Midwest Storms Roar Across Several States
Severe storms lashed a broad Midwest region with 100 mph winds and heavy hail. The events caused at least three deaths in Illinois Minnesota and Iowa and injured more than 127 with Illinois reporting 105 injuries. Property losses initial estimates around 5 million dollars with potential to rise. Tornadoes touched down but mostly stayed aloft. Crete Illinois recorded 100 mph winds and Olympia Fields saw severe damage. A railroad accident near Crown Point Indiana damaged 15 railroad cars with two crewmen injured.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Minnesota
I Iona
Iowa
Indiana
Wisconsin
Chicago
Crown Point
Ind
Gerald Stevenson
Olympia Feilds
Ill
Stephenson County
Betsy Betsy Betsy forms in warm Atlantic storm system
Tropical storm Betsy formed in the warm Atlantic, 2,000 miles east-southeast of Miami, prompting warnings for the Windward Islands. Gale warnings were issued for Barbados and nearby islands as Betsy could strengthen into a tropical hurricane, with winds near 45 mph in squalls and likely further development within 12 to 24 hours.
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Betsy
Atlantic
Windward Islands
U.S
Tropics
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Grenadines Islands
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St. Lucia
Martinique
Weather Bureau
Anna
Fast Marriage Not For Them
Pat Leamy and Sue Grebel of Edwardsville chose not to marry after midnight to avoid draft eligibility under President Johnson’s rule. They postponed the wedding to Saturday, accepting potential draft exposure rather than rushing a ceremony.
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Edwardsville, Ill
Pat Leamy
Leamy
Sue Grebel
Edwardsville
Johnson
Gemini 5 crews drift through idle hours in space
Houston crews report Gemini 5 stares at eight days as power troubles reduce chores and mood lightens with music and jokes. Cooper and Conrad push toward 121 orbits and eight days while weather and system tests frame the routine. Space center exchanges light verse with the crew as they endure long hours in orbit.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Christopher C. ‘Kraft Jr
South America
Bombers Hit Viet Cong Area Amid Viet Nam War Actions
U S Air Force B52 bombers struck a suspected Viet Cong zone near Saigon for the second straight day, part of the twelfth raid reported in the Viet Nam war. Six Americans died in crashes, two wounded, as Army Beaver and helicopter incidents were reported along with a 100 truck convoy delivering relief to Ban Me Thuot after Highway 21 clearance by Vietnamese paratroopers marines and rangers.
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U.S
Saigon
South Viet Nam
D” Zone
Strategic Air Command
U.S. Army
Ca Mau
Quang Tri
Ban Me Thuot
Rusk Says U S Aims for Peace in Viet Nam
Secretary of State Dean Rusk declared our war aim is peace in Viet Nam and noted Washington seeks a sign Reds want peace too though no clear signal has been detected. He welcomed third party talks while stressing the essential difference that the other side seeks to take over South Viet Nam by force.
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Rusk
U.S
Washington
Dean Rusk
Viet Nam
iCommunists
Reds
Moscow
South Viet Nam
United Nations
U.N
U Thant
Leukemia Fatal To Joy Evans 4
In Ventura California Joy Evans a leukemia victim died at Ventura Community Hospital less than a month after her mother exposed her to chicken pox in hope of prolonging life The mother Sharon Evans 24 said she read of cases where chicken pox arrested leukemia The family doctor warned the procedure was dangerous The Evans family lives with Mrs Johnson and their daughter Patti Ann 6 and separated husband not present
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Venturia
Calif. Yr
Joy Evans
Ventura Community Hospital
Sharon Evans
Joy
North Carolina schools integrate peacefully amid threats
In coastal counties with large Negro populations, Negro students attended classes with whites for the first time without violence. Governor Dan Moore said threats had been reported, but state officers were not needed to intervene. At Farm Life School in Vanceboro 17 of 300 pupils enrolled, as a sheriff and deputies guarded. Principal QO. K. Ganny requested removal of newsmen from grounds.
