Senate panel backs constitutional amendment on presidential succession
A six member Senate subcommittee favors a constitutional amendment to allow the President to fill a vice presidential vacancy with Senate and House approval. They also seek power for the President to delegate authority to the Vice President during incapacity, with Congress deciding on incapacity. The panel plans formal action soon, with support from major legal groups and cross party members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Judiciary
Congress
Birch Bayh
Dind
Thomas Dodd
D-Conn
Kenneth Keating
R-N.y
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
James Eastland
Dmiss
Everett Dirksen
R-Ill
American Bar Assa
Demos Name 50 to Nati Convention in Iowa
Iowa Democrats gathered in large numbers to name 50 delegates to cast Iowa's 35 votes for President Johnson at the national convention on August 24 in Atlantic City. They named 30 of 33 alternates, observed a minute of silence for Kennedy, adopted Johnson backing resolutions, and heard Gov. Harold Hughes lead the keynote urging a fight against the Republicans.
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Frank Nye
Des Moines
Iowa
President Johnson
Atlantic City
Kennedy
Johnson
Harold Hughes
G.O.P
Evy Chosen as Democrat Delegate-at-Large
The Democrats selected For est Evashevski athletic director at Iowa State University to serve as a delegate-at-large to the convention. Other selections are listed on page 3 of this section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Evashevski
Iowa City
State University of Iowa
Amnesty Sought for VMI Cadets at Johnson Speech
President Johnson addressed about 10 000 cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington urging a general amnesty for recent cadet transgressions. The move would affect about 50 under disciplinary orders and spare three from possible expulsion during the dedication of the Gen George C Marshall Research Library.
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Associated Press
Marshall
George C. Marshall
Eisenhower
Johnson
Lexington
Virginia Military Institute
VMI
Beef prices could turn steak into a status symbol in Britain
UK Labor MP George Wigg warns beef costs rise as Prime Minister Douglas-Home leads a Conservative campaign amid shortages caused by an Argentine drought. Soames scraps a Mediterranean vacation to monitor the crisis and exporters face export restrictions to secure home supplies. Tom Parker of the Meat Traders federation urges calm for housewives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Labor Party
Britain
George Wigg
Wigg
Alec Marie Antoinette Home
Alec Douglas-Home
Tom Parker
National Federation of Meat Traders
Ministry of Agriculture
Christopher Soames
Soames
Assn
Apollo program nearing moon flight with no major obstacles
Apollo program manager Dr. Joseph F. Shea reports no major remaining hurdles to reaching the moon and discusses progress with contractors such as Collins Radio Co. He notes the focus shifting to reliability and production quality as Gemini flights are planned for seven to ten days. Campaigns for Coe Challenge top $1.2 million toward a $2.8 million goal by June 1966.
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Cedar Rapids
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Joseph F. Shea
Collins Radio Co
Shea
Italy
Coe
Robert Armstrong
Armstrong
New York
Oklahoma
Walter Schirra
Gordon Cooper
De Gaulle Foes In Kidnapping Case Reported
Paris police hunted three men two gunmen and a driver who abducted Mrs. Marcel Dassault, 63, wife of a millionaire nuclear warplane builder. Anonymous calls to two Paris newspapers and the French press agency claimed political motives or attempts to influence public opinion.
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Paris
Marcel Dassault
de Gaulle
Dassault
Paris Evening Papers
U.S. Awaits Need List From Laos and Local Campaign Gifts
The tale covers U S aid to Laos with Premier Souvanna Phouma seeking more military and economic assistance, and notes Camp Good Health campaign donations in Cedar Rapids. Gifts include Link-Belt Speeder and U A W Local 299 AFL CIO two others from civic clubs and board of realtors.
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Camp Good Health Fund
United Fund
U.A.W
Afl-Cio
West Side Civic Club
Cedar Rapids Board of Realtors
Gazette
United West Side Civic Club
Washington
U.S
Souvanna Phouma
Southeast Asia
Vientiane
Kong le
State Department
U. S
Britain
France
Laos
Morrison family plane wreck kills Morrison and six others
A chartered two engine plane crashed in dense fog near Ciudad Victoria killing former New Orleans mayor de Lesseps Morrison, his young son, and six others. The wreckage was found in a mountain cornfield, with victims transported to Corpus Christi and then to the Navy air station in New Orleans.
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Ciudad Victoria
Mexico
New Orleans
U. S
de Lesseps Morrison
Morrison
Randy
Carolyn Cataldo Vandergrift
Christopher
Hugh Ward
Brownsville
Texas
Ovide Cemac
Houma
Riley Pellegrin
Montegut
Cemac
Vandergrift
Martinsville
Beall
In memory notices and funds from Camp Good Health
A collection of memorial donations and notes from groups including Camp Good Health and the Women's Auxiliary to the Cedar Rapids Master Plumbers. Gifts mark memories of Al Schummers G M C Will Kirwin Jerry Heintze Susie Martindale Ethel Drager and Charles Nove, with a prior 1964 camp budget balance cited. The second item reports wreckage of an Apache DC 3 crash near a Mexican mountain site with limited salvage due to terrain and unidentified signaling group.
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Susie J. Martindale
Cedar Rapids
Ethel Drager
Daughters of Union Veterans of Civil War
Charles Nove
Ronald
Sheryl
Roger
Charles
Luis Gutierrez
Gutierrez
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hughes
Sunday's Index
Marion
Teaede Pedr Ervereesenens
Financial Beeenee
Evy
Cue Campaign
Cedar Rapids News
By Bruce Fishwild
Robert S. Gates
White Sands
Cape Canaveral
By Lewis Gulick
Plaine Des Jarres
Plaine
al Schummers
Optimist Club
G.M.C
Will Kirwin
Jerry Heintze
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