Mass Supreme Court Upholds Executive Council Curb
The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the new law limiting Executive Council powers. A group led by former Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes sought to block the referendum from the November ballot. The court also dismissed a mandamus petition in a separate challenge filed by Thomas C. Healey of Hyde Park.
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Martin Dies A Great In Baseball
Pepper Martin, famed St. Louis Cardinal of the 1930s, died at 63 in a McAlester hospital after a heart attack. The Osage rancher earned the nickname Wild Horse of the Osage for his 1931 World Series heroics, including 12 hits and a .500 series average, as a daring baserunner and key Gas House Gang star who helped dismantle Connie Mack’s Athletics.
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Junior Official Quits in Britain Over Policy
LONDON AP A junior government minister resigned to gain more political freedom as Labor members oppose Prime Minister Wilson's backing of U S air raids on North Vietnam. Frank Allman, a left wing figure, was among 45 MPs who urged Wilson to end support of U S action. He previously backed an Easter ban the bomb march near U S Air Force and RAF bases. BLOUNTVIEW Tenn UPI Sheriff Kyle Weaver said a 60 gallon liquor still stolen from his office porch was punched full of holes as required by law, making it largely useless.
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Tenn
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Vermont tracks threaten 15 million loss over handle split
Vermont officials warn a $15 million revenue loss if Green Mountain Park at Pownal must close or cut racing this year. Track managers push for a revised handle split, arguing even with changes they would break even. Gov Hoff proposes tiered splits. House Ways and Means will craft a new formula for legislature.
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CAB Denies Rehearing For Airline
The Civil Aeronautics Board refused by a 3 to 2 vote to rehear Northeast Airlines renewal of its New York to Florida route. Two dissenters argued hearings since 1962 were incomplete and data stale, fearing loss of Northeast service south of New York and reduced New England access to Philadelphia and Washington. The majority said updated data had been considered and upheld the decision.
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Woman Mayor Installs Free Washing Machines in Italy
In Citerna Italy Flora Volpini the town's first woman mayor ordered four washing machines placed at a public site free to all. Local housewives previously washed along stream banks and see the act as a practical boost for daily life.
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Dock Strike Near End As Galveston Talks Hit Key Hurdle
Final round of longshoremen contract talks resumes in Galveston as clerks and checkers bargain for West Gulf Coast. Negotiations aim to return 5,000 dockers to work by weekend amid approval at Miami Beach and pending ratification by 11,000 union members.
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William McAllister
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Viet Rangers Flown To New Major Battle
Viet Rangers were airlifted into a major battle zone 40 miles southwest of Da Nang as government forces fought Viet Cong units. In a separate effort east of Saigon some 3,000 South Vietnamese troops were airlifted in the largest helicopter assault of the war, but no contact was made with the Viet Cong. Four Vietnamese soldiers died in an accidental airstrike and two more in a mortar attack.
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New Haven Line Gains Pledges From Three Governors
Washington reports a brighter financial outlook for the bankrupt New Haven Railroad as Connecticut’s John N Dempsey Massachusetts’ John A Volpe and Rhode Island’s John H Chafee pledge state funds to match federal aid. The pledges aim to unlock congressional action with officials citing potential four bill options and plans to integrate New Haven operations with New York Central under federal loan guarantees and state support.
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D-Conn
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Rusk Calls Censure Overdue for Communist Infiltration
Secretary of State Dean Rusk told a New York audience that the world should have long recognized Communist infiltration of troops and arms across borders as aggression. He stressed Hanoi directs the guerrilla war in South Vietnam and urged end to aggression if possible by diplomacy or defeat. Rusk spoke at a Council of the International Chamber of Commerce meeting.
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Moscow Withholds ICC Finding
London reports Britain will publish the International Control Commission's Viet Nam report as a white paper next Monday. The ICC majority from India and Poland and a Canadian minority statement were circulated to Geneva conference members. the Soviet Union refused to circulate. Britain notes Moscow has not replied to diplomatic overtures on a peace settlement and hints at a broader Southeast Asia strategy.
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Renly
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Embezzler's Loot Lost in Gambling
DANIELSON Conn AP The FBI says Albert J Mahan claims to have gambled away all of the 46900 he is accused of embezzling from a firm headed by his father Mahan 31 was secretary of the Danielson Federal Savings Loan Association His father Howard is president He was arrested here Thursday arraigned in Hartford and freed under 30000 bond
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Danielson Federal Savings & Loan Association
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Danielson
Hartford
Five Day Forecast Notes Seasonal Normal Temperatures
The five day outlook shows daily temperatures around the seasonal 28 degree average. Expect cooler conditions from Sunday through Wednesday with light snow flurries forecast for Sunday and Monday.
Pravda and Red Star clash over Vietnam policy
Pravda accuses President Johnson of talking about peace while U.S. forces widen the Vietnam war. Red Star calls for peaceful negotiations, warning that any other path endangers world peace and the United States, noting contradictions between rhetoric and policy in Southeast Asia.
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Indochina
Reds Lead Kerala Vote in Tight Special Elections
In Trivandrum AP report the pro-Peking Communists edge Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's Congress in Kerala with 21 seats to 18 as results come in from 52 of 133 seats. The Kerala government’s former chief minister Raman Shanker is among Congress losses.
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