Coast Guard Station at Fletcher's Neck Active in Summer
At Biddeford Pool Fletcher's Neck Coast Guard Station crews of 13 handle search and rescue, law enforcement, and maintenance of aids to navigation. Watch shifts run four on eight off with a lookout tower central to operations. Chief Mullen notes a busy 1964-65 season with 20 jobs, including a $50,000 yawl rescue near Cape Porpoise. Executive officer Katon assists in running the base with facilities spanning offices, housing, a tower, and storage and safety gear throughout the complex.
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Biddeford Pool
Missions of Mercy
Biddeford
U.S. Coast Guard
Fletcher's Neck
Coast Guard
Prouts Neck
Cape Neddick
Mac Leonard Mullen
Amesbury
Mas
Salem Air
Mullen
Saco River
Cape Porpoise
David A. Katon
Katon
Bell Telephone Co
Cleo Downgraded to Squalls Along Georgia Coast
Cleo, once a deadly hurricane, weakened to a band of squalls along the Georgia coast. Florida east coast disaster areas receive long term loans. damage estimated at 200 million dollars, with winds up to 135 mph.
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Miami
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The
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Rioting in Philadelphia's Negro North Side
Rioters damaged property and clashed with police in a four mile square area of Philadelphia's north side. At least 50 people were injured including 20 officers and more than 30 were arrested as 500 police responded after a minor traffic incident escalated. Disruptions spanned the pre-dawn hours with overturned vehicles and smashed storefronts.
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Philadelphia
Howard Leary
Broad Street Disturbances Rock Philadelphia Night
Disturbances erupted along Broad Street and Columbia Avenue near Temple University with up to 20 hotspots after an initial incident involving Black police officers and Black participants. At 3 a.m. Commissioner Leary said the situation defined.
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Columbia Ave
Temple University
Philadelphia
Broad
Leary
Disturbance Erupts as Police Contain City Crowd
Negro leaders rushed to the scene as dawn broke to calm a restless crowd. City officials called people from their beds to help police disperse the disturbance around 5 a.m. Stanley Branche of the Committee for Freedom Now was briefly present in Chester.
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Stanley Branche
Militant Committee For Freedom Now
Chester
U.S
Chester protest leader recounts street clashes with police
Branchen stated he spoke with police commissioner Frank Rizzo for three hours as bricks and bottles were thrown during a tense street confrontation. He sustained a minor injury to his left leg amid the unrest.
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Frank Rizzo
Chester
Cambridge
Rioters in North Philadelphia injure fifty amid looting
Associated Press reports rioting in a Negro neighborhood leaving at least 50 injured, including 12 police officers, as windows are smashed and stores looted while clashes unfold.
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Wyoming
Cleo
Georgia
Indiana
Lake Erie
Coast Guard
South Viet Nam
Saigon
United States
Oanh named acting premier of South Viet Nam amid riots
Harvard educated economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh takes two month caretaker mandate in Saigon after two days of Buddhist Catholic clashes left at least nine dead. He says premier Khanh remains but sick, as regime tensions and U S involvement rise.
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South Viet Nam
Nguyen Xuan Oanh
Oanh
Nguyen Khanh
Dalat
O Anh
Khanh
Tran Thien
Military Revolutionary Council
U.S
Maxwell D. Taylor
Washington
It Was Johnsons Week At Democratic National Convention
President Lyndon Baines Johnson dominated the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. He secured the nomination and picked Hubert H. Humphrey as running mate while addressing delegates, amid party unity and a dramatic closes. Barry Goldwater criticized Johnson’s foreign policy during vacation.
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Texas
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Associated Press
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Tennessee
James K. Polk
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John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
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Arthur Archer
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