Rep. Joe Pool Dies at 57 in Houston Airport
Dallas congressman and Vietnam critic Rep. Joe Pool died at Houston airport after a heart attack. The 57 year old served on the House Un American Activities Committee and championed harsh penalties for protesters. Pool had supported Johnson's Vietnam policies and was to return to Washington Monday. He had a wartime Navy service and survivors include his widow Elizabeth Chambless and four sons.
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House Committee On UN
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Harris County Medical Examiner
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Army Air Corps
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Rickover Faults Naval Academy Education And Defense Contracts
Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover says the U S Naval Academy fails to produce mature confident officers and blames broad military training and industry influence for weak academic preparation. He also criticizes defense contracting profits and personnel exchanges that blur government and industry lines.
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Dynamite Hits Negro Church in Kentucky
In Bowling Green area a rural Mt. Zion Baptist Church was destroyed by a four-stick dynamite bomb. No injuries were reported. The blast likely occurred around 7 am and was discovered in the afternoon. Warren County deputy sheriff Charles Forshee and a state investigator investigated, marking the sixth dynamiting in the county in 18 months. The device appeared to be placed under the church in a beer can and ignited with a fuse.
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Warren County
Charles Forshee
Forshee
Bomb found at French government tourist office in New York
Police dismantled a plastic explosive tied to the door of the French government tourist office in Rockefeller Center New York City. The device weighed about half a pound and carried a timing mechanism. The blast was found around 3 a.m. and six foreign offices have been hit since April 22.
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Fifth Avenue
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Convicted Judge Seeks Appeal After Guilty Verdict
Clayton Missouri AP defense attorney Charles Shaw says he will appeal the six to six verdict finding St. Louis County Circuit Judge John D. Hasler guilty of oppression in office. Hasler faced impeachment proceedings pending before the Missouri Supreme Court next month while prosecutors plan writs to remove him.
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Charles Shaw
St. Louis County
John D. Hasler
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Jean Shelby
Missouri Supreme Court
Gene McNary
Major Kiangsi Flood Reported Worst in 100 Years
Radio Peking reported from Tokyo that a major flood devastated the Changkang commune in Kiangsi province in southern China. Officials said the disaster was the worst there in a century, prompting emergency relief actions.
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Strike Settled Reopening Seaway Delays End
Ottawa AP ships moved through the St Lawrence Seaway after a 24 day strike that idled nearly 300 vessels and cost about 20 million dollars in wages tolls and losses. The agreement gives a 19 percent wage rise over three years plus 4 percent fringe benefits. The pact ends a 20 percent wage gap with U.S. workers and runs through December 31 1970.
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Seaway Authority
Montreal
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W. J. Smith
Seaway
Public display by Kusama in New York drew polka dot art
Four youths, two men and two women, stripped on Federal Hall steps as Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist, painted their bodies with dots in a performance billed as The Anatomic Explosion. Police arrived within minutes. the dancers dressed again and no complaints were filed.
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Federal Hall
Financial District
Yayoi Kusama
U S Will Send 2 200 Reservists Overseas
The Defense Department announced that about 2 200 air national guardsmen and reservists called up earlier this year will deploy overseas to replace regular air force personnel. Most will go to Southeast Asia and Korea as part of the continuing post Pueblo effort.
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UPI
Defense Department
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Korea
Van Voorhis Dies at 64 Longtime March of Time Narrator
Westbrook Van Voorhis, 64, longtime narrator for The March of Time radio and film news series, died Saturday after a long illness in New Milford Conn AP reports. He contributed to the popular program for many years.
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