Mansfield Tells LBJ To Call Off Lobbyists
Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield privately asked President Johnson to keep government agency lobbyists at a distance from the Senate amid intense lobbying by AID Pentagon and State Department officials over foreign aid. Officials feared overzealous lobbying trampled on congressional prerogatives and caused confusion among senators. Senate sources described the scene as officials scurrying and then overlobbying, with some saying they were “crawling out of the woodwork.”
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Mike Mansfield
Johnson
Mansfield
Pentagon
Agency For International Development
Mike Manatos
White House
Congressional
State Department
Administration
Murphy Co. Surprised by Civil Rights Demonstration
G C Murphy Co officials in Pittsburgh say they were misunderstood as the target of a civil rights protest. E G Brocious, PR director, noted the firm sold the NAACP and would hire 200 more Black workers in Pittsburgh, citing 10 percent minority staffing. He offered to meet NAACP leaders. demonstration planned in McKeesport. Colorado word origin noted as context.
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Pittsburgh
G.C. Murphy Co
E.G. Brocious
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Brocious
NAACP
Matthew Moore
Variety Chain
McKeesport
Warren Area Commissioner Seeks 13500 Year Post
Warren County commissioner Crippen, president of the Northwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission, floats for the coordinator post paying up to 15500 a year. A staff Qualifications committee meeting September six will review credentials with state officials, while Crippen could yield presidency to vice president later this year. Barr Jr. may back Crippen, who lost renomination, to fill the post as committee discusses qualifications.
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Warren County
Lewis L. Crippen
Northwestern
Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission
Commission
Crippen
Joseph W. Barr Jr
Judge Rules Drunkenness Not A Crime
In Philadelphia Judge Leo Weinrott ruled habitual public drunkenness is an illness not a crime. In two test cases he freed Robert E. Lee and Joseph A. Mitsch from 50 day jail terms, citing a prior Supreme Court ruling that addiction is not a crime.
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Philadelphia
Leo Weinrott
Robert E. Lee
Joseph A. Mitsch
U.S. Supreme Court
California
TV Workers Strike Looms With Johnny Carson In The Mix
NBC faced a standoff as TV workers unions pressed action over live broadcasting. NBC warned it could air reruns of Tonight shows if Johnny Carson defies a NABET picket line. Carson briefly quit then returned as reruns were used during AFTRA walkout. Other on air figures like Walter Cronkite Hugh Downs and David Brinkley stayed off air.
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NBC
Johnny Carson
NABET
Carson
AFTRA
Walter Cronkite
Hugh Downs
David Brinkley
Warren Republicans Plan Write In Campaign Against Mead
Warren Republicans seek a mid-September write-in campaign to defeat Blain Mead the incumbent county commissioner nominated for a fourth term. Party divides surfaced after Mead’s May nomination with James Marshall and other candidates still active. Ball declined to confirm the effort.
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Blain Mead
Mead
David K. Rice
Thomas Donnelly
Chester Walker
Clarendon
Republican Committee
Gurney R. Ball
Mesd
Ball
James Marshall
Tidioute
D. H. Lay
W. Robert Walsh
Warren County
Observer
Lay
Raids Deepen in Hanoi Haiphong Frontline Assaults
Missions struck a Hanoi Haiphong complex with a near Haiphong missile site heavily damaged while bridges rail lines trucks and depots were hit nearby. Rail yard attacks northwest of Haiphong and south of Hanoi proved especially rewarding. An air bridge to Thai Nguyen was damaged. Losses surged with 28 pilots lost since August 2 as tensions rose among officials including Crippen Mead and Lay.
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Haiphong
U.S
Hanoi
Thai Nguyen
Hanoi-Haiphong
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