Guns Battle LA Peace Efforts Amid Watts Riots
In Watts, gunfire and chaos persisted as police and National Guard clashed with insurgents. Three deaths reported, 2,000+ rioters arrested, markets reopened, and a curfew kept in effect. Gov Brown said the Guard would stay until streets are safe.
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Los Angeles
National Guard
Watts
Edmund G. Brown
National Guards
Los Angeles Negro District
Gov. Brown
Lions
Brown
Bread tax dropped to aid farm bill passage
The House moves to pass the administration farm bill with Treasury bearing higher payments for wheat, dropping the so called bread tax. The change, aimed at winning Northern and big city Democratic support, follows talks in Speaker MacCormack’s office. Key figures include Orville Freeman and Lawrence O’Brien. The cotton section also faces revisions.
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Washington
House
Treasury
John W. MacCormack
Johnson
Harold D. Cowley
D-N.c
House Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville
L. Freeman
Lawrence F. O'Brien
Congress
Cooley
Minnesota
Albert A. Quie
Solons Ponder Free Press Versus Fair Trial
Washington lawmakers open two Senate subcommittees to study protecting fair trial rights versus press freedom. A proposed law would punish federal employees or defendants and attorneys for publishing information not filed with a court that could affect pending criminal cases. Morse and Vinson expected as witnesses amid growing press involvement.
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Washington
Senate
Wayne Monc Dre
Morse
Fred Vinson
Associated Ress Managing Editors Association
American Society of Newspaper Editors
DeAngelis Sentenced 20 Years in Oil Empire Fraud Case
Anthony Tino DeAngelis received a 20 year federal prison term after pleading guilty to conspiracy and fraud linked to the collapse of Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp in Bayonne. He admitted circulating forged warehouse receipts and conspiring to move about $100 million in fake documents.
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Newars
N.d
Anthony
Tino) DeAngelis
DeAngelis
Shio
Bayonne
Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corp
U S backs down on UN dues ending United Nations standoff
U N diplomats welcomed the U S retreat announced by Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg as a step toward resuming normal General Assembly operations after a year of paralysis. Congress mixed praise and condemnation as Johnson officials eyed future UN funding, while Soviet delegates urged firm safeguards and cited Article 19.
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United( Nations
U.N
U.S
Arthur J. Goldberg
General Assembly
U.S. Congress
Johnson Administration
United Nations
Platon D. Morozov
Assembly
Soviet Union
United States
Baion
France
Britain
Lord Caradon
Guldberg
Goldberg
VFW Moves to Pay Off $54,000 Mortgage on Post Home
The VFW board authorized its finance committee to make the first payment on Robert Baldwin's $54,000 mortgage for the post home. William Roehrig plans a near 10 percent payment. the sum is treated as an interest-free loan. The group eyes three fund drives including a stock issue, a hunting lodge raffle, and another plan to be decided. Salvation Army had hoped to purchase the property but legal issues left the VFW pursuing mortgage payoff. Washington coverage notes GOP opposition to cutting Johnson anti poverty funds and a Dominick proposal to trim 553 million from the year ahead authorization, while warnings persist about economic opportunity tensions.
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VFW
Finance Committee
Robert Baldwin
Wire
William Roehrig
VEW
VFW Post
Baldwin
Building Association
Salvation Army
Washington
Johnson
Senate
Peter H. Dominick
Rcole
Congress
Dominick
Office of Economic Opportunity
Antipoverty
Caution Solons Push Bills On Taxes And Seats
Harrisburg AP reports a Senate bill 81103 would require school buses to have seat belts. Another measure would permit most districts to raise wage taxes by half percent. A separate proposal would ban dealers from rolling back odometers on cars or trucks before sale.
