Titan 2 silo disaster facts from Zuckert briefing
Secretary Zuckert briefed President Johnson on the Titan 2 silo tragedy at Searchy Arkansas. He cited an escape ladder blockage as a likely factor in fatalities and urged examination of escape systems, lighting, and training amid ongoing large scale civilian-led modification.
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Washington
Air Force
Eugene M. Zuckert
Johnson
Searchy
Ark
White House
Zuckert
Charles E. Stewart
35 Civil Rights Workers Guilty In Orangeburg Protest
Thirty five civil rights workers were found guilty of disorderly conduct in Orangeburg for staging a courthouse demonstration. They face fines or 30 days in jail. NAACP plans appeals as sit ins continue in Allendale and Charleston.
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Orangeburg
Associated Press
South Carolina
Allendale
Charleston
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Justice Department
NAACP
Barnwell
Tom Friday
Matthew Perry
Earl Coblyn
R. F. Dukes
Harold Hail
B. N. Collings
Duke
July forest fires low in number in North Carolina
Fourteen forest fires destroyed 204 acres in North Carolina during July according to the State Department of Conservation and Development. Assistant state forester P. W. Tillman called the month unusually low in number for July.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Department of Conservation and Development
P. W. Tillman
Rockets Shaped by War Echoes From 1814 to 1865
Historian Clark Kinnaird recounts rocket use from the 1814 Bladensburg attack and Baltimore Second War era to Civil War experiments. It notes Congreve rockets, Hale’s offers, Lamb’s rocket battalion, whaling harpoons, and early spaceflight signals, leading to Goddard’s controlled liquid fuel work and speculative two stage Civil War rocket.
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United States
U.S
Bladensburg
Washington
Baltimore
New Orleans
William Hale
Congreve
Britain
England
Union
Hale
Thomas W. Lamb
Albany
N.Y
Robert H. Goddard
Clark University
Burke Davis
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Cc. R. Johnson
Richmond
Johnson
CSA
Clark Kinnaird
National CORE leader seeks federal registrars in North Carolina
Floyd B. McKissick and Dr. R A Hawkins urged the U S Justice Department to send federal registrars to at least 34 counties in North Carolina to ensure Negro voting eligibility in the state s black belt. State elections chief Malcolm Seawell said no law was violated and counties set up registration as fast as possible under the Voting Rights Act.
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Raleigh
Floyd B. McKissick
Durham
Congress of Racial Equality
U.S. Justice Department
North Carolina
McKissick
Alex Brack
North Carolina Board of Elections
U.S
Justice Department
Mississippi
R. A. Hawkins
Charlotte
North Carolina Elections Board
Malcolm Seawell
State Elections Board
Brock
Inot
US Attorney General’s Office
Elections Board
Seawell
State Board of iElections
State Board of Eleciions
UNC gets $17 million grant for drug toxicology study
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a seven year grant totaling 17 million dollars for a national program on drug toxicology. The NIH center directed by Dr. Thomas C. Butler will study drug disposition idiosyncrasy tissue effects and clinical pharmacology with 300 staff within five years. The research will be conducted near the Research Triangle with collaboration among UNC Duke and NCSU.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
University of North Carolina At
Terry
Thomas C. Butler
Department of Pharmacology
Pharmacology Toxicology
William C. Friday
Consolidated University
Paul F. Sharp
University of North Carolina
North Carolina
Research Triangle
University
N.C. State University
Raleigh
Duke University
Durham
Isaac M. Taylor
UNC
Chapel Hill Medical School
Parker Resigns as Deacon Club Leader at Wake Forest
Wake Forest College announces Parker resigns as executive director of the Deacon Club Foundation after two years. Athletic Director Gene Hooks says no successor yet. Parker plans to enter the motel business in Washington DC after September 1. The foundation aids college athletics through scholarships.
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Winston
North Carolina Counties Declared Disaster Areas
The Department of Agriculture designated Johnston and Duplin counties as disaster areas due to heavy rains in June and July. Small businesses in these counties may apply for SBA injury disaster loans, while farmers and stockmen should seek aid from the Farmers Home Administration.
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Charlotte
Department of Agriculture
North Carolina
Johnston
Duplin
Small Business Administration
Fred A. Dow
SBA
Dow
Farmers Home Administration
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Boston Transcript
Hing Features Syndicate
CORE
New York
Actors Studio
Ford Foundation
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Health
Luther Terry
Parker
Deacon
Nicholasville
Sessamine County
James C. Cross, Jr
Fort Worth, Tex
University of Texas
N.C. Counties
Stewart Thompson
North Main and
Lewis
DODGE
Dodge Trucks
Dodge Boys
Sadar
Gardner Motor Company
Denville, Virginie
Patton
Bridge Street
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