National Farm Bargaining Board Outlined To Farmers
W E Jones director of farmers program division of the U S Department of Agriculture outlined the proposal before more than 300 North Alabama farmers at meetings in Alabama. The plan would create product bargaining units with elected representation and possible marketing boards to regulate production and terms of sale. The discussions aim to shape future agriculture programs as Freeman and USDA officials study broader authority.
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North Alabama
W. E. Jones
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Alabama
Orville Freeman
Freeman
Midwest
Jones
Omce
Marines Battle North Vietnamese in DMZ Engagement
U S Marines clash with Communist troops in the DMZ and near Da Nang in a two day battle. A Leatherneck battalion fights about 1000 enemy soldiers 30 miles south of Da Nang with troops on Hill 117 inside the DMZ near Con Thien. American air power targets MIG bases near Hanoi and Kep airfield as carriers Hancock and others support the action.
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Saigon
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
da Nang
Hill 117
Con Thien
Central Highlands
North
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Kep
Hancock
Nasser vows total war if Israel attacked
Beirut AP reports Egypt's President Nasser warned on Cairo radio that Egypt would wage total war to destroy Israel if war comes. A West German captain said he saw no Egyptian blockade in the Gulf of Aqaba while the Soviet Union urged restraint by the United States and other powers.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egypt
Israel
Soviet Union
United States
Middle East
Nasser
Cairo Radio
Nassar
Tiran Strait
Gulf of Aqaba
Ockade
Nas
Gulf
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
France
Kremlin
Britain
Cullman Five Mill Tax Proposal Appears Defeated
A proposed five mill tax for Cullman city and county schools appears defeated with 43 of 50 county boxes reporting an unofficial 3 632 against 1 190 for. Sheriff Burl Graves noted final counts would come later and officials said the money would have funded more teachers and additional classrooms.
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Cullman
Cullman County
Burl Graves
Dawn Means Another Day Of Farming For Pop Styers
Virgil V. Styers 87 years old rises each morning to plow with a hand made implement. He is a retired railroad foreman from Alabama 67 where he lives with his wife in a trailer court behind a mobile homes firm. Their son Syd is retired from the Army. daughter Mrs Skip Sherrill and their long marriage are mentioned amid a lifetime of movements across Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee.
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Judy Jones
Daily
Alabama 67
Pop” Styers
Pop
Virgil V. Styers
Alabama
Styers
Mississippi
Tennessee
Illinois Central Railroad
Syd
Kansas
Skip Sherrill
Dawn
Kelley seeks hike in conservation funds request
Montgomery ap state conservation director Claude Kelley urged the budget study committee to approve a 278000 general fund increase for his department and to allow spending surpluses from three other divisions trust funds not in the general fund. He cited about 964000 unappropriated across Game and Fish Seafood and Water Safety funds and said surpluses would not revert to the general fund if unused.
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Montgomery
Claude Kelley Friday
Alton Turner
Crenshaw County
Kelley
Northeaster Ravages New England Coast
A violent May storm pummeled Massachusetts and nearby states with hurricane winds and heavy seas. Evacuations were ordered for about 25 Quincy families and 50 Scituate residents as 12 foot dunes and breakwaters failed along Plymouth, Scituate, Hull, and Marshfield. Gusts reached 100 mph with 7 inches of rain on Nantucket and four inches in Boston and Providence.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Atlantic
Quincy
Scituate
Plymouth
Plymouth Harbor
Hull
Marshfield
Coast Guard
Block Island
R.1
US Weather Bureau
Nantucket Island
Providence
R.I
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National Farm Bargaining Board
Jack Bridges
ASCS
U. S. de
Partment of Agriculture
Neal Williams
Hope
Fred Acuff
Dee Bauer
Edwin Q. White
By Roy Essoyan
Tel Aviv
Pop’ Styers
Virgil Styers
Jim Keyser
Associated Press
Kelly
Carmen Gonzales
Tampa
Tampa University
Carmen
Storm
New England
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Ken Reynolds
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