Johnson Named Chief of Staff and Army Vacancies
President Johnson nominated Gen Harold K. Johnson to be Army chief of staff at age 52. He will succeed Gen Earle G. Wheeler as Wheeler moves to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The White House also named Lt. Gen. Creighton W Abrams Jr as vice chief of staff and confirmed Taylor’s Saigon posting. Gen Johnson, a Bowesmont North Carolina native and 1933 West Point grad, has served as deputy chief of staff since 1963.
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Harold K. Johnson
Army
Johnson
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Wheeler
Maxwell D. Taylor
South Viet Nam
Senate
Taylor
Saigon
Henry Cabot Lodge
White House
Creighton W. Abrams Jr. Abrams
Sth Army Corps
Europe
Barksdale Hamlett
Gen. Johnson
Bowesmont
N.C
West Point
Philippines
Bataan
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Ft. Leavenworth
Kaw
Caroline Kennedy Runs with Wrist in Soft Cast
Caroline Kennedy, six, daughter of John F. Kennedy, wore a soft cast on her left wrist after a fall from a pony. Doctors at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis Port confirmed a small bone in her wrist was broken and applied the cast after a Tuesday checkup.
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Hyannis Port
Mass
Caroline Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Caroline
Middleburg
Dulles Meets Governor Johnson Over Missing Civil Rights Workers
Allen W. Dulles arrived in Philadelphia Mississippi and conferred with Gov. Paul Johnson on the disappearance of three civil rights workers. He plans talks with civil rights leaders and will report back to President Johnson. A charred wagon and search by federal, state, and county officers continued as integration leaders urged progress in the case.
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Philadelphia
Miss
White House
Allen W. Dulles
Mississippi
Paul Johnson
Dulles
Johnson
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington
Jackson
Here
Neshoba
Emmett Till
Mack Charles Parker
Medgar Evers
Inside Abby Classified Comics and More
A compact newspaper notice lists sections such as Classifieds Comics Crosswords Editorials and feature items including Goren movie notes and Princeton society and sports with a weather segment.
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Abby
Goren
Princeton Society
Weather Kas
Johnson and Papandreou Hold Cyprus Crisis Talks
President Johnson and Greek Premier George Papandreou met in Washington to avert a possible Greece Turkey war over Cyprus. The talks followed two days with Turkish Premier Ismet Inonu and included discussions aboard the Sequoia with George Ball.
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Washington
Johnson
George Papandreou
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
Ismet Inonu
Papandreou
Friends In Freedom
NATO
George W. Ball
Sequoia
Ball
George Griva
West Virginia Weather Outlook Sees Warmth and Showers
The forecast says temperatures in West Virginia will run about four degrees below normal the rest of the week. Afternoon highs near 80 with early morning lows around 56. A warming trend is expected early next week. Weekend showers will be scattered and total less than a quarter inch.
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West Virginia
Court Tries To Clarify Bond Issue
The Mercer County Court issued a May 8 1964 report detailing bond funds for airport runway expansion Glenwood Park recreation facilities and garbage dumps. It shows 119 546 spent of 500 000, 259 337 invested with the State Sinking Fund Commission and 134 807 held by Sheriff Bazzie.
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Mercer County Court
Mercer County
Glenwood Park
State Sinking Fund Commission
E. D. Bazzie
Dan T. Carr
Princeton
0. D
Bus) Compton
Thomason
Athens
Bramwell
Bluewell
Matoaka
House On s Erasure In Excise Taxes
Washington AP reports shopkeepers won a victory in erasing federal excise taxes on furs cosmetics handbags and jewelry. The Senate Finance Committee voted to tax at the manufacturer level starting Oct 1 reducing pass through to customers and easing bookkeeping for shops. The panel also backed raising the debt ceiling and extending the renegotiation act.
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Washington (Ap
Senate Finance Committee
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
Drinks Bottle Of Whisky Then Dies In Pub
Patrick Doherty, 24, bought a bottle for a pound and drank it in a London pub. After three gulps he passed out. The next day he died from respiratory paralysis caused by alcohol, per Coroner W R Osborne.
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London
Patrick Doherty
Doherty
W. R.S. Osborne
Rights Training School Continues Amid Mississippi Disappearance
In Oxford Ohio AP reports the 400 student volunteers stay committed to the integration training program. They plan to assist in Mississippi voter registration drives and establish centers and freedom schools despite the disappearance of three civil rights workers.
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Oxford
Ohio
Mississippi
National Council of Churches
Missis
Sippi
Goodman
New York
Mickey Schwermer
James Chaney
Meridian
Miss
Congress of Racial Equality
Schwermer
McDowell Countian Arrested in Daring Kidnapping Case
A 21 year old McDowell County man Ronnie Williams was arrested in Princeton at 9 30 p m Wednesday charged with kidnapping armed robbery grand larceny and arson in connection with abducting 17 year old William Randolph Dempsey and his 16 year old sister Donna Jo Dempsey Williams admitted the crime and was taken into custody unarmed though a pistol was found at the relatives home where he was arrested The teens described a five hour pursuit from Mercer Theater in Princeton to Bluefield before the car was found burning at Third Street and Princeton Avenue in Princeton firemen responding at 4 am
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McDowell County
Princeton
Ronnie Williams
Landgraff
William Randolph Dempsey
Donna Jo Dempsey
Williams
Bluefield
C. W. Andrick
J. N. White
Robert Holroyd
Policy
Walter A. Dempsey
Mercer Theater
Greasy Ridge Road
Dempsey
Third Street
Princeton Avenue
Scranton Labels Viet Nam War Issue in 1964 Campaign
Gov William Scranton says the Vietnam war is an issue in the 1964 campaign and urges broad exploration of foreign policy under President Johnson. He clashes with Henry Cabot Lodge who resigns to aid Scranton's GOP bid and questions Goldwater’s suitability due to civil rights votes.
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Charleston
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
Scranton
West Virginia
Johnson
Lodge
Viet Nam
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Truman
Goldwater
M. G
Mal) Guthrie
Rockefeller
Guthrie
San Francisco
Cleon Jones
Frank A. O'Brien Jr
Wheeling
Tom Sweeney
U.S. Senate
Cooper Benedict
Lewisburg
Clyde B. Pinson
Huntington
Hugh Shott
Bluefield
Arizona
Rule mandating cigarette health warnings takes effect
The FTC adopts a rule requiring labels and advertising to warn smoking may cause death and other diseases. The rule, announced by Chairman Paul Rand Dixon, starts January 1, 1965 for labels and July 1, 1965 for advertising, and faces likely court challenges amid disagreement with other agencies.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Dixon
Commission
Paul Rand Dixon
House Commerce Committee
Luther L. Terry
FTC Rule Pushes Cigarette Warnings Across Ads and Labels
The FTC argues labeling and advertising rules are within current law and presses for warnings on all cigarette packaging and ads. HEW favors FDA oversight of labels, while FTC aims for broad enforcement with a health service study backing the move. The rule delays full effect to encourage voluntary industry-wide adoption.
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FTC
Special Advisory Committee
The
U.S. Public Health Service
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Henson-Bogen & Associates
Washington, D. C
Airways Engineering Co
J. E. Craft
W. R. Carr
U. S
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Antonio Zarco
Zarco
Defense Department
Federal Aviation Agency
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
Rights Training School
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Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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