Cities passed up federal aid to ease Negro tensions
Washington said Los Angeles and Chicago rejected offers of a full time federal team to help ease racial strife. Nine northern cities accepted. the effort, under the Community Relations Service, aimed to promote dialogue and speed antipoverty actions while guarding against violence.
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Chicago
Washington
Los Angeles
White House
Commerce
LeRoy Collins
California
Edmund G. Brown
Samuel W. Yorty
Rottorn
Bill D. Moyers
Brown
Yority
Collins
Community Relations Service
Johnson
Yorty
Richard J. Daley
iChicago
Council On Equal Opportunity
Boston
New York
Rochester
N.Y
Newark
N.J
Philadelphia
Detroit
Cleveland
Ohio
Gary
Ind
Daley
Tornado damages Ocean Drive Beach area and surrounds
A tornado struck Ocean Drive Beach causing a damaged motel ferris wheel and wrecked rides. Rescue crews searched debris as Chief Merlin Bellamy reported possible casualties and hailstones the size of eggs. Large area damage included a five foot by 25 foot sand gorge and widespread window destruction.
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Ocean Drive
Loris
Merlin Bellamy
Bellamy
Ocean Front
South Carolina
Grand Strand
North Carolina Line
Ocean Drive Beach
D.C
Ten Are Hurt In Shooting At School In Chicago
A shotgun accident on the Holy Angels School playground on Chicago’s South Side wounded two nuns, a woman, and seven children during a barbecue. An 11-year-old boy, on a balcony, allegedly fired the weapon. police reported birdshot caused minor injuries and that all victims were treated at Mercy Hospital in good condition.
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Chicago
Holy Angels
Oakwood Blvd
Mercy Hospital
Donna Marie Sironi
Eva Marie Ronens
Viet Nam War Fronts See Mixed Local Gains and Setbacks
Reports from the Vietnam conflict describe first confirmed Viet Cong kill near Bien Hoa, plus seven VC killed and seven captured 1140 miles southwest of Saigon. In Pleiku to Duc Co drive a mine damaged three government vehicles and one Vietnamese soldier killed. North Vietnam saw the largest action with 27 VC slain and six captured in Quang Tri.
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Bien Hoa
Saigon
U.S
Central Highlands
Duc Co
Pleiku
Quang Tri Province
Ba Long Valley
Strategic Air Command
Aid urges review of aids format to better aid developing nations
Senate conferees join the President in calling a review of current aid channels to direct assistance toward solving problems in developing countries. The compromise bill authorizes 1.7 billion dollars in military aid and the rest as economic aid including 780.25 million for the Development Loan Fund 580.12 million for the Alliance for Progress and 210 million for technical cooperation grants.
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Senate
Alliance For Progress
Gemini mission tests press ahead with fuel cell power
NASA reports Cooper and Conrad prepared for a Titan 2 Gemini 9 launch at 9 a.m. EST Thursday. They will extend a tether to approach their target satellite within feet, using radar and electronics. Fuel cell reliability remains the key risk, with backup batteries for two orbits if cells fail. Weather in the Pacific and Bay of Bengal shows storms but not a major concern.
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Cooper
Conrad
Lucy
Mary l
Pacific
Bay of Bengal
Tropics
Episcopal Bishop James Pike Charged Again With Heresy
Fourteen Arizona Episcopal priests urge the dismissal of Bishop James A. Pike of California for alleged heresy. Pike defends his stance on ordaining a widow as perpetual deacon and questions the Trinity, saying his views are discussed at convention. A vote for investigation is planned at the September House of Bishops meeting in Glacier National Park.
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Episcopal
James Pike
San Francisco
James A. Pike
Arizona
Pike
Joseph M. Harte
House of Bishops
United States
California
Phyllis Edwards
Grace
Harte
Paul D. Urbano
All Saints i
Phoenix
St. Louis
Georgia
Glacier National Park
Mont
Geneva Conference Fallout—US Nuclear Pact Declined by USSR
At the Geneva disarmament talks the United States offered a world treaty to curb new nuclear powers, but the Soviet Union dismissed it as a joke. US President Johnson urged the conference to act, while Britain and Canada supported portions of the draft amid Western rifts over NATO nuclear force and veto rights.
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Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Johnson
Canada
Italy
Britain
William C. Foster
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
West Germany
Lord Chalfont J
Bonn
Swid‘bert Schnippenkoetter
Frank Swicegood
Swicegood
Sailor Manry Recalls Harrowing Atlantic Voyage
Mrs Manry and children waited two weeks as Manry described a 60 to 75 day solo trip aboard the Tinkerbelle 55 miles off Cornwall. He spoke of hallucinations fear exhaustion and a ship collision danger and detailed navigation tests with sextant and sea anchor while staying afloat with a lifeline after six overboard plunges.
