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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1965
Page
1
The House approved a bill to grant a 1 billion dollar annual pay raise for 2.6 million military personnel. Senate action was pending. Leaders estimated a final lift of 7 to 8 percent when the measure passes, with debate and attendance influencing timing.
William E. Cobb 42, former Republican state chairman, divorced Mildred Huffman Cobb after 22 years and married Georgette Molsan in Morganton on July 2. Cobb had admitted living a double life with a Morganton wife and a Roanoke, Virginia partner, and custody discussions were settled for their adopted six year old son.
Cape Kennedy April 1960 AP Two Sentry satellites and a tiny Pygmy satellite were launched aboard an Atlas Agena rocket in pre dawn darkness. The three radiation sensing payloads were placed into separate egg shaped orbits within ten minutes after lift off despite earlier mechanical delays.
President Johnson named Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg as the new U. S. ambassador to the United Nations in a White House ceremony. Goldberg, 57, succeeds the late Adlai E. Stevenson and pledged to advance law and peace in international relations. He is a Chicago native and Kennedy era appointee who previously served as labor secretary and on the Supreme Court.
Defense Secretary McNamara reported Viet Nam’s situation had deteriorated in many aspects over 15 months but the overall picture was not entirely bleak. Highlights included an attempted assassination of Ambassador Taylor, a fierce battle near the Cambodian border, and a Viet Cong assault on Bu Dop garrison near Saigon. An increased U.S. troop commitment was discussed though not specified. Six U.S. special forces advisers and about 200 Vietnamese defended the Bu Dop camp as Viet Cong attacked repeatedly at dawn.
London fashion reports show skirts climbing to the knee or above with designs by Amies Hartnell and Paris couturiers teased as a major leg show. Jean Rook predicts the shortest hemline since Eve, with Milan and Florence shows already hinting at knee exposures.
The Associated Press reports torrential rains, up to 21 inches, flooding northwestern and west central Missouri. Cities like Smithville and Tracy were inundated. at least 10 dead or missing, hundreds rescued by boat. Highways closed, train traffic stalled, and crops flooded as more rain forecast. Dams and creeks overflowed, with boats capsizing during rescues and multiple missing persons feared.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11 to 2 to approve President Johnson's nomination of former Mississippi Governor James P. Coleman to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Civil rights groups criticized his segregationist record, but Coleman testified he would obey Supreme Court and Congressional decisions. Attorney General Katzenbach urged confirmation, noting context of the era and his other actions.
Government demands immediate release of safety and effectiveness reports for 280 drugs cleared before 1962, in a dispute with the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. Commissioner George P. Larrick notes several items on a temporary excusal list and cites drugs like chlorcyclizine cyclizine and meclizine as examples under study by medical advisers.
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