Panama Canal To Be Replaced With New Sea Level Route
President Johnson announced a new Atlantic-Pacific canal to replace the Panama Canal within 10 to 15 years. Aimed at sea level through Panama or neighboring lands, the plan would scrap the 1903 treaty, seek site surveys in Panama Colombia Nicaragua and possibly Costa Rica, and end U S control of the Canal Zone when the new canal opens.
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Washington
Panama
United States
Johnson
Ean Rusk
Colombia
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama Canal
United States Canal Zone
U.S
Marco A. Robles
Atrato
Com
Luis Noli
Ndt
Protestants Joined By Catholics in Council Move
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe will join the New Mexico Council of Churches, announced by Archbishop James Peter Davis and Rev. Harry Summers. Davis called it a historic step and said New Mexico’s archdiocese, covering the state, appears to be the first to join a council of churches. Summers noted some Catholic parishes already align with local councils in cities like Tulsa.
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James Peter Davis
Santa Fe
New Mexico
N.M
Tulsa
Okla
Davis
Bullet travels from thigh to lung after self inflicted gunshot
A 35 year old man, Herbert Fowler of Rome Georgia, shot himself when his pistol fell. The .22 caliber bullet lodged in his thigh moved through a vein to his heart and lung, and a Emory University Hospital surgeon removed it after two weeks of chest pain. The case was described as very unusual by the doctors.
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Herbert Fowler
Rome, Ga
Emory University Hospital
Atlanta
Doty Foster
Kathryn Johnson
Rome
Fowler
Portland
Maine
Fires Kill Nineteen Children
The Associated Press reports nineteen children died in a wave of home fires nationwide. Victims include six children in Warren Michigan, five in Kinston North Carolina, five in Marked Tree Arkansas, and a family near Seattle Washington. additional deaths occurred among elderly residents in a nursing home in Fountainstown Indiana.
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Associated Press
Elbert Turner Cox
Detroit
Warren
Kinston
N.C
Verda Spencer
Dwain D. Lafferty
Marked Tree
Ark
Ray Kealy
Seattle
Wash
Fountaintown
Ind
Renewal loan aids Asheville Southside renewal planning
The Urban Renewal Administration announced an interest-free loan of 150000 to Asheville North Carolina to start surveying and planning a 425 acre Southside renewal project.
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Washington
Asheville
N.C
Urban Renewal Administration
Canal Proposal Welcomed By Panama Leaders
President Johnson proposed a sea level canal to replace the Panama Canal, eliciting praise from Panama's Marco Robles who called it historic and said it could foster new treaty negotiations. Colombian minister Castrillon favored a route through his country, while Washington and Panamanian editorials urged careful study of economic impacts.
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Marco Robles
Panama
Johnson
Marco A. Robles
Washington
Bogota
Tomas Castrillon
United States
Colombia
Brezhnev Turns 58 Quiet Birthday in Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev is 58 today but the Soviet press does not mention his birthday. The regime has a history of omitting celebratory notices on birth days.
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Moscow
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Communist Party
Christmas for the young fills High Point art with joy
Sunday Enterprise shares first and second graders in High Point expressing their Christmas views through art and stories. Capus Waynick reflects on R. J. Reynolds Jr dying this week as a North Carolina leader. The Vietnam war is framed as a struggle with hope and uncertainty in the American field.
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High Point
Sunday Enterprise
R. J. Reynolds Jr
Reynolds Tobacco
North Carolina
Capus Waynick
Reynolds
Waynick
Enterprise
Coed Snatches Pistol in Student Jail Escape Capture
Judy Jershin 18 a Wichita State freshman described grabbing a 38 caliber pistol from fugitive Richard Lee McArthur 22 and aiding officers who halted his escape from Sedgwick County Jail after he fled from the seventh floor. Police had labeled him dangerous with homicidal tendencies.
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Wichita. Kan
Judy Jershin
Wichita State University
Richard Lee McArthur
Sedgwick County
McArthur
Jerry Skel
Numbing Cold Grips Montana as Livestock Die in Frost
A severe cold wave kills tens of thousands of cattle and sheep in Montana and North Dakota. Ranchers race to save survivors as eight southeastern Montana counties are declared a major disaster. $100000 in federal funds are allotted for animal aid. Four Air Force boxcars stand by to drop hay to stranded cattle.
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Associated Press
Montana
North Dakota
Midwest
Great Lakes
Texas
Air Force
Malmstrom Air Force Base
Great Falls
Mont
Tar Heel cold snaps hit North Carolina with ski plans rising
Bitter winds drop temperatures to the teens across North Carolina while clear skies spur weekend skiing. Western resorts report artificial snow as Maggie Valley two slopes open, Blowing Rock and Hound Ears operate.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Maggie Valley
Blowing Rock
Hound Ears
Boone
Asheville
Wilmington
Greensboro
Raleigh - Our- North
Ford to challenge Halleck for House leadership in GOP fight
Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan plans to announce a bid to topple House Republican Leader Charles Halleck amid talk of an alliance to keep them in their jobs. Ford, 51, would depose the 64 year old Halleck as GOP leadership battle echoes with Dean Burch and Eisenhower associates backing.
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Gerald Ford
Charles Halleck
House
Washington
Michigan
Charles A. Halleck
Halleck
GOP
Dean Burch
Ford
Arthur Summerfield
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Burch
National Committee
Tax Exempt Groups Targeted by IRS Drive in 1965
The IRS launches a major drive against politically minded tax exempt groups, focusing on right wing organizations suspected of political propaganda. Examinations rise from 2000 to 10000 yearly as cases target charities religious and educational labels.
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Adren Cooper Washington
Reared Revenue Service
IRS
Treasury
Congress
National Council of Churches
Life Line
H. L. Hunt
Allas
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Joe Bananas) Bonanno
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Organization of American States
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