Legislature limits special session to redistricting
Richmond Virginia lawmakers heeded Gov Albertis Harrison and narrowed the special session to congressional redistricting. The plan aims to comply with the state and U.S. courts while balancing populations in Virginia’s 10 districts, mainly stirring debates over northern Virginia and Norfolk areas and delaying broader agendas until January 1966.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
Albertis S. Harrison
Call For Early Settlement In Steel Labor Dispute
Washington congressional leaders backed President Johnson urging settlement in the steel labor dispute. They warned a strike now could hurt the economy and the Vietnam war, and expressed hope mills continue operating if no deal before the eight day truce expires. Talks between AFL CIO United Steelworkers and 10 major firms continued tense but amicable in the White House area.
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Washington
Johnson
Viet Nam
White House
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
House
John W. McCormack
D-Nmass
Oper
Ation
McCormack
Pittsburgh
Bill D. Moyers
Afl-Cio United Steelworkers Union
Moyers
U S Judge Levies 17 Million Judgment Against GE Westinghouse
U S District Judge Wilfred Feinberg awards triple damages totaling 16.87 million to Ohio Valley Electric Corp and Indiana Kentucky Electric Corp in a price fixing case against General Electric and Westinghouse Electric. The 1952 turbine units supplied for an Atomic Energy Commission plant near Portsmouth Ohio were allegedly overcharged. The conspiracy spanned 1939 to 1959 with 11 generators involved.
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U.S
Westinghouse
New York
General,” Electric and
USS. Dist
Wilfred Feinberg
Ohio Valley Electric Corp
Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corp
Feinberg
Atomic Energy Commission
Portsmouth
Ohio
Public Bow
Ser
General Electric Co
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Indilore Recreas Electric Corp
AEC
Ohio River Valley
T Wo
Kiser Creek
Gallipatis
Chu Ily Creek
Atacison
Ind
Norfolk & Western and C&O Plan Historic Merger
Norfolk and Western together with Chesapeake and Ohio announced plans to merge with terms to include five eastern railroads Erie Lackawanna Delaware and Hudson Boston and Maine Reading and Central of New Jersey as followers. The plan would require Interstate Commerce Commission approval.
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NEW York
Norfolk & Western
Chesapeake & Ohio
Erie Lackawanna
Delaware & Hudson
Boston & Maine
Reading
Central of New Jersey
Interstate Commerce Commission
C&o
N&w
Ne&w-C&o
N&w-C&o
Dereco
New-C&o
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Herman V. Perler
Walter ‘J. Tuohy
Rebels and OAS sign provisional Dominican government pact
Dominican rebels and the OAS peace team sealed an agreement to form a provisional government as a step toward constitutional order. Hector Garcia Godoy, a 44 year old lawyer diplomat, to serve as interim president in Santo Domingo with a nine month path to national elections. The accord, signed behind rebel lines in the palace, ends weeks of talks and requires withdrawal of most U.S.-led peace forces and disarmament measures.
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OAS
Santo Domingo
Domninican Republic
Organization of American States
Hector Garcia-Gadoy
Painiqs
Cerea Ee
SENS
Srebel
Francisco Caamano Deno
U.S
Ambbassador Ellsworth Bunker
Garcia-Godoy
Thirty Six Speakers Outline Redistricting Views in Richmond
In a Virginia General Assembly session, 36 speakers urged redistricting changes. Armistead Boothe proposed moving Fairfax County from the 10th to the 8th to restore a “grandchild to grandmother” balance, while House and Senate committees offered competing plans placing Fairfax in the 7th or 8th. State Sen Purcell argued the issue is about power and votes, not family metaphors.
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del. E. Ralph James
Hampton
Senate
House
Privileges and Elections Committees
Armistead
Boothe
Alexandria
Lothi
Fairfax County
Iouse
General Assembly
Fairfax
Pairfax County
B52s Launch Doubleheader Raid in Vietnam War
B52 jets from Guam conducted a double-header bombing raid on Viet Cong targets as ground battles reported near Quang Ngai Ang Han outpost and Da Nang. Ground forces recaptured Ang Han, with moderate losses among over a hundred militia garrison. Marines engaged near Da Nang, two killed and two captured, while tunnel complexes were uncovered in the area.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Guam
U.S
Ang Han
Quang Ngai
Sis
van Tuong
Ban Me Thuot
Sai‘gon
da Nang
Fire Engulfs N. Y. Hotel
A six story hotel mainly housing the elderly in Long Beach New York known as the Hotel President burned on Tuesday trapping residents. Deputy Fire Commissioner Martin Held said one body was recovered as firefighters brought the blaze under control after about five hours. About 400 to 500 people were in the 200 room hotel when the fire started and 20 were evacuated with others escaping on their own. Firefighters noted the building lacked fire escapes and aerial ladders slowed rescue operations.
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Long Beach
N. Y
Martin Held
Long Island
Edward Wagenen
Moon flight qualified by Gemini checks report
Extensive checks of Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr indicate the United States has men ready for Moon flights the Gemini Surgeon said. Dr Berry reported no findings to change plans for the December 9 Gemini 7 mission and noted Cooper and Conrad are recovering well after their Atlantic splashdown.
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Cooper
Conrad
U. S
Moon
Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
United States
Charles A. Berry
Berry
Lake Champlain
Noth ‘Ing
Frank Bor ‘Man
James 4. Lovell Jr
Astro
Ball Park
Weather forecast for Virginia and North Carolina
Virginia expects Wednesday to be mostly cloudy with showers in the west and north spreading to the southeast. Highs near 88 with periods of rain tonight and Thursday, lows 65 to 70. Thursday highs in the 70s west and lower east. North Carolina sees partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday with late thundershowers likely in the west, highs 78 to 86, mountains 81 to 90 elsewhere. Thursday partly cloudy with showers. Temperatures listed for yesterday and today show clear conditions with highs around 83 and 69.
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Virginia
Nortil Carolina
Tam
Racial clash in Plymouth as demonstration canceled
In Plymouth North Carolina two white men were shot and another wounded amid a racially tense night after civil rights leaders postponed a planned protest. A group of about seven Negroes clashed with whites on Main Street while police and state troopers dispersed the crowd. Several arrests were made and the street was blocked off as authorities tallied injuries and measured the volatile scene.
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Plymouth
N.C
George Williams
Green Wille
Washington County Hospital
Clarence McCoy Adams
Pink Hill
Mair Street
W. R. Flowers
Main Street
North Carolina Wildlife Commission
Flowers
Ice avalanche traps about 100 workers in Swiss glacier
Dense fog and heavy rain halted rescue efforts at a hydroelectric project after an avalanche struck a glacier at Saas Fee. About 100 workers were buried under ice and rock fragments as the mass split, with reports varying on the number missing. Five bodies were recovered and one injured man died at a hospital. Police barred access amid failed early attempts to blast the glacier edges.
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Saas Fee
Switzerland
Mallmark
Plane Crashes with 14 Aboard In Colombia Mountains
A U.S. Air Force C47 missing since Saturday on a Panama to Cali flight with 24 aboard was sighted crashed in the Colombian mountains. There were 14 on board including two California Air National Guardsmen, eight Air Force personnel at the Panama Canal, and four U.S. Army personnel. No life signs reported.
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Cali
Colombia
U.S. Air Force
Panama
Hfe
California
Air Force
Panama Canal
U.S. Army
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