Negro Voter Drive Gains In The South
Civil rights groups push a steady voter registration campaign across 11 Southern states where about 1.75 million Negro voters exist alongside 12.8 million white voters. Leaders cite potential gains to two million by November with key targets in the U S House and Senate and the presidency while noting ongoing pay your poll tax efforts in Texas and growing registration since 1960.
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Atlanta
Associated Press
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
U.S
House
Senate
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Macon
S. W. Tucker
Martin Luther King
South
Reds Demand U S Admission Over Spy Charge Rule
Berlin AP report says the Soviet Union would free three captured U S Air Force officers if Washington admits it ordered them to fly over East Germany. The men parachuted from an RB66 after being shot down. The U S insists the mission was routine.
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East Germany
United States
FBI Arrests Two In Train Dynamiting
Two men described as former railroad workers were arrested by the FBI in Fort Pierce Florida and charged with placing dynamite on a Florida East Coast Railway bridge in an attempt to damage a train. Police said 15 sticks of dynamite were wired to the rails at the north end of an FEC bridge. Bond set at 75000 dollars each.
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Fort Pierce
Fla
FBI
John Wesley Davis
Joseph Leo Vedder
Miami
Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
FEC
Indian River County
Here
Palatka
Johnson
Florida
Labor Department
Vedder
Davis
U.S
James E. Alderman
Duluth
Minn
St. Lucie County
Invasion Threat Implied In Cyprus Crisis
Turkey issued an ultimatum to the Greek Cypriot government demanding an immediate ceasefire across the island and protection for Turkish Cypriots. A note delivered via the Turkish Embassy in Nicosia warned of unilateral Turkish action, with the threat of invasion if conditions were not met. The note was handed to U S British and Greek diplomats in Ankara.
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Turkey
Cyprus
Makarios
Nicosia
U.S
Ankara
Morphou
Britain
United States
Johnson
U.N
U Thant
Thant
Canada
International Army
Ohio River floods leave $50 million damage and nine dead
The Ohio River crest moved westward causing widespread damage across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania with about 110000 affected and 9 deaths reported. Evacuations continued as floodwalls held and crests neared Cincinnati Louisville and Pittsburgh.
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Ohio River
Louisville
Red Cross
Cincinnati
Owensboro
Paducah
Ohio
Mississippi River
Indiana
Jeffer
Kentucky
Hoff Signs Vermont School Aid Bill
Governor Hoff signed a bill increasing state aid to education by 1.6 million dollars, a target tied to a broader equalization plan. Rep. W Arthur Simpson and Lyman Hunt, along with Charles Nichols, watched the signing as supporters of the new formula. Hoff noted gaps yet called the enactment a significant event and credited Simpson and Hunt for driving the measure.
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State Board of Educa
Hoff
General Assembly
State Board of Education
Vermont
Simpson
Hunt
Stafford Sees No Increase In Federal Workers
Rep. Robert T. Stafford states the House rejection of a federal pay raise likely means no pay increases for federal workers until the next session. He supported comparability with private sector wages but opposed raising congressmen salaries during their terms and did not press an amendment after a rival proposal was rejected.
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Stafford
Washington
Robert T. Stafford
House
Oliver Bolton
Inside Montpelier Nine Living Governors Series
On the Inside last of a series on Vermonts nine living governors this one on F Ray Keyser Jr. Colonel Samuel R Ogden notes the new Interstate highway as a death trap and North Bennington voters face a village budget. Searsburg shows only one farmer left in town.
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Board OF Selectmen
Bennington
Vermont
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Samuel R. Ogden
Searsburg
McNamara Optimistic On Progress in Viet Nam War
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara returned from South Viet Nam to report to President Johnson on the war. He said most officials believed victory is possible with a proper effort, though the path may be hard, and urged increased U S aid while vetoing expansion into North Viet Nam.
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McNamara
Viet Nam
Washington
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
Johnson
Andrews Air Force Base
Maxwell E. Taylor
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Addi
United States
U.S
Saigon
Maxwell D. Taylor
South
John A. McCone
Central Intelligence Agency
Nguyen Khanh
Southeast Asia
Makarios Warns of War If Turkish Cyprus Intervention
Archbishop Makarios president of Cyprus warned in Athens that any Turkish intervention on Cyprus would trigger war. He spoke after a five hour conference with Greek leaders as Turkey sent an ultimatum to Cyprus and Greece demanding an immediate halt to fighting.
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Cyprus
Britain
Greece
Turkey
Makarios
Iskermderun
Cysprus
Stavros Costopoulos
Athens
Strifetorn
Town Villages Clash Over Town Highway Tax Rules
Contested 1964 town meeting debates the town highway tax and its division among the town outside villages. Officials seek clearer explanations as Bennington Village plans another vote. Since 1958 the town has taxed all, with villages and town maintaining their own roads from their grand lists, though funds rarely align with road needs.
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Bennington
Norton Barber
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By Don McCree
Reds
Iron Curtain
Paul
St. Sophia
Is Eas
Geary
Burlington
William Geary
Democratic Party
Philip H. Hoff
St. Michael’s College
Daniel J. O Brien
Donville
Aurora
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Wheeling
West Va
Pittsburgh
Janes R. Hoffa
Hoffa
North Bennington Village
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