Goldwater campaign links Estes case to Johnson era
Republican candidate Barry Goldwater accused Democrats of graft tied to the Billie Sol Estes scandal during Midwest stops in Iowa and Wisconsin. He claimed the Estes affair reflects on top government officials and criticized McNamara's disarmament stance while urging GOP unity.
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Wichita
Kan
Goldwater
Midwest
Billie Sol Estes
Estes
White House
Estes Case
Mason City
Iowa
Madison
Wis
Boston
Fire Threatens Santa Barbara as Brush Fire Rages In
A major brush fire near Santa Barbara driven by 40 mph Santa Ana winds charred 16 500 acres and forced up to 5000 residents to flee. Officials reported 37 buildings destroyed, while the Mt Calvary Monastery survived. Westmont College dormitories burned, as crews pressed cement trucks into service for water and Forest Service units rushed to the scene.
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Foothill Road
U.S. Forest Service
San Marcos Pass
Forest Service
Mt. Calvary
Westmont
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Santa Ynez Mountains
California
Santa Ana
Mahalia Jackson Seriously Ill in Chicago
Gospel star Mahalia Jackson, 50, is hospitalized in Chicago with a heart ailment after Sept. 15 admission for exhaustion. Doctors expect four to six weeks of bed rest with restricted visiting as her agent reports steady improvement and a return to work in 30 to 40 days. She rose from Mississippi River levee church roots to national fame, recording first in 1934 and performing Carnegie Hall two years later.
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Chicago
Mahalia Jackson
Miss Jackson
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Associated Press
Johnson
White House
Lou Mindling
Los Angeles
Jackson
Mississippi River
New Orleans
New York
Carnegie Hall
South Side
Minsters Sigmond Galloway
Warren presents JFK assassination report to Johnson
Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the four inch thick commission report on President Kennedy's assassination to President Johnson in the White House Cabinet Room. The panel's work ends with the release of a government printing office volume and preparations for archiving the massive files in the National Archives.
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Washington
Earl Warren
Johnson
John F. Kennedy
White House
Warren
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Ment
Commission
J. Lee Rankin
National Archives
China Buys Plant Deals Stir Western Trade Talks
London reports Red China seeks about 200 million dollars of chemical plants from Britain, Western Europe and Japan. Seven plants from Western Europe and two from Japan are ordered. around a dozen more are negotiating with British firms. Britain cool on long term credits to Beijing while noting Russia style push for plastics and fertilizers.
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Arthur L. Gavshon
China
Board of Trade
Soviet Union
Europe
Georgia Democrats split results in Southwest and 3rd District races
In Georgia a Democrat pledged to back Lyndon Johnson defeated a Goldwater-backed Democrat in the 2nd District by about 597 votes. Maston O Nea l of Bainbridge beat Harry L Wingate Jr of Pelham as official tallies awaited. Garland T Byrd led Stephen Pace Jr in the 3rd District with Byrd appearing winner. Alpha A Fowler Jr defeated Allen A Chappell for the Public Service Commission seat. Wingate spoke of a possible recount as results rolled in.
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Atlanta
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Georgia
Maston O’neal
Bainbridge
Harry L. Wingate Jr
Pelham
Garland T. Byrd
Reynolds
Stephen Pace Jr
Americus
Byrd
Alpha A. Fowler Jr
Douglasville
Allen A. Chappell
Chappell
Georgia Public Service Commission
Fpouse
Wingate
U. S. Senate Armed Forces Committee
Congress
Baker Case Reopened as Senate Seeks Tax Data
The Senate Rules Committee moves to obtain federal income tax returns for McCloskey his son in law James McHale Jr Reynolds and Baker associate William McLeod to support reopened Bobby Baker probe Public hearings eyed next week as investigators rush access decisions. McCloskey cooperates after interview and says he will testify while Baker invokes the fifth amendment in earlier hearings.
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Senate Rules Committee
Johnson
Philadelphia
Canoo McCloskey
Bobby Baker
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
FBI
William E. Meehan
McCloskey
Baker
Senate
John J. Williams
R-Del
District of Columbia
Williams
Don B. Reynolds
Jordan
James B. McHale Jr
Reynolds
William McLeod
House District of Columbia Committee
Humphrey Attacks Goldwater Blur In New York Campaign
Senator Hubert Humphrey touring New York denounced Barry Goldwater as offering a baffling blur not a clear choice. He urged voters to question Goldwater’s cryptic remarks while campaigning with Robert Kennedy for the Senate and Johnson’s administration, as the Senate race and court rulings loom.
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NEW York
Hubert H. Humphrey
Barry Goldwater
Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
U.S. Senate
New York City
Indiana
Johnson
New York City Central Labor Council
Goldwater
Helen Can't Compare With Mountain Dew
In Asheville North Carolina a legend about Helen the pioneer woman who burned to death 150 years ago on a balcony is linked to a moonlit village dare. A group of teens and a woman saw a spirit after three calls prompting a frenzied retreat down the mountainside.
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Asheville
N. C
Ville
Helen
Buncombe County
Senate Debates New Reapportionment Plan in Congress
The Senate votes on a compromise reapportionment proposal as hopes rise for early adjournment. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield proposed a mild nonbinding sense of the Congress as a substitute measure.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro Washington
Senate
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Senate backs mild reapportion compromise
Senate approved a non binding sense of Congress resolution 44 to 38 as a substitute for a stronger reapportionment plan. Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana led the measure with Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois while the chamber seeks a non binding path to resolve the long standing controversy.
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Bulletin Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Mansfield shifts on foreign aid amid Senate clash
In a dramatic move Mansfield abandons the Dirksen plan and urges support for his substitute to end the stalemate on the 3.3 billion foreign aid bill. Dirksen disapproves the compromise yet allows a midafternoon roll call. A test vote on tabling the Mansfield amendment may come, while liberals continue a filibuster against the aim to delay reapportionment.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Mansfield
Dirksen
Senate
Mother of Four Sunday School Teacher Denies Embezzlement
Olivia Davidson, a 39 year old Gas ton County tax office employee and mother of four, was charged with embezzling 18 226 dollars. Her lawyersaid she would plead innocent as she was in shock and she waives preliminary hearing. Bond set at 5 000 dollars.
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Gastonia
N.C
Olivia Davidson
Gaston County
L. B. Hollowell
Alaska
Ft. Bragg
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