Guard call to quell Grambling campus protest near homecoming
About 500 Louisiana National Guardsmen were massed near Grambling College after a student boycott spread to 2,000 protesters. Gov. McKeithen ordered troops at Grambling President R W E Jones request amid a campus blockade and planned homecoming game against Texas Southern.
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Grambling
UPI
Louisiana National Guardsmen
Grambling College
John McKeithen
McKeithen
R. W. E. Jones
Texas Southern
Houston
Jones
156Th Infantry Division
Louisiana National Guard
Collie Nicholson
Nicholson
Football coach’s blunt pep talk raises team leaders
A coach berates players about leadership and initiative urging them to follow orders and perform. The remark frames football as a path to personal development and discipline.
Johnson Urges Hemisphere Unity Over Chamizal Border Issue
President Johnson and Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz seal the Chamizal border settlement in Juarez El Paso linking El Chamizal to Mexican territory. Johnson touts unity against subversion and covert aggression while referencing Vietnam and Latin American stability.
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Mexico
UPI
Johnson
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South America
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Washington
U.S
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Ico
Chamizal
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Rio Grande
Chamizal Monument
Cordova Island
Bolivia
Venezuela
Cuba
Diaz I Lordaz
Benito Juarez
George Washington
Rome Synod relaxes marriage rules and calls for peace
The Vatican synod ends with a peace appeal to major powers, mainly the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and recommends easing mixed marriage rules. bishops favor allowing non Catholics in such unions to avoid formal promises to raise children Catholic, while stressing faith and baptism. Local pastors may grant exceptions to the general rule.
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Vatican City
Roman Catholic Bishops’ Synod
Paul VI
U.S
Soviet Union
Chrysler Next Union Target in Big Three Talks
The United Auto Workers announced Saturday that Chrysler will be the next target in negotiations for a new labor contract among the automotive Big Three. Rome also reported the Italian Communist Party endorsed Moscow's proposal for a world conference of communist parties after resisting it for four years.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Rome
Communist Parties
Moscow
Big Truck Leads Police on Chase In Cedar County
Perry man Leonard E. Gottschalk drove an overloaded semi with 77 000 pounds of steel. He fled after a citation and led deputies on a chase across Cedar and Linn county roads before being stopped near Lisbon. Bond on overload charge set at 1000 dollars and other charges await.
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Tipton
Perry
Cedar
Linn
Lisbon
Cedar County
Richard Barden
Leonard E. Gottschalk
Justice of the Peace
Henry Walters Court
Gottschalk
Wayne Schoff
Mechanicsville
Schoff
Dick ‘Hancock
Barden
Clock Turnback Tonight Across United States
Standard Time resumes at midnight as clocks are set back one hour. Hawaii and parts of Alaska and Indiana follow special rules. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 governs changes with Hawaii exempt and Alaska under three zones being established. Remember the mnemonic spring forward fall back.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Tation
Alaska
Indiana
Indianapolis
Transportation Department
Boys Safe After Night On Wall Above Stormy Lake
Three Hamburg boys ages 11 to 12 were found alive after spending the night on a two foot wide shale wall above Lake Erie. They huddled to stay warm as waves battered the shore and wind reached 18 miles per hour by morning. Police said they followed Boy Scout training to survive until Gregory Lambrix’s father located them. The rescue came amid widespread shoreline damage and power outages from the storm.
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Buffalo
N.Y
UPI
Lake Erie
John Sanger
Terrence Sweeney
Gregory Lambrix
Hamburg
Gregory
Robert Williams
Williams
Pennsylvania
Brant
Cattaraugus Creek
Fort Erie
Erie
Niagara
Chautauqua
Ohio highway chiefs drop cloverleaf project plans
The Ohio department of highways will not build a cloverleaf at a busy Columbus intersection after revealing a multi million-dollar apartment complex is being built on the site. Officials cited miscommunication with a state agency that issued the building permit.
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Columbus
Ohio Department of Highways
Typhoon Dinah Kills 27 in Honshu Rains Strike
Typhoon Dinah battered central Honshu with heavy rain and winds leaving 27 dead 11 missing and 34 injured. A landslide buried the temporary housing of 23 construction workers, killing 17.
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Tokyo
Dinah
Honshu
Four Die in Davenport Home Carbon Monoxide Tragedy
Davenport AP report says four Feisner James children aged 18, 17, 4, and 13 died from carbon monoxide poisoning along with grandmother Lillian Cotton 91 and aunt Ruth Whitemore in a Davenport residence. Family was away on a Colorado trip when calls went unanswered.
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Davenport
Roger Feisner
James
Jeane
John
Joan
Lillian Cotton
Feisners
Ruth Whitemore
Waterloo
Air War Grows in North Vietnam with Key Losses
American planes hit Hanoi area for the fifth straight day while a North Vietnamese broadcast reported five planes shot down over the city and pilots captured. Ground clashes south of Da Nang killed 131 communists. U.S. losses included 14 jets and 15 missing flyers over six days. A Mig-17 was downed by Capt Gene Basel in lakeside California.
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Saigon
Hanoi
da Nang
Hanoi- Haiphong
North Vietnam
U.S
Tam
Cotton
J. C. Iverson
Con Thien
Demilitarized Zone
U.S. First Air Cavalry Division
Hoi An
Tam Ky
Canal Des Rapids
Collision Fatal to Six in Pre-dawn Highway Crash
Six people died in a pre-dawn highway collision in Homerill e Ga. The victims include two service personnel from Fort Bragg North Carolina and Monticello Florida soldier Jack Young 23 Anita Morris 19 a WAC from Shawnee Oklahoma plus four others from Orlando Florida.
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Homermille
Fort Bray
N.C
Jack Young
Monticello
Fla
Anita Morris
Shawnee
Okla
Orlando Fla
Man Nabbed in Socialite Death in Chicago
Federal authorities set a 100000 bond for Frederick Thompson 35 captured after a New Jersey socialite death indictment. He was seized outside a loop bus terminal after an FBI tip and a New York to Chicago ticket was found. Thompson had been paroled from Connecticut prison for breaking and entering and larceny and formerly worked as a Palmer gardener.
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Chicago
UPI
Frederick Thompson
New Jersey
H. Bruce Palmer
FBI
Thompson
Four Iowans Reach Sweet Adeline Finals at Carnegie Hall
The Gaytones from Mt. Pleasant Iowa enter the finals of the Sweet Adeline contest in New York after advancing from semi finals and the first round. Members Sharon Mertens Margret Sayer Jean Shook and Anna Lee Scott wore red and white outfits as they performed songs including When My Sugar Walks Down the Street and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. The quartet noted being exhausted but thrilled by the experience and will compete again with Gavienes in long gowns performing By the Light of the Silvery Moon and Baby Feet.
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New York
UPI
Gaytones
Mt. Pleasant
Iowa
Carnegie Hall
Sharon Merlens
Margret Sayer Jean Shook
Anna Lee Scott
Old Virginny
New York City
Sharon Mertens
Gavienes
Fiery Crosses Radar Appear Over Britain Night Refuels
The defense ministry said lights seen across Britain at night were from U.S. jet tanker planes practicing aerial refueling. The lights caused wide speculation about fiery crosses but officials confirmed the display as training.
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London
U.S
Defense Ministry
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