Senate agenda on foreign aid and Taft Hartley repeal
The Senate moves to final approval of the foreign aid bill as debate opens on Johnsons call to repeal Taft Hartley Section 14B limiting union shop rules. Dirksen and Republicans push to block a filibuster while administration supporters claim a majority for repeal but lack votes to end debate. House schedules include highway beautification and sugar measures. Mansfield to push repeal. McNamara dodges a solid vote tally.
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Washington
Johnson
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Dirksen
House
Rules Committee
Viet Nam
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
New York
Pupe
Paul VI
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
Reserve Brass decries Pentagon cuts to Army Reserve
Reserve Officers Association condemned Defense Department action reducing the Army Reserve by disbanding 750 Rescue units and eliminating six trained reserve divisions. It warned about 55,000 combat trained reservists losing placement with few high priority units or National Guard options, amid strained training facilities.
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Washington
Reserve Officers Association
Defense Department
Robert McNamara
McNamara
National Guard
Explosion and fire injure nine in Reno area
An explosion and fire near Reno's downtown gambling area injured at least nine people and destroyed six businesses. About 25 businesses were damaged across a four block area as smoke rose for miles. No deaths were reported. most injuries were minor cuts. A street cleaner recalled someone inside a store just before the 9 25 a.m. blast.
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Reno, Nev
Reno
Washoe Medical Center
Clarice Shiffner
Woman injured after blast between cars near Alley Rat bar
Police investigated a blast in a Fulton Alley area between Center and North Virginia streets. A woman suffered both legs broken while running between two cars as one backed up during the disruption. Authorities checked if the explosion originated from a gas main near the Alley Rat bar.
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Fulton Alley
Center
North Virginia
Negro Heads Back Move To Integrate In Crawfordville
Georgia civil rights activity focuses on Crawfordville where about 260 demonstrators march two miles to the Taliaferro County Courthouse. Sen. Leroy Johnson says Georgia Negro leadership backs the integration drive as white observers watch without incidents. A Ku Klux Klan leader says he will visit Crawfordville. In Natchez Mississippi police arrest 103 for parading without a permit, bringing jailed totals to 409 since Friday. Prison farm at Parchman holds overflow after city jail fills.
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Crawfordville, Ga
Crawfordville
Georgia
Leroy Johnson
Taliaferro
Carl £. Sanders
Atlanta
Natchez
Miss
Parchman
Vatican appoints Negro auxiliary bishop in New Orleans
The Vatican named the Very Rev. Harold R. Perry as auxiliary bishop to the Archdiocese of New Orleans, prompting shock and mixed reactions. NAACP leaders welcomed the move as a milestone, while segregationists condemned it and church spokesmen voiced cautious optimism about civil rights progress within Catholicism.
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New Orleans
Vatican
Stem
Stern
Harold R. Perry
B. J. Gaillot
Gaillot
Save Our Nation
A. M. Trudeau Jr
Louisiana
National Association For the
Trudeau
NAACP
A. J. Davis
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
Sunday march protest and police action described
Rested Sunday would go to Parliament to await trial. The Sunday march was to protest police action Saturday in breaking up a similar demonstration by arresting 271 marchers.
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Parchman
AMA Takes Stand on Medicare
In Chicago AMA delegates voted that individual physicians may refuse to cooperate with Medicare if desired, while rejecting a unified anti Medicare stance. They cited legal risk of acting in concert and established language allowing doctors to opt out without losing ethical duties or patient choice.
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Chicago
UPI
American Medical Association
House of Delegates
AMA
Dairy Farmers Picket In Protest Over Prices
Western Pennsylvania dairy farmers wives and children picket outlets of a large Pittsburgh area dairy to protest what they deem an unfair milk price. The United Dairy Farmers members continued demonstrations over the weekend to press their grievance.
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Pittsburgh, Pa
Trate
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh Area
United Dairy Farmers
LBJ Signs Water Pollution Bill Amid Sharp Critique
President Johnson blasted polluters and urged stronger anti pollution action during a White House ceremony marking a new law that expands federal power over interstate waterways. The measure authorizes 150 million dollars yearly in federal grants and targets sewage and toxic discharges with plans to restore the Potomac and expand clean water efforts nationwide.
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Washington
Johnson
White House
America
Congress
Potomac
Theodore Roosevelt
Small Craft Battered by Storm at Sea
Coast Guard ships and small planes hunted the southern New England coast for two two man craft and rescued a third. Missing were Andrew Fernand 39 and his son Ronald 13 from Westport in a 14 foot skiff off Horseneck Beach. Also missing were Roger Patnaude 34 and Roland Fournier in a 25 foot cabin cruiser from Pawtucket. The dragger Cape Horn towed the Jeannie after it reported loss of maneuverability and taking on water about 30 miles off Cape Cod.
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Boston
Coast Guard
New England
Horseneck Beach
Westport
Andrew Fernand
Ronald
Pawtucket
Narragansett Bay
Galilee
R.L
Roger Patnaude
Roland Fournier
Cape Horn
Jeannie
Cape Cod
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Midwest
Iran
Netherlands
Norway
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Tax Foundation
Daenae
China
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Devene
Science
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William H. Stewart
Stewart L
Udall
Lewis and Clark
Interior
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New U.S. Suregeon
Scott Carpenter
VEC, Inc
Madison 1
Wis
Borave
Faszie
Pan
Excellen
Hime
LBJ
Childs & Bishop
North Street
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