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Newspaper

Berkshire Eagle

Location

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 06, 1965

Page

3

Johnson to undergo gallbladder surgery at Bethesda

President Johnson will enter Bethesda Naval Hospital near Washington late Thursday for gallbladder removal, with a 10 to 14 day hospital stay and several weeks convalescence. Vice President Humphrey to assume duties if needed. Johnson expects only minimal disruption to a lighter-than-usual schedule after surgery. Medical team includes Mayo Clinic surgeon Dr George A Hallenbeck and physicians Barkley Cain Hurt and Osborne.

Washington UPI Johnson White House Texas Bethesda Naval Hospital Nubert H. Humphrey George A. Hallenbeck Mayo Clinic Rochester Minn Humphrey Minneapolis Appalachia East Tennessee Dean Rusk Defense Robert 8. McNamara McGeorge Bundy Bill D. Moyers Ike

Farm Aid Compromise Approved

Washington AP Senate House conferees approved a four year farm bill aimed at keeping price supports low while boosting farm income with direct payments. The package covers cotton wheat feed grains wool and other commodities and includes a cropland retirement plan to idle up to 40 million acres for 5 to 10 years with wildlife habitat and recreation provisions.

Washington API Senate House Senate House Conference Committee

Johnson Humphrey Set Simple Agreement

Washington report outlines a three step Johnson Humphrey arrangement to govern presidential disability. It parallels Eisenhower Nixon and Kennedy Johnson pacts and comes as Congress eyed a disability constitutional amendment awaiting ratification by 38 states. The plan provides steps for acting president and devolution of powers awaiting restoration of ability.

Washington UPI Johnson Hubert H. Humphrey Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard M. Nixon Joan F. Kennedy Congress Michigan House Arizona Massachusetts Nebraska Oklahoma Wisconsin Pennsylvania Kentucky White House Attys Herbert Brownell Jr William P. Rogers Eisenhower Robert F. Kennedy Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach Kennedy -Johnson

Dr Martin Luther King Jr to join Ga race demonstrations

In Crawfordville Georgia Rev Martin Luther King Jr announced he would travel there Monday as the state faces a racial crisis and potential mass march on the Georgia capitol. Troopers barred Negro students from boarding white buses while demonstrators staged a sit in and a white crowd blasted segregationist music outside the Taliaferro County Courthouse.

Crawfordville UPI Martin Luther King Jr Georgia King Atlanta Taliaferro County Charles Brown Americus Sothern Christian Leadership Conference East Georgia

Mental Test Ordered For Pope Threatener

Judge Daniel Gillen ordered ten days of mental observation for Arthur Brouillard 36 charged with telephoning a false report that a plane carrying Pope Paul to Rome would be blown up Brouillard was arrested in a North Station telephone booth while speaking with an airlines official

Boston Daniel Gillen Arthur Brouillard Pope Paul Rome Brouillard North Station Airlines

CORE Leader To Face Jury Over Narcotics Charge

Oscar Bright 39, chairman of the Springfield Congress of Racial Equality, bound over to Hampden County grand jury on possession of a narcotic. Bright pleaded innocent at arraignment August 17. bail set at $2000 after a packet of high concentration morphine fell from his wallet during a search after his arrest August 13 at a civil rights demonstration.

Springfield Mass Oscar Bright Springfield Congress of Racial Equality Hampden County

McGinnis contest over railroad loan broker fee

Boston AP report states former Boston and Maine Railroad president Patrick B McGinnis who faces anti trust charges says he received 35000 dollars in 1958 from International Railway Equipment Corp Boston as a broker fee for helping arrange a 1 million dollar loan for International Railway Also named are B M president Daniel A Benson Marblehead former VP George F Glacy Brookline and International Railway officials Henry Mersey New Haven Conn charged with selling eight coaches without competitive bidding to an organization in which they had a substantial interest.

Boston Boston and Maine Railroad International Railway Equipment Corp Patrick B. McGinnis New York International Railroad McGinnis B&m Daniel A. Benson Marblehead

Foreign Aid Bill Sent For LBJ's Signature

Washington AP reports the Senate approved the 3.218 billion foreign aid bill and sent it to President Johnson for signature. The measure totals 3.932 billion with 1.17 billion military aid and 2.048 billion economic aid plus 714 million for the Peace Corps Ryukus Islands and lending support. Conference restores 50 million in economic aid and 25 million of the 82 million cut for economic development loans, leaving a final aid total 67 million less than the House vote. The final package weighs 241.47 million below Johnson’s request and 32 million under last year’s Congress allocation.

Washington Senate White House Johnson House Peace Corps Ryukus Islands Senate House Sen Leverett Saltonstall R-Mass Senate Appropriations Committee North Viet Nam Congress Johson

Boston Bar Votes Against Morrissey Nomination

The Boston Bar Association council voted 13 to 9 to oppose Francis X. Morrissey for a federal judgeship in Massachusetts. Morrissey, a former JFK aide and Boston municipal court judge, faces Senate subcommittee hearings October 12 with testimony expected from Albert E. Jenner Jr. on behalf of the American Bar Association.

Boston Council of the Boston Bar Association Johnson Francis X. Morrissey Massachusetts Morrissey John F. Kennedy American Bar Association Judicial Selection Committee Albert E. Jenner Jr Chicago Senate Massachusetts Bar Association Walter H. McLaughlin

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