Senate Labor Panel Votes Poverty Funds
The Senate Labor Committee approved another year of poverty program funding totaling 1.65 billion dollars in a unanimous vote after a brief closed session. The panel added 150 million for the adult unemployed within Community Action and tightened governors veto power across several programs.
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Senate Labor Panel
Washington
UPI
Johnson
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
House
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEQ
Job Corps
Peace Corps
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Plans Accepted for Integration Across 17 States
The Office of Education reported 3 455 voluntary desegregation plans court orders and compliance statements accepted by Aug 3 from districts in 17 southern and border states. Total districts in those states 5 135. There were 98 acceptances that week, with 651 voluntary plans accepted and 89 court orders. State totals list districts and accepted items, including Texas 1 420 plans 656 voluntary plans 123 court orders and 218 compliance statements.
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Washington
Office of Education
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Sinatra Farrow marriage plans denied by Roz Russell
Roz Russell, aboard the 168 foot yacht Southern Breeze with Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, told reporters there is no marriage planned. The group, including Claudette Colbert and Merle Oberon, has cruised up the New England coast and will dock at Boston Harbor Marina before planning to reach Quincy.
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Edgartown
Mass
Frank Sinatra
Mia Farrow
Rosalind Russell
Harborside Inn
Miss Russell
Sinatra
Miss Farrow
Claudette Colbert
Merle Oberon
New England
Boston Harbor
Quincy
Boston
Sherman Adams Operation Revealed in New Hampshire
Sherman Adams former New Hampshire governor and Eisenhower aide underwent surgery this week at Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where he is resting comfortably and convalescing. He was admitted Saturday and officials refused to disclose the nature of the operation. Adams, 66, resides in Lincoln after leaving office in 1953.
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Hanover
N. H
Sherman Adams
New Hampshire
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Adams
Lincoln
Eisenhower
Two Negroes Join Bogalusa Police Force
Bogalusa Louisiana AP Two Negro men Arthur White and Louis Brown were sworn in as city policemen fulfilling one civil rights demand. They will train in Monroe where Black officers have long served. The region had seen a deadly shooting June 2 when deputy Oneal Moore was killed and Creed Rogers wounded nearby on Vornado road. Brown and White were among twelve who passed the July 23 civil service exam.
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Bogalusa
Arnold Spiers
Arthur White
Louis Brown
Monroe
Oneal Moore
Creed Rogers
Vornado
Moore
Rogers
Brown
White
Pentagon Bid For Building Is Trimmed
The House Appropriations Committee recommends 1.7 billion for military construction this year, trimming almost 300 million from Pentagon requests and urging better housing for personnel. The bill authorizes 1,755,495,000 for domestic and overseas projects, with a state breakdown across Navy bases, Air Force stations, and related facilities, including Newport and Boston.
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House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Pentagon
Defense Department
House
United States
Johnson
Connecticut
Navy
Naval Submarine Base
New London
Maine
Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Massachusetts —Army
Ft. Devens
Natick Laboratory
Naval Station
Boston
Air Force
Otis Afb
Falmouth
Westover Afb
Chicopee
New Hampshire
Army
Navy — Naval Shipyard
Portsmouth
Rhode Island
Naval Construction Battalion
Davisville
Naval Hospital
Newport
Naval Public Works Center
Naval Supply Depot
Quonset Point
Naval Base
Anti-Sub Exercises Set for South Atlantic
The U S Atlantic fleet units and eight Latin American nations will begin the sixth annual Unit as anti submarine warfare drills in South American waters. Ships depart Aug 9 and return Dec 8 after maneuvers in the South Atlantic and South Pacific with Brazil Argentina Ecuador Chile Colombia Peru Uruguay and Venezuela. The joint exercises start Aug 18 and call for circumnavigating South America via the Panama Canal and the Straits of Magellan, visiting multiple ports.
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South America
Panama Canal
Straits of Magellan
South American
Radiated Heat System to Warm New Suburban High School
Detroit report says a Grosseille high school will use a self contained heating unit that collects heat from students and light bulbs. Heat is stored in tanks and later circulated by a compressor at about two thirds the usual cost, per architect Keith Weiland of Ann Arbor.
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Detroit
Grosseille
Keith Weiland
Ann Arbor
Firemen Fight Postal Help Aimed at Fundraising
Washington reports Johnson Administration faces Senate backed bill to extend bulk mail rate relief to volunteer fire, ambulance, and rescue groups. Rep Schweiker argues lower postage and tax exemptions would cut fundraising costs, aiding equipment upgrades, while Grodovski and the Budget Bureau oppose changes citing existing second class rates.
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E Eagle
Tane
College Ttad Son
Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Washington
NANA
Johnson
John A. Gronouski
Budget Bureau
House
Richard
Schweiker
R-Pa
Internal Revenue’ Service
Pennsylvanian
Bureau of the Budget and Gronovski
Congress
Draft Lottery Odds Favor Rejection Over Acceptance
AP report cites Army surgeon general data showing 47 percent of youths pre inducted were accepted in 1964 while 53 percent were not. Among the rejected 22.2 percent failed medical exams 16.2 percent failed mental tests 11.4 percent limited training ability and 2.7 percent for administrative reasons.
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Washington
Army Surgeon General’s Office
Television actor Everett Sloane dies at 55
Everett Sloane, veteran television character actor, died Friday at his Brentwood California home at age 55. The cause of death was not immediately determined.
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Everett Sloane
Brentwood
Calif
Rhode Island Charwomen Face Automation Move
Providence AP reports Rhode Island purchases a $2,000 machine that could replace 14 cleaning workers. The device will enable two people to scrub 41,000 square feet of marble floors in the statehouse each night, signaling automation plans for state facilities.
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Providence
R.I
Rhode Island
Bar proposes civilian panel to oversee police conduct
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York urged replacing the current all police Civilian Complaint Review Board with a nine member civilian controlled panel. Five civilians would be named by the mayor from a names panel. four members would be named by the police commissioner. The mayor would designate the board chairman.
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New York
Association of the Bar of the City of
First Department
Long Island
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