Judiciary panel votes to exempt private housing
The House Judiciary Committee approved to strip private housing from Johnsons housing ban and swiftly passed a civil rights bill 249 to 0. A Mathias substitute exempts homeowners with up to two sales annually and four family dwellings with owner occupation. A fair housing board would investigate complaints and issue cease orders.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Johnson
Charles M. Mathias Jr
R-Md
Negro Fair Housing Board
John Conyers Jr
Dmidh
Fair Housing Board
Clarence Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Curfew Mandated After Racial Clash In Cordele
State troopers patrolled Cordele Georgia after a violent white and Negro gang clash. A curfew from 8 30 p m to 5 a m was ordered by the City Commission as officers hunted for calm following a gun battle and arson at area stores tied to a park pool confrontation.
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Cordele
Georgia
Lowell Conner
Atlanta
R.J. Taft
T. J. McMurrain
State Park
Two Men Injured at Cedar Hills Raceway Site
Two Tazewell Countians were injured at Cedar Bluff Virginia in separate incidents at the Cedar Hills Raceway construction site. Doug Las Van Dyke, 29, of Richlands, suffered bruises and abrasions and was hospitalized after being caught in a shower of stone from a dynamite blast. G C Dorsey, of Bluefield Virginia, suffered broken legs when he jumped from a run away bulldozer.
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Tazewell
Cedar Hills
Cedar Bluff
Richlands
Douglas van Dyke
G. C. Dorsey
Bluefield
van Dyke
Clinch Valley Clinic
Dorsey
Weekend Warmth with Above Normal Temps and Light Rain
Extended forecast shows highs around 89 to 92 across regions through Monday, about 3 to 6 degrees above normal. Lows near 64 south and 57 north with rainfall totaling about one third inch from scattered showers Thursday and Monday.
Vietnam War raids strike Hanoi Haiphong oil depots
U S Navy and Air Force jets hit oil storage depots at Hanoi and Haiphong, with fires reaching high flames. A captured U S pilot was paraded in Hanoi as international reaction mounted. United States officials framed the raids as a response to North Vietnamese escalation while international leaders voiced concern.
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Saigon
USS
Hanoi
Haiphong
U.S
Johnson
Navy
Air Force
Viet Nam
McDowell County Probes Two Deaths Investigated
McDowell County authorities probe two Tuesday discoveries including Loretta Young Johnson 17 of Peerless whose decomposed body lay under slate at an old mine and Burl C. Stanley 60 of Avondale found with chest and stomach crushed on a dirt road near Kaeger Police questioned Clarence Dale 52 and Estil Collins 40 both jailed on drunkenness charges after admitting they were with Stanley when he died reportedly of a heart attack. autopsies ordered with results expected later today.
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McDowell County
Loretta Young Johnson
Peerless
Burl C. Stanley
Avondale
Coon Branch
Kaeger
Rudolph J. Marensky
Stanley
Murensky
Clarence E. Dale
Caretta
Estil Collins
Collins’ Auto
Free Admission For Child No 17 At Southern Baptist Hospital
New Orleans AP reports Mrs. Maurice Bowler gave birth to her 17th child at Southern Baptist Hospital. Administrator Raymond C. Wilson had promised no charge for another birth after No. 16, and the latest infant, a girl born Monday night, adds to the family.
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New Orleans
Maurice Bowler
Southern Baptist Hospital
Raymond C. Wilson
Bowler
McNamara Defends Raids as Military Restraint
In Washington, McNamara framed sixty six U.S. airstrikes on Hanoi Haiphong oil complexes as an exercise of restraint to curb North Viet Nam's truck and junk based labor mobility into South Viet Nam. Critics in Congress labeled the action risky while pledging strong responses.
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Constellation
Haiphong
Red River
Hanoi
Washington
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
North Viet Nam
USM
South
Viet Nam
Britain
Soviet Union
McNamara
U.S
Hanoi-Haiphong
South Viet Nam
Lunar Explorer satellite aimed for moon orbit from Cape Kennedy
NASA plans to launch the Lunar Explorer satellite aboard a Delta rocket at 10 08 am EST from Cape Kennedy weather permitting. The 206 pound craft aims a three day 246000 mile run to a lunar orbit to test magnetic field presence radiation effects and shielding by a magnetic tail for astronauts on the moonward path.
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Cape Kennedy, Fla
Space Agency
Cape Kennedy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lunar Explorer
Tory
Space
NASA
Moon
Earth
Route 19 Work Contract Awarded in Southwest Virginia
The Virginia State Highway Commission approved 21 contracts totaling 12.7 million dollars for 21 road and related projects across 11 Appalachian states. The awards fund 21 miles of Route 19 and US 23 460 reconfigurations plus a new Manassas residency office building and resurfacing material purchases. Bids opened June 9 and four projects were readvertised after exceeding estimates.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Highway Commission
Manassas Residency
Highway Department
Commission
Duffield
Gate City
Pound
Bluefield
Blacksburg
Tazewell
Sam Finley, Inc
Sanford Brothers, Inc
Roanoke
Buchanan County
Island Creek Coal Corp
M. M. Pettyjohn
Lynchburg
Scott County
Appalachian
Bay Street
A. B. Burton Co., Inc
Wise County
Asheville Constr. Co. Inc
Asheville
North Carolina
Stowaway Boy Reaches Phoenix From Japan
Leon T. Robinson Jr., 11, stowed away on a Pan American jet in Tokyo then rode another to Phoenix before authorities intercepted him. He said he planned to reach Mexico to tell his mother he had been there. Officials consider returning him to Japan or placing him with an aunt in California.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Leon T. Robinson Jr
Japan
United States
Leon T. Robinson
Mexico
American Airlines
Phoenix
Tachikawa Air Base
Tokyo
San Francisco
Leon
California
Phillip Rosenhan
SFC
Leon Tr. Robinson
FBI Probes Leaks On Haiphong Haiphong Oil Bombing
Washington AP reports President Johnson ordered the FBI to investigate leaks to the press about plans to bomb Haiphong and nearby oil facilities. Administration and FBI declined comment while sources say the probe aims to curb future leaks endangering troops.
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Washington
Johnson
FBI
Hanoi
Haiphong
East West struggle shadowed by Hanoi raids
If Hanoi Haiphong raids presage attacks on the North Viet capital the global political balance will be altered. William L Ryan analyzes the implications in a Page 1 interpretive piece.
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Hanoi-Haiphong
North Viet
William L. Ryan
Haiphong Depot Raid Exploits Oil Supply Cut by U S Jets
U S fighter bombers struck Haiphong depot in eight minutes and Hanoi raids followed a 25 minute operation. Officials said Haiphong housed about 40 percent of North Viet Nam oil and 95 percent of fuel moves passes through Haiphong while Hanoi remained within limited objective reach. No unloading ships were present. pilots were briefed to avoid civilians. Reporters described antiaircraft fire and home guards engaging American planes near Dalama.
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Hanoi
Viet Nam
Haiphong
Saigon
North Viet Nam
Washington
Navy
U.S
McNamara
Yevgeni Kopelev
Home Guards
Dalama
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U.S. Air Force
Murphy Neal Jones
Louisiana
Nguyen Cao Ky
McDowell
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Wayne Morse
Dore
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Gerald R. Ford
Michigan
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
J. W. Fulbright
D. Ark
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
House Armed Services Committee
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers
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China
Do Son
Route 19
Lee County
Southern Railroad
Appalachian Constr. Co., Inc
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