Defense bill clears Congress for Johnson signature
Congress passed a 46.88 billion defense bill sending to the President a package that includes 1.7 billion for Vietnam war buildup and blocks a Pentagon move to merge the Army Reserve and National Guard within a year without new congressional approval. The measure also prohibits spending on draftee education tied to aptitude tests, and includes 1.76 billion for bases and housing.
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Immigration Bill Ready With Unlikely Clause
Senate leaders expected passage of a bill to end immigration quotas based on national origins and to cap immigration from the Western Hemisphere. Senator Edward Kennedy said the measure will proceed with only a minimal amendment from the floor.
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Senate
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D. Mass
Assateague Island Declared a National Seashore Park
The island 35 miles off the mid Atlantic coast was made a national seashore park by President Johnson. He urged leaving a world as God made it for future generations. Assateague near Ocean City Maryland to Chincoteague Virginia is famed for its wild ponies including Misty. The story also notes immigration and politics with reference to Wessin in the Dominican Republic and Thurmond’s amendment on involuntary U.S. entry.
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Elias Wessin
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Dominican Republic
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Fla
U.S. Immigration Service
Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
United States
Four Vermont educators die in Mendon Mountain plane crash
In Bennington Vermont a single engine plane carrying three Southern Vermont school principals and a Ford Foundation official crashed on Mendon Mountain near Rutland due to fog and low ceilings. Victims Ralf Kate s 31 principal Mt Anthony High Bennington pilot Rev Vincent Spinelli 39 Bennington Catholic High School Philip Walker 48 Molly Stark High School Bennington district and James Morgan 28 Ford Foundation curriculum director from Milton PA. All four were en route to a Vermont Headmaster’s Association meeting.
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Philip W. Walker
Molly Stark
Greater
James Morgan
Milton
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Pollution Bill Wins Passage
Washington AP report says Congress sent a broad pollution control bill to President Johnson. It increases federal grants for sewage plants to 150 million annually, creates a federal water pollution control administration, and ends a long fight between state versus federal governance over water standards with a plan for wide consultation among federal, state, and local officials.
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Johnson
House
Senate
Eisenhower College Groundbreaking in Seneca Falls
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower breaks ground for Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls New York saying the honor will stay with him and urging more liberal arts colleges. The four year institution is planned to open in 1967 to promote citizenship.
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N.Y
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower College
Mandates Against Busing Mrs Hicks Tops Vote in Boston Primaries
In Boston primaries Mrs Louise Day Hicks led with 53,487 votes, a clear win over rival Thomas Eisenstadt and others. She framed the result as support for opposition to busing as a tool to fix school racial imbalance, while civil rights figures faced continued criticism.
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Hicks
William H. Ohrenberger
Wicks
Eisenstadt
Joseph Lee
William O’connor
Arthur J. Gartland
Canada's Most Wanted Crook Caught by Satellite
One of the Western Hemisphere's most wanted men, Georges LeMay of Canada, was captured with help from the Early Bird satellite after a Montreal bank burglary. He escaped a Florida County Jail on the seventh floor by a rope device, aided by unknown inside help. He allegedly led a crew that tunneled into a Bank of Nova Scotia and emptied 377 safety deposit boxes. The haul was valued between 500000 and 4 million dollars. LeMay was arrested in Fort Lauderdale May 6 and has links to a yacht-owning lifestyle and coast-aligned elusions. The RCMP identified him via satellite TV before his escape.
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Fla
Georges LeMay
Montreal
LeMay
Fort Lauderdale
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