Open Housing Demonstration Sparks Milwaukee March
Thousands including out of state contingents gather as National NAACP forces and Rev. James Groppi lead a march into Milwaukee's heavily Polish South Side amid weekend riot control drills by Wisconsin National Guard. Police suspend days off. several dozen arrive from Toronto.
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Milwaukee
National Guards
Sheriff's Department
Milwaukee Youth Council of the National
Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Groppi
South Side
Belp
Youth Council
Wisconsin National Guard
West Allis
Meannette Strong
Gary
Ind
Naacp Region 3
NAACP
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Michigan
Ohio
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Toronto
Salubrious Sunshine Shifts Across Iowa Weather
The Gazette reports salubrious sunshine as cooler, drier air arrives from southern Canada. Light northeasterly winds bring upper 30s to northeast Iowa with frost likely, and 40s elsewhere. Sunday should be generally fair with highs in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
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Iowa News
Gazette
Iowa
Webster
Canada
Chuckle People Claim All Fixes Except Staying Home
A humorous quip scorns traffic-solution ideas and mocks the notion of staying home as the missing answer. Conwright comments on the public debate over traffic management and behavior changes.
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Conwright
B 52s Hit North Vietnam and South Vietnam Fires
U S B 52 bombers struck North Vietnam targets and the DMZ rail yard to hamper artillery and rocket units. In South Vietnam heavy fighting continued near Con Thien as 40 Marines were wounded by communist rockets. President Johnson congratulated election winner Thien and Ky while protests surged in Saigon over alleged rigging.
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Saigon
U.S
Red China
Demilitarized Zone
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Con Thien
Dmz
Johnson
Thien
Vietnam
Tonkin
Gulf Control
Man
Lang
Dang
Hano
Redsback
China
Boy refuses ride with girls then killed in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh a second grade boy who declined a neighbor’s ride because he said there were too many girls in the car was killed by a tractor trailer.
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Pittsburgh
Bkitlad Wridav
Traelr
Note in Auto Saves Two Trapped 11 Days
Dwight Hauser and his 15 year old son Erich survived 11 days on a sandbar after getting lost on a fishing trip in the High Sierra. They ate small trout caught with a safety pin and string. A note in their car aided deputies and a sheriff pilot located them on the San Joaquin river bar.
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Fresno
Calif
Dwight Hauser
Erich
High Sierras
Hauser
San Joaquin River
Pope Paul’s Health Report Shows Slower Improvement
Vatican bulletins say Pope Paul’s condition held steady Saturday with a less comfortable night but no fever after three days without fever. He resumed study of and dealing with current business of his secretariat of state though no official illness details were released.
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Vatican City
Paul
Vatican
Secretariat of State
Police, Firemen Ordered to Jobs in Ohio
A Youngstown common pleas judge issued an injunction ordering police and firemen who struck over pay to return to work immediately. Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt stated there is no right to strike against public safety and warned of contempt of court for noncompliance. Some members left the courtroom and said they would not report for duty.
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Youngstown, Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Sidney Rigelhaupt
Rigelhaupt
Tit for Tat on Diplomatic Cars
Three Soviet diplomatic cars stolen in Washington were followed by three American embassy fleet cars going missing in Moscow. Two Soviet cars were found in Washington and returned within hours, two U.S. cars appeared in Moscow, and the remaining Soviet car was recovered after ten days. An American diplomat said the incidents appear retaliatory.
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Moscow
Washington
U.S
Leaky Valve Halts Surveyor 5 Moon Landing Effort
Pasadena scientists report a leaky helium valve on Surveyor 5 blocks soft landing on the moon. If leak not stopped, planners may opt for a hard Earth orbit or an engineered test mission while awaiting a fix.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Moon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth
Romney faces editorial push to bow out for Rockefeller
The Detroit News editorial urges Gov. Romney to step aside in favor of Nelson Rockefeller, citing his Vietnam stance as disqualifying. Romney dismisses the piece, insisting no regret over his Vietnam remarks while Rockefeller rebuffs any presidential bid.
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Washington
Michigan
George Romney
Vietnam
G.O.P
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Detroit News
Romney
Rockefeller
Gov. Romney
Snow
Johnson
Saigon
Richard Nixon
National Committee
Edward Janeway
Vermont
East
Ronald Reagan
California
Detroit
Defense McNamara
Martinique
Beulah
Barry Goldwater
The
Free Press
Beulah Huricane Toll In Isles Landslides and Floods
Hurricane Beulah struck St. Vincent and St. Lucia with heavy rain and landslides. In St. Vincent a boulder killed two children as mud and flooding inundated Government House areas. St. Lucia reported flooding in low-lying areas while Martinique also felt the impact.
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ST. Vincent, West Indies
Beulah
St. Vincent
St. Lucia
Government House
Four Die in Des Moines Area Car Crash After Race
In Urbandale a four vehicle crash on Merle Hay Road killed Nancy Dickerson 15 and Janet Dickerson 35 from Des Moines, Lanny Reese 17, Des Moines, and William Lee 11 of Johnston. Two Reese passengers Mark Miller 16 and Tom Miller 13, also Des Moines, were injured in fair condition with head and skull injuries. Deputies say Reese and another driver were racing up a hill when they passed a truck in the northbound lanes before the crash.
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Urbandale
UPI
Merle Hay Road
Des Moines
Nancy Dickerson
Janet Dickerson
Lanny Reese
Reese
William Lee
Johnston
Mark Miller
Tom
Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Mark
Polk County
John ‘Massie
Clyde Fickes
Merie Hay Road
Strike Layoffs Spread Across UAW Ford Network
DETROIT AP The UAW strike against Ford Motor Co. spreads through allied industries with layoffs at Budd Co. and Dana Corp. in Philadelphia and Detroit suburbs. Raybestos-Manhattan faces job cuts in Passaic. Major vendors like Bendix and Aluminum Co. of America expect losses if the strike lasts. The union boosts its strike fund with a two week delay for a convention to raise dues for 38 000 delegates.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Co
Allied Industries
Ford
Budd Co
Philadelphia
Dana Corp
Ecorse
Trenton
Raybestos
Beulah Dominates Caribbean Storms Furiously
Beulah whips Port de France and Martinique with 100 mph winds while hurricane watches extend to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Beulah centers 170 miles south southeast of San Juan and 1150 miles from Miami as Chloe follows with 65 mph winds offshore and Doria remains a 50 mph system near Cape Kennedy. Boaters from Miami to Charleston face rough seas as tropical activity unsettles the Atlantic.
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Port de France
Martinique
Puerto Rico
Beulah
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Hispaniola
San Juan
Miami
Atlantic
Doria
Melbourne
Fla
Cape Kennedy
Charleston
Bahamas
FBI Ten Most Wanted Man Captured in Boston
Alfred Cooper, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, was nabbed Friday by an agent on a downtown Boston street corner. He faced charges for wounding a New Jersey officer in a Sept. 28, 1966 gun battle after a gas station robbery and for escaping by kidnapping a passing motorist.
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Washington
Alfred Cooper
FBI
Boston
Cooper
New Jersey
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James Groppi
Bliss
Republican National Committee
G.O.P. National
Ray Bliss
North Viet
Pope
Rocky
Nixon
Isles
D.M
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