Teen Agers Earn A's With Flood Heroics
In Minnesota floods teenagers lead flood relief along the St Croix and Minnesota rivers. Volunteers man sand trucks bulldozers and boats filling sandbags and building dikes in Stillwater Mankato Chaska and other towns. Mayor Dean Charlson credits teens for the work and notes large volunteer turnouts after initial shortages as schools closed for flood duty.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota
Stillwater
St. Croix
Dean Charlson
Mankato
Chaska
Minneapolis
New England Votes In Congress
In Washington the New England delegation reported roll call votes. Senate passage of a 1.3 billion school aid bill with no opposition and no voting Dodd of Connecticut. House actions included rejection of a Republican substitute for elderly health care, passage of elderly health care and Social Security benefits, and an arms control act passage. A constitutional amendment proposal on presidential vacancy procedures was adopted. An HUAC investigation grant of 50,000 was approved with a few abstentions. Stratton Mountain Vermont hosts Kennedy family Easter skiing trip with Mrs Kennedy, Caroline, John, Robert Kennedy, Ethel and children attending parade and egg hunt.
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Washington
New England
Congress
Senate
Dodd, Dconn
For
Giaimo
Dconn
Grabowski
D - Conn
Hathaway
D-Maine
Huot
Irwin
D-Conn
Keith
Rmass
Macdonald
D - Mass
Martin
House Committee On UN - American Activities
Bates
Tupper
Stratton Mountain
UPI
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Vermont
Caroline
John
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N-Y
Ethel
Kennedys
$130000 Nabbed in Hotel Heist
Three holdup men robbed the Sterling Hotel in Miami Beach at 2:40 a.m. taking cash and jewels from safe deposit boxes. Police later estimated losses at up to $130,000 in cash and jewels, with some guests unsure of their totals. Two staffers were bound. robbers used hammers to break locks and fled as dawn broke.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Sterling
Rocky Pomerance
Timothy Hayes
Hayes
Charles Jernigan
Jernigan
Generals Shift Here In Korea
President Johnson approved a Friday shift in Air Force Academy superintendents and named Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Moorman as the new superintendent at Colorado Springs. Maj. Gen. Robert H. Warren will be reassigned. Maj. Gen. Benjamin C. Davis Jr. will become chief of staff of U.S. forces in Korea and U.N. Command, with nomination to lieutenant general, the highest rank for a Black officer.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Air Force Academy
Korea
Texas White House
Thomas 5. Moorman
Pacific Air Force
Air Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
Robert H. Warren
Warren
U.N
Benjamin C. Davis Jr
United States Forces
United Nations Command
Hamilton Howze
Davis
U.S
Air Force
United Nations
Benjamin O. Davis Jr
Associated Press
Boston Huddle Called Over Imbalance
Civil rights leaders urged Mayor John F. Collins and Louise Day Hicks to meet with them and Martin Luther King Jr. next Friday. King plans a protest march from Roxbury to City Hall and Beacon Hill, while Virgil Wood of the SCLC Massachusetts chapter sent telegrams requesting the talks to press for high quality integrated education and protect anti poverty gains.
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Boston
John F. Collins
Louise Day Hicks
Boston School Committee
Martin Arther King
King
Roxbury
City Hall
Beacon Hill
Virgil Wood
Massachusetts
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Collins
Hicks
Wood
Prudential Center
N E Universities Get Building Grants
Washington D C April 9 UPI Health Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony J Celebrezze announced 21 238 403 in grants for graduate school construction at 23 universities The first awards under the Higher Education Facilities Act support building or improving graduate schools and centers Grants listed include Tufts University 547 582 for a library addition Northeastern University 293 41 for a new graduate chemistry building University of Connecticut 375 000 for two graduate social science and humanities centers
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Washington
UPI
Health, Education and Welfare
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Tufts University
Northeastern University
University of Connecticut
New U S Red Party Pursuing Hard Line
New U S Red Party forms at a closed Harlem convention sponsor Progressive Labor Movement leaders Milton Rosen Morton Scheer expulsion from US Communist Party cited. The Times and Daily News report a declaration denouncing the U S government comparing it to Nazi tyranny.
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U.S
Red Party
New York
Communist Party
Progressive Labor Movement
Times
Daily News
Harlem
William Epton
the Times
Milton Rosen
Morton Scheer
Communist Party of the United States
U.S.A
Nazi Germany
Governor asks whites to show restraint in Bogalusa
In Bogalusa Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen urged an overflow all white chamber audience to keep the peace and solve problems while civil rights leaders vow intensified boycotts. He warned that the Easter season tests the state’s resolve and said he would not intervene unless asked by Mayor Jesse H. Cutter.
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Bogalusa
John J. McKeithen
McKeithen
Jesse H. Cutter
Connecticut Pleads For Commuter Runs
Connecticut asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to require the merged New York Central Pennsylvania system to keep operating New Haven Railroad passenger service. The Public Utilities Commission appeals ICC examiners ruling that only New Haven freight service be included in the merger proposal.
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Washington
UPI
Connecticut
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
New Haven
Public Utilities Commission
Textile Union Panel Called Over Strike in New England
Textile Workers Union leaders set a Saturday meeting in Boston to address a wage dispute that triggered a 5600 worker strike in New England cotton rayon mills. The stoppage began Thursday after failed talks with four firms, affecting about 40,000 workers regionally. Berkshire Hathaway plants in New Bedford and Warren continued paid holidays with production unaffected.
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Boston
Textile Workers Union
New England
TWUA
William Pollock
Middle Atalntic
Berkshire Hathaway
New Bedford
Mass
Warren, R. J
Biddeford
Maine
Bates Mfg. Co
Lewiston
Augusta
Pepperell Mfg. Co
New Hampshire Bans Profit Sweeps Firm Selloffs
Gov. John W. King signed a law banning private operators from buying sweepstakes tickets to resell at a profit with a $500 fine and up to one year in jail. The measure takes effect in 60 days. The same day he OK’d authorizing work on a $20 million high level bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, funded 90 percent by the federal government.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
John W. King
New Hampshire
U.S. District Court
King
Portsmouth
Kittery
Maine
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