I’m Famous For Being Shot Down
Lt. jg Robert F. Adams, a Navy pilot from Edina, Minnesota, survived two shoot downs in Vietnam. He first bailed out Oct. 5 after a Soviet-made S A missile hit his plane, then again July 12 during oil depot raids near Hanoi-Haited. He returns to Pensacola to train recruits with no morale issues reported.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Rick
J.g. Robert F
Rick) Adams
Allen W. Adams
Edina
North Viet Nam
Gulf of Tonkin
Adams
Scopter
Pensacola
Fla
Naval Base
Viet Nam
Government official says no one should lie
Assistant secretary of defense Arthur Sylvester told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that no government information program can be based on lies. He said officials must withhold information when needed to protect the country and should not be driven to disclose data simply because it is requested by the news media.
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Washington (Ap
Arthur Sylvester
Secretary of Defense
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sylvester
North Carolina backs 2 cent cigarette tax plan
The nine member tax study commission urges a 2 cent per pack cigarette tax to raise about 10 million dollars annually, offsetting revenue losses from other tax changes. The panel also proposes broad tax reforms affecting corporate income, licenses, and individual income taxes with net revenue gains and losses outlined. A minority reports opposes the cigarette levy, arguing it targets smokers and shifts costs to a specific group.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Special Tax Study Commission
Dan Moore
Troops Turned Down as Michigan City Faces Violence
Benton Harbor mayor declares a state of emergency after two nights of racial violence. Gov. Romney refuses immediate National Guard call up though alert units exist. Police report an 18 year old Black youth dies from Tuesday gunfire as state police take command of about 75 troopers. Witnesses say two white youths were in a passing car from which shots were fired.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Wilbert Smith
National Guard
Michigan
George Romney
Lansing
Romney
Frederick Davids
Cecil Hunt
Earl Merrill
Witneses
Sweet Briar to Admit First Negro Student
Sweet Briar College in Virginia says it will admit its first Black student, Marshalyn Yeorgin of Greenville South Carolina, joining the junior class, despite a will that originally endowed the school for white women. The move comes amid a temporary federal court restraining order and possible loss of federal funds.
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Sweet Briar
Sweet Briar College
Board of Overseers of
Marshalyn Yeorgin
Greenville
S.C
Bennett College
Greensboro
Faith Hurricane Faith Nears U.S. Coast As Winds Slow
Hurricane Faith drifts toward the U S coast with winds dropping from 120 to 100 mph. Small craft warned to seek protected waters from Cape Fear to the Virginia Capes as advisories place Raleigh predicting rain inland and rough seas offshore.
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Miami
Fla
Faith
Cape Kennedy
Virginia
Atlantic
Cape Fear
N. C
Virginia Capes
Florida
St. Augustine
Cape Hatteras
North Carolina
Raleigh Weather Bureau
Two More Red Torpedo Boats Hit
In the Gulf of Tonkin US Navy planes destroyed one North Vietnamese torpedo boat and damaged another. Carrier aircraft have knocked out three PT boats since Monday. US pilots also hit a SAM site near Hai Phong and another north of Vinh. In Saigon a weeklong lull persisted but officials fear Viet Cong disruptors ahead of elections. A suspected Communist agent was shot dead by police as he tore down posters. Another American plane was lost in the day’s air offensive.
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Adams
U. S
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Gulf of Tonkin
U.S
Monay
Vinh
Hai
Viet Nam
North
1968 Minimum Wage Set At 1.60 For Eight Million Workers
Washington AP House conferees agreed on a 1968 effective date for a new 1.60 per hour minimum wage covering about eight million more workers. They adopted the Johnson administration position on major points and planned another session. Johnson reportedly hopes to sign Labor Day. The current 1.25 floor rises to 1.40 on Feb 1, 1967.
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Washington
Senate House
Johnson
House
Senate
Midsummer Madness Sweeps Old China Amid Red Guard Cleansing
In Peking and across China the Cultural Revolution tightens grip as Red Guards target cosmopolitan goods and Western influence. Posters replace street names, stores purge cosmetics, toys, and foreign fashion, and barbers and tailors face raids while booksellers discard controversial titles.
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China
Chen Po-ta
Red Guards
Chen
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