Government to move on school bias civil rights drive
Attorney General Katzenbach announced a full scale campaign against de facto school segregation, coordinating with the Office of Education to desegregate districts by fall 1967. He urged both races to support the effort to erase remaining school segregation and ensure equal access to courses and facilities. The plan follows a four year Justice Department study guiding voting rights legislation. He warned against confusing protests with progress and urged confronting local conservative resistance.
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Washington
UPI
Katzenbach
Capital Press Club
Justice Department
Johnson
U.S. Office of Education
Alabama
Mississippi
Sit-in Ends Peacefully at Capitol by Mississippi Group
Sixteen Mississippi demonstrators staged a singing sit-in outside the Mississippi delegation offices in Washington's Capitol. Six left voluntarily, others were arrested for unlawful entry as police and tourists observed the peaceful protest demanding action from House Clerk Ralph Roberts over unprinted documents challenging the Mississippi delegation.
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Washington
Capitol
Mississippi
Jim Powell
Powell
W. G. Middleton
Freedom Democratic Party
House
Ralph Roberts
Roberts
Victoria Gray
Hattiesburg
Miss
McCormack
Dmass
Zeake Johnson
Arkansas River floods across three states causing heavy damage
The Arkansas River surged into Colorado and Kansas with a 171 mile wake of destruction. The flood waters reached about a mile wide and 20 feet deep causing multi million dollar losses.
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Arkansas
Denver
UPI
Arkansas River
Colorado
Kansas
Chuckle Patience Defines Idle Metor When Gears Stripped
A playful line notes patience as the skill to idle your metor when urge to strip gears arises. Copyright details follow, signaling this is a licensed piece.
Toll in Plane Crash at Paris Air Show
Nine people were killed and four injured when a small Italian plane spun out of control and crashed into a parking lot after a demonstration flight at the Paris international air show. Officials said some victims were seated in cars by the runway when the aircraft struck the ground.
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Paris
Rural Iowa City Man Dies in Rural Highway Crash
George Furman, 44, of Iowa City died when his southbound car collided with a northbound gasoline truck driven by George Widmer, 39. Widmer only suffered minor injuries. both vehicles left the highway and entered a ditch four miles south of Hills. Widmer not arrested. Furman survived by wife, two daughters, mother, and siblings. services pending at Oathout funeral home.
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Iowa City
George Furman
George Widmer
Hills
Furman
Widmer
William Kidwell
Johnson County
Falls
Linda Kane
Bernice Halstead
Clara Furman
Ray
James Kinney
Oxford
Oathout Funeral Home
Woman With Extra Kidney Donates To Brother In Need
Laverne Buckelew of Bancroft has three kidneys and donates one of her right kidneys to her brother Robert Elton of Ithaca, whose kidneys were removed for a transplant at Cleveland Clinic. Doctors say the operation is his only chance to live.
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Bancroft, Mich
Laverne Buckelew
Robert Elton
Ithaca
Bancroft
Robert
Cleveland
Ohio
Redmond Co
Cleveland Clinic
Buckelew
Cuban antiaircraft accident kills five on transport plane
The Cuban government said an antiaircraft battery accidentally shot down a transport plane during a Saturday practice near Jaruco, southeast of Havana, killing all five people aboard. The armed forces ministry issued the statement broadcast on Havana Radio and monitored in Miami.
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Miami
Armed Forces Ministry
Havana
Jaruco
Houston Pastor Resigns Over Resistance to Change
Dr. A. E. Ellis resigns from First Christian Church Houston after 14 years as pastor citing resistance to change and desire to keep church 75 years behind. He notes tension in large city congregations and explores new ministry options while urging change as vital.
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Houston
Pasor
A. E. Ellis
First Christian Church
Ellis
F D R Aide Paul Yates Dies at 72
Paul Yates, 72, longtime speech writer for Franklin D. Roosevelt, died Friday in Clarksville Arkansas. He served as an aide during the Roosevelt era and was noted for his wartime speeches and public guidance.
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Clarksville, Ark
Paul Yates
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mariner 4 Near Mars Sends Weak Signals Ahead of Flyby
NASA reports Mariner 4, 113 million miles away, transmits 16 watt signals that fade to one billionth of a watt at Earth. The craft, 5.7 million miles from Mars, will take up to eight hours per image and may send up to 2 black and white photos during the July 14 flyby. Ground stations at Goldstone Tidbinbilla and Johannesburg support telemetry to JPL in Pasadena.
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Washington
Mariner 4
Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth
NASA
Mariner
Goldstone
Calif
Tidbinbilla
Canberra
Australia
Johannesburg
South Africa
Woomera
Madrid
Spain
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mission Control Center
Pasadena
Britons urge Vietnam peace move and halt to bombing
The Commonwealth Peace Mission urged restraint in military operations by both sides in Vietnam as a path to an early total cease fire. It signaled willingness to meet Viet Cong leaders in South Vietnam and sought permission to visit North Vietnam, Red China, and the Soviet Union.
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London
British Commonwealth Peace Mission
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Red China
Soviet Union
U.S
Wilson
Commonwealth
Shastri
NASA Plans Faster Gemini Rendezvous With Earth Satellite
NASA and White House officials released a report detailing an accelerated Gemini program. The Gemini crew will attempt a rendezvous and docking with an orbiting Agena rocket within 1965. The plan follows success of Gemini 3 and 4 missions and foresees space-walk tests on a later flight.
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Harold
Sched- Wilson
Britain
Eric
Liams
Trinidad and Tobago
Abubakar Tafewa Balewa
Nigeria
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
NASA
Gemini
Webb
Atlas
Agena
Third Grader Praises Father in Father's Day Tribute
HONOLULU AP reports nine year old Rodney Cavaco thanks his father as the world’s greatest man. He notes daily work church Sundays no smoking or drinking and driving them to school. He mentions homework help concern sickness trips to beaches and playing baseball. He would not trade him for another father.
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Honolulu
Rodney Cavaco
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