Cabbies Strike Hits New York and Chicago Major Disruption
Taxicab drivers in New York and Chicago walked out stranding tens of thousands of visitors. In Chicago 85 percent of licensed cabs were idle while New York saw a 90 percent response by fleet owners and thousands of privately owned cabs pulled from service. The strikes aided private motorists with smoother traffic but disrupted events including delegates and the World’s Fair in New York.
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Associated Press
New York
Chicago
Subway
New York City
Yellow Cab Co
Checker Taxi Co
Democratic Union Organizing Committee
Seafarers International Union
Aflcio Taxi Drivers Organizing Committee
Princeton Boy Hurt In Bicycle Mishap
A ten year old Princeton boy, Topper Fralick, was injured but not seriously after crashing his bicycle into a moving car on Ninth Street near Straley Avenue. He remained in Memorial Hospital overnight in good condition for observation. The car was driven by Clarence Harman of Route 1 Bluefield. Patrolman Guy Harman investigated.
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Princeton
Topper Fralick
Memorial Hospital
Fralick
Ninth Street
Straley Avenue
Clarence Harman
Rt. 1
Bluefield
Guy Harman
Eisenhower calls for reforms to GOP convention
General Dwight D. Eisenhower urged the Republican Party to overhaul the presidential nominating convention. He proposed a permanent dictatorial chairman with armed guards, fewer delegates, floor access limits, five minute demonstrations, and barring newsmen from the floor. He cited a niece’s alleged abuse on the 1964 San Francisco floor as part of his critique of convention chaos.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
National Committee
San Francisco
Eisenhower
United States
Kay Bliss
William E. Miller
Bliss
Free
Defiant Boys Sentenced in Weirs Beach Riot
Two 18 year old Massachusetts youths Samuel Sadowski and Paul Murphy were found guilty in Laconia District Court of failing to disperse on command during the June 19 Weirs Beach riot. Each was sentenced to one year at hard labor with bail set at 1000 dollars. Both appealed to Belknap County Superior Court. The cases relied on New Hampshire’s new anti riot law aimed at the Saturday night crowd of over 5000 drawn by motorcycle racing in nearby Loudon.
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Laconia
N.H
Massachusetts
Weirs Beach
Samuel Sadowski
Paul Murphy
Wakefield
Mass
Sadowski
Murphy
Belknap County
Richard Brouillard
Bernard Snierson
Snierson
New Hampshire
Loudon
Early Bird Satellite Begins Commercial Service and Inaugural Call
The Early Bird communications satellite entered commercial service with President Johnson making the first official transatlantic call. Duke of Windsor and other dignitaries joined in the inaugural communications, while Harold Wilson and Hans-Peter Tschudi commented on the event. Free calls lasted about three hours before the satellite joined the paid network.
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Washington
Johnson
Duke of Windsor
Paris
London
Harold Wilson
Britain
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Hans- Peter Tschudi
United States
White House
Early Bird
No Discrimination By Mountain Group
The Office of Economic Opportunity found no evidence that the Council of the Southern Mountains discriminated against Negroes in antipoverty project job hiring. Complaints were filed with the governor's agency, and state investigators completed the review. The McDowell County program met federal nondiscrimination regulations.
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Welch
Federal
Office of Economic Opportunity
Council of the Southern Mountains
Governor's Economic Opportunity Agency
McDowell County
Inside Abby and the Princeton Society Editorials
Fragmentary OCR text lists sections and page numbers for sections such as Abby, People, Movies, Classifieds, Comics, Editorials, and Sports. Mentions names Goren and Graham in the sports byline. No cohesive event or story details available.
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Abby
L'le People
Princeton
Il Society
Goren J. Graham
Two Virginia Boys Drown In Farm Pond
In Hart Virginia two Pittsylvania County boys Fletcher Eugene Patrick 11 and Frank Eugene Miller 13 drowned after leaping from a rowboat into water that was deeper than they believed. Police said others witnessed the accident from the pond bank and none of the children knew how to swim.
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Hart, Va
Pittsylvania County
Fletcher Eugene Patrick
Frank Eugene Miller
Jim Moorefield
Potomac conservation plan gains governors support
Interior Secretary Udall and four state governors pledged full effort to produce a preliminary Potomac River conservation report by November. They discussed possible actions including the Allegheny Parkway, the George Washington Memorial Parkway, and high rise dams, stressing cross state consensus and local cooperation.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Johnson
Potomac River
Udall
Ber Colin
Legheny Parkway
West Virginia
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Virginia
Army Corps of Engineers
Albertis S. Harrison Jr
Hulett Smith
J. Millard Tawes
Maryland
U.S
James E. van Zant
154 Convicted In California Sit-In
In Berkeley municipal court 154 sit-in demonstrators at the University of California were convicted of resisting arrest and trespassing with potential penalties up to 18 months in jail and 1500 dollars fines. A 155th defendant was convicted of trespassing. 91 others pleaded no contest and await sentences.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Sproul Hall
Edmund G. Brown
Herbert Aptheker
New York School For Marxist Studies
Mona Hutchin
Rupert Crittenden
Six new astronauts announced for future moon missions
Houston AP reports six scientists selected as astronauts will be introduced at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The group includes two pilots and spans disciplines from electronics to geology. Four will train at Williams AFB and the others begin astronaut training at Houston. The six bring total U.S. spacemen to 34.
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Houston, Tex
Manned Spacecraft Center
Lunar
The
Spacecraft Center
Williams Air Force Base
Ariz
Houston
U.S
Harrison Schmitt
U.S Geological Survey
Flagstaff
Santa Rita
N.M
F. Curtis Michel
Rice University
la Crosse
Wis
Duane E. Graveline
Newport
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Joseph P. Kerwin
Owen K. Garriott
Edward Gibson
Frank Curtis Michel
South Africa U S in race hassle over Negro scientists
The United States weighs closing three satellite tracking stations in South Africa after Premier Verwoerd declares American Negro scientists cannot be employed there. Officials say Washington may respond but will review the situation as Pretoria pushes apartheid. The stations near Pretoria include one run by the Air Force, staffed largely by Americans.
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Washington
United States
South Africa
U.S
Hendrik Verwoerd
State Department
Verwoerd
Joseph C. Sauterhwaite
Robert J. McCloskey
Pretoria
U.S. Air Force
Wartime Warsaw Appeal Disclosed by State Dept
Washington AP reports release of 1944 State Department files detailing Roosevelt and Churchill pleas to Stalin to aid Warsaw resistance. Soviet refusal, led by Vyshinsky, cited political reasons, while Harriman urged direct U.S. message to Stalin. London and Washington feared impact on postwar security efforts and a world peace mandate.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Stalin
Warsaw
State Department
Roosevelt
Churchill
Harriman
Moscow
World Security Organization
Andrei Vyshinsky
Vyshinsky
National Army
Pan American 707 Catches Fire On Takeoff Near San Francisco
A Pan American 707 bound for Hawaii and Manila erupted in flames after takeoff from San Francisco. The right wing and engine damaged as 143 passengers and 10 crew evacuated at Travis Air Force Base 30 miles away. Fighters provided airborne injections to the damaged wing.
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San Francisco
Travis Air Force Base
Hawaii
Manila
Pan American
San Francisco International Airport
Charles Kines
Danville
Calif
Travis
Air Force
Septania
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Department of Interior
Office of Coal Research
California
Mario Savio
South
Savio
Souzanne Goldberg
Bettina Aptheker
Stanford University
Enid
Okla
Edward G. Gibson
Ford Motor Co
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Averell Harriman
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