Draft Call Boosted by Navy to 4600 October
Washington AP The Navy moves to muster its first draftees in a decade and considers extending skilled enlistees. Overall draft quotas rise to 27,400 for September and 33,600 for October with 4,600 of October allocated to the Navy. Navy needs include technicians for amphibious ships, ship crews, and shore stations aiding Vietnam support. Defense says Navy can order involuntary extensions with secretary of defense approval. Army and Air Force lack such authority without Congress.
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Navy
Defense Department
Pentagon
Johnson
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Marines
Air Force
Viet Nam
Secretary of Defense
Army
Massachusetts Draft Call Out To Equalize Ages
Massachusetts Selective Service deputy director Col Paul Feeney says September and October quotas will be lighter due to age balancing. He notes Massachusetts has met quotas with under 20s, while other regions with older men receive heavier calls. Massachusetts provides 425 men in August and 200 for September and October.
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Boston
Paul Feeney
Massachusetts Selective Services
Massachusetts
Feeney
National Selective Service System
Wage Floor Increase Includes Farm Workers
Washington moves toward raising the federal minimum wage from 1.25 to 1.75 with farm workers covered for the first time. The House Education and Labor Committee backs the plan 8-1, signaling broad approval but possible trimming before passage. The measure would extend protections to about 6.1 million workers, including 700,000 farm laborers, with staged increases over three to six years.
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House Education and Labor Committee
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Dcalif
Johnson
Congress
W. Willard Writz
Intensive Ocean Depths Study Moves Toward National Panel
Washington headlines report Congress debating a national oceanography council to unite 22 federal agencies and accelerate undersea research. Witnesses say the U.S. lags behind the USSR in ocean exploration, noting Russia’s greater number of oceanographers.
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UPI
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House
Merchant Marine Subcommittee
United States
Russia
Paul G. Rogers
D-Fla
U.S.S.R
Undersea landslides found near Hawaii by geologists
Government geologists report giant underwater landslides running about 100 miles along the Pacific floor near the Hawaiian Islands. The formations rise thousands of feet above the sea bed and differ from usual submarine volcanic mountains in the area.
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Pacific Washington
UPI
Hawaiian Islands
Interior Department
Lodge Ax Swing Viet Aid Mission Head Replaced
President Johnson named Charles Mann to head the American Aid Mission in South Vietnam replacing James H. Killen. Killen says Lodge instigated his firing. Moyers could not confirm. Mann, 49, has 14 years in Southeast Asia, previously directing AID missions in Laos and Cambodia, with a recent Distinguished Honors Award.
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Johnson
Charles Mann
South Viet Nam
James H. Killen
Mann
U.S
Saigon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Killen
Lodge
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Southeast Asia
Moyers
Ing
Agency For International Development
Michael W. Moynihan
Maxwell D. Taylor
Laos
Cambodia
Voting Rights Bill Approved by House
The House approved President Johnson's voting rights bill 328 to 74, with 217 Democrats and 111 Republicans in favor. The compromise measure, stronger than the Senate version, would suspend discriminatory literacy tests, authorize federal examiners to register Black voters in five states, and empower the Justice Department to sue over poll taxes, plus new penalties for voter suppression. Rep. Silvio Conte voted for the bill and the recommitment motion.
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Georgia
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Virginia
Justice Department
Texas
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Pittsfield
Judge rules civil disobedience not immune from arrest
Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. refused to intervene in more than 150 demonstrators’ cases from March protests in Montgomery. He said civil disobedience cannot shield participants from local arrest or prosecution and clarified that peaceful demonstrations remain lawful, but must respect parade and trespass laws.
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UPI
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
United States
Alabama State College
Immigrant Quota Changes Voted by House Committee
Washington AP By a 26-4 margin the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill to scrap the 40 year old national origins quota and set new preferences for relatives of citizens. The plan would raise annual immigration to about 340000, 50000 more than now. Feighan said he is confident it will pass the House. Senate action remains uncertain.
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Iowa
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House
White House
U.S
Judiciary Committee
United States
Michael A. Feighan
Ohio
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