Midwest Storm Toll Rises as 6500 Flee Flood Areas
Severe storms and floods sweep across the Midwest driving about 6,500 residents from their homes. Thousands in Minnesota and Iowa flee rising rivers while four days of heavy rain and winds pound the region. Destructive winds cause damage in Kentucky and Ohio, with several deaths reported nationwide. Emergency crews urge typhoid vaccines in Des Moines as cities mobilize to cope with mounting damage.
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Midwest
Oklahoma
Appalachians
Mankato
Minn
Minnesota
Iowa
Des Moines
Ohio Valley
McNamara Extends Time On Armory Review
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara agrees to extend the review of the proposed Springfield armory closing after a Pentagon data analysis by Booz Allen Hamilton. The extension comes following a meeting with Massachusetts leaders including Senator Kennedy and Representative Boland, with Senator Saltonstall present.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Springfield
Mass
Massachusetts
Edward M. Kennedy
Leverett Saltonstall
Edward P. Boland
Silvis O. Conte
Pentagon
McNamara
Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Cardinal Cushing Near Death After Abdominal Surgery
Cardinal Cushing disclosed he was very close to death's door at times after abdominal surgery at St Elizabeth's Hospital. The 69 year old prelate wrote in The Pilot that prayers and sacrifices kept him going. He left hospital April 1 to convalesce at home and said it will take weeks to regain strength and he cannot accept speaking engagements for months.
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Boston
Richard Cardinal Cushing
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Harvard Foundation Sets Nieman Fellowship for Writers
Harvard University announces a Nieman Foundation fellowship to aid the development of business and financial writers. President Nathan M. Pusey says Price Waterhouse & Co will underwrite the fellowship, citing the need for broad understanding of the vital role of American business in society.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard University
Nieman Foundation
Nathan M. Pusey
Price Waterhouse & Co
Teen Job Seekers May Peak In June Says Wirtz
Washington officials forecast a surge in teen unemployment in June as summer job seekers push into the labor market. Labor Secretary Wirtz warned of a rate possibly higher than any prior June, with youth unemployment already at 14 percent. May jobs data show the overall rate under 5 percent for Q1 1965.
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Washington
UPI
W. Willard Wirtz
Johnson
White House
Wirtz
Labor Department
Pan Am Talks Remain Deadlocked Amid Strike
In Washington negotiations continued today over the Pan American World Airways pilots strike that has been stalled since March 31. National Mediation Board member Leverett Edwards said the long session with Pan Am officials and the Air Line Pilots Association produced no progress.
Three BU Students Arrested On Narcotics Charges
Boston police raided a BU men’s dormitory party and arrested Ronald H. O’Connor 19 of Woodbridge Connecticut Stuart A. Berney 19 of Latham New York and Richard Hardy 20 of Newark New York on possession and conspiracy charges They were arraigned in Brighton District Court and released on 500 bail each for an April 27 hearing.
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Boston
UPI
Boston University
Ronald H. O'Connor
Woodbridge
Conn
Stuart A. Berney
Latham
N.Y
Richard Hardy
Newark
Brighton District Court
Conviction for Contempt Of Congress Faces Three Defendants
Washington AP report states two Women Strike for Peace leaders Dagmar Wilson and Donna Allen and Russell Nixon of The Guardian were found guilty on counts of contempt for refusing to testify to a House Un-American Activities subcommittee about aiding a visit visa for a Japanese professor opposed to nuclear weapons. Each count carries up to one year and $1000 fine. Judge Curran ruled the inquiry proper under House rules.
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Washington
New York
Congress
House Committee On UN
United States
Edward M. Curr
Dagmar Wilson
Donna Allen
Russell Nixon
General Manger
the Guardian
Curran
David Rein
Four-Hour Gun Battle Leaves One Dead in San Diego Pawnshop
A beserk bearded suspect identified as Robert P. Anderson battled 75 police for four hours at a San Diego pawnshop. One man and a newsman died, a police officer injured, and a store clerk wounded as officers used tear gas and grenades. Detective Alen Brown shot Anderson.
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San Diego
Calif
Opid
Robert P. Anderson
Anderson
Alen Brown
Hockshop
Louis Richards
Theodore Siwhenty
Robert Crandall
San Diego Independent
Johnson Hosts Dystrophy Child With Beagle at White House
President Johnson lifted his beagle to his hind legs so a muscular dystrophy child could pet the dog from his wheelchair. He guided the boy outside his White House office after a ceremony and clapped to make the beagle run. The Dillon Mont. boy then presented Johnson with a muscular dystrophy campaign pin during the kickoff event.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Paul Carter Hawkins
White House
Dillon
Mont
Voting Rights Bill Expanded in Senate Committee Action
The voting rights bill advanced in the Senate Judiciary Committee with nine senators pushing broader guarantees for Black voters. New provisions ban poll taxes and allow federal examiners to register voters and appoint poll watchers in areas with low Black registration, expanding coverage to several counties in Texas Arkansas Florida Tennessee and Virginia.
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Washington
Johnson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Nicholas Katzenbach
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Uinois
President Johnson
Texas
Jacob K. Javits
Trars
Arkansas
Florida
Tennessee
Virginia
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
Judiciary Committee
Policemen Held In Jail Assault Case Sparks Probe
In Prosperity South Carolina prosecutors and federal agents target three to four suspects in a hooded assault on Freddie Jackson 18 in jail. Officers Plampin 22 and Wise 47 face second degree lynching charges under a 14 year old law carrying 3 to 25 years if convicted. The KKK seeks to clear its name as the town's police force shrinks to one chief and a hire.
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Prosperity
D.C
UPI
FBI
Ku Klux Klan
Phillip Plampin
Cornell Wise
Freddie Jackson
Plampin
Jackson
Newberry County
Tom Fellers
Fellers
Prosperity Police
Wrong Way Driver Study Details Fatal Nighttime Behavior
Sacramento based UPI report summarizes a four year state and federal highway study on wrong way freeway driving. The study finds the typical wrong way driver is a 37 year old man leaving a tavern after 2 am who cannot determine his direction.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Sherman Minton Dies on High Court Veteran Judge
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton died in his sleep at a New Albany hospital at age 74. A former New Deal ally and former U.S. Senator who served eight years on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he joined the high court in 1949, retiring in 1956 due to ill health and being succeeded by Justice Brennan.
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New Albany, Ind
UPI
Supreme Court
Sherman Minton
Minton
New Albany
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Harry S. Truman
Wiley B. Rutledge
Mh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Wiliam J. Brennan Jr
U.S. Senate
Truman
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