Johnson urges conservation drive and new park bills
President Johnson advocates bringing nature closer to people and expanding land preservation. He cites four million acres saved in three years, urges immediate passage of conservation bills including Redwood National Park, and notes the Percy Priest Dam near Nashville as a multi purpose project.
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Johnson
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Glacier National Parks
Percy Priest
Stones River
Cumberland River
Nashville
Ellington
Albert Gore
Richard Fulton
William R. Anderson
Ray Blanton
National Guard
Community Fourth of July Preparations Detailed
Civic clubs sponsor refreshment booths and games for children while several special displays are planned including one from Redstone Arsenal. Boy Scouts from Decatur assist Decoration Chairman Les ter Moss in readying the park and the Red Cross Bloodmobile will collect blood donations.
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Redstone Arsenal
Boy Scouts From
Decatur
Lester Moss
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Budget Deficit Tops 50 Billion as War Costs Soar
The Vietnam War era drains the budget with costs near 27 billion in the latest estimate and 28.4 billion for the new fiscal year. Military spending nears 76.2 billion this year and 79.3 billion next, while overall unified budget outlays run 175 to 180 billion with about 153 billion receipts.
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Congress
Treasury Department and Budget Bureau
NASA ties inflatable tether for spacecraft link
Engineers at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston received a patent for an inflatable semi rigid tether to connect two spacecraft or a cosmonaut to a vehicle. The device folds in a end piece and inflates with gas, reducing oscillations seen in Gemini linked missions.
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Washington
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
Edwin Samfield
William C. Huber
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Charles Conrad
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Viet Cong strike hits Son Tra village and Saigon drills
The Viet Cong attacked Son Tra five miles from the Chu Lai arsenal, killing 73 villagers and 15 government workers and wounding 103 refugees. Viet Cong casualties were 12 dead. U S reinforcements arrived too late to stop the retreating guerrillas as villagers buried the dead. In Saigon, sirens and defense drills continued as two high ranking Viet Cong officers warned of a major offensive. Maj. Gen. John H. Hay said manpower limits hinder complete defense. B52 bombers supported operations around the capital.
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Leatherneck
U.S
Son Tra
U.S. Army
198Th Light Infantry Brigade
Chu Lai
Dennis Eilers
Luana
Tex
Saigon
John H. Hay
Cuba Will Try Captured Pilot
Radio Havana says the hijacked American airliner pilot is a deserter from the regime and will be tried in Cuba. The plane carried 15 passengers and a crew of three.
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Miami
Fla
Radio Havana
Cuba
Radio
Playwright Williams Missing Following Threats and Flight Plans
Detectives report playwright Williams left his two bedroom apartment with no new address and has not filed any life threat. A handwritten note warned of a violent death not being by own action. Meanwhile a separate radio report links a hijacked Southeast Airlines pilot to an Aeropostal flight from Havana to Miami and a desertion in Miami.
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Roland L. Kennedy
Toledo
Ohio
Kennedy
Williams
Collinsville
New York
Southeast Airlines
United States
Aeropostal
Havana
Miami
Cuba
Radio -Havana
Cohen forms council to study disabled Medicare needs
High Cohen reports President Johnson’s push to extend Medicare to 1.5 million disabled workers under 65. A 12-member council will study unmet health insurance needs, hospitalization costs, and financing for protected disabled persons. He notes rising utilization may threaten Medicare’s financial basis.
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Cohen
Johnson
Congress
Sound conduction experiment with clock and can
Bob Browns science note shows a clock and tin can setup to compare sound conduction through hard solids versus air. A nail conducts sound faster and better than softer objects while the pencil rods also carry the tone, illustrating solids outperform air in conduction.
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Bob Brown
Fleet Press Corporation
Fifth Avenue
New York
N.Y
Gen. Fea. Corp
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New York Times News Service
Fish and Wildlife Service
Craig Macphee
University of Idaho
Richard Ruelle
Fish and Wildlife Staff
Paysette
St. Joe Rivers
Idaho
Learry
Massachusetts
Roger C. Glidden
Glidden Electric Corp
Wenham
Mass
Florida
Eugene Castiglione Jr
Mia‘mi
Castiglione
By Bob M. Gassaway
Associated Press
Science
First National Bank
First National Bank OF Decatur
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