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Douglas
Tinkerbelle
Manny
Falmouth
Cornish
Manry Returns as Cleveland Hero After Transatlantic Voyage
Robert Manry, a quiet Cleveland Plain Dealer editor, completes a 3 200 mile voyage in a 13 4 foot sloop from June 1 to the Atlantic. The town hails him as a historic hero likened to Lindbergh, with mixed early reactions of concern and doubt fading as admiration grows.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Robert Manry
Manry
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ga. Ga
Eisenhower Links Riots to Moral Decline and U.S. Struggles
Former President Eisenhower told reporters that riots in Los Angeles and other cities reveal degeneration in moral standards. He urged Republicans to present high minded programs as a path forward while criticizing federal spending and wartime needs in Vietnam.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican Party
Los Angeles
Viet Nam
Rome
Watts Riots Struck Los Angeles Leave Massive Damage
After a white officer arrested a Black youth, Watts faced a violent outbreak with 536 structures burned and 175 million dollars in damage. National Guard troops distributed food, banks and stores reopened, and curfew lifted as authorities pursued arrests.
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Watts
Senate Criticizes Veto in Meritorious Programs Debate
Senator Yarborough accuses Gov Connally of killing an 11 county project depriving 1,200 rural youths of needed jobs. Senator Thurmond calls the program a miserable mess as Congress weighs funding. House doubles first year funds. Senate matches Johnson request but adds 150 million for unemployed adults.
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Ralph Yarborough
Dtex
Texas
John Connally
Strom Thurmond
R-S. C
Congress
Senate
House
J .Johnson
Plane crash near Fort Sheridan shocks lakefront reporters
Witnesses reported a flash and explosion before a Boeing 727 from New York to Chicago plunged into Lake Michigan about 17 miles northeast of Fort Sheridan. Coast Guard and CAB investigators searched wreckage why seats were singled out amid early bomb speculation.
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Tne
Paul Driscoll
Associated Press
Coast Guard
Woodbine
Ft. Sheridan
Chicago
No. 389
O‘hare International
New York
George Niles
Federal Aviation Agency
Niles
Melville W. Towle
Wyckoff
N.J
Clarence L. Sayen
Seattle
Wash. Sayen
Air Line Pilots Association
Highland Park High School
Lake County
Pattrick Clavey
Truman W. Finch
CAB
Washington
Milwaukee burial for Mrs. Porth after Draper Mountain death
Mrs. Porth of Winston-Salem Augsburg Lutheran Church and her husband Porth a Western Electric engineer were civic figures. Authorities suggest she tried to crank a 70 degree Draper Mountain slope and she had been dead 24 to 28 hours when found. Her body will be taken to Milwaukee for burial after autopsy.
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Bumgarner
Winston-alem
Augsburg Lutheran Church
Porth
Western Electric Co
Winston-Salem
Milwaukee
Farm Bill Critic Injects Half Truth About Bread Ingredient Costs
A lawmaker labels the farm bill a half truth noting wheat plans would raise bread ingredient costs. She praises Democratic leadership for amending to fund the 50 cent increase via treasury payments. Rep Quie intended to offer the amendment but Rep Cooley will introduce it by agreement.
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Treasury
Albert H. Quie
R-Minn
House Agriculture Committee
Harold D. Cooley
D-N.c
Strike Talks Continue Between AMMI and AFL-CIO Unions
Strike talks dragged through the day between AMMI spokesmen for eight shippers and two AFL-CIO unions the International Organization of Masters Mates and Pilots and the American Radio Association. No sign of nearing settlement. The engineers and shippers pact awaits union member approval.
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AMMI
Afl-Cio
International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pistols
American Radio Association
Body of missing Carolina woman found in Burlington
The decomposed body of Lillian Creech Massey 33 missing since April 2 was found near the home of suspect Harvey Hall 17 charged with first degree murder. The body was located 100 feet off a Burlington thoroughfare with jewelry intact as FBI joined the probe.
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Burlington
N.C
Alfred Garner
Lillian Creech Massey
Harvey Lee Hall
Garner
Hall
Jis
FBI
Massey's
Pamela
Teresa
Massey
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Bill Williams
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Spray
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
William W. Scranton
Pennssylvania
Scranton
House Republicans
Senate Republican Policy Committee
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Bot-Tom
Roderic Hill
California National
William H. Parker
Samuel Yorty
Council On Equal Opportunities
Maytor Yorty
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