California Youth Wins Derby Title
California boy Robert Ei Logan of Woodland Hills won the Soap Box Derby title at Akron driving a gravity powered racer down Derby Downs in 27.61 seconds amid a rain storm. Logan beat William Wetzel of Zanesville with scholarships totaling 22,500 for top finishers. Third place went to Albert Dremstedt of Evansville.
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Robert Logan
Santa Ana
Calif
Akron
Ohio
Robert
Samuel Logan
Logan
College
Beeating William Wetzel
Albert Dremstedt
Evansville
Ind
Samuel Logvin
China Claims U S Sub Provocation Near Hai Nan Island
Tokyo AP reports Communist China alleging that an American submarine damaged a Lebanese freighter south of Yulin Hai Nan Island in Kwantung Province. The Lebanese vessel named Ros was unidentified by Beijing. China calls the incident a piratical act and military provocation, pending investigation results.
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Tokyo
China
New China
Yulin
Hainan Island
Kwantung Province
Roos
Redos
U.S
China repeats Vietnam threat and calls for action
Beijing denounced U S troop expansion in South Vietnam and pledged full support to the Viet Cong. Radio Peking quoted Maoist lines accusing Washington of aggression and warning that 650 million Chinese would aid North Vietnam, while criticizing Johnson’s peace talks as a trick and urging strict Geneva compliance.
Reds Strike Camp of Special Forces
Communist troops have laid siege to the Dec Co Special Forces camp near Pleiku in South Vietnam for 64 days. A large Viet Cong para trooper force was sent in Tuesday to lift the siege but was driven back. Mortar fire from 500 yards away pounded the camp on Saturday as nine soldiers were wounded. Fire from mortars hit the camp seven times between Friday noon and Saturday late afternoon. Casualties were heavy among paratroopers and Montagnard strike forces. An emergency helicopter air lift transported wounded personnel to hospitals. Dec Co, built by American Special Forces in 1982, houses 12 Americans and is still under siege.
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Duc, CO
South Viet Nam
Cambodia
Due Co
Pleiku
du Co
Dec Co
Inter
Poll Tax Under Fire in Mississippi Suit
The Justice Department moved swiftly under the voting rights law to bar Mississippi's poll tax. Atty. Gen. Katzenbach asked a three judge court to declare the tax unconstitutional and to extend targeted examiner actions to Mississippi counties to register Black voters. The filing says the 1890 constitutional convention aimed to disenfranchise Black citizens and that officials administered the tax discriminatorily.
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Jackson, Misa
Justice Department
Mississippi
Johnson
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Alabama
Texas
Democratic
Republic
Washington
Katzenbach
Justice Departments
Department
Jackson
Hinds
Youth Free Of Charge in Death
WEST POINT MS AP The state dropped a manslaughter charge against civil rights worker Mike Reuss 18 son of Rep Henry Reuss after a highway patrolman died of a heart attack following Reuss arrest. Dist Atty Harvey Buck said the death was not caused by Reuss and the youth was in Mississippi to teach Negro children.
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West Point
Miss
Mike Reuss
Wisconsin
Dist
Alty
Harvey Buck
B. Cowart
Henry
Reuss
D-Wis
Washington
Mississippi
Rep
London
Buck
Young Reuss
Clay County
Jigsaw Puzzle Of Deaths Ties To Dallas Suspect
In Austin a suspect James C Cross Jr confessed to inviting two 21 year old girls Shirley Stark and Susan Rigsby to his Dallas linked apartment. Autopsy reports indicate strangulation and decomposition prevented definitive ruling on rape. Stark phoned Cross from a hamburger place before disappearing, as investigators piece together the case.
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Austin
Tex
Dallas
James C. Cross Jr
Shirley Ann
Fort Worth
Travis County
Cross
University of Texas
Miss Stark
Susan Rigsby
Miss Sark
Sea Story
James C
Cross of Fort Worth
Jamies Cross Jr
Shirley Ann Stark
Moyers Takes Charge as White House Press Secretary
Vice President Humphrey lauds Bill Moyers, the new White House press secretary, as Moyers handles a flood of information from briefings to schedule shifts. Moyers, a former journalist, has faced a deluge of questions while guiding administration messaging since stepping in a month earlier.
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Bill D. Moyers
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Oval Office
Moyers
Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Johnson
Bill D. Mayers
Hoge
George E. Reedy
Texas
James C. Hagerty
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Negroes Register In S C As Voting Rights Act Takes Hold
In Columbia and Newberry counties, Negroes were registered to vote without literacy tests under the new federal voting rights law. Registration books opened in Richland and Newberry as tests were eliminated, following a Friday signing by President Johnson. Civil rights leaders warned of possible federal registrars if delays continued.
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Virginia
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
North Carolina
Columbia
Richland
Newberry
Daniel McLeod
Johnson
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Allendale
Orangeburg
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McKeesport
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