Committees Favor Road Bond Issue Across State
North Viet Nam clashes are noted before Raleigh reports on a separate road bond vote. Road committees in the North Carolina House and Senate vote to favor a $300 million bond plan to fund highways. Onslow County Rep Mills criticizes allocation fairness yet loses motion to delay. Senate panel plans to hear locals before Finance.
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Raleigh
State House
Senate
House
W. F. Babcock
W. D. Mills
Onslow County
Mills
Joe Watkins
Granville County
Finance
Dan Moore
Highway Commission
Carl Venters
Onslow
J. Worth Gentry
Moore cool to liquor by drink and distillery plan
North Carolina Governor Dan Moore opposes by the drink liquor sales and a state distillery. He backs the existing ABC system as adequate and questions changes that would boost whisky production. He met with dry forces and Mecklenburg ministers as debate grows includes Wake County restaurant support and a Raleigh group forming a distillery.
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Raleigh
Dan Moore
North Carolina
Moore
ABC
Christian Action League
Mecklenburg County
Mecklenburg General Assembly
Charlotte
Wake County
Industries In Record Expansion In North Carolina 1964
North Carolina shows a record expansion with 546 new and expanded plants and 398.9 million dollars invested in 1964. Estimated payroll tops 105.2 million with 29 573 new jobs, while 36 new divisions indicate manufacturing diversification. Parks saw 1,892,138 visitors.
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Raleigh
Rp) — Industries
Carolina
State Board of Conservation and Development
Russell G. Hanson
Commerce and Industry Division
North Carolina
Hanson
Division of State Parks
North Carolina Parks
Thomas Ellis
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co
Lee Creek
Beaufort County
Division of Forestry
Ranger 8 Aims For Moon Landing After Course Change
Ranger 8 continues toward the moon after a 59 second thruster burn at 5 a.m. E S T. NASA/JPL says the probe should land near Mare Tranquillitatis, about 1,136 miles from the trailing edge if uncorrected, 99,000 miles from home on a 234,000 mile voyage.
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Ranger
Photographer Recalls Iwo Jima In Remembrance Piece
AP dispatch recalls the Iwo Jima battle and Joe Rosenthal's flag raising photo. The piece notes five thousand Marines died and the image became a Pulitzer Prize winner, a memorial statue model, a war loan poster, and a postage stamp motif.
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Leonard Milliman
San Francisco
Joe Rosenthal
Iwo Jima
Japan
Janeliere
Rosenthal
Mt. Suribachi
Iwo
Arlington
Potomac River
Washington, D. C
U.S
McNamara: South Viet Nam Grave But Not Hopeless
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara warned the South Viet Nam situation is grave yet not hopeless. He urged continued U.S. support, linking the outcome to stopping Communist expansion and warning of wider Southeast Asian risks if South Viet Nam falls.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
House Armed Services Committee
McNamara
U. S
North Viet Nam
Tee
U.S
South Viet Na
Laos
Thailand
Southeast Asia
South
Viet Nam
Albania Keeps U.N. showdown bid amid voting rights clash
At the United Nations, Albania presses to force a U.S. Soviet clash over voting rights as Halim Budo demands a vote on steering committee and agenda despite President Quaison-Lackey adjourning to avoid a confrontation. The Soviet bloc protests as dues disputes color the session.
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Tom Hoge
United Nations
N.Y
U.N
Albania
General Assembly
Assembly
Alex Quaison-Lackey
Halim Budo
Budo
Red China
Quaison-Lackey
Moscow
Peking
Soviet Union
Congo
Middle East
Security Council
Johnson Calls 370 Business Leaders To Curb Gold Dollar Drain
President Johnson summoned about 370 top businessmen to press for voluntary cuts in investments and lending in Europe to ease the balance of payments. He warned of possible legislation to enforce the cuts and tied the move to a new $700 million tax-writeoff plan announced at NICB. The luncheon crowd reacted with brief interruptions as Johnson cited discussions with Eisenhower.
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Frank Cormier
Washington
Johnson
Europe
White House
National Industrial Conference Board
NICB
Apbut
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freeing turtles earns praise from President Johnson
Ten year old Jim Karkbeck of Durham New York won a Freedoms Foundation award for an essay about his three pet turtles. President Johnson read the piece at a White House ceremony during Boy Scout Week and expressed interest in meeting the boy. Jim hopes to visit Washington but has no plans yet.
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Durham
N.Y
Johnson
Jim Karkbeck
Freedoms Foundation
White House
Jim
Washington
U.S. Signals War Policy Shift in Vietnam
President Johnson announced a new U S strategy to strike targets in North Vietnam without awaiting South Vietnamese attacks. He said actions will defend freedom and curb continuing aggression while hoping negotiations may someday end the Communist drive in South Vietnam.
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Washington
United States
North
Viet Nam
South Viet Nam
Johnson
U.S
North Viet Nam
Dirksen Warns Negotiations in Vietnam Dangerous to Security
Senator Dirksen voiced opposition to any negotiated settlement in South Vietnam calling it dangerous to U.S. security and allied interests. He reaffirmed support for Johnson’s policy of air strikes on North Vietnam and criticized proposed cease fire talks driven by Communist infiltration and broken pledges. Long of Louisiana backed the GOP stance while citing commitments to defend against aggression.
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Ters
South Viet Nam
U.S
Dirksen
South
Viet Nam
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
Johnson
North Viet Nam
Russell B. Long
Louisiana
Long
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