving future foreign policy briefings for congressional leaders from the White House to Capitol Hill. He argues the current ceremonial informing of decisions undermines Congress’s constitutional role and calls for meaningful consultation on Congress grounds with presidential representatives. He cites growing Senate skepticism of executive power and notes renewed questioning of emergency claims.
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House
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Kome Toth Johnson
Punta del Este
Uruguay
Rubber Workers Returning To Job At General Tire
About 300 General Tire & Rubber Co. workers returned to work at midnight Wednesday at Akron. The company said the remaining 1503 strikers would be called in by 2 a.m. Friday. United Rubber Workers Local 3 ratified a new three year contract 41 to 0 at a 1100-member meeting led by Ray Campbell. A ratification vote at General Tire’s Waco plant is set for Saturday with production to start July 21 after a plant repair period.
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Akron
Unway
General Tire & Rubber Co
Jos
United Rubber Workers
Ray Campbell
General Tire
Waco
Tex
British Abortion Bill Nears OK
The House of Lords voted 227 to 21 in favor of a bill already approved by the Commons. It would allow abortion when two doctors confirm pregnancy endangers the mother's health or family welfare. Opposed by Roman Catholic MPs and by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The bill could be amended in the Lords but must return to the Commons for approval.
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Britain
House of Lords
House of Commons
Canterbury
Commons
Amarillo Crash Kills 2 People
In Amarillo on U S 66 a car rammed beneath a semi trailer killing driver William L Allen 49 of Hereford and passenger Wanda White Brooks 14 Amarillo. The truck was driven by S S Spencer 26 of Sherriff man. His wife Sharon 18 and their 3 month old were in the truck. the wife and infant hospitalised.
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William L Allen
Hereford
Wanda’ White Brooks
S. S. Spencer
Sherriman
U.S. 66
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