Early Bird satellite enters commercial service in global call era
The Early Bird communications satellite began commercial service on Monday with President Johnson making the first official space borne transatlantic call. Duke of Windsor answered a call from a friend during inaugural ceremonies as world leaders and officials praised the milestone in peaceful space use. A three hour free period preceded paid service with generally satisfactory results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Johnson
Duke of Windsor
Paris
London
Harold Wilson
Britain
West Germany
Ludwig Erhard
Hans-Peter Tschudi
The
United
Bird
White House
Early Bird
Britton Browne
Viet Nam War Updates From Central Highlands and Saigon
US forces reported air strikes against Viet Cong in Toumorong central highlands while 307th Tactical Fighter Squadron arrived at Bien Hoa Air Base. Guerrilla attacks hit Nha Trang area injuring several including Americans. Nghia Hanh district HQ near Da Nang was struck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
307Th Tactical Fighter
United States
Bien Hoa
Saigon
Woodfin Sullivan
Frostproof
Fla
U.S. Air Force
Toumorong
Central Highlands
Kontum
U.S
Nha Trang
Market advances and big three stocks lead activity
The market activity table highlights Xerox as a top gainer among the 15 most active, with Chrysler down 2.75 to 42, Ford shedding 0.87 to 51, and General Motors slipping 3.25 to 91.87. Airline, aircraft, railroad, and oil stocks show declines, including United Airlines down 3.12 to 65, Pan American 2.25 to 25.50, United Aircraft 2.75 to 67.50, Boeing 2.62 to 63.87, New York Central 2.75 to 41.25, Pennsylvania 1.75 to 35.50, Standard Oil of New Jersey 1.87 to 75.87, and Zenith 3.25 to 69.00.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xerox
Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
United Airlines
Pan American Airlines
United Aircraft
Boeing
New York Central Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Zenith
Pan American 707 Lands Safely After In-Flight Fire
A Pan American 707 caught fire on takeoff from San Francisco, pieces raining down across the city before the crew landed at Travis Air Force Base 50 miles away. Flight 843 with 143 passengers and 10 crew members diverted. no ground injuries or property damage reported. Engine and wing fragments fell in South San Francisco area and San Bruno. emergency ducked fire before landing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Travis Air Force Base
Hawaii
Manila
Holy Cross
San Bruno
Johnson Signs Bill Setting New One Year Debt Limit
The credit ceiling rises to $289 billion with a temporary one year limit, Congress had previously approved a figure $2 billion above the expected debt peak, and the measure omits a $522,000 bullet proof car provision for the President. The House passed the bill by voice vote to fund the Treasury and related offices, while the Senate Finance Committee rejected a $50 duty free exemption on returning goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Congress
Treasury
Washington
House
Post Office
Senate Finance Committee
John F. Kennedy
Senate
U.S
Africa States Face Pressure Over Racial Policy
In Pretoria area tracking stations run by the United States and NASA show little sign of Negro discrimination concerns. The State Department says Americans at the sites never exceed 50 and segregation questions did not arise. U.S. policy seeks racial equality, while South Africa pursues total racial separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
U.S. Air Force
State Department
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Smithsonian Institution
U.S
Cape Town
United Nations
South Africa
U.N
Space science group forms with four NASA connections
The roster includes Dr. F Curtis Michel a Rice University physicist and Dr. Duane Graveline a medical office doctor at the Manned Spacecraft Center both married with children. They join Schmitt and Kerwin among NASA linked astronauts as about 1 500 applications were received and 25 finalists took tests at Brooks AFB.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Curtis Michel
Rice University
Houston
la Crosse
Wis
Duane E. Graveline
M Medical Programs
Manned Spacecraft Center
Newport
National Aero‘Nautics and Space Administration
Michel
Rice ‘University
Jhis
Spacecraft Center
Garriott
Office of Space Science
NASA
Washington
Schmitt
New Mexico
Arizona
Moon
Graveline
The
Air Force
San Antonio
Center
Kerwin
Brooks Air Force Base
National Science Academy
Richmond City Council Delays City Sales Tax Relief Plan
Richmond officials vote 8-2 to postpone the 2 percent city sales tax to January and back a statewide tax. The plan also accelerates December 1966 real estate tax collections to June 15 to fit the 1965-66 budget and adjusts business license taxes. Mayor Crowe opposes the delay citing $2.8 million in lost revenue but supports seeking state action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Merrill Crowe
James C. Wheat Jr
General Assembly
Wheat
Crowe
Hungary reshuffles as Kadar resigns as premier
The report notes János Kádár resigns as Hungary’s premier three days after a central committee session, with Kádár and Kállai reshaping the cabinet. It recalls Kádár’s rise from peasant origins, his wartime underground leadership, exile of Rakosi, and later return as premier and party chief, while outlining East European events following Khrushchev’s ouster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Kadar
Hungarian Socialist Workers (Communist)party
MTI
Communist Party
Moscow
Matyas Rakosi
Rakosi
Ferenc Muennich
Kallai
Budapest
Nikita Khrushchev
East Europe
Khrushchev
Alexei Kosygin
Leonid Brezhnev
Romania
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Nicole Ceau- Săscu
Chivu Stoica
Youth Program Investigator Held In Death
In Harlem, Robert Williams 22 a self described Har you ACT investigator and six other youths aged 15 to 17 were arrested on charges they killed 16 year old Ivan Terach. The assault occurred after Terach defended his father 59 from taunting youths. Williams confessed to stabbing Terach claiming the boy taunted him with come at me. Williams worked for Har you ACT about six weeks earning 36.50 weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ivan Terach
Roosevelt High School
