Ship Strike Threatens U S Merchants June 15
Government and union leaders warned of a potential nationwide ship strike on June 15 as contract talks stalled. AFL-CIO Seafarers' International Union president Paul Hall said the industry risks an almost total strike, with Wirtz calling a crisis likely and blaming unclear federal maritime policy.
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Washington
U.S
Paul Hall
Afl-Cio Seafarers’ International Union
W. Willard Wirtz
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Wirtz
Hall
Seafarers
White House
Afl-Cio National Maritime Union
Inter-American Machine Urged at Baylor Commencement
President Johnson called for a new inter-American machinery to protect peace and counter “forces of slavery and subversion” in the Western Hemisphere during a Baylor University address. He praised a peacekeeping force in the Dominican Republic and ordered 1,700 more U.S. troops withdrawn, bringing the total recalled to 3,300, and instructed Gen Bruce Palmer to confer with Brazilian Gen Hugo Panasco Alvim on further withdrawals.
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Waco
Tex
Johnson
Baylor University
Dominican Republic
U.S
Bruce Palmer
Hugo Panasco Alvim
Nine U.S. Soldiers Die as Army Helicopters Collide in Viet Nam
In Bien Hoa, two ships from the 118th Helicopter Company crashed 50 to 100 feet apart, killing nine Americans and seriously injuring two. Rescue crews tended the wounded as flaming wreckage littered the base amid a day of heavy action in the ground war.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Bien Hoa
Heli
Copter Co
Viet Nam
U.S
Chu Lai
da Nang
Mea Thanh Ha
Phong Dinh
Hon Matt
Hon Nieu
Cua Lo
118Th U. S. Army Aviation Company
South
Space meet plan outlined for Gemini 4 mission
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP Astronauts McDivitt and White prepare for a four day flight starting June 3 to practice the first manned rendezvous with a spent Titan II second stage White will venture outside in a gas powered maneuvering unit to within 20 feet of the booster as techniques are tested during a high altitude spacewalk and satellite approach efforts
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Edward White
Space Agency
White
James D. McDivitt
McDivitt
U.S
Warren North
Indian Ocean
Hawaii
MecDiviit
Negro Best Man Winds Up Texas Heiress Wedding
A Houston area millionaire and his granddaughter spar over a statement that she was disinherited for choosing a Negro best man. The wedding at Ft. Meade linked Orange industrialist Edgar Brown Jr.'s granddaughter Glady's Brown James to Marine Cpl. Sam James with Ted Gay as best man. The family differed on inheritance and alleged threats.
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Houston, Tex
Texas
Gladys Brown James
Orange
Tex
Edgar Brown Jr
Cpl
Sam James
Ft. Meade
Ted Gay
Detroit, Mich
James
Woman Held Captive Six Days in Newark Abduction
A 30 year old Mary Johnson from Newport News Virginia said three men abducted her Saturday night and raped her repeatedly over five days. She was tortured with lit matches and deprived of food and water before being dumped at a Newark railroad siding near Jelliff and Avon Avenues. She was hospitalized in fair condition.
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Newark
N. J
Newport News
Mary Johnson
Jelliff and
Avon Avenues
City Hospital
Chester Man Dies In Farm Accident Near Chester
Chester man Robert Auten, age 5, died when a farm tractor overturned on a slope near Chester. A lever attached to a grass mower pierced his neck, Hancock County authorities reported.
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Chester
W.va
Here
Robert Auten
Hancock County
Auten
Virginia Road Needs Foreseen By Godwin
ROANOKE Va AP Lt Gov Mills Godwin said Virginia will need 300 million dollars over the next nine years to fund highway department plans for minimum improvements on all road systems.
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Roanoke
Mills Godwin
Virginia
Highway Department
Lover Tells Of Sylvia Affair In Slaying Probe
Authorities questioned Howard Schwalz of New Orleans in the slaying of Sylvia Caro ellete 31 of Huntington W Va. The FBI identified the body from 1953 Marine Corps Fingerprints. Schwalz said he and the victim lived together for years and are parents of two children.
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Jackson, Miss
New Orleans
Sylvia Carolyn Ellete
Huntington
W. Va
Hinds County
Howard Schwalz
Ellette
Hinds
Raymond
Miss
Thomas Shelton
Schwalz
FBI
Marine Corps Auxiliary
Shelton
Algiers
Missisippi River
Miss Ellete
Wilburt Honaker
S.C. Ellete
Charleston
Ellete
Explosion at Bhori colliery near Dhanbad kills miners
A powerful blast at the Bhori coal mine near Dhanbad 225 miles northwest of Calcutta killed more than 200 miners and left up to 200 more missing or dead. Officials fear the toll could exceed 400 as flames and smoke hinder rescues in the Bokaro Ramgarh coalfield in eastern India.
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New Delhi
India
Dhanbad
R. K. Malviya
Bhori
Calcutta
Ministry of Mines
Bokaro Ramgarh
Bokaro
United States
Bluefield City Primary Fields 14 Candidates
Fourteen men file for five Bluefield Board of Directors seats in the June 8 primary. Incumbents Henry Warden and directors Go forth Wilson seek reelection. District races are outlined with contenders including Monaco Wilkinson Honeycutt and others across South West and East Bluefield.
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Jim Dalton
Bluefield
Bluefield Board of Directors
E. A. Honeycutt
Honeycutt
District 3
Henry Warden
Henry Goforth
Woodrow Wilson
Angelo Monaco
John Wilkinson
Monaco
South Bluefield
Fred W. Simon
Frank
Jack) Allen
Norfolk and Western Railway
Judson Lambert
West Bluefield
Leland H. Carter
Horace H. Hill
John C. Wilkinson
East Bluefield
Lewis H. Cook
Paul Myles
Klan rally in Ohio faces local resistance near Lebanon
In Lebanon Ohio the Ku Klux Klan planned a northern rally led by James R Venable of Atlanta. Law officers posted 200 reinforcements for traffic control while farmers and churchmen expressed disapproval and posted no trespassing signs around a field near Oregonia.
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Lebanon
Ohio
Ku Klux Klan
Cincinnati
James R. Venabie
Atlanta
South
Oregonia
Roy Wallace
Warren County Sheriff's Office
Wallace
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California
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Santa Monica
Georgia
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District of Columbia
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Ministry of Labor
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