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Solons At Work
Harrisburg
Senate
House
Marines Kill 26 Guerrillas With No Casualties Reported
In Da Nang area three miles southwest of the air base a Marine tank unit repelled a Viet Cong assault. About 40 guerrillas attacked with mortars grenades and small arms prompting an artillery barrage that flushed them from cover. After a sharp firefight six bodies were left behind and Marines estimated 20 more were killed. The Marines suffered no casualties. Separately Radio Hanoi urged southern residents to return and aid the Viet Cong while Washington released an aerial recon photo of a North Vietnamese missile site believed northwest of Hanoi.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
da Nang
Radio Hanoi
Washington
Pentagon
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
Maxwell D. Taylor
U.S
Heat Gets To Council Buys Cooler
On a warm night City Council approved buying a water cooler for the city building. They set a $1.50 hourly rate for the clerk handling fewer rental payments. The body also OKed curbing cuts at 315 Essex street and noted traffic lights running out of sequence. The engineer was approved to attend a convention in the Poconos. East Columbus paving will begin tomorrow. Weed-ordinance delays remain until next meeting. Cross Paving Co. will repave streets in the north end now that sewer work is complete.
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Robert Grice
Corr
Clark
Essex Street
Highways Department
David Johnson
League of
Poconos
Columbus Avenue
Cross Pay
Union City
30 Perish In Chicago Plane Crash
A United Airlines Boeing 727 bound from New York to Chicago vanished over Lake Michigan minutes before landing at O Hare Airport. Twenty aboard with twenty four passengers and six crew presumed lost. Clarence J. Sayen, Seattle businessman and former ALPA leader, among those aboard. Guards barred reporters from the red carpet salon as relatives waited. Coast Guard boats and Glenview NAS aircraft searched the area as flares illuminated the lake. The crash prompted extensive patrols and private boats aiding the search.
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Chicago
IAP
United Air Lines
New York
Lake Michigan
O'haré International
Clarence J. (Clancy) Sayen
Seattle
Wash
Air Line Pilots Association
Sayen
ALPA
United
Glenview Naval Air Station
Coast Guard
Highland Park
Ft. Sheridan Army Post
Wilmette
Waukegan
Caget Guard
Grice Leaves Council and Brant Appointed to Fill Spot
Robert Grice resigns after years on the city council to move to Wayne Township next month. Russell Brant, assistant high school principal, appointed to fill the vacancy. Brant and David Nichols named for city controller on November ballot. Nichols replacing late Harry Powers. Grice and Powers were May primary candidates. Downey joins Brant as Republican council candidates. Miller and Zerres run for Democrats. Ray Weber seeks mayor as GOP candidate against William Peiffer.
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Robert Grice
Wayne Township
Russell Brant
Brant
David Nichols
Nichols
Council
Harry Powers
Powers
Grice
Iu Grice
Jack Downey
Dave Miller
Jack Zerres
Ray Weber
GOP
William Peiffer
Bids Above Estimate On Summer Paving
City Council awarded the Western Pennsylvania Asphalt Paving Company contracts totaling 24 , and approved paving on West Frederick Street West Congress Street the Lawrence Airport apron and an area around the sewage treatment plant. A second contract for 10 657 went to the same firm for widening raising and repaving West Pleasant Street near King and East. Local resident Trent Peake will install concrete curbing on his property line at his own expense. A sewer pipe contract 1 856 was let to Mahoning Culvert Company for lines on Spring Street and Sciota Street to the Corry Motor Lodge sewer extension. A third bid 5 50 an hour for sidewalk snow plowing was accepted from Santo Sani Pate.
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Western Pennsylvania Asphalt Paving Company
West Frederick Street
West Congress Street
Lawrence Airport
West Pleasant Street
King and
East Street
Trent Walter L. Peake
Council
Mahoning
Spring Street
Sciota Street
Corry Motor Lodge
Santo (Sani) Pate
To Save Lagging State Study Urges Strong Emphasis On Community Colleges
In Harrisburg AP a special consultant projects a minimum enrollment of 78,664 by 1974 and urges Pennsylvania to expand community colleges to fill a higher education gap. Dr. Ralph R. Fields warns of shortages and supports regional planning, with no new campus centers in high priority areas.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Ralph R. Fields
New York
State Board of Education
Commonwealth
Fields
Board
Council of Higher’ Education
Jothers
Blair
Clearfield
Centre
Franklin and Fulton
Huntingdon
Jefferson
Juniata and
Mifflin
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