Max
Bronx Asst. Dist. Atty
Irvin Goldsmith
William
Young Terac
Williams
Bronx
Haryou-Act
Timber Metcalf fights government timber bill
Timber Metcalf and his wife, disabled WWII veterans, bought a Cocke County mountain farm to raise cattle and cut timber. A ranger halted the work, leaving the cut timber on the ground. The government billed Metcalf $1,717.52, prompting Rep. Quillen to petition the Agriculture Secretary and pursue a refund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metcalf
Cocke County
Quillen
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Mountaineer
Cigarette Makers Postpone Court Fight on FTC Rule
The Tobacco Institute said cigarette manufacturers will defer court action against the FTC amid a pending law to supersede the rule. A Senate House conference panel meets to reconcile versions of the bill requiring health warnings on packs and ads, with the House backing a warning and the Senate pausing action for three years. The FTC ordered warnings after a surgeon general report linked smoking to lung cancer, while industry disputes the causal link and calls for further study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tobacco Institute
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Senate House
FIC
House
Senate
Surgeon General
Tobacco
Rebellious Students Can Assist If Idealism Harnessed
NEW YORK AP That rebellious college students can strengthen higher education if colleges harness their youthful idealism and enthusiasm. A NEA panel urged expanding student roles in running colleges. E K Fretwell Jr of CUNY praised student energy, while Thomas H Hamilton of Hawaii urged clearer power definitions for student governments and broader concerns beyond beauty pageants. Harvard health chief Dana Farnsworth urged fair treatment and consistent action on student complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Education Association
E. K. Fretwell Jr
City University of New York
Thomas H. Hamilton
University of Hawaii
Hamilton
Dana &. Farnsworth
University Health Services
Harvard
Hamilton and
Farnsworth
Red Nichols Bandleader Dies At 60 In Las Vegas
Bandleader Red Nichols died of a heart attack at age 60 after being stricken at his motel in Las Vegas. He had performed nightly at the Mint Hotel Casino and led a career spanning four decades with big bands and the Five Pennies. Nichols mentored Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, and others. Glenn Miller was his first arranger. His life inspired the 1958 film The Five Pennies starring Danny Kaye. He is survived by his widow WilIa Inez and daughter Dorothy Mason of Liano California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Loring
Red) Nichols
Nichols
Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital
Mint Hotel
Benny Goodman
Artie Shaw
Jimmy Dorsey
Gene Krupa
Glenn Miller
Danny Kaye
San Francisco
Ater
New York
Los Angeles
Willa Inez
Dorothy Mason
Liano
Calif
Eisenhower Blames Media For Floor Disruption At Lunch
At a luncheon former vice president candidate GOP leader Eisenhower urged restricting publicity and demanded media exclusion from the floor during platform discussions. Bliss reported he fired aide William Cody Kelly for rifling a desk at the national headquarters while three accomplices were not replaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Page One
Eisenhower
Bliss
National Committee
Free Society Association
Barry Goldwater
Party
William Cody Kelly
Frank Kovac
Kelly
Rescue man loses legs after cave incident
Rozelle's father J. T. Rozelle arrived at the cave at sunrise and praised the rescuers kindness. He said the selfless help makes him disbelieve reports of apathy and expressed gratitude for the concern shown for his son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rozelle
J. T. Rozelle
Marines land at Onslow Beach during operation
Marines aboard the attack cargo ship Raleigh landed troops from Onslow Beach while the attack cargo ship Rankin, the landing ship tank Wood County, and the landing ship dock Fort Snelling delivered men and equipment at the Morehead City docking area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
USS
Raleigh
Onslow Beach
Rankin
Tank
Wood County
Fort Snelling
Morehead City
Campus Free Speech Movement Leaders Face Trial
Savio, Campus Goldberg, and Bettina Aptheker are among 155 Free Speech Movement leaders chosen for trial over campus regulation protests. Mona Hutchins was acquitted after walking out of Sproul Hall as 485 defendants begin one by one appearances before Municipal Judge Rupert Crittenden. The court drama, mostly quiet, proceeds into Wednesday with guilty verdicts issued to each defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldberg
Savio
Bettina Aptheker
Herbert Aptheker
New York
Mona Hutchin
Sproul Hall
Rupert Crittenden
New York Taxis Strike Tests City Travel Comfort
Two thousand taxis were taken out of service by independent operators causing travel disruption for New Yorkers who rely on cabs. The March 24 one day strike pushed for union recognition by fleet owners while a June advisory vote of 16,000 cabbies backed representation. Fleet operators sought garage by garage ballots leading to court blocks and impounded ballots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Balaguer Returns From Exile to Visit Ill Mother
Ex Dominican president Joaquin Balaguer arrives in Santo Domingo from three years' exile to visit his critically ill 92-year-old mother. He rulefully discusses politics, hints at a future presidential bid, and backs a mediation plan while noting his Reformista party will cooperate with a temporary regime until free elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balaguer
Mother
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Joaquin Balaguer
Puerto Rico
Carmen Celia de Balaguer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Early Bird Communications
Viet Nam
Mongliardi
Defense Department
ATC American Disteling Co, Inc
Four, Rlinos
Africa
Bill WiLliams
Richmond City Council
Selama
Ala
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Trujillo
Ana Teresa
U.S. State Department
State Council
Antonio Imbert Barreras
Imbert
Roanoke
Pickwick Club
Motor Inn
Virginia
Norfolk and Western
EY Sree
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!