Johnson to Sign Excise Tax Repeal Monday
President Johnson announced he will wait until Monday to sign the excise tax repeal bill to give merchants time for inventories. The $4.6 billion annual repeal will remove levies on many items the day after signing, with benefits flowing to consumers, producers, and retailers starting Tuesday.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Treasury Department
Budget Bureau
Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Death Penalty Ordered In Rape Case In Spartanburg
Spartanburg South Carolina jury convicts Jean Frank Cannon 23 of raping a 14 year old babysitter. Judge Bruce Littlejohn imposes death sentence to be carried out August 20 at State Penitentiary electric chair. Jury deliberated 3 hours 23 minutes. Cannon faces automatic appeal. Victim identified him. she was assaulted after being taken from Blue Ridge Street home of former councilman Robert Carlisle.
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Spartanburg
S.C
Jean Frank Cannon
Circuit Court
Bruce Littlejohn
Electric Chair
Cannon
Robert Carlisle
Blue Ridge Street
Gold Mine Road
James Turner
Kerr linked to Communist influence at Berkeley
California pages reveal Kerr accused of easing security to hire ex Communists, including his secretary Virginia Taylor who allegedly joined American Youth for Democracy. The report cites UC figures like Leon Wofsy and Bettina Aptheker, notes FSM leadership, and comments on John Birch Society fringe elements and rising anti Semitism within the group. Kerr disagreed, asserting no substantiated Communist employment at the university.
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Kerr
Virginia Marie Taylor
National Communist Youth Organization
American Youth For Democracy
University of Washington
Berkeley
Miss Taylor
Campfire Girls
Norris
Leon Wofsy
Wofsy
Communist Party
Chicago
Woffy
San Diego
FSM
Mario la Vio
Bettina Aptheker
John Birch Society
Three Quantico Marines Die in Interstate 95 Crash
Three Quantico marines died Friday in a collision on Interstate 95 near Prince William County when their car struck a parked tractor-trailer. Victims were Cpl. Randolph L. Hopton 22 from Chattanooga Tenn Lance Cpl. Thomas H. Black 23 from Winchester Mass and Pvt. Jack Thomas Sutton 21 from Madison Tenn. The truck driver Willie Bethea 36 of Gatesville NC slept through the incident. The crash also claimed two other deaths raising Virginia 1965 highway toll to 445.
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Woodbridge
Quantico
Interstate 95
Randolph L. Hopton
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lance
Thomas H. Black
Winchester
Mass
Jack Thomas Sutton
Madison
Willie Franklin Bethea
Fredericksburg
Jacob Major Ware
Harris St
Washington
Stafford County
Rusk cites long U S efforts for peace in Southeast Asia
The cabinet member said results of the strike were still being examined and declined to comment on whether B52s might be used against North Vietnam. He noted U S efforts since 1961, from Kennedy Khrushchev talks in Vienna to the 1962 Geneva Laos conference and a plan by 17 non aligned nations, stressing Hanoi and Beijing show no active interest in peace and Moscow not pushing a settlement.
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South
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Rusk
United States
Southeast Asia
John F. Kennedy
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Floods force evacuations across Colorado and region
Severe flooding forced evacuations in several Colorado communities along the Arkansas River and Platte. Despite widespread damage, injuries were limited, with rescues by military helicopter and forceful water events causing bridge washouts and communication outages. Deaths occurred in Loveland, Boulder, Aurora, Denver, and nearby states as storms raged across the region.
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Colorado
Arkansas River
Pueblo
Clorado
Fountains
Pueblo Star Journal
Chieftain
Salida
Kansas
Syracuse
Wiggins
Fort Morgan
Brush
Sterling
Burlington Railroad
Denver
Colorado National Guard
Lowry Air Force Base
Platte
Nebraska
Big Springs
Lakin
Kan
Loveland
Larkspur
Boulder
Aurora
New Mexico
Raton
Montana
Henry Townley
Jack Patton
Wibaux
Wyoming
Kenneth Brannon
Douglas
Sunnyvale
Calif
Robert J. Stewart
Frank J. Allen
Casper
Badweather
Prisoners Held After Dominican Rebel Clash
Pfc. Larry Leed aged 18 from Conestoga Pennsylvania and Spec 4 C Donald Jones, 20, of Pomona California, were captured by Dominican rebels after a jeep incident in the rebel sector. They reported treatment as the OAS peace force and Costa Rican Lt. Edwin Campos mediated. The inter-American forces held 30 civilian rebel partisans arrested earlier. The peace committee outlined elections within six to nine months and a provisional government plan, with arms surrender and amnesty, while all parties prepare for a constitutional assembly after elections.
