Primary date shift and residency pull debated in Raleigh
A Senate committee backed changing the primary from Saturday to Tuesday and lowering residency for presidential voting. The League of Women Voters supported relaxed residency. opposition focused on the date move. The measure would require 60 days residency to vote for president and vice president.
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Raleigh
Senate
Senate Elections and Elections Laws Committee
League of Women Voters
William Wood
Forsyth
Ed Kem Guilford
Kemp
Orth Coralinea
William Byrne
League
House
Widow Alice Herz self immolates in Detroit protest
German born widow Alice Herz, 82, set herself on fire on a Detroit street corner to call attention to South Viet Nam. Passers by beat out the flames. police found a note and two empty cans of cleaning fluid. She said she wished to die in Buddhist self sacrifice.
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Detroit
Germany
France
Alice Herz
South
Viet Nam
Viet Cong Stockpile Reduced Based on Recent Bombings
An estimated 10 percent of North Viet Nam ammunition stockpile is reduced, based on March 1 Xom Bang blast and March 14 Phu Qui strike. Tiger Island raid not counted. McNamara approves more helicopter units and possible 200-300 adviser personnel to accelerate training in South Viet Nam. Johnson denies any plan to deploy a full U.S. Army. The 7th Fleet has intensified gun-running ship patrols along the coast.
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Elton C. Fay Washington
North Viet Nam
Xom Bang
Phu Qui
Tiger Island
Saigon
Harold K. Johnson
Army
Secretary of
Robert S. McNamara
South Viet Nam
U.S
Viet Nam
Johnson
US. 7Th Fleet
Youth Sought In Stabbing Gives Up
Jay Mee yo known on the streets as The Big Giant surrendered to police at a Harlem station. Christopher Lynch, 17, 6 foot 4 and 210 pounds, accompanied by an older brother, gave up at the Brooklyn precinct where the subway slaying occurred. Witnesses said at least 10 passengers saw the incident on a Friday night. Lynch’s sister criticized wartime white hatred and a black nationalist group, while noting her brother was easily misled. A witness named Lyfich was arrested as a material witness and identified Mormile as the slayer.
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New York
Jay Mee Yo
Christopher Lynch
Harlem
Brooklyn
Kalen Reet Rae
Lynch
Patricia Harris
White Man,” Mrs
Lyfich
Mormile
Salaries Studied Show Education Drives Earnings
The study ranks occupations by median pay, with doctors, lawyers, and merchants at top. Locomotive engineers, earning $7,586 with 9.8 years of schooling, and millwrights at $5,933 with under 10 years, illustrate the link between education and earnings. Some professions with long education show lower pay, and women’s lower wages help pull down overall scales.
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Ian
Gerrymander Reforms Face House Approval
The House passed a bill setting federal standards for congressional districts requiring compactness and allowing up to 15 percent population variance. The measure aims to curb gerrymandering and moves to the Senate for swift passage before the 1966 elections.
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John Beckler
Washington
House
Massachuetts
Elbridge Gerry
Senate
Me Court
Soguesniel Alecies
Voting Rights Bill Sent To Congress Secret Mission Flown
AAP report details U S jet fighter bomber raids in Laos from Da Nang on a secret mission with over 20 tons of bombs dropped. Six F105s escorted by F100s targeted antiaircraft, no loss confirmed. Also reports two more American deaths in Vietnam and a Marine wounded in Hill 327 incident during patrol.
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John T. Wheeler
DA Nang
South Viet Nam
U.S
Laos
Fie
Viet Nam
Navy
Setee
U.S. Army
Sus Cate
Johnson Pushes Voting Rights Bill to Enforce 15th Amendment
President Johnson backs a new civil rights measure to enforce the 15th Amendment, aiming to end racial discrimination in registration and voting. The bill, drafted by Katzenbach with lawmakers, would use federal registering agents to ensure eligible citizens are registered and able to vote, addressing delays from litigation and prior gaps in the 1964 act.
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Washington
Congress
Johnson
United States
Nation
Nicholas Katzenbach
Katzenbach
M. Dirksen
John F. Kennedy
White House
Man Awakens From Nightmare Shoots Himself
In Swannanoa near Asheville North Carolina Sheriff deputies say a 4 year old man's wife reported he awoke from an apparent nightmare and shot himself to death from bed. The coroner ruled a self inflicted gunshot wound. He lived in Swannanoa about 15 miles east of Asheville.
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Asheville
N. C
Swannanoa
Joe Jones
John Young
Jones
Quentin Reynolds Dies At 62
Quentin Reynolds World War II war correspondent and author died in his sleep at Travis Air Force Base station hospital. He was 62 and had fallen ill in Manila last week, later transported via evacuation plane to Clark Air Base. Ralph Furey said the death was from a heart condition and a lung ailment following double pneumonia six weeks earlier.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Quentin Reynolds
Travis Air Force Base Station
Reynolds
Manila
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
James J. Ee
Washington
Travis Hospital
Ralph Furey
Columbia University
Furey
Dr King Plans March Amid Civil Rights Tensions
King urged a peaceful march on the Dallas County courthouse as civil rights leaders confront police interference amid Selma protests. A mixup in orders sent horse units toward demonstrators while a federal judge considers ruling on the march to Montgomery. An Alabama Senate bill seeks to scrap literacy tests in voter requirements.
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Jim Knight Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Pennsylvania
George C. Wallace
Dallas
Selma
Hayneville
Board of Registrars
Ores
Tony
U.S. Dist
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Montgomery
Alabama Senate
Judge's Decision on Selma to Montgomery March Awaited
Civil rights leaders prepared a Selma to Montgomery march to dramatize voting rights demands while awaiting a federal judge's ruling. The NAACP and Negro attorneys sought court protection against state troopers and outlined a detailed road plan with camps, meals, and tent policy on U.S. Highway 80.
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Montgomery
Ala
Selma
U.S
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Rar Eae
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Seifm
Andrew A. Mormiie
J. C. Harrington
National Park Service
Manteo
Harrington
Richmond
Dr. King
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