Professor Plans New Ruby Line
Dr Hubert Winston Smith, new head legal counsel for Jack Ruby, plans additional defense lines to reverse Ruby's death sentence. A UT Austin law scientist, Smith will seek a new trial, arguing Judge Brown erred in Dallas, and will emphasize science over brain wave tests to show Ruby lacked malice in Oswalds slaying.
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Florida Mayor Urges Racial Harmony Committee Formed
Jacksonville mayor Hayden Burns urged outstanding citizens from all walks to form a bi racial community relations committee to ease deadly racial strife. He said whites and Negroes should choose members, and reported 300 arrests and one death so far with sporadic vandalism and “hit and run” demonstrations planned by Negro leaders.
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Boat Carrying Tourists Sinks Near Palm Beach
A tourist fishing boat named the Two Georges overturned near an inlet by Palm Beach. Initial reports listed three dead six missing and one rescued. Fears mounted that the missing were trapped beneath the 65 foot hull.
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Sale of Johnson Home Confirmed
JOHNSON CITY Texas AP The trustee for President Johnsons financial holdings said Wednesday the President has sold his former Washington home the Elms The trustee A W Mour sand declined to report details except to say estimates of 200000 for the price were incorrect It was a good deal more than that He added the President is not going to profit from the sale The house was sold to Luther Smith of Miami a major stockholder in about 25 corporations largely in the aircraft industry.
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Britain Gives Runnymeade Site for JFK Memorial
Prime Minister Douglas Home announced Britain will gift a historic Runnymeade acre on the Thames at Egham, Surrey, as the site for a JFK memorial. The plan includes a scholarship fund for UK students to attend Harvard, Radcliffe College, and MIT, with fundraising led by London's lord mayor and a committee headed by Sir Roger Makins.
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Johnson asks Southern Protestant leaders to push civil rights
President Johnson addressed about 150 Southern Baptist leaders in a Washington seminar urging Protestant pastors to back a strong civil rights bill. He said the South’s power structure aligns with churches and that clergy influence community leaders and must lead with truth and action to pass civil rights legislation.
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Cobb Attacks Nolan as Senate Probes Highway Change
Des Moines saw an unprecedented senate hearing where Executive Secretary James F. Cobb of the Asphalt Paving Assn of Iowa admitted lacking documentary evidence for charges against Sen. D. C. Nolan. Cobb claimed Nolan harassed the asphalt industry while backing Portland cement, citing Lundy’s past role as highway commissioner and his alleged influence over a letter pressuring an Interim Committee probe into the I 80 switch. The exchange touched long Senate tensions over asphalt versus cement in Iowa road surfacing.
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MacArthur Shows Satisfactory Recovery After Surgeries
Gen. MacArthur makes satisfactory progress in recovery from two major operations in 17 days. Walter Reed officials say he is alert and conversing, doing better than average post operative cases. A hospital spokesman notes continued IV feeding while some food by mouth begins, signaling improving condition.
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Ball urges poor nations to embrace foreign investment for growth
U N trade conference hears Undersecretary George Ball urge 122 nations to reorganize backward economies and seek cooperation with industrialized countries via GATT. He says economic development is intricate and hard, noting rich nations can offer technical advice while underdeveloped countries seek a larger share of world trade. The speech aims to set the tone despite likely discontent among delegates from poorer nations.
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Ball's Strong Stand At Conference Draws Mixed Global Reactions
Nations lecture on U S policy drew mixed early reactions as delegates called the speech realistic while some Latin American representatives found it more constructive than France's prior proposals. An Arab source labeled it realistic and the Latin American attendee praised Ball's clarity amid debate over aid expectations and price-boosting commodity schemes.
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Three Inch Snow Hits West Iowa and Moves East
A late March snowstorm swept eastward across Iowa with as much as three inches in western counties by midmorning. The Weather Bureau warned of heavy snow in the southwest and strong northerly winds causing drifting. Temperatures dipped to near zero in the northwest and rose to around 29 in Davenport, with the storm expected to end by Thursday.
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Fulbright urges new look at Cuba Panama and Vietnam
Senator Fulbright calls for rethinking U S policies toward Cuba Panama and Vietnam saying Americans should drop myths for realities He backs revising the Panama Canal treaty but rejects neutralization of South Vietnam preferring stronger support to Saigon while warning on trade with the communist bloc and urging negotiated changes to ease Panama tensions
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Hairnets urged for Beatle style in factories
London AP British Safety Council urges industrial workers with Beatle shag to wear hairnets after 50,000 posters show a 17-year-old losing his Beatle cut in a machine. Director James Tye says long hair at work risks entanglement and impaired vision and notes women wear nets.
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Chuckle: Vacations Reveal Forgotten Items in Suitcases
People travel to forget troubles and discover surprising items left behind in their suitcases, turning holidays into unexpected discoveries and lighthearted mishaps.
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