Discrimination on US projects to be stopped
Secretary of Labor Wirtz announced new standards to prevent employment discrimination on federal projects. The policy will ensure contractors comply before contracts are awarded. The remarks came to a House judiciary subcommittee as part of support for Kennedy's civil rights program amid GOP requests for compromise.
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W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
House
Judiciary
Kennedy
Congress
Robert F. Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
National Labor Relations Board
Goldwater
John V. Lindsay
R-Nly
Lindsay
GOP
Emanuel Celler
D-N.y
Senate
Norris Cotton
New Hampshire
Cotton
Senate Commerce Committee
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Senate Judiciary
Shell OCAW Talks Resume After 16 Hour Negotiations
After almost sixteen hours of meetings at Deer Park the Shell Oil Co strike talks broke at 3 15 am. Negotiators would resume at 2 30 am Thursday with federal mediators present. The oil workers union and Shell representatives held sessions Tuesday through Wednesday with OCAW International President O A Knight and Shell executive John C Quilty in attendance. A Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service team led by William E Simkin did not comment on progress. The current talks began June 8 and occur in the Houston federal offices.
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Shell Oil Co
Deer Park
Aptes
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
Shell
O. A. Knight
Denver
OCAW
Houston
John C. Quilty
New York
William E. Simkin
Washington, D.C
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Houston Federal Building
Soviets Not Expected To Make Concessions
Moscow reports Pravda says the Soviet Union will make no concessions as talks open with the United States and Britain on July 15. Commentator Yuri Zhukov discusses enforcement of a ban on underground nuclear explosions, focusing on detection systems and a limited set of robot black box installations in signatory countries. Baffin Island is noted as Canada's largest Arctic island.
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Pravda
Communist Party
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Yuri Zhukov
Hospital notes list numerous admissions and newborns
New arrivals include a son born June 27 at San Jacinto Methodist to Mr. and Mrs. John Robert Till of 510 Parkway. another son born June 26 to Mr. and Mrs. James E. Baker of 301 E Adone. a daughter born June 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Pete L. Currie of 5107 Somerset. Admissions list multiple names and room numbers across Gulf Coast and San Jacinto Methodist hospitals.
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Vivian Ann Stroud
Baytown
Vicki and Vernon Gillen
Crosby
Mary Darlene Weaver
Amy
Patty Gillespie
Channelview
Clyde D. Massey
E. Defoe
Etmer A. Goss
Mont Belvieu
Dewitt Roeler
Sunset
J. A. Yount
N. Ashbel
San Jacinto
W.defoe
Stash Walkviak
Highlands
Kent Miks
E. Adone
John Robert Till
Parkway
San Jacinto Methodist
James E. Baker
Pete L. Currie
Somerset
Helen Keller at 85 Hints at Quiet Years Ahead
Helen Keller marked her 85th birthday with a family gathering at Arcand Ridge in Easton Connecticut. President Kennedy sent a tribute praising her legendary achievements while Keller, still active as a consultant to the American Foundation for the Blind, plans to ease her workload and enjoy sunlit terraces with her dogs. Her brother Phillip Keller and sister Mildred Tyson joined the celebration as neighbors stopped by bearing roses and wishes. A note from Senator John Hill of Alabama highlighted recent Senate support for training teachers of deaf and blind children.
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Miss Keller
American Foundation For the’ Blind
Evelyn Seide
Phillip Brooks Keller
Dallas
Tex
Mildred Tyson
Montgomery
Ala
Sen
Sister Hill
Alabama
Senate
Keller
Texas Areas Are Soaked By Rains
The Associated Press reports bristling thunderstorms along the upper Texas coast with widespread showers. Houston recorded heavy downpours with up to two inches in some areas and minor damage. Isolated thundershowers appeared in South Central and Southeast Texas, leaving skies clear by Thursday morning as hot weather returned statewide. Top temperatures ranged from 103 at Presidio to 80 at Galveston.
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Associated Press
Texas
Panhandle Plains
Houston
Downtown
Panhandle
South Plains
Presidio
Galveston
Radio KHUZ Licenses Sold to North Plains for 65000
In Washington the FCC authorized the sale of Radio KHUZ Borger Texas licenses to North Plains Broadcasting Co Inc for sixty five thousand dollars. In Bowie Texas Ben Parker 63 was found hanged in a barn and death was ruled selfinflicted. In Donna Texas Jesus Collin Jr 8 drowned in an irrigation canal south of town. In Junction Texas Mrs Mary Meriweather ? Alpine killed in car trailer truck crash. In Snyder Texas Joe Williams of Ballinger killed and wife critically injured when car went off road at construction site. In San Antonio Texas Lee Nelson 20 shot to death found in a East Side yard police seek man he quarreled with.
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the Communications Commission
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Borger
Tex
North Plains Broadcasting Co., Inc
Bowie
Ben Parker
Justice of Peace
J. C. Turner
Parker
Donna
Jesus Collin Jr
San Antonio
Lee Nelson
Nelson
Air Force Captain Killed in Viet Nam Crash
A U.S. Air Force captain was killed when his single engine T28 fighter crashed during a strafing run 70 miles west of Saigon. A Vietnamese observer-pilot also died. Identification of the American was withheld pending next of kin notification. He was the 43rd American killed in combat in South Viet Nam since 1961.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
OCAW Officials Reply To False Charges At Deer Park
Officials of OCAW Baytown Local 4 333 say a Pasadena Local 4367 letter counters misrepresentations about the Deer Park Shell strike. The note emphasizes that strike decisions rest with the rank and file by secret ballot and requires a 75 percent majority. The editor’s note links the letter to criticism from Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union about the Baytown refinery.
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OCAW
Shell
Anthony R. Hodnick
Baytown
Toyhouse
Garrison
W. H. Wade
Mand
Deer Park
Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Freedom Is Brief For Jailbreaker
Calvin Young, 55, one of two who forced their way out of the Paris jail Monday at gunpoint, was arrested by deputies on a drunk charge at a tavern. The other fugitive, Joe Baker, was believed to have fled into Oklahoma. Young said he left the jail to do a favor for Baker and had six months remaining to serve.
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Paris
Tokey
Freeom
Calvin Young
Joe Baker
Oklahoma
Young
Baker
Burglary Reported at Bowie Street Home
Toups reported to Baytown Police that someone entered his home at 50 Bowie and took a piece of luggage containing 70 dollars.
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Lawrence Toups
Baytown
Bowie
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