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New Bern
N.C
North Carolina
Dan Moore
State Bureau of Investigation
Craven County
Farm Life School
Vanceboro
QO. K. Ganny
Col
David Lambert
Highway Patrol
Nasser slams U.S. strikes on North Vietnam as aggression
In Moscow, Egypt President Nasser denounced U.S. attacks on North Vietnam as aggression that arouses world opinion’s indignation. Tass cited his banquet remarks during a five day Soviet visit calling for U.S. troop withdrawal and warning against a return to strength. Brezhnev noted Viet Namese diplomats’ diplomatic gains and the potential danger to world peace.
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Egypt
Nasser
U.S
Viet Nam
Tass
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Secre
Johnson Marks 57th Birthday in Texas Park Dedication
President Johnson celebrates his 57th birthday with roses and greetings then returns to Texas to dedicate the first park in Johnson City. Life Magazine funds landscaping as Mrs Johnson urges beauty nationwide while census figures compare 1908 to 1965 in population, water use, and power production.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Texas
LBI
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Austin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
H.H. Cheeley
Iuka
Washington
Life Magazine
Census Bureau
Five Workmen Die In Fall In German Plant
Five men building a smokestack plunged about 100 feet when a platform coated with wet concrete collapsed in Karlshce n Germany. A sixth man was missing and another severely injured. Police said the workers were buried nine feet in concrete as six colleagues on a higher platform survived by clinging to the inner wall. The accident occurred at the Degashelven petrochemical refinery.
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Karlsche
Germany
Aden
DEA- Shelven Petrochemical
Virginia redistricting plans disclosed by separate committees
Virginia Privileges and Elections Committees released two distinct redistricting plans for the states 10 congressional districts. Both preserve the Richmond area 3rd and Southwest Virginia 9th districts while shifting others such as Chesapeake to the 1st and Campbell County to the 5th. The House and Senate differ on Fairfax County allocation and on adding areas to the 7th and 8th districts, with variances in distance and composition across counties.
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Richmond
Privileges and Elections Committees
Virginia State Senate
House of Delegates
P&e
Virginia
Richmond-area
Southwest Virginia
Chesapeake
Fairfax County
Senate
Centreville
Lee
Mt. Vernon
House
Dranesville
Providence
Campbell County
Nelson
Capital Beltway
Accomack
Northampton
Essex
King and Queen
Madison County
Loudoun County
Bomb hidden under car injures Natchez NAACP leader
George Metcalf, president of the Natchez NAACP chapter, is seriously injured when a bomb beneath his car exploded as he turned the ignition. He suffers multiple injuries, and a $2000 reward is offered by Mayor John Nosser for the perpetrators. Roy Wilkins condemns the attack as a cowardly crime.
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Natcnez
Miss
John Nosser
George Metcalf
Metcalf
Natchez
National Association For the Advance of Colored People
NAACP
New York
Roy Wilkins
Mississippi
Wilkins
Elderly Man Attacked Dies in Alabama Case
In Greensboro Alabama an 87 year old Negro, Perry Smaw, died in a hospital five days after a beating and having his tongue cut out. Deputies sought suspects, a local Negroes group said he opposed civil rights demonstrators and pickets last Saturday. A Negro man is held for questioning with no charges filed.
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Greensboro
Ala
Perry Smaw
David Holloway
Smaw
Holloway
Meat And Potato Prices Boost July Living Costs
Washington AP meat and potato prices surged in July driving up the consumer price index to a record 110.2. Potatoes rose 10 percent and meat 3.3 percent led by pork up 7.5 percent, while overall food costs rose eight‑tenths of a percent. The report notes tax cuts boosted purchasing power and reduced some prices, with medical costs and housing also higher, and toys reforming recreational costs lower.
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Washington
Labor Department
Arnold Chase
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chase
Bureau
Weather forecast for Virginia and North Carolina
Variable cloudiness with scattered thunderstorms Saturday in Virginia. Highs in the 80s and low 90s, clearing Saturday night. fair and cooler Sunday. In North Carolina partly cloudy and warm Saturday with scattered thundershowers, highs 78 to 95, cooler Sunday with partly cloudy skies. Earlier observations show yesterday am 71 and pm 95, today am 79 with cloudy conditions.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Clondy
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