Determents For Fathers Will Be Ended Notices To Be Taken In Two Years
President Johnson told Congress he will overhaul the Selective Service with a lottery style draft centering on younger men. Deferments for fathers and essential occupations end, graduate student deferments largely end, while family hardship deferments continue and a four year extension of the draft law is sought. Draft boards may be merged after a management study, and 19 year olds will be drafted by lot if needed.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
Texas White House
Airliner recorders found after fatal Lake Central crash
Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and the flight recorder from Lake Central’s Convair turboprop wreckage near Marseilles Ohio. The plane disappeared during a storm Sunday night killing all 38 aboard. Captain John Horn had reported climbing to avoid storms minutes before radar loss.
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Kenton
Ohio
Lake Central
Convair
Marseilles
Indianapolis
Civil Aeronautics Board
Falls City
Neb
Cleveland
John Horn
Six Critical Blaze Kills 14 Orphans in French Alps
A winter sports lodge for orphans in Taninges France housed about 120 boys when a fire started around 3 30 a.m. It killed at least 12 in the ruins and two more in hospital while six boys were in critical condition from burns. Authorities said 6 to 10 others were unaccounted for with 25 hospitalized for lesser injuries. Fire brigades from nearby towns battled the blaze for nearly five hours and the cause remains undetermined.
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Bonneville
France
French Alps
Taninges
Annecy
Cluse
Roger Babson Dies Aged 91 Noted Financial Leader
Roger Ward Babson nationally known founder of Babson's Reports Inc and developer of Babson Educational Institute dies at 91. He lived in Wellesley Massachusetts and wintered in Lake Wales Florida where he started Babson Park to train women in finance. Babson began Babson's Reports in 1903 with eight clients at twelve fifty monthly.
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Lake Wales
Fla
Roger Ward Babson
Babson’s Reports Inc
Wellesley
Mass
Babson Educational Institute
Babson Park
Babson’s Reports
United States
Canada
Public Doubt About JFK Death Persists, Harris Survey Shows
Louis Harris reports persistent public doubt about the Warren Commission findings on President Kennedy’s assassination. A 59 percent to 30 percent gap favors the view that more to the story exists, with two to one against reopening the investigation and Oswald still seen as the shooter by 70 percent.
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Louis Harris
Warren Commission
Kennedy
New Orleans
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald
de Toites
Mistake Bombing Admitted In Lang Vei Raid
U S military command acknowledged two Phantom jets mistakenly bombed Lang Vei, killing about 100 civilians and wounding 175. Officials offered no explanation, noted one bomb hit a nearby U S Army Special Forces camp, and said a board may be appointed to investigate.
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Saigon
U.S
Lang Vei
South Vietnam
U.S. Army
North Vietnam
Draft At A Glance Under Johnson Plan For Draft Rules
Washington AP reports how the military draft would operate under President Johnson's plan. Induction starts at age 19 with reduced odds for older potential draftees, selection by random draw from 1A after tests, and limited deferments for fathers graduate students essential workers with future changes. Reservist deferments fade unless needed for a vacancy, with 17 to 18 year olds prioritized for reserve enlistment. Implementation by January 1, 1969 if Congress extends the law.
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Johnson
Congress
Washington
Woods Fire Fanned by Wind Burns Acres North of Kivett Drive
A large wind driven fire on a one mile front along the Southern Railroad north of Kivett Drive burned 25 to 30 acres of the C. E. Haworth property. Fire crews cut breaks with pumps rakes and axes keeping the blaze from Gordon and Cedrow streets. The origin was unclear and a Forestry Service plane surveyed the scene but chemicals were not required.
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Southern Railroad
Kivett Drive
John Spivey
C. E. Haworth
Cedrow
Gordon Streets
Gordon and
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Nelson Eddy Dies At Miami Nightclub After Stroke
Nelson Eddy 66, famed bari tenor and star of early 1940s musical films with Jeanette MacDonald, collapsed on stage during a Miami Beach performance. He later died at Mount Sinai Hospital after a stroke, ending a career centered on operatic light musicals and standards like Ah Sweet Mystery of Life and Indian Love Call.
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Miami, Fla
Nelson Eddy
Miami Beach
Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Miss MacDonald
Mount Sinai Hospital
What’s New In The Toy Business
The 64th annual toy fair opens in New York, showing higher prices and many new items. Buyers see more cooking sets and space toys, bigger doll families, fewer military toys, while Batman and 007 fade from shelves. Prices up about 10 percent. the $1 toy era may be ending as firms push new models like a Mr. Peanut peanut butter toy.
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Min Horowitz
Toy Manufacturers of America, Inc
Royle Glaser
Revelle Inc
Diane
Mr. Peanut
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Pixies
By Wohl
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Roger Babson
Babson
The
Harris Survey
Jfk
Air Force
East High Point Woods
New York
Santa Claus
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