Dominican Surgeon Emerges As Top Candidate For Provisional President
In Santo Domingo AP reports a famed Dominican surgeon Dr. Felix A Goico emerged as the leading candidate to head a provisional government after 11 weeks of upheaval. Rebels and the civilian military junta signaled acceptability with Goico open to the post if no better compromise arises. He has treated wounded in rebel zones and says he knows little politics but would accept to unite sides.
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Goico
International Security Zone
Reat
Geico
Threeman Oas
Ellsworth Bunker
United States
Francisco Caamano Deno
Antonio Guzman
OAS
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Joaquin Balaguer
Traffic death tolls rise as interstates cut danger
Observing Memorial Day weekend traffic, officials noted a record three day toll of 474. They forecast interstate expansion will cut deaths, citing 2.6 deaths per 300 million miles on superhighways versus 9.7 on replacing roads. National rate stood at 5.7 per 100 million miles. Interstates reduce head on crashes and stop sign accidents.
Tree planting dispute ends with municipal meter issue
Tree Fenton planted a 25 foot ash at night after delays from Blankenship and city officials. He spent 275 dollars on the operation, including a 15 ton truck and five men. The city later cited three ordinances and kept the parking meter, charging 70 cents daily while demanding the tree be removed or meter returned. Fenton would replace the meter at his cost if possible but the city refuses to relinquish it.
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Fenton
Blankenship
Real Sendoff marred Wesley Petty's Knoxville wedding
Wesley Petty of Knoxville described a rough wedding sendoff in which friends tore out wires and broke the radio antenna of his car and poured paint on the vehicle, police reported.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Wesley Petty
Knoxville
Rape Suspect Wounded By Girl’s Dad in California
In Reseda California a vice squad lieutenant Lt Tom O Neal fired five shots at a handcuffed rape suspect Carl E Norman 21 wounding him critically The officer later faced assault with intent to murder charges and was relieved of command His daughter Shirley Diane 39 reported the rape alleging four men assaulted her and brought O Neal to the scene where he shot Norman in the chest arm and hip before collapsing in tears
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Reseda
Calif
Carl E. Norman
Tom O'Neal
O’neal
Shirley Diane
O'Neal
Norman
Johnson urges education as path to future greatness
President Johnson presses the nation to expand education and classrooms while a security scare in New York ends with police canceling a mistaken alert. Johnson cites a strong partnership with Congress and calls for more teachers and schools. A terror threat and a faulty police bulletin briefly disrupt his Kenedy Airport visit.
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Yeshiva University
Johnson
State of the Union
Congress
Marines Boost South Viet Nam Support From South Korea
A Viet Cong spokesman condemns allied actions as a move to shield aggression. South Korea’s Park cabinet approves sending a combat division and support units, possibly 15,000 soldiers, to South Vietnam. About 2,1500 Koreans already serve in noncombat roles. 500 U.S. Marines landed at Qui Nhon clashed briefly with guerrillas. no casualties. Lt Gen Krulak says more Marines could join as Westmoreland requests. Marines and Army units provide combat support and security. Vietnamese troops countered a mortar attack on Soc Trang airfield, destroying weapons. North Vietnam warns raids will continue until communist forces end invasions. A U.S. leafletted summary reports results of strikes through April 30. Civilians near targets warned to stay away from military installations. Air strikes included attacks on oil storage tanks and the Bom Iaem Xa complex plus bridges and vessels.
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Wilson
U.S
South Korea
Ichung Hee Park
Seoul
South Viet Nam
Qui Nhon
Saigon
Victor H. Krulak
Pacific
Viet Nam
William C. Westmoreland
Krulak
da Nang
Westmoreland
U.S. Army
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Soc Trang
Rat
Navy
Crusaders
Bom Iem Xa
Dhring
Pope Paul VI Invited to Visit United Nations
Vatican sources say Pope Paul VI may visit the United Nations after year’s start. The Vatican issued a press note confirming appreciation to U Thant for the invitation and leaving open whether the trip to New York or the U.S. would occur. The pontiff’s ecumenical council duties may follow before travel. His prior world flights marked historic papal travel.
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Vatican City
Paul VI
United Nations
Vatican
America
Paul
U.N
U Thant
New York
United States
Kennedy
Western Hemisphere
Pope Pius XII
State Department
Washington
Pope Paul
Robert J. McCloskey
Alberto Giovannetti
Holy Land
Bombay
India
Kennedy Group Sets Off On Colorado River Trip
Sen Robert Kennedy D NY with wife and five of nine children, plus James Whittaker and companions, begins a three day river journey from Lily Park near Elk Springs Colorado. The party plans games and singing at Harding's Hole with tents, sun tan oil, mosquito repellent, and a Kennedy family touch football. River guide notes medium tough rapids and flow around four to six miles per hour.
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Elk Springs
Colo
Robert F. Kennedy
Dn.y
Colorado-Utah
Lily Park
el Springs
James Whittaker
America
Mt. Everest
Kennedy
Harding’s Hole
Tiros 10 joins weather satellite fleet for hurricane season
Satellite operations expand as Tiros 10 joins three earlier TIROS craft in a U S Weather Bureau program. The series funds future operational weather nets and has already supplied cloud cover photos aiding world forecasts. If cameras endure, they will chronicle a full tropical storm season with global coverage.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
NASA
Tiros
Patriotic Fourth Speech Fades In Historic Boston Suburbs
In Lexington Concord and 35 towns near Boston the Fourth of July is largely firework focused. Wakefield plans a large celebration with races parades and a two hour parade of bands and military units. Organizers say a local congressman will attend but no speeches will be made. James Blair reported the fundraising and schedule details.
