Congress Faces Heavy Week On Urban Affairs and Spending
Washington AP Congress moves toward adjournment by mid September with major admin bills in play. Senate to consider House bill creating a Department of Urban Affairs headed by a Cabinet member and debate on a $665 million annual public works and economic development plan in the House. The week could bring a $1.65 billion anti poverty bill, a $1 billion pay raise package for military personnel, and $1.7 billion in Viet Nam war funding. Byrd criticizes a new housing and urban development department as backdoor spending.
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Freighter adrift after murders off Florida coast
Coast Guard investigates a drifted 125-foot freighter off Miami with three bodies aboard and one missing crewman. Elvin Burywaise, a Honduran crewman, reported seeing a mate shot and the captain killed. The Seven Seas, owned by Damir Garcia of Miami, sailed from Miami bound for Tampa for repairs.
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State Dept Imposes Public Access Security Checks
The State Department enacted security measures restricting public access for the first time since World War II. At its Washington headquarters visitors must be identified by a staff member before clearance by security guards and receptionists, with access now tightly controlled.
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Stamp Books Stolen From Car In Boston
Twenty two stamp books worth 21000 dollars were taken from a car on Massachusetts Avenue and Marlborough Street in Boston. Carl C. Jonson of Brighton reported he parked the vehicle at 2 p.m. and discovered the loss six hours later.
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Williams Won't Drop Baker Case on Senate Floor
Sen John J Williams said the Bobby Baker case is not dead and if the grand jury does not act he will bring the matter to the Senate floor again. He criticized the Rules Committee reports as a whitewash and noted a federal grand jury is weighing Baker transactions.
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Harvard Climber Killed After Alaskan Ascent
Harvard Mountain Climbing Club members Edward Bernd a Harvard student from upper Darby Pennsylvania died in a July 30 fall on Mt Huntington ten miles south of Denali as his partner Dave Roberts watched The four man party included Matt Hale and Don Jensen who had not yet descended successfully.
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Bombing Hanoi ruled out by Taylor meets peace aims
Gen Maxwell D Taylor, retiring U.S. ambassador to Saigon, says the United States need not bomb Hanoi to win the war in Viet Nam. He asserts leadership in Hanoi must be pressured toward a peace agreement and notes China unlikely to enter without threat to Hanoi. He defends air raids as depressing Viet Cong strength, while not halting North to South infiltration, and calls raids reasonably effective.
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Bulldozers Ring Maine Forest Fire Near Northfield
In Northfield Maine firefighters with about 840 men built a 30 to 60 foot bulldozed barrier around roughly 13 000 acres of bog brush and woodland as the states worst fire since 197. Despite 2 3 mph winds they surrounded the blaze preventing it from reaching the village. About 53 residents had fled while others waited nearby as crews shift to mop up work. Planes aided by water drops and fog aided the effort with a 20 member Dow Air Force Base unit rescued by bulldozers. The blaze began in Whitneyville near where the 1947 holocaust started and previously burned toward Bar Harbor.
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Strikes Cut Deeper In Time Losses
The Labor Department reports the nations economy lost more work days to strikes in the first half of 1965 than any comparable period since 1960. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 2,020 stoppages involving 852,000 workers, with June seeing the peak at about 450 walkouts affecting 262,000 workers.
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Taylor warns on Vietnam war duration and limits
Taylor says the war will be a long pull with no large US manpower boost. He urges limiting infiltration from North Vietnam and warns Hanoi of a high price for continuing the war. He does not expect 300,000 to 400,000 American troops or full US control of South Vietnam. He notes Saigon has 600,000 fighters.
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Boston official cites overabundance of B-Girls at night spots
Boston licensing chief Clarence Elam called downtown bars overusing B-girls to spur drinking and threatened license revocation if management is linked to such activity. He noted the liquor industry faces financial strains amid competition and warned penalties could be severe for proven ties. In Vermont, a baby arrived by flash of lightning during a hospital power outage. mother Mrs. Stanley Easter of Colchester and her nine pound eight ounce son were reported doing fine.
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Car crashes into barber shop narrowly missing workers
A car crashed through a barber shop window in Berlin New Hampshire on Saturday. The barber George Perreault and a customer narrowly escaped injury. The driver Louis Bisson, 61, of Berlin had been fatally struck by a heart attack.
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Scientific Institute Announced for Korea
Washington AP reports President Johnson directed the US aid agency to help establish a scientific and technical institute in South Korea. White House spokesman Bill Moyers says the project aims to be a pilot with global implications.
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