Congress Adjourns With Landmark Record
Congress ended the year with a landmark Great Society record on civil rights education and health care. The Senate, reaching a 41 to 10 vote, approved the sugar quota bill after late-session wrangling to reach a quorum. The House passed it 174 to 86, and both chambers adjourned sine die within a minute.
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Conress
Senate
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Congress
Johnson
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
Senate House Conference Committee
White House
H. R. Gross
Morris K. Udall
Dariz
Frank J. Lausche
Hope for Chain Reaction as Two Klansmen Recount
AP report from Washington notes House Un American Activities hearings featured two recanting Klansmen, including Joseph G. Boils of Goldsboro North Carolina who quit the Klan and turned over records, and Roy Woodle a Lexington North Carolina preacher who accused a fellow Klansman of a veiled threat. Woodle described cross burnings and an anxious exit from Klan life. The committee promised further revelations and continued the probe focusing next week on the North Carolina Realm of the United Brotherhood.
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Apse
Roy Woodls
Nighthawk
Edwin E. Willis
D.la
Congress
North Carolina
United America
Woodle
F Woodle
Lexington
Willis
Hamby
Thority
Woodie
Castro Row
Eamimuniem Fella
Boydlin Woodle
Booby Trapped Dolls Reported In Army Mystery
Army demolition experts track hand made Viet Nam era dolls amid fears they may conceal explosives. Six dolls sent to Charlotte were turned over to police while Fort Bragg checks continued. No injuries reported and most dolls remain unexamined as officials note no incidents in Viet Nam.
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W. H. Grimm
Ft. Benning
Viet Nam
Columbus
U. S
W. M. Grimm
Margaret Hall
Viet Cong Attacks Plei Me Camp in Central Highlands
Heavy fighting raged on a road near Plei Me as Viet Cong forces bombarded the U S camp. Reports said mortars and recoilless rifles hit the position while air strikes supported defenders. Officials cited 117 U S air strikes and uncertain Viet Cong casualties, with hundreds possibly moving toward the besieged camp.
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South Yiet Nam
Plei Ine
U.S
Plel Me
Plei Me
High Point Furniture Market Impacts City Growth
Sunday Enterprise spotlights how the annual furniture market brings more business and growth to High Point while also causing traffic and parking strains downtown. The piece notes WHPS-FM at High Point Central High School could be off air for days after a blown fuse. Ray Hubbard is the staff writer.
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Whps-Fm
High Point Central High School
Ray Hubbard
Sunday Enterprise
Historic Record Written By 89th Congress
Washington reports the 89th Congress, described as historic by President Johnson, enacted major legislation in its first session. It created a permanent elderly health program, eased Southern voter registration for Negroes, repealed taxes on many items, funded over $1 billion for disadvantaged education, relaxed immigration bars, and funded regional disease centers and arts grants. Its flagship achievement is the $6.5 billion Social Security bill establishing broad healthcare for seniors.
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Officer Escapes After Viet Cong Capture in Vietnam
In Quang Tri Province a U S Army officer Capt Robert F Hopper 23 of Winter Haven Florida escaped while being led away by Viet Cong attackers from an outpost 412 miles north of Saigon. Hopper distracted his captors and bolted to safety during the confusion.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Robert F. Hopper
Winter Haven
Fla
Quang Tri
Hillsborough
N.C
Hopper
Klansman Freed In Slaying
Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers says two other exKlansmen will be tried on murder charges after Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. was acquitted in the civil rights killing of Viola Gregg Liuzzo. The five day trial ended with an acquittal amid a crowded Lowndes County courtroom.
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Alabama
Richmond Flowers
Detroit
Flowers
Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr
Wilkins
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Fairfield
Lowndes County
Jother
Eugene Thomas
William Orville
Wilkins indicted for murder in Mrs Liuzzo case
Wilkins and his parents, both of Bessemer, face murder charges in the shooting of Mrs Liuzzo who escorted civil rights marchers back to Selma after the Montgomery march. Last May jurors in the first trial deadlocked 10 to 2 on manslaughter. Arthur Hanes, former Birmingham mayor, defended Wilkins saying the verdict reflected fair judging.
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Bessemer
Wilkins
Thomas
Eaton
Liuzzo
Selma
Montgomery
Arthur F. Hanes
Birmingham
Detroit
Anthony Liuzzo
Linda Reunited With Mother in Santa Ana
Linda Lee Ridings, six, was found living with her former babysitter Ramona Dougherty, 41. Dougherty is booked on suspicion of kidnapping. Linda described sleeping on ground and in tents at migratory farm camps in the Midwest. Custody temporarily awarded to her mother Barbara Ridings as custody hearing set for November 12 before Superior Court Judge Robert Gardiner.
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Calif
Linda Lee Ridings
Linda
Barbara Ridings
Ramona Dougherty
Miss Dougherty
Midwest
Ridings
Barbara Papas
Superior Court
Robert Gardiner
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