Progress on Tour Reveals Alabama Growth Under Wallace
Washington correspondent for the Chicago Daily Defender reports on Alabama’s social and economic development a century after the Civil War. Editors toured seven cities, noting growth in nonagricultural and nonmanufacturing sectors but identifying a shrinking labor market and potential loss of congressional seats by 1970. Georgia, Florida, Tennessee show higher growth. Huntsville noted as space center. Governor Wallace promotes gradual change amid business pressure and segregationist stance.
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Chicago Daily Defender
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Selma
Birmingham
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Decatur
Huntsville
Mobile
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Wallace
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Wernher von Braun
von Braun
Wall Street Journal
Huntsville Space Boom and Racial Progress in Education
The Huntsville area sees a population surge from space program growth with contractors like IBM and GE, and IBM’s local deal valued at 176 million. Mil ton Cummings leads AHAC aiding Negro employment and desegregation strides, while state education bills and pay disparities surface in race relations as NAACP notes gradual progress toward equality.
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John Sparkman
Chrysler
International Business Machines
General Electric
Boeing
IBM
Huntsville
Milton K. Cummings
Brown Engineering Co., Inc
AHAC
Community Service Committee
John Cashin
Cashin
Police
Alabama
FHA
Cummings
Sen. Sparkman
Republicans Attack Fulbright On Vietnam Policy Shift
GOP leaders accuse Senate Foreign Relations Chair J William Fulbright of sowing doubt on Johnson's Vietnam policy. They urge considering Nationalist China South Korea and the Philippines troops. Ford and Dirksen demand concrete concession details and warn against appeasing communism. In Springfield Mass a court orders Quaboag Country Club to build a 24 foot fence beside Fenton property for safety and privacy after golf play endangers residents.
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Springfield
Mass
UPI
Quaboag Country Club
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Fentons
Johnson sets early start for tax cut benefits
President Johnson announced the federal excise tax reduction will begin flowing to consumers and businesses 24 hours after signing, with a ceremony planned for Monday. He asked experts to start a rapid technical review over the weekend as merchants prep inventories. GE Space Systems lands $225 million Air Force contract for gravity gradient test satellites to be built in Valley Forge and flown in 1966.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Cabinet
Valley Forge, Pa
California Campus Revolt Overshadowed by Security Clashes
A California Senate committee faulted UC Berkeley President Kerr for tolerating radical groups and easing security, linking the campus unrest to Communist influence. It cited former Communist members among staff and leaders of the Free Speech Movement, noting a large Dec 2 sit-in at Sproul Hall and broader anti Semitism concerns.
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Calif
University of California
Clark Kerr
UC Berkeley
State Senate
Kerr
Committee On Un-American Activities
Senate
Hugh M. Burns
Aaron W. Quick
Stephen P. Teale
Berkeley
Com
Mittee
John Birch Society
18 Killed In Plains Flood
Floods triggered by violent thunderstorms swept from the mountains across the Great Plains, causing at least 13 deaths and widespread damage. Gov. John A. Love urged evacuations of the Arkansas River flood plain as communities along the Arkansas River, especially in southeast Colorado, were evacuated. Deaths were reported in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
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Great Plains
Montana
New Mexico
Colorado
John A. Love
Arkansas River
Wyoming
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