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Boston
Lexington and Concord
Old Statehouse
Faneuil Hall
New England
Wakefield
West Side Social Club
James Blair
Wakefield Common
Lake Quannapowitt
Redmen of Wakefield
Congress
Blair
East German Barges Refuse Allied Permits to Enter West Waters
Two East German barges refused Friday to accept Allied permits to enter West German waters. Bonn called the refusal a test of four power responsibility. The vessels aimed for West Germany on the Elbe when halted at Schnackenburg, with crews saying permits were occupation holdovers. West German officials barred passage. the incident could impair freight movement and harm both German economies.
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West
Bonn
Germany
Boon
East Germany
Elbe
West Germany
Schnackenburg
Berlin
Mits
Ludwig Erhard
Ment
United States
Britain
France
Federal Republic of Germany
Ceremany
Bank Robbery Suspect Described After Chilem Bank Heist Near Denver
The FBI reports a late 20s bandit with sunglasses and a dark blue straw hat robed a bank at 10 20 a m. He claimed no harm and fled in a blue 1964 Ford abandoned near Routes 73 and 16 six miles SE of Denver. A motorist in a rented car was hijacked earlier by a man matching the same description. Loy D Buff of Charlotte later identified the getaway incident. In Charleston, Billy seal McGowan 25 faces charges for a $1555 bank robbery and forgery. he drove a 1961 white sports car.
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Callaway
N.C. 73
N.C. 16
Denver
FBI
Lincoln County
Catawba County
Hildebran
Loy D. Buff
Charlotte
Newton
Charleston
S.C
Billy Seal McGowan
McGowan
South Carolina Loses Federal Aid for Mental Hospitals
Dr. William S. Hall, state mental health commissioner, said July that the federal government will discontinue $1 million in aid to South Carolina state mental hospitals because one facility segregates. He warned both Negroes and whites will suffer. Hall charged Pine Land, which accepts both races, is being used to pressure Whitten Village to speed civil rights compliance. He noted Pine Land’s expansion is needed due to a long waiting list, with 350 Black residents on that list. Gov. McNair called the funding cut entirely unreasonable and unrealistic.
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Columbia
S. C
William S. Hall
South Carolina
Hall
Whit Iten
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Halt
Pineland
Whitten Village
Robert McNair
Aleutian quake prompts canceled tidal alerts
An Alaska earthquake measured around 7 on the Richter scale prompted timed tidal wave alerts in Hawaii California and Oregon which were canceled hours later after no damage was reported at Adak Naval Station. The quake's aftereffects included waves that dissipated in the Pacific and police described no further damage. A separate bank robbery at First Commercial National Bank Morrison Street branch featured a tall man in a sailor cap demanding 3000 with a pistol and menacing staff threatening death if escape failed. McGowan is described as 6 foot 1 and 160 to 180 pounds with brown hair and eyes.
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Coast Guard
Juneau
Alaska
Adak Naval Station
Umnaak
Anchorage
Aleutian
Hawaii
California
Oregon
Pacific
Cle
Commercial National Bank
Morrison Street
McGowan
Baptism of Kennedy Daughter Seals Arlington Visit
Luci Johnson and party visited Arlington Cemetery and the Kennedy grave site and then attended a church baptism for the late President Kennedy's daughter. Father Montgomery planned the private rite with a Mass the next morning. Luci had begun Catholic instruction earlier in January and had dated Paul Betz, a 20 year old Catholic student, recently.
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Arlington
Kennedy
Luci
Paul Betz
St. Mary’s College
Emmitsburg
Vietnam Front demands U.S. pullout and Vietnamese self determination
The Hanoi report calls for the end of aggressive war by the United States in both South and North Vietnam and demands the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military gear from South Vietnam. It asserts internal affairs must be solved by the Vietnamese people without imperialist interference, and that the South Vietnamese National Front of Liberation is the legitimate representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lem
U.S
South
North Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Contested Ballot Calls Highlight House Roll Call
The article describes a dispute over a roll call vote where several members claim they did not hear their names called. Callaway urges attention to prevent repeats of violations, while an experienced member questions the practicality of overruling a member’s word. A prior test showed disputes when other members corroborated attendance.
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Callaway
Novel Operations in the Pentagon in 1962
Davis describes a book aimed at arousing public interest in submarine warfare issues. It helped spur a management approach for antisubmarine warfare and raised awareness of the strategic balance between the Soviet Union and the United States. Davis, Annapolis graduate, left the Navy to pursue publication with Doubleday in 1963.
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Pentagon
Davis
Annapolis
Navy
Doubleday
Soviet Union
United States
Farmer objects to equal employment section of Civil Rights Act
James Farmer of CORE condemned Title VII as too restrictive on Justice Department action and urged swift, nationwide enforcement. He supported Deacons' for Defense and Justice, argued for broader federal anti‑discrimination jurisdiction, and hinted at forthcoming amendments by CORE's legal committee. Delegates plan community political organizing.
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Durham
N. C
Congress of Racial Equality
James Farmer
CORE
Justice Department
Farmer
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership ‘Conference
Franklin Roosevelt Jr
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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the Sunday Register
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National Education Association
New York City
Pope Paul VI
Kennedy Group
Ralph Heavner
Lues
Hanoi
Charles A. Easley, Jr., M.D
James E. Nevin, II
M.D
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Danville, Virginia
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