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Larry Leed
Conestoga
Spec
Donald Jones
Pomona
Calif
Juan Lora Fernandez
Edwin Campos
OAS
Lora
Hector Lachapelle
U. S
Hector Aristy
Jones
OAS Peace Committee
Francisco Caamano Deno
Aristy
Caamano
Juan Bosch
Ttheir
Inter-American Human Rights Commission
Inter-American
Bombing raid reported over North and South Vietnam
U S and Vietnamese reports describe a large air strike and sea search. B52s from Guam engaged targets 55 miles south of Hanoi while bombers hit Highway 7 and Bac Duc Thon bridges and Viet Cong positions. One aircraft reported missing with 27 of 30 B52s reaching base. rescuers freed four survivors. Secretary Rusk called the raid worthwhile and coastal patrols were said to curb infiltration by junks.
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U.S
Saigon
North Viet Nam
Highway 7
Hanoi
Bac Duc Thon
Vinh
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Joe C. Robertson
Mather Air Force Base
Calif
Argo
Port Defiance
Okinawa
Guam
Washington
Dean Rusk
Rusk
Viet Nam
Bien Hoa
U.S. Navy
Paul H. Nitze
Maxwell D.taylor
da Nang
Nitze
Red China vows to send volunteers to Vietnam if asked
Tokyo AP report notes a Foreign Ministry broadcast stating China will promptly send volunteers to join Vietnamese forces if the Viet Cong calls and the United States fights to the end. It pledges full support against U S aggression and says China will aid as needed while preparing for possible intervention.
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Red China
Viet Nam
Tokyo
United States
Foreign Ministry
U.S
Peking
Chinese People’s Congress
National ‘Front For Liberation
Viet Cong
South Viet Nam
National Front For Liberation
Johnson
Nervous Bank Robber Flees With 2419 Dollars
A nervous bank robber escaped with 2419 dollars after threatening a teller in Mauldin South Carolina. He demanded cash and fled in a red and white Pontiac heading north toward Greenville. FBI and local officers searched nearby woods. the bank had been robbed previously in 1963.
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Mauldin
S.C
Farmers Bank of
Simpsonville
Ada Terry
Greenville
FBI
Restored camaraderie in space buoys Paris air show
Humphrey and astronauts White and McDivitt arrived in Paris as part of official U S representation at the air show. They spoke of unity across borders and said they would fly together again, potentially to the moon, while noting Russia’s prominent display including Yuri Gagarin and a 260-ton Antonov 22 transport plane.
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France
White
McDivitt
Paris
Col. MacDivitt
Moon
Humphrey
America
Soviet Union
Russia
Yuri Gagarin
Johnson
GOP leaders seek unity after leadership shakeup
Former general Clay, newly named GOP finance chair, says he will funnel party funds to conserve candidates and aims for a unified front with Goldwater. Bliss notes risk of splits harming the party and backs continued support for Goldwater.
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Goldwater
Republican Party
Bliss
Dean Burch
Burch
Clay
New York
Free Society Association
GOP
Ralph J. Cordiner
Berlin Copter Flew Over City. Four-Power Pact Violations Seen
US officials call the Berlin helicopter flight a serious breach of postwar four power agreements. The Berlin control zone spans 20 miles from the city center and only four powers may operate flights with filed plans at the Berlin Air Safety Center.
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Berlin
West Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Commonwealth mission urged after Hanoi visit hesitation
Leaders from Ghana India Pakistan and Kenya weigh nonaligned stance on a Commonwealth peace mission to Hanoi and a possible Bangkok contact. Ghana calls for end to US air strikes and withdrawal of Australian troops while Australia rejects the proposal.
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iPrime
Hanoi
Commonwealth Committee
Kenya
Joseph Murumbi
Wilson
Britain
United States
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana
Viet Nam
New Zealand
Robert Menzies
Nkrumah
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Lal Bahadur Shastri
India
Titan 3C Launch Sets Space Recording Firsts
Titan 3C a three rocket stack lifted off at 9 a.m. Friday to place a satellite into orbit 115 miles high. The vehicle achieved 2.65 million pounds of thrust from two solid boosters and a 474,000 pound liquid center engine, setting records for thrust and payload weight.
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Callons
Titan 3D
Moon
Lunar
Titan
Captain Uses Car Horn To Silence Barking Dogs
Newport Beach California AP. A 54 year old merchant captain Cyrus Tucker rigs a line from his bed to his auto horn to blast barking dogs. He claims the horn quiets them for hours, while neighbor Gerhard Classen plans to sue. Police say they have found little cause to intervene.
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Newport Beach
Calif
Cyrus Tucker
Caplin Hornblower
Tucker
Bors
Gerhard Classen
Classen
Ernest Laurin
Restaliate
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