Selma Voter Waiting List Sparks Defiant Stand
In Selma Alabama Negro leaders reject signing a voter registration waiting list despite Dallas county registrars offering early placement. Rev James Bevel says immediate registration is required and street demonstrations may resume. King departs for Montgomery to push the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma
Ala
Dallas County Board of Registrars
James Bevel
Martin Luther King, Jr
Montgomery
Washington
King
Humphrey
Nicholas Katzenbach
Bevel
Court House
Registration Board
Nixon Urges Strong Action to Halt Communist Flow
In New York AP report, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon calls for using air and sea power to stop the flow of arms and men into South Vietnam and urges united bipartisan support for President Johnson's bombing of North Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richard, M. Nixon
South Vietnam
Nixon
United
Johnson
North
Vietnam
Greeks Quit Leaking Ship
The crew of the Greek freighter Grammati ki abandoned ship during a North Pacific storm. The 29 crew members were rescued after the two other vessels in the area initiated rescue operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juneau
Alaska
Grammatiki
Officials Act on Restudy Request For Expressway
Cedar Rapids officials have acted on a highway commission request to restudy the south leg of the Cedar Valley expressway. Mayor Bob Johnson notes the city will seek to minimize homes affected and will have Kansas City firm design team rework the corridor, with eight copies due to the highway commission. No completion date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
The
Highway Commission
Cedar Valley Road
Bob Johnson
van Snyder
District Highway Commission
Mayo
Snyder
Johnson
Howard, Needles
Tammen
Bergendorf
Kansas City
Red China Warns of Retaliation Over U.S. Strikes
A senior PLA general in Beijing vows retaliation if Washington extends the war in Vietnam. The official China News Agency cites Lo Jui-ching warning that U.S. imperialism will meet grave consequences, while allies voice support for U.S. actions. The remarks were in a North Korea Army Day reception context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U.S
China
Dong Hoi
North Vietnam
Soviet Union
Peking
New China
Lo Jui-ching
Chinese Peoples Liberation Army
NAACP Plans Slum Program Seeks Student Aid
The NAACP announced a summer project sending 500 to 1,000 Negro college students into urban slums in New York and northern communities to assist residents. Volunteers include students from Smith Wesleyan Kenyon Dartmouth Queens Brooklyn CW Post and Bridgeport Hartford universities. The program will expand to the south later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National
Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Smith
Wesleyan
Kenyon
Dartmouth
Queens
Brooklyn
Post College
Bridgeport
Hartford
NAACP
National Youth Work Committee
Treasury seeks tighter tax rules for private foundations
The treasury urged Congress to curb tax advantages for private foundations by banning transactions between foundations and insiders, setting a one year spend requirement, and restricting ownership of 20 percent or more of any business. It found most foundations compliant but flagged some abuses.
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Washington
API
The
Treasury
Congress
House Votes School Levy Limit Boost
By a vote of 118 to 4 the House passed a bill raising from seven to ten mills the limitation on property tax levies for retirement of school bonds. Rep Marvin Smith (R Paullina) led the bill, saying it would save districts facing large building programs thousands in interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Nyerette
Des Moines
Town House
Marvin Smith
R-Paullina
Jets and Viet forces strike North Vietnam camps
South Vietnamese fighter bombers with U S jets attacked military camps across the border in North Vietnam in retaliation for prior raids. Vietnamese generals report heavy ground casualties as targets burned under antiaircraft fire. In related U S political notes, Cedar Rapids school bond details discuss debt service savings and voting records on a proposed high school bond measure.
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Athleze
John T. Wheeler
DA Nang
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Interruption in Iowa Weather Dims Spring Day News Square
Snow and freezing rain disrupted a spring-like weekend across Iowa while reports from Vietnam referenced air raids and casualties. Weather delayed flights at Cedar Rapids and Davenport with planes canceled or rerouted.
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Iowa
Iowa News
Towa
Johnson
Cedar Rapids
U.S. Army
Ozark Air Lines
Lone
Ozark
United Air Lines
Vumwell Uest
Prep Schoolers Aid Tenants in West Side Renewal
Twenty five Trinity school youths from affluent families volunteer to help tenants move from condemned West 89th Street buildings in New York. They pack crates and assist post relocation, with one student aiding Marie Deren in decorating her new apartment. Phoenix project director John Erlich lauds the effort as valuable community service worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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New York
Trinity School
West Side
Aduser
Evelyn Cohen
West 89Th Street
Trinity
Marie Deren
Phoenix
John Erlich
Johnson Receives Free Hand on UAR Food Shipments
The House, responding to President Johnson, voted to grant him discretion to continue or curb surplus food shipments to the United Arab Republic.
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Johnson
UAR
Washington
House
United Arab Republic
Vietnamese and American Air Actions Reported in Vietnam
Ky said one American jet was hit by flak with no U.S. casualties, a crewman wounded in the arm. A Vietnamese Sky Raider was hit but returned to Da Nang, another Vietnamese pilot struck in the neck. Tass claimed North Vietnamese ground forces downed three 1.5 planes at noon over Dong Hoi amid Gulf actions.
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Ranger
North Vietnam
South China Sea
Coral Sea
U. S
U.S
da Nang
Tass
Hanoi
Alexei Kosygin
Dong Hoi
Gulf of Tonkin
China
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Rex Thomas
Daniel H. Thomas
Ashington
America
Ugly America
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Vietnam Action
Red China
Wilson
Australia
Hadyter
Paul Hasluck
Naacp Plans
Minnette Doderer
Drowa City
U. S. Navy
Neuyen Khanh
Saigon
Nguyen Cao Ky
C.R. Savings
Loss
Stueland
Grassley
Nielsen
Shelby
Coffman
Burke
Conway
Rickert
Steffen
Khanh
South Viatnam
U.S. Air Force
Council Bluffs
Mercury
Davenport
Spencer
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