Republicans Chart Long Range Plan For 1966 Victory
AP reports the GOP National Committee approved a long range plan to regain urban, Negro and youth votes, reject automatic 1964 bounce back, and broaden programs. Bliss vowed to expand outreach to Black voters, study Johnson, and pursue better candidates for Congress and state offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ray C. Bliss
GOP
National Committee
Congress
Bliss
Johnson
Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
D-N.y
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Eisenhower criticizes nominating conventions
Former President Eisenhower denounces conventions as confusing and horrifying and urges reforms such as fewer delegates shorter demos and newsmen off the floor. A mixed media response follows with CBS News wary and ABC noting enduring issues while NBC stays silent.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Cronkite
Edwin Newman
National Broadcasting Co
Howard K. Smith
American Broadcasting Co
ABC News
Elmer Lower
Lower
NBC
Martin F. Nolan
Cambridge Mass
Civil Rights Charges At Alabama Legislature Report
A five member Alabama commission accused two civil rights groups and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of promoting Communist aims. The report charged SNCC and SCLC with violence and leftward influence, while King condemned the charges as a witch hunt and a bid to undermine democracy in Alabama. Julian Bond of SNCC criticized the legislature’s stance as typical Southern reaction.
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Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
SNCC
King
Alabama
John Hawkins
U. S
Julian Bond
Joint Task Force Hunts Viet Cong in D Zone
A 2000 strong task force of American Vietnamese and Australian troops pressed the Viet Cong in the D Zone jungle near Saigon with limited contact and some casualties. The operation marked the first joint combat effort by U S troops Vietnamese airborne and Australian infantry. In air operations, 27 tons of bombs were dropped on Thuan Chau near Hanoi though another aircraft was reported shot down. Two planes were lost south of the border with crew deaths and disappearances.
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D-Zone
U.S
Saigon
Bravo Company
U.S. Army
178Rd Airborne Brigade
Bri
Viet Nam
U. S. Air Force
Thuan Chau
Hanoi
Red China
Son la
Rece
Three more die on Virginia roads raise toll to 478
The Associated Press reports three traffic deaths in Virginia. William Reid of Nokesville, an employee of the Lorton Reformatory, died after a collision on Virginia 123 at the reformatory entrance. Harold Wayne Sturgill, 20, of Dowagiac Michigan, was killed in a crash on Virginia 600 eight miles west of Clinchport. William David Dugger, 4, of Rustburg died from injuries after being struck on Virginia 738 south of Lynchburg.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Lorton
William Reid
Nokesville
Lorton Reformatory
Virginia 123
Clinchport
Harold Wayne Sturgill
Dowagiac
Mich
Scott County
Rustburg
William David Dugger
Lynchburg
Michael McGrath
San Bruno
Kimes
Foreign Fruit Pickers Sought by Senator Randolph
Sen. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia urged Sec. Wirtz to admit more foreign farm workers to harvest West Virginia fruit crops. He backed prioritizing domestic workers while noting farmers have tried to recruit locals first. Senate colleagues backed his position citing labor shortages in harvesting crops.
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Washington
Jennings Randolph
Dw.va
W. Willard Wirtz
West Virginia
Senate
Randolph
Wirtz
Svessard L. Holland
D-Fla
George Murphy
R-Calif
U.S
Calm-Voiced Pilot Hero In Air Crisis
In a dramatic San Francisco to Travis Air Force Base emergency, Captain Charles H. Kimes guided a Pan American Boeing 707 after a flaming engine and wing ripped away. All 143 passengers survived the 24 minute ordeal with no injuries on board or on the ground.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
San Francisco International
Travis Air Force Base
Hinton Ordered To Pay For Sliding City Dump
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a Summers County verdict requiring Hinton to pay Mrs. Adkins 7500 dollars for real estate damage and 500 dollars to her husband for personal property after a dump slide damaged their home on March 12, 1963.
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Charleston
Hinton
Luther G. Adkins
State Supreme Court
Summers County
Adkins
Workers At Cape Vote To End Strike
Printing and reproduction workers at Cape Kennedy Florida voted to end a six day strike and submit the dispute to the Presidents Missile Sites Labor Commission for resolution.
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Cape
Cape Kennedy
Fla
President's Missile Sites Labor Commission
Sole Survivor Girl From Baja Cruise Tragedy
Denise Winter, 15, the sole survivor of a five person family, swam ashore after their 45 foot cabin cruiser foundered near El Rosario Baja California. Her stepfather Warren Winter 40, mother Mary Beth 36 and siblings Lance 13 and Sheree 12 vanished in heavy seas as a search continued.
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EL Rosario
Mex
Denise Winter
Baja California
Warren Winter
Murrieta
Calif
Oceanside
Baja California Peninsula
la Paz
Winter
Mary Beth
Denise
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Lucius D. Clay
New
National Finance
C. Langhorne Washburn
Frank Kovac
William Cody Kelly
Kovac
Mississippi
Wirt A. Yerger Jr
Pennsylvania
Craig Truax
California
Gaylord Parkinson
Fort Collins
Colo
Clifford Carpenter
Carpenter
James Wichel
Ihe
Columbia Broadcasting System
Fred W. Friendly
CBS News
Friendly
Walter Cronkite
CBS
Giles W. Davis
West Allis
Wis
Chester A. Rhodes
United States
Free World
King In
Commie Line
Saigon, South Viet Nam
Kontum
Tourmorong
Hero
Charles Kimes
Sliding City
U.S. Public Health Service
Harvard College
Canada
God
City Ap
Grace Hospital
Welch
Supreme Court
Fred H. Caplan
Burl A. Sawyers
Wayne County
Ruby Smeltzer
Renova
Sawyers
Edwin L. Stewart
Aiea
Hawaii
Deloss Wilder
Sandi
Alvin McCommon Jr
Wilder
Martin P. Meyers
Media
Lions’ Club
James F. Krick
Womelsdorf
Floyd Rittenhouse
Pacific Union College of
Travis
Coast Guard
Abby
Goren
Princeton
Dennis
Girl
Point Canvas
Here
Lance
